As soon as she left the room where Master Gaia was, Elaine saw the druid boy stopping near the entrance of the cave, as if he wanted to check Elaine.
"You didn't say anything rude to Lord Gaia, did you?" The druid boy named Bart asked unceremoniously.
"No, no." The white lion boy replied in confusion, as if he felt the hostility of the other party: "Why, why do I have to say something rude?"
"You orcs are synonymous with rudeness and rudeness. Do I need to explain this further?" But Bart's prejudice against orcs seems to be very deep.
Elaine frowned, not intending to argue with the druid, and turned around to leave.
However, before he left, he couldn't help but look at Bart two more times.
"Huh?" Bart glared at Elaine in turn: "Why are you staring at me? Is there something dirty stuck on my face?"
"No, it's not..." Elaine said quickly.
However, it looked familiar. Bart's face looked inexplicably familiar, as if Elaine had seen this boy before.
He thought about it again and again, and suddenly remembered it. Is it Daniel...and Shana?
Bart's mouth and facial contours are similar to Daniel's, but his eyes and nose are inexplicably like Shana!
Although from the perspective of orcs, all humans seem to look the same (the same is true for orcs from the perspective of humans), but because the mouth and eyes are so easy to identify, and Elaine has seen them not long ago.
As a person, it was very easy for Elaine to identify these facial features.
"You, you look very similar to the people I know..." He couldn't help but said: "Um, could it be their relatives... or something?"
"What are you talking about? A druid does not have a fixed appearance, and his face can change according to his will." But Bart said, his face suddenly turned into Elaine's face, and he looked almost exactly the same as the white lion boy, except that he
The hair on the body is light green. This seems to be a demonstration to Elaine.
"No, I didn't expect that." Elaine was stunned: "This, is this the Druid..."
Then Bart changed back to his original appearance, still the boy's face. He was very similar to a human, but he was a druid boy with green hair and slightly green skin.
"Lord Gaia seems to be very optimistic about you," Bart added, "Although I hate you very much, Lord Gaia's will is the will of Druidism, and we obey it. I don't know if you have noticed that in your heart
It has been damaged to a very serious extent. Lady Gaia used her power to help you repair part of the damage, but sooner or later your soul will still collapse due to the internal damage.
If you want to live, there is actually a way. Just ask Lord Gaia to turn you into a druid. In this way, your body will be reborn and your soul will be repaired. You will gain new life.
."
"Article, what are the conditions?" The other party's statement really aroused Elaine's curiosity. Even if he didn't plan to be reborn as a druid, he wouldn't be at a disadvantage if he asked, right?
His life now is too painful. He eats tastelessly and cannot sleep at night. He doesn't know when his spiritual body will completely collapse and his whole body will turn into a pool of blood and die miserably. Even if he can survive, he is now in a state of fragmented
It is impossible for his body to break into the center of Atlantis, which is full of mechanisms, alive. Even if it increases the hope of survival a little bit, it is good. Although after losing Leo, he was in pain every day and wanted to die, but he was still persistent.
He wants to find a way to survive.
Wanting to die, but stubbornly persisting in living. It's such a contradiction.
"Conditions? I don't know. Maybe it requires you to be loyal to Lord Gaia? Maybe it requires you to give the most important thing? Everything depends on her decision." The druid boy replied: "Lord Gaia put the original I was on the verge of death but could not die. I became a druid. She rescued me from hell. However, she never put forward any conditions to me, she just told me that this is how I can live. She is such a gentle and compassionate person. I even think she might turn you into a druid and save your life without asking for anything in return."
However, Gaia didn't talk to Elaine about druids just now, nor did she invite Elaine to become a druid. This was obviously a better way to save Elaine, but she only gave Elaine the honeydew to prolong her life. .What on earth is she thinking?
"Of course, you still stayed with her..." Elaine continued to ask. I always feel that Bart was mentally controlled after being turned into a druid?
"Oh, I chose to stay with her." Bart replied: "I just want to do my best to repay her. What's more, except for my own name, I have almost no memory of before I was reborn. The past It’s past, I don’t belong anywhere, this is where I belong.”
Elaine's eyes widened: "After becoming a druid, will I lose my memory?"
"Maybe, maybe not. It depends on the person's constitution?" But Bart said: "So what if you lose your memory? After you are reborn as a druid, you will feel extremely calm and comfortable in your heart, unlike the old worldly world. Nothing matters anymore."
(Judging from the reaction, at least he was not brainwashed.)
"I vaguely remember that I used to live in a place as bad as a garbage dump and was treated badly. It seemed that I had been cursed viciously and turned into a monster that was neither alive nor dead, like a slime. .I couldn’t see, couldn’t hear, couldn’t cry for help, my whole body ached, endless pain. Someone wanted to kill me, again and again. I was probably deeply hated by someone. Therefore, I once deeply Hate deeply, turning me into that kind of person, hating the whole world.
