My Alter Ego’s Path to Greatness - Chapter 210

#210

To make matters worse (2)

A cool breeze blows refreshingly, and warm and cozy air surrounds the body.

Is this what a baby in its mother’s womb feels like?

The feeling of absolute stability and satisfaction that surrounded him tightly tempted him fatally.

If I were to use my rational mind and make up my mind properly, I might be able to resist, but I didn’t feel the need to go that far right now.

In the end, he was completely taken by its charm and immersed himself deeply in it.

When you are just floating in unconsciousness, forgetting the passage of time…

“…Sir? Harris! Are you okay?”

Due to repeated external stimulation, his mind slowly began to return to his body.

“I guess you’re having a hard time these days? I’ve had this feeling for a while, but it seems to have gotten especially worse recently. “To the point where it seems a bit dangerous.”

“Ah…”

Harris, who was lying in the shade of a tree on the hill as usual, rolled his eyes through his open eyes and looked at the person who called him.

Wave-like blue hair and lake-like blue eyes.

It was Shapiron Sylvesti, an elf girl who I became close to as we often hung out together for various reasons.

However, when he opened his eyes and just stared blankly, she tilted her head and then nodded and gave me a look of understanding.

“Huh, well! Developing culture as a high elf isn’t easy, right? Of course, I’ve been educated about it since I was young, so it’s an easy win!”

As she said that, she shrugged her shoulders proudly.

“Hehehe, Mr. Harris, you better be nervous too, right? If I become a high elf, things will turn around in no time! “You’ve already gone through image training several times, so you’re fully prepared, right?”

“…….”

Of course, her delusions were nothing more than meaningless empty flames if they were not chosen by the World Tree, but Harris did not bother to point out that point as an adult.

…Actually, I don’t even feel like opening my mouth right now.

However, she, who was chatting with excitement, seemed to perceive his reaction differently.

Suddenly, she pursed her lips and seemed to be gently observing his gaze, then wiggled her fingers and carefully added a few words.

“Well… So, I’m telling you to cheer up… Of course, it’s amazing that you started from the bottom and have already grown so much, right? Uh… and….”

“Ahaha—.”

I couldn’t help but laugh at that clumsy consolation.

Her self-love is strong. I knew it from the moment we first met.

He’s just a bit immature, but he’s not a bad guy.

Also, since Harris became a high elf first, he might have felt a sense of distance, but it was also refreshing that his attitude toward him did not change much even though he constantly used honorifics.

It was a very pleasant relationship for him, who had few close friends here because his status had changed so quickly.

In addition, after hanging out there for quite some time, I had now gained some know-how in dealing with Shapiron.

The most effective way to deal with her, who seemed a little downcast like now….

Swoosh —

Harris’ hand, which moved slowly, reached out to her through the subspace magic tool.

What he held in his hand was a bag with a fragrant scent.

Sniff—

“Ah! Is this popcorn? thank you for this food!”

Shapiron, who smelled the scent, took it as if he had noticed it at some point, sat down next to him, and opened the envelope.

‘Now I eat well without saying anything.’

Harris nodded quietly, looking at her as she put popcorn in her mouth and chewed hard.

In the beginning, she reacted angrily when I gave her food, but as this continued to happen over and over again, she reached a point where she naturally accepted it even when food was suddenly offered to her.

Looking at it this way, it felt like I had tamed a stray cat with a snack…

‘I guess it’s just my mood.’

He lay down and stared at Shapiron for a moment, then mustered up his suppressed will and slowly raised his upper body.

“Hmm.”

Since the control that forced me to move my body under any circumstances disappeared, every movement of my body became an ordeal.

Now I had to overcome the laziness that came from assimilating with nature with just my mental strength.

Still, since the mental ability assigned to the entity itself was far superior than before, it was not impossible for it to move as usual if it wanted to.

The only problem is that if you have a little bit of free time, you end up slacking off and being lazy like before.

