Chapter 225 – Chapter 23

Following the group of fireflies, Lillian’s party was vigilant about the surroundings just in case.

“Ahhh! It’s crazy that they pop out all of a sudden!”

The eyes of wild animals popped up on the left and right sides of the road where the fireflies were moving, surprising the mercenaries from time to time.

“Be quiet, just follow the fireflies. I don’t know if the divine tree is really controlling it.”

Priscilla was still questioning whether the divine tree was real.

An existence that has not revealed its presence until now suddenly pops out?
Without any premonition?

The others didn’t say a word, but they were ready to draw their weapons at any time just in case.

It does not have any evil intentions or will, but if the opponent is a being like nature, it can harm people without any malice.

In the natural world, the act of catching prey by predators is not evil, but just a natural behavior to continue life activities.

After walking silently for tens of minutes, the group entered a huge artificial-looking vacant lot.

“This is a place known to hold sacred trees.”
“I’m sure there’s something there.”
“Yes. Only this place is clean.”
“The kings who came before had the same thoughts as you.”

The road led by the group of fireflies was left unattended for a long time by the first king, and all kinds of weeds and plants were growing.

However, this vacant lot was very tidy, as if miscellaneous plants had not been able to enter it.

Perhaps because of this appearance, there are kings who have continued to seek the Divine Tree since the first king.

“It took me a long time to give up my illusions about the Sacred Tree because of the bizarrely neat appearance of the clearing.”
“Frederick. I can detect anger in your voice from earlier.”

Artie expressed her doubts about Priscilla’s strangely aggressive appearance from the moment she entered the forest.

“…The fact that our castle and the castle on the other side caused a commotion was unexpected because no one expected it. However, even when the nobles and collateral royals tried to restore the royal family after that, there was no reaction.”

She wished there was no such thing as a divine tree.

“In the end, they didn’t show their presence until they were defeated and the kingdom was destroyed. We had to flee to another kingdom and become mercenaries. I want to be a legend.”

If the Sacred Tree was really there, anger would explode as to why there was no movement when the kingdom was destroyed.

“Did you think so?”
“!?”

As she poured out her rage, she heard her voice behind her, and she hurriedly distanced herself and drew her weapon.

“Who are you!”
“When did you show up?”

The woman who appeared behind Priscilla was a subspecies of a centaur, with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a deer.

She wears clothes that seem to be made of leaves glued together, and has mysterious green eyes, as well as long waves of vibrant green hair.

Like an elf, she has long ears and a beautiful appearance, but her face shows no emotion, giving the impression that she is cold.

She looked so far away from the civilization created by the intellect that I wondered if there was a daughter created by nature.

“Are you the one who led us to this place?”

Lillian planted her drawn two-handed sword into the ground, announcing that she had no intention of attacking, and she attempted to talk.

“Yes. It seems that the other side has already noticed.”

Lilith, who hadn’t even pulled out her bow, could be found where the centaur woman pointed.

“You are the owner of this forest.”
“It’s different from the elves in our world, but they’re similar.”

After hearing the two of them evaluate each other, Lillian looked directly into her eyes and opened her mouth again.

“Then are you a sacred tree?”
“Neledriel. At one time, he lived in symbiosis with the elves who settled here, but now he is a divine tree that has been left alone to protect the forest.”

Lillian, who met the divine tree that existed only in the legends of the Lucy Arkenel kingdom, had many things to ask, but he asked one question that could be reduced to one.

“Why did you come and show up now?”
“Because I need your help.”
“Help? Stop talking bullshit! A subject who never showed up when we needed help!”

Unlike Lillian, her emotional Priscilla accused her of not helping her kingdom.

But Nelle Driel is so cold that, with her machine-like coolness, she takes Priscilla’s accusations and strikes them.

“Why should I help you?”
“Because that’s what the contract was!”
“The condition of the contract was not mutual defense. I decided to receive the protection of the kingdom of Lucy Arkenel until I healed and fully matured, and instead made an oath to enrich this land. You have broken this oath.”
“What!”

