Here you go, one more chapter, thank you for reading and credit to Mek for proofreading it.

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Once the duel between Chaos Knight and Chrono concluded, Vladimir was eager to know the result of the ‘program’.

He approached one of the selected few of his research team. The one he approached was a common man with glasses, it seems this man was too busy looking at his computer to search for appropriate data.

“How is it? Did we succeed?”

“It seems so, we didn’t received any signal from Chaos Knight since his death.”

Vladimir smirked at the positive result. It was the first time they actually used the program, he himself could not predict the result.

The program he uploaded in Chrono was rushed since he didn’t expect Chrono would fight the Chaos Knight this early.

Vladimir was lucky, they noticed that Chrono was fighting the Chaos Knight when his research team were doing their daily monitoring on Chrono.

The program was useless unless Chrono defeated the Chaos Knight, but Vladimir thought even if Chrono lost the battle, he still would gain some data.

“(His win against Chaos Knight was unexpected. I should give him more credit for that.)”

Vladimir looked at the monitor from his assistance left side. From the tremendous data, he could not conclude anything. Only time can tell.

This was the true reason he decided to announce the update. The update itself did not require five days.

Vladimir only used the update as an excuse to find out the result of his little experiment. If this one proved as a success, he could truly use Chrono as his ‘weapon’.

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I WAS DEFEATED, BY SOMEONE WHO WIELDED MY MASTER’S WILL. BUT WHO'S THE MASTER THAT I VAGUELY REMEMBER FROM MY MEMORIES? THAT, I DID NOT KNOW.

AS MY BODY DISAPPEARS, IT FELT NATURAL.DEEP DOWN I FELT I WILL FINALLY REST IN PEACE AFTER THIS HONORABLE DEFEAT.

I feel tired, it was hard to move my body. Like waking up from a long slumber, I open my eyes slowly while fighting my fatigue.

Is this, the afterlife? As I slowly opened my eyes, I saw my body wrapped by a strange tree root. I looked around and to my surprise, there were a lot of people around me.

They seems to be in a deep slumber, and like me, they were wrapped by the same tree root. Unlike the tree root wrapping them which were red brown color and full of life, the root wrapping my body was gray in color and lifeless.

Who were they? Wait I feel like I should have known them. I looked at their faces carefully, trying to remember.

I moved my eyeballs toward the foot soldier beside me, a young boy that seems too young to be a soldier.

As I observed the young foot soldier, I remembered the unknown past; memories that keep bugging me when I fought that man.

My mouth moved automatically, but it seems forever since I used this body; I can not speak..

“Aaahhh…..”

“S-sittrrr….”

Just to say a simple name takes a lot of effort. But to give up was not an option, the proud me, the honorable me, would never tolerated failure. I gathered my courage and tried to speak once more.

“S-Sitrik!”

Sitrik, that was the young foot soldier’s name. I especially remembered him because he was the youngest recruit in our armies. At the age of 16, he…...wait, armies? What armies?

I AM THE ONE AND ONLY, CHAOS KNIGHT. SOMEONE LIKE ME WOULD NEVER LOWER MYSELF AND FIGHT ALONGSIDE THE LIKES OF AN ARMIE……..

“To your left, Kyross!!” “We are brothers in arm!! The proud armies of Craphto Ravenking!”

Wha?.. What was this? Stop it!!

“This time, let’s end this war for good!” “Kyross, if this war ends, what do you want to do?”

As those scenes flashed through my minds, I felt all kind of mix emotions.Confused, sadness, frustration and anger.

“AAARRRGGHH!!!”

I screamed at my heart’s content as my eyes widened and I felt my blood veins shows on my face while tears come out from my eyes non-stop.

I looked around again, searching for another familiar person.

“A-Anvil.”

“I’m afraid, damn it!”

“Shiroka.”

“I fight for the future, my family, at home; will live for the future.”

“Billy.”

“I wonder what my old mom doing right now.”

“Mastul.”

“Unlike you guys, I had nothing. But I don’t expect to die here.”

“Jessi.”

“James.”

“Orleans.”

“Askeladd.”

These guys……..these guys were my comrades.Now I realized, my life as a Chaos Knight was a lie, the all mighty, proud and honorable Chaos Knight was nothing but a dream.

After I think about it, Chaos Knight not even a proper name.And I never remember living a proper life in that cursed world.

I just train in my free time and fight when I was asked to. The cycle continues without me knowing any goal or reason.

“H-How?”

How am I in that world?And why? I tried to escape from this strange root, but failed. My body doesn’t feel like my own. I don’t know how much time has passed. Regrettably, it felt long enough; it was too hard for me to move my body.

After trying a few times, I closed my eyes and tried to focus. Then I gathered my strength once more and escape the root in a single breath.

Bam!!

I managed to escape from the root somehow. However, standing up was another difficult task for me. Since I just used up all of my strength to escape from the root; I give up standing up after a few tries.

