Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 1106 - 742: The Sealed World
The white waves crashed against the coast, while the cries of seabirds circled endlessly in the sky.
This was a golden sandy beach, with a vast, endless blue sea, like a mirror with no end in sight.
In the distance on land, lush woodlands stretched out, occasionally accompanied by the cries of birds and beasts.
Suddenly, the clouds in the sky churned, and a fierce wind surged.
Bolts of lightning continuously danced across the firmament, like tongues of fire.
Soon after, the stirred clouds formed a massive vortex, and the space at the center of the whirlpool became increasingly distorted.
Lightning streaked across, and a gigantic black hole appeared in the sky.
A shattered fortress, along with monstrous black stones and the corpses of demons, was expelled from the black vortex, plummeting downward, crashing towards the ground...
With a resounding explosion, the beautiful beach was buried under a vast expanse of ruins, and the sea was whipped into towering waves by the falling debris, which eventually subsided after a long while.
Unknown curious beasts were attracted by the suddenly appearing ruins, cautiously approaching and sniffing with their slender noses.
Suddenly, the ruins exploded with a noise that startled the timid beasts, causing them to tuck their tails between their legs and flee into the forest, disappearing for good.
In the next moment, a beautiful figure rose from the ruins.
Silver hair, purple eyes, wearing the Holy Divine Dress, it was Eva.
She frowned slightly, surveying the strange new world before her, her gaze quickly fixing on the vast ocean far away, and the golden sun as large as a wheel in the sky, surrounded by constantly shifting golden runes.
This place is...
Her heart stirred slightly.
The runes around the sun in the sky slowly matched the patterns in the memory of the Elf Souls Hela had investigated earlier, and Eva realized where she was.
"So Leviathan actually sent me directly into this mysterious plane?"
Her expression was a bit odd.
What a surprise, when she had been thinking about how to enter this plane, the enemy actually sent her directly inside.
However, Eva was not hastily overjoyed.
Because Leviathan couldn’t have sent her in without reason.
Her gaze swept across the surrounding fortress ruins and the dead demons, and Eva was not surprised.
She had been forcibly pulled into a void channel, and the violent void storm was enough to annihilate beings below True God, leading to instant demise.
Not to mention demons, even those few players could no longer be sensed, or rather the connection with the entire game system and the Avatar had become weakened.
Chances are those players returned to the World Tree, or simply weren’t pulled in at all. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
Sighing softly, Eva knew she had to take action herself next.
She closed her eyes, utilizing her Divine Soul Power to sense the world around her...
And soon, she detected the issue with this world.
"Such thin magic power..."
Sensing the magic concentration in the air, not much higher than the Oros Half-plane, Eva frowned slightly.
Clearly, this world’s energy level was much lower than the Segis World.
And after checking the state of her True God Avatar, Eva confirmed her suspicion:
"I can only wield the power of an Upper Gold at best, and the maximum power this world can sustain doesn’t exceed Legend..."
Each plane has a power limit, and that limit determines the strongest power that transcendent beings can wield without disrupting plane stability.
If this limit is exceeded, plane stability would be compromised, causing anything from semi-permanent magical turbulence to source damage, resulting in a further drop in energy levels, or even the collapse of the entire plane.
However, as Eva delved deeper into sensing, she discovered some interesting phenomena:
"Hmm? Wait, it’s not that the energy level is too low, but rather that the magic seems to have been heavily absorbed, and the plane hasn’t recovered yet..."
"The elemental forces in the space are much more stable than in the Oros Half-plane... and the activity level is no less than that of the Segis World. This world... theoretically should be a top-tier plane..."
"Huh? Not only is the magic power low, but it seems there’s a force suppressing my power from exceeding the Gold level? Hmm... my senses also feel greatly restricted..."
"Is this... the power of a seal?"
With that thought, Eva looked up at the sky.
Her gaze briefly rested on the golden runes surrounding the sun, and she had a few guesses:
"I see, this world is sealed..."
"Not only that, but the beings within this plane will also have their powers sealed, limited to the level consistent with the plane’s energy capacity."
"This seal... seems more like protection?"
Eva pondered.
"First, connect to the main body to position."
She mused.
However, when Eva attempted to position herself, she found that her attempt failed.
In this plane, she couldn’t sense where the Segis World was!
Positioning requires a reference, and without one, it’s impossible.
In Eva’s perception, it felt like she was in a black box, unable to sense any outside locations.
"This too is a seal..."
Eva’s expression turned slightly solemn.
She tried summoning the Gate of Reversal and Dharma’s Sword, and this time she succeeded in summoning them. However, she found that these two True Divine Artifacts were also sealed...
Although still useful, the Gate of Reversal’s effect was weakened to only enable fixed-point teleportation within a hundred kilometers, and Dharma’s Sword’s [Absolute Severance] was significantly reduced, turning into a [Sharpness] effect.
"What a powerful seal... is this really Leviathan’s doing? Since when did the Demon God become so adept at sealing?"
Eva marveled.
As the inheritor of the World Tree’s legacy, Eva felt she had some expertise in seals.
Yet, even she probably couldn’t deploy such a strong seal affecting all aspects.
This seal... was countless times more powerful than the one in Segis World!
"From another perspective, with such a powerful seal in this world, if I could find a way to control it, perhaps I could quietly advance to great power..."
Eva contemplated.
And at this moment, she roughly guessed what Leviathan intended to do.
Leviathan likely planned to seal her here as a prelude to the abyss’s invasion of the Segis World.
Fortunately, the seal wasn’t strong enough to sever the connection between her Avatar and main body, allowing Eva to transfer her primary consciousness to the main body in the Segis World.
However, Eva had a feeling that if she transferred her primary consciousness now, she might never reconnect with this True God Avatar again.
In other words, unless she could free this Avatar, she’d either have to forgo directly controlling the main body temporarily or abandon this True God Avatar and return to the Segis World completely...
Of course, this Avatar had been painstakingly created with so much effort and was too useful to easily abandon, so Eva wouldn’t give it up lightly.
And in the Segis World, even without directly controlling the main body, she could remotely command through the faith network and game system...
With the main body there, even an abyss invasion could be withstood for a while.
During this time, Eva had to quickly find a way to advance to greater Divine Power.
"Let’s first explore this world. The elves of the Shadow Tribe must be settled somewhere. Finding them might help me understand this world better and find opportunities to escape and perhaps even advance..."
With this in mind, Eva decided to venture inland, searching for traces of the Shadow Elves.
She looked down at her divine power materialized attire, contemplated, and decided to change into the appearance of Divine Favored Zero.
However, at this moment, the nearby ruins suddenly shifted.
An elf in black armor suddenly struggled to their feet, groggily shaking their head.
Brown hair and brown eyes, it was the player Optimistic.
He looked up in bewilderment, meeting Eva’s gaze.
Eva: ...
Optimistic: ...
Soon after, parts of the ruins stirred again, and one disheveled head after another emerged...
