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Liber asked in surprise.
"You're not going back?"
"Didn't you come to find the Millennium Tree fruit? We have to keep looking."
"Even after what happened?"
Davian tilted his head.
What happened?
What happened?
Getting beaten up by someone unbelievably strong?
That's why we should find the Millennium Tree fruit or whatever, right?
They said it would purify the energy inside the body if you get it.
I don't know exactly what the effect is, but I have to try anything that can make me stronger.
"That's that, and he said to tell you to get stronger and fight him again. So he won't show up for a while, right?"
"But..."
"Isn't it better than going back without any gains after going through something like that?"
Latia, who had been listening to the conversation silently, nodded.
"That's true. It's a bit anticlimactic to go back like this."
"Even you, Latia? Don't you know you almost died?"
Actually, Latia didn't almost die, she died and came back to life.
Liber, looking back and forth between Latia and Davian, shook his head.
Since even Latia agreed, there was no need to talk any longer.
In the first place, it was Liber who suggested going to find the Millennium Tree.
"Let's go find the Millennium Tree."
The carriage was destroyed without a trace while fighting the Emperor.
The three friends began to walk towards the central lake.
They looked at the map and walked, staying in villages when they appeared, and camping out when there weren't any.
After traveling like that for about a week, they finally arrived at the point marked on the map.
South of the central lake.
"This is the right place, right?"
"I think so."
"The lake is really big."
"So now we have to find the biggest tree, right?"
Latia, looking around the lake, pointed her finger.
"There."
Liber clapped his hands.
"Oh! It's true. There's one tree that's obviously the biggest, right?"
Not only was it the tallest, but the type of tree was also different from the others.
"Now it's almost sunrise, so we can find the place where the shadow ends."
The three of them had been walking all night without sleep to arrive here before sunrise.
"The sun is rising!"
As the sun rose, the tree's shadow stretched out long.
"Let's go."
When they went to the place where the shadow ended, there was a rock, just as Johannes Thomas had said.
"This must be the rock!"
Davian approached, placed his hand on the rock, and felt inside.
It felt empty, so it was definitely not an ordinary rock.
"Stand back."
콰과과과.
Davian created an ice sword and then fired a mana sword.
콰광!
The large rock exploded as it was.
휘이잉.
The cold morning air was sucked into the exploded rock.
As expected, there was a large hole behind the rock.
"Davian, you seem a bit more aggressive than before?"
As Davian was about to answer Liber's question.
Latia answered instead.
"If he was the same as before after going through something like that, that would be even stranger, wouldn't it?"
"Ah..."
Liber nodded.
Davian turned his head and looked at Latia.
'Seeing her say something like that, it must have been shocking to see me getting beaten up by the Emperor. I guess it was the first time they'd seen me get beaten up by someone.'
"What are you doing? Let's go in."
Latia moved her foot into the cave behind the rock first.
It wasn't just Davian who had changed.
The cave was long and complicated.
There were several forks in the road along the way.
The three of them first continued to move only on the leftmost fork, and when they reached a dead end, they went back and entered the next path.
It wasn't difficult because Liber was accurately measuring the direction and distance with Davian's footsteps.
It just took a long time.
After wandering around in the underground cave where no sunlight entered for a long time.
"Wait."
"Why, Davian?"
"Someone's coming from behind."
He could sense someone far away.
Latia and Liber couldn't feel it at all.
Liber lowered his voice and said.
"There are people who came here besides us!"
"They say it's a fruit that ripens once every thousand years. There may be people on this continent who know the information."
"I guess that could be true."
In fact, Davian had been feeling the presence for a long time.
"I think they're following us. We've been wandering around this cave for so long, shouldn't we give them a free guide?"
Latia nodded.
"Of course."
"Let's wait here for a moment."
Davian's prediction was correct.
When the three friends stopped walking, the presence felt from afar also stopped in its place.
"You two stay here. I'll go take care of it."
"Davian...!"
Davian launched himself before Latia could say anything to stop him.
He moved quickly towards the place where the presence was felt.
