Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

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The only thing Thanatos could see was an endless void of white, black, and gray colors, twisting around before his countless eyes.

Time itself had broken down to pieces. There were pieces showing his domain, which had been stopped in time, other fragments showed Planta's domain, which was running at an accelerated time.

In other fragments, it showed the outside world that had been slowed down, and other fragments showed his own appearance, his own body, going in reverse.

Despite being such an ancient evil, he simply couldn't make any sense on what he was just watching right now.

"T-This is… a Domain?!"

Thanatos glanced around in disbelief and unable to keep his composure. His monstrous body was rapidly being consumed by the fragments of time, decomposing his avatar and even the soul connected to it.

"Welcome to the end of the world."

Planta greeted him in her original avatar's form, no giantess, no dragon form, simply her… Within this Domain, this was the only form she could take.

"T-This is…?! How can you even make this?!"

Thanatos grew furious! It was not fair! How could Yggdrasil now gain powers with the primordial element of Time?!

"It is the power I gained after evolving. I am not Yggdrasil, I am simply someone that inherited their powers, and now I've taken them to the next level, and I'll continue doing so… Right now, I am Aeternitas."

FLAAASH!

Planta waved her hand, as a flash of gray light reached Thanatos, beginning to completely consume his body, time accelerated within him to the point even he decayed into ashes!

"Nnnggghhh…! Aarrgh! I-I can't… do a single thing! Everything is shattered, destroyed! Yggdrasil…! You damn…!

This isn't…! My defeat…! Once I'm truly free…! I'll make sure to kill you!"

Yet, in that moment, his decay stopped.

"Time and time again I've told you that I am not the Yggdrasil you think I am," said Planta. "I am a normal human that became a Player, I was originally a simple dryad, I gained the powers of Yggdrasil because I evolved by absorbing the branch of her son, the Tree of Beginnings… This is the truth, Thanatos."

"No…" he muttered. "Even if you weren't born as her, even if you only received her powers… That branch, that Tree of Beginnings, it is all PART of her, don't you understand?! Your body… you're slowly becoming that tree! You're fusing… merging with it! You're Yggdrasil!"

"Haahh…" Elayne sighed. "I guess you're too mad to talk normally… Unfortunately, I can't reach your soul from here, so I can't do much than this. But I'll go down there, Thanatos… And once I put you down, and defeat you, and then tear your soul apart from your body. We'll have a talk."

"Hahaha… You're so delusional… Do you truly believe I am as childish as Erebus?!" laughed Thanatos. "I wasn't born a monster like him! I was born a human! I had a Kingdom, I had a family… I discovered I was the reincarnation of a monster much later, when I died, when my family died, when my entire Kingdom died… It is then that I awakened as the Demon King of Death!

If you think that talking… and trying to help me will work, you're sorely mistaken… Planta."

"So you finally call me by my name, maybe you aren't as mad?" wondered Planta. "So you're saying you'll never change your mind ever? Why do you believe the ancient Yggdrasil did this? Tell me more. I'll investigate."

"Hah! Why are you talking like we're friends?!" asked the Demon King. "So sickening! That kindness… that mercifulness of you! So disgusting! Don't look down on me!

Do you believe I am worthy of your damn mercy? Of your kindness?! I am Death! I am the End! I am a Demon King!!!"
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"Yet you said you were born human…" Planta sighed, smiling gently at him. "I'll save you, Thanatos. And I won't stop until I do."

"W-Why?! Why are you saying such nonsense?! My hatred for you will never end!" he roared furiously. "I'll kill you! I swear I'll destroy you and everything you love!"

"Is that so…" nodded Planta. "You threaten me so much, but the only thing I hear is… the cry of a wounded man."

"T-That's…!" the Demon King felt ridiculed, furious.

Yet suddenly, he fell silent…

"The Cult of Yggdrasil… founded thousands of years ago. It seems they have not been revived within this fake world," he said. "This fake… recreation of the past."

"Cult?" wondered Planta. "Why would Yggdrasil even make a Cult? This doesn't sound fine… Are you sure that was truly Yggdrasil?"

"I know it was her! A gigantic tree! An enormous god made of wood! Why wouldn't it be her?!" he screamed. "Even in my last moments as I was slain by Sigurd, I was unable to destroy her! That bastard of Sigurd and the Cult worked together…!

Damned! Damned heroes!"

"Hmm…"

Unfortunately, Planta couldn't really ask the Yggdrasil from the Past Era Realm, as she was from the past before anything like this ever happened.

Therefore, the existence of this "Yggdrasil" and her "Cult" from the times when Thanatos was alive and ruling as the King of the Kingdom of Sorrow still remains a mystery.

But she was sure that Yggdrasil would never make such a disgusting thing as a cult…

If anything, it feels like that Yggdrasil was a fake, something else that disguised as the ancient divine tree, in a time when Yggdrasil had long ago died by the hands of the Demon King of Miasma, where her only son was the Tree of Beginnings.

"Maybe Titania who has lived through all Eras could know…" she thought. "But most of her memories seem "locked" or something… I have to find a way to unlock them."

"I've had enough of this pointless yapping," Thanatos said. "The next time we met, Yggdrasil, it'll be the last. Remember my words. Only a couple of days remain… Before the Gates of the Underworld Open! Haha… HAHAHAHAHA!"

FLUOSH!

Thanatos ended forcefully burning his avatar into ashes using phantasmal flames, as part of his soul went back to his original body within the Underworld.

"…"

Planta felt relieved, but at the same time, she was full of questions.

"The Cult of Yggdrasil…"

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