Chapter 116: Princ.i.p.al
116 Princ.i.p.al
"You…are Alexander, right?"
"Ayaka? You know him?"
Alexander halted his step and sighed. He turned back.
"That face, that"s right. You are really Alexander. If not because of you…" Before Ayaka finished her words. The princess cut her in.
"What? Because of him? You, you are the one who hurt her" The princess suddenly got mad.
Alex frowned, "What is this unreasonable woman?"
Sherry immediately leaped from his head and kick the princess. Though she didn"t put the strength strong enough to injure him, but it still enough to blow her away.
The princess was blown away a few meters back from that kick.
"Wuu Wuu, Wuu Wuu Wuu (What an unreasonable woman. Master has saved you but you mad at him)" Sherry become angry.
"Wait, Alexander. I"m sorry for her rudeness. But she also a princess. Please forgive her. It was me that invite the misunderstanding" Ayaka sweatdropped. The ones chasing them are rank 5 and rank 6. But Alex and the fox killed them easily. That means, their strength was far stronger than them. Rank 7? Or even rank 8?
Ayaka immediately helps the princess. "Princess, It was a misunderstanding. The one who hurt me is the hero. Not him."
"Eh?" The princess startled. It was her misunderstanding all along. "I…I"m very sorry"
"Wuu Wuu (Bad woman, now you finally realize your rudeness)" Sherry reprimanded her "Wuu Wuu"
"Alexander, Thank you for saving us" Ayaka bowed.
"If you want to thank someone. Thank her, she was the one who wanted to help you" Alex pointed at Sherry.
"Is that so?" Ayaka felt a bit weird when she wanted to thank the fox. But she still thank her. "Thank you"
"Wuu" Sherry raised her paw and telling her to not mind it.
"Why do you come here?" Alex asked. He wanted to add "didn"t you love the hero? Why are you here?"
But it seems it was a bit inappropriate so he held back a bit.
Ayaka seems to be a bit down, "Well, might as well tell you. Actually, after you cut his…little brother. He becomes an insane person. He often beat me and Sandra. After we arrived at the castle, he still continued beating us. And no one dares to tell him off. After two weeks, we can"t stand him anymore. So we escaped from that place, we plan to go to the holy kingdom. Of course, there were many pursuers. I heard Sandra managed to arrive at the Holy Kingdom and Maria accepted her. But I got caught by the pursuers. I struggled and somehow managed to escape from their clutch, but in the escape, I fell to the river and Princess Lilia save me"
River? To the demi-human? Only one thing comes to his mind. The river that connected to all races. "Mieze River?"
"Yes"
Alex silent for a while. "Well, sorry about that. I am indirectly involved in that"
"No, though I hate you at that moment. I somehow felt thankful too. Because of that, I managed to learn about human true nature, and also meet Princess Lilia. I met a…true friend" After receiving those experiences, the childish personality of her seems to disappear. She seems to mellow and mature a bit. But the most appreciating thing is that she didn"t develop any trauma.
"Ayaka…" Lilia recalled when he wanted to look at the river because she bored. She found Ayaka float on the river, unconscious. She helped her until she finally got her strength back. After that, they seem to click off and become best friends.
"But, I thought that the elven territory didn"t accept any other races inside their territory?"
"Well…" Lilia looks down.
"Sigh, well, in their territory. My status is a slave. But don"t misunderstand. They didn"t treat me badly, and I"m fine with that. As long as I can be with her. I can say that I finally find true happiness with a true friend here"
"I see, what are you going to do now?"
"We will go back now, I think…" Ayaka looked at Lilia who nodded her head timidly.
"Well, I can help you" Alex turned to Sherry, "Sherry, how about you carry one of them?"
"Wuu" Sherry shook her head. She leaps to his head once again.
"It"s alright. We can go back ourselves"
"Well, I don"t really mind." He felt a little bad in his heart. Because of his action that day, she got beaten up like that. Though he remembered that she didn"t like him. But she didn"t really have anything to do with him and not deserve to be treated like that by John. So he thought that he can help her this one time.
