Chapter 144
The premier for ‘Léon: The Demon’ persisted very late into the night. The audiences that were invited to partake in the premier were all perfectly satisfied after listening to the musical performance. They began to walk out of the performance hall.
The dark elf that had just ‘escaped’ from Joshua decided to take this opportunity to sneak into the crowd and leave Farucci’s Mansion.
After exiting the mansion, the dark elf changed into a crow and flew into the sky. She found a quiet roof and landed.
She was already impatient to use the ‘magic’ Joshua gave her.
Even though she had put forth enormous self control before Joshua, people would either be panicking or enter a state of excitement when confronted with something completely new.
The dark elf belonged to the latter category. She knew that if the ‘Mage Forum’ would become like what Joshua said, that if one could exchange information anywhere using the forum...
She began to attempt on using the system as a crow. When her crow beak tapped the ‘Mage Forum’ icon, what appeared was not the same interface she saw in Farucci’s Mansion.
Instead, what appeared were the characters ‘404.’
In a crow form, the dark elf crooked her head. She was unable to understand what was going on. Because of that, she attempted to do the same thing a couple more times. Unfortunately, the end outcome remained the same. They all showed her a ‘404’ message.
Because of this, the dark elf felt like she was deceived. In order to find out the reason why this was happening, she flapped her wings and flew toward the Farucci’s Mansion.
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After the premiere ended, Joshua did not choose to return to the Hearthstone Tavern.
“Tylene, let me see your World Tree seed.”
This was a private room Madam Schroder arranged for Joshua. It would be fine even if Joshua decided to sleep here tonight.
Apart from Joshua and Tylene, Ciri and Ynor were also in the room.
After Pluk showed up for the premiere’s cast reveal, he returned to Squirrel Street with the gray-cat beastmen and half-dragon children.
Tylene was sitting on the only sofa in the fitting room. The others present were all looking at her.
Tylene knew better than anyone what the World Tree signified.
It signified the birth of a new elven race. As long as she grows the World Tree seed into an actual tree, the World Tree will grant all the elves in that race great elven powers.
Because of that, Tylene should’ve kept the news of the World Tree seed’s germination. After all, she had heard that there were a lot of mages that viewed the World Trees as a kind of excellent magic ingredient.
But, if she didn’t have Joshua’s help, the World Tree seed might’ve never been able to germinate.
Tylene opened her hands. An apple-sized World Tree seed was hovering above her palms. Cracks were present on the surface of the seed. A shoot filled with rune inscriptions was growing out from the cracks.
When Tylene summoned out the World Tree seed, the leaves even swayed toward Joshua.
The World Tree seed didn’t do that to attack Joshua. If it was a human, the World Tree might be waving at Joshua.
The World Tree lodging in Tylene’s body seemed to possess its own awareness. Furthermore, the World Tree seed did not show any sign of resistance toward Joshua storing his compiled rune inscription codes into it.
“It... is greeting you?”
Ciri could also tell that the World Tree seed seemed to want to convey something.
“It would appear that what we’ll be taking care of would not be a potted plant. Instead, it is likely going to be another cat majesty.”
Joshua recalled that black cat.
Since the awareness of the Blackwood Elves’ World Tree took the form of a black cat, it would not be surprising if the Frost Elves’ World Tree took the form of a white cat upon maturity.
Joshua came over to Tylene and extended his hand to touch the World Tree’s leaf. But, at that moment, Tylene’s hand shivered slightly. Furthermore, her body also pulled back slightly.
Even though Tylene believed Joshua to be different from the demons described by the Holy Church after interacting with him for a week, Tylene still felt slightly uneasy when Joshua attempted to touch the World Tree.
Joshua did not force the frost elf to hand over the World Tree seed. After a moment of hesitation, Tylene seemed to be trying to deceive herself by closing her eyes and turning around. Then, she extended her hand toward Joshua.
In order to revive her race, this courageous elven girl had resolutely decided to offer her all to the demon before her.
“Ciri, do you know any barrier type magic?”
Joshua managed to successfully touch the World Tree seed’s shoot. The rune sequences for his server were still present on the World Tree. Right now, what he needed to do was to activate those rune sequences.
“Magic barrier? I’ve used them before to catch forest wolves. Mmmm... give me a bit, I’ll draw a magic formation.”
Ciri began to draw her magic formation using the magic staff she carried with her. A magic barrier was a basic type of barrier magic. Practically all mages knew a bit about how to use magic barriers.
Nevertheless, Joshua had no idea how Ciri could use a magic barrier to catch forest wolves.
Using three minutes, Ciri finished setting up her magic barrier. With Joshua as the center, the entire room’s surroundings were enveloped by a transparent magic net.
After Ciri finished setting up her magic barrier, Joshua began to activate the rune sequences.
The small amount of magic power from the order system started to flow out from Joshua’s fingers. When the magic power came in contact with the World Tree on Tylene’s hand, a great amount of runes of order began to revolve around the World Tree.
Not long after, those runes began to gradually disappear. When the frost elf opened her eyes again, the first thing she saw was a window with the logo ‘Windows XP.’
Joshua also summoned out his own windows interface. A satisfactory full five bars signal was present on the lower right corner of his desktop.
“Finally, we’ve escaped from the restrictions of the local area network.”
Joshua entered the Mage Forum directly. A network made using magic power was not very fast. But, perhaps that might also be because the World Tree was still a sapling.
Right now, what Joshua wanted to test was the range. Joshua tapped on ‘My System.’ He loaded a program called ‘Chat Window’ and sent a message to the dark elf lady from earlier.
Not long after Joshua’s message was sent out, he suddenly felt a slight vibration from above them. The sound of gla.s.s shattering could also be heard.
“I think it’s someone’s owl,” Ciri turned to look above.
Currently, the way the mages of Norland would use owls to deliver letters as their means of communication. Because of that, it was normal for an owl or two to smash through a window every now and then.