26 Chapter 26
The teenager on the mountain had been training for these past few months . Only stopping when he recalls his little elf in the space . He did get tired but he was never unhappy . He deligently trained his body to become stronger . No matter how strong he was as once a test subject that experienced thousands of horrors in the research institute . In his current body , he might not be able to defeat a whole army .
He knew from the very beginning that the world he's currently in is a dangerous one . He was curious about the origin of Yggdrasil , how did he traverse through space ? And why does he had an ability to produce elves?
Is he a god?
Was he really created by that doctor?
Where did he get such power?
Kryst has a lot of questions hidden within his mind . Yet he doesn't have any courage to ask those aloud . One day for sure , he will understand who Yggdrasil truly was .
Kryst panted in exhaustion and knelt down to take a rest but he doesn't have anytime tod o that as the traps he planted were triggered again . Several arrows flew straight towards him from varying locations . Kryst immediately stood up and moved one step behind ..
Kryst desperately wanted to follow every arrows and avoided it in any kinds of ways . Wether rolling on the ground , stepping aside , he would even bend backwards .
Yet he was still dissatisfied .
The sun up above gradually settled down as the moon became more clearer in the sky. Kryst was still training yet there's something that changed.
The boy's pace became quicker and effortless . He seemed to have discarded all unnecessary moves and took the path of convenience . Whenever an arrow was about to graze about his chin , his body moved one inch farther and succesfully avoided it . Same for the upcoming arrows , it was as if he has an eye all over his body and could quickly avoid it instinctively .
*Slash
The trap stopped when Kryst failed to avoid an arrow .
Kryst looked dazedly at his wound and gritted his teeth in disappointment. He had just developed his sixth sense and intuition but he still couldn't fully utilize it .
If he was in a battlefield ... If he had not successfully avoided it ... It would be the end of his life .
Kryst touched his beating heart , there's a trace of fear in it ,yet ...
He was more determined to hone his skills .
Kryst gritted his teeth and ran towards the forest. He swung his stick and deflected the upcoming arrows and jumped towards a tree . Suddenly , a parasite plant on the tree noticed his presence and immediately attacked him with it's carnivorous mouth .
Kryst immediately lifted his spear and stabbed the tip of it into its mouth . He lifted it up in a quick span of time and immediately threw it at the direction of the arrows.
The parasitic plant was made into a plant shield by the unscrupulous elf. Kryst breathe in and started the second round . This time , the challenge has increased its level of difficulty .
Ollie who has now grown into a slightly larger owl body due to the abundant mana in the space , and Ollie would occasionally exit the space to bask in the light of the moon up above the sky . It hooted and released the bamboo cage it was holding .
Several demonic animals escaped and attacked Kryst .
Kryst's mouth twitched seeing one particular animal . " He really has grown to the point that he could even catch a hostile brown monkey. It was even twice as large as his body . "
These wild animals had been captured by the joint force of him , Pitzy and Ollie when they ventured deep inside the mountain. They caught quite a lot that they couldn't even finished eating it . Right now , Kryst decided to use them as his training partners.
What was more annoying to him is the colony of cannibalistic bees who preys on the blood of their prey . It was probably one of the most deadliest enemy of the tribes nearby .
But the good news is ... Their honey is more tasteful than the honey he tasted on earth. Speaking of honey , the roasted chickens that he often ate these days were quite flavorful because of the honey , although he didn't get to find a salt lake , at least he get to taste sweet roasted chicken .
Kryst jumped down and lifted one of his leg to axe kick one strange demonic animal , he doesn't know what name it is but it has the head of a monkey but it also have bat like wings and kangaroo like legs .
When his ankle landed its head , the sound of a bone crack seemed to have reverberated throughout the forest full of cricket noises .
" Woo? "
" Moo? "
" Cokak? "
" Uhuh ah ah? "
The demonic animals stared weirdly at the teenager then suddenly felt goosebumps all over their furs .
" Wooo woo!!!! " ( Escape!!! )
And so ... The mountains had gone into utter chaos this time as the little elf chase the demonic animals crazily with blood thirst and discrimately slaughtered them .
