"Since it’s that the case, we should let it rest, why don’t you describe it’s legend while we continue our walk?"
Suddenly, the lake starts shimmering as a graceful figure comes out of the lake.
"The Gentle Dragon!" Seeing who it was, all the maids kneels towards it.
"What!?" He was shocked, he doesn’t understand what’s happening.
"Human, come close." A gentle voice appears in his head.
He turns to the pink serpentine dragon in front of him.
Not sensing any danger, he walks towards it.
"Human, I know that you’re the one that helped my dearest old friend recover and for that, I’m immensely grateful, I apologized that I can’t meet you in my top condition but before I return to my slumber, I must give you a gift at least."
A pink scale floats towards Sean, he grabs it and immediately discover the dense dragon power coursing through it.
Just as he was about to ask who it was, the creature returns to the lake and everything returns to normal.
"Who was that?" He was confused.
"It was the Dragon Goddess also known to us as the Gentle Dragon, we aren’t fit to know her name but she’s known by everyone in this world, she’s the person we were talking about, the World Beast of our world."
He was surprised but he quickly realizes what her awakening meant.
"It seems that my treatment is doing great, the vitality and essence of your world is recovering at a much faster rate than I expected, it won’t be long before your Dragon Goddess to finally wake up from her slumber."
Hearing this, the eyes of the maids were shining, they look at him with eyes shimmering with gentle light as if they’re melting.
’D*mmit, those eyes are bad news for me!’ Realizing that their emotions are going haywire, he quickly shifts the topic.
"So, can you guys tell me about her legend?"
They, of course, more than happy to share to him the tales regarding the legend of their world.
Long ago, when the Tree of Life was just a mere sapling, it helped a little snake with a strange scale colour to recover from her injuries.
In order to repay the little sapling, the snake would carry the bones of it’s pret to it, the two of them realizes that they can help each other grow more safely.
That was the start of the journey of the Tree of Life that became a world and a snake that became a dragon, then, a divine beast.
Sean was listening to the story with awe but he knows that some details might be exaggerated.
Like the snake being just a lowly snake, it must had been a descendant of a powerful dragon but it’s bloodline is quite impure.
He wasn’t shocked that it inadvertently choose to become the guardian of it’s friend but he didn’t expect that this world has four World Beast and three of them had decided to leave to search for new worlds in order to sustain their growth.
"I can understand their decision but this doesn’t mean that I like it." He mutters.
Such a decision is unbefitting for the title World Beast but he can’t do anything about it.
"A deer, a bear, a crane, and a dragon, you know, is it just me or all World Beast are animal based." He didn’t tell them about Liliaghant.
"Because a beast bloodline is easier to pass down than other bloodlines, below beast type world beasts, there are also spirit type but their numbers aren’t even half of the beast type even though they are ranked second in terms of numbers, after all, such high grade spirits aren’t easy to find."
"That’s interesting way to put it, still what makes them so obsessed in obtaining more strength? They are already invincible in their respective worlds."
"I think I know but it’s just a rumour, I don’t know if it’s true but according to some ancient text, our realm is considered the lower realm, for specific period, beings from the higher realm would descend and harvest worlds for powers, the World Beasts are trying to enter the Heaven Realm to escape from this disaster."
"That’s a bit of a stretch, many worlds existed for billions of years, such a long period of time and they hadn’t discovered anything of that sort."
"Yeah, that’s why it’s just a rumour." Hearing what they are saying, a complicated expression appears on Marie’s eyes.
They spent the entire day touring the world.
The maids are reluctant to see him go, he knows that they are now more open to their desire now that the deadline for his stay here is getting closer.
They are touching his hands constantly during the day, trying to show that it’s just them trying to be enthusiastic as guides but he knows what their true intentions are.
"In the past, I would had been thrilled with this but I just can’t help but feel I owe a debt to all my lovers." He mutters.
He wasn’t a casual guy but if seems that this world had a different set of principles of those that reached the peak.
It seems that it’s only nature for the beings here to try and carry the offsprings of the strong.
"Finally, you’re back!" Hina quickk throws herself to him.
"I’ve heard that you fought against the elven sword saint!" Looking at her shining eyes, Sean’s lip twitches.
’Yep, found the true battle maniac.’
"Yeah, it was just a friendly spar, it seems that she never fought an opponent like me."
"Care to explain that." Yana pulls his clothes, looking at him with awe.
"You should know that in our world, weapons are quite useless before one reach Innate Realm, this isn’t true to other worlds, still, the majority of them practices sword styles that tries to end the fight with just one attack."
They don’t know this.
None of them are interested in walking the path of the sword so such knowledge is new to them.
