Of course, the door to leave did not appear because Jenkins completed the task, but the ship appeared strange.
With the shaking of the ship's deck, it slowly sank toward the surface of the water. When the deck of the ship was almost at the same height as the pier, Jenkins nimbly jumped over the deck railing and came to the pier.
The pier is real, not a phantom background. The human head sank to the bottom of the water along with the boat, but its voice seemed to come from all directions:
"This time, of course you have to fight those ants. But before that, just like I said, how about visiting my ideal world?"
The voice of the head asked, and added by the way:
"Before you finish your visit and express your opinions, I can guarantee that no one will disturb us. On the boat, although you understand what happened here, you haven't completely read my masterpiece and understood my thoughts. It’s such a pity for me.”
"I want to know who you are?"
Jenkins asked.
"The top-level machinery made by the great wisdom of my lord has the experience and wisdom of my lord. I am the smartest under my lord."
Jenkins looked at the foggy island ahead, and reached out to touch the cat on his shoulder.
"Aren't you really curious about my ideal 'Earth of Steel' and the metal world I calculated and deduced? You have divided the power of my lord 'Lord of All Machines', so it is impossible not to be interested in these. Even if it is just to take a look and understand it, it is considered as a relaxation before the final battle. My Lord wants people who really know it to witness all of this. I think my Lord is also thinking that even if it fails, someone can Inherit it all."
That voice kept coming, and even admitted that the difference engine might fail. Jenkins nodded, and what the other party said did make sense:
"But I'm really sorry... I'm not interested in your world at all."
Jenkins took the leaf bestowed by the World Tree in his mouth. He turned his back to the Steel World Tree and faced the wide river, then sighed softly:
"World Tree, you are with me."
In the last dream before entering the nine-story metal tower, Jenkins saw the body consciousness of the World Tree, and the other party replaced Jenkins' original holy water bottle with a leaf. As long as this leaf is contained, no poison or curse will be effective on Jenkins, but the main function of this leaf is not this, the main function is the only one chance to "World Tree is with me".
This description is very vague, and it does not explain whether the World Tree body descends, or whether the World Tree strikes across the world with all its strength, or even the consciousness of the World Tree descends to fight with Jenkins.
Therefore, before trying to call, Jenkins didn't know what would happen. So, when he sighed and the leaf melted in his mouth but nothing happened, he once thought that he had considered the function of this leaf wrongly.
Fortunately, it didn't, and the short-term calm was because Jenkins looked in the wrong place. Jenkins looked up at the sky when Chocolate kindly reminded him with the tip of his tail.
Originally shrouded in dense fog, the sky that could hardly see anything was opened with a big hole, and the dense fog desperately escaped from this range. And in the big circular hole, you can clearly see a forest full of vitality hanging upside down, as if the skies of the two worlds were spliced together.
As the perspective continues to stretch, the big hole in the sky is aimed at a certain area of the forest. Jenkins observed the lake island in the middle of the forest. The island is like a fantasy in a fairy tale. The dots of light make every part of the reflected space seem to emit soft light.
Then, he saw the colorful and dreamy light spots on the island fluttering in the wind, and saw the soft grass on the meadow swaying slightly. He saw the giant tree on the island in the middle of the lake, and the appearance of the giant tree was exactly the same as what he saw in his dream:
"I knew it wasn't a dream at all... It turns out that the body of the World Tree is so small."
The smallness here is compared to the giant tree that can cover the entire world in his imagination.
The big tree hanging upside down transmits green light, and the green light sprinkles from the hole to the strange environment, a steady stream of vitality, gradually dispelling the nearby dense fog. When the green light came into contact with Jenkins, the emblem of [World Tree Seedling] appeared automatically under his feet.
The emblem originally looked like a sapling, but after it appeared, the sapling grew at a speed visible to the naked eye. Although it is still a small sapling, the branches are elongated, the trunk is growing, and young leaves have appeared on the branches.
"Meow~"
Chocolate barked to congratulate Jenkins, knowing it wouldn't be needed this time. But it doesn't matter. Of course, the cat must be shot at the last moment to reflect the importance of the cat.
World Tree didn't appear in the strange world, but she temporarily handed over part of her power to Jenkins. Both are world trees, and their power is essentially the same, so the power instilled from the distant flowering forest is enough to make further changes to the emblem under Jenkins' feet.