Priscilla was furious enough to swing her sword at her right hand at Nelle Driel, who accused her of not keeping her promise to them.

However, her actions did not reach her as Lilith ran and grabbed her.

“Stay still! You fool!”
“Let go! Let go!”
“If we attack the divine tree here, the whole forest will attack us!”
“That’s it! All you have to do is cut it up and burn it!”
“If you don’t even know what it means for the forest to attack, stay still!”

Civilized man does not understand how terrifying it is for forests to attack.

A dense forest suddenly becomes a swamp filled with poison, and poisonous mushrooms spread poisonous spores, making it impossible to breathe properly.

Numerous insects and roots in the ground climb up from underfoot and attack, and birds in the sky dig out eyeballs with sharp claws.

If it was simply an attack by trees and animals, Lilith would just scream and watch, but if the above situations happen simultaneously, it is clear that half of these people here will die in an instant.

“I’m in a bad mood.”
“If it’s okay…”
“Wait!”

When the mercenaries were ready to attack at any time, Kaicent, who could not stand it, stepped forward.

“We’re not here to fight, we’re here to help!”
“Kuu…”

Even Priscilla, whose head was heating up, was able to regain her senses thanks to Kaicent’s short but all-encompassing cry.

As the mercenaries also put their weapons in, the atmosphere, which had become threatening, quickly fell into a lull.

‘A boy with magical powers. It’s similar to that of a dragon, but different. And…’

Obviously, the leader of the group is Lillian.

However, when the boy shouted, the women including Lillian instinctively moved to protect him.

As if he were the center of the group.

But armed with armor that feels unpleasant, they are trying to move around Lillian.

I was interested in the party that seemed to coexist with an external leader and a leader only a few people knew, but I buried it because it was not the time to exchange leisurely conversations.

“Kaisent is right. We did not come to ask why we didn’t help the kingdom, we came to ask for help.”

After reminding them of the reason they came here, Lillian thought for a moment before opening her mouth.

“Sacred tree. You said that a contract is not mutual defense.”
“Right.”
“Then change the terms of the contract…”
“In mutual defense? Human child. Do you think your ancestors were stupid enough to sign this contract?”

She shook her head in anticipation of Lillian’s contract amendment.

“I am a natural being living in this forest and among the elves. This forest and the surrounding territories are the only reason and purpose for me to live.”
“…But it would be possible to get help a few times, right? If you do that favor.”
“That’s correct.”

Nelle Driel, who nodded her head, turned her body in the middle of her conversation.

“I’ll let you know the details from inside.”

As she tapped the ground with the wooden spear she was holding, her invisible barrier disappeared, revealing a huge torch that made her neck hurt so much that she could barely see the top of her.

“Bending magic? No, there are many records left of people scouring the area to confirm the identity of the god, but there is no way I can’t find this.”
“This isn’t magic. It’s my ability to move the body to the spirit realm.”

Nelle Driel, who had answered Priscilla’s question, focused her attention for a moment as her sacred tree fully appeared.

Sarala Rock- Wooded-

“Omg?”
“This, this… A chair? A table?”

Suddenly, roots sprouted from the ground and formed chairs and tables.

A place like a reception room was completed as countless stems appeared from somewhere and put the fruits that were never seen on the table.

“Can I eat it? Yum.”
“Huh? Hey! If you suddenly eat it…!”
“Wow. It’s so delicious!? It’s the first time I’ve ever had such delicious fruit!”

When a mercenary, whether courageous or reckless, ate the fruit, his eyes widened and he began to eat the other fruit.

“I’m not going to poison myself now.”
“Then me too.”
“It’s good!”
“It’s so sweet!”
“If it’s this sweet, I should eat it right away, but I won’t be bitten!”

Every time the mercenaries took the fruits on the table to their mouths, applause erupted.

“This is where I and your chief will talk. Rest in peace until the conversation is over.”
“Wait! I’m coming too!”

