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Chapter 356 – Eat or Be Eaten
The great tree seen from the sea is not only spectacular and majestic but also somehow ominous. Perhaps it is because I have witnessed the scene of the tree swallowing tens of thousands of enemy soldiers on the southern continent and turning them into “currency of grace.”
“I wonder if we’ll be eaten if we get too close?”
“I don’t know, but I think we’ll be fine. Judging by the shape of the tree, it’s a sacred tree that the elves call a tree that calls water. I think there was a similar one in Casemaian.”
“…Yes.”
“I don’t remember being eaten by the trees in the pirate stronghold. I wonder if it sees us as… comrades?”
“Well… I’d like to think so.”
Even Myrril herself doesn’t seem to think so much.
“Well, if we’re attacked, we can just teleport away.”
“That’s right.”
It’s not really a fundamental solution, but it’s the only thing I can think of when push comes to shove. Let’s teleport to the fort as soon as possible and see if the prince and the others are safe.
���This is amazing…”
The pirates’ hideout was inside a small hill on the north side of the island, but the roots of the giant tree had eroded the hill.
I thought it was supposed to grow on the flat land on the south side of the island. It’s not really a tree, but its bushy, round shape resembles a celestial sphere.
“Look, the prince is waving.
Even if you say “look,” it’s still about a kilometer to the fort. I can see the hill where the hideout was, but I can’t see any figures.
“It looks like it’s okay. Teleportation… no, if that’s the case, can’t you retrieve the ‘Gurifon’?”
“Probably not. Even if I target it individually, I don’t think the storage will reach it at this distance.”
“Then let’s just go around from the other side.”
Myrril pointed to the other side of the island. There is an opening to the inner bay in the southeast of the atoll. It would be better to use that to avoid damaging the rubber apron.
We will go around the northwest and west of the atoll where the pirate stronghold is located. I was speechless when I saw the transformation of the island from the sea. When the pirates used it, the watchtowers, which looked like city walls (but were not as impressive as they seemed when you got closer), faced west and south, as if they had been built in anticipation of ships approaching from the west, where the old southern capital of Lafan was located. The wooden walls are now covered with trees and plants and have lost their original shape.
The last time I came here, I found a gentle slope in the northeast and landed there. Now, the island’s outer edge is completely covered in greenery, and it’s not in a condition where a hovercraft could get in.
“Hey, you can see it now, can’t you?”
“Is that Moff?”
Something white was moving on the hill where the hideout was. There were also some figures next to it, so I think that must be the prince and the children.
“The prince and the twins, too. There are some children, too.”
I can’t see that far.
The entrance to the inner bay used to be just a break in the atoll, but now it is a colorful archway of plants and flowers. Looking at it, it seemed like a romantic, fairy-tale design, but as I got closer, I felt a little scared that I might be eaten.
“You’re being too cautious…”
“I know it’s too much…”
“No, I think you’re probably right.”
“Huh?”
“That’s a sunken ship that’s been eaten.”
The thing that was supporting the base of the arch or the base of the flowers was the remains of a ship that had been turned into a floating planter. It was probably a ship that had been sunk with the currency of grace when it tried to attack the fort.
“That’s not the ship of McKin-dono of the Southern Territories, is it?”
I think the only ships in the Southern Territories besides the lord’s ship were fishing boats.
“That is the Imperial Navy ship we saw in Cassmeer. It’s something called a transfer battleship.”
Hmm… I wonder if they were a detachment of the Imperial Navy that tried to attack Cassmeer when we were fighting the Emperor’s body double. Anyway, they were all annihilated.
“Your Majesty the Demon King!”
“””Hiheikaaa~♪””” [T/n: Your Majesty the Queen.]
Children and shrine maidens ran to the entrance of the inner bay. Myrril-san is very popular, isn’t she?
As it turned out, there didn’t seem to be any danger of being eaten by the island’s greenery. At least, that’s what the lord said.
The currency of grace tries to absorb the blessings of the environment when it is transformed, but it is stable under normal conditions. It seems that it only eats during the conversion period. Like middle and high school students who are at their most ravenous. Or like the females of mosquitoes and praying mantises, who change their diet only during the fertilization and egg-laying periods.
“That’s not safe at all!”
According to the prince’s logic, mosquitoes are safe insects because they only suck blood during a certain period of time. From the perspective of the person at risk of being eaten, it’s “That can’t be true!”
Anyway, whether the current situation is stable or not, once the transformation starts, it will spread and spread in a chain reaction, like the pop meat on that southern continent. No one can stop it.
This is… I think we should leave before something happens.
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