However, when I became a druid, that hatred completely dissipated. I just felt that the state of mind at the time was very childish. Now it doesn't matter who hates me, or who I should hate. They can't do it anymore. If you hurt me, I don't intend to pursue anything further.
...Well, do you know what I mean?"
"I, I understand." Elaine shook her head: "But, but I'm sorry, I still, no, don't become a Druid."
Because, if he becomes a druid, he may forget Leo.
He has forgotten enough, and he cannot forget more. Whether it is the happy, interesting things, or the sad and painful things in his past life, they are all the most precious memories in his life, and they must not be forgotten. Leo is no longer alive. If even Leo in Elaine's memory is erased, wouldn't Leo be completely erased from this world?
"Hmph, you don't know how to show appreciation." Bart snorted: "You have nothing to do here. Let's go."
"Of course..." Elaine walked out, then he thought of something again, and suddenly turned around and asked: "Speaking of you, can you druids survive without eating at all and only rely on light and photosynthesis?"
"We are half plants, so yes, we can survive in the sun." Bart replied: "But we still eat. Energy can be obtained through photosynthesis, but substances like protein still need to be obtained from other sources."
It’s faster to take it in through other channels.”
"Are you vegetarian?" Elaine asked curiously: "Eat plants?"
However, there seems to be something wrong with druids eating plants.
"That counts as eating, eating the same kind?" Elaine followed that logic and asked a deeper question.
"Omnivore." The young druid replied.
"Huh?" This answer surprised Elaine.
"Is there any problem?" Bart shrugged: "There are also parasitic plants in plants, which live on the nutrition of the host. Isn't this the same concept as one plant eating another plant? There are also Venus flytraps and the like among plants.
Carnivorous plants, so it is not uncommon for plants to eat animals."
"Okay, okay." Elaine was convinced. However, he could not imagine in his mind the scene of the elegant Lord Gaia eating animal meat with a knife and fork.
"Life is a big cycle. Living things are born from nature and return to nature again after death. They use their own [death] to support the [life] of other lives." Bart continued: "We only follow this big cycle when we eat.
It's just a cycle, nothing surprising.
Even a druid cannot live forever. One day I will die. My body may be eaten by other animals, my rotting body will become a breeding ground for the growth of microorganisms, and the residue I leave behind will become
Plants need the fertilizer they need to thrive. It’s just nature.”
His emerald-like eyes looked at Elaine, and his gaze seemed to penetrate the White Lion boy's flesh and reach straight to the depths of his soul.
"We who participate in the great cycle naturally have the right to eat. But what about you? You, a despicable person who wants to escape death and gain eternal life, do you really have this right?" he asked.
Elaine didn't answer. He didn't dare to answer. Then he suddenly seemed to understand - he couldn't taste anything no matter what he ate. Maybe it had something to do with it?
The conversation with Bart was not pleasant, but Elaine had to admit that he benefited a lot from the druid's wisdom. He hurriedly bid farewell to the druid boy and returned to the large open cave.
Prophet Tani was already waiting there with a group of Druid followers.
"What did Lord Gaia tell you? Did she find what she was looking for?" the prophet asked.
"Here, you should confirm this with her yourself, I don't know how to explain it." Elaine replied.
"Okay," Prophet Multani looked at Elaine and suddenly showed a surprised expression: "Well... Lord Gaia actually gave you such precious spiritual pulp of the World Tree. That thing can only be produced every year.
One drop..."
The spiritual essence of the World Tree? Does it mean the honeydew? Elaine's heart tightened. He didn't expect it to be such a precious thing. And the honeydew couldn't even save him from death, it could only temporarily delay his death.
That's all.
"This is Lord Gaia's decision. I won't say anything. But she is really... overly generous." The prophet murmured. It was obvious that they all thought Elaine was "unworthy".
The Druids did not take back an important sacred object like Mysterdine from Elaine, but instead gave Elaine a huge gift... Does this humble, weak, and incompetent person really deserve this treatment?
?
In any case, he and Orin left the underground meeting place of the Druid sect and returned to the hotel.
There is a fragrance floating in the living room on the first floor, the aroma of fish soup, and it is well seasoned with pepper and ginger powder. The fresh fragrance of the fish soup is retained to the maximum extent, but the fishy smell completely disappears.
"Brother, lunch is bread, French fries, and fish soup!" Accompanied by Queeg, Bailey came over with a pot of soup: "I cooked this soup very carefully, let's have a taste first.
?"
"Okay, okay." The white lion boy scooped a spoonful of soup into the bowl and took a sip.
"Okay, it tastes good. It tastes great." He smiled knowingly.
Yes. He doesn't need to become a druid to be able to eat like a normal person and enjoy the delicious food - as long as it is the food prepared by Bailey for him. This is already a great happiness for him.