Priscilla insisted that since she was also a member of Lucy’s Arkenel kingdom, she would join as an attendant.

“I hate to be crowded. So I only admit one attendant.”

Neledriel, who struck first before the others did, limited the number of attendants to one.

But Lillian, who had been thinking about her for a while, opened her mouth to her.

“Then my attendant will be Kaicent.”
“Lilian?”
“Sorry. But if our predictions are correct, what we need for this meeting is Kaisent’s knowledge.”
“Yes. Leave this place to me.”
“…Then it can’t be helped.”

She probably would have insisted that she go when she was Frederick, but now that she has become Priscilla, she meekly agrees and withdraws.

‘As expected, what I felt was right. Their party consists of two groups, and the boy is the center of the second group.’

Another peculiar thing is that the men who are unified with the same armor do not know this fact.

“Come this way.”

Neledriel led Lillian and Kaicent to his body.

As they approached the sacred tree, which was so huge that it would take decades to cut down with an axe, the wooden pole moved and created an entrance for people to come and go.

When I went inside the entrance, it led to a passageway that I had to walk for a while.

Meanwhile, Kaicent’s eyes naturally turned to the back of Neledriel, who was leading the way in front of them.

The pink flesh peeking out between the deer’s buttocks, which seem to be very soft to the touch, is glimpsed every time you walk.

‘Yes!’

It was Neledriel, who exudes a mysterious atmosphere and a beautiful appearance like a product of nature, but when the deer’s genitals were revealed, a different lust for a beautiful woman began to soar.

Among his women, Lilith and Artie are non-human, but the overall framework is human, while Neledriel is clearly a heteromorphic being with the lower half of a deer.

However, because he was such a heteromorphic being, and because he had the experience of seeing various races in the original world, Kaicent had to endure trying to get an erection on Neledriel’s back.

‘No! Be patient! He’s so dangerous that even Lilith, who is more calm than anyone else, could tear him apart!’

Desperately holding back the desire to cling to that coveted deer’s butt right away, he suppressed his erection by operating his mind inwardly.

“It’s here.”

Fortunately, while Kai Sent endured lust, he arrived at the meeting place.

A comfortable space where you can feel only pleasant warmth, neither hot nor cold.

There were chairs and tables made of wood that seemed to have been prepared in advance, and the fruits of the trees that made the mercenaries praise were placed.

After confirming that everyone was seated, Neledriel opened her mouth as she sat facing them.

“I don’t intend to engage in humble conversations like humans, so I’ll get right to the point. Instead of helping you guys, I’ll start with my own problems…”
“You mean the worms that came along with the black soil?”
“How did know?”

She made her first look at Kai Sent, who revealed her problem before she could finish her own words.

Kai Sent confirmed what they had predicted and explained what he knew.

Death Planet, Lehlach Planet, sandworm.

“I see. Did humans from other worlds go that far?”

Of course, knowing the existence of the universe, she was amazed that in another world, through the space of death, she settled on another planet and lived.

Looking at the humans living in her own world, there are very few people who even know about the existence of the universe, let alone the means to move in the universe.

“The reason they refused my orders was because they were from another world.”

Because nature is different for each planet, the sandworm that lived in the nature of Lehlach rejected her order and resisted.

So, I kept them in one place, fed them occasionally, and restrained them so that they would not die.

As expected by everyone, she was blocking the sandworm’s activity.

“If they’re a problem, can’t we just kill them?”
“Originally, that’s how it should be. Alien species from other dimensions must be dealt with in order to protect the nature of our world.”

Neledriel would have killed the caterpillars if they were just ordinary predators.

“But they excrete the black soil that allows all plants to grow. If you use them well, you can create as much land as you want, rich in nature.”

A sacred tree can grow plants artificially, but it takes considerable effort.

However, if you have black soil, you can grow nature abundantly without much effort.

She originally intended to suggest something else, but since she knew those beings, she decided to change the content.

“Tell me how to control the sand tapeworms. If you do, my power will be with you until you regain the Kingdom of Lucy Arkenel.”