Chapter 658 Griffin Court [Part 2]

Chapter 658 Griffin Court [Part 2]

Ethan, who was making a beeline toward the World Tree, flew over countless tree houses, with Elves looking at him fearfully.

It seemed that his show of power had been very effective, seeing that the other Griffin Riders only watched him from afar and didn’t dare to block his path.

When he was near the World Tree, he noticed a single tree house at its base. There, an Elven Lady with long green hair was looking at him with a solemn expression on her face.

The young man descended and hovered a dozen meters away from the Elf, looking at her calmly.

The two stared at each other for a while before the Elf bowed her head respectfully.

“My name is Helewynn Llamiryl,” Helewynn said softly. “I’m pleased to make your acquaintance, Ethan.”

“I am Ethan Gremory,” Ethan properly introduced himself. “I hope that we can get along well.”

After they exchanged their greetings, the dark clouds in the sky slowly dispersed, allowing light to once again shine down on the forest.

Helewynn sighed in relief. She didn’t want to experience a repeat of the events that happened hundreds of years ago when the Elves tried to mess with someone whom they shouldn't have messed with.

“Please come inside, Ethan,” Helewynn smiled. “I’m sure that you’re tired from your journey, so relax for a while before we talk about the Pestis Empire, which is slowly but surely corrupting the lands around the Cloudwall Mountains.”

Ethan nodded and followed the Elven Lady inside her Tree House.

The Tree House wasn’t Helewynn’s home. It was a house customly constructed to receive guests, especially esteemed guests like the Tidebringer.

It was quite spacious and three stories high.

As Ethan sat on a wooden couch, he was served tea made from the leaves of the World Tree.

“The majority of our forces are stationed on the border, preventing the Ratmen from further defiling our land.

“Unfortunately, their numbers are quickly increasing, and they also like using wave tactics to further push the pestilence that they created into our Sacred Forest.

“I’m afraid that within a decade or two, the entirety of the Mangrave Forest will be turned into a wasteland. Once that happens, we will be forced to migrate somewhere to escape the plague that the Ratmen bring.”

After Helewynn finished her story, Ethan closed his eyes to think of a way to handle this situation.

The Ratmen might have started this war for revenge, but soon, it would spin out of control until the surrounding lands had turned into a wasteland, with not a single plant or lifeform growing in sight.

After careful consideration, Ethan decided to stay the night in the Tree House to think things through.

He was still on the fence about whether he should eliminate the Ratmen or find a compromise that would prevent them from wantonly attacking their neighbors.

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Inside the Underground City within the Cloudwall Mountains...

“The Humansss are amassing their forcesss yesss yess...,” a Ratman Shaman said. “They come in great numbers to kill ussss.”

“Foolish Humansss, it isss not us who will get killed. It will be their corpsesss which would be forever buried in these mountainsss. Yesss yesss!”

A Ratman, who sat on a throne made of rocks, slowly opened its eyes and smirked.

“If itsss killing they wantssss, killing they will getsss!” the Ratman King declared, making the entire Colony cheer.

They were no longer the small and weak Ratmen who could be bullied by the Lizard Men and the Humans.

The Ratmen had finally gained the power to fight back, and with it, they would make sure that those who had hunted them down in the past, would now become the hunted.