‘But that feeling earlier…’

Harris, who sat up with his upper body raised, turned his head and looked in the direction of the World Tree.

A huge trunk came into view, like a fortress blocking shouts.

‘After all, it’s not just my mood, right?’

When I was deeply immersed in nature and became one with it, something I vaguely felt was clearly the will of the World Tree.

For some reason, it wasn’t very clear, but I could vaguely understand the meaning behind it.

‘Oh, it’s annoying. But I can’t ignore it.’

As he stared at the World Tree, he eventually stood up and brought up the natural power in his body.

And at the same time.

Whoa!

For a moment, the wind blew to a point, and a translucent yet gigantic bird appeared there.

Pascal, a high-ranking wind spirit with gusts of wind all over his body.

It was Harris’s third spirit.

“Ubnium? …Mr. Harris?”

Harris slowly rose into the air, relying on the wind controlled by Pascal, and looked down at Shapiron, who was swallowing what was in his mouth with wide eyes.

“Ah—I suddenly remembered something urgent. “Sorry, Miss Shapiron, but I’ll go first.”

“yes! Please go in carefully!”

Harris waved his hand while hugging a bag of popcorn, exchanged a brief greeting with her, and immediately took off in the direction of the World Tree.

Since I didn’t know what to expect, I thought I would talk to other high elves before doing anything.

‘uh? But isn’t this more comfortable than walking? It’s a bit annoying to summon, but if you can maintain it…’

Of course, it was his unavoidable instinct to constantly pursue convenience.

***

The boundaries of the world are blurred and mixed up here and there—in a space full of only unknown and chaos.

There was a being walking leisurely as if he were taking a walk, seemingly unaffected by his surroundings.

“It’s going smoothly up to here.”

In this space, there was no gravity, no earth, no air, and even direction and time were disrupted.

Those things were just minor problems to him.

‘…I should have done this a long time ago.’

The revolutionary, the founder of the Oath of Reverse Heaven and the apostle of God, observed the outside through cracks on all sides and nodded.

Although I had taken great care in advance to ensure that things proceeded this way, I was still prepared that things might go wrong due to the intervention of unexpected variables…

‘It’s really okay. Hunting dogs also started hunting hybrids.’

He turned his head and gazed at the crack with eyes filled with strange brilliance.

There, a dark group of people approaching a huge, towering tree was dimly visible.

‘The World Tree is the pillar and root of the Enamel Continent. When it shakes, the continent itself shakes.’

The tree, which was like a part of God descending into reality, was clearly an amazing being.

Because it was the World Tree that turned the land, which was originally just a fairly large island, into the continent it is today.

However, as the World Tree took root in this world through incarnation, it also shouldered formidable restrictions, a representative example of which was that it was much more vulnerable to the law of causality than other gods.

Part of this was that he was unable to accurately inform his servants of the location of Cecily, who was a high elf candidate.

And it was something that could well be applied to other things.

…Even if it is an incident that poses a fatal threat to the World Tree.

‘Obaipo isn’t bad either. Although the hybrids that suddenly appeared are a bit annoying. Still, we are prepared, so it won’t be a big threat.’

His gaze turned to another crack.

In fact, he also had a lot of regrets about vampires.

Unlike the lycanthropes, who were relatively easy to attract, they were already well-mixed into human society, and even the leadership was scattered and their power was dispersed due to hostility.

So at first, he tried to approach Jupersch, who was the most powerful, but at that time, it was not long after Bisk Jupersch inherited the Holy Blood.

The young vampire was so overconfident that he was speechless.

‘Still, I thought they had tied it up in a cooperative relationship recently. Now they’re stuck with each other, right?’

The revolutionary furrowed his brow and clicked his tongue softly.

He believed that all lycanthropes and vampires in the world should follow him, so he couldn’t help but dislike the current situation.

“…Tsk, stupid people who don’t even recognize the Creator’s apostles.”

It is a fact now forgotten even by those involved, but in fact, they had origins that were on a completely different level from other races.

