(POV-Shin)
The next day, we head out to visit the famous world tree. An elf is waiting for us outside.
"Welcome, Your Majesty the Fairy King, Lord Shin Sengaku-sama. I am the caretaker of the World Tree, Souminaloya. Please call me Souya."(Souya)
He bowed to us respectfully.
"Thank you for the greetings. Can you give us the tour?"(Shin)
"As you wish milord."(Souya)
We stroll towards the forest.
"About the World Tree,-"(Souya)
He said there are total of nine world trees. The six are located to China, Great Britain, Australian Continent(Kendricks), African Continent, North and South American Continents. The seventh one one is on Antartica. The eighth is on Divine Plane's Asgard. The famous Yggdrasil. And the last one is this one. The Fairy King's World Tree.
"The seven world trees at the mortal plane normal duties."(Souya)
"To collect ether from the outer space, to convert ether to mana and injected that mana deep within the core of the planet. The main reason we can use magic."(Shira)
Souya nodded for affirmation.
"About the two left?"(Rika)
"The are also doing the same duites but have another functions. Yggdrasil provides stability of connections to all planes on the universe. It has also a teleportation functions."(Souya)
"This one?"(Momo)
He smiles at us mischievously.
"The first one is collecting the information from the astral veins, filter the necessary information, and send that information to Plutarch Mansion."(Souya)
He said the last one is for us to find out now. We reached our destination.
"It is very tall, isn't it?"(Rin)
Tall wasn't enough to describe this tree though...
"This tree reach its height to the void sky."(Athena)
"As Athena-sama says. In scientific terms, its highest peak reaches the exosphere and the lowest was down to the ionosphere."(Souya)
"... I see."(Shin)
"Still, the former fairy king is amazing."(Shira)
"That gent hast many unknownst techniques which we even don't know..."(Athena)
"I'm the first demon king that ever step at the world tree."(Lilith)
"Eh? Not the King of Hell?"(Arisa)
"Un(yea), Satana-sama said she only saw it from afar. The others call her a shut in since she is the only demon king hated to be summoned. The one who called her that in her face died and suffered torture though. She is way too strong. All of us fought her together and we got trashed in by seconds with breaking a sweat. She was said to have one authority and have 999 unique skills. Yet she never fought using that even once against demons or mortals."(Lilith)
"That's insane."(Shuri)
"That lady in question is as dubious as Oberon. One believe she is even older than any gods existing. She might have been born the same time the hell was created."(Athena)
"Back to the topic at hand. The philosopher stones are produced by world trees right? What are they really?"(Yumina)
"Only high elves knows about that though?"(Souya)
He looks at her dubiously.
"The high elves at Kendricks are my martial arts masters. They slipped it up once to me."(Yumina)
"I see. Indeed, that information is correct. But philosopher stones are only by-products. It is like a garbage to us and our warehouse is being uselessly filled up. But Lord Oberon insist of keeping it and not giving it to mortals."(Souya)
"How about giving it to me? I have ability to store things infinitely."(Shin)
"Ooohh! Thank you very much!! We can get rid of it already!!"(Souya)
Seeing his tearful smile, we know he isn't lying. All of us have complex expression, knowing how much is the value of single philosopher's stones at the market.
We arrived at the top of the tree after the long conversation. He said that the ground administrator, the high elf managing the tree is on patrol. All world trees' high elves are women. Shira added that there should be multiple ground admins usually. It is not normal for only single high elf managing it.
"Beautiful..."(Lia)
Apparently, she never saw it even once since she was born in Japan and never returned to her hometown. We two let everyone watch the scenery at the world trees top.