Chapter 1124: Root's Past And Origins
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"Phew…" Alma sighed, resting over a chair made of Root's branches. "I never thought we'll have a divine material contest out of the blue, this place's wild."
"The more I see them, the more charmed I am before their magnificent forms." Root said, looking at the beautiful harvested divine plants we got, from all shapes and colors.
"Are you in love with them or something now?" Hermes sighed. "Well, makes sense seeing how you're a walking plant…"
"I don't think I can develop such a feeling anymore. I lost my beloved wife long ago… She's the only one in my heart, despite my memories being fuzzy…" Sighed Root.
"It must be hard to have your memories shuffled like that…" Sighed Elma.
"Yeah… have you remembered something more?" Elena asked.
"A bit, as I grow stronger, my soul seems to be healed more. Memories sometimes flow, fragments of them. I remember her… a fair maiden, as beautiful as the sun. She reminds me slightly of you, Alma." Sighed Root. "And I had… I had a daughter with my beloved. I believe my daughter could had been the ancestor of your family. I sworn when I died betrayed by Oberon that I would protect my family as well…"
As I heard them talking, I joined the conversation. The contest was pretty much over and I left a group of chefs with cooking spirits making some tasty lunch using divine materials. The winner was also Benladann who used her titanic strength to harvest a hundreds and three plants in the time limit, her prize was… well, whatever she wanted, so she asked me for a new armor.
"We've talked a couple of times now but I've never completely heard that story, Root. I wish you guys could open up more with me and explain things to me more clearly." I said.
"Yeah, I guess we owe you that much." Hermes nodded.
"Little sister, I'm back with snacks." A handsome and tall red, blonde elf walked in as well, Alma's big brother. Callon was healed and had a bit of rehabilitation before recovering fully.
Now that he was finally freed from Greenwood's brainwashing he had become a completely different man and doted on his little sister a lot. He had become a complete sister con and was quite jealous of her closeness with Hermes as well.
"Ah, Callon! Fries! My favorites, thanks a lot!" Alma began eating them happily.
"Lord Drake, you're here! How about we sit down and enjoy some food?" Callon asked politely. "Here, everyone, let's sit."
We quickly sat down around a small table while Callon called his sister to sit down at his side.
"Come sister, you don't need to lower yourself by being at the side of this… bootlicker." Said Callon.
"Eh?! Who are ya calling bootlicker?!" Hermes got angered right away.
"Hmph." Callon ignored his tantrum.
"Ahahah… I am happy you're so nice with me, big brother, but please don't be like this with Hermes…" Alma sighed. "He's… someone very special to me."
Oh? Did their relationship finally went somewhere, I wonder?
"S-Special?!" Callon suddenly felt terrified. "T-Tell me! D-Did he tried to nasty you pure body, my little princess?!"
"E-Eh? No… Nothing like that… yet." Alma giggled while blushing a bit.
"Yet? S-So you plan to?!" Callon asked.
"Hey you sister complex pervert, leave her alone for a bit. Don't you see she's suffocating with you?" Hermes asked.
"Hmph! Maybe it is time I put you in your place!" Callon quickly stood up, confronting Hermes.
"P-Please calm down… Or you'll make me force you two."
Alma's eyes suddenly glowed bright blue, with a gray aura…
"We have an important guest here, so please stop being so stupid and sit down, you two. Or else…" Alma began cracking her knuckles.
"Y-Yes ma'am." Hermes nodded.
"S-Sorry about that." Callon apologized.
"Anyways, as I was talking before…" Root went into detail about what he was and more, and about his Memory Fragments.
He told me he had recalled he used to be the best friend of Oberon but got betrayed by him when Oberon was about to ascend to a Venerable, and had his powers stolen so Oberon could breakthrough. He said his friend ended helping him all this time, for so many years, only so he could nurture him into a suitable god he could suck his power from.
He doesn't even remember his past name at all, his death was gruesome, and he said his soul was almost destroyed by Oberon absorbing his powers. The world's will, Yggdrasil's Will, for whatever motive, decided to choose him as the one that would become her son. And thousands of years later, she reincarnated him through her Yggdrasil Seed while planting him into the corpse of an Ancient Nature Dragon.
Like that, he was reborn, feeding from the Dragon Energy of the decaying corpse and when he opened his eyes again, the entire dragon's bones and scales became part of his body, turning into wood alongside him. Since then, he learned how to shapeshift into plants, absorb plants, devour monsters to absorb their mana, and slowly ranked up.
He was given the task of protecting his family, and to protect the Alma, who perhaps due to her ability to draw endless source of mana, was the most least person she wanted Oberon's soul fragments to get their hands into. Like that, he meet Alma when she was still a little girl and helped her over time, always acting as her guardian.
"That is pretty much it…" Root sighed.
"I see… Have you entered the Draconic Records before?" I wondered.
"The Draconic Records… I have not, but I've heard about it. How do I exactly enter it?" Wondered Root.
So he really doesn't know how… Ah, I guess he's really clueless about all dragon related things. He's more plant than dragon though, I am fairly sure Nature Dragons still got… flesh on them, this guy's all plant.
"Don't worry, I'll help you get in then." I nodded. "However, in exchange, give me some of your blood."
I wanted to see if I could acquire the Nature Dragon Bloodline from Root.
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