Looking at me with weird, hopeful eyes, it turned around and started walking.
It looked like it wanted us to follow him.
[[ Master? ]] 𝘰𝑣𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
[ “Let’s go and see.” ]
This situation was something new and there was a thought in my mind for a while now.
‘Can this be a familiar of someone else?’
And this was the best situation for this kind of thought.
No normal beast was this much intelligent.
From the knowledge of where to strike to that restless attitude.
And, most importantly, that skill that restricted Mana.
Maybe there was someone else here like me that was injured or something like that.
That was a good thought and seemed quite plausible to me in this situation.
With those thoughts, I started walking behind the Ent.
But…
-Aoooooooowl!
With a loud howling sound, a pack of wolves walked out of the forest and surrounded us.
They were big, gray-colored wolfs with overall wolf-like features.
Gray fur, long claws, sharp teeth, and blue eyes.
There were close to twelve of them.
I didn’t know what type they were, but I could sense that they weren’t more than (Orange) rank.
Considering they outnumbered us in this fight, I concluded the explosion attracted them, which I made a moment ago.
I considered something like this might happen, so I had already taken out the white core from the ghost.
Though I was still low on stamina, now that I could use magic, if this Ent can take out some of them, I was confident that I can take four to six of them out.
‘After a meaningless fight comes to us another long fight. It’s getting boring.’
It would be boring to everyone in some novels if some boring things like these continue happening over and over.
‘But, well, the explosion was fun.’
A smile spread out on my face and I once again took out my bow.
Holding the small, silver-white core in the other hand, I looked at the Ent to ask for a hand.
But…
A disgusted, angry expression spread out on his wooden face as he looked around.
Pointing its hand in the sky, it spoke something that felt like a cuss.
My smile vanished and a shocked expression took its place when I looked at the Ent and then the wolfs that surrounded us.
In the light of the setting sun, a rain of red blood started around me.
Some earth spike-like wooden spike came out of the earth at the same time and pierced all wolfs at once.
-Thud!
All the wolfs fell to the ground in unison with a loud thud.
Now… this was this Ent’s actual and scary skill.
It was indeed a (Green) ranked creature with some actual battle experience.
After finishing them, it started walking forward, without even looking at them.
I also wanted to follow him, so wasting no time, I collected all the bodies of the beasts and threw them in the white crack.
Following the Ent, I walked on the opposite side of where I needed to go.
I hesitated for a moment and tried to turn around, but the look in this ferocious creature’s eyes was… very dark.
With a long sigh, we walked through the forest.
The sunset ended, and night greeted us.
I was still following this Ent, and I knew it was at least the right decision to go with it.
Mostly, no beast attacked him even as it walked past them.
It was cool as a bunch of (Red) ranked beasts just ran away from him.
This was a sight to behold for any person.
The difference in power could be felt very naturally just from being in its vicinity.
After walking for an hour, we reached an enormous tree… or trees.
Three trees that were as massive as the great Banya tree were joined as one.
One on both sides and the other one in the middle.
All the trees were surrounded by many glowing plants and moss, and there were many significant insects with light.
This open area was vast, and it looked more like a large room as it looked like a closed space at the night.
Many creatures were gathered in this open area and were sitting on the ground before something that looked like a wooden altar.
There were many creatures, from unranked to (Orange) and (Yellow) rank.
These were other Ents too, and some of them even looked older than this one.
Before I could look at the brightly lit altar and find out what exactly was going on, three creatures blocked my path.
It surprised me to see these enormous creatures.
One was an older-looking Ent, a creature that looked like an Orc, and a humanoid creature with a hippo head.
All three of them looked at the Ent that brought me here and then the Orc in the middle walked forward.
Just being near them was giving me goosebumps as every one of them was at least a (Blue) ranked creature.
Something big was happening in this place right now and it was not somewhere I should be.
Why was I here and what can I even do in a place filled with all these beasts?!
[ “Oh, stranger of outside land, we ask for your help.” ]
A shocked expression clouded my face as I looked up at the Orc with wide-open eyes.
“Did… you just talk?” It was awkward even though I knew it was possible.
There existed creatures that can talk in various languages and many even talked directly in mind without needing words like Celes.
Celes and I can talk with our link, but if we practice and grow stronger, we knew we could talk like this with any person with her help.
But, it surprised the Orc to see me not getting surprised.
[ “It is as Inku said, you are different.” ] The orc praised in a surprised voice.
It might be surprising for them to see someone coming to such a place filled with all kinds of dangerous beasts and standing before three enormous creatures and… still be calm.
Well, it wasn’t my fault I had a cheat skill like [Dynamic Heart].
I was thinking of all sorts of scenarios and situations right now and even wanted to run away in fear but… I waited.
I waited and looked over everything and these powerful creatures that needed my help.
What can I even do to help them? And why me?
“May I ask what you need my help with?”
I was polite and asked genuinely, with all my heart.
Seeing as how things go from this point on, I needed to think about everything before I do anything foolish.
The Orc looked on the other side towards the hippo-like creature and the older Ent and nodded.
They both nodded too and finished assessing me from head to toe.
Moving to the other side, I looked at the altar and the creature resting on it.
It was a peculiar creature, shining with bright light and on top of everything… it was small.
Smaller than even me and still… something as strong as the mother snake, or maybe even more.
Once I looked at its form, something almost mesmerized me for three seconds but, it wasn’t that big.
As I looked at this creature, a shocked, almost surprised voice entered my mind.
[[ Master… that. ]]
I could feel her emotions as always, and I knew this was something very surprising to her.
This was her first time seeing someone like her, after all.