The Death Knell

"Don't panic, I won't let the God Eater come out to bite you. I built a dimension for him, called Blood Seeking Ice City, which is in the Split Domain. I plan to move it in the future and place it next to Akamat. .”

The smiling death knell took a sip of wine, took out a sausage, took a bite, and said vaguely:

"Don't worry, if I wanted to kill you, why did I save you in the first place? I wouldn't even bother helping you get rid of the cycle of Ragnarok. I brought you something good this time, and I want to talk to you. A condition.”

The thin twigs were motionless, stuck in the black soil, as dazed as a plastic potted plant.

After a while, some faint luminous words appeared on its small leaves, which were runes. It seemed that it really wanted to communicate with the death knell, at least this time there was no need to chop it.

"Can't you speak English?" Seeing this non-earth 'code', Su Ming shook his head speechlessly and looked at Leonid, who was holding his arms and shaking: "My student, do you understand this? ?”

"I don't understand. I know Latin and some African indigenous languages, but the runes are the hieroglyphs used by the Asa clan. It's not something that a young man like me can understand." The student left the room wearing only a single coat. As a result, he was dragged over by the master, and now his teeth are chattering as he speaks.

"Okay, it's embarrassing, go away, go back to your little room, don't grind your teeth here." Deathstroke sent the students away. Since Leo couldn't understand, you can rest assured... ..

After all, there are some secret things involved, and the fewer people who know the inside story, the better.

As for rune text? Su Ming couldn't understand it, but the adjutant could.

Don't forget that Deathstroke occupied Zola's 'Z Dimension' before. There was a complete rune technology system there, and the adjutant had already digested it.

The adjutant can communicate wirelessly with Strangler, so the moment the runes appear, Deathstroke has the corresponding Chinese characters in his mind. Not many people know that he is actually from the Celestial Dynasty, but Strangler is the first to understand this.

After sending the students away, the Supreme Mage continued to chat with Yggdrasil while cleaning up the little horse:

"You ask me what I want? Hey, this is so embarrassing. Although I saved you, helped you preserve the Nine Realms, and eliminated threats like Sithorn and Seth, it was just a trivial job. Forget it, just give me a set of rune power to make do, I also want to try what it feels like to be the Rune King."

The World Tree stopped moving again, probably thinking.

How can I put it, as a plant, its thinking speed is much slower than Ao Shutu.

In the past, I always heard that Odin hung himself on a tree for seven days and seven nights, sacrificing an eye, and then received the power of runes and matching wisdom. In the comics, Thor from Earth 616 would have followed the same path. fate.

But is there a possibility that it has heard it before hanging on the tree, and these seven days and seven nights are the process of its reaction? In fact, you can just sit under the tree and wait for it to react?

Thinking of this, Su Ming remembered the classic joke about the "Sunflower Collection", where after cutting it, he turned a page and found that it said "It's OK not to cut it."

But just think about it, it’s just a joke between yourself and Strangler. After all, World Tree is an ancient god. If you want to get benefits from it, you must pay the price.

Snowflakes were still flying, but it was as warm as spring next to the saplings. The death knell, smoking cigarettes and eating snacks in the pile of rotten meat paste, was still waiting calmly. About a minute later, another one appeared on the leaves of the world tree again. Word.

It means a deal is done, but it cannot be done now. It must be allowed to grow first, and then it will be able to give strength.

Now it is just a branch about the length of the little finger. It is the weakest period. How can there be so much energy trading.

Su Ming, who was very confident, was not afraid that it would default on its debt. He stood up and said, "Adjutant, send Seth's body over. By the way, has it been washed? Have all the internal organs been removed?"

"It has been processed, Sheriff, and it has reached the hygienic standard of supermarket cold meat that can be taken home and cooked directly." The deputy's projection floated out, and with it came the snake as huge as a hill. The corpse was coiled into a pile by her like dog shit.

The red letter in the snake's mouth was hanging out of the big mouth, and the snake's eyes, which were about the size of a baseball field, were dim, which showed that this god was completely dead.

Using the Force to choke the huge snake, he dragged it over and began to chop it into pieces with a lightsaber. While dismantling the snake meat into digestible sizes, Su Ming introduced the world tree:

"The plan is this. I will dig a big hole under your feet and pour these pieces of meat into it. Then you can absorb its energy to develop yourself. As a tree, if you water and fertilize it regularly, you should also You don’t need to enter reincarnation all the time, that would be too troublesome.”

The World Tree does not need the swallowing method. To be precise, all plants are born with this method. Their root systems are originally absorbing the energy of the earth.

Flowers can bloom on the corpse, and trees can naturally be planted. Su Ming remembered that he had heard of tree burial methods in his previous life, which was quite commemorative.

Seth's body is a bit big, and burying too much at one time might be wasted, so he cut it into numerous cube-sized pieces and slowly had the adjutant deliver it to the foot of the World Tree in the same way as "injecting a drip."

Let’s take two pieces today to try the effect.

Grabbing a piece of bloody snake meat, Deathstroke asked Strangler to dig two corresponding large holes at the roots of the World Tree. Then he threw the snake meat in, covered it with soil, poured some mineral water on it, and stamped it firmly with his feet. .

The change can be said to be visible to the naked eye. The World Tree, which was originally about the same thickness and length as a little finger, turned into a small tree in a burst of light, about three meters high, and the trunk became as thick as a thigh. .

Its shape is still slowly changing, and it seems that the digestion process is still going on.

"Well, yes, it seems that my guess is correct. What you need most for growth is energy, not anything else." Deathstroke looked at the small tree with satisfaction, and reached out to touch its rough bark: "I I will let Leonid continue to protect you, and my lieutenant will replace your meat regularly, and I look forward to the day when you will flourish again, great Yggdrasil."

swish swish...

Now that there are more leaves, the World Tree can also make sounds, and it sounds quite happy. After all, the happiness of plants is that simple.

A neutral ancient god like it has no position or creed. All it pursues is development and survival. If you give it these, you will naturally gain its favor.

By exchanging Seth's body for the power of runes, World Tree may gain, but Deathstroke will never lose.

When making a deal, the ideal result is a win-win situation, that is, Su Ming wins twice, because by saving World Tree, his friend Angboda also owes a favor.

A favor from an ancient one, maybe in the future...