Chapter 288: Reborn as a Vengeful Spirit (1/2)
Chapter 288: Reborn as a Vengeful Spirit
“Arcane team? We are a team?” Lotton repeated Ayrin’s words.
“Of course!”
Ayrin didn’t consider the weight of Lotton’s words as he immediately replied, “If we are going to face dangers and fight together, then of course we are a team!”
“A team?”
Lotton repeatedly muttered under his breath.
The concept of teams and teammates was something he had never considered before.
Lotton fell into deep thought once more.
After a while, he said, “I wish to enter and obtain the Lunar Spring Essence.”
“Lunar Spring Essence?”
An expression of surprise emerged on Stingham’s face as he turned to Rinloran and asked, “Isn’t that something which belongs to the elves?”
Shock emerged on Rinloran’s face as he cried out, “There is Lunar Spring Essence within the Abyss of Evil?”
“Yes. There is Lunar Spring Essence within the Undead Bishop Tangwen’s Land of the Undead,” Lotton replied.
As always, Lotton lowered his head as he spoke, causing him to seem unconfident and weak.
“Land of the Undead?” Stingham’s eyes widened. “Just the name gives me shivers. You Evil Dragon Followers really come up with such excessive names. Why is there a Land of the Undead within the Abyss of Evil? Is there so much land that every bishop can establish their own territory?”
“The Abyss of Evil is an underground domain consisting of several levels. It is no smaller than this plain,” Lotton replied. “But I already know how to reach the Land of the Undead.”
“What? It is just as vast down there?” Stingham exclaimed as his eyes bulged in shock.
“Rinloran, what does Lunar Spring Essence do?” Ayrin asked at this moment. He knew that the Tree of Life and Lunar Spring were the two major symbols of the Elven Kingdom during the Era of the War with Dragons, but he had no knowledge of their properties.”
“The Tree of Life symbolizes health and life, whereas the Lunar Spring symbolizes purity and baptism,” Rinloran answered Ayrin. Being an elf, he was naturally very knowledgeable in regard to these two things.
“Ah.”
Ayrin nodded his head. Then he responded, “I still don’t get it.”
Stingham felt like slamming his head into the wall as he exclaimed, “If you don’t understand, why did you go ah?!”
“The Tree of Life contains the powerful energy of nature. During the Era of the War with Dragons, the roots of the Tree of Life spread throughout the entire forest of the elven kingdom. As the protectors and governors of the forest, we received the acknowledgement of the Tree of Life, allowing us to absorb some of that energy. The Tree of Life also releases an aura of vitality, providing us with stronger vitalities and allowing us to live longer. Furthermore, if a wounded elf is placed before the Tree of Life, they will receive its blessing, and the essence of life which it exudes will heal them. Thus, in the ancient elven kingdom, the Tree of Life was the symbol of health and life.”
Rinloran looked at Ayrin and then continued to slowly explain, “As for the Lunar Spring, it has a special cleansing power. Any harmful toxins, arcane energy, and even mutations, can be cleansed by its power. This is especially true for us elves, who have an innate purification ability to begin with. In the ancient elven kingdom, any elves with the bloodline of moonlight swordsmen would bathe within the spring upon awakening their bloodline to further awaken the potential hidden within them. Thus, the Lunar Spring was a symbol of purification and baptism.”
“Rinloran, don’t you have a moonlight swordsman bloodline? So does that mean if you bathed within the Lunar Spring, your talent would become even greater?” Ayrin asked.
Rinloran nodded in response.
Indeed, fragments of the Tree of Life or the essence of the now destroyed Lunar Spring were both things those with high rank elven bloodlines spent their entire lives searching for.
Ayrin nodded at Rinloran, then turned to Lotton and asked, “Lotton, why do you wish to obtain Lunar Spring Essence?”
Lotton lowered his head and didn’t respond.
Ayrin felt some lingering doubts as he observed Lotton. He couldn’t understand why Lotton, who had answered him so readily before, was now silent once more.
“Hello? If you act so secretively, how can we make a deal with you? Remember, as a team, we need to take risks together,” Stingham shouted in dissatisfaction. “Why does being teammates with you seem even harder than being teammates with freaks like Rinloran and Ayrin?!”
“Idiot!” Rinloran swore at Stingham as he heard Stingham’s words.
“You once told me about the reason arcane masters exist… for me, only by obtaining the Lunar Spring Essence can I truly live freely, and try to understand what you told me,” Lotton abruptly replied.
“This…” Ayrin and Rinloran exchanged glances as they thought of the same thing.