Chapter 745 Interlude 11- Ruth

Chapter 745 Interlude 11- Ruth

Kaur Family Summer Home

Treeson City

Vathax

October 17th

Year 1053

Evan was lying on the grass in the middle of the Manor's massive lush gardens, staring at the rising sun while a multitude of thoughts crossed his mind.

After chilling there for a while longer, he noticed spirits gathering in a certain part of the garden and went to check it out, encountering nearly two dozen spirits surrounding someone on the floor.

Upon noticing him, some flew over to him with slightly panicking expressions and asked for help.

Curious, he turned to who they were surrounding and saw a young girl wearing a white one-piece dress that contrasted her raven-black hair, crouching while holding a brown teddy bear.

When his gaze settled on her, she flinched, before running off and hiding behind a tree nearby. A few seconds later, she peeked out from behind the tree to look at him and the first thing that caught his attention was her eyes.

It was a pretty blue colour that reminded him of Eliza.

Her pupils darted around and when he traced her line of sight, he realised she wasn't looking at just him, but the spirits floating around him.

Some of them even flew over to her and started whispering things to her and Evan silently checked what the types of spirits they were.

'Light, Life and Plant?'

Shrugging lightly, he squatted so he could meet her eye level and waved with a light smile.

"Hello there. Whatchu doing out here?"

"...Ruth is lost."

Evan raised a brow in light confusion, before asking.

"Your name is Ruth?"

She nodded in affirmation before repeating her earlier words.

'Lost, huh?'

Evan looked around at the Hedge maze area of the garden they were in and nodded, understanding how easy it was for a child to get lost. The vertical hedges reached Evan up to his shoulder and he was 5 feet 10.

The girl looked about 4 to 4.5 feet so she needed to jump if she wanted to be able to look over them.

'She's strong for how old she looks though...'

Such a thought crossed Evan's mind as he noted that this child was around Level 70 and was a Gold-level existence capable of crumbling buildings on her own.

"Okay, Ruth. I'm Evan.

I wonder, how did you get lost? Where's your mum or dad?"

"Ruth's mummy and daddy are in a different city."

"And you're over here?!"

Evan was surprised at this and the girl nodded affirmation before speaking.

"They allowed Ruth to travel."

'This girl looks like she's maybe 10 or 12, and they let her travel alone?'

"...isn't that dangerous?"

The boy muttered his thoughts out loud, and upon hearing him the girl shook her head as she replied.

"They said you're a good person, so it's not dangerous."

"?"

Evan raised a brow in confusion when she replied. Taking a moment to think it over and watching as the Light spirits whispered to her, he realised they'd misunderstood his question. He'd asked if it was safe for her to travel alone, but they'd made her think he meant her current situation was dangerous.

As such, she replied based on that understanding.

"I was asking if it wasn't dangerous for you to travel alone."

"Oh..."

Her lips formed a circle and she shook her head before speaking.

"Ruth didn't travel alone. Ruth came with her Big brother to visit Big sister."

"And where's your Big Brother, now?"

"...I don't know.

As for the girl in question, she wasn't listening to them and was busy nuzzling her cheeks on her sister's chest.

"Ow! Oh! Hello, Evan."

The familiar voice prompted Evan to turn his gaze to the boy who had a bloodstained tissue sticking out of his nose.

"Khris....

How'd you get smacked from one end of the hall to another?"

"Hahaha! I was just testing her reaction to something."

His words had Eliza turning to him with a glare and the boy quickly jumped away to avoid getting punched again.

"Big Sister. Can you heal him?"

Ruth ignored her brother and stuck out the teddy bear she was carrying to Eliza and the girl looked at the doll, narrowing her eyes at it.

Her heavy gaze seemed to make the spirit within it flinch and after confirming it was really injured, Eliza agreed to heal it.

Evan was curious why she did that and she gave him a quick rundown when they returned to the Living Room.

"Ruth is something like a 'Spirit Medium'. It's very easy for Spirits to possess her and interfere with the Material World without problems.

The only constraint is the strength of her body which limits the amount of power they can use."

Her constitution was one Evan had seen in the game, but it was stated to be pretty rare and that was evident given how he had met many other Spirit Contractors, but none had been a 'Spirit Medium'.

It sounded nice but this constitution had serious downsides.

Just like not all humans were good people, such was the case with spirits.

It's just that Evan had mostly encountered the good, playful kind while those who didn't fit in this category usually stayed away.

For Ruth, a Spirit had once tricked her with the guise of 'Being Injured' and when she tried to help it, it took the chance to possess her body.

As if to compensate for this downside of her constitution, Ruth was born with a High Existence Level.

The girl was a Gold Level Existence at Level 50 from birth. She was also a Deviant whose skills awakened before age 12.

With a higher level, came a stronger body and higher mental strength. When added to Ruth's Innate ridiculously strong Mentality, it was a cakewalk for her to retain consciousness despite the fact that she was possessed.

In fact, she could even wrestle control from the spirit.

However, because she was still low-level, she could not resist the possession. The most she could do was retain control over her body after.

Eliza's parents had outfitted her with different protective artifacts to prevent her from being possessed by random stray spirits.

The gems on the dress she was wearing were loaded with magic power and they powered the protective magic circuit formations woven into the threads of the dress.

She also had 'Spiritual Infusion' that allowed her to put Spirits into Items, like how she had done for the wounded spirit in her teddy bear.

"That's a lot."

"I know, right."

Eliza replied as she healed the spirit in the doll. Ruth jumped down from the chair beside her and ran over to Evan, showing him the teddy bear as she spoke.

"Ruth's Big Sister healed him."

"Mhmm...Ruth's big sister is the best."

Just as he was humouring her, the girl suddenly turned towards Khris who was still healing his wounded nose and spoke.

"Ruth's Big Brother is the worst."

"Gak! Stray bullet?!"

Ruth snorted and turned away from him while muttering.

"Ruth's big brother didn't come to look for Ruth in the garden."

"Well Big Brother couldn't come because someone was beating the sh-!"

"Ahem! Language."

Khris flinched when Eliza cut him off, nodding with a fearful expression as he quickly changed his words.

"Big brother was being punished by Big sister."

"Beating the sh?"

Unfortunately, Ruth had already picked up on what he was trying to say and Khris quickly started trying to make her forget that part of his statement, fearful of getting hit by Eliza again.

Witnessing this frantic attempt at damage control, Evan couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Khris looked towards Evan for a lifeline but Evan silently looked away, abandoning to his fate.