Yggdrasil's revival brought earth-shaking changes to the continent of Midgard. As the location of Yggdrasil's primary Thinking Organ, Nibelungen's Firstborn tentacles naturally recovered no less dramatically than those on Midgard.
If they had not seen it with their own eyes, no one could possibly have connected the Nibelungen of today with that rotten, dark, toxic wasteland from before—the changes here were even more pronounced than those on Midgard.
The murky poisonous clouds between heaven and earth had been completely purified. The toxic springs scattered across the land had been transformed by the Firstborn tentacles' purification into clear, beautiful lakes and rivers. The crisscrossing rifts and ravines had been filled in, while the World Tree's roots grew out from the largest abyssal caverns, forming towering ancient trees that reached the heavens across the wilderness. And the source of corruption and depravity in the past—Nidhogg's Lair—had now become a Temple of Life.
Huge green vines covered the area around Nidhogg's crater. The World Tree's roots spread upward from the crater floor, intertwining and merging along the mountain walls into a colossal green curtain. The curtain stretched straight into the sky before suddenly spreading out at a height of a thousand meters, becoming a canopy that blocked out the heavens and sun. Specks of green light drifted between the canopy and the green curtain, like ancient elves, ensuring that the area beneath the giant tree did not fall into darkness.
If the Norse peoples truly needed a World Tree in their hearts, then without a doubt, this was what the World Tree should look like.
At the foot of this "World Tree," Hao Ren saw white pillars wrapped in vines, stone walls covered in rose carvings, and a magnificent palace that almost blended into the surrounding plants. These suddenly appearing buildings stood in