"When she fought me, she had a hard time dealing with me because I fight like a martial artist rather than a common swordsman."
"Yeah, you should know that I master both the hard and soft style, I combined those two to create a way of fighting that’s both offensive and defensive at the same time."
"Oof, that’s gotta to be troublesome to deal with."
With all of Sean’s abilities, incorporating different style to deal with different opponents is easy for him.
That’s why the girls doesn’t want to spar with him, it made them feel useless when they sensed a hint of his true strength.
"Yeah, that style is only effective to those that specialized in one strike finishing moves, if they can’t deal with the incoming attacks in an instant, they wouldn’t be able to produce any force from their attack."
"Stop with the fight talk, we should have a warm family dinner with the remainder of the days we have as a whole family."
"Aunt Tsu, can’t you find a better wording than those words? It feels like we’re dying."
"Yeah mom, it sounds so ominous."
"I forgot that mom would sometimes says words that sounds so out of context."
Tsu was speechless, she just wants them to have dinner, she didn’t expect that her family would flame her.
The three of them laughs after seeing her expression, Sean can’t help but want this scene to last forever.
The next few days was a blur for Sean, with his nights rotating from Hina to Tsu.
He can’t deny that he lived these past few days like a useless king, getting to bed with the women he loves and attended by beautiful elf maids in the morning.
He’s just glad that there were two individuals that don’t say no to his challenge.
*****
"No training for today, tomorrow is the day of the ceremony, I need every single one of you in top condition, you guys will rest back to your home but each one must be accompanied by at least one captain." Camella announces to everyone.
Those that weren’t chosen were disappointed, many even falls to the ground crying.
Those that were chosen are proud of themselves but are also under a lot of pressure.
"So that’s why you weren’t on the training ground with Sean." A familiar voice appears.
It was Marie.
"Why are you here?" She frowns upon seeing her friend.
"Why? Am I not invited?" Hearing her friend asking her in such a tone made her a bit miffed.
"What about Sean?" She continues to aggressively ask.
"So that’s why you’re acting like a bih, don’t worry, he’s currently staying inside the royal palace, with Luminese and the queen there, we don’t need to worry about his safety."
Hearing all of this, she release a sigh of relief.
"Sorry, I was just thinking about our future."
"No, I get what you’re feeling, don’t forget, I’m also an elf, our feelings towards our mother tree is more intense than yours."
Marie quickly forgives her friend, she might be proud but she’s also quite worried about their future and the recovery of their mother tree.
"Of the ten sacrifice, I can guarantee the safety of one of them, I can also make sure that he won’t lose his virginity this evening."
"Hmm, then, I’m going to focus in the other nine but do we really need to put my apprentice in charge of monitoring that so-called prince?"
"Yes, your apprentice is the only one strong enough to hide her presence from him and also, my trust on her is just below to my trust to you."
"Why are you so worried about that prince, his safety is guaranteed."
"I know, it’s not his safety, what I’m worried about, it’s his lust and arrogance."
Marie pauses, she nods her head. "I understand, I’ll inform her immediately."
"Great! We must make sure that everything is going according to plan! I can trust the process in Sean’s side, it’s our side that I’m feeling anxious about."
"Don’t worry, with your elite soldiers and my elite disciples, I’m confident that nothing is going wrong."
Unlike their nervous and tense mood, on the palace, Sean was happily eating mountains of food.
It was a preparation for tomorrow, he really doesn’t need to eat them and can just use the Supreme Cultivation Technique to absorb the energy from this world but he decided to use this crude method because he likes eating.
"The process must start at dawn and will reach it’s peak at noon, when the sun’s the brightest, hopefully, those young men that you guys had picked can endure my yang energy."
Luminese asks. "Can’t we use water to actually lower the temperature, heat isn’t really the best for mother right now."
"No, water will only make the recovery process slower, extending the misery they will experience, if you want to let them survive, you must only use healing skill or magic."
"So, they must endure it until the end?" Asks the queen.
"Yes, it will improve the stability of your mother tree’s recovery, that meant that in just a couple of decades, the essence and vitality will slowly recover."
Decades, this might be long for other races but not for elves, even their children are at a hundred years old.
"Then, on behalf of the elf race of this world, I thank you for the bottom of my heart."
"You don’t need to, you taking care of my family is already enough for me."
"Don’t worry, with the supervision of our mother tree, your family will definitely be taken care of."
"I’m glad, by the way, if Hina asks to join in any battle."
"Don’t worry, I won’t accept her request."
"No, that’s not it, I want you to accept it, she knows that she can’t grow always being protected, it’s her path, don’t worry, I won’t blame you for anything that happens to her in any battle she participates, I just hope that you prevent her soul from going away and preserve her body, of course, this request is only for worst case scenario."