I lied down to the ground in an attempt to catch my breath and recover my strength. While I’m at it, I try to remember anything that can serve as the clue to what is actually happening.

These guys….armies….and master….. yeah, we fight together to defeat the dark lord. Our armies won battle after battle. We marched to the dark lord’s capital city, in a frightening pace.

And...and that day, when we finally faced the dark lord’s armies we….that battle, was the fiercest battle in my life. I fight, no, we fight as hard as we can….

Then….then….I think our side was winning, we somehow managed to push back the dark lord’s armies and surrounded them from our left flank….

Out of desperation, the Dark Lord unleashed his strongest attack, making everyone in vicinity; friend or foe take massive damage from the attack.

The attack…...it seems that last attack made me unconscious….No, wait, I was half conscious at that time.

I think I saw master trying to attack the Dark Lord, but I’m not sure……..And then….and then….I realized everyone around me was dying.

Did I pass out after that? Think, Dammit!!.....Yes, I saw something. Yes…..it was THAT. It was the reason the war start between us and the dark lord.

Why did we fight the dark lord with our lives on the line for so many years? For world peace? To stop the dark lord from destroying the world?

NO.

We fought because of a single seed.The dark lord wishes to nurture and grow it for world peace. But our side try to stop dark lord from nurturing the legendary seed, for world peace.

Yggdrasil seed. the last remnant of the legendary world tree. Legend said,when the tree was around, everyone lived an immortal life.

But for some reason, the higher ups from our side opposed the idea of nurturing the seed. Because of that, the war broke.

I saw it, I saw it at the last moment before my mind went blank. That time, suddenly the dark lord castle from inside. A tree, a colossal size giant tree suddenly appear from the dark lord’s castle.

Maybe because of its sudden growth, the dark lord’s castle, no, the whole city was destroyed by the tree growth.

I believe it was the ‘Yggdrasil’. Maybe because it enjoyed feasting on the life force from our battle, it suddenly grew into the ‘world tree’.

From the ground, ‘Yggdrasil’ roots coming towards us. In a matter of seconds, our bodies were wrapped up by the legendary tree roots.

As the roots were wrapping my body, I felt like I’m slowly losing my strength, until finally I’m too tired to resist anymore.That was when I truly lost consciousness.

I tried standing up again, this time I succeed, though my whole body trembling .I analyzed my body and noticed the war wound from before my slumber was gone.

After I thought about it, how did I even survive all this time with those wounds? I take one step gingerly before carefully taking another step.

Step by step, I start to walk. Every step I take was shaky. I slowly regained my strength, I began to walk more normally though I’m still limping while I walk.

I’m not sure if I can help release my old comrades from the roots wrapping them. I decided I need to search for nearby help first.

But...that’s when my true nightmare began, I walk, and walk, and walk, and walk, and finally I ran. I ran around, searching for something. But end up finding nothing.

Am I really awake? Or am I the only one in this nightmare? Why? Why does no one...no, NOTHING escape from the ‘Yggdrasil’ roots?

Human,Dwarf,Elf,Orc,Wolf, Behemuth, Lycan, EVERYTHING were wrapped by the ‘Yggdrasil’ roots.

In my disbelief, I climbed the highest ground, only to find out that everything in my vicinity were nothing but ‘Yggdrasil’ roots.

How much distance the roots covered? This whole nation? Or maybe the whole continent? I dont care how far I need to travel as long as I can ask for help.

I knew ‘Yggdrasil’ tree only from the legend. And the legend stated, ‘when the tree was around’…...My legs are losing strength again and I let my body collapse to the ground. I can’t believe it, or rather, I don’t want to believe it.

I’m already giving up, I recite the legend again with my mouth like a whisper.

“When the tree was around, everyone in this world lives in immortality.”

I started to lose my mind and for some reason, I started to laugh in this hopeless situation.

“Ha, HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!”

Maybe because of my loud laugh, maybe because of my life force, or maybe because it senses I am already giving up.

Suddenly ‘Yggdrasil’ roots moved towards me and start wrapping my body. As I get wrapped and about to get trap again from this cursed tree, I laugh as if I already losing my mind for good.

Why did I get released, when the only thing I found was nothing but hopelessness?Does fate do this for a joke?

How do I escape from this situation? How does my world escape from this situation? Wait, how did I escape in the first place?

The last memory runs through my mind before I was released, was….that man….that man who wielded my master will may know something. I need to find him!!

As I’m about to lose consciousness and start my deep slumber again, I found hope.

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Chapter summary :

The whole world of the other world conditioned was like the film Matrix. Except this in the magical world. And if you never saw the matrix, this world conditioned was like Madara in Naruto succeed putting everyone to sleep and live in the dreamworld.

With this chapter, the setting of the world of this ff was done, *clap* *clap* *clap*

Thank you and I hope you like it and sorry if you dont like it hahaha... *bow*