Isn’t it possible for a species that cannot reproduce on its own to increase its numbers only through infection to be a proper life form in the first place?

They were a sub-race created by mixing humans with seeds brought in from outer space by a human god.

To put it bluntly, you could say that he is a kind of illegitimate child.

Afterwards, God was banished to the abyss, stripped of all authority, and even his relevance was erased.

‘…Baltheon is also doing better than I expected. I was a little worried that it brought about madness.’

Then, his gaze passed through other cracks one by one.

Unusual movements were taking place not only within the southern tribal confederation, whose takeover of power was coming to an end, but also within the empire.

A male and female member of a hostile force who wants to assassinate the princess who overtook the crown prince and became the first heir.

If everything that is happening now is successful….

‘The world led by the denomination will be shaken and the current trend of everyone cooperating will inevitably be broken.’

Looking at it like this, I felt regretful about the previous plans that were stranded before they even got started, but in fact, the things prepared now were enough to turn each region upside down.

Moreover, if a rift were to arise between them in a precarious situation like now, what would happen next would have been as obvious as fire.

‘It would be the icing on the cake if I went on a rampage from here to the Immortal King. The message was delivered properly, but the response was slower than expected. ‘I knew you would move a long time ago.’

The revolutionary, who could not find what he was looking for even after looking at the cracks lined up everywhere, sighed and closed his ‘eyes’.

And focus your attention on your ‘ears’.

I began to eavesdrop on the sounds of the world through the border.

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Noise like grains of sand flowing was heard from all directions.

The thoughts of those who make up the world and the sounds that come from the world itself.

However, no matter how much his power was strengthened in this space, he could not understand everything in the world just by eavesdropping.

However, despite that, one thing was clear…

‘Oh, but something will happen sooner or later. Let’s try a little more work here.’

He opened his closed eyes again and nodded with a satisfied smile.

He stretched out one hand to the side and tightly grasped something that wasn’t there just a moment ago.

Wriggling— wriggling—

it was squirming as if it were resisting, even though the seed of madness repeatedly twisted its whole body.

The revolutionary paid no heed to him and slowly opened his ‘mouth’ and gave it an order.

“———.”

Right after that.

Kugugugu—

Something from the depths of the abyss, stimulated by some kind of energy that started from a seed, rises one by one.

The monsters on the continent began to move in unison due to the waves spreading through cracks opening in all directions.

‘I guess this is enough.’

Although madness was a fairly low level of the dregs of the abyss, it was quite easy to manipulate it in this way.

This is quite a contrast to death, where you have to give up on dealing with it, throw it away like a bomb, and wait for the results.

What led to the madness in the first place was also part of that strategic choice.

“Anyway, it’s frustrating because I can’t smell.”

The revolutionary, who had completed all follow-up measures, let his body go limp and muttered lowly.

This side of the project is showing very good progress, but the other side has made no progress even though I waited quite a long time.

‘Even in this situation, is there still a line attached? Even with that much bad luck, it’s still tough. If I only knew where it is, I would move it myself.’

I thought that if we turned the continent upside down like this, we would quickly die in chaos.

Judging from the fact that there hasn’t been any news yet, it seems like they’re in a fairly safe place.

Considering that I couldn’t find it even after searching the continent’s high-ranking officials for a long time, I guess it doesn’t mean he’s in a very high position.

Perhaps the bad luck was so strong that I was in a situation where it would have been better to die.

“…If you keep turning over the continent, you will either be discovered or die somewhere.”

That’s all I can do right now.

Still, it would be nice to have a ‘sense of smell’, but even if you don’t have it right now, there’s no big problem.

First of all, the plan was going smoothly.

***

Tarak, a large city in the northwest of the continent.

“Ecchu~! “Hehehe.”

A girl holding a pile of documents in her arms wrinkled her nose at the sudden sneeze and continued walking diligently.

‘Should I buy some fried food after work today? Rafi likes it.’

Thinking such carefree thoughts without even a single worry.