The words the World Tree had spoken left me standing there, dazed, as if I had been struck by a heavy blow to my head.

How could I not be stunned?

"My mother... is a calamity?"

From what the World Tree had told me so far, a calamity was a being sent by the world to find and eliminate the original rulers of realms, while also wiping out all living beings on the surface.

If the Blood Demon appeared following a disaster, the next logical figure to think of would be the Heavenly Demon.

"What nonsense are you spouting?"

I …