Chapter 3041: The Chosen One of Time

Emilia closed her eyes, and the emerald light emitted by her Fate Ring and body converged toward her cupped palms at this moment. The leaf pattern on the back of her hand detached from her skin, joining those lights in the form of wandering green lines.

At first, the light was not very bright, but as those green patterns reconfigured in the light, the light held by Emilia became brighter and brighter.

Xia De even discovered that as the leaf pattern detached from the back of her hand, the tall and well-proportioned elf girl was actually gradually becoming shorter.

But most people did not notice this point for the time being; people's focus was on her palms. The emerald light illuminated the entire clearing, and in that light, what the elf was holding was clearly a tiny sapling.

That sapling had complete roots, a trunk, branches, and leaves; natural runes were branded on the trunk, golden light flowed along the leaf veins, and the roots stretched out to be nearly the same size as the little tree's canopy.

A circular "bubble" wrapped around that tiny sapling, gradually isolating it from the surrounding light, but this was more like protecting this newborn little tree from external interference. The little tree was initially transparent, but soon, as all the green leaf patterns on the back of Emilia's hand transferred over, it solidified into a physical form.

Only then did people successively discover that the elf holding the sapling had once again turned into the appearance of a "little elf." Her long golden hair fluttered behind her, and her somewhat childish face was illuminated by the light of the sapling in her hands. Although she looked immature, at this moment, this appearance instead made her seem very serious.

The great witch of time, a demigod who should not have appeared in this era, saw the clue in it:

"So that's how it is—she didn't grow that rapidly at all. It was because the seed attached to her body took root and sprouted, and then grew, which made her physical and mental state also seem to grow. But when that newly born sapling detached from her body, her life form immediately returned to its original state."

She did not deliberately lower her voice, so many people around heard her words.

Xia De suddenly realized. From the very beginning, he had been wondering how Emilia could have changed so much when she was only three years older than Emilia; later, seeing that Emilia hadn't changed after returning from the Academy of the Fifth Era, he became even more curious about what she had experienced in one year to grow so fast.

Now the mystery was solved; the little elf was still just a little elf, it was just that the growth of the tree had caused her to also undergo a leap-forward growth. Of course, relatively speaking, how tall Emilia actually was wasn't a very important matter; the change she was undergoing at this moment at most indicated that a portion of the power of the "Chosen One of Time" was on that sapling.

The only person who was ecstatic because of this was probably Ajelina, who was watching this scene from the deck. The little princess, upon understanding that her good friend hadn't changed at all, was still about the same height and figure as herself, and even had a figure more pitiful than her own, immediately tried hard to hold back from showing a smile:

"I am not the kind of person who can't stand to see friends doing well."

Emilia also reopened her eyes at this time, her emerald pupils reflecting the little sapling held in her hands. Looking at Xia De for the last time, she took a deep breath to adjust her state to the best:

"I, the elf of Moon Creek, descendant of the World Tree priestess, Emilia Sianode, declare here..."

She breathed deeply, and pale golden light emanated from her body, replacing those emerald lights. The giant tree and the forest rustled again in the night wind at this moment, and thousands of overlapping prayers sounded, not knowing where they came from.

The starlight was celebrating for her, the forest was whispering for her, the dancing snowflakes were her angels, and the tiny sapling in her palms was her soul.

The wandering golden light constructed that ancient holy emblem beneath her feet, the golden hair continued to flutter behind her with the sudden wind, and the Fate Ring was also dyed with gold bit by bit.

Grandma Sianode finally arrived at the edge of the forest along with the elves who came to support later. At this moment, watching Emilia holding the sapling and slowly rising in the light, tears were already sliding down the old elf's aged face, which was illuminated by the light.

"Swearing to the Ancient God 【Father of the Infinite Tree】, I will guard the order of time, becoming the new..."

She still remembered the words Xia De had repeatedly exhorted:

"Becoming the caretaker of the newborn tree."

The phantom of a golden clock face appeared directly above her head, surrounding her together with the Ancient God's holy emblem beneath her feet. With a "hum," white heavenly light fell from the depths of the sea of stars, shrouding the golden clock face, Emilia, and the Ancient God's holy emblem all within it.

That holy emblem then decomposed in the pure white heavenly light into a ritual halo composed of thirteen points of light, and the halo moved slowly upward from beneath Emilia.

Iluna looked up at this familiar scene, watching the silver-white robe worn by the elf being blown by the wind, revealing a pair of trousers inside:

"Very good, I warned her in advance to remember to wear trousers before holding the ritual, she really did listen!"