When the hole in the air shrunk and disappeared, green light spots that could not be concealed began to float out from Jenkins' body. The majestic power surged in his body, and the World Tree gave him part of the power. He is about equal to the World Tree, which is one size smaller at the moment. Although this power is gone once it is used, it is enough for this strange situation.
The sound of the metal head did not reappear, but heavy and dense footsteps appeared in the direction of the branches of the Iron World Tree. Three golden ants, which were about the same size as the ancient dragon Jenkins saw in the last treacherous realm, broke through the re-gathered thick fog and appeared at the edge of the field of vision.
There are three parts of the body atmosphere, the head is gold, the chest is red gold, and the abdomen is dark gold. The two tentacles on the head are black and gold in color, and they seem to corrode the air when they are waving. The eighteen powerful legs of the three ants smashed down to the ground, causing the island to vibrate.
"Eating the world tree..."
The golden ants were already inextricably linked with the World Tree, so the power of the World Tree was revealed. They climbed out of the giant steel tree immediately, and rushed towards the pier with a clear goal. Compared with the beasts of disaster that Jenkins saw in other strange places, these three ants have neither too strong spiritual pollution ability nor the kind of chilling oppressive force, as if they are just three huge monsters.
"It won't be that simple."
He tapped his toes and flew up, temporarily experiencing the power of flying freely. Although he easily subdued the power of the scarlet mayfly at the end of the strange land in the ancient town, it was because the World Tree was born to restrain that thing. Not all beasts of disaster can be easily dealt with, especially now that they are facing the ants who already have a restrained relationship with the world tree.
The flying Mr. Writer turned his right hand downwards, casting a piece of green light. In the land in front of the pier, thousands of buds of various plants broke through the ground and swept towards the three ants.
At the same time, on the island where the Iron World Tree was located, saplings appeared one by one, and they grew into a sea of towering giant trees, blocking the way of the ants.
But this did not hinder the golden ants in the slightest. Wherever the ants passed, there was only a trace of gnawing, and then all the plants disappeared quickly. And as they gnawed, the three golden ants became bigger and bigger. When they reached below Jenkins, thin golden wings suddenly grew on both sides of their bodies. The wings fluttered, and they flew into the sky with the golden ants.
"This kind of ant can actually fly?"
Jenkins muttered, manipulating the vines on the ground to shoot into the sky, trying to see them pull down. But as long as all the plants touch the golden ant's body, they will immediately feel like they have been bitten off.
Not only that, the spirit of life sowed by Jenkins disappeared as quickly as the water in the pond where the water was released. Those ants became bigger and bigger. After being hungry for thousands of years in this seal, they finally tasted the familiar delicious taste again.
"So, it is really appropriate for the difference engine to put these ants on the eighth floor, just to restrain the world tree."
Thinking in his heart, Jenkins descended and landed on the top of the steel world tree's canopy. Stepping on his feet, he knew that the thing under his feet was a complete metal structure. The shaking at the moment of touching made him "see" the complex structure like an ant's nest in the crown and trunk of the tree.
"But these ants don't seem to want to understand a thing."
He took out his cane, shook it lightly, the cane grew and stretched, and changed into the appearance of a commonly used scepter:
"The reason why the World Tree can be eaten by you is because it wanted to give up the power in that body."
The dense green light at the top of the scepter turned into three ropes and shot out to the distance, binding the flying ants. Thin Wings shook rapidly trying to struggle, while Jenkins lost his strength and was captured by the golden ants.
But in just a few seconds, the ants found themselves unable to seize power.
"The spirit of life that is not under my control will of course be swallowed by your instincts, but now these powers are in my hands."
He held the scepter tightly, and the emblem under his feet flickered, allowing more green light to be released until it covered the entire crown of the Iron World Tree. These lights are like the cobwebs woven by spiders, and the ones trapped in the cobwebs are of course ants.
"If the World Tree doesn't give it to you, don't try to take it."
The three ants also fell high and landed on the canopy. When they touched the canopy, the silver-gray steel immediately turned into a bright golden yellow. The golden yellow centered on three points and slowly spread to the entire canopy, trying to compete with the power of the world tree for control. That gold is the power to corrupt people's hearts, the sin of greed, and the real sin of the era where the golden ants live.