Chapter 164: Hierarchy

Chapter 164: Hierarchy

The gentle touch of the wind reached my skin as I walked down the white road. The sun over us was shining through the place, making the white infrastructures all over the place brighten up. However, despite the direct sunlight coming from above, all I could feel was the cold breeze due to the massive forest surrounding the entire kingdom.

What I could see as we walked was the scenery of a beautiful paradise. But, a beautiful paradise was not complete without the elegant inhabitants of the place. All of them were staring at us as we passed through them... with visible disgust on their beautiful faces. As if we were some kind of walking turds on the road. Their grimaced faces were following our every step along with the murmurs that I could not hear clearly, fortunately.

However, the person I was walking with did not seem even bothered with the masochist fest stares we were getting. He was just looking around the area with a smile on his face. It was just the two of us, Karoon was left behind because Queen Ayani did not want to let her go and Karoon for some reason, felt the same.

I think they are enjoying each other's company.

"What do you think of this place? This place is the marketplace of this district. There should be more people in this place, if not for the war currently occurring in this kingdom."

Wow, so you're telling me that it could be worse, huh?

"You are right, this place is interesting," I replied.

Yeah, especially the people.

We had been walking around the kingdom and he already showed me tons of places in this kingdom, although those were just a small fraction of this massive place. From the beautiful river filled with pink flowers to a mini-park on top of a towering mountain with King Asmit's statue in it.

Then, we wandered around the crowded places in this kingdom, like this one.

We turned in the direction of the tree of Erela, and as we did, the people on the road suddenly rushed away from the road we were walking through.

I mean, I can't even bring myself to get mad at them anymore, they are very entertaining to watch. They are running away like we have some kind of contagious deadly disease. I'm starting to enjoy seeing their panicked faces as they run.Read latest chapters at novelhall.com Only

"By the way, where is Kuro?"

"She joined the other Marionettes to watch over the forest at the boundaries of the kingdom."

"I am surprised to see that you're letting her do her things on her own, despite the current situation we have with the people of this kingdom," I said while narrowing my eyes as I stared at the empty road.

"Look at this, Casimir. It's a rare phenomenon, you should see this."

I veered my gaze where Leal was looking, to the tree of Erela in front of us. From our distance, the gigantic tree was completely visible as it sheltered the massive area right beneath it. But what took my attention was the ball of lights suddenly scattered out from the trunk of the massive tree. They were flying in the sky like daytime stars with various colors that made the scenery extremely fascinating to watch.

Slowly, the swarm of the ball of lights became thinner as they gradually spread throughout the area while shining in colors.

"The Nature spirits, the souls of the kingdom of Erela. The ones who can't and won't judge, and the saving grace of the people of this kingdom. Aren't they beautiful?"

I turned my gaze to Leal. "Yeah, they really are beautiful."

I watched them as the Nature spirits flew out towards the forest surrounding the kingdom. However, I felt my smile slowly lessen as I stared back at the tree of Erela. There were things on its body that grabbed my attention, I did not notice them when we arrived, but at this moment, it was completely evident due to the Nature spirits no longer covering the tree.

As if they intentionally showed it to me.

Craters... A lot of them, as if the tree was bombarded by a barrage of destructive force that a massive part of it was destroyed. The trunk of the tree was filled with it, and it was a great surprise that it was still gloriously standing.

"What kind of person would do such damage to an innocent tree?" I unknowingly commented while staring at the tree.

However, what I received was Leal's confused face while staring at me. "You don't know?"

I furrowed my eyebrows. "Know what?"

I heard him slowly exhale while looking down before facing me again. "The person who did that damage to the tree of Erela was one of your people."

What!

"Eh?" I stared back at the tree with a lot of craters on it.

A meruem did this?