"What are you talking about?"

Paimon was confused.

Jiang Bai told Nahida about it.

"I see, that's a real coincidence."

After Nahida filled the void of the mushroom's elemental power, it quickly woke up.

"The king of grass, the king of grass!"

This planktonic mushroom was apparently quite special, not only recognizing Nahida, but also being able to speak.

Nahida wasn't surprised by the elemental being's talk.

Words are just an ability to communicate in life.

Plants and trees have words between plants and trees, and animals have words between animals, but no one can understand these words.

"What exactly are you? Where did it come from? ”

"I come from a very old race, and we've been around for a long time, probably longer than all the records......"

The experience of this elemental life is not complicated.

Their people, their homeland, suffered an apocalyptic destruction. The terrible power devoured all the seeds of calamity that sprouted in their bodies, causing them to gradually twist and lose control.

It survived and left its home with some of its family members to find a way to save it.

Over the course of its long journey, it has come to understand that the power of the end of the world is what humanity calls forbidden knowledge.

"Sure enough, it's forbidden knowledge, it seems that our thinking is not wrong."

I don't know if this is a problem left over from the past, or something else......

"But the catastrophe caused by forbidden knowledge should be over."

"Yes, I can feel that the pollution has been removed, and at the same time, it has taken away some of my knowledge and memory. I can't remember where my hometown is. ”

For them, it is their long-cherished wish to save their homeland, but they have forgotten where their home is.

Nahida cared about it, and her feelings told her that these lives were tied to the important things she couldn't remember.

She decided to find her elemental companions, find their homeland, and take them home with her.

I have to say that the little auspicious grass king is a very kind god, and this kindness is not a bad thing, but it will also bring him a lot of unnecessary burdens.

Although these were only elemental beings, to her, they were no different from humans.

All lives are equal, and there is no distinction between high and low.

There are not many of these elemental beings, but most of them have died and turned into dead tumors after a long period of painful torture.

After the Death Desire is removed, the elemental life will collect the elemental power of its companions, so that it can take them home with them.

It is a people who have suffered, and most of them have lived a long life, from the ancient past to the present.

Little by little, they adapt to life outside their home, like plants, little by little, little by little, little by little.

Growth may not lead to anything, but growth itself is already the best gift of all.

Thankfully, you didn't gain anything along the way, and in the mouth of a living elemental being, Nahida finally grasped the vague line.

"Grass Dragon!"

"It turned out to be the Dragon of Grass!"

"Wait? The dragon of grass? What does all this have to do with the Grass Dragon? Jiang Bai didn't know why.

"Apep, the dragon of grass, has survived from the original to the present generation of dragon kings." Nahida answered the trio's questions.

The floating mushroom, which finally knew where its home was, happily incited its two little hands like leaves.

"Within the body of the Grass Dragon there is another world that gives birth to us and protects us in it......"

"Wait. If that's the case, isn't that tantamount to saying that Apep is also tainted by "forbidden knowledge"?" Nahida suddenly realized the gravity of the matter.

"What if he gets contaminated?"

Jiang Bai thought of Dvalin.

Dvalin is not polluted by economic knowledge, but it was once polluted by the abyss.

In its 500 years of slumber, it has been tormented by pain and devastation of spirit and soul.

And the grass dragon Apep was directly polluted by forbidden knowledge, and the pain was probably even worse.

"Apep is the most adaptable creature in the world, and 'forbidden knowledge' must have been a part of its body long ago. Then, to remove all "forbidden knowledge" will make it create a huge void ......"

Nahida's tone was unusually heavy, and although she and Apep were friends and foes, she didn't want to see her former suffer.

"Its body and soul should have been damaged a long time ago."

"No wonder I haven't seen Apep for a long time, how on earth was it polluted because of the destruction of the Red King civilization?"

Nahida was annoyed that she hadn't thought of Apep all along.

Jiang Bai dragged his chin and fell into deep thought, "Perhaps, it was that [miracle]?" ”

He remembered that when the Forbidden Knowledge Pollution first broke out, the Red King gave his life, and the Great Mercy Tree King contributed most of his strength, and his body changed into a child.

But even so, the outbreak of forbidden knowledge was called a "miracle."

Perhaps, that "miracle" is directly related to the grass dragon Apepe.

Otherwise it is difficult to imagine how it can be tainted with forbidden knowledge.

"Quite possibly. But now is not the time to dwell on the cause. If the grass dragon can't hold on, the elemental power will not be able to continue to remain in its body in the form of life, and will all escape.

"That concentration of grass is going to overgrow the rainforest. Tall trees completely block out the sun, plants and humans steal the air, and the whole of Sumeru will no longer be fit to live......"

The more Nahida spoke, the more flustered she became, and her whole body became restless.

She actually forgot such an important thing!

"Calm down, you're the key to everything, and if you're in a mess, then we don't know what to do. And it wasn't a matter of a day or two that Apep was contaminated, and there was no point in messing around until a way was found on how to save him. ”

Nahida took a deep breath to calm herself.

"You're right."

That crystal is undoubtedly the key to saving Apepe, but the question is how to use it?

The only way to know this answer is to continue to look for the creatures of this race.

However, perhaps the crystals are too closely related to forbidden knowledge, and they, like themselves, have been disturbed in their memories.

If you keep looking, it will only be the same result.

Things seem to be back to a dead end all of a sudden.

Jiang Bai felt that since the Great Cishu King had left this crystal early, it was impossible not to think of all this.

So, there must be a way to break the game.

"Is there anything that can't be affected by the power of the World Tree?"

(End of chapter)