Chapter 519: Weeping Willows Request (1/2)

That night, Zero had a lot of thinking to do. With Sylvia working on preparing the offering for a ritual, Zero tried to find more information about Baku or dream eating monsters but nothing showed up. Merlin was also very interested when he heard about such a strange creature but couldn't be of more help to Zero seeing as there were no records of it in his library.

Thankfully, Gaia came back with news from the Weeping Willow.

”She said that she was willing to help on a condition...”

”What condition?”

The Great Goddess hesitated. It wasn't easy to talk to the Tree of the Future because she was in such a distraught state. Unlike the Tree of Life and her spriggan Axel who had a very close bond or the Tree of Knowledge and Ouroboros who was a very responsible guardian, Alex was probably the worst spriggan to exist.

”It's a rather complicated situation,” Gaia sighed. ”I'll try to make it simple for you. The Weeping Willow's spriggan, Axel, is very much into elven women and not in a healthy way. He neglects the Weeping Willow a lot and now she's complaining that her flowers and leaves are going to fall bare from stress if this goes on. I've seen it happen, her leaves were yellowing when I saw her on her home planet. Her spriggan is still partying on Earth in Altear. She can give us a flower but she wants you to chase all the elven women away from Alex. Better still, she wants him to stop flirting with any females.”

Zero sighed. Indeed, this was quite a domestic problem. As an outsider, he was slightly embarrassed to hear it but he agreed anyway. For now, creating the Tree of Fertility was more important. As for the womanising problem that Alex has, he would find out more from Axel at a later part.

”Understood. Please tell the Weeping Willow not to worry, I will come up with a solution for her spriggan's womanising tendencies. It could be a mental illness, I would have to make a visit in person to find out more. Please thank her on my behalf as well for the cooperation, it must not have been easy for her all these years.”

Gaia felt that Zero had become a very reliable leader after his travels. He was now able to make decisions confidently and she looked forward to seeing what else he could do. For now, she left to relay his message while Zero continued to look into any information he could find about Baku.

Like Zero, Jynx and Sylvia didn't sleep. Truen was returning with Bob tomorrow and there were many things to be done.

The preparation for the purification ritual was almost complete but the location wasn't perfect. Zero needed a clean room but due to the severe neglect, there wasn't a ready space available in Sylvia's tower.