Evan’s conversation with Lios went surprisingly well, far better than he could have expected, and that was due to two main reasons.
First, it seed that ’Aidos’ had already spoken to Lios regarding Evan’s plans. Secondly, Lios himself was far more agreeable than any of the Iremith Ouroboros dragons.
What’s more, despite how absurd it sounded to everyone he had explained it to, the plan Evan presented to Lios was one ant to save the lives of the planet’s people. It was a plan that opposed the Demonic Hand’s actions and would slow their efforts to break open the dinsional rift on the Dark Continent.
Because of that, Lios was more than willing to cooperate with Evan. After all, this was the sa Ouroboros dragon who had willingly fused himself with the planet’s World Tree when the damage it suffered at the end of the Great Valmone War had worsened to the point it was on the verge of collapse.
No one had ordered him to do it. He had done it of his own accord, even though he would lose power and mobility in the process.
Even so, with Lios agreeing so quickly to go along with his plan, Evan was left stunned.
Noticing this, Lios spoke, [You seem surprised that I agreed so easily.]
"Indeed, I thought I’d have to spend so ti convincing you," Evan replied honestly.
"You’re unlike the others I’ve roped into this plan. You’re not in a desperate situation where survival is at stake, like the World Tree of Creation I asked you to help expand, and you’re not the planet’s consciousness, which acts purely on logic and would do anything to ensure its survival.
Because of that, I ca here prepared to convince you with many solid argunts."
Lios humd after hearing Evan’s words, then asked a single question.
[Are you confident this plan of yours will save the lives of this continent’s inhabitants?]
Faced with that question, Evan answered without hesitation. "100%."
His imdiate reply, without any tremor in his voice, satisfied the Ouroboros dragon, who then said, [In that case, I’ll help you.]
"Thank you," Evan said sincerely, lowering his head slightly.
And so, Evan left the World Tree with one of its branches in his hand. The branch was fairly large, about half his body in size, which was quite sothing considering Evan was now around 6 feet tall.
But compared to the scale of the World Tree, it was one of the smallest branches that could be found.
Lios gave him the branch because he felt Evan didn’t need to go through the process of speaking with the Elves just to reach him, and that branch held the ability to teleport Evan directly to the World Tree’s location, no matter where he was on the planet.
It functioned by using the branch’s innate enchantnt that allowed it to return to the World Tree, pulling Evan along through space since he was the one holding it. More than that, it wouldn’t simply drop him in front of the World Tree, but inside it, where he could directly et Lios’ ouroboros dragon body.
If there was a drawback, it was that he had to remove it from his inventory to use it, and the teleportation wasn’t instantaneous, aning he couldn’t rely on it to escape dangerous situations.
While Evan was occupied with the World Tree, Leoniel was thinking over everything he’d heard from Evan that day, with his focus on the ’Transcendent Project’.
He naturally assud Evan had placed him among the targets of that project, and he was also curious about who else might be on Evan’s list.
So other pieces of information that seed to be common knowledge between Evan and the other Heroes also caught his interest, so he moved over to where Laurene and Eliza were to ask them about it.
Just as he stepped into the room and saw Eliza seated beside Laurene while petting a cat with fur as dark as night, Laurene’s eyes suddenly widened in shock.
"Wait, what?"
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"Laurene? What’s wrong?" Eliza asked.
Laurene abruptly rose from her seat, her Mystic Eyes activating and glowing brightly as she looked from one end of the room to the other.
Then, she abruptly turned toward Kuro and spoke. "Can you teleport to where Abigail is? Please tell you can!"
Kuro was taken aback by her sudden request, unsure where it was coming from, but the urgency in her expression made the cat-shaped spirit act imdiately.
He spread out his aura, frowning lightly as he sensed the teleportation restrictions of the citadel. Noticing that Kuro was trying to locate Abigail, Eliza pointed west and spoke.
"She’s sowhere in that direction. That’s where I can feel her life signal."
Kuro imdiately redirected his magic power in that direction, scanning through all shadows cast on the floor by light until he located Abigail’s shadow.
The issue was that the mont he found Abigail’s shadow, Zestari, who was with her, sensed him too.
[That elf...!]
Kuro imdiately adjusted his plans and redirected his magic power into the shadow of a tree not far from Abigail, then ford a link between that shadow and Laurene’s.
’Shadow Movent!’
His skill activated, and the ambient spatial law energy was drawn into Laurene’s shadow, turning it into a spatial channel that moved her from her position to the target tree.
Kuro also slipped into her shadow alongside her, stepping out of the tree’s shadow before she did and forming a wall of darkness to block the sword of darkness law energy that ca slashing toward the tree the mont he erged.
[Stay your hand, elf,] he said to Zestari, who had attacked imdiately. He released his magic power, expanding the range of his shield and pushing her back before continuing.
[Your master’s fellow Hero simply wishes to speak to her.]
Kuro slamd his paw down onto the ground, activating his Brightest Shadow Unique Skill and releasing a powerful burst of light that montarily dispersed the ambient darkness law energy, weakening Zestari’s law energy blade to the point that it shattered against his barrier.
"Zestari, wait!" Abigail called out, stopping Zestari from summoning her real sword. She glanced at Kuro with a faintly surprised look in her eyes, caught off guard by the level of power Kuro had just displayed.
’I thought the lightning spirit was the only strong one. But this one just manipulated ambient law energy. So, it’s at least Level 700 too.’
Abigail adjusted her estimation of the power Evan’s group held, then moved her eyes to the tree whose shadow Kuro had teleported out of as she said,
"You could’ve sent soone to inform if you wanted to talk. I left servants outside your door for that."
"Sorry, but it was urgent," Laurene replied, stepping out from behind the tree, her arms crossed behind her back, and her Mystic Eyes, which had been active a mont before, now fully deactivated.
"And what exactly is this urgent business?"
"One of the familiars Evan and I sent out to scout Demonic Hand potential bases within the Elven Empire just got destroyed."
Zestari and Abigail reacted differently to Laurene’s words, the forr with a frown and the latter with faint surprise.
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