Chapter 442 The Will of the World and the Will of Humanity

The incarnation of the sacred tree? The guardian of mankind?

Although I had previously speculated in my mind that Im's ability to plunder so many fruits might be related to the Devil Fruit tree, when he heard Im directly saying that he was the incarnation of the sacred tree, Seti was still distracted for a moment.

In Joyboy's record, wasn't the sacred tree completely destroyed when a huge meteorite hit the earth? How could there be such a thing as an incarnation?

Also, what does it mean to be the guardian of mankind? Why do you dare to say that you are the guardian of mankind when you clearly want to completely destroy human civilization?

"You should have seen it, Joeyboy's record left on that island."

Seeing Seti's thoughtful expression, Imhu suddenly asked a question.

Seti looked at the tree-man-like Im in front of him, and after a moment of hesitation, he said truthfully:

"I've seen it, but Joyboy himself erased the most critical part. He didn't tell our descendants the reason why you went to war with the huge kingdom. He just said that the two of you had set an eight-hundred-year period.

gambling."

After hearing this, Joeyboy couldn't help but look back in reminiscence:

"Is that so? This is indeed what he will do, and it is also the reason why I recognize and respect him so much. He is as noble a being as the sun god Nika. It's a pity... that he refuses to accept my plan."

Seeing that Im was about to turn into the Riddler again, Seti quickly interrupted her:

"Stop, stop, stop. Since you want to talk, let's start from the beginning. Stop being the Riddler."

Im glared at Seti, seemingly a little dissatisfied with his behavior of interrupting her interest, but then she continued to tell her origins from the beginning as Seti said:

Just like a ship that is loved by the crew and has a close relationship with the crew will give rise to ship spirits.

Because the slaves who were inspired by Nika and regained their freedom respected and thanked the sacred tree from the bottom of their hearts for giving them the power to defeat the world ruler, the devil fruit tree or sacred tree gradually gave birth to its own consciousness in people's worship.

——A kind of existence similar to the ship spirit.

The elves of the sacred tree were born from the offerings of humans, so they naturally take it as their duty to protect humans, provide humans with fruits, and allow humans to live a better life.

In order to respond to the worship and respect of humans, the elves of the sacred tree spared no effort, even consuming their own essence to give birth to various fruits as gifts to humans.

Because the ignorant elves of the sacred tree would rather consume their own original power in order to bear fruit, this gave rise to bug-level devil fruits such as the natural devil fruit, the soul fruit, the underworld fruit, and the door fruit.

If this trend continues, the final outcome should be that more and more BUG-level fruits appear, while the sacred tree itself gradually withers due to the overdraft of its original power.

But at this moment, an accident happened.

A meteorite huge enough to destroy the entire human civilization fell, and the Solar Era or human civilization that had been built so hard was facing annihilation.

The Sacred Tree Elf, who was born with the rise of human civilization, could not bear to see humanity become extinct, so she chose to step forward at the critical moment and preserve the reproduction of humanity as much as possible at the expense of herself.

It was precisely because of her that she stepped forward and resisted most of the impacts with her own body, which allowed mankind to avoid the fate of complete extinction.

But even if it sacrifices itself, it cannot allow all humans to survive this disaster.

Seeing that the sacrifice of the sacred tree that had been with it for the longest time, a girl named Yimu, was dying due to the aftermath of the meteorite, the sacred tree elf made a bold decision at the last moment when the tree completely collapsed.

It condensed the last remaining power of itself into a fruit that can give people eternal life, that is, the surgical fruit.

The elves of the sacred tree tried to resurrect Im through the ultimate power of the surgical fruit.

But there is a huge problem here - although the elves of the sacred tree can create all kinds of magical fruits, once the fruits are separated from the tree body, they are cut off from the mother body.

Therefore, the sacred tree elves did not even know that the priest named Yimu himself was a user with the ability of the Underworld Fruit.

Although Im is dead, her soul has not dissipated due to the fruit's ability. It has only been temporarily returned to the underworld. She can only return to her body to achieve resurrection after her soul regains consciousness from the underworld.

This oolong led to an extremely coincidental result.

Im's body gained eternal life due to the immortality surgery, but because it had no soul, it was just a shell with holes.

After the remaining underworld fruit factor in this body sensed the existence of the power of the sacred tree spirit, which was also its origin, it subconsciously absorbed the sacred tree spirit.

In this way, the spirit of the sacred tree accidentally occupied Im's body, and Im's soul died completely because it could not find its own body. The Underworld Fruit and the Surgery Fruit also achieved rebirth in unknown corners of the world.

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After listening to Im's story, Seti couldn't help but sigh and sigh, but when he looked around at the fragmented Shampoo Islands, this sigh was quickly suppressed. He looked at Im and asked in confusion:

"What happened after that? Why did you give up on humanity when you were devoted to protecting humanity?"

After hearing this, Im fell into silence for a moment. Seti looked carefully and found that Im seemed to be... crying?

