Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 13: Tetsache der Welt (Part 01)

Inside the Astral World, more precisely around the area of the Sacred Tree Forest, Odo walked down the sparse-grained path with sleepy-looking eyes. Having gained knowledge of the manner of planting magic structures to compress them into the medium of Mavis, the, the boy immediately carried out all the neatly arranged plans and returned to the Astral World where he was now.

“Haaah, it feels sinful to trick them like that.”

Sighing and looking ahead, there was only a wilderness whose tree had a strange hue saturation color. Unlike the first time it came to the Astral World, Odo was not directly moved by the distortion of space that became the nature of the place. It could be said that thanks to the Ore and Fruit of the Sacred Tree that Reyah had laid down on him, the body of the child gradually possessed the nature and characteristics of the Sacred Tree. Because of this, after coming to use the Astral World Gate Altar, Odo had to explore the wilderness despite using space distortions to get to the place. It could not move directly near the Sacred Tree because around it was a magic field that prevented space distortion. Another reason Odo was able to move near the place directly when he first arrived was because Reyah was weakened, so that the control of the Sacred Tree also came after the first attack of the Black Dragon to the Dryad's forest area.

Straight ahead through the forest he passed through, saw the giant tree he was referring to. Even so, the distance is not close. Stopping stepping for a moment and considering things, Odo thought of using magic in high power to be able to directly get to the Sacred Tree.

“Hmm, if you use magic, I will not be directly exposed to distortion and thrown into a strange place, ‘kan? Magic requires concentration and complex imagery, if distortion occurs .... Wait, it should be that the effect that Reyah instilled could also prevent that, the proof was when fighting the Black Dragon .... No. .., it might just apply in the Valley of Fire .... Bentar, I also fought in the area of the Sacred Tree Forest as well, even if it was just on its outskirts,” muttered Odo.

Thinking and thinking about all the things that exist, in the end Odo decided to use magic. He accessed the Magic Core, then took out the Mana from within the body and began to build a magic structure on his body. “No distortion, no signs of space abnormalities,” Odo's mind. Feeling safe, the boy began to build a structure of throwing magic under his two feet. Slightly bowing, then putting up the horses with a slight widening of both legs to the side, Odo immediately raised the magic circle in place of the stand.

“To be safer ..., one jump ...”

The magic pressure increased drastically, and by the time the magic circle began to center so that its size shrank, the throwing magic with seven times the power was released. Bous! Odo darted rapidly diagonally upward, heading straight for the sacred tree. When darting, the black-haired child did not install any other magic so he had a little trouble opening his eyes due to the pressure of the wind. Less than a minute in the air, the distance with the Sacred Tree was already getting closer. The momentum from the throwing magic ran out, itself drifting down from a height of several tens of meters in the air. Looking at the scene, the boy grinned with pleasure. Looking up, there the sun looks very far away and feels different from what he can see in the real world.

“Wow, if you know this, why would I walk two hours in the forest!? The kerad! Haha!”

As the falling speed began to increase, Odo prepared a throwing magic and made a magic circle with a downward sloping position, facing right to the bottom of the Sacred Tree. Adjusting the magic power for the leap this time, Odo arranged it weaker than before. “Slaunch!” said it. Throwing magic was unleashed, and Odo darted straight down rapidly. As it was about to land on the grassy ground surface, it made a gravitational magic circle in front of it and crashed into it, slowly decreasing its speed and it landed smoothly.

“Well, if I could use Vil-like flying magic, it might be easier.”

Before he could take a step after landing, a few meters in front of the Sacred Tree, began to grow roots from within the ground and began to form a magic circle. It began to glow, particles of light came out from the circle, and the figure of the Sacred Tree Dryad appeared in the form of a green-haired young lady.

Opening his eyes and looking straight at Odo, the Dryad smiled, and said, “Welcome back. I've been waiting a long time, you know.” His words slightly stunned Odo, the green hair of the Dryad fluttering in the wind and its alluring look, it felt very beautiful for a moment in the black-haired boy's eyes.

“True yes too, here should have been a month passed .... So, is it ready ..., what do I ask, Reyah?” asked Odo as he walked closer towards the Great Spirit. “Of course it is,” replied Reyah.

