North of Golden Sap Town, there was a city called Mareful City. It was situated between the Small White Flower Forest and the Serene Small Lakeborn Forest. It was a scenic town with lots of tourists and unique specialties.
The City Lords of this city were a couple who shared responsibilities and power. This was a strange case where, instead of one City Lord, the couple was considered one and had equal power.
The wife was a blue-haired Sylvan with beautiful long hair and an elegant figure. anwhile, the husband was a sentient plant creature with a non-human body. However, he gained the intelligence and spiritual abilities to communicate.
Lately, their subordinates have noticed that the usually calm, gentle, and powerful wife was tired and haggard. Nobody really knew why, but they thought that it was the loss of people coming to the city because of the recent popularity of the newly opened Golden Sap Town.
Of course, it wasn't because of that. As the woman walked down the hallways of her mansion, she was approached by one of her trusted female servants. "Madam Delia, is everything all right? You've been looking very tired lately since the loss of…" The servant didn't finish her sentence because she saw Delia frown.
Delia spoke, her voice forceful but tired. "I am fine. I just need to listen to them, and they will eventually release her."
The servant sighed and asked. "What about the Lord? What does he think?"
Delia didn't show a sign of emotion on her face as she answered. "He is doing well. Don't worry about him."
The servant wanted to ask again, but a male servant approached with a complicated expression. "Madam Delia, that man is looking for you."
Delia looked at the male servant for a few seconds, her sapphire eyes seemingly penetrating into the servant's soul. The pressure from her gaze made the male servant cower. Delia spoke. "Guide ."
The walk toward that room was silent, and once Delia arrived, she pushed the door open and looked inside. Instead of a man, there was a woman sitting there; her face was ordinary enough that people would not give her a second look when she was walking down the street. She had a black dress and nothing remarkable other than that.
However, Delia looked at her and spoke flatly. "Do you need to hide below that mask in front of , Jolie?"
When she spat her na, it bore such deep resentnt that it felt jarring for the ears. Jolie's eyebrow raised, and she laughed. "Don't be so angry, Delia~."
Delia's body trembled as a surge of energy went to her hands. However, Jolie continued with the sa smile, looking at Delia as if she was a toothless and clawless tiger. Just a big-looking predator without the tools to hurt her.
And, as Jolie expected, Delia's Water Aether dissipated, and she asked, her voice sounding defeated. "What more do you want? I can't give you anything else."
Jolie humd. "Well, you can't~. However, you still can do things for ." Jolie smirked. "After all, you want to see her, right?"
Delia didn't answer, looking at Jolie coldly. Jolie humd. "Anyway, I am feeling stuffy, so I'll take this off~."
Her tone was seductive, but she didn't touch her own clothes. Instead, a powerful Anima Energy wave rippled around her, and her appearance started changing by the second.
Her ordinary face and brown hair shifted slowly, gaining an ethereal touch. Her eyes glead like moonlit dewdrops, and an aura that blew outward like a gentle breeze transford Jolie from an unremarkable-looking woman to a gorgeous-looking Sylvan.
Dolie's expression fell when she saw her. "Why the disguise?"
Jolie blinked, her gorgeous eyes reflecting Delia's current facial expression like mirrors that showed the blue-haired Sylvan how desperate she was. "Well~, I prefer looking like a human woman." Jolie sighed dramatically, stretching backward and raising her arms. "Since I learned cursed arts and gained these bad titles, I've really been struggling. Who would want to be by my side if I, an absolutely gorgeous and fabulous Sylvan, had this sick aura around ?"
Jolie allowed her aura to flow outward, and unlike her gorgeous and pure appearance, a malevolent wave of Aether Mana and Anima Energy covered the room.
The aura was so bad that it made Delia's stomach churn. Jolie giggled. "Your face is so pale~. Is it that bad?"
Delia spat with difficulty. "You are an abomination."
Jolie humd. "Perhaps, but why am I judged so much more harshly than a human would for the sa actions? Because I was born a Sylvan, sacrificing people to curse Life Trees, World Trees, and Forests has co with such bad repercussions!" Jolie pouted. "It is unfair!"
Delia gritted her teeth. "You are a Sylvan, a being born from nature. Respecting the nature that gave birth to you is not unfair. It is expected. You are just an ungrateful creature that, instead of relishing in the gifts you have since birth, you just wanted what you didn't have."
Jolie squinted. "Hey, Delia. Do you really want to make angry? I really don't recomnd it."
Delia stopped speaking, pursing her lips. Jolie sighed. "Even after all this ti, you are still annoyingly resilient. Can you have a little less willpower or sothing?" Jolie clicked her tongue. "Well, since you have a high stat, your willpower being high is a given, isn't it, Miss Level 27~."
Delia took a deep breath and asked. "What do you want?"
Jolie slowly placed her legs in front of the couch she was lying on and stood up. Then, she smiled while walking toward Delia. "If you want your wish to beco the truth, you need to help with one little thing. You see, I can't really approach the Golden Sap Forest myself. So, I want you to go, get their trust, and then place this on the Life Tree in the middle of the town~."
Jolie extended her hand and showed a strange doll. However, Delia's face paled when she saw the doll. The handwoven toy had blue strands of real hair and a pair of glass sapphire eyes. Jolie smirked as she saw Delia's face beco as white as a sheet of paper. "So~? What do you think, Delia?" She caressed her cheek and laughed. "Can you help , please~?
anwhile, back in the Golden Sap Forest, Liu Shu was happily humming while looking at the new arrangent that she completed. 'I am finally done!'
The World Tree looked at the defensive building she built and said. "System! I am done~."
[Do you wish to complete ?"
[Do you want to na it structure?]
"YES!"
Liu Shu was very excited. This was the last thing she needed to do before completing her quest!
[Structure Completed! Due to the close proximity to the World Tree, the rank will be readjusted. !]
'Hm? What? How does that work?'
[System Hint: Due to the structure being close to your , it received a stronger root net, allowing it to increase a sub-tier.]
Liu Shu was still confused. This structure was not the first one that she had built close to her. "Wisdom! Explain!"
[Wisdom: Tianlian Liu Shu's ability allowed ! You've received 800,000 Proficiency points!]
[ Tier Up has triggered! !]
[ activates! !]
[ activates! 10% material cost reduction, returning materials, rounded down.]
[ second effect activates. You are able to choose a predetermined to have active in your newly built
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