"Nidhogg, is that dragon that strong?" - Shea asked, confused with such a drastic turn of the conversation.
"If it can devour the roots of the tree that connects all the worlds, it obviously is" - said Tio while closing his eyes - "The problem is that it shouldn't be possible for Cloud to be a Nidhogg, you said it yourself, there can only be one, unless..."
"Exactly, Yggdrasil has fallen, and there are only its fragments left scattered around the different worlds" - Lyutillis replied with a frown - "I can feel it inside me, the faint breath of the sacred tree, or at least that's how it was until shortly before it was sealed"
"Are you saying that Yggdrasil is going to sprout again?" - Yue asked in surprise.
"Exactly, and Cloud is the key to finding him, no, he's the connection we need in order to get to Yggdrasil" - nodded Lyutillis with a huge smile.
"Come to think of it, that would explain some doubts I had" - muttered Tio as he remembered the corrosive power Cloud had used a few times in the past - "Nidhogg is said to be extremely poisonous, you could even call it corrosive"
"That's right" - nodded Lyutillis as he slowly closed his eyes.
"I see you are talking something interesting" - said Cloud as he entered the room.
"Cloud, are you a Nidhogg?" - Yue asked directly.
Cloud was silent for a few seconds before nodding - "Yes, I am."
"I knew it" - said Lyutillis excitedly - "Is that why you can't reveal information about Yggdrasil?"
"Sorry, I can't say either" - answered Cloud as he shook his head - "That aside, I'm surprised that you discovered my race so easily"
"You left a lot of clues, besides, I'm the elf with the strongest connection to Yggdrasil that exists in this world, it's obvious that I would manage to detect your connection at any time" - Lyutillis replied proudly.
"Are you sure it wasn't because you felt Yggdrasil's presence inside of me while.... You know?" - Cloud said while wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.
Lyutillis blushed before averting his gaze.
"Leaving that aside, you guys better go get some rest, tomorrow we'll enter the underwater labyrinth again" - Cloud said as he shook his head.
Yue, Tio and Shea looked at each other before walking to the blond and explaining the situation.
Cloud frowned when he heard this as he started to think, after all, he trusted Shea and her visions, and even though these weren't that frequent, when they appeared they were almost always right, not to mention that it was better to be safe than sorry.
"I understand, I'll think of a plan" - Cloud said as he nodded - "Go rest for now."
"Ok" - nodded the girls, leaving only Cloud and Lyutillis.
"Do you need anything?" - Cloud asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, I'd like to ask you a few questions now that I have the chance" - Lyutillis said while looking carefully at the handsome blond boy - "Do you know where Yggdrasil is? Oh, and before you answer, I'd like it to be a simple yes or no, I don't want to know the direct location."
Cloud was silent before shaking his head - "I don't know where Yggdrasil is."
"But you do know where the sapling of the sacred tree is" - Lyutillis continued as he narrowed his eyes.
"Yes" - nodded Cloud honestly.
"I see, that's all I need to know" - smiled Lyutillis before retreating quietly.
Cloud stayed in the room, thinking about Shea's vision, which left many incongruities. He was sure that the mazes shouldn't be dangerous enough to harm his girls that much, which meant that their situation in the vision was due to a factor external to their adventure.
"Ehit..." - Cloud muttered as he narrowed his eyes - "That's the logical answer..."
Cloud was certain that he was responsible for the vision situation, although he still didn't know how. According to the information he had gathered, Ehit could not descend directly to the mortal world because of a restriction created during the time of the war of the gods, that was why he was sending his apostles and....
"Wait, that's..." - Cloud said as his eyes became as cold as a frozen tundra - "Apostles, we don't know how many of them are or how strong they are..."
The more he thought about this hypothesis, the more accurate it seemed to be, which meant that they were about to be ambushed by the apostles of the mad god.
"If this is true, then Ehit is starting to lose his composure" - Cloud muttered while looking at his hands - "[System], tell me what will happen to me if I unleash my full power..."
[Analyzing... analyzing... analysis completed... delivering information...].
Cloud was silent as he watched a small wave of pop-up screens appear in front of his eyes.
[If the user activates their full power, it is possible that this world's restrictions on the user will increase tenfold, meaning that you will no longer be able to use your transformation during your stay here...]
[If the user activates his full power, the main quest will now ask for a time limit of 30 days for its completion...]
[The user will lose 50% of his rewards upon completion of this world...]
[If the user activates all his power, the system will register it as a privilege and in the future worlds the restriction will be much higher].
[If the user uses all his power, the system will balance the scales by sending the user to a world of EX level...]
[EX level worlds are worlds in which the user has no system benefits except for the basic communication skills and a random skill from the initial catalog. The user will enter with the basic characteristics of a normal human and will have to fulfill the mission in a certain time or be eliminated, in addition to that, there are no secondary missions, all the objects obtained will be destroyed, and transformed into SP (System Points) at the end of the adventure].
Cloud was silent before nodding, after all, the safety of the girls was far more important than what will happen in the future, not to mention that if he was honest, now that he had this form, the rewards weren't as appetizing as the possibility of ending this once and for all.
Cloud's plan was simple, at the moment of the ambush, he was going to unleash all his power so that he could eliminate all the enemies present and he was going to go straight to Ehit's dimension to kill him, if he managed to do so, then he could use the remaining time to go to the last maze, and if he couldn't enter Ehit's territory for an unknown reason, then he would go straight to the last maze to gather the necessary keys to be able to enter. Yes, he was aware that to enter Ehit's he needed all the ancient magics, however, Cloud didn't know if he could also do it with brute force, so it was better to try while he had the chance.
"I'd better get started on the preparations..." - Cloud muttered as he pulled from his inventory the complete corpse of the crystal scorpion that had been guarding Yue in the [Great Orcus Labyrinth] - "This will be more than enough to reinforce the submarine for use as an emergency bunker."
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The next morning, the group was inside the submarine bound for the great labyrinth under the sea.
"This artifact is interesting..." - Lyutillis said as he cocked his head to the side as he looked at the marine beauty through the glass of the strange vehicle.
"I think the same, I didn't expect to see something like this during our trip" - muttered Belta as she watched the fish swim around.
Cloud was silent as he used his mana to try to sense even the slightest movement in the area.
"Are you still worried about Shea's vision?" - Yue asked as she looked at her lover.
"Yes, after all, we don't know when we will be attacked" - Cloud replied as he opened one of his eyes to watch the vampire girl carefully - "We also don't know if our attackers will have the ability to get past our passive radars, that's why we'd better be vigilant for as long as possible."
"That will cause enormous psychological pressure, Cloud" - Tio said while shaking his head.
"I know, but the timing of Shea's vision is too sudden for the ambush to be in such a long time span" - Cloud replied while shaking his head - "That's why I'm almost one hundred percent sure that the attack will be within the next few days, or it can even be at any time..."
The women looked at each other, a relief that Myu-chan is with her mother watching the fish and not listening to this serious conversation. By the way, Cloud had no plans to make Remia and Myu enter this labyrinth, a situation that Belta was also going to go through because she was not powerful enough to be able to defend herself if their attackers ambushed them during their tour of the submerged labyrinth.
"Cloud, maze in sight" - Yue said as she noticed the cave that had the teleporter seal connecting to the bottom of the maze, one of the few benefits of having overcome Melusine's underwater maze.
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