Seeker Of First Light - Chapter 38
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 38
This place was different from the wild and big divine realm.
Unlike the divine realm, which boasted vast grasslands and oceans flooded with large rocky mountains and rough cliffs, the spirit realm had all the colors of the world. A large tree trunk stretched all the way to the sky, and colorful flowers and leaves almost covered the sky.
Stepping on the elaborately prepared tree trunk and entering the spirit realm, the fresh smell refreshed the mind.
Although the place they finally arrived at was a dense forest, it was a strange place with thick tree trunks spaced apart at wide intervals, giving it a feeling of openness.
“I didn’t know we would go this deep…”
“It’s a plant I don’t even know, so you have to come in and see it. You barely know what it looks like. It would be better to see and find for yourself.”
They didn’t get along well, so she didn’t expect he would care this much. Judging from the magic of the atmosphere and seeing the fairies wander around, this place was quite close to the Parent Tree. Chrys had visited with the Lord once in the past.
Strangely, the spirit realm, which she came back to after a long time, was much more noisy than she remembered. There were many fairies running and moving like there was something urgent.
After a while, some fairies came over and recognized them.
“Isn’t that Dawn?”
“Dawn, can you give me a minute?”
But, surprisingly, they looked quite happy.
As if they had arrived in a hurry, they breathed heavily, and some of the people behind them even wiped their sweat. It was an attitude uncharacteristic of a fairy who valued appearance.
“I’m busy right now.”
“It is important.”
“Can’t you see I have something to do?”
“Didn’t the Lord come with you? Or has the successor already been decided…”
The faces of the fairies showed little anticipation. Naskan treated them with a frown the whole time, then glanced back.
Looking at Chrys’ expression, he sharpened his edge even more at the fairies.
“Yes. The Lord didn’t come with me, and I am not the successor.”
They never backed down despite their mixed faces. There were talks about them not being able to get in touch with the Lord or that they thought the Lord would come along. Naskan’s face, which had been relatively patient at first, gradually turned red with anger.
Chrys tapped Naskan’s arm.
“Why don’t you talk with them?”
“Twilight, I have nothing to do with them. Your matter is most important to me.”
The fairies exchanged glances with each other after seeing Dawn’s drastically changed attitude when talking with Chrys. And tactfully, they changed the target to attack.
“…Twilight? Nice to meet you, precious Twilight. Please give me a moment.”
“It’s really important. I need Dawn’s power.”
They even mentioned the Lord and Dawn. Even though she came here unexpectedly, Chrys thought that Naskan’s matter had hijacked her and it might even fail. While she felt bad, she felt that this could not be helped because it felt like an extension of it.
“We’ll be looking for it ourselves, so you can go for a while.”
“But, Chrys…”
Chrys lowered his voice a little.
“It is important. They say what they need is Dawn’s power. Who else can help here? Instead, you could ask about the fruit while you’re doing it. I’m leaving it to you.”
“…Alright.”
In the end, Naskan took a heavy step due to Chrys’ order.
Naskan looked back once as he walked away, and Chrys waved her hand, pretending to be indifferent on purpose.
As he distanced himself far from the group, he glanced at her while listening to the story, and his expression gradually became more serious. Naskan soon nodded his head a few times and followed them a little further inside.
Chrys had to calm her beating heart as she saw Dawn getting smaller and smaller. It was as if she was looking at the old days.
A serious figure standing next to the Lord and receiving the Lord’s trust.
How much had it stimulated her inferiority complex?
‘…Nonsense. I thought I got used to it.’
Although she tried to force her head away from Naskan, she met Sol Noctis head-on. Sol Noctis’ shoulders’ twitched. It seemed he had been looking this way the whole time.
“…Chryselua.”
“Kugh. Cough.”
Before she could answer Sol, Axen Arc made an uncomfortable noise. Her gaze that met Sol Noctis quickly fell.
“Are you okay? So, why do you want to follow me……. Look at you.”
Even if the war with the devilkin was over, the devilkin was still an object of concern in both the divine realm and the spirit realm. In order for him to follow Chrys to this place, he had to wear a magic controller.
A black magic controller was tightly wrapped around Axen’s neck. Chrys gestured to Axen Arc to lower his body and loosened the straps as much as possible.
“What are you doing? What is this like a dog leash? It doesn’t look good.”
It looked like he was out of breath after walking around wearing whatever Sol Noctis gave him. Axen Arc, who had stopped coughing when his breathing had gotten better, stared at Chrys, then curled his eyes and smiled.
“Then, I can be your dog. Chrys.”
“….”
“Chrys.”
“Huh. What?”
“They are being rude. We came here because of Chrys’ matter, not because of Dawn’s. They picked the wrong person to greet.”
She chuckled.
As Axen Arc acted tactlessly, he had a good sense of it. Chrys removed his hand from his leash and stroked his hair.
“That’s right, let’s get to work. Let’s disperse and look for it, but it’s not good for the devilkin to come into residential areas, so take care of the outskirts. Do you remember the shape and the color?”
“Yes, Chrys.”
The place Chrys pointed to was toward a shopping street that was quite far away. He was wearing a magic controller, but the devilkin could only approach that point.
Still, this was enough for him to do.
“You come with me.”
“…Okay.”
She went a little further inside with Sol Noctis.
There was nothing to talk about with the two. They walked without making eye contact, focusing only on the plants around them. They even parted ways after walking for a while. In the first place, they said they would find the target while dispersing anyway.
‘It would be nice if I could find something similar.’
She had seen many herbs—medicinal herbs, poison weed or ones with magic. If she could get one thing, it’d be a breeze after that. In the meanwhile, Axen Arc was looking around the shopping street, so she was going to pass it by, but Chryselua saw something that stood out.
‘…Strawberry?’
The red fruit caught my attention.
Normally, she didn’t like things like this, and she couldn’t imagine looking for them and eating them on purpose.
Today, for some reason, her eyes kept looking at it.
As usual, even though the body tried to pass by, the eyes continued to pursue the bright red strawberry.
Her head almost bent, so Chrys had to get back to looking forward.
Her mouth watered. Since it was raised in the center of the spirit realm, the quality must be of the highest quality. However, this place was a shopping street, and there was not even a single copper coin in hand, let alone gold coins. She rummaged through her pockets further but found a jewel in her hand.
But…
‘It’s a bit hard to use this in a place like this…’
She only had the Inserat diamond ring given to her by Axen Arc.
Chrys, who was conflicted on the spot for a while, just moved on. She didn’t even have time to spend in a place like this.
Still, she looked back at it a few more times with lingering feelings as he left the spot. As Naskan said, the spirit realm was like a resort. It had been a long time since she had looked around the scenery like this… if only she were not sick from her busy life.
She continued walking, brooding over what had happened earlier.
Nice to meet you, precious Twilight.
It was funny. Even if they say so, wasn’t it Dawn that they really treat as precious?
Even if she lived diligently, there were things she could do and couldn’t. So far, she had endured at Sedition, determined to come back without making a single mistake. It was also a blessing to have achieved this far.
However, when she thought about it, she was nothing.
She was nothing among those who were truly talented. Some people find it on their own even if they don’t do anything, and some people get rewarded for it even if they try a little.
She was neither of the two.
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