I spent the next few hours talking and talking to the Elf Queen Lolth about my plans, then she started talking about the preparations they had made so far.
After that, I took off the glove I was wearing so she could see the World Tree Seed in my hand.
As soon as she saw the seed she got down on her knees, I realized this had more than one meaning as tears started to well up in her eyes as she smiled.
A World Tree is something essential to exist, I can see how important it is for the continent just seeing the deterioration of nature in this village.
Also, from what I learned from Freya and Sophia, a World Tree is like God in the eyes of the Elves, for the people of this village, especially for this Elf Queen in front of me, this seed is their hope.
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As we had arrived late in the afternoon, it was almost halfway through the night when I managed to get out of that meeting room.
The Elf Queen herself allowed me to stay at her house here in the village, according to her, she hasn’t been able to keep herself in the Temple where the World Tree is.
She said that in the morning she would accompany me to where the World Tree is, but in the meantime, I could stay at her house here in the village.
It seems that among the preparations they had to make, many people of other races volunteered for this battle, but they are all friends or family members of the Elves.
Because of that, there are no empty houses, all these people were with a house or even sharing their houses with others.
Knowing this, the Elf Queen invited me to stay at her house, which was a 4-story tree that was inside a big tree.
That night I couldn’t sleep, the environment I’m in must be having some effect on me, that’s because I could feel the World Tree Seed trembling inside my hand.
Now I was at the living room window while thinking, I look at the rest of the village and I realized that the houses (trees) that others live in are not right, some of these houses are a little crooked, some are peeling, some look like dead trees and some are cracked.
I place my hand on the wooden wall and try to feel the vitality of the tree, but I feel that the vital flow of the tree is wrong.
It seems the more I see it, but I think this place is in a really bad spot.
“The others are ready, they can be called at any time.” (Nix)
“Fine, it will probably be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.” (I)
“How is Hela?” (I)
“She said she’s finished the preparations.” (Nix)
“Is Irina confident or not?” (I)
“She’s confident, but it depends on what happens, a Wave of Monsters is often unpredictable.” (Nix)
Sigh
All I can think about is the battle they would have to fight without me around.
knock knock 𝙚𝙙𝙣𝒐𝙫𝙚𝙡.𝙤𝙧𝒈
With the knock on the bedroom door, Nix walks back into my shadow leaving just me and the person coming through the door I opened.
“Good night, Queen Lolth.” (I)
“Good evening, Mr Zenos.” (Queen Lolth)
“I apologize for coming in the middle of the night.” (Queen Lolth)
“Fine, but what is this all about?” (I)
“I just wanted to ask to take your assistant tomorrow.” (Queen Lolth)
“Are you talking about Freya?” (I)
“Yes, that’s the name I heard.” (Lolth)
It seems the World Tree still told this young girl about Freya being an Ancient Elf.
I tell her I’ll meet her in the morning, this is something we had agreed on earlier.
After she leaves the room I tell Nix to go tell Freya I’ll call her in the morning.
With all this resolved, I put a sleeping potion in my mouth to drink it all, in a few minutes I was already half asleep, so I go to bed too.
Zzzzzzz…
Zzzzz…
Zzz…
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The next day I find the Elf Queen in the kitchen surrounded by Elves in servants’ or servants’ clothes, that’s why Freya is cooking.
Right after a delicious meal I follow the Elf Queen out of the village, the place will be on the opposite side of the entrance to this place.
Soon I see that even the plants and grass were dry, when we arrived at a half-destroyed temple, it was worn out, in addition, full of cracks.
The plants in the surroundings are dead, when we enter, I see that the temple is empty, apart from me and the others in my group, there was no one else inside.
This temple looks abandoned, but at the same time, I noticed something in a certain direction.
Queen Lolth brings me along in the direction I wanted to go without me having to say anything.
I kept walking until I came to a big garden, but all the plants were dead, and even the space became heavy.
When I look at the tree in the middle of this dead garden, my first thought is that the World Tree itself was magnificent, because the entire bark is cracked.
The space itself trembled at times, that seems dangerous.
The leaves weren’t glowing as brightly either, quite the contrary, it looked like something was glowing and we thought it was nothing of importance.
I could feel the chaotic energies around the area wreaking constant havoc, on the bark, there were several wounds, but the scariest was a dozen meter bite to the World Tree’s body.
“(What kind of creature leaves a toothmark that size?)” (me)
I keep looking and realize that the World Tree spirit hasn’t appeared yet, I needed to talk to her to know what I should do.
I also saw black marks smearing the World Tree’s body, these marks look very dangerous even to me.
“What do you want to do now?” (I)
“I cannot do anything without first notifying the World Tree Spirit to seek guidance from its will.” (Queen Lolth)
I keep thinking about what I have to do as I look around, even the green clouds are here.
“Shall we start today?” (I)
“Maybe tomorrow.” (Queen Lolth)
“We have to get everyone in place to fight as we don’t know how long it will take to get everyone in order.” (Queen Lolth)
“I’ll get my side ready too.” (I)
I could almost feel Nature’s pain as if I had a wound in this place.