Up in front of him, Odo looked up slightly and looked towards the Great Spirit. Looking back on Reyah who was wearing more fashionable clothes than before, Odo asked, “Hmm, tumben not wear the cone hat again?” The question made Reyah smile as if she had been waiting out of the child's mouth. Turning around and pinning the thin and plain green-colored gown that was worn, the Great Spirit put on a happy face. “How?” tanyakanya. The spirit placed both hands to the waist, then puffed up the chest slightly and boasted that beautiful posture.

Asked for such an opinion, Odo was silent. He himself did not really understand about the model of clothing, the proof of that was what the black-haired child himself was wearing was now very simple. “Yeah, at least ..., now it's better than you're naked,” replied Odo.

“Haha, what is the difficulty in saying fit and beautiful? Do you not like something like this? Is this not your taste?” ask Reyah.

“Tak also, even I like .... Thin dress that when exposed to light a little transparent like that ..., honestly very alluring ...”.

“Bena⸻”

“But tasteless.”

“Figure!? Why!?”

Odo looked away and slightly sighed. While glancing at the Great Spirit wearing the knee-length thin dress, Odo said, “Choose the right place and time .... You know, Reyeah .... Now is not the time like showing off like that ..”

“Hmm, true also .... If I choose the right time and place, will you attack me like a beast?” ask Reyah. Getting such a question from the Great Spirit whose facial expression was too often flat, Odo was at a loss to answer what it looked like and fell silent.

“How? Are you going to attack and drop myself to the ground?” reyah asked again, this time he brought his face closer and looked at Odo with hope.

Odo turned his face away, and replied,” Y-Ya ..., maybe, ” With a very doubtful face, “But that's only possible, loh.”

“Alright .., I'll try next time. It turns out that it is true that humans care about such things yes, even if it is you ..” Rey turned around, then extended both of her hands towards the Sacred Tree. “Then, let's go in. The stuff is already inside .... You came this time for that, didn't you?” reyah said as she turned towards Odo.

“Y-Ya ...”

The two of them entered the Sacred Tree using the magic circle Reiah had created. When he reached the room in the Sacred Tree, the black-haired child was surprised because the item he asked for was more than expected. Right in the middle of the completely wood-dominated space, there was a pile of magic crystals that numbered more than requested. Breathing out and trying not to question the amount, Odo looked at Reyah who was standing beside him. In the heart of the child, he had thought back that Dryad was his common sense was a bit strange. Can't protest because what was there was what he asked for even though it was a little inappropriate, Odo could only sigh.

At the moment before Odo returned to the real world earlier, he first asked Reyah to prepare all what was necessary for his plan such as magic crystals and others. The black-haired boy realized that after defeating the Black Dragon and getting the cure not necessarily all the problems that exist will be resolved, there is still a crisis in the region led by his father. Therefore, about a week ago according to the pace of real-world time, more precisely before returning to the real world after getting the medicine from Reyah, Odo made a pact with the Great Spirit.

“Reyah .., I didn't ask for this much, loh.”

“Hmm, don't worry .... Although I took this many magic crystals, they were all just crystals from the Valley of Fire. Due to the freedom of the place from the power of the Black Dragon, the Great Spirit who used to live there gave all the crystals away for free .... He said as a thank you for freeing his place of residence.”

“Hmm, there are also those who live in such a place, yes?”

“Of course there is, the Great Fire Spirit, Ifrit. As long as you know, the Valley of Fire was once his. Because the Black Dragon came, He was defeated and expelled from his own place .... Although there are many other places that can be the place after being expelled, but he said living at home is more comfortable .... Therefore .., as you see ..., he is very grateful .... You need not worry that the balance of the place is broken, basically all the magic crystals came from the mines in the Valley of Fire that for hundreds of years were not harvested. Oh, of course according to the time of the Astral World, loh ...”

Looking towards the mountain crystal pile, Odo only realized that as large as existing crystals did have the fire element attribute. Breathing in and understanding the situation, Odo felt that there was nothing to lose if he accepted all of it. Slightly glancing towards Dryad beside him, Odo asked, “By the way, Ifrit is what kind of Great Spirit?”

“Hmm, she's the fire .... The shape can indeed change as he pleases, but basically Ifrit is a white flame that glows bright like a star.”

“The explanation is abstract ...”

