Chapter 869 - 1: Encounter in the New World
It has been a long time since that rebellion battle—
The Boundary Land, once devastated, began to revive one day in its former splendor.
Miss Witch, dressed in the light attire of a traveling witch and riding a splendid high horse, paced slowly across the vast plains of Nimgruf. She gazed silently at the flourishing scene, full of vitality, with a sigh that was both gratified and deeply complex.
As if aware of its owner’s thoughts, the splendid high horse snorted and then tilted its head, letting out a gentle neigh.
"I’m fine, Torret..."
Miss Witch came back to her senses and gently reached out to stroke the head of the Spirit Horse.
She shook her head slightly and said softly.
Speaking of which, Miss Witch actually had a mission unknown to anyone and had mentally prepared herself for sacrifice. If, in the beginning, this was merely a responsibility entrusted to her, it was the reason she could continue to live even though her corporeal body had been burned away, transforming into a soul’s form...
Later, it was the scenes she witnessed traversing the entire Boundary Land that urged her to acknowledge the necessity of this mission from the bottom of her heart.
As long as Life exists, the world endlessly regenerates, and everything remains beautiful... That is her mission and her will.
Her sacrifice is meaningful.
No one can trample on this sentiment.
However, even though Miss Witch was prepared for this mentally, she never had the chance to fulfill it or even take the step of selecting a Fade. The whole world had already been renewed, brutally dragged out of pain, despair, and destruction.
Power is precisely the reason for the king.
Similarly—
Power is also the reason for a god, not because being a god entails such Power, but because possessing such Power is what leads to being called a god. Supreme Will is such, and so is that great existence; their choices are the foundation for destiny’s different paths.
But...
"Is this really a new age of law..."
Murmuring to herself, Miss Witch, always keeping one eye closed, turned her gaze to the distant Boundary Land, to the end of the horizon as far as she could see. Underneath the southeastern Stoneveil Cliff, where the sky had often been cloudy and gloomy and the land dull and colorless.
But now.
It is vibrant, everything is flourishing, and a scene of spring and life prevails.
And the view is extremely broad, no longer obstructed by the colossal trees that once seemed to support the world, radiating the golden light of ancient times, having completely vanished from between heaven and earth... Even though the war was long over, Miss Witch still clearly remembered that day.
Of course, anyone who went through it would probably never forget that day.
At the end of the war—
The night sky seemed to shatter completely...
An enormous light, as if tearing heaven and earth open, engulfed everything...
The Energy of Thunderbolt tore through time and space, completely shattering the extremely malevolent psychic wave that had been brooding for long amidst the stars...
—it also naturally shattered the trump card of Supreme Will, obliterating its attempt to send its intelligence above the Boundary Land, constructing a material body among the stars, thus personally descending and manifesting, thereby decisively shaping the course of the war.
And on the heroic battleground on the ground, after the red-haired Great Hero Radagon was easily defeated, a terrifying beast emerged from within him, a beast that evolved into the Elden Beast of the Elden Ring, originally sent to the Boundary Land by Supreme Will as the Golden Meteor.
However, the Elden Beast did not have a chance to do anything, not even to struggle in its last moments, and the War Moon in the sky slowly turned, releasing Gravity Magic undoubtedly at the Divine Domain level.
Needless to say, not just the Elden Beast, but the entire massive Golden Tree that obscured the sky, along with many buildings of the Majestic Royal City of Rodeland, swathes of enormous land, sprawling mountain ranges, and so on—all of these were directly swept up!
This even directly altered the very terrain near the heart of the Yatan Plateau in the central part of this continent!
No matter how heavy the mass of these objects, how enormous the volume, or whether they struggled or resisted... Ultimately, they were inevitably swept up by the massive machinery in space using Gravity Magic, disappearing from the world with ease, and it’s unclear how they were dealt with.
The only thing that can be confirmed is that after that, the Golden Tree indeed disappeared from this land, leaving only some scattered Golden Tree seeds or newly sprouted saplings, small Golden Trees, which might still be found some traces across various continents.
With that, the new era of law arrived.
Of course, people say so, but it’s unsure if it truly descended.
Because there is no enforced belief, no absolute taboo, unlike the former Golden Law, which brooked no dissent, waging battles north and south, demanding subjugation from all races and entities from sky to earth, and after the war, the great existence that defeated Supreme Will also quietly vanished.