Chapter 187 – A Place to Take Root (3)
We arrived at the Dryades Botanical Garden after a quick ride on the Singsingi.
Just like I did when I visited before, I casually parked my car in the empty parking lot and entered the botanical garden.
“Here… Was the atmosphere always like this?”
I’ve been to the Dryades Botanical Garden once before, but I was wondering if it was the same place as it is now.
There was no particular change in the appearance of the botanical garden.
Just like when I came before, it was a botanical garden full of green.
It’s just that I had the impression that things had changed a lot.
However, I soon realized why my impression of the Dryades Botanical Garden had changed.
What changed was not the Dryades Botanical Garden, but me.
When I first came here, it was a feeling of foreignness that I had never felt before.
At the time, I only thought that there were so many trees, but now I realized that I could now feel the essence of the Dryades Botanical Garden.
The reason I feel like I’m separated from the rest of the world, as if this is a separate world, is probably because my sense of humor has developed as I’ve grown.
So, it’s only now that I can see what a strange place this is.
All energy flows were flowing to one place and flowing out from there.
Originally, energy and mana were things that resided in all kinds of things.
It would be okay if it didn’t exist at all, but if there was even a little bit of it, it had to have those qualities.
But, it was different here.
Like a huge heart pulsating, sucking in and expelling blood.
I felt the energy being sucked in and expelled again, over and over again.
The force that circulated like that was turning this place into an alien space.
A separate world.
It made me feel like a separate law was flowing.
Maybe, and it’s not just a matter of feelings, it actually is.
‘Don’t make any promises or contracts with Ariadne.’
I remembered Lilith telling me to be careful.
‘That’s Ariad’s territory, so it’s not a problem to make a covenant with words spoken casually.’
Area.
Dryades, the territory of Ariad, the spirit of the World Tree.
“I’m scared for no reason.”
Perhaps… I thought that in the center there was a tree that I had seen before, which was the main body of Ariad and the largest of all the world trees here.
Anyway, I felt a little strange.
It felt like I was in the stomach of a huge creature. Perhaps because all I could see were trees, the feeling of disparity was even more severe.
If the energy I felt was evil or evil, it felt a bit like I would have shuddered and slapped myself.
It could be said that it was a reluctance caused by an instinctive premonition of inevitable defeat, that no matter what I did here, I should not fight with the owner of this place.
I wasn’t planning on fighting Ariad anyway, but I did it anyway.
However, apart from just feeling that way, something else bothered me a lot.
I was able to get over the feeling of heterogeneity or disconnection.
It just felt that way, but it wasn’t an unpleasant feeling.
Rather, it was a strange feeling that something like this existed.
But unlike that, this ‘gaze’ was a bit different.
At the time, I just thought there were a lot of trees, but now I know for sure.
Everyone was looking at me.
It may be a little strange to say that you are watching.
Because all around me were trees.
But, it felt exactly like that.
It felt like that tree, all the trees around me, were looking at me.
Thanks to this, I was a little scared.
Rather than feeling any ill will, it actually felt welcoming and welcome, but that made it even more burdensome.
It was like walking through the body of a huge creature, being watched and welcomed through the eyes glued to the creature’s stomach.
“Human?”
“I am human.”
“Who?”
“Customer?”
“I haven’t heard of any guests coming.”
“Then?”
“Then who?”
Anyway, I wonder how much further I walked between those trees in search of Ariad, the green-haired little kids I had seen before.
The fairies began to appear.
I don’t know what game they were playing among themselves, but when the fairies who were piling up a lot of dirt spotted me, I saw them staring at me as before and whispering to me.
Why do I feel relieved when I see those fairies?
Before, I was nervous just looking at those fairies, but it was surprising that now I felt relieved.
But I couldn’t help it.
Even though I couldn’t see anyone, I felt like I was being stared at from all over, and I guess I felt reassured when I saw fairies in human-like forms staring at me.
“Gate crasher?”
“Are you an uninvited guest?”
“Uninvited guests are bad.”
“Bad?”
“If you’re bad, you should get scolded.”
But I think the conversation between fairies is unusual.
“No, I came last time too…”
Before I could even finish speaking, I saw the tree trunks extending out and jumped back in fright, but there were fairies behind them too.
“Human, you’re fast.”
“I couldn’t tie it.”
“Then?”
“What did you do when you couldn’t tie it?”
“Then go.”
Something green appears to be rippling around the fairies.
And.
“No, fuck.”
Push shoo shoo shoo…!
Countless thorns began to pour out.
Thorns that were three or four times longer than the thorns of a large chestnut, and were too long and sharp to be called thorns, were shooting out at me at random.
I couldn’t help it.
In order to become accustomed to magic, I had wrapped myself in a rigid body that I could use on my own without the need for magic, but my current body, when the Gift was not manifesting, was at most a little stronger and faster than an ordinary human.
Even if the rigid body that I can use now is two times better, at best it is only slightly better than average.
It was impossible to avoid those thorns coming right in front of you, and it was not difficult to predict that if you got hit with your body, you would be devastated.
Therefore.
Sigh!
I put on the Heavenly Armor armor that Justitia had repaired and given me yesterday.
As I told you before, as the black armor of Cheonho wrapped around her entire body, her confidence soared.
It’s a reason for confidence, there was nothing special.
Titty teating.
