readx;?“ So that's it...... You're such a good boy who is frank and honest. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Suddenly he chuckled softly. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Linya. ”

"I'm glad to meet you, senior treeman, too. Actually, this is the first time I've seen a talking tree man like you, you must be very old, right?" asked Linya as she looked up at the huge canopy of the big mangrove tree, and then she suddenly thought of something, and then she screamed in fright. "Ahh

"What's the matter, kid?" asked the old mangrove man strangely.

"You...... Did you see it all last night?" asked Linya, shrunk her head, blushed, and folded her arms around her chest, embarrassed.

Yesterday evening, when the team arrived at the oasis, Linya hid in the woods and took a shower, and she had only two underwear left...... Oh my God! Linya covered her face and almost collapsed. Oh my God, these trees are alive!

Fortunately, because Suzanne had to guard herself around, she had to take a bath by herself, and she didn't strip off all of them because of shyness or something, otherwise she would have lost a lot! But even so, she was at a loss!

Linya suddenly wondered if she should summon a magical fire and burn these abominable treants to ashes......? Well, just kidding. How is that possible?

"See what?" asked the old mangrove man in an inexplicable tone.

It doesn't look like it's contrived, or lying or something. Linya felt a little better at this time, and legend has it that this kind of tree man is usually in a sleeping state most of the time, I hope so...... She quickly changed the subject and said, "No, nothing. Well, senior treant, how old are you?"

"Well...... In fact, I have lived through 500 springs, summers, autumns and winters. Alas...... I still remember listening to my elders when I was a child...... Once upon a time, this whole island was full of dense forests, fertile land, abundant rain, flowing rivers, flowers everywhere, and countless insects, birds, and animals...... But with the arrival of these evil dwarves, that good time is over, and all good life is over. They began to cut down forests in a frenzy, killing our compatriots, even the young saplings that had just sprouted!

"Ever since I first came to my senses, I can remember that we treants have had three major wars with the dwarves, and hundreds of smaller battles. Although we are stubborn and want to resist, they have sharper weapons...... Most of the time, it ended in our failure. Our forests are getting smaller, the trees are fewer, the land is becoming more and more barren, the rivers are finally cut off, the sun is scorching the earth, and the wind and sand are obscuring the fields...... We can only pray to the gods of nature for help, and the gods of nature have finally punished these evil dwarves with the severest punishment, turning the entire island into a desert and bringing the once thriving kingdom of dwarves to the brink of collapse.

"Those evil dwarves have finally received retribution, but our race is also on the verge of extinction...... I used to be the youngest tree man here, but now I'm the oldest...... Most of my kind spend their lives in deep sleep, and there are fewer and fewer new treants who are able to awaken consciousness. There are fewer and fewer forest guardians on this island...... This time we were lucky enough to have escaped because of your presence, but who knows if the next time, or if it will be tomorrow, another dwarf will come and kill us......?" said the old mangrove man, tears of sadness in his eyes.

Looking at the way it looks, it must have been a long time since I had spoken to anyone, so I guess I had talked to it like this. Linya has been standing quietly beside it, quietly listening to its words, and feeling so heavy. When humans and dwarves frantically cut down forests, destroy the environment, and destroy the ecology for their own interests, have they ever thought about the feelings of others, have they ever thought about their own future?

For a moment, Linya didn't know what to say. "I'm sorry, Mangrove-senpai. ”

"No, kid, it's not your fault. It's all those damn dwarves!" Old Man Mangrove sighed. "They hurt us, they killed themselves, and in the end no one could win. Alas, it's useless to say this. Little Linya, my children and I are really grateful for your help, and your kindness has also made me understand that you are a really good person, completely different from those dwarves and humans. As a token of appreciation, please accept this small gift. As he spoke, the old man said as one of the branches on the trunk turned into an arm and bent over, and there was a small red fruit on the branch.

"Little Linya, you are a friend of our tree people, please bring this fruit. You are a magician, right?I feel the powerful magic power from the sound of your piano, I have nothing to thank you, this magic fruit is condensed by me with the natural magic essence accumulated over many years of cultivation, and bringing it can enhance your natural magic power. The old man said seriously.

In fact, she stopped the dwarves from cutting down the trees out of some instinct, but she didn't expect that the result would be really good people have good rewards. She hurriedly stepped forward, carefully took the magic fruit, bowed her head and said, "Thank you so much, Mangrove Senpai." ”

"Please don't say that, Linya. We also want to have more friends instead of enemies who destroy each other. Just like those elves who love nature, we are also willing to work with them to protect this beautiful nature. The old man said sincerely.

