Gigas Cedar

The Gigas Cedar (ギガスシダー) is a tree in the Rulid Village that blocks the way to the forest, as it absorbs the blessings of Solus and Terraria from its surroundings in a enormous range, preventing cultivation of crops in the area of the great tree. The tree has a diameter of 4 mels (meters) and a height of 70 mels (meters), being 4 times as high as the bell tower of the Rulid church, the tallest building in Rulid, with its roots stretching as deep as it was tall. Its bark far exceeds the toughness of iron and can only be cut down with a blade that has a higher «Priority Level», such as the «Dragon Bone Axe».

The tree is able to absorb the blessings of Solus (sunlight) and Terraria (the widespread roots of the tree absorb minerals from the earth), allowing it to recover half of the cut wounds from the previous day by morning.

History
The «Gigas Cedar» grew long before the Rulid village was founded and the «Sacred Task» of cutting the tree down had been passed down from generation to generation for over three hundred years since the time of the first settlers of the village. Only about one out of four mel of the tree's diameter has been cut through by the time the events of Prologue I took place. The tree was cut by swinging the Dragon Bone Axe until a sound was released which slowly chipped away at its life.

Project Alicization
In their 10th spring, Eugeo and Kirito were given the «Sacred Task» of cutting down the «Gigas Cedar». At the time, they were the seventh generation to have been given this task. The «Life» of the tree was 235,542 at the beginning of Prologue I.

Six UW years later, Kirito awakes near the «Gigas Cedar», where Eugeo, now seventeen years old, is still cutting down the tree, the «Life» of which has decreased to 232,315 in 6 years time. After rescuing Selka from the goblins in a cave at the Mountain Range at the Edge and killing a few goblins in the proccess, the two boys have increased their OC authority enough to properly use the Sword of Blue Rose and are able to completely cut the tree down using Sword Skills in just five days.