‘I could go alone with a bit more effort…’

The monsters that sprang from the abyss had given him a lot of G points, so he could gather the G-points he wanted in about a month.

The issue was that he would have to leave the elves who wanted to return to the Eunasia continent behind.

[Hmm… there are over 3,000 elves and about that many spirits, so at least one, two, three… forget it, Kaiyan.]

Usually optimistic, Rieka counted and then shook her head as if telling him not to even dream of it.

“Why, how much would it take? Maybe 100,000 points if the elves help since G accumulates well here…”

[It would take ten times more than that.]

“…A million points?”

Just imagining it made his jaw drop and his mind go blank.

To gather a million points, he would have to defeat over a thousand named monsters.

[And that’s a conservative estimate! If over 6,000 beings were to escape from subspace, it could need even more!]

“…Ah. That’s impossible.”

Even if the spirits directed monsters his way, gathering a million points would mean spending days, if not decades, in Havrmaym.

[And there’s still one big problem left.]

“Something else?”

Now, the mere thought of what Rieka might say next made him break out in a cold sweat.

[What about the sapling of the World Tree? The elves wouldn’t leave without it.]

“Right… the spirits couldn’t survive without it anyway.”

In the underground plaza where the elves currently resided, there was a sapling of the World Tree.

This wasn’t the World Tree that had burned on the Unesia continent 200 years ago but one that existed in Havrmaym.

And it was also why the elves had crossed over to Havrmaym, fulfilling their promise to the Grand Mage to hold back the monsters.

“The sapling… there’s no way to move it.”

It wasn’t because of the World Tree’s size. Elder Elain had shown him the sapling of the World Tree, which was still young and about the size of an adult man.

The problem was the protective shell around the sapling before it grew.

“How are we supposed to carry this huge tree?”

The shell was none other than the huge tree in the central plaza.

Standing over 300 meters tall, with roots just as elongated, it was large enough to serve as lodgings for the elves and him.

To move the sapling now meant moving this massive shell as well.

“Ah… how did that Grand Mage manage to move it? Elder Elain said he did it with a mere gesture.”

[It’s a different case. Elder Elain said he had a key to Havnheim. With a key, it wouldn’t have been so difficult. Especially for someone called a Grand Mage.]

“That’s true…”

As tempting as it was to leave without looking back, he couldn’t just abandon the elves who had been so kind to him since their first meeting.

‘If there’s really no other way, then so be it…’

Realizing that nearly a year had passed on the Eunasia continent during his time in Havnheim made him feel even more urgent.

“We might have to face the monster wave as soon as we return.”

A monster wave that wouldn’t end until hundreds of thousands had died.

No, hundreds of thousands were just the minimum. Historically, there had been kingdoms erased from existence by monster waves, and a lapse could mean tens or even hundreds of millions dead.

“Ah… there must be a way… Ah! Rieka, what about putting them in a high-grade dimension cube?”

A high-grade dimension cube could contain the entire underground plaza and more. Blacky was also happily playing around in it.

[You think that’s pos? It’s impossible.]

“Why?”

But Rieka’s response was negative.

[The elves and spirits could perhaps travel through a portal, but how would you move the World Tree sapling and its shell? You know, even if the high-grade dimension cube is vast, the portal to enter it isn’t that large.]

“That’s…”

He had indeed experienced difficulties with the entry size when using a low-grade dimension cube, assuming it was just because of the cube’s small capacity, but it seemed high-grade cubes had the same limitation.

“Ugh… we can’t just destroy the World Tree’s shell… Wait. What if we just break the shell?”

[What?]

“Squeak?”

Rieka and Barami looked at him as if he had gone mad, prompting him to close his eyes to better organize the thoughts that had suddenly come to him.

‘The shell is just something the World Tree sapling created to protect itself. It’s not the World Tree itself.’

The relationship between the shell and the sapling was similar to that between a sword sheath and a sword.

The sword won’t be harmed if the sheath breaks. What about the World Tree sapling?

“Elder Elain… I need to see Elder Elain right now.”

[Oh! Kaiyan, I’ll come with you!]

“Squeak!”

Rising from the wooden bed, he climbed the tree passage to meet Elder Elain, who would likely be deep in thought at the center of the giant tree, as always.

After a long walk through the tree passage, he saw a few elves and spirits bustling around, and beyond them, Elder Elain, sitting on a wooden chair with his eyes closed.

“Elder Elain!”

“Hm? I thought you went to rest, Kaiyan?”

“Something more important has come up!”

“Ha, tell me then. With such an urgent expression, I’m curious.”

The warm smile on the elder’s face almost made it hard to believe this was the same Elain who could fiercely wipe out monsters during a battle.

“We need to break the World Tree’s shell.”

Before Kaiyan could finish, Elain’s face contorted with fury.

Gulping.

Worried that the elder might scream in anger just like their first meeting, tension forced saliva down his throat.

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