Alex suddenly princess carry her with one of his hands. Ayaka was startled. "Alexander?"
Then, he grabbed Princess Lilia with his other hand, but this time, she was treated like baggage. "Wha-"
With Sherry on top of him, they finally disappeared. After an hour. They finally reached the elven territory. He already saw their wooden gate. So he stopped a bit farther from that gate. He put down Lilia like baggage. "Wha- Ouch" and finally put Ayaka down.
"I think, this is the farthest I can go."
"You treat this Princess like baggage. You-"
Sherry patted her forehead a few times with her paw.
"Thank you. Princess Lilia, how about you thank him too? After all, he saved us"
"Uuu…" Lilia hesitated a bit, but she still thanked him.
"What are you going to do here?" Ayaka asked.
"I need to do something here to stop the war between Humans and Demons"
"Stop the war?" Ayaka didn"t find an answer to stop the war. "Do you need my help?"
"I think I am good"
"I see, where are you going next? The elf territory?"
Alex shook his head. "Divine City"
"Then, I can help you pa.s.s my territory and go to Divine City. Consider it as thanks for helping us" Lilia said.
"It"s alright. I didn"t want any unnecessary trouble. I will pa.s.s through the druid territory"
"What? Druid Territory? Gu…" Lilia was rumbling.
"I see. Well, if you need my help just say it, I will help you as long as I can"
"Then, goodbye" Alex nodded. Then he disappeared.
"I can let you through the elven territory. You don"t need to pa.s.s that druid territory." Lilia finally finished her rumbling and said.
"Princess Lilia, He has gone you know"
"Wha-"
…
Alex continues his journey to the druid territory.
"Wuu? (Is that your friend Master?)"
"Hmm, I don"t know. Well, Sherry hasn"t met them, right? Well, as you might already know. I"m not from this world. And they are my last kinds in this world. And she seems received her finale"
"Wuu? (Finale?)"
"Just consider it as her happy ending. Helping her a bit like that won"t hurt after all"
"Wuu"
…
After a day running. They finally arrived at the druid territory. Unlike the elves, the druid seems to make their wall with some kind of Tree formation. Alex approached it slowly.
"A human?" An old druid appeared in front of him. His appearance is similar to a human.
Alex was surprised to see that the one who appeared before him was a rank 7.
"Human, what do you want here?"
"I wanted to go to Divine City. So I wanted to pa.s.s through here. I have a letter for a person in there"
The old druid frowned. "I"m sorry. I can"t decide on this matter. Let me confirm this first. Which kingdom you hail from?"
"Acacia Kingdom, Royal Academy graduate"
"Acacia Kingdom…If possible, Can I receive the letter?"
Alex pondered for a moment. The dean pa.s.sed this letter to the princ.i.p.al. And the princ.i.p.al was the one who established the relations.h.i.+p between them. Maybe, giving this letter will help him? He decided to give him the letter.
The old druid open the letter and read it a bit. But suddenly he was shocked by the content. He glanced at Alex repeatedly. He was fl.u.s.tered. "I will immediately inform our elder. Please wait a bit"
Alex nodded. "The letter seems to help me, right?"
After almost ten minutes, finally, the previous druid come. This time, he came with another old druid. "My name is Dwen, I am an elder druid. Are the letter is true?"
"I am Alexander Sirius. I don"t know what inside the letter. My teacher asked me to give it to our royal academy"s princ.i.p.al."
"You don"t know? I will change my question. Are you sure that you can heal our Divine Tree?"
Alex nodded, "I can"
"What a claim, Young man, there is a limit to how much you can brag. What qualification do you have that you can think you can heal our Divine Tree?" The druid suddenly let out his mana. A rank 8 mana suddenly filled the atmosphere.
Alex frowned, He let out his mana too. The mana between two rank 8 clashed with each other.
"Wuu" Sherry suddenly let out a sound. She also released her rank 8 mana albeit lazily. The druid mana suddenly got suppressed by the addition of Sherry.