"I have never given up on humanity. It's you who are sick. It's you who ignored my dissuasion and insisted on embarking on a path of self-destruction!"

Im hatefully said:

“Since my death, you have forgotten what reverence is, and have destroyed and exploited the natural environment in order to satisfy your own curiosity and selfish desires.

After the arrival of those moon people, your greed has only increased day by day.

In order to realize those technologies, you completely ignored my pain and warnings, and even... even raised weapons against your compatriots and brothers for the fight for resources.

What is the difference between you and the world rulers of the past, and why do you deserve my continued protection?

I am extremely grateful. I am grateful that my wrong decision allowed me to blend in with you and observe your ugly postures that were never shown to me in the past with the same posture as you.

But at the same time, I am extremely regretful. If I had died in that disaster, maybe I could have fallen into eternal sleep with my beautiful illusions about you in the past, instead of experiencing the pain of betrayal in the long river of time like now!"

Seeing the hysterical Im in front of him, Seti didn't know what to say for a moment.

He suddenly felt that the Im in front of him seemed to be very similar to the Orochi card in his hand.

Both can be regarded as the incarnation of the will of the earth. They used to protect mankind, but later chose to take revenge on mankind because of mankind's development of technology and destruction of nature.

But, have humans really done anything wrong?

Environmental damage caused by the development of science and technology is inevitable. Even if the world in my previous life vigorously promoted environmentally friendly technology and developed clean energy, it was just to minimize the damage as much as possible.

But can we say that because technology has caused damage to the environment, technological development is wrong?

Even if we don't develop technology, won't the world's resources one day be exhausted?

Im didn't know what Seti was thinking about. Seeing Seti's hesitation, she couldn't help but smile, thinking that Seti was moved by what she said:

"Human beings, you are already too sick.

Rather than watching you destroy yourself in such madness, it would be better for me, the former guardian of humanity, to ruthlessly perform an operation on you.

So, join me in my plan, and work with me to get rid of the sick dregs, so that the healthy ones can get back on the right track with a brand new attitude!"

Looking at Im, who looked hopeful in front of him, Seti hesitated for a moment and then said:

"Im, do you know the Navoli Chamber of Commerce?"

Im was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and said in a tone of extreme disgust:

"I heard those five guys mentioned that it was a chamber of commerce that made its fortune through the development of technology and trade. It's really ridiculous. No matter how much you praise the efforts of this chamber of commerce to make human life more convenient, you can't cover up their destruction of natural resources."

"Just like Joyboy is the king of a huge kingdom, I am the master of the Navoli Chamber of Commerce."

Seti first interrupted Im's disparagement of the Navoli Chamber of Commerce, and then continued:

"Don't you find it strange? Why are the two so-called kind human beings you like, the carriers of your plan, both the leaders of the technological development that you hate most?"

Im fell into silence. She looked at Seti in front of her blankly, her eyes seemed to have crossed the long river of history and returned to that day eight hundred years ago...

"Joyboy, come on, join my plan. You who love mankind deeply must be willing to let mankind have a better future."

"Sorry, I won't agree to your invitation."

"Why?"

"I don't know, I just have a vague intuition...I feel that if you continue to carry out your plan, mankind will not be better than it is now."

"Your intuition is wrong. If this continues, mankind will only destroy itself! If we don't start the operation now, mankind will only become more and more miserable under the influence of the virus called greed!"

"I don't know, and I can't give you the correct answer, but I know that someone will definitely appear in the future. He will defeat you on my behalf and tell you the answer to this question."

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On the other side, looking at Im who had not spoken for a long time, Seti continued to ask:

"Also, to be honest, I'm a little curious, why do you want to realize your plan by helping the kings of 20 countries?"

Im opened her mouth to say something, but Seti interrupted her with her hand:

"If your answer is just that the kings of the 20 countries have not developed technology, then don't say it anymore. Such stupid words will only lower your standing in my heart.

If you really used Im's body and Im's eyes to see the essence of human beings, then you should know that the kings of the 20 countries are far more evil, greedy, and terminally ill than Joyboy, and even more than the giant kingdom.

But you united with them, who were even more evil and greedy, to attack and destroy the huge kingdom that was more peaceful and friendly despite the development of technology.

Don’t you think your actions have caused greater suffering to mankind?”

Im speechless at Seti's words.

But Seti obviously doesn’t intend to stop his offensive:

"In addition, I am also curious. You who helped the kings of 20 countries overthrow huge kingdoms and establish a world government, do you know what they or their descendants did?

Do you know how many resources they have destroyed in order to satisfy their own desires, and how many compatriots they have defined as slaves?

Do you know that in order to achieve their own wealth and glory, they established the heavenly gold system, which made ordinary people in countless countries miserable?

Do you know that in order to slow down the development of science and technology, they can provoke confrontation between the navy and pirates, so that more people can take up the butcher's knife like their compatriots?
To be continued...