“It is like that .... He is fire, no one can describe him more than that .... The strongest fire in the Astral World. Well, the only ones who can make it battered so far are only the Black Dragon and the Devil that appeared on the North Coast of the Astral World many years ago.”.

Hearing this, Odo chose not to ask further about it because there were other things that made him disturbed. “Reyah ..., you changed the way you speak?” ask Odo. Reyah looked at the child with a flat gaze, then said, “Hmm, what is my way of speaking this weird?”

“Not really. It's just that, even if you change the way you talk, that intonation is still you use, huh?”

“This has become a feature of me this .... Weak soft and authoritative.”

Odo paid no heed to those proud words. Gazing towards the crystal pile in front, the boy walked up to him and sat on the surface of the wooden floor in front of it. The behavior of the black-haired child makes Reiah confused because his attitude changes quickly. Approaching and sitting next to him, the Great Spirit looked at the face of Odo who began to be serious and did not look sleepy again like a moment ago.

The black-haired child took out a fire-heavy magic crystal, then examined it. From the weight to the magic charge inside, he inspected carefully and occasionally flipped back and forth to check all sides.

“Hmm, the quality is really very high. The magic crystals I got from the corpses of Goblins or monsters in the forest near the city alone cost per ore already up to 50 Rupls and the most expensive I have ever tried to sell 200 Rupls. Of course the quality is not as good as this .... Maybe the price of this crystal is up ...,” thought Odo. After observing the crystal, Odo placed it back into the pile.

“By the way ..., how to carry all this how, Odo?” reyah asked as she looked at the pile of magic crystals. It is not clear how much, but the weight, it can be estimated that all of it as a whole reaches half a ton more considering that one magic crystal with high quality can reach one kilogram with the size of a ping pong ball but oval in shape with both ends hexagram-shaped taper.

“More or less I have a way of carrying it.” Odo pressed the rune on the back of his right hand, then took out a bracelet from the storage dimension. Holding a pitch-black metal bracelet with his left hand, Odo placed it on the floor.

“It ...?” ask Reyah.

“Wheels made of mixed adi metal, more precisely black silver, Myaht,” replied Odo.

“Hmm, one kind of metal with medium strength, yes .... It was indeed often used to store magic structures .... It is also great that you have such an object, instead of that it is very rare and only produced in Miquator?”

“Indeed, but unfortunately this I got from my house warehouse. You know, the Light Witch has luxury items like this .... But I didn't think yes, you also know about that magic city ...”

Odo began the creation of a storage magic tool with the main material of the bracelet. Unlike when creating the Dimensional Cloak, Odo did not use the technique of writing runes directly on objects, but by creating a magic circle media first to embed the structure compressively into the bracelet. The stages were very simple according to the way Mavis told her, from making a magic circle with a simple structure as a medium to implant runes, then compressing the magic circle that had embedded the dimensional runes into the bracelet, and then compressing the magic circle, then just make the key his access with another rune. Laying the bracelet on the floor, the boy began the process.

“Hmm ..., Odo .... The city has existed since the beginning of the Apocalypse, you know ..?” Reyah's very sudden words made Odo's concentration disappear instantly and the magic circle broke away. Slowly turning his face and looking towards Reyah who was sitting quietly beside him, the boy asked, “What? That city ...?”

“Yes, the city is the only place that still exists since hundreds of thousands of years ago in the era of the War of Gods and Demons .... In fact, the city lord is a Great Witch whose age is older than all the Great Spirits in existence, youh.”

Swallowing his saliva heavily and again beginning the creation of the magic structure on the bracelet from the beginning, Odo again asked, “E-Eeh ..., as far as that city?” His face was confused and panicked. In some ways, something was troubling her mind when Reyah said that.

Seeing Odo like that, Reyah asked, “Did I disturb your concentration?”

“Just calm ..., I will share my concentration .... We continue the conversation.” Odo closed his eyes, then handed the magic control to Auto Senses, and just by opening both palms towards the bracelet, the dimensional magic planting process took place automatically. Opening his eyes and glancing towards Reyah, Odo asked, “Jadi ..., you mean the Miquator has been around since the Early Doomsday period what? What is the Beginning of the Apocalypse? What has the world ever ended?”

“Of course it is .... This world is the Third World after the apocalypse twice ..”.