Whoever's Going After the Erdtree, I, Rykard, Have to Lend a Hand / The Great Battle Is Nigh

"Mm... I'm really looking forward to it..."

Ignoring Alicia, who routinely wanted to get close to beautiful girls, Gwen continued explaining his plan—

"Perhaps you've all guessed it already. I was not born in the Lands Between, but came from beyond them.

Although I'm not one of those Outer Gods with bizarre powers, the title Sun King wasn't something I picked at random—

At the very least, helping the sun obscured by the Golden Tree restore its original function is not impossible for me.

And besides Sun King, I can actually go by another title—

Lord of Cinder...

In a world yet undivided, shrouded in thick fog...

Cold and heat;

Life and death;

Light and darkness...

All distinctions were born from there."

After recounting the tale once popular throughout early Rodland, Gwen conjured a quietly burning flame in his palm, warm and peaceful.

As demigods, Trina and the other two could clearly sense that the flame in Gwen's hand was utterly different from the Frenzied Flame recorded as destroying all things, as well as the Destined Death Flame of the fire god worshipped by the giants.

Facing the flame that drifted from Gwen's palm and quietly floated before the four of them under his control, Melina directly reached out and lightly touched it with a finger.

A wisp of flame appeared at Melina's fingertip, quietly burning.

After sensing it for a moment, Melina opened her eyes, a faint but unmistakable joy appearing on her face.

"It really can be done."

As the Core Flame and kindling Marika had prepared for her plan to burn the tree, Melina naturally had the ability to distinguish which flames could ignite the Golden Tree that crowned the entire Lands Between.

Extinguishing the flame at her fingertip, Melina looked at Gwen with utmost seriousness.

"It