I could see the thorns that the fairies were pouring down on me being blocked by the Heavenly Tiger’s armor and bouncing back.
All I had to do for the sake of vision was to block the thorns from flying to the parts of my eyes that could not be covered.
The rest will be taken care of by the sturdy armor of the Heavenly Tiger that won’t even get stuck in the slightest thorn.
Other than that.
Sigh!
“Tskcha.”
I grabbed the tree trunk that was running towards me along with the thorns and pulled it off, so it was torn off easily.
It wasn’t a particularly great attack.
I was scared because I was attacked suddenly and there were so many of them, but the tree trunks were nothing special and the shock felt through my body when I got hit by the thorns was so weak that it couldn’t be compared to when I got hit by the skull gourds.
Was it just a joke?
Because fairies are famous for loving pranks…
The scale of all of them is beyond the scope of a joke by human standards.
At this level, it might be considered a joke by fairies’ standards.
“Ah, but…”
Lilith told me not to participate in the fairies’ pranks.
I didn’t really hang out with him just to get along with him.
And soon, I knew why Lilith said that.
The fairies who were staring at me started whispering among themselves again.
“Interesting.”
“Human, have you transformed?”
“I transformed and blocked the thorns.”
“So you’re not human?”
“Aren’t you human?”
“As long as it’s not human, it’s okay.”
“Are you okay?”
“Are you okay.”
“Then.”
“Then.”
“Then, stronger.”
The fairies who were chanting more strongly were seen holding hands tightly.
Two, three, four, each fairy holding hands. Among them, there was a fairy who held hands alone in a sullen manner as there was no fairy left to hold her hand.
But apart from the strange and cute actions of the fairies, what appeared after them was not very cute.
“Ah.”
Green lights gather around the fairies. They gathered together, and eventually a huge fist appeared.
No, fists appeared.
There were so many huge lumps of mass that the tree trunks were tangled together and clumped together.
That’s a bit much.
You look sick.
“No, I’m not an uninvited guest. “I came here last time too…”
“Take this too, shapeshifting human!”
The fairies cut me off, cackling and shouting like that.
I saw the fairies looking very excited, some of them even cheering me on, telling me to cheer up.
“It’s almost night.”
I really wanted a sweet night.
While wondering what to do, she soon clenched her fist.
It wasn’t meant to be a surprise to the fairies.
Sigh…
Dragon claws forming around my fist.
Like Cheonho’s armor, black dragon claws surrounded his fist.
Still, since I didn’t really intend to fight, I didn’t even take out Wearhoney Bee’s awl, so it just looked like a big, chunky gauntlet rather than a dragon’s claw.
“I transformed again.”
“Fun!”
“Amazing!”
“Let’s see how great it is?”
“See!”
As the fairies laughed and waved their hands, their fists came out.
Really, it’s almost night.
Anyway, it was when I was trying to hit back a fist made of a huge tree trunk that was being swung at me.
“That’s it.”
Ugh, with a resounding voice, the fairies and I all stopped.
“I can’t let this go any further than that. Are you going to stop?”
Along with the voice, a tree rose up from under my feet.
“Ahhhhh!” The tree starts from my legs and grows around my whole body.
And, the tree that grew like that eventually changed into something I know well.
“It’s been a while, Hanzo?”
Ariad.
In the form of the spirit of the World Tree.
“Woohuhu… I got to see you again sooner than expected.”
It was obviously just hard wood a little while ago, but now it had changed into the very soft and soft skin of Ariad, and it felt very strange as it hugged my body.
Above all.
“Anyway… He was cute before, but now… He’s really cool, our Hanzo♡”
Her breasts seemed to be much bigger than when I saw them before. At the time, I had tried to hide them with leaves, but now they were just visible. Above the big breasts, my nipples, which were as big as my breasts, were all visible, and it was ridiculously ugly.
Anyway, upon seeing Ariad’s appearance, the fairies jumped up and hid behind trees or covered their eyes with their hands, making them calm, and he said, clenching his fists.
“Long time no see. Ariad.”
Ariad, who was much taller than me, looked at me and smiled, then looked around and opened his mouth.
“Huh? “It’s strange… I can’t feel Lilith’s energy around me. Are you by any chance alone?”
“Ah yes.”
“Oh my… So…?”
Ariad’s eyes sparkle at my words.
“You came alone today, our Hanzo…♡”
It was when I thought that Ariad, who was thrusting her big breasts at me with a ‘sigh’, was quite a burden.
“Phew,” My face was covered in milk.
The sweet scent coming from Ariad made me dizzy.
“…Hey, Ariad? “Could you please stay away for now?”
“Yes? Are you sure you don’t like it?”
It’s not that I don’t like it.
Rather, I really enjoyed having my face buried between Ariad’s soft, plump breasts. Plus, I liked the sweet scent coming from Ariad.
So, the problem was that it was too good.
Thanks to that, my cock, which was not known to be chaste, was jerking so hard and stabbing Ariad’s pussy, which was naked without a leaf or anything.
Ariad, who was hugging me tightly in front of me, was taller than me and my dick was long, so I couldn’t help it because the point where my glans was touching was Ariad’s vagina.
My fully erect cock was poking into Ariad’s pussy with a pop, pop, pop.
I knew that this wasn’t something I would do, but my conscience was pricked because I was trying to do that with my face buried in Ariad’s tits.