Chapter 252 - Mini Yggdrasil (2)

“W-What’s this?”

The corridor was darker than usual when I passed through it on my way to the dining room after I woke up this morning.

I thought the weather was bad, but that wasn’t the case, it seemed.

A ginormous tree was growing in the middle of the courtyard, and it was blocking some of the sunlight.

There was no such tree yesterday, I swear.

“...What the heck happened here?”

Nobody was here to answer me, and yet I unconsciously said that question aloud.

Uh, this is my mansion, right?

I tried opening the door of a nearby room.

Yeah, it was the parlor familiar to me.

No doubt about it, this is my mansion, alright.

That gigantic tree over there was the problem here.

I could sense an absurd amount of energy coming from it.

It was quite a familiar sensation.

It was similar to what I felt when I approached the Yggdrasil in Alheim.

“...Nah, there’s no way, right.”

The energy it was giving off might be similar, but that didn’t mean this ginormous tree here was also an Yggdrasil.

There’s no way a tree that had been with the world since its creation would be growing in this place.

Anyway, I should just check it first.

I approached the giant tree.

There was a tree planted originally here in this courtyard, but this giant tree seemed to have absorbed it already.

The trunk of the gigantic tree was so thick, around the span of five adults holding hands around it.

What surprised me more than its thickness was just how tall it was, and the spread of its branches.

The gigantic tree was far taller than a three-story mansion, and the branches were spread out so much that they were like umbrellas completely covering my mansion.

The branches and the leaves of the giant tree blocked the sky, but the canopy of leaves didn’t put us in total shade.

There were some gaps between the leaves and branches, filtering the sunshine through and enveloping my mansion in a soft, gentle light.

Of course, it wasn’t as bright as it should have been without that ginormous tree, but it was bright enough.

The shade under Alheim’s Yggdrasil was also just like this.

I couldn’t help but wonder whether it was really Yggdrasil, or not.

I tried to touch the giant tree.

“This is…”

This huge tree was hiding a huge space within it, much more than what meets the eye. It was as if a spirit world and a narrow space spread within its trunk.

When I tried to sense its interior, it felt like something was stretching towards the tree by extending mana to it.

This mana…was it Sylph?

It was the mana of the Wind Spirit King who suddenly stopped coming here to visit us.

What the heck was she doing? Was it related to this gigantic tree growing here?

“...Let’s try connecting with it?”

I poured mana into the giant tree, then manipulated it until it reached Sylph’s mana.

— Oh, it connected.

A huge amount of mana suddenly came pouring in from Sylph’s direction soon as a narrow path of mana was created.

It combined with the mana, and it was rushing at me.

“Uwaaaaahhhhh!!!”

“—!?”

Sylph came flying out of the interior of the giant tree.

She catapulted with quite a bit of fore, so I fell on my back to soften her impact when I caught her.

“Ugh, that shocked me — Eh, what…Halt?”

Sylph raised her upper body then she noticed that I was underneath her.

“I’m the one shocked her —”

“Halt!!!”

Sylph hugged me.

I was lying on the ground so I couldn’t avoid her.

She looked so happy somehow, so I just let her have her way for a while.

“It’s been a while since I saw you, Sylph. What’s up?”

“...There had been a bit of problem with Yggdrasil, so I had to fix it somehow.”

“Eh!? I-Is it okay now? Is there anything I can help with?”

If Yggdrasil is in danger then that means Alheim would be in trouble, too.

That kingdom was blessed with abundance from Yggdrasil, and that was the reason they were able to prosper.

Alheim is also the home country of my wives Tina and Leaffa, so I planned to do anything in my power to help.

“It’s okay now, I managed to fix Yggdrasil’s anomaly.”

“I see…that’s great, then.”

That meant Alheim was safe at any rate.

“Is this giant tree perhaps related to the anomaly of Yggdrasil?”

I pointed to the sky, and Sylph followed it with her gaze.

“Eh…What’s this?”

Sylph looked up at the canopy of branches covering the sky overhead. It seemed that she wasn’t aware of this tree, too.

“It was already growing here when I woke up this morning. Not only that, it gives off the same vibes as the Yggdrasil tree. Well, there’s no way that’d be true, I guess…”

“E-Er…”

“Ah, Halt, Sylph-sama, good morning!”

Sylph was about to say something, but Luna came out of the mansion.

She then yelled and said —

“Sylph-sama! See, when I watered this Yggdrasil, it became this big!!”