Chapter 8: The Treasure Tree Festival
The Treasure Tree Festival is the most important festival of the forest elves.
It has two major programs: the first day is a hunting competition, where participants hunt in a defined area, and the winner is determined according to the difficulty of the hunt; The next day is a harvest contest where the fruits are harvested in a safe area, the winners are determined according to the number of fruits, and in the evening, dishes made from the hunted game and harvested fruits are put on display, and everyone appreciates the harvest and tastes the dishes together.
Since there is a competition, there must be a prize, and the prize is provided by the king of the realm, who is nominally one of the six kings of the demon world, but in fact stays in the human world for a long time, and it is often a rare treasure in the human world, which also causes the treasure tree festival to be very lively.
What Lyle hates is "noisy", he can't accept the situation that Ah Chongxia and Yu Hu tear up every few days a hundred years ago, "lively" is different, and festivals full of laughter have always been his favorite...... Unfortunately, he couldn't take part in the more interesting hunting tournaments, and he couldn't use his magic powers, but he only had a strong body, combined with an extremely touching melee talent, and any monster could kill him.
Instead, he signed up for the harvest contest -
"The goblins who said good will flock to pick the fruit for us? Isn't this all hidden? Lyle plucked some kind of fruit similar to raspberry from the small tree next to him, didn't bother to put it in the special storage box for the game, and threw it directly into his mouth, anyway, there are bodyguards around him who are not afraid of poisoning.
The harvest contest is not a headless fly in the dense forest, a competition for speed and luck, the correct way is to show kindness to the forest goblins, let the goblins help collect the fruit, the key to victory or defeat is to fool how many goblins with impressive IQ are fooled.
Lyle thinks that with the super high level of appearance of himself, Charlo, Krom, and Ain, the champion is nine out of ten, but almost an hour has passed, and he can't even see the wings of the little goblin.
Krom shook his finger and said, "You can't have this mentality, although the little goblins are not very smart, but they are very sensitive to good intentions and malice, and even if you run into them, they will not make friends with you." β
Lyle squinted his eyes and said: "This is funny, even the forest elves living in this country will go back to their respective homes after the festival, who will really regard the tool man as a friend?" β
"Hmm...... Although I would love to criticize you, I couldn't find a point to refute it. Chrom smiled, not paying much attention to it, Lyle had never been an Asassian-type man, "And, you're not wrong, the reason why they didn't show up this time should be Charlot's problem." β
"Charlot? Aren't you maintaining cognitive obstruction magic? Lyle wondered.
Cognitive hindrance magic is not invisibility, and unless someone identifies Charo and Krom, everyone else assumes that they are "a pair of ordinary beautiful sisters".
"It's maintained, it's just ......" Krom glanced at Xia Luo who was following behind, and slowly shook his head, "The creator god is the creator god after all, even if she is only unconscious, her mental changes will affect the world around her, and the goblin is the most perceptive creature in the human world, so naturally she can hide as far as she goes." β
The "............" party did not react, although she was usually a little dumbfounded, but this time she was really absent-minded and did not hear the conversation between the two at all.
Krom didn't intend to involve Charo in the conversation, and continued: "By the way, I'm not relieved either, but there are more important people to take care of in front of me, and I may not be much better than Charlo when you sleep." β
Thinking about natural abilities is not only a matter of the growth of combat power, but also involves the essence of their existence.
Chrom is a little better, she is a special individual created by Charlotte when she intended to kill herself, but Charlot's creation god is [why was born], [why does he have the power of creation], [why did he create such a world], that is a difficult question that will make people want to break their heads.
"Well, the answer I want doesn't seem to be the same thing as your troubles at this time." Lyle said with a smile, what he wanted to know was why Boundary Breaker C was able to become so strong in a state of 'not seeking to understand', and he had already figured out the rest.
Krom clasped his hands on his chest, turned his head, and said, "Anyway, you caused our troubles. β
"Yes, yes~" Although this remark was very unreasonable, Krom didn't give Lyle a look, and it sounded more like coquettishness, "If you need to calm down and think about philosophical issues, there's no need to take care of me personally, isn't there Ain?" β
Ain is strong.
Even if Lyle's perception is not as good as that of a goblin at this time, his eyes can still see, and he can see the appearance of this petite maid completing her work in seconds, and he doesn't think that regular enemies in the wizarding world such as bandits, nobles, and large monsters can survive in front of her for a second.
"I'm naturally relieved that Ain is doing things." This sentence was just to take care of the maid's mood, and Krom smiled bitterly, "The problem is that the people who are eyeing you are more prickly, and I don't want to hurt them." β
The point is not to hurt anyone.
The Three Main Gods and the Five Kings of the Demon Realm, even if they are not called 'friends', were the closest to her and Charo in all respects before Lyle's arrival.
Lyle was surprised: "Oh my God! I thought that the gods and demons in this world were all virgins, but I didn't expect that there were still people of insight who planned to take advantage of my illness to kill me~! β
ββ¦β¦ Also, your personality is a big problem. "Krom rubbed his temples, Lyle is not obedient, and capable as Ain may not be able to protect him under the potential threats of the Phantom King, the Dragon King, the War King, and the Temporal God," Anyway, I have received an application from Lilywood for a meeting yesterday, since the harvest competition is hopeless, let's go directly." β
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Walking to the depths of the forest, from a wide and easy-to-walk road to a barren beast path, I don't know when, Xia Luo and the three disappeared, probably staying at a distance that does not disturb the meeting but eavesdropping on the whole process, once the other party has a bad idea, he can stop it as soon as possible.
After walking for about ten minutes, Lyle came to a treeβin the middle of the trunk, there was a beautiful green-haired woman in a leaf suit covering three points, with a lot of skin exposed, and amazing breasts, buried there, her limbs fused with the tree.
The beauty in the tree opened her eyes, her eyes were as beautiful as jadeite green, and she looked at Lyle quietly for a while before saying, "When we first met, my name was Lilywood, and I was known as the 'King of the World' in the Demon Realm...... A strong man from another world. β
"I'm Lyle, a wounded man who needs to be protected." Lyle shrugged, "I won't ask why the 'Realm King' of the Demon Realm looks like the backer of the Forest Elves of the Human Realm, what is the purpose of asking to meet me?" β