Chapter 397: Chapter 17 The Erased Pioneer
“A dead world?”
Richard didn’t quite understand, as the Green Forest World had given him the impression of nothing but vitality, nearly overflowing with life energy.
Trees felled in the morning would by afternoon be entwined with vines. Within three days, moss would cover the entire tree.
The whole tree would beco a nursery bed for mushrooms.
Such terrifying life energy had nothing to do with death.
“I think we have a different definition of death,” Richard said. “This world to seems full of surging vitality.”
“That’s just the facade, stranger.”
The Snake King’s dragon eyes sized up Richard from head to toe, then slowly replied.
“All these are illusions created by that damned tree, which was supposed to guard us but chose to betray instead.
It roots in the World Origin, using the whole world as its planter, continuously turning this world into nutrients for its growth…
If it keeps growing like this, in one or two epochs, the entire world will beco part of it.
Even now, only the Poison Swamp and the Ancient Battlefield remain free from the control of its seeds.”
Upon hearing these words, Richard’s mind began to work rapidly, analyzing the information in the Snake King’s speech.
It revealed a lot.
First, the World Tree, in the beginning, must have been sothing akin to a World Guardian. But later, possibly due to the Pioneers, it was turned into its current form.
Second, the control the World Tree has over the surface world might exceed a wizard’s imagination.
The entire surface world has only this Poison Swamp and a place called the Ancient Battlefield that remain uncorrupted by the seeds.
This also ans that Garon the Great Wizard, in the battle against the World Tree, must have been at an advantage. So much so that despite the nurous seeds removed, there were no signs of disturbance.
For the World Tree, even the White Wizard Army was but a minor nuisance easily disposed of.
If it had even the slightest bit of spare energy, Richard would have beco fertilizer already.
With this thought, Richard couldn’t help feeling a hint of relief.
The Snake King continued, “In the past, many outsiders like you have entered this dying world.
But those outsiders weren’t as lucky as you; many of them died in the jungle, while the stronger ones were pulled into the Inner World by that tree.
Stranger, if I were you, I’d flee this world now.”
“I must say, your words compel ,” Richard remarked coolly. “Rarely do natives express goodwill towards a wizard.
But there’s a mistake in your words; this world will not die.
There is a being you cannot even imagine who has already entered the Inner World to fight against the tree you ntioned.
As for , I am but his vassal, charged with clearing the remaining World Tree seeds in the surface world.”
Upon hearing Richard’s words, the Snake King was taken aback, then a scornful smile appeared on his face.
“Stranger, I didn’t expect you to forsake the glory of your ancestors and submit to soone ignorant.
The ‘unimaginable’ being you speak of is nothing more than a World Master who controls a Miniature World, at most a Small World.
Beings of such level have been killed by that tree in countless numbers over the years, including those of the Fifth and Sixth Level.
Alas, I thought I had encountered one of my own kind. It seems you have lost your legacy entirely and have beco one of the ignorant.
What a pity, what a sha.”
The Snake King’s words left Richard sowhat confused.
Kin? He had not integrated any snake bloodline… No, that’s not it!
Richard’s eyes suddenly widened as he understood why the Snake King had shown him goodwill and called him kin.
Not snake blood, but Dragon Blood!
He had sensed the Dragon Blood that Richard had rged into his body for his training in the Transformation Battle Body!
The Snake King had mistaken him for a mber of the Dragon Blood Species.
Taking this together with his disdain for the World Master, it was likely that this Snake King was a descendant of the servant creatures of the Pioneers.
His bloodline mory still contained the records of the Pioneers.
“Inheritance… Indeed, I have none,” Richard spoke up. “But the Big Shot behind holds an ancient legacy.”
With that, Richard entered the Secret Realm before the Snake King’s eyes.
Not long after, Richard erged from the Secret Realm, followed by a Golden Dragon Chariot carried by eight Armored Guards.
The carriers were all clad in Golden Armor, and on the chariot lay a majestic beast with platinum scales, lazily sprawled.
A Giant Dragon! And none other than an offspring of the Dragon King!
Upon seeing Hog, the Snake King’s dragon eyes bulged.
His body trembling slightly, he lowered his head and spoke with reverence in Dragon Language, “My respects to you, noble son of the Dragon King.”
Hog looked at him indifferently and calmly said, “Rise, commoner.”
The Snake King lifted its head, and on its serpentine face, Richard could see a mix of servility and obsequiousness.
It asked with so caution, “Great Dragon Prince, is the Supre finally reclaiming this lost land?”
The Supre.
Beside the Golden Dragon Chariot, Richard instantly associated the term with the Pioneers.
The creature before him still had no idea that the Pioneers had vanished without a trace.
“Supre…”
Hog heard this term and suddenly, ancient mories began to surface in his mind.
Those mories seed traceable to hundreds of epochs ago.