Yggdrasil: ( may Buddha forgive you )
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Kryst rolled his arms and opened a canteen of water to drink his dehydrated body . " Hah! I'm so tired . "
Webby then suddenly revealed her presence . " Take a minute break , master . "
Kryst shook his head . " No , Sherwin is still waiting at the final round . "
Webby . " ... "
Webby suddenly remembered that pitiful demon who was forced to be tasked to fight master head on . She could still remember how that Sherwin boldly cursed master yet when Webby joked that Kryst was about to come , he immediately cowered in fright .
Kryst ran towards the last stage and saw a Demon Snake Man waiting for him with a solemn expression on his androgynous countenance . ( He's talking about androgynous when he's the same . )
The teenage silver haired boy in his half naked state pointed the tip of his spear to the Demon and said . " Sherwin , i want to challenge you into a duel . I will not use my ability . "
Sherwin tilted his head in confusion . " Why would you not use your ability? "
Kryst flung his spear and said . " Don't talk anymore and let's fight? "
Sherwin immediately retreated and waved his tail to block him . " Ok ok! You're so excited . "
Sound of metals colliding with each other rang out in the quiet forest . Kryst was immediately attracted to the scale of the demon and stared at the tip of his tail intensely .
Sherwin immediately perceived danger and retreated . " Hey!! What are you staring at my body!!!? "
The teenager blinked his beautiful pair of verdant eyes and smiled (he rarely do that) sweetly . " I'm just impressed with your beautiful scale , it makes me want to pluck it out . "
" Nooooooo!!!! "
And so ... Sherwin was tortured by the evil little elf .
" I admit defeat! Please stop bothering me! I'm weaker than you , you know!!!"
Kryst glared at the tattered Demon and shouted . " You call yourself weak??!!!! Look at my body and tell that in front of the water's reflection!!! "
Sherwin looked at the teenager's body and saw several purple bruises . Sherwin's ire seemed to have been ignited and immediately retorted . " You thought you're pitiful? Look at my scattered scales around the area!!! You don't pity me at all!!! "
Ollie and Pitzy watched at them with dull eyes and stared at each other . " Why are they competing about being weaker than each other? "
Pitzy covered his muzzled with his paws and replied . " They are just simply a pair of of idiots . "
Another month had passed. Kryst and Sherwin repeatedly dueled for training . Who knows how Kryst triggered Sherwin's determination to get stronger , but Sherwin no longer hold a grudge towards Kryst . Contrarily , they get along pretty well these days . As if they were a pair of old friends .
They bath at the same time , they competed on swimming race , running (crawl) race , tree climbing (still crawl) race , stamina race , endurance , agility , flexibility and etc.
They are the type of acquaintance that always thought of rivaling each other but still get a long well .
The two androgynous beauties now layed on the ground while panting .
" How long do we have to compete again? " Tiredly asked Sherwin .
Kryst layed on his stomach and gazed at Sherwin while resting his chin on his palm . " Until you die. "
Sherwin rolled his eyes and sat up . " Hey Kryst , how about you go with me to the Demons' gathering next week . There's a lot of trade that you could do there . "
Kryst glanced at him with eyes holding a hint of interest . " Can you trade herbal plants there? "
Sherwin nodded with confidence . " Of course you can , but there rarely demons that sells herbal plants as Demons usually don't fight often. Our race only has a handful of members and as far as we could restrain our instinct to prey on weaker enemies . Demons have a rule to not kill fellow demons unless you have a bitter grudge with each other . Still , there are still members that disobeyed that rule . "
" And because we rarely fight , demons rarely get hurt ..Even if we do indeed got hurt , we can just heal ourselves under the moonlight and worship for our Goddess Phoebe for a small healing moonlight . "
Kryst couldn't help perking up his ears in interest . " You can communicate with your Goddess? "
Sherwin shook his head . " We can't , but there's still a small string of connection . Ever since the Giant War centuries ago . Gods now hid themselves and rarely communicate with mortals . "
Kryst rest his elbow on the ground and held both of his cheeks while looking at Sherwin . " Those Gods and Goddesses must be powerful right? "
Sherwin nodded . " They're indeed powerful , the first in the ranks of the most powerful gods in the world is rumored to be GAIA , The Goddess Of Earth . She was what most humans call , Mother Nature . "
Kryst's eyes widened in shock ....Mother Nature .
Does ... Does GAIA know of our existence?
