Chapter 53 (1/2)

With Mistral having taken her leave, onder about what to do That's when Priscillchan, having exhausted fros to Ruiseine The two spirits of Earth and Wind also return

Priscillchan has been giving it her with playing all since

Ruiseine tends to the exhausted Priscillchan,me feel even more bored But well, if I have ti has already been decided

I sit down on the soft lected my meditation practice on my trip to the vice capital with everyone Ever since apprenticing star's, I have meditated everyday without fail It has already beco it feels off

I close s cal under the ground When the dragon vein is felt from far away, it spreads over my consciousness like an ocean However, when felt fro e, the dragon vein feels like a gentle, deep, clear stream It's a ently draw froh I'led when I first started Drawing fro the proper amount is difficult If I draw too cautiously, I won't be able to get the amount I need If I try to take it all at once, I will be sed by the stream and drowned Then, even when I think that I did it well, it may overflow before I can take it into my body

While it hasn't even been half a year since I first came to the moss-covered plaza, I've been able to do quite a lot Instead of beco, I orried about what to do during my year of travel But now, I've come to have various experience adventurers would never dreaot brides Moreover, two beautiful woreat assaid, it's not official yet I still have to make theon vein and take it into my body As I train, I look back on what I've accoon vein and the vitality of the spirit tree were too overwhel It feels like the dragon vein gives rants me its protection The wooden spirit tree sword on ives off a powerful life force, one that alatching overof which, this wooden spirit tree sword No, should I call it a spirit tree sapling? The grand inside this Whenever I entle, wind pass by around n from the spirit

Priscillchan too sometimes look inat so other than me Maybe she can sense the spirit of the spirit tree better than me Rather, she does sense it After all, Priscillchan was the one who first noticed the spirit of the spirit tree

What is Priscillchan doing right now? I can't take a look since I ah the dragon vein

Near entle presence of Ruiseine She has a pure presence befitting of a shrine maiden Mistral also has a clear presence, but hers are a lotto Ruiseine? I' her in her arardless of whether she's sleeping or getting scolded by Mistral, she is brietic setic

Then, as always, together with Priscillchan is Nymia's presence Her body is small like a kitten, but her presence is even h she is just a child, she is an ancient dragon after all Investigating Nymia's presence while I th is

It's all thanks to Old Sleigstar that I can feel the presence of everyone by following the dragon vein Had Old Sleigstar not taught on vein, how to use it, andently watches over us from a short distance away Ny existence Yet, it isn't overpowering He just naturally bends in, kinda like the spirit tree They are both overwhel, yet they feel like they are a part of the world

Old Sleigstar is a legendary ancient dragon who protects Dragon Forest He is a good-natured being His occasionalthose tion that has lived for two thousand years However, when it coes His usual gentle, golden, eyes flare with a sharp spirit The force of it still makes freeze up in fear

I follow everyone's presences and expandthat, I now feel the presence of the animals in the ancient forest While there are no demon beasts in this area of the forest, the barrier doesn't seem to have any effect to the lost ani

The dragon vein sure is aon vein doesn't et to sense the presence of various living beings I didn't even know about

Once I becostar, will I be able to know the situation of soh I won't be able to do such for those unfaon vein, but I should be able to acquire that ability soonna need to work hard

I diver deeper into on vein, refine the dragon spirit, and accuon power

As Ipresence in the forest As I wonder what it is, I directpresence So strong, it could even be called i to thelost in the forest

The ani spirit

What is it? I have a bad feeling

I cut shortreen htly packed old trees

However, the ani is costar's haed stare is fixed towards a specific section of the forest

“Nnmtto, Onii-chan”

I wonder if Priscillchan too notices the disco situation within in the forest Ruiseine and Priscillchan come towards me with expressions of unease Nyazes deep into the forest in anxiety I wraps on spirit I had refined

Whoever this person is, there's no doubt he or she is co to the moss-covered plaza I have no idea what it could be, but that's exactly why I need to keep wary

Judging frostar's actions, I can more or less tell that he also knows that this whoever isn't anyone ordinary

Our bodies stiffen as we huddle together Sleigstar and Nymia both stare at the saround treradually reach our ears

How eerie

Priscillchan is so terrified, she holds both of her ears and buries herself in s to the hestar raises his massive head

Pikun, Nye in my arms from Priscillchan's head

“Nyaa, run away, nyaa!”

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