Chapter 103 (1/2)

Erwin took Luke outside the village to a field.

Luke was bewildered why he was asked to move and was much more surprised to see that the crops and grass were blooming under his feet slowly.

“This is…!”

“It is only happening around you. I think that it is because of the thing that is there near your heart.”

At those words, Luke had pulled out the guardian pendant Reina had given him.

It wasn’t the huge amount that Erwin had felt in the fight. However, there was some unknown energy coming from the guardian pendant.

“Where did you get that?”

“… Someone gave this to me as I was going to do my military service.”

There was a reason why Luke wasn’t giving out the full details.

The dark elves, who had come to kidnap Reina, crossed his mind.

He wasn’t sure if they were involved with Erwin, but he had no intention of letting her know that Reina had some kind of power in her.

“Can’t you let me know who has given this to you?”

“Just a resident of the estate. An inheritance from someone in my close circle of friends.”

‘He is lying.’ Erwin thought.

Erwin noticed Luke’s off behavior at once. She wasn’t as great as her teacher, but she could read minds a little bit.

However, she fully understood Luke’s position.

It would be completely natural for Luke to be wary of someone asking him about the source of a power that he himself didn’t know.

“Can I see what is in it?” Asked Erwin.

“…”

“Please. I have no other intention. I just want to help the fairies of the village.”

At those words, Luke opened the metal box and showed Reina’s hair which was in it.

Erwin, who looked carefully at the hair, pulled out one of the strands.

Wheeeing?!

Erwin focused all the magic into the hair that was between her fingers.

When stimulated by the mana wave, mysterious energy began to arise from the hair.

It was like witnessing the world tree which had been mentioned in the myths. It was grand.

The World Tree, firmly rooted in the earth and reaching up to the heavens, which had conceived numerous kinds of lives.

Starting with an unnamed flower to small worms and bugs, there were unicorn-like beasts and spirits which were told to be legends, even the vicious dragons, and the ugly demons. And then came the fairies and humans.

“Look here, are you okay?” Asked Luke.

“Ah…!”

Erwin came back to reality at Luke’s call.

“Some weird energy came out,” said Luke.

“You must have felt it too. Perhaps it has the power of the World when everything was one. And that too isn’t just a portion of it.”

“When the world was one?” Asked Luke.

“Pangea. When the Celestial World, Spirit world, the Devildom and the Middle World (Earth) weren’t divided or disconnected,” Answered Erwin.

Luke was unable to close his mouth as he heard of it. What Erwin just told him was the old myths and stories he had been told.

‘Then the power that Reina has is from that old times?’ Luke thought.

Not knowing that Luke was in his own line of thoughts, Erwin explained a little more.

“It is very little, but I think that it can save some of the lands around this village.”

“Do you know how to do that?” Asked Luke.

Erwin nodded and pulled out the necessary materials from her subspace ring.

In a small mortar, she put in a metal, a crystal, coal from the ancient tree which had hardened like a stone, and some reagents were added to it, followed by the hair strand of Reina.

“There used to be a special treasure in the past. The people wanted it but couldn’t find it… It was called The Earth’s Tears.”

‘The Earth’s Tears, huh…’ Thought Luke.

It seemed like a word that he had heard once before.

Erenes, who had met Saymon, in the past had mentioned it.

However, Saymon wasn’t interested in it at that time, so Luke couldn’t remember what it did or what it was.

“Since I couldn’t find it, I believed that I could make it. It wasn’t successful, but there was a surprising by-product,” said Erwin.

“Are you talking about the artificial Magic Stones?” Asked Luke

“Yes, it was an unexpected result, but I thought that it could change the world. It was the greatest mistake.”

Erwin had a bitter smile when talking about it.

Before the artificial magic stone came out, each country was devoted to mining to find the stones.

The mining didn’t just change the country and its territories but the lands of the fairies too, not to mention the serious destruction of nature that happened in the process.

Which was why Erwin was determined to avoid the destruction of her world by making the artificial magic stone. She wanted to spread the technique to make them several Magic towers.

And just as she hoped, humans weren’t so hung up on mining after that.

However, the destruction of nature was much severe than before. Instead of a natural magic stone, the artificial ones needed a number of materials.

Knowing that there was something that could replace the Magic Stone which was hard to get, it resulted in a significant rise of material needed.

The world had definitely changed.

However, it wasn’t in the way Erwin had wanted.

Which was why she stayed with her teacher for a while.

It wasn’t like she performed the experiment behind her teacher’s back.

She continued to study the materials that could contain or manipulate the mana or the mana waves.

And because of that, she gained the knowledge on how to save Zenith village.

Hwarkk!

Magic flames soared in the mortar.

Erwin began to mobilize her magic.