Ajelina felt envy, watching her best friend about to sublimate under the starry sky; her mood was actually still very complicated. At this moment, a hand was placed on her from behind. After turning her head, she saw it was her sister, Princess Lei Qianya.

The red-haired princess looked like she was fine. She shook her head to let Ajelina not need to open her mouth to greet her, and then together with her, she looked up and continued to gaze at the elf floating in the heavenly light in the center of the clearing.

The whispers of the forest converged into an ancient ballad at this moment, and as the giant tree canopy rustled, green light spots had long since filled the entire forest.

The Vesta Woodland, which had been fighting intensely for two nights, seemed to have finally quieted down at this moment. Above the city where the great war had just ceased, the Ring Warlocks looked together toward that beam of light in the forest, and the people in the forest who were injured or exhausted also stopped their steps, listening to the ballad of the night.

During the process of the ritual halo composed of thirteen light points rising, Emilia retracted her hands with a serious expression, and thus the little sapling spontaneously floated toward the eight-ring Fate Ring behind Emilia.

The pure white beam of light had already turned into a golden color at this moment, and the thirteen-point ritual base array finally crossed over Emilia's head and merged with the golden clock face.

At this time, that little sapling had also already lifted up her Fate Ring behind Emilia, and as the Fate Ring completely transformed into dark gold, it was melting, it was deforming, and this process symbolized the complete transformation of the elf's soul.

When that transformation ended, the dark golden clock face that the Fate Ring had turned into was lifted up by the verdant sapling behind her. A golden shockwave swept toward the surroundings with Emilia as the center at this moment, and the sound of a bell rang out in the void, finally merging into the forest's ballad.

The golden ripples brushed past everyone around the clearing, and those with a talent for time had more or less gained some insight at this moment. And Fanni and those Ring Warlocks who had been affected by unknown relics recovered their original ages at this time... The witch of the earth was dumbfounded by this; she had actually already grown to like her young state:

"How could this be?"

The golden ripples brushed past the forest, and thus the strange space-time unstable areas in the forest were smoothed out one by one; even the few paradox bugs still active in the forest area exploded into smoke at the same time as the golden ripples brushed past.

This kind of power, which seemed to have traveled from the ancient times, originated from an even more ancient era. In the Fifth Era after the Tree Father left, the World Tree's power to balance space-time returned to the material world. People outside the Vesta Woodland had already detected the anomaly in the forest, and while feeling relieved, they were also puzzled as to why it had ended after fighting for two whole days; and the guardians of time stood in the cracks of time at this moment, watching this symbolic scene together.

The eighth Chosen One, the heir of time, was officially born on this snowy winter night.

"The giant tree lifts the clock; this is the holy emblem of the Ancient God."

Xia De thought in his heart, walked quickly out from the edge of the clearing, and after arriving at the center of the clearing, extended his hand toward the girl falling from the air.

He caught Emilia in a princess carry. And the little elf, not caring at all how many eyes were watching them, actually wrapped her arms around his neck before Xia De put her on the ground, but fortunately, she didn't do anything more daring.

The golden long hair had more luster than ever before, and the emerald eyes were shining in the starry sky. Emerald light spots and golden light spots were jumping around them, and Emilia could no longer hide her excited mood:

"I did it! I did it!"

After finishing, her face turned red, and she jumped down from Xia De's embrace. At this time, although she was in the appearance of a little elf, through the contact just now, Xia De clearly felt that as long as she was willing, she could switch back to the appearance of a great elf.

The newborn sapling was the axis of time. Although it had transferred from the back of her hand to her Fate Ring and then merged with it, in reality, it still belonged to her. This was different from the situation of other Chosen Ones; the power of other Chosen Ones was merely the power of the Ancient God, while her power was composed of the power of the Tree Father and that new tree—after all, the Tree Father himself was very special among the Ancient Gods.

The excited elf wanted to say something more to Xia De, but at this moment, the earth beneath her feet suddenly shook, and then a shocking loud noise came from deep within the earth. Xia De did not look at his feet but looked upward. The canopy that covered the entire Vesta Woodland was shrinking at this moment, and the color of the tree roots that faintly emitted green light on the ground beneath the snow was also fading.

About half a minute later, the area of the giant tree canopy had already shrunk to only 10 acres. Although in this state, the canopy still covered a large area of the forest outside the clearing, it could no longer be compared to the state of covering the entire forest not long ago.

Of course, there was still a sea of stars above the clearing; the large hole that had been melted out just now had not been filled by the canopy.

No one went to ask what had happened, because that headless "corpse" with a pierced chest sitting on the throne was gradually turning into yellow sand in the night wind at this moment, being blown toward a distant place along with the night wind. ===== CHAPTER 3042 =====