445 Let's Plant A Giant Tree Before Doing Anything Else
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The next morning I woke up with Eleanora cuddling with me. Since yesterday’s incidents that she got rather agitated. However, I was still able to calm her down when I allowed her to sleep in the bed. Well, she always does it even when I don’t tell her to do it. Nonetheless, today in the morning I woke up thinking about the many things that happened yesterday and trying to slowly reassess the information I earned.
p、A,nd A-n、o、ve,1 Apparently, Ellergest discovered the corruption behind the noble family of this country and was even able to discover several things regarding Erika’s life and family. It seems he did this for Gustav, as he was his friend. I don’t know what kind of friends they were, but we might learn more if we ask Erika’s father himself about these things.
However, something interesting I learned aside from that was the “Demon Cult of Beelzebub”, apparently, this might be the Cult behind the ones that opened the Demonic Gate outside of the village to bring the demons, and also the Cult where the Necromancer belonged to.
This Cult is actively working with members of the royal family if they planned the destruction of Erika’s family and her death through a deadly curse inflicted upon her, which was probably the reason behind the fever that killed her… It feels as if everything is connecting now, which is slightly surprising.
Now with these items that Ellergest left behind, I’ve begun to device a recipe to create a new body for Erika. I’ve been writing it over the Grimoire using the [Memo] Function, which allows for the creation of anything I want to write over it with just a thought. Like that, I’ve assembled an incredible recipe using everything I’ve got so far, even the materials from the Wyvern we killed long ago.
However, I’ll require to do a few things first, and one within my plans is using the tree I’ve got here that grew out of the Lesser Yggdrasil Tree. I promised to make Eric a new staff through Alchemy as well. however, seeing its size, it’ll not be enough wood for Erika, so what I am planning to do is quite simple.
Multiply it.
“Eh? You’re waking up so early…” Eleanora complained, snuggling over bed.
“Come, Eleanora, I’ll need your help. Let’s go to Eric’s place as well. And we should pick up Elizabeth too, we’ll need her magic as well.” I said.
“Huh? Why so early though?” She sighed again, yawning.
“I thought spirits didn’t felt so sleepy…” I sighed.
“Hey, we do!” She complained. “But I shall get ready immediately…”
She quickly changed her cocky nature, as she immediately jumped off bed and changed her night clothes into a beautiful black dress, her small energy-saving form also reappeared, she had been using her regular form when sleeping because she said she enjoyed snuggling me with her body being bigger than mine… well, in a few more years that won’t be the case anymore.
“Alright, let’s go.”
I left some Familiars at home while I jumped off the window as usual, and ran as fast as possible towards the church, now that I have a Physique at Tier 3, all my capabilities have been greatly improved. Picking up a sleepy Elizbeth at 6 AM was faster than I imagined. Erdrich was not necessary and he was sleeping even when we spoke out loud in front of him, so he’s probably not waking up any time soon.
“Mwuh…” Elizabeth yawned. “So what are we- Uwah!”
I carried Elizabeth and sat her over Blood, Eleanora’s loyal Blood Wolf Pet, who have evolved from the last fight after earning enough EXP, and became a Horned Blood Wolf, with a big red horn in the middle of its forehead, it seemed to have allowed him to conjure Blood Magic now.
“Let’s go Blood, bring us to Eric’s house.”
“WOOF!”
Blood barked happily, rushing through the village as he reached Eric’s house in less than a minute, he started barking right after we reached, until Eric appeared from the window.
“Wh-What with this out of the sudden? It’s six in the morning… I am sleepy…” He sighed.
“Don’t you want your staff, Eric?” I asked.
“Staff?! Yeah!” Eric said. “Give me a minute, I’ll come right away!”
And like that, Eric took a minute and ten seconds to reach downstairs, as he quickly brought a bag of materials he wanted me to see if they could be useful.
“You’ve got a lot of materials collected, Eric…” Elizabeth yawned.
“Yeah, I’ve been collecting materials for a while now, since I heard about Blake being able to create accessories through alchemy from Erika that I’ve been trying to save a lot to commission him.” Said Eric.
“I see, that sounds interesting.” I said with a smile. “For now, where would you like a big tree?”
“Big… tree?” He wondered.
“I am planning to grow the Lesser Yggdrasil Tree that grew out of the staff in this village with magic and skills, it shouldn’t be hard to boost its growth up to a certain extent, I can’t do much though.” I said.
“Hmm… I wouldn’t really want to trouble the people, so how about just behind my house?” Eric wondered.
“Are you sure Eric?” Wondered Eleanora.
“Eh? Yeah, why not?” Asked Eric. “We live rather away from the main square so we should be alright without dragging too much attention to us.”
“Alright.” I said. “I’ll need both of your help on this.”
“Both of us? Ah, so that’s why you only gathered the two of us!” Elizabeth said. “Geez, I feel like I am just a tool to you, Blake…”
“Come on Elizabeth, don’t say that of Blake. He simply values our talents and always thinks of the best ways to use them so he can help everybody.” Said Eric. “Right?”
“Exactly.” I said, suddenly conjuring the Tier 1 Earth Attribute Magic [Dirt Shaping] and taking out large blocks of dirt from the ground one by one, and then placing the tree that grew off the staff inside, covering it with dirt all over until only a small branch was visible.
“Let’s begin.”
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