But strangely, there was no so-called Supre in these mories; the Giant Dragons were bowing down to nothingness, as if in fealty.
It appeared as though an invisible force had erased the presence of the Supre from the Snake King’s ntion.
“What do you know about the Supre?”
Richard’s voice arose beside Hog’s ear, prompting a slight shake of Hog’s head.
“The Supre has disappeared; there’s no trace of the Supre in my bloodline mory. The Giant Dragons bowing to nothingness suggests that sothing… has erased all traces of the Supre.”
Richard’s body shivered slightly upon hearing Hog’s answer.
Erased the Supre?
With the power that the Supre now exhibited, excluding Truth Level combat strength, the Wizard Civilization would have been utterly crushed by the Supre.
Yet, the Supre had been erased.
Richard suddenly realized that no one had ever described what the Supre looked like; the Wizards were only in contact with the creations left by them.
Logically, even if a civilization were destroyed, there should still be corpses, right?
Dinosaurs had been dead for over a billion years and still had fossils.
An indescribable fear enveloped Richard’s heart in an instant.
Back then, against which civilization was the Supre fighting? Was that civilization also destroyed?
But monts later, he cald down.
These things were too distant for him; he wasn’t even a Great Wizard, nor could he participate in the Truth Council.
The direction of the Wizard Civilization wasn’t sothing he could influence, nor stop.
“Tell him, the Supre has disappeared. The dragons and the Wizards have reached a cooperation.”
The Snake King, seeing Hog silent for too long, began to sense sothing ominous, and when Hog finally spoke, its heart plumted.
Hog said slowly, “The Supre has disappeared, and the dragons and the Wizards have reached a cooperation.”
Upon these words from Hog, the Snake King’s expression visibly dimd.
“So, the Supre didn’t win after all.”
“Do you rember what happened back then?” Hog asked curiously, “Even my heritage has lost the trace of the Supre.”
“I don’t rember,” replied the Snake King as it shook its head slightly, “My bloodline only retains the title ‘Supre’ and that they were the World’s past masters and our saviors.
I thought my bloodline had problems, but it seems, judging from the current situation, the Supre probably didn’t win in that war.”
“What enemy was the Supre fighting against back then?” Richard could not help but ask, “Now, we can’t even find the Supre’s corpse.”
The Snake King looked at Richard in surprise, not understanding how this Dragon Blood Species dared to speak so impudently in front of the Dragon Prince.
Hog said indifferently, “Don’t be surprised, he’s a Wizard. I have said that the current Giant Dragons have already ford a… cooperative relationship with the Wizards.”
The Snake King was stunned; he had thought this Dragon Blood Species was rely an attendant to the Dragon Prince’s son.
He hadn’t expected this creature to be a collaborator with the Giant Dragons.
“I have no mory of that war either,” the Snake King said, shaking its head slightly, “All I know is that it was an unimaginably formidable enemy.
To confront them, the Supres even manipulated the stars and built a wall out of the worlds.
Yet even so, they did not win, their presence was erased from existence.
But…”
“But what?” Richard pressed on.
“Still,” continued the Snake King, “the Supres didn’t win, but they certainly didn’t lose either. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be here talking.”
Richard frowned slightly.
Annihilated together? That would be best.
“If you want to know more about the Supre, I recomnd you go to a certain place,” said the Snake King, “The Ancient Battlefield there has not been corroded by the World Tree; it still retains many things from back then. Maybe you can find what you’re looking for.”
“Oh?” Richard raised an eyebrow, “I know a place that’s closer, right in this swamp.”
“Do you want to enter the high tower?”
The Snake King’s pupils shrank sharply as a terrifying pressure instantly enveloped Richard.
But it saw only the black crow on Richard’s shoulder cry out, a force no weaker than its own rebuffing the Snake King’s pressure.
The Snake King retracted its pressure, looking at Richard with surprise, “I didn’t expect to find such a Big Shot here. That tower is guarded by that stinking toad; nobody can get in unless you kill it.”
“That’s why I ca to find you,” Richard said with a slight smile, “I should be able to heal your wounds. Together, we can surely slay that toad.”
“You think you can heal ?” The Snake King shook its head slightly, “You underestimate that toad.
It has reached this point, its venom has undergone a qualitative change. Even I’m just barely keeping myself from being poisoned to death…
Unless a World Master intervenes, it’s impossible for to fight that toad again.
But since the World Master got involved, you obviously don’t need .”
With that, the Snake King swam towards the dead World Tree.
“Leave, both of you. Let this old creature about to die get so sleep.
Don’t even think of imperiously commanding ; I’m a Subspecies Giant Dragon, not one of the common Dragon Blood Species at your disposal.”
“That’s not necessarily true,” Richard said confidently with a smile, “How about you co with to the Secret Realm?”
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