Chapter 768 : Unexpected
imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
The Forest of Dreams had indeed changed quite a bit compared to 10 years ago. Still, these changes wouldn’t be that evident without careful observation.
The Forest of Dreams was a living forest with its own will. Or, perhaps the Forest of Dreams was more accurately described as a part of Amelia herself… She was constantly expanding her own domain. Maybe those within the forest wouldn’t feel anything, but if there was a satellite providing a bird’s-eye view, then one would discover that the Forest of Dreams was increasing its area every year at a rate of more than 30%. Over the past 10 years, the Forest of Dreams had secretly multiplied its area by more than 10 times.
Apart from the Forest of Dreams’ natural expansion, the wood spirits were also working hard to expand their forest, or maybe it should be called their territory. This was one of the wood spirits’ most important tasks over the past few years.
The wood spirits started out by hiring adventurers to fight with them against the undead and help them plant seeds around the forest to expand the Forest of Dreams’ territory. This kept repeating over the years.
As time passed, all of the newly planted forests became connected, which naturally multiplied the Forest of Dreams’ area many times over.
A greater area would also represent more power of nature. This also represented that even more souls would enter the Forest of Dreams’ natural cycle. The wood spirit population was increasing explosively. Amelia’s personal power level would also explosively increase with all of this.
Amelia was the will of the entire Forest of Dreams. It could be said that the entire forest was a part of her physical body, and that every single wood spirit was her child and an embodiment of herself. The current Amelia now seemed quite gentle and low profile in comparison to her past extreme self, which only made me feel like she was even scarier and more inscrutable than before.
“It’s likely that she’s already reached the level of being a so-called Main God.”
I was quite confident of this. Just from the fact that the wood spirits’ products were becoming ever more inconceivable, I started viewing Amelia as a new Nature God or Life God right from the time that the wood spirits created the Dusk Fruit which was something that encompassed the secrets of life.
The Mother Earth Goddess was the only Nature God who had ever reached Main God level, but she had long since lost her own will. It was rather doubtful whether she should even still be classified as a Nature God.
Basically, the Mother Earth Goddess couldn’t be counted on to help the other Nature Gods if the Nature Faction was endangered.
It was a fact that there were many Nature Gods, who ranged from moderates to extremists. Still, none of the Nature Gods were the type who wanted to conquer the world.
Of course, the Nature Gods were far too ancient, so they had many worshippers in the mortal plane. All druids and nature mages could be categorized into the Nature Faction. The Nature Faction’s only obvious weakness was that they had always lacked the highest-level combat strength—a Main God to lead them.
Previously, the Nature Faction had been trying to make friendly entreaties towards Amelia to recruit her as a way of strengthening themselves. However, the Nature Gods then started to faintly keep their distance from Amelia after she showed off her newest creation.“As expected, having an absolutely safe base is truly enjoyable…”
“Bad news! The frontlines have been broken through!”
When I heard that surprising shout, my first reaction was that this was impossible and that there must have been a traitor, and my second reaction was that there really was no end to my jinxing ability. Maybe I should shut myself up permanently by wearing a metal gag?
“Or, if I look at this from a different standpoint, this is actually a karmic weapon. In the future, I’ll curse all my enemies… no, praise them…”
The common sense that everyone knew was that the Forest of Dreams was impossible to conquer. Yet, the current events proved that the impossible was indeed happening.
The newest trees on the outskirts of the Forest of Dreams were now withering and dying in large patches. The entire Forest of Dreams was beginning to shake slightly as if it was a living creature that was in pain.
There was only one possible explanation for this.
“Something happened to Amelia? Who could possibly injure her?”magic
My astonishment was real. My knowledge of Amelia was that she was currently one of the strongest existences in the entire world. Her nature and life magic attack power wasn’t that strong, but it would be highly difficult to counter. Her plants also had rather unique living souls. None of my four magic swords would be suitable for fighting against plants which were filled with life. On top of that, Amelia was incredibly powerful at both magic and melee combat. I truly wouldn’t know how to deal with her if she got into close range of me.
But before I could recover from my astonishment, the loli Rosa of the Seven Virtues arrived behind me.
“Father, Mother was beaten up by Uncle. Mother wants you to take revenge for her.”
I was utterly confused by this. Just what did this even mean?
Uncle? Did that mean my brother? So, Karwenz?
Wasn’t he busy trying to hunt down the Chaos Girls? Why would he come fight Amelia, who was obviously incredibly difficult to deal with? Wait a moment, there was one explanation that would cause everything to make sense…
“Amelia is also a Chaos Girl?”