Chapter 184

Episode 184

I walked along the path made by the trees.

The hatchling latched onto me and refused to let go.

It was even cute to see him shrinking his body to avoid touching anything like branches or grass.

The once confident hatchling looked scared.

“Are you here?”

After walking like that for about 10 minutes, several elves were waiting for me, having noticed my coming.

Thinking about their initial reactions, they were now smiling so softly that it wouldn’t be surprising to say they were different people.

I entered the village, leaving behind the people who greeted me warmly and asked if I had any difficulties.

The elves showed hostility toward strangers as if they would kill them.

He didn’t react much when he saw me.

Instead, they welcomed me with a smile and some elves gave me fruit and said I had a nice visit.

-Humans, those humans have long ears!

The hatchling came up to me and spoke to me as if asking me when I was scared.

I even took turns looking at the elves with their long, pointed ears, as if I was amazed by them.

-Those humans are more handsome... No, in my eyes, my humans are cooler!

I felt like I heard something strange, but I tried to ignore it and walked into the village.

“You came early today.”

There was an elder.

He was sowing seeds on the even ground and looked back at me as he shook off the dirt on his hands.

It would have been simple to use the power of the spirit, but he seemed very happy to work and sweat.

He stretched out his unclean hand to me.

I glanced down at the hand.

His hands, mixed with sweat and dirt, looked like they were covered in mud.

“yes. “Because the work is finished quickly.”

But I held his hand regardless.

I felt the texture of wet, moist mud.

But it didn’t really feel that bad.

It’s muddy, but I guess I should say it’s pleasantly squishy.

Anyway, I held his hand and shook it, and the elder looked at me and smiled.

“Are you going to see your mother today too?”

“yes. There’s still a lot left to do. “We have to finish it quickly.”

“There’s no need to be so hasty.”

He let go of his hand and turned away.

The sight of him straightening his back and saying ‘Eugh’ was like that of a local old man.

However, his appearance was far from his grandfather.

When I first saw him, he had wrinkles.

But what about now?

‘I feel like I have become younger as the World Tree has recovered.’

All the wrinkles disappeared and the beautiful appearance hidden between them was revealed.

It’s not true now, but surprisingly, a lot of elves have blonde hair.

The hair, which doesn’t match the forest at all, seems to match in some ways because it looks like sunlight.

“I’m not in a hurry. “The more urgent it is, the more they tell us to go back.”

“That’s a good thing. That’s right. “The more you do something in a hurry, the more things go wrong.”

He patted my shoulder, saying he thought well.

There was no dirt on his hands covering my shoulders, as if he had washed them with the power of the spirit.

“Then I will go in.”

“Okay, take care of your mother.”

I nodded and walked past him.

Roxy jumped down from the tree and caught up with me as soon as I started moving.

You don’t have to follow her, but she insists that she will give you directions.

Since she wasn’t one to listen to what I had to say, I gave up trying to persuade her and walked down the street.

“How long will you be here this time?”

“It will be the same as yesterday.”

“Aren’t you having a hard time? “You came without a single day off.”

-Someone human is calling.

At that time, the hatchling, who was shaking in my arms, suddenly stuck out her head.

Then it escaped from my arms, flapped its wings, and rose into the sky.

“Now...”

I lowered my hand while trying to hold on to the hatchling.

The hatchling flapped its wings vigorously, and the trees along the way made way for it.

It was different from when they created a path for the elves to be considerate of their friends.

‘Are you scared?’

Even though it wasn’t alive and moving like animals or humans, and there weren’t any monsters, I felt like the trees and the entire forest were scared.

Wave and wave.

Even though there was no wind, the leaves on the trees trembled.

The vines clung to the branches to avoid touching the hatchlings, and even the grass on the ground split on both sides, exposing the dirt.

How did this happen?

I followed him, confused by the strange phenomenon.

Then I suddenly remembered that hatchlings were dragons.

‘It’s absurd even to think that plants don’t have thoughts and that they recognize dragons and run away.’

I shook my head.

Even though it was a forest of world trees, I thought that was too advanced an idea.

Rather, it would be more correct to think of the World Tree as paving the way.

Since it is the World Tree that is said to support the world, it should not be difficult to figure out the identity of the dragon.

This would be especially true if it were a world tree that had regained some of its strength thanks to my hard work.

-human. It’s here. It’s calling me here.

The hatchling stopped at one place and went straight inside.

As I was following the hatchling, I was taken aback by its sudden disappearance.

The spot where the hatchling entered was none other than a huge gray rock.

It’s also a huge rock the size of a house.

No matter how much I thought about it, it wasn’t worth going in, but the hatchling went in without any hesitation.

Just like that.

I tried tapping it with my hand, but the rock hit me as expected.

Real, not fake made up of fantasy.

Otherwise, there was no way I could have felt such a vivid touch.

So how did they get in?

‘No way...’

I put an aura in my eyes.

At some point, the feeling that made me feel strange returned.

Lines of countless colors appeared and I realized that the rock I was looking at was not a rock.

‘Spirit...’

Basic common sense tells us that humans cannot see spirits.

I also had to use Aura to see the spirits through lines.

Even that is seen as a line of mana.

With my own eyes, I realized that the rock in front of me was a spirit.

Brown mana was gathered together.

What looked like just a rock had arms, legs, and eyes.

The spirit’s eyes were quietly looking down at me looking at it.

Only those permitted by the spirit can enter.

The hatchling was able to enter just now because it was a dragon.

Dragons are the masters of mana, and in terms of affinity alone, they can easily chew up elves.

And even if that is not the case, the spirit senses the power of mana better than anyone else, so it recognizes the dragon and does not attack it.

“Are you testing me now?”

Unlike how he easily got out of the way for the hatchling, he didn’t seem to have any intention of doing so to me.

It was motionless in place.

As I was thinking about what to do about this, I suddenly became astonished as to why I had to worry about this.

“It’s quite annoying. “I came here to help, but you treat the person who came to help you like this?”

I sighed at the absurdity.

I didn’t do anything wrong, and I was embarrassed that I came to help and had to be treated like this.