I was able to make a true friend again, and Linya was of course very happy. Holding the fruit in her hand, she immediately felt the comfortable feeling of the gentle magic of nature slowly melting into her body. That's right...... Linya thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "Mangrove senior, I heard Elf Sister Mimiyuria say that there is a very interesting growth technique in nature magic, which can quickly grow plants, do you understand?"

"Growth??This kind of basic natural magic may never be used by you humans, but it is a basic spell that must be learned for elven mages and green leaf priests. If you want to learn it, I'll be happy to teach it to you, it's very simple. The old mangrove man said happily when he saw that Linya would actually be interested in this kind of spell.

After three minutes, Linya had mastered the use of this growth technique, and then the old mangrove gave her another mangrove seed, and Linya improvised to run to the open space by the lake to bury the seed in the soil, and then brought water from the lake and poured it on the seed. After making preparations, Linya closed her eyes and took a deep breath, concentrating on summoning a wave of fourth-level wood elemental spirits as best she could, and then activated the growth technique.

When she opened her eyes again, Linya saw something incredible to her. She saw with her own eyes how a mangrove seed sprouted in just a few minutes, burrowed out of the soil, grew dry branches, bloomed green leaves, and then grew up little by little, at a speed visible to the naked eye. When the magic finally ended, the little mangrove tree had grown to more than three meters tall, and it was a thriving scene, like a depressed tree in winter?

It's incredible!"Wow, it's really grown into a little tree!" Linya couldn't help but clap her hands excitedly. Magic is indeed magical and interesting things, and to be honest, Linya has always preferred those fun spells to those used to fight and kill.

The old mangrove trees on the side were completely stunned. In less than ten minutes, hundreds or thousands of years to the tree man, this is just a blink of an eye, and the human in front of him actually used magic to grow a small adult tree!

Looking at the happy and happy appearance of this little human girl from the bottom of her heart, the old mangrove couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"Thank you, senior treeman. Thank you so much for the gift and the fun magic you taught me. It's a pity that it's time for me to go, and I'll come back to see you next time I have the chance. Linya bowed and prepared to say goodbye.

"Wait a minute, ......child," the old mangrove called to her, "I have another interesting magic, a magic that can summon trees to become treants, I wonder if you want to learn it?"

"Well, of course, of course I do! Thank you, senior treeman!" Linya said happily.

By sunrise, the team of human maiden magicians and dwarves had left the oasis.

The old mangrove looked at the newborn little mangrove that the human magician girl had spawned with the growth technique, and his mood was still calm. There were a lot of things it hadn't told the girl, such as the magic seed it had given her that stored its memories, and she could use it to summon any nearby treemen, and the Treemen, who had always been grateful, would do their best to help her, as long as they didn't hurt the forest again, the treemen would be willing to do it.

It didn't tell her that not every tree can have self-awareness, most of them, their consciousness will sleep for a lifetime until they die, and it is only the survival instinct that sustains their life, and the tree people who can awaken self-awareness, memory and thinking ability are only one in ten thousand.

Magically summoned treants are not self-aware, they only obey the summoner's orders - for this reason, in order to prevent their own kind from being driven to do bad things by people with ulterior motives, they never teach the magic of summoning treants to any intelligent beings other than the treants, except for Arundel Federra, of course, but that is the decision of the god of nature. But for some reason, today it decided to do it on its own initiative.

It certainly wouldn't defy the metaphor of Sucerus, the god of nature, but this time, it had a reason. And it's not just because it's a kind human being, a human who can be a friend of the tree.

A large tree next to it moved, and it opened its eyes and asked carefully, "Lord Prophet, what's wrong with you? Those dwarves are gone, is it time to re-set up the shielding circle?"

Old Mangrove nodded. "This time is really lucky, otherwise we and these little trees would really all die here, and the last treant tribe of the entire Forgotten Isle would have disappeared completely...... Maybe that's better...... Why should we continue to suffer this painful torment...... But I suddenly understood again, kid. A new era may be coming...... The time of God may be coming back!"

"The age of the gods?" asked a few other treants as they leaned over, confused.

"Yes...... The Age of God. Since the end of the previous age of God, our calamities and tragedies have been going on for millennia. And now, the world in front of us is already terrible for us, and it couldn't be worse. Since there is no future more terrifying than reality, why don't we look forward to a better future with confidence?"

"But...... Where has any god returned?" sighed helplessly to the treeman on the side, "and this is the territory of the god of the earth, and the god of nature who guards us cannot help us. ”

"That's not the point, kids. ...... I already had a premonition of God's coming, and there were at least five gods and God's apostles who had come to this little forgotten island this time. ”