Chapter 1421 - Entering The Sealed Space Again
Davis looked at the withered tree and the viridian fruit before he landed beside it. Feeling rather nostalgic, he reached out his hands and touched the viridian fruit when an affectionate intent spread through his heart.
"Right, you’re making it difficult for me to harvest you..."
Davis couldn’t help but wryly laugh.
Last time, he had left it for the same reason, and this time, he felt that it wouldn’t be any different. When he took his hands off, the viridian fruit suddenly began to emit a dull viridian glow, making him confused. He placed his hand over its viridian surface and suddenly felt loneliness emitting from it before it turned happy.
His lips couldn’t help but twitch.
"You... You want to come with me?"
The viridian fruit’s emotions fluctuated as if it were smiling.
Its feelings were rather primal, and Davis felt that he wouldn’t be able to understand its intent much more without the help of Heart Intent. However, reading its intent ended up making him more sympathetic towards it, and considering that it perhaps looked at him like a child would towards their parents, he didn’t feel like leaving it all alone here, with no living being but only lightning in its sight.
"I know..." Davis’s eyes lit up as an idea popped up in his mind, "I’ll plant you in my home so that you would be able to grow into a new tree."
The spirit of the fruit became more emotional as if understanding and accepting his words.
Davis didn’t know much about plant life, but he knew that their spirit dwelled in the fruit seed. Unless there was a fruit seed, it was said that it was difficult for a sentient fruit to be born. Nevertheless, even if many fruits had seeds, they rarely turned into spirits even after reaching maturity.
Davis felt that Fallen Heaven’s life energy was the culprit who inevitably nurtured the viridian fruit’s spirit, not to mention that it caused the fruit spirit to be able to communicate like this when he had purely used it for helping the fruit reach maturity.
"..."
While Davis carefully harvested the fruit from the withered tree, the viridian fruit did not resist at all. It obediently stayed in his palms without flying away before it was sealed within a jade container. Nevertheless, before closing the jade container, Davis assured it and made it relax, making it glow happier.N♡vεlB¡n: Unleashing Imagination, One Read at a Time.
While he did all this, the tiny crowd consisting of Nero Alstreim, Nadia, and Eldia silently looked at him with awe.
This youth was actually communicating with a fruit, which they had never seen or dared to imagine before. More so, he communicated with the fruit with compassion and sympathy, causing their hearts to soften, even melt.
’Surely, Niera should be lucky...’
Nero Alstreim was heartened, looking at the way he treated a fruit. He could see the fruit respond too, which he thought was never possible in the first place. Davis was rude towards him, sometimes considerate. However, he had seen him be ruthless to his enemies and extremely caring towards his loved ones that it probably bordered on insanity on both ends.
Question marks emerged above Davis’s head before he pushed it away as he saw the emergence of a Ninth Stage Powerhouse wearing white robes.
He looked handsomely young, his face all smiles as he landed in front of them, looking excited just as much as Nero Alstreim.
"Nero, you’re back!"
"I have returned, grandpa..."
Nero Alstreim’s voice was full of emotions that they both couldn’t help but close the distance as they hugged.
Davis couldn’t help but smile. The way they saw it, he was either a hero or a mastermind villain who could destroy their family. Now that it was a bit certain that he was a hero, they were rejoicing that they have made the right choice.
Indeed, Ezekiel Alstreim probed Nero Alstreim’s soul and found no abnormalities. It wasn’t as if he could measure up to Davis’s prowess in the soul, but an abnormality would surely reveal itself when it concerns the soul because harmful soul techniques were rather difficult to hide.
Considering that there were no seals such as slave seals, he quickly became convinced that Nero Alstreim hadn’t been manipulated.
Nero Alstreim allowed himself to be checked, so the process was rather smooth, as if it were just a greeting.
"Well, let me be clear." Davis abruptly interrupted their reunion, "This sealed space poses no threats as I’ve cleared them all, so I’m only willing to bring four of you out. As for the others, they would have to remain here for a few years until the Alstreim Family can assure its safety."
"I understand. We’re all already dead, so it is reasonable that you want the other dead people to stay here because the risk of us being alive getting out will endanger the family."
Ezekiel Alstreim nodded his head, surprisingly not arguing about the matter.
"Right, I read Nero’s letter and heard some details from Niera that you hid from us all this time. You said that I was needed?"
’I never said that...’ Davis’s lips twitched before he smiled, "Well, the Alstreim Family does need you, another Law Rune Stage Powerhouse, to take care of itself."
"Indeed, our power has been suppressed for too long with just one Ancestor taking care of us. It’s time I stepped up to lessen the load." Ezekiel Alstreim spoke with boldness, looking manlier.
However, Davis couldn’t help but blink, "Are you serious? You do know that I have imprisoned your wife, right?"
"I’ve heard..." Ezekiel Alstreim’s expression became cold as he raised his chin, "However, she’s coming out in a few days, right? I’ll ask directly from her and address her grievances. Let me tell you that if she tells me to kill, then I’m sorry to say that we can’t become one family."
Davis chuckled, "You’re a real man, but I warn you that you would undoubtedly die if you were to be hostile to me."
"Wait! Wait! Wait!"
Nero Alstreim stood before them as he reached out his hands on both sides, looking constipated with worry while Davis and Ezekiel Alstreim stared at each other with a cold smile, not averting their gazes at all.