The queen was startled but she quickly recognizes his determination.
"I understand but I will have at least one elf captain class soldier by her side at all times, she can be considered as half royalty because of her bloodline."
"That, hmm, that’s actually understandable, okay, I’ll tell her this before I return."
Night falls, with the advent of the ceremony, everyone are both excited and nervous.
The elves had been waiting for this day for thousands of years.
In the royal room, multiple captain class elf soldiers are now standing in front of their queen.
"I gathered all of you here not just to witness the great revival tomorrow but also to guard against any sudden attacks from our enemies, what we’re doing isn’t a secret to anyone from this world, such news definitely reached their ears."
The strongest amongst them steps forward.
Seeing her action, the queen gestures for her to speak.
"Your majesty, why don’t we just seal off the entire area around our mother tree just to make sure it’s safe."
"I agree with your decision but unfortunately, it’s not ours to decide, the reason why I didn’t try to prevent the news about our mother’s recovery a secret is because it was our own mother’s decision to spread the news."
The elf captain didn’t ask why, for them, their mother tree’s words are absolute.
"Our mother wants to show the world that she isn’t dead yet! She wants to show to us, her daughters, her children, that she is back! As her daughters, we have the duty and responsibility to keep her safe in her times of need! Since she wants to show her majest self to everyone, blessing our people! We will respond in kind! We will show her that she can trust us to keep her safe!"
All the elves present were impassioned by her words, their loyalty to her and theid undying faith to their mother tree made her words more resounding in their hearts.
"We are no longer the useless children that failed to save her! We had grown past that! With the help of the Miracle Child of the Summoner’s World, it won’t be long before our mother tree returns to her peak!"
The Miracle Child! Sean’s nickname that has already spread in their world.
"Those that dares to seek harm to our mother shall die under our bows! Destroyed by our magic! Slain by our swords! We will protect her no matter what cost!"
"No matter what cost!" The elves roars in unison as they prepare for battle.
Sean is unaware of everything just like always.
He doesn’t want to interfere with how the elves act as long as they don’t really try to restrict him.
When morning came, he was presented with multiple elf maids wearing extremely thin fabric of clothing, they might as well not wear anything as everything is visible in the naked eyes.
"What? Who? Wait! It’s you guys! What are you doing!?" He was quickly on guard.
"We are the priestess of this world, this is our ceremonial gowns, every ceremony hosted by this world, we must perform for the spirit of those that departed and for our mother tree."
"Right, I read about this, sorry, wait! Since we are in the ceremony, do I also need to wear such clothing!?" His expression changes.
"No, we have crafted a wear for all of you, it has the ability to spread the heat in the body elsewhere."
"That’s nice! You don’t need to worry about me, my body can survive in any heat, you should worry more about the sacrifices."
"We had done everything that we can, following your instructions, we had forgone anything that lowers the body heat using other elements."
"The clothes that you told me about is already good, rather than lowering our heat, you redirect them, since the heat that’s going to come with us will be my yang energy infused with elven bloodline, if we redirect the heat towards your mother tree, the process would be much faster."
The maids leads him towards the bathing site, since the sun isn’t up yet, they still have some time to cleanse themselves.
"You know that I don’t need your help, right?" He was feeling helpless, in the large bathing pond, he was surrounded by the maids.
"We apologize for invading your privacy but we must make sure you’re clean to the fullest extent!"
He can’t argue with them seeing just how serious they take this ceremony.
He can’t blame them, this ceremony will finally make sure that their revived world will only continue to grow stronger even after his absence.
Those that experienced what it feels like living in a dying world can sympathize with their emotions.
As they scrub all of his body with a jelly like substance that looks like a soft version of a slime, he can feel the temperature of his body rising.
Suddenly, he feels to soft hands reaching down below, his expression changes but looking at their serious expressions, he can only shut his hand.
One is using the slime-like ball to scrub his jewels while the other was gently stroking his spear.
When everything’s finished, he had barely managed to hold himself in.
After getting dressed, they immediately went to the mother tree.
He was in awe as he sees so many elves standing around the tree, when they saw him, they started cheering.
He smiles and waves at them but he suddenly frowns and looks towards a certain direction.
"Strange, why do I feel a hint of hostility towards that direction?" The head priestess, who was following them freezes but her expression doesn’t change.
As they lead him to their mother tree, she informed Camella and the elder elves about what Sean had sensed.
Camella after receiving her divine sense message sneers. "So stupid! They actually dares to show their hostility towards him!?"
"Lady Camella, what should we do?" Her subordinates asks.
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