51 - Chapter 48: 48[World Tree and Conditioning]
I was running like mad through a stark white, empty void.
To describe how I felt right now,
it was like being chased by an unknown, intangible monster.
They say humanity's greatest fear is the unknown.
However, if you're too ignorant and completely unaware, fear doesn't arise.
No, the greatest fear humans feel is
when they vaguely understand,
when they can roughly guess,
the dread and terror,
when they can let their imagination run wild with it.
And that was precisely my situation now.
The World Tree's eyes, now filled with black hearts,
and her changed behavior and speech...
They brought back memories of Aria's brutal rape, a violation that had extinguished my very soul.
And those eyes, embedded with black hearts,
black hearts I'd never seen before.
It was an unknown, mysterious domain.
But at least the World Tree had been affected,
and I could somewhat imagine what would happen because of it.
Because the women with those heart-shaped eyes had all behaved the same way until now.
These imaginings, born from various experiences,
combined with the World Tree being a transcendent being—not just a woman—and now having hearts of a different color,
created a complex situation I couldn't fully grasp.
All these factors together made fear swell like an avalanche in my heart.
I have to run away.
The only words filling my mind.
I'd faced and overcome countless fears and deaths while traveling the world,
but this time, I couldn't overcome this fear.
No, in fact, having faced death before,
the memory of being driven to annihilation, not just simple death, stirred within me,
and from the deepest part of my instincts, my heart began to tremble with fear.
"Hero, where are you running to?"
A chilling voice came from behind me, making the hairs on my entire body stand on end.
The clear and refreshing voice I'd first heard was gone,
replaced by one that made every sensation in my body tingle, washing over my ears and skin.
Hearing that voice, I became even more certain.
I have to run away.
But no matter how frantically I ran,
the Faded World robbed me of my senses.
My current location,
the direction I should go,
even how long I'd run—
everything became ambiguous in this world.
No matter how much I kept running, the world remained the same,
and only the same faded scenery stretched before my eyes.
The voice from behind me also didn't get any further away.
How long did I run like that?
Haa haa
Several hours?
No, perhaps dozens of hours?
In a world where time itself had already become ambiguous,
by the time I realized that running away any further was meaningless,
my trembling legs finally stopped, rooting me to the spot.
"Is hide-and-seek over now?"
A chilling voice came from behind me.
"Aah..."
I creaked around like a broken wooden doll,
only to see the World Tree gracefully floating through the air, approaching.
"Agh!"
Something entangled itself around my ankle and began to climb.
Looking down, I saw Golden Vines growing from thin air, binding my legs and climbing up.
Soon, the vines slithered beneath my clothes and began to burrow in.
"Eek! Stop."
They climbed up the inside of my pants, wrapped around my calves, and moved up my thighs...
"Wait, stop, ah...♥"
Despite my plea, the vines didn't stop, continuing upwards.
Some wrapped around my slender waist,
bound my chest,
tickled my armpits,
and finally, restrained both my arms.
They began to encircle my entire body.
"Ngh!♥"
As she watched me,
I saw the World Tree begin to tremble, her face full of ecstasy.
"Please, eek."
No matter how much I struggled and tried to break them with force,
the Golden Vines wouldn't break.
"Struggling is useless. Those are vines made of Divine Power."
"Divine Power?"
"Yes, it is the authority and power of a god, and the very foundation of the world."
"Then..."
"Yes, there's no way for you to escape."
With those words, small vines branched off from the main ones binding my entire body.
"Hee!"
They moved around, scratching every fine hair, as if tickling my entire body.
"Hero, I have an interesting proposition for you."
"What kind of proposition?"
"It's about corrupting the Goddess along with me."
"What are you talking about?"
It was a statement that made my head go blank, wondering what I'd just heard.
"Ah... don't worry. You just have to corrupt the Goddess, just like you corrupted me."
What is that supposed to mean?
I corrupted the World Tree?
No, that couldn't be right.
Only then did Charlotte's rape flash through my mind,
Lilith's insertion from behind,
and her statement about being connected to the Demon God.
I realized that all of this was the Demon God's scheme,
but it was too late to reverse the situation.
It was because of my foolishness.
I should've been more careful and listened to Cynthia.
Therefore, I absolutely couldn't surrender here.
"Do you think I would betray the Goddess?"
"No, you wouldn't betray her easily, would you?"
"Then just kill me."
Rather than betraying her here and turning against the Goddess,
choosing death was the right thing to do.