He could feel them panicking.
Turning the corner, he saw three people.
Two of them were fully armed, and one was dressed as a light adventurer.
First, he decided to probe them a little.
"Why are you following us?"
The adventurer-dressed man answered with an awkward expression.
"Following? Who's following who? We just came here because we're looking for something else."
So, that something else is the Millennium Tree fruit.
The Millennium Tree fruit.
He wouldn't know before going whether one fruit would be open, two fruits would be open, or if they would be hanging.
So Davian had no intention of sharing this with others.
'I have to get stronger. No matter what it takes.'
Of course, he had been working like a dog to get stronger until now.
But that was not enough.
He had to become even stronger.
"Are you guys from the Marino Empire?"
슥.
At Davian's question, the men with weapons drew their swords.
"You're asking if we're from the Marino Empire, so you must be from a colony somewhere. Where are you from?"
"Ah, it's not a colony yet. But it seems like you guys are eyeing it."
"Nonsense. There is no place on this continent that has not become a colony of our Marino Empire."
"I was a frog in a well, but you guys are worse. The world is wide."
"What nonsense!"
The two men swung their swords at the same time.
He had no intention of becoming a psychopath who kills anyone, but Davian was not in a state where he was kind enough to show mercy to those who attacked first.
촤르륵.
He created an ice sword.
촤악!
It didn't even take a blink of an eye to cut through the bodies of the two men at the same time.
"Heok!"
The adventurer-dressed man, who had confirmed that the bodies of the two men, who were either his comrades or bodyguards, had been cut in half at once, stepped back with trembling legs.
"Do, do you know who I am... Keuheok!"
I don't know.
I don't care.
They spent almost a whole day finding their way in the underground cave.
If they hadn't gotten dried meat from the Colonia Kingdom, they would have been too hungry to give up the exploration.
In the meantime, they defeated a few more groups of Marino Empire people who had come to find the Millennium Tree fruit.
"Hoo, let's go this way this time."
Liber pointed to a new direction with an uncertain voice.
"Is there really such a thing as a Millennium Tree?"
"Well... I haven't actually seen it myself, so."
Latia, shaking her head, opened her mouth again.
"Let's go. We've come this far, so what can we do? We have to look around and leave."
After wandering around like that for a long time.
The three friends were able to meet the Millennium Tree.
"Oh my gosh, what... is this?"
"The tree is hanging upside down?"
A large space in the center of the maze-like underground cave.
It was such a large space that one would doubt whether this was an underground space, except that it did not receive sunlight.
There, a huge tree was hanging upside down.
Liber, who had been watching intently for a while, opened his mouth.
"It seems to be extending its roots towards the lake."
Latia also nodded at the plausible reasoning.
"Is it getting nutrients from the lake water? The leaves are very thin because it's a place that doesn't see sunlight. They're like hair."
As Latia said, the leaves looked like they were letting down long hair.
Liber rummaged through his bag and took out a telescope.
"We have to find the fruit."
It was not easy to find the fruit because the thin but lush leaves were drooping towards the ground.
Also, the size of the Millennium Tree was so large that only Liber, who was holding a telescope, could look at the tree in detail.
He didn't know how big the fruit was, but it was not easy to find the fruit with his eyes on such a huge tree with lush leaves drooping down.
It would be one thing if it was standing upright, but it was a tree hanging upside down.
Davian drew mana from his heart and let it flow to the back of his hand.
A natural flow like drinking water.
휘잉.
Wind element magic arose from the back of his hand.
The wind that started as a single line instantly grew in size.
싸아아아.
The drooping leaves of the huge Millennium Tree fluttered in the wind.
"Beautiful..."
While Latia was muttering to herself.
"Oh! There! Davian! There! Latia! There!"
Liber, who was diligently looking at the tree with a telescope, made a fuss.
Only Liber was holding the telescope, but Davian could also see it.
Even if it was a stationary object, when tens of thousands of leaves fluttered, the skill 'Eyes that See the Sword's Path' naturally distinