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74.17% Solo Leveling: Ragnarok [FAN TL] / Chapter 244: Chapter 230

Kapitel 244: Chapter 230

[The King of Dragons and the Monarch of Destruction, nods.]

That was the correct answer. He didn't know how the Dragon King came to this conclusion, but the tree that Seo Jiwoo desperately clung to while struggling in her dream was definitely the 'World Tree.' At that moment, a realization flashed through Suho's mind.

'I understand how she reawakened... The same way as Vulcan.' Suho recalled the legend of Vulcan that he heard from Esil.

'Vulcan, the Demon of Greed' 

Demons were broadly classified into two categories. Demons with intellect and demons without intellect. Demons with intellect didn't even consider those without to be their own kind and treated them as insignificant creatures. Among them, Vulcan clearly belonged to the latter. The lowest-ranking class that crawled abjectly at the bottom of the demon world, licking up the scraps left by others.

'A bug that only wriggled with instinct' That was Vulcan's true identity.

But he was very lucky. Although he was born weak and lowly, he kept hiding to avoid becoming prey to the strong. And he quite accidentally discovered a fragment of the 'World Tree'.

Crunch!

He instinctively broke off a branch and greedily devoured the leaves attached to it. And at that moment.

Crack!

"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

'…He evolved into a demon noble.'

Suho was certain. Vulcan, who evolved from a low-level creature to a demon noble in an instant by eating the leaves of the World Tree. And Hunter Seo Jiwoo of the Blue Dragon Guild, who found the World Tree in a dream and reawakened as an S-rank Hunter. There was clear commonality between the two.

'It's exactly the same principle. Hunter Seo Jiwoo must have evolved just like Vulcan.' Suho felt like he was finally understanding the principle behind people reawakening, which was a very rare phenomenon worldwide.

* * *

A while later, only Seo Jiwoo remained in the Association gymnasium, the other Hunters left to conquer the dungeons they had scheduled. She stayed to get some clues about the Eternal Sleep Disease. Suho summoned the Dragon King.

"Ragnar."

"Beep?" At Suho's call, a small, cute-looking lizard appeared from his shadow.

"No… Antares. I have something to ask." At that moment, Ragnar's foolish eyes shone solemnly.

[The spirit of 'Antares' possesses the Priest's body.]

"Yes. Ask away. You are now qualified." The Dragon King Antares raised his lips arrogantly, as if he had been waiting for the question. 

"Qualified… I see." At those words, Suho recalled the advice his father's illusion gave him in the Dragon King's world.

– Suho, I can tell you the location of the World Tree. But the way there will not be easy.

It wasn't just Antares who wandered through the dimensional gap while fighting wars; Sung Jinwoo did the same.

– But it would be very dangerous for you to stand before the World Tree at your current level. So for now, focus on increasing your strength.

– Antares will tell you the rest.

With those words, Sung Jinwoo's illusion disappeared after manipulating the system to create a job change quest for Suho. Thus began the Dragon King's trials. And after overcoming two of them and obtaining the 'Qualification of the Dragon King,' Suho finally achieved the minimum level of strength required to ask about the World Tree.

"Where is the World Tree?" Suho didn't mind if Seo Jiwoo overheard this conversation.

This kind of story was useless information to those who weren't 'qualified' and was only relevant to him. No, rather, if Seo Jiwoo, who had encountered the World Tree, listened too, there was a possibility that he could get some useful input from her. But Seo Jiwoo had a strange expression on her face as she watched Suho pick up Ragnar to talk to the Dragon King.

"I heard you were a summoner before reawakening… but why are all your summons so cute… ahem." Seo Jiwoo unconsciously reached out her hand as if to pet the small lizard, but then hurriedly withdrew it. That's how cute despite their ferocious expressions all the summons Suho had shown so far were, including Beru. It was a situation where it was easy to mistakenly assume Suho was an incompetent summoner before he was reawakened as a combat type.

'Still, his summons are all extraordinary.' Suho definitely had something special compared to ordinary summoners. Even if they looked weak in appearance, all of Suho's summons were intelligent beings who could understand human speech.

'Such summons are definitely rare and they have sufficient strategic use…' Under Seo Jiwoo's gaze, Suho continued his conversation with the Dragon King Antares.

"Where is the World Tree, you ask?" Antares smirked and answered Suho's question.

"The World Tree is everywhere and nowhere."

"I don't want to hear that kind of wordplay."

"It's not wordplay. It's literally true." Looking at Antares' mischievous smile, something suddenly occurred to Suho.

"Don't tell me… the void? Are you talking about the dimensional gap?"

"Yes. You're quite sharp. What do you think connects the gaps between dimensions that are far apart from each other? That's what the World Tree does."

