The elves, as experience points?

Yes.

The green-haired elf smiled brightly.

Kill as many as you want. Ill keep resurrecting them.

Resurrection Was that possible? Here?

Since Ive descended through an avatar, its possible in this Sky Forest map.

Are you Yggdrasil?

Thats right.

Yggdrasil twirled her hair with her fingers.

[PR/N: Just so its not confusing, the avatar is a girl.]

I had to make quite a lot of sacrifices to incarnate in this fragile elf body.

Sacrifices

I used up almost all the life force of the World Tree installed in the 55th colony. Isnt it great for humanity? One of the top-ranking teams will fall.

The ranking will fall?

Yes. Because the World Tree will wither.

So thats why the elf proxy had such a gloomy face in the coachs room.

Seong Jihan looked at her with darkened eyes.

What are you scheming?

Oh my. This time its truly out of good will?

Hah. Youre giving up the World Tree for my level up?

For me, World Trees and colonies are abundant. Even if I give up one, its a negligible loss in my world.

As Yggdrasil gestured behind her,

Crunch! Crunch!

The sound of elves bodies being shattered from the inside could be heard.

And not long after,

Poof!

From within, violently squirming hearts popped out.

Swish

Yggdrasil floated those dripping bloody organs and neatly lined them up in front of Seong Jihan.

Here, I specially made them easy to kill. If you swing your sword once, the hearts will burst.

Werent elves beings that regenerate even without hearts?

Thats right. But if I say they should die, they must die.

Swish.

Yggdrasil raised the corners of her mouth and brought her finger to one of the hearts.

Pop!

The organ burst like a balloon.

As blood splattered from it, Yggdrasils face was dyed red.

And at the same time,

Shhhh

One of the elves behind her suddenly turned to dust and vanished.

See. They die just by touching like this. Isnt it convenient?

Theres no need to go out of your way to make it easy to kill them.

Since Ive incarnated like this, you should level up sufficiently. You should kill at least 10,000, right?

10,000?

Yes. Hmm Is 10,000 too few? If we push it, I think 100,000 is possible.

Smiling brightly, Yggdrasil kept urging to execute the elves, saying shell keep resurrecting them.

Look at that twisted personality lol

Deserves to be called the elf boss

The elves were annoying, but this is unpleasant to watch

No, dont you remember they tried to execute us? Sympathy for elves is a luxury.

Yeah, and if one World Tree Elf falls, isnt it a huge benefit for us? Lol

But can we trust what that Yggdrasil is saying

While the viewers were arguing whether it was good or not to accept that proposal,

Going that far, what do you want to tell me?

Going that far This? This is just an experience point gift.

Yggdrasil counter-questioned Seong Jihan as if she found it strange.

She seemed to have no understanding of what was wrong with the act of ripping out elf hearts and giving them.

From her perspective, was it not a big deal for them to die like that?

Well, as the leader of the World Tree Elves, this much wouldnt be significant

Seong Jihan thought so and looked at the pulsating hearts in front of him.

Its one week until going to the abyss now.

Elf hearts that looked like they would burst with a single touch.

Bursting 10,000 of these was an extremely easy task for Seong Jihan.

At the current leveling speed, I definitely wont reach 500 by the promised time, so destroying these would be the easier path.

Bursting elf hearts and killing 10,000.

It wasnt a burdensome task for Seong Jihan.

Because of them, didnt humanity get pushed to last place in the league and eventually get demoted in the previous life?

If he continuously burst the hearts as Yggdrasil offered,

He could easily raise his experience points and reach the target level 500 and beyond.

However,

I cant trust the good will of the elves.

They say not to view the other party with colored glasses no matter who you interact with,

But when dealing with the World Tree Elves, you definitely had to start with suspicion.

Lets see.

Swish

Seong Jihan brought a squirming heart closer.

The life force felt was very faint.

If this was burst, would the life force of the main body disappear and the elf die?

But for that, the force was too weak.

Should I try tracking it?

Seong Jihan amplified his senses and closely examined the life force contained in the heart.

His domain expanded in an instant.

The life force in the heart was stretching out very faintly towards Yggdrasil.

When Seong Jihan felt this and looked at her,

Youre not going to burst that?

Yggdrasil asked with a smile.

I was taught to first suspect the good will of elves.

Hmm Youre well-informed despite not having entered BattleNet for long.

Shes not denying that statement either.

As the domain of Martial Soul reached Yggdrasil,

She twirled her hair.

Well, youve passed the first stage.

First stage?

Yes. The test of not gobbling up whatever others give you.

Slurp.

Yggdrasil licked the blood on her face and continued.

Now, investigate and see. Whats strange.

Youre not denying that you tampered with the hearts.

When you clearly know, is there a need to deny it? You expanded your domain like that.

She figured out the Martial Soul Domain right away.

Seong Jihan continued tracking the life force for now.

The life force stretching towards Yggdrasil completely disappeared by the time it reached her.

