Die, princess, the devil is mine!

Chapter 2 The Man Hanging on the World Tree

November 2333, 11 in the Miracle Calendar, the day the devil fell.

Today is the first anniversary of the great victory of the Shenyou Continent in the "War of Gods and Demons". The entire Shenyou Continent and half of the Shenshe Continent are in a strong festive atmosphere.

A year ago, the great savior killed the Demon Dragon King, the lord of the Demon Realm, in front of the World Tree, and led his army to an unprecedented victory in the history of the World of Miracles. The once invincible demon army was defeated and retreated all the way to the Divine Protection Continent, where it could not be stopped. The Divine Protection Army took advantage of the situation and recaptured half of the Divine Protection Continent.

Although only a year had passed since the bitter days of suffering at the hands of the demons, the people of all races on the God-blessed Continent knew that good days were coming.

Today, the God-Blessed Legion is confronting the revitalized Demon King's army across thousands of miles of snow-capped mountains in the God-Blessed Continent. The God-Blessed Continent, which has become the rear, is naturally full of vitality, with all things flourishing.

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"Sister Xia, what wish did you just make?"

Among the crowd celebrating the festival, a little human girl pulled the elf girl next to her and asked her in a baby voice about her wish and prayer.

The elf girl she asked about was wearing the characteristic clothing of the elves. The light green top covered her slim figure, and the dark green mid-length skirt made the exposed part of her thigh and the entire calf look even whiter and more translucent. Because it was a festival, she was also wearing a colorful wreath, which matched her soft green long hair and made her look even more beautiful and charming.

The elf girl named Xia is a celebrity in the neighborhood, not only because of her pretty face which is extremely outstanding even among the elves who are full of beauties, but more importantly because she is the director of the local "War Orphan Shelter", a job she has done for twenty years. If she were a human, that would have been her entire youth.

Fortunately, Dean Xia is an elf. What is a golden age for humans has only made her mature a little bit.

"If you tell your wish, it won't come true. Please don't ask around, little Yuli."

Xia took the little girl's hand, squatted down and touched her forehead with hers, using this intimate gesture to dispel the child's curiosity.

"But my brothers and sisters all said that if you write your wish on a piece of paper and hang it on a branch of the World Tree, it will definitely come true! Sister Xia, why don't you give it a try?"

While enjoying her elder sister's caress, little Yuli pointed at the crowded crowd in the distance. They were people of various races gathered under the World Tree and tried to throw their wish lists onto the World Tree.

The World Tree, standing proudly in the center of the continent, is ten thousand meters high, and the shortest of its branches are hundreds of meters above the ground. Even a level 300 Sky Knight would find it difficult to throw a piece of paper onto the tree and get it to hang.

Of course, if he wanted to fly, a height of several hundred meters would not be a problem for the Sky Knight, but the area within ten thousand meters of the World Tree was an absolute no-fly zone, and even the emperors of the five empires did not dare to act rashly in front of the World Tree.

"Those who can hang their wishes on the World Tree are all formidable and powerful beings. They can fulfill their wishes with their own abilities, so naturally, it is easy for their wishes to come true. If you have any big dreams, little Yuli, then practice hard. Once you become a Level 500 Saint, what wish can't be fulfilled?"

Xia touched little Yuli's round head, pinched her chubby little face, and spoke to her softly.

"Those who can hang their wishes on the World Tree are all incredibly powerful. But what if someone can hang themselves on the World Tree? What would that be?"

At this moment, little Yuli pointed in the direction of the World Tree and asked in a soft voice, "Hang yourself on the World Tree?"

Xia tilted her head upon hearing this, a question mark on her face. The area within a ten-thousand-meter radius of the World Tree was a no-fly zone. How could someone possibly have hung themselves on the World Tree? Unless someone had thrown them there...

But who would be so bored as to throw a living person... Wait! What's going on?!

Following the direction of little Yuli's finger, Xia looked into the distance. Just when she thought someone was playing a prank, she found that there was really a person hanging on the distant World Tree.

But the fact that there was a person hanging on the tree was not what surprised Xia. What really made her almost say something impolite was the location where the person hanging from the tree appeared.

He... was hanging on a branch a few hundred meters away from the treetops, which means he was almost ten thousand meters in the air. At that altitude... how could anyone throw him up there without flying!

That's ten thousand meters in the air. How much strength would it take to throw a grown man that high? As for climbing it, is the World Tree climbable? It possesses divine power, and it will bring down divine punishment on anyone who dares to offend it. Even the most powerful beings in the entire Miracle World would be unable to withstand it.

"No, little Yuli, how did you see him?"

Xia was originally thinking about the weirdness of the man hanging on the tree, but before she could figure it out, she suddenly thought of another weird thing, that is, the man was on a branch ten thousand meters above the ground, and his entire figure was almost completely covered by dense leaves. How could an ordinary person see him through the layers of cover?

Before she became the director of an orphanage, she was an excellent archer in the Elf Legion, so she had such amazing eyesight, but little Yuli was only eight years old this year. How did she do it?
"Because that person is also looking at little Yuli. Little Yuli is very sensitive to who is looking at me."

Little Yuli pointed at the man high in the sky as a matter of course. She always felt something was wrong with his gaze, as if she was being stared at by some ferocious monster, but she had no sense of danger. This made little Yuli's round head full of question marks.

"Really? That person...ah!"

Xia was responding to little Yuri's words and carefully observing the strange man hanging on the World Tree. She was surprised to find that the man rolled over and climbed up from the thick branch, then jumped down.

Jumping directly from a height of ten thousand meters, did he think he was a Saint-level expert? Even a Sky Knight would be in danger of death if he fell directly from this height!
Then, Xia saw a scene that she would never forget in her life...

In the distant horizon, a man with an extraordinary heroic appearance fell from the sky. As he fell, a pair of pure white wings spread out from behind him. Like an angel in mythology, he flapped his wings and glided with the help of the power of the wind. The man seemed to have planned it all and landed in front of her and little Yuli with incredible precision.

"Dear little Yuli, do you still remember Brother Lin En?"

The handsome man landed on the ground, folded his wings, dug out a colorful candy from somewhere, and handed it to little Yuli with a smile.

"Ah? Who are you?"

Little Yuli tilted her head, a puzzled expression on her young face.

(End of this chapter)