Chapter 183 What Are You Doing Here? (1/2)
Chapter 183 What Are You Doing Here?
”We haven't done anything to anger you! Why are you threatening us?!” Asked the town chief with clear anxiousness One could feel the exasperation built on days of fear towards his people
The Queen of the Dryads looked at the town chief with a blank expression, yet, after she started speaking, people started to realize how shocked by the words of the town chief she actually was
”Done nothing!? He has been killing the members of our kind for months now! HE EVEN KILLED OUR YOUNG ONES! We weren't even aware of your existence until you came into the depths of the forest!” She responded after pointing at the stranger who had offered his help to the to roup and kill each part individually” Responded the stranger with a reassuring tone
Not knohat to do anymore, the eyes of the town chief shi+fted between the stranger and the Queen of the Dryads
The moain say ”Lying?” She then turned towards the town citizens, and asked ”Did you encounter any dryad in the forest since you have entered it?”
With a hint of caution, the town chief said ”We have engaged in battle with less than a dozen of them”
”Are they dead?” Asked the queen in response Her tone was calm, as she already suspected the answer to her question
”They were dead e arrived Along with thirty of our people” Responded the town chief while adding a hint of anger to the last part of his response
The queen did not take the town chief's tone to heart Instead, she asked a question that sprouted a seed of doubt in the mind of each cultivator
”Did our dead have their hearts ripped out of their chests?”
A few of the cultivators fro behind the words of the Queen of the Dryads, and turned to look at the stranger, which in response, said ”It's true, I have collected their hearts because I happen to be an alchemist But the rest is false! I was never here before And they were planning an attack on your town! Why would I put myself in such a risk otherwise?”
The queen sa confused the town cultivators were, but did not care ”It does not matter now While you have been fooled by this ardless” She said with a reen arround, and forroup of cultivators
”See? She is trying to disturb our har a long red whip appear in his hand, and lashi+ng it against the blockade of tree roots
A large opening appeared in the barrier, with its borders covered with fire
Unable to understand as happening anyht the party that had thethem The dryads
They quickly unsheathed their weapons, and followed the stranger out of the hole he had created with his fire whip
In a matter of seconds, an all out war started between the hu race, the huies for war, but this was the territory of the dryads, and their nuher than the humans
The attacks of the dryads ood-based, and arrived at i entities that were born in a forestal environment, the dryads had a perfect control over wood essence, along with a very high comprehension over it
The unique type of essence that they produced, was an halfway between beast essence, and wood essence Its close relationshi+p to wood essence made the transition to pure wood essencethe forest that surrounded them Unfortunately, it was near impossible to turn into different types of essence
This was also the cause why it was very rare for dryads to reach a perfect coh intelligence Their race was extremely antisocial towards any other race, and they would usually attack theht if they entered their territory
Due to this, it was safe to assu and the dryads had no intentions of attacking them before they came to the depths of the forest, the reason was more likely to be that the dryads were not aware of their presence, than that they did not want to attack theht at the edge of their forest, people would have probably started to disappear long ago
The town had been built due to the proximity to a now dismissed crystal mine, and had been built near the forest, because it would be easier for its citizens, which were previously workers for the ather resources
Now that thean hectic life in a large city, the ex workers had decided to stay in the town permanently, and try to slowly build a new city
This was not so rare, and it would often happen with many temporary outposts or towns in history Unfortunately, in order to survive and prosper, the toould always have to endure a certain ae'
The e of a toere caused by its distance to govern the town to be under threat of bandits, or hostile races groups like, for example, the dryads
Another reason why these towns had little chance to survive, was due to the loer of its inhabitants which, due to it being formed by previous workers, was usually pretty low
Luckily the dryads weren't much more powerful than they were They had survived inside that particular forest for numerous millennia, but due to the lack of enemies in their territory, their power had stayed at the fourth stage of cultivation
The st thee of cultivation
She was currently facing off against the stranger, which while brandishi+ng two scythes, was round relatively easily
On the other side, hundreds of dryads were slowly and steadily suppressing a just as large group of human cultivators, which couldn't compete only thanks to their sheer physical power, and steel weapons