Is it because the force is too weak?

Seong Jihan looked at the heart and tried inserting a bit of his own life force into it.

Then, the life force of the heart became clearly distinct.

Unlike before, the force didnt disappear as soon as it reached Yggdrasil.

It was advancing towards a definite target.

That was none other than,

The green hair possessed by Yggdrasils avatar.

It was connected to this.

Swish.

The green hair caught in the Martial Soul Domain.

Hehe.

However, Yggdrasil only watched this with a smiling face.

And,

Snap!

As the hair was severed,

Oh my! You precisely figured out which hair and where it was?

Yggdrasil let out a delighted exclamation.

Ill give you the reward for the second stage.

Shwoosh!

The body of Yggdrasil, who said she would give a reward, began to shrink rapidly.

Pop! Pop!

At the same time, hearts burst in all directions.

And elves turned to dust and disappeared.

The trees in the Sky Forest also withered rapidly and twisted.

[The opposing team has been annihilated.]

[The 1st match will end soon.]

A message appeared saying the game would end soon.

* * *

?? What?

The game ends when you cut her hair?

So anticlimactic;;;(

The reaction of the viewers watching the 1st match was the same.

What is this?

Seong Jihan and Yggdrasil confronted each other, exchanged a few words,

Then as soon as part of Yggdrasils hair was cut, her body suddenly shrank and the game ended.

Among the games Seong Jihan had finished so far, it wasnt like there hadnt been ones that ended quickly.

But they had never seen a game end so absurdly like this.

However,

But why isnt it ending?

It said it would end soon earlier.

Shouldnt it end right away when the opposing team is annihilated??

I know

The game progress is really strange

Is it because Yggdrasil descended Is she up to some nonsense?

Even though the opponents were annihilated, the word soon was attached,

And seeing the game not ending, the viewers felt uneasy.

And,

This was her aim from the beginning.

Seong Jihan, the directly involved party who faced Yggdrasil, was experiencing firsthand why the word soon was attached to the game ending.

Following the route I searched the life force, Yggdrasils power is coming in.

[Stat Eternity increases by 5.]

The life force possessed by the green-haired elf.

It was entering Seong Jihans Eternity through the path he figured out.

[Stat Eternity increases by 5.]

Eternity, which was really hard to raise, had already increased by 10.

While it was good that the ability increased,

[Hello?]

From the World Tree contained within Seong Jihan,

[Im happy to become one.]

Yggdrasils voice could be heard.

Was this your purpose?

[No. I really came to talk. Since I cant openly talk to you who has the Eye Of Light installed. I have to enter inside.]

What do you want to talk about that youre doing this?

[Wow, this World Tree. It grew really well? Looks delicious. Seong Jihan. Why dont you really become one with me instead of this? You raised the tree so well?]

Yggdrasil prattled on cheerfully inside Eternity.

Seong Jihan frowned deeply upon hearing those words.

When did she enter like a parasite and now shes saying lets become one.

[If you just hand over the control of Eternity, Ill get to work right away. The gardener of Yggdrasil. How about it? Isnt it cool?]

Is that your main point? Ill kick you out right now.

[Geez Why are you rejecting so much? Im saying Ill make you the Administrators companion.]

Even after trying to entice Seong Jihan several times,

[Eh. You wont come over yet I got it. Ill bring up the main point. Dont you want to stop the Red Administrator?]

Go ahead, tell me.

Is this her main point?

Seong Jihan said that out loud for now,

But inside, he was looking for a way to clean up the foreign substance that entered his internal Eternity.

Should I burn it with Sacred Flame?

The Sacred Flame he had been refraining from using openly since BattleTube was on.

But burning my own body wouldnt be caught by others.

[Now just send your thoughts to Eternity. The White one might hear.]

Got it. So, whats the way to stop the Administrator?

While Seong Jihan was stalling for time and trying to drive Yggdrasil out from inside,

[You seem to really intend to stop him?]

If youre going to play with words, Ill burn you right now. Get to the main point.

[Ah~ okay. Your fire is threatening. Ill bring up the agenda right away.]

Yggdrasil said she would get to the main point, but started with the introduction again.

[But before that, first. Dont you want to know who the Red Administrator is?]

The Red Administrator I suspect its the Martial God.

[The Martial God He is, of course, one of the Red candidates. However. This time, as humanity evolved, I abducted, confined, and experimented on them, and reached a new conclusion.]

When did this bastard abduct people?

Seong Jihan frowned and asked,

So whats the conclusion?

[Humanity! The human race itself was the Red Administrator!]

What nonsense is that?

He was wondering what she was going to say, but its absurd.

Humanity is the Red Administrator?

If we were such a great race, why are we the lowest grade?

[Its certain.]

Whats the basis for your conviction?

[I helped with this before. The Red Administrator.]

What?

Yggdrasil revealed to Seong Jihan in a cheerful voice that she was an accomplice.