"What?" The druid was shocked that Alex has the same amount of mana as him, he also startled when the fox above him released its mana too. In front of him, there are two rank 8 in front of him. Currently, there is only a rank 8 in the druid territory, and it is him. The other rank 8 druid was in the Divine City to see the Divine Tree. But…"How old are you?"
"18, almost 19"
The druid sweatdropped. 18 years old rank 8? What kind of monster that the human have? And he even has a rank 8 fox as his pet? The whole demi-human race has 17 rank 8 from all races, each big races have 3 rank 8 and the last two hailed from the small races. The human has 18 rank 8 consists of three kingdoms. But now, if he added these two in front of him. They have 20, especially the Acacia Kingdom, in addition to them, that"s 12 and especially him, an 18 years old rank 8, when he reached 20 years old, what height will he get? 30 years old? 40?. The druid frowned and finally decided. He will let the council decided his fate."Come with me, I will let you see the "Princ.i.p.al" you talking about."
Alex nodded. "Thank you"
The druid starts flying, but he suddenly stopped and looked at Alex. "What is it? Please follow me"
"We can fly?"
"Oh… As long as you are with me. We can"
Alex followed him. The Divine City was a bit further. He needs a whole day flying to reach the Divine City. There is one thing that most noticeable in this city. The tree that pierces the sky. The Divine Tree. But…
When Alex looked at the tree, he felt this tree life force was really exhausted, its stem starting to rod, he can"t see the leaves since its above the cloud. But considering the situation in the stem, He was pretty sure that the leaves also the same. Suddenly he heard the druid talked, "This is the Divine Tree. Do you really can recover our Divine Tree?"
Alex nodded.
The druid silent for a while. They continued flying all this time. After a while, they seem reached their destination. It was a house. "Please come in"
Alex followed him. The druid guides him to a room. There is nothing strange in this room. But he didn"t let his guard off, after all, this is still foreign territory.
"Please wait here, while I call him"
Alex nodded.
He waited for almost an hour before an old man suddenly come to the room. The old man was the same as you usual old man, but the most noticeable thing from him is that he can feel the nature in him. He seems like by nature. "Are you that old man"s student?"
"That old man?... Ah, He must mean Teacher" Alex immediately stood up and greeted him. "Alexander Sirius, Dean Marco"s Student. Greet the Princ.i.p.al."
"You forget your fresh graduate status"
"Ah…" Alex scratched his head.
"I have read the letter. You wanted to stop the war with the help of the demi-human by helping the Divine Tree?"
"Yes"
"Can you?"
"I think I can"
"You think? The Divine Tree was really exhausted its lifespan. We tried to search for another replacement for its lifespan but to no avail. But can you?"
"Life Water"
The old man suddenly become startled. "What did you say?"
"Life Water. One bucket"
"You…You…" The old man grabbed him. "You really have the Life Water? And that much?"
It"s normal for him to react that way. It was very unbelievable after all.
"Do you know the origin of Life Water?"
"The Divine Tree according to the record is 20000 years. After that, the tree will exhaust its lifespan. But it also produced a new Divine Tree Seed. The old Divine Tree, after exhausting its lifespan will melt its body. The liquid name is Life Water. The old Divine Tree will produce about four to five buckets, its purpose was to nurture the New Divine Tree. And the cycle will go on." It was the knowledge imparted by Maxwell.
"That"s right. But are you sure that is the Life Water? And where it is?"
Alex took out the Life Water from his s.p.a.ce ring.
"Wha- s.p.a.ce?"The Princ.i.p.al was startled since he didn"t know anything about the s.p.a.ce ring. "it seems that old man received an unbelievable little monster" He checked the Life Water. He confirmed that it is really the Life Water. Considering the amount of wood element in it. Since he is a wood element magician especially since he is blessed by nature, he can feel that huge amount of wood element, no, it was a nature element.
"This amount can extend its lifespan for about 5000 years. The Divine Tree will produce a new seed within that time"
"I See. Store it first. I will meet "them" first. I will inform you later" The princ.i.p.al left in a hurry.
"Ah wait…" But the princ.i.p.al already left. Alex didn"t know what to do and more importantly, "I still don"t know your name… Teacher didn"t say anything"