Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army!

Chapter 1157: The Origin Of Calamities



It has been a week since I returned home with everyone, and also since I learned about the first floor of the Tower being Earth, and where Eustace came from. Through the rest of the days, I tried asking him more about this world, but he had very faint memories, it was after all, thousands of years since then. Perhaps the Earth I know also changed a lot, more than I could have ever hoped for... Or maybe there's some sort of time dilation between worlds?

As I helped my village's construction, made more houses, reinforced the walls, created new farms with friends and family, and also meet Brunhild and the dwarves of the neighboring Dwarf Country, I constantly asked many things to those that knew more about the Tower than me.

That included Frigga, whatever Eustace remembered, and also the cultivators I had brought with me, which were finally freed from my Shadow Realm, I gave them menial chores and works in the farms for now, they were pretty much on a tight leash, if they dared to escape their souls would be eaten, so they behaved well.

I learned a couple of things, the most knowledgeable was Frigga, naturally. Eustace told me a few things he remembered about Earth on his last visit, he said that the world had become filled with Hunters now after the Tower appeared, and people would sometimes "Awaken", obtaining Soul Books of their own, Classes, and skills.

He was part of one of the Hunter Guilds of that place, and mostly had a lot of human friends, but as he climbed the tower, he lost many along the way, and it was in Atlantis where he met Naiad, who would join his guild and remain by his side until their last days.

Eustace also told me about "Gates" which were portals towards Dungeons that spawned on Earth. They varied in color based in their danger, and also if they were not cleared in time, areas would be overrun of monsters as the Gate would double in size and release a Dungeon Break.

There were Hunter Ranks, from F to S Rank, kind of like Adventurers. I sadly never truly engaged with the world of Adventurers here. But if I go back to Earth, I might play around for a while, at least while I'm looking for my family, or at least, investigating what happened to them after I died.

Even though I've lived another whole life here in Yggdrasil, Earth still remains within me, and I still have a very strong attachment to my original world...

After that, I also learned from the cultivators about the ongoing rivalry between many worlds, and the several factions coveting the floors, and how much they hated Yggdrasil in specific.

Why? Well, Frigga responded to that quite quickly, today, as we enjoyed dinner.

"...It's because Yggdrasil was almost completely sealed and closed from the public," she sighed. "My husband barely allowed any player to get inside, and whenever they did, it was through very special meanings, such as using an undiscovered, new gate, or sometimes through teleportation items. Therefore, since he became a God of Yggdrasil, that the progress of the Players climbing the tower has almost completely halted."

"And because it's been closed for so long, it's very hard for anybody to get inside, isn't it?" I wondered. "I see... It probably has caused a lot of problems with all the worlds beneath our own."

"Yes, and Yggdrasil is a tremendously large world compared to the rest, so it is full of rich resources that everyone wants," Frigga said. "I'm afraid that, when we finally deal with Odin, there might be a huge influx of invading Players."

"Huh..." I nodded. "I wonder though, how do players climb and stuff? When they get to a new world, what do they need to do there exactly, to climb further?"

"Trials, the Tower will always give you a Special Trial for every World, most of the Time these Trials are shared by every person," said Frigga. "This World's Trial was quite a few things, one of them was registering in the Adventurer's Guild, any, and complete ten Missions of at least B Rank and above. After that, they had to fight a Special Boss Monster that inhabited every Continent."

"Special... Boss Monster?" I wondered.

"Yeah, the Calamities," said Frigga with a nod. "They're meant to also be Bosses, which constantly respawn once defeated by groups of Players. Every few months, or sometimes even just once a year. However, Odin twisted the Laws around the Calamities, the Sins that possessed them and everything else, turning them into his slaves which he used to wipe out humanity whenever they got too large in population..."

"H-How horrible..." Emeraldine sighed. "So does that mean that everyone with a Calamity Title is a Boss?"

"No, this has been twisted as I said, because of this, the Laws surrounding Calamities also changed," said Frigga. "Back then, it was the Tower that summoned the Calamities. You see, at the beginning of Odin's reign, he hadn't sealed this floor from the tower completely. So I quite remember how it worked. But he used his authority to his advantage, twisting the Calamities into his personal servants once he snapped and went insane."

"This as a result, created some sort of... error, a mistake, or something. Where the Sins ultimately were poured out and set free, the Tower was now giving Calamity titles to anything that could become a "candidate" but only the True Calamities carrying the Sins would become the real Bosses. Nonetheless, it isn't as if it mattered, without Players, the purpose of Calamities changed, becoming monsters, natural disasters that brought doom to each continent once a few tens of thousands of years passed."

Frigga tried to explain things as much as she could, helping us truly understand the past, and how everything ended being twisted into the reality we thought as the only truth. Everything we knew was shaped by that man, twisted, and destroyed, becoming something completely different.

And he brainwashed the entire world to make them believe this world has always been like that... Well, I'm relieved I managed to destroy the Sin of Sloth.

But there's six more Sins to destroy within Yggdrasil, I wonder if I could reason with them like I did with Arachne.Nôv(el)B\\jnn