"Tell me more precisely." At Suho's blunt words, the Dragon King replied in a meaningful voice,

"So, in short, it's like this. The World Tree has its roots in the Sea of The Afterlife, and its trunk stretches widely throughout the universe. And the fruits that grow on its branches are where the soldiers of heaven led by the Rulers are born." Suho pondered over those words.

Roots in the Sea of The Afterlife.

Trunk throughout the universe.

Fruits bearing the Rulers' soldiers.

'If the Rulers' soldiers are born from the fruits of the World Tree, then Vulcan's evolution and Hunter Seo Jiwoo's reawakening after encountering the World Tree are certainly possible.' Suho nodded in agreement. However, considering the vast scale of the universe, finding the trunk of the World Tree that stretched throughout was literally like reaching for the stars.

And there was another problem.

"The dimensional gap is highly volatile. Even if you revisit a place where the trunk of the World Tree was once found, the probability of finding it there again is extremely low."

"I see. If that were the case, demon nobles like Vulcan would have been continuously born. Then there's only one way to find it." Suho finally understood what Antares was trying to say.

"Are you saying to find the roots rather than the trunk?"

"Yes, that's right. It's a much more reliable and convenient way. Finding the pillar of the World Tree that stands tall in the Sea of The Afterlife. Would be much easier than looking through the volatile void." Antares nodded with a satisfied smile.

And at those words, Suho's gaze suddenly turned to Seo Jiwoo, and he muttered, "Then, if you fall into Eternal Slumber…"

"Yes. If you contract what you humans call the Eternal Sleep Disease, your soul will wander the Sea of The Afterlife forever, even if your body doesn't die... Just like us." Antares' expression turned a little bitter as he said those words. The expression 'us' he used. In other words, the 'Sea of The Afterlife' was the world where dead Monarchs drifted in eternal rest.

"The Sea of The Afterlife is the abyss itself where the souls of the entire universe fade into nothingness. It's a deeper and darker spiritual universe than the shadow world ruled by the Shadow Monarch. He can use his power to freely retrieve dead souls from that deep sea and turn them into his army, but there are those his power doesn't work on."

"Souls contaminated with mana or the souls of Monarchs."

"Yes." 

Suho suddenly recalled the world of dead Monarchs that he sometimes visited with the [Unknown] skill.

A world of white emptiness with nothing. The dead Monarchs who sat lonely in the middle, waiting for Suho. But that world was only a temporary dwelling. Whenever Suho left that place, that white world would be dyed in deep darkness from afar. In retrospect, that phenomenon was the souls of the Monarchs, who were momentarily awakened by Suho's power, sinking back into the Sea of The Afterlife where they originally belonged.

"So, in the end, when Monarchs die, they fall into Eternal Slumber?"

"It's a similar principle, but also different. We don't have bodies to return to in the first place. That woman was lucky to encounter the World Tree rooted somewhere and return to her body, but it's impossible for us Monarchs who don't have them in the first place."

[My liege. You can use the Holy Water of Life to awaken someone who has fallen into Eternal Slumber.] At Beru's timely advice, Suho also realized why the World Tree was one of the ingredients for the Holy Water of Life. In the end, if he could just make it , he could cure the ever-increasing number of Eternal Sleep Disease cases worldwide. But what was the conclusion…?

"Okay. I understand that I have to go to the Sea of The Afterlife to find the World Tree. So how do I get there?"

"How? You can go right away if you die. You are the son of the Shadow Monarch but you can't even do that?" Antares chuckled. 

Suho nodded nonchalantly and taunted.

"You useless evil spirit. Return Ragnar's poor body and go back to the Sea of The Afterlife."

"W-wait…!" Antares panicked.

Next to him, Beru gleamed with a pious and holy expression, crossing his hands in the shape of a cross.

[I will help you. I recently learned how to exorcise evil spirits from movies.]

"S-stop! I was just kidding! I was just about to tell you!"

"I do feel a little sorry for Ragnar."

[I think so too. Why don't we gather the soldiers and decide by vote whether to give Ragnar freedom or not?]

"No, please listen to me! Y-yes! It's Eternal Sleep Disease! I know why that woman fell into Eternal Slumber!"

"What?!" As Antares shouted urgently and pointed at Seo Jiwoo, who had been quietly listening to Suho's conversation, her eyes widened.

"Is that true? You know why I, no, we fell into Eternal Slumber?!"

"It's true! I know for sure!"

"Three seconds." At Suho's words, Antares shouted desperately,

"The Nightmare Bud! You were hit by the power of that weed that bloomed in the Sea of The Afterlife!"

"Nightmare Bud?"


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