Chapter 43: Are you maybe impotent? (2/2)

”Well, we can only wait now.”

”Go home you two. Why are you still here?” The dryad heard them talking and coldly chased them away.

The two beasts' expressions sunk and they both left with a drooping head.

Evergreen approached the tree and placed her hand on the trunk. The wood deformed for her and she effortlessly went through. Arima stopped just in front of the tree and knocked on three times in curiosity. The wood warped and produced ripples on the barks. He then followed Evergreen and passed through.

Arima found himself in a room illuminated by a dim yellowish light. Evergreen leisurely sat down on a bamboo chair in the middle of the room. She exhaled and pointed at another chair on the side for Arima.

He quietly sat down and Evergreen poured some tea in a cup that was on a table there. She handed the cup to Arima and then poured one for herself before drinking it.

Arima's expression twitched. He was trying to oppose the awkwardness of the situation. He forced a cough, ”Can we start now?”

The dryad strangely smiled, ”Start what?” She asked and Arima's mouth twitched. She put down her cup on the table and giggled, ”I'll help you at one condition.”

Arima sighed, ”So it's like that in the end… go ahead.”

”If you let me explore your mind, I will help you,” She said and Arima knew that she was speaking seriously.

He eyed her and took a sip of tea, ”Fine, but you can't look into my memories.”

”Sure, I'm fine with that,” Evergreen nodded and the walls of the room shined along with her eyes. A spirit wave emerged, but this one wasn't as intrusive as the last one and Arima also let down his defenses.

The room fell silent for a moment. Arima sighed again and continued to drink his tea when Evergreen suddenly stared at him, ”Are you maybe impotent?”

Arima almost spat out his tea and the hand holding the cup shook. He stopped moving for a few seconds then swallowed the rest of the tea.

A vein popped on his forehead as he put down his cup, ”…Did you do that on purpose or what? You waited for me to drink that before asking or what? And for your question, it's a freaking no.”

Evergreen rested her chin on her hands, ”Are you sure? While you were alone with me here, you didn't even think about a simple and basic romantic fantasy,” She told based on the information she just got from Arima's mind.

”Do you want me to cut you? I don't need you alive if I take your life force, you know?”

Evergreen laughed at his threat, ”Anyway, that apart, as I thought, you're crazy. Your mind is a mess, how do you even keep control of it?”

”Can we go to the main point here?”

Evergreen chuckled, she waved her hand and two white spheres came out of the ground below her and one of them soared toward Arima.

”Put your hand on it and infuse your mana,” Evergreen placed her hand on the sphere and closed her eyes. Arima imitated her and circulated his mana.

When he closed his eyes, he felt as if he was looking at the entire forest from above.

”{In this state, you're directly connected to this mother tree with me as a medium,}” Evergreen's voice resounded in his head.

”{I see...}”

”{I will start by 'rallying' the whole forest. When I give you the signal, begin the mana transfer. Also, I need you to conjure a basic analyzing circle in the direction of that 'thing' you want to find. You determined the direction from where the asteroid came, right?}”

”{No problem,}” Arima answered and Evergreen immediately acted. Outside of the room, the mother tree's leaves glimmered, and like a chain reaction, every plant around began to lit up. More and more plants started to shine and this phenomenon spread around the whole beast territory.

”(It's like a giant satellite,)” Arima thought. Then, he did his part of the work and a huge blue magic circle formed in the sky above the forest and was gradually tilted toward a certain direction.

”{Now!}” Evergreen shouted and Arima started to share his mana. ”{Eh? Wait, what?! Where the heck do you keep all of that mana?!}” She was astounded by the massive amount of mana she had just gained control of.

”{Concentrate, please. I'll make sure to conceal this link so that we are not detected or at least not traced back, to avoid being threatened by another meteor.}”

”{Y-Yes,}” The dryad focused. She concentrated her spirit and propelled her consciousness out of her body. She started using Arima's mana and her mind traveled faster than the speed of light as it scanned the outer space. Every information was also transferred to Arima in real time.

He took advantage of the situation to see what kind of planets there was in this galaxy. He only discovered one more or less viable planet which was similar to Mars.

After thirty minutes of scanning, they had already left the solar system they were in and entered another.

”{We can keep up for only thirty more minutes with the mana we have left.}”

Arima didn't reply rightaway, ”{…That's enough. I already found what I wanted.}”

He probed into a planet that was around the size of the Earth and sensed a terrifying aura there.

”{This is…}” Evergreen noticed the same aura after Arima pointed it out. They then tried to look at the source of it. The image they received made them halt in shock and fear.

There was a giant humanoid monster that was lying down on the planet's surface, sleeping, using a rocky mountain as a bed. That giant was around ten kilometers tall. He had blue skin and a third eye on his forehead.

While they were viewing that monster, the latter's third eye suddenly opened wide and Evergreen's mind was instantly cut down.

She violently returned inside her physical body and coughed some blood while in contrast Arima just let out a dry cough before grinning, ”This will be more interesting than I thought.”