Natalia and others were getting worried as they couldn’t observe anything from outside.
Alfred jumped in to check out the situation, but by then, the snake was close to death.
Its entire body was lacerated, both externally and internally, from top to bottom!
Lily returned to her human form as she finished off the snake, feeling dizzy and blurry as she pushed herself to the extreme with this and exhausted herself.
But she suddenly vanished from the water and appeared in the sky, feeling a familiar touch on her back and legs as she found herself getting princess carried by her prince.
Almond smiled at her when her eyes saw him and said, “That was an amazing display, babe.”
“You watched everything?” Lily blinked.
“Yep,” Almond chuckled. “Dance of Gloomy Reaper is very powerful. Unblockable damage, internal strike per external strike, not to mention the corrosiveness and vital burning damage from your dreadspire elements.”
Lily grinned as she wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned up to kiss him before saying, “I want to see your weapon art’s first stage, so better learn it fast. X-factor fruit helped a lot in this given how I comprehended Shadowpierce thanks to it.”
“Haha, I will do that once we return. Now, let’s see the thing that snake was protecting.”
Almond’s eyes flashed as he observed it.
“A strange blue tree, very small, and bearing a single fruit with dark blue swirling and wavy patterns…interesting.”
Almond cut off the fruit and surprisingly, the tree instantly withered after that.
“So that’s the thing, eh?” Lily saw the fruit appearing in front of Almond and blinked.
[Aqualine Fruit]
-Rank: Special
-Description: A fruit containing variant water elemental essence. It may be beneficial to water elemental users or beasts.
“Interesting. Maybe I’ll give this to Nyssara,” Almond smiled.
“Good idea. Anyway, let’s go below. They are confused and don’t know where I went,” Lily chuckled as she saw Natalia and others stumped.
…
After gathering with others below, Almond took them to the other four spots one by one.
Two groups were already done with killing the monsters at their spots, though there wasn’t a boss monster like in the canyon, but a horde of special monsters that protected different things.
In total, the five spots gave the following things:
1. Aqualine Fruit
2. Mysterious stone tablet with strange symbols.
3. A mystical lava-crystal flower.
4. A mysterious Egg.
Returning to their base, it was steadily getting constructed after the border walls were done.
The Grim Breakers joined in to help since Almond told them to relax while he began deciphering the mysterious stone tablet with his passive legendary skill—Whispering Knowledge.
‘I have to make progress in this, so I can translate the rest of the words from that notification that my mother got,’ Almond’s eyes glinted.
…
Meanwhile, the other three worlds in the same region were also developing steadily as each one allied themselves with a tribe.
Planet Empyradrake’s Base,
“What’s the plan now, leader Lefnier? I personally think we should urge the Klokan Tribe to launch an attack on another Tribe and make it under us.”
“That’s stupid, you dumb lizard. We don’t want our allied tribe and enemy tribe to use their Guardian Deity awakening. For now, go find another tribe. We’ll ally ourselves with two Tribes before making other moves.”
The other two worlds had similar ideas as they wanted to get allied with more tribes first.
Almond’s plan was also similar, but instead of just two, he wanted to get as many ally tribes as possible before making any move.
As such, he had already told the Avantana Tribe during the meeting to send an envoy to another tribe that was 36 kilometers away.
…
An hour later, Almond finally managed to decipher the mysterious stone tablet as it whispered to him.
[Guardian Deity Tablet: Call to Zanadan]
-Rank: Special.
-Effect:
Continue your saga on empire
—> Call Guardian Deity Zanadan for 10 seconds.
[Warning: You are not allowed to use this item even though you unsealed it.]
‘What?’ Almond was dumbfounded. ‘Then what do I do with it?’
[By giving this to a tribe with a damaged Guardian Deity, you can earn cumulative battlefield points.]
‘And also trust,’ Almond’s eyes glinted. ‘That’s another ally.’
Looking at the tablet, he grinned, ‘Even if we aren’t allowed to use it, it already helped me make progress in Whispering Knowledge, and can be used as an expensive gift to earn points and trust. Three birds with one stone.’
Almond teleported near the portal and entered inside. The base was built, so many adventurers were exploring the tribe and meeting with people there.
Some were training, and some were exploring nearby places.
Almond arrived at the palace and waited there with the tribe chief for the envoy.
One hour had already passed since he went, and the whole trip was barely that amount, so the envoy returned after a few minutes of waiting.
“Chief, the Paglan tribe said that they would ally with us if we can solve their problem.”
“What problem?”
“They didn’t tell me that,” the envoy cow-lady shook her head.
“It seems that they want us to go there,” Almond smiled and stood up. “I’ll go and visit, and fix their problem if possible.”
“If you want to do that, sure,” Chief Bassara nodded.
Almond left and arrived at the Paglan tribe in a matter of minutes by constantly teleporting.
Paglan Tribe had lion-headed humans, but all of them were pink lions. Various shades of pink skin and hair. Their figures were slender yet shredded with natural muscles and their average height appeared seven feet tall.
“What problem do you want me to fix?”
Almond asked their chief right off the bat.
“Our tribe has deep animosity with the Serpensha Tribe, and we have regular scuffles at Forest of Seeds, where both of our tribes go to harvest food and resources. This morning, they seemed to have prepared an ambush at our side secretly, and captured my tribe’s people,” the tribal chief clenched his fist. “They took a few young cubs of my tribe and five other people.”
“What they are asking for is this tribe’s Guardian Deity statue, but we can’t do that because if we give it to them, they will attack this tribe.”
Almond raised his eyebrows, “So you want me to save your people?”