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Chapter 345: Forest Ranger

There was a crackling sound of a branch breaking nearby, and Lilith glanced and saw a figure flash by.

She immediately came back to her senses from the impact of the beautiful face and broke out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, she didn't subconsciously nod in agreement, because the elves were still watching her in the dark.

"That won't do, Lariel!" Lilith said righteously, as if she was taking an oath, "You belong to the forest, how can you run outside? The Gaia Empire is not safe at all."

"……oh."

Lariel was very disappointed. He jumped onto the tree in a huff, putting some distance between himself and Lilith. The two of them changed from being one in front and one behind to one above and one below.

He walked on the tree as if it were the ground, and Lilith watched it as if it were an acrobatic show, enjoying it very much.

"That's amazing, Lyriel." Lilith couldn't help but praise the elf when he easily jumped over two trees that were far apart.

"What's the big deal? This is just the most basic skill of a forest ranger." Lariel spoke modestly but shook his head proudly.

"Sooner or later, I will become a ranger like Captain Aphra." The young elf had no idea that he was leaking information about the Elf Forest.

It seems that the Forest Ranger is the guardian of this Pathless Forest - Lilith guessed, and then asked, "Why do you want to do this?"

"Need I say more? This is the closest place to the outside world!" When Lyrael said this, his eyes lit up again. "They always encounter new people and things, and all the new stories come from the rangers."

...Your idea is very dangerous, young man—Lilith complained in her heart.

"The world outside is not as interesting as you think. We also have to go to school." Lilith thought it would be better to give up his idea.

Going to school was indeed extremely destructive to this kind of school-averse teenager, and the light immediately faded in Lariel's eyes.

Lilith watched him move flexibly among the trees, so she climbed up a tree and took a few steps like him.

"Wow, you're pretty good!" Lariel's attention was attracted again.

"No match for you elves." Lilith managed to stand firm. "Just now they disappeared in a flash. How did they do that?"

"You can't learn it, it's elf magic!" Lariel was very proud, but he seemed to feel that his words were a bit arrogant, so he kindly added, "But I can teach you the principle."

"Really..." Lilith slowly raised her lips, "Tell me about it."

"It's a tree!" Lyrael said bluntly.

Lilith kept an eye on her surroundings, and the elves who were secretly watching her did not come out to stop her.

"I don't understand what you mean." Lilith felt relieved and asked seriously.

"We are the people of the tree, Lilith. Logically... you should be too." Lariel looked back at the round-eared human.

"That tree?" Lilith pointed at the huge golden canopy in the sky.

"That's right." Lyrael continued to move forward from the tree.

"The Mother Goddess sat on a green hill and sang about all things in the world. Her compassionate tears moistened the soil beneath her feet. In her songs and tears, branches sprouted from her body and became a giant tree that supported the world. We were born under this giant tree, and the happy years of the Elf Forest began from then on."

Lariel spoke the Common Tongue with the same ancient accent as the elves before him, and told stories as if they were poems, and Lilith listened with great interest.

"…We are just trees that can walk, but our roots are still closely connected to them." Lyriel continued, placing his hand on the thick tree trunk next to him. "If you can feel it, you will know that although they seem to exist independently, their roots have been entangled with each other for hundreds of years. They are all one."

"This is the power of nature. When our perception of the wood element reaches the level of communicating and cooperating with it, we can use their power to build a transmission channel." He carefully recalled the knowledge learned in class, stroking the moist bark in his hands.

"Did you feel it? Oh, you definitely didn't..." After saying this, Lariel denied it himself. He himself couldn't reach that level yet, so he used the dumbest way to approach today, and sure enough, he was discovered.

“—I feel it.”

However, the girl on the opposite tree touched the tree and whispered.

Her mental power was like tentacles, reaching into the big tree in front of her, following the veins that transported water through the tree species and going deeper into the ground.

It was not easy at first. She could feel the stagnation in the advancement of her mental power, like silk sliding across rough wooden stakes, constantly being scratched and pulled. But when she endured the discomfort and forced herself to move towards the roots, her mind exploded like fireworks.

There is... another vast world.

Countless roots are intertwined and entangled with each other. They are thick and powerful, spreading everywhere, constantly expanding the range of absorbing nutrients and water. They allow independent trees to connect and support each other invisibly underground, as if the forest is "holding hands" underground through the roots, weaving a mysterious and huge underground network.

Some fragmented, meaningless mumblings were heard, and she instinctively realized that it was the communication between trees, mysterious, complex, and cheerful, which made her lip curl even though she didn't understand it.

Lariel only saw a mysterious smile on the face of the human girl in front of him, and she also placed her other hand on the tree trunk.

The next second, she disappeared.

"——Huh?" Lyriel was stunned for two seconds before he uttered a stupid sound.

"Ah, I seem to have succeeded." Lilith's voice sounded in surprise not far away, and she actually appeared under a tree in front.

However, what was waiting for her was not a reward. Instead, a sharp dagger was pressed against her throat. She cautiously half turned her head and met a pair of vigilant eyes.

The leaves rustled as Lyriel ran over. The elf boy was about to speak when he was shouted back by the man holding a dagger in front of him.

"Go back! Lyrael! Go back to school!"

"How is this possible?" Lariel looked at Lilith, who had mastered the ranger's abilities, in shock, but before he could say anything, another ranger grabbed his arm and took him away.

"——What on earth are you?"

It was those forest rangers again. They were indeed following them in the dark.