" Second of that is Ares , the God of War . "
Ares ...
Kryst blinked his eyes then suddenly asked. " Then , who is the weakest god? "
Sherwin pondered for a moment before answering . " It was rumored to be the Neutral God , God of Love , Aphrodite . "
Sherwin immediately held out his forehead upward and said with a serious expression . "She may be the weakest Goddess of all gods , but she was indestructible . "
Kryst arc up his brows in confusion . " Why? "
" It's because there's love everywhere in the world that she could be reborn anytime . There's even a rumor that her original form is a phoenix . The divine clan , Phoenix clan worships Aphrodite . "
" That's really interesting . "
Kryst and Sherwin chatted a bit more and before they noticed it , almost a week hd already passed . Kian and Sherwin prepared themselves to walk towards the Monthly Demon Trade .
When they went out of the mountains they deviated directions several times.
But currently, the two couldn't help but stop their tracks .
Kryst's eyes turned red from anger and look at a tribe not too far away . " That! ... What are they doing?! "
Sherwin just silently looked at the tribe and puckered his lips .
" A tribe? "
" They... They are cannibals . " Kian couldn't help scrunching his face in disgust .
They stared at the tribe while hiding behind the bushes .
They see several tanned skin tribesmen with strange ominous symbols around their body as they danced histerically around a captive .
" Who is that lady? " Sherwin curiously asked and stared at the tattered face of the captive .
" She is probably their dinner for tonight . " Sherwin stared at the lady with a regretful expression .
Kryst touched his chin and hit his elbow on the snake's waist . " Hey ... Don't you feel that the girl's clothing is strange? "
" Huh? "
Kryst stared helplessly at Sherwin then pointed at the clothesline of the girl . " She seems to have come from a highly developed civilization . "
" What?!!! "
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Lienor from far away suddenly opened his eyes at noon .
" Hah hah hah ... What was that? "
Just now ... Lienor had a nightmare .
( LIENOR'S NIGHTMARE )
AN ADULT SILVER HAIRED MAN GAZED RIGHT INTO THE FIRST PERSPECTIVE POINT OF VIEW WITH LOVING EYES AND CALLED OUT WITH HIS BOYISH VOICE .
" HONEY , YOU REALLY MAKE ME WANT TO FEEL YOUR BODY MORE . "
BEFORE LIENOR COULD EVEN RESPOND .
A STRANGE WOMAN WEARING AN EASTERN LIKE TRADITIONAL DRESS SUDDENLY STEPPED OUT OF THE FIRST POINT OF VIEW AND HELD THE SILVER HAIRED MAN COQUETTISHLY .
" HONEY~ FEEL ME MORE~ I DON'T MIND . LET'S GET MARRIED . "
" NOOO!!! "
SUDDENLY!!! A LONG , YELLOW HAIRED HANDSOME ANDROGYNOUS MAN WITH A SNAKE LOWER HALF SUDDENLY APPEARED AND PUSHED THE GIRL AWAY .
THE SNAKE DEMON PUSHED THE HANDSOME SILVER HAIRED MAN AND FORCEFULLY KISSED HIM .
" AAAAAAH!!" A PIERCING SCREAM OF A WOMAN RANG OUT THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD SENDING A NUCLEAR LIKE EXPLOSION OUT OF A PART OF THE EARTH .
That was the time Lienor woke up .
" Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"
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Liena munching on a newly cooked hotpot curiously looked at the beautiful bamboo villa and looked at the Priest . " Linden , our young chief seemed to have a terrible nightmare again . "
Linden crossed his leg while rubbing at his own fox tail . " He always get nightmares , it's no longer rare . "
Liena chewed then spoke still with full mouth. " He is still missing that eagle child. "
Linden hugged his tail then stared at the sky. " I heard that he's a beautiful existence . "
" I never saw his real face , all my memory of him is an eagle head , or a duck head , a wolf head , a butterfly head , a dinasour head etc. "
Linden chuckled . " He's a weird boy , he likes wearing peculiar clothes that resembled animals . "
" You can't blame a child's childish fetish . "
" Shut up , before your big brother knock your head for speaking ill of his unrequited love . "
" I'm not speaking ill of that boy . "
" I know . "
" ... You know Linden , as time passed i get along with you . I felt like I'm going to turn into an idiot . "