"Pffft, don't worry. I have no intention of giving up on you easily."
"No matter what you do, I will never surrender."
"Oh really? Truly?"
Her hand made a gesture as if grasping something.
Then, thin branches, splitting from the vines, gently, like tentacles,
began to retract my foreskin, exposing the glans.
At the sensation of being stimulated and retracted by countless fine hairs,
my waist trembled, and a groan naturally escaped my throat.
"Eugh!♥"
"From now on, I will make you surrender."
"Hah! Ngh!♥ I'll never give in to you, even if I die."
"Yes, yes, it wouldn't be fun if you surrendered so easily."
Come to think of it, can I check her stats?
[World Tree Stats]
【 Name 】
World Tree: Lv ???
【 Abilities 】
▷Strength: 84 (-600)
▷Agility: 81 (-600)
▷Stamina: 202 (-600)
▷Mana: 94 (-600)
▷Holy Power: 252 (-600)
▷Coitus: 85 (-600)
▷ ???
Weakened State: Does not possess the Essence of the World Tree.
[Trait]
???
Am I seeing this correctly?
What kind of insane stats are these?
Just as I was surprised by her absurd stats,
her finger spun once in the air.
Then, soft, tentacle-like branches wrapped around my glans.
My waist instantly tried to shoot upwards,
but the vines tightly binding my entire body restricted my movements.
All I could do was
tremble uncontrollably in my lower body, like a woman experiencing an orgasm.
"Hah!♥ Heh-heh!♥ Hah!♥"
"Aah, I like it♥ I like it so much, this trembling, this feeling, this sensation♥"
She continued speaking, trembling all over for a different reason than me.
"I'm looking forward to it, Hero. Cry out with a better voice."
Cry out?
What does she think I am?
I am no mere plaything.
I couldn't give her the voice she wanted.
With defiance and stubbornness, I gritted my teeth and endured the groans that threatened to escape my throat.
"Ngh!♥"
"Yes, go ahead and try to endure it. Just as a musical instrument must be tamed to obey, I will tame you too."
At her gesture, my clothes were torn to shreds.
"Try to resist and endure."
"I'll do it without you telling me, Ngh!♥"
"Why are you struggling already?"
Thin, tentacle-like branches began to poke and stimulate even the inside of my glans—areas usually untouched.
"This is just the beginning."
"Heh!♥ W-wait, there, ah!♥"
The branches were trying to enter through my urethral opening.
"This is your first time here, isn't it?"
"No, wait... ah, hah, are you crazy?! That's not where it goes!"
"No, it is. You just don't know because your world is too small. I'll give you a special tour."
From her brightly smiling face, I felt an alien sense of fear.
"I'll make you feel something you've never experienced before."
With those words, the branches began to move.
Shhhk.
"No, no, nooo."
An unpleasant sensation enveloped me.
It felt bad, a deeply unpleasant sensation.
I wanted to struggle and writhe,
but I couldn't even twitch a finger.
"Please, please, stop it, stop it!!"
"What? Are you surrendering already?"
Surrender?
I can't sell out the Goddess for mere pain like this.
"No, no, Ngh! but..."
"But your eyes are already wavering."
"No, I'm not, I'm not."
Alright, let's see how long you can endure.
At her gesture, the tentacles that had stopped began to move.
"Hah!♥ Heh!♥"
They came inside again.
A sensation I'd never felt before.
No, a sensation I should never have felt in my entire life.
A sensation an ordinary man would never know until death.
I didn't even want to know it.
It was humiliating and shameful.
But my waist trembled,
and with that recoil, an even greater stimulation rushed in.
"Ngh!♥ Heh!♥ Eughhh!♥"
Even if I tried to grit my teeth and endure,
it was impossible.
"This is... ahh?"
It's not coming?
No, it's blocked.
Then,
I can't even climax?
I can't even relieve this desire?
"Ahhhhhh!♥"
My body twisted,
writhing in pleasure,
despair,
and helplessness.
"Hahahahaha, good♥ good♥ That's it! Twist your body, twist it even more in pleasure and agony."
I could no longer pay attention to what the corrupted World Tree in front of me was saying.
"Hee♥ Hah!♥ Let me, let me cum!♥"
Drooling, I pleaded with her.
"Then will you surrender to me?"
"Surrender?"
"Yes, become my dog and corrupt the Goddess."
"I don't want that... ah!♥"