4 Vilto Village (2/2)

The next morning when they woke up, they were both visibly upset. The only one who was looking happy was Shadow. Since it was a creature of darkness, it benefited from the night. When they both settled in for breakfast, they both had frowns in their faces.

\”I can't believe I'm saying this but I wish I didn't leave home. There is no suitable mana for me here. I need to plant trees asap\” Dryad grumbled.

\”Not only you. This world of yours is damaged. The air outside of your tree makes me sick\” Ariama said, his face a little green.

\”We need to fix this world\” They both said and deflated in their seat.

\”Good morning your graces. I hope you had a good ni.....You both look terrible. What happened last night?\” The innkeeper greeted with a worried expression. They both grimaced.

\”No need to worry about us. We are just tired\”

\”Oh, okay. Are you interested in breakfast?\” The innkeeper inquired politely. They looked in each other's eyes as they thought of the stale air. If their air was this bad, then how would the food be? They both shuddered and shook their head. The innkeeper bowed and left them.

\”Say Ariama, that woman I saw yesterday, I had some kind of attraction towards her. Any idea what that could be?\”

\”Maybe if there were trees, she would've had a high affinity to wood\”

\”I see. So how do we plan this?\”

\”Well, since the only tree in this world is you and they have never seen any before, a tree just popping up anywhere might look strange and they might think it would harm them. So we need a way to handle that properly\”

\”You're right and I suppose you have a solution to that?\”

\”As a matter of fact, I do\” the god grinned.

\”In your former world, if someone wanted to spread a religion, they must first have faith in what they are spreading. For example, the church of light, a church in your former world, history states that the god of light visited a man and chose him as his priest and the first missionary.

The man is said to have received blessings from the god of light and went around as a vessel for this god spreading healing and miracles. As a result, faith grew and a world grew to believe the teachings of the god of light.

In this case, you can chose that woman as your priestess and you can sow a seed of faith in your creations with benevolence and justice\” Ariama explained.

\”I think I get it\” Dryad said nodding her head slowly.

\”So, how do we implement this plan?\”

\”Simple, I can deduce that this village has a problem. You start by helping them and sow a seed of belief when you manifest yourself as a goddess. So when you start planting trees, they will not find anything off with it\” Dryad nodded and relaxed.

Soon enough, the woman from the previous night came back to the inn.

\”Good morning your graces. My name is Ditoria. I am a simple launder woman in this village. I'm here to take you both to the village head\”

\”Nice to meet you Ditoria. My name is Ariama and my companion here is Dryad. Please lead the way\” Ditoria nodded and led them towards the centre of the village where a modern looking house was situated.

\”This is the house of the village head. I have informed him that we have two guests here. Please wait a bit while I go get the butler\” Ditoria said politely and left them at the entrance of the house.

\”He's a village head not a prince\” Ariama mocked in disgust and Dryad just laughed. Not long after, Ditoria came out with three men in tow, an old man, a middle aged man and a young man.

\”Hello fellow elementals, my name is Cassian, this is my butler, Eldor and this is my son Riech. I'm the village head of this humble village\” The middle aged man introduced with a smile.

Cassian and his son both had light blue skin while Eldor had grey skin.

\”My name is Ariama and I'm the god of soul. This is Dryad, the goddess of trees\” Ariama said in return with an indifferent look.

Cassian laughed as if Ariama just told a joke.

\”A god? That's a good joke fellow elemental Ariama. The only god this country has is Ilerisa, the god of water\”

\”Ilerisa, that minor god? How did he get here? And that joker isn't the god of water, he's the god of ponds\” Ariama replied with a snort.

Cassian was obviously annoyed by that but he kept his smile and his eyes kept straying to Dryad. Although her skin colour was strange, she was undeniably beautiful.

\”No need to take offence fellow elemental Ariama. I presume that young lady with you is your daughter. Such a beautiful woman\” he praised with a queer smile.

Ariama frowned when he heard that. Dryad herself had not spoken since.

\”If fellow elemental Ariama doesn't mind, my son would like to take her as a wife. Seeing her strange skin colour, I bet no one was willing to take her as a wife so you decided to settle in this village. Don't worry, my son has a lot of talent and he will be a good husband to her\” Cassain suggested.

Ariama froze and turned his head to Dryad's direction. Seeing her with no reaction, he relaxed. He then glared at Cassian for suggesting such shameless thing with his creator.

\”I refuse\”

\”Then we'll just have to take her from you\” Cassian smiled and many elementals appeared around them. Ariama grasped their situation then. Ever since they reached the island, they have had their eyes on them. Ditoria was just a pawn.

\”You have disrespected a goddess. That offence is punishable by death\” Dryad, who had not spoken since, suddenly said. Her melodious voice stunned all of them and Cassian grinned more.

\”Bring her to me. I will taste her first before passing her to Riech\” he rubbed his palms with a perverted look.

\”Shadow, knock them out\”

\”Yes Lady Dryad\” a voice replied and a black figure appeared before them. They were all shocked but recovered quickly. Shadow disappeared and in a split second, all the elementals fell to the floor.

Cassian stared at this scene in horror. Soon, he became more scared because Dryad was now floating and her eyes had turned black.

\”You...Only Knight level elementals can fly\” he screamed pointing at her.

\”I'm not an elemental, I'm a god\” she corrected in an otherworldly voice.

\”I summon the book of judgement; the one which governs the world laws. Judge this mortal that offends his creator. Erase his existence and let his essence return to the mother tree\” She read in that voice from a white book that appeared in her hands.

Green fire descended from the sky and engulfed Cassian who began screaming. This continued for a while till his ashes disappeared and his life source, which was a pale blue light, traveled back towards the direction of the mother tree.

Dryad floated gently to the ground as she observed everyone below.

\”Now, who's next?\”