Skeleton King manipulates it’s 3m+ frame faster than I imagined, and its swings were like a gale. Thanks to the Insight, Presence Detection, and Evasion skills maxing out and obtaining the Mind’s Eye skill, I could evade the tempestuous attacks of the Skeleton King and strike with Ice Bringer.
The Skeleton Knights and Skeleton Generals who served the Skeleton King were taken on by Kaede and Titan. Sophia and the girls were annihilating the Skeleton Knights who couldn’t move well in the Sanctuary Field.
The Skeleton King needs to be defeated before the Sanctuary Field disappears. I enveloped my whole body in magic power more powerfully.
Whatever the material of armor that is, the jet-black armor of the Skeleton King displays uncommon defensive power. Nevertheless, the movements of the Skeleton King were gradually worsening.
The joints I stabbed were starting to freeze.
I quickly moved in and slammed my left palm on the knee of the Skeleton King.
Bakyan!
The armor on its knee broke into very small pieces.
I activated 【Decomposition】 with my left palm, destroying the armor.
I quickly slipped by its side, looked back and struck the exposed knee with Ice Bringer.
Thrown off balance, the Skeleton King collapsed and the earth shook. Going around before the Skeleton King could get up, I overloaded the heel of my palm with as much magic power as I could and released it on the face of the Skeleton King. Activating 【Decomposition】, its head crumbled. The arms and legs of the Skeleton King, who was trying to get up, then lost strength, and it collapsed then and there.
When the Skeleton King was defeated, the summoned lost strength, and when the light of the Sanctuary Field disappeared, all that remained were magic stones and armors scattered about.
「Are you unhurt?」
「I’m okay. Good work. Is everyone alright?」
The girls rushed to my side.
「Lulu-chan, you okay too?」
「Yes! I leveled up lots!」
「Magic stone aside, there’s a lot of armor left behind too.」
Akane surveyed the surroundings, confirming that the Skeleton Knights and Generals dropped weapons and armor.
「How about we collect the magic stones and the seemingly usable weapons and armor?」
「Roger!」
「Yes.」
Akane and Laeva retrieved the magic stones and equipment.
Sophia removed the armor of the Skeleton King, taking out a large magic stone.
「Takumi-sama, what was asking for our help was this.」
Aside from the magic stone, Sophia held out something that appeared to be a ping-pong sized plant seed.
「A seed of something?」
「It says it’s the seed of the World Tree.」
Could Sophia hear the voice of the seed? The seed she held out was apparently the seed of the World Tree.
「The World Tree? What is the World Tree’s seed in a place like this?」
「The World Tree, Yggdrasil, purifies the earth through the Earth Pulse. However, Yggdrasil, which is in Yggurle Kingdom, can not purify the Earth Pulse and the earth alone. It is impossible to completely purify this world where people and monsters inhabit, but without the World Tree, this world would be engulfed by monster nests. Therefore the World Tree produces a seed, which is a branch of itself, known as a Spirit Tree.」
It would seem that the abnormally strong Skeleton King took the World Tree’s seed into itself and evolved abnormally. I had won because I was inside the Sanctuary Field, but the thought that if had this not been an undead, but rather a different monster of the same rank made a cold sweat run down my back.
Why did the Skeleton King absorb the seed of the World Tree? That we don’t know. Originally, the World Tree bears peach-like fruits, and the seeds within are strictly managed by Yggurle Kingdom.
「So then, does this World Tree seed want us to do something?」
「Yes, it says it wants to be planted in this land. However, it would like for us to share magic power of the Light attribute with it.」
For it to bud, it apparently needs Light attribute magic power.
It originally didn’t need it, but having been taken in by the Skeleton King, it had weakened from its strength being stolen and it was difficult for it to bud.
With that being the case, Akane, Laeva, and I injected Light attribute magic power into the seed of the World Tree.
Name: Takumi Iruma
Race: Human
Age: 17 years old
Job: Magic Swordsman Lv88, Fighter Lv92
( Magus Lv56, Magic Bestower Lv72, Carpenter Lv58, Tailor Lv68, Alchemist Lv96, Blacksmith Lv89 )
Level: 122
Condition: Healthy
Vitality: 1,020
Magic Power: 1,250
Strength: 620
Agility: 600
Stamina: 700
Dexterity: 620
Intelligence: 700
Unique SkillsAppraisal EX
Item Box EX ( Concealed )
Passive SkillsSuperhuman Strength Lv7 ( Up )
Insight Lv10 ( Up )
Poison Resistance Lv2
Paralysis Resistance Lv2
Evasion Lv10 ( Up )
Mind’s Eye Lv1 ( New )
Body Control Lv9 ( Up )
Increased Magic Power Recovery Speed Lv5 ( Up )
High-speed Thought Process Lv5
Active SkillsSpear King Technique Lv 3 ( Superior Skill awakened from Spear Handling Skill)
Axe Technique Lv5
Sword King Technique Lv1 ( Superior Skill awakened from Swordplay skill )
Throwing Lv8
Taijutsu Lv10
Fist King Technique Lv6 ( Up )
Matoujutsu Lv10
Enemy Search Lv9 ( Up )
Presence Detection Lv10
Stealth Lv9 ( Up )
Taming Lv3
Enhanced Physical Abilities Lv8 ( Up )
Magic Perception Lv9
Magic Power Manipulation Lv10
Magic Formula Control Lv8 ( Up )
Light Attribute Magic Lv9 ( Up )
Fire Attribute Magic Lv8 ( Up )
Water Attribute Magic Lv7
Wind Attribute Magic Lv7
Earth Attribute Magic Lv8
Ice Attribute Magic Lv7
Lightning Attribute Magic Lv9
Time-Space Attribute Magic Lv7
Bestowal Magic Lv8
Alchemy Lv10
Smithing Lv9
Woodworking Lv8
Carpentry Lv5
Foraging Lv6
Logging Lv5
Dismantling Lv4
Mining Lv4
Metalworking Lv8
Sewing Lv7
Cooking Lv4
Divine protection of Goddess Norn ( Concealed )
FamiliarsArachne Unique Species ( Kaede )
Dragon Horse ( Tsubaki )
Guardian Golem ( Titan )
TitlesGiant Killer
Dragon Slayer
One who has surpassed the flood
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Footnotes:1. A few lines added to make the conversation better.
2. Some status information were outdated and have since been changed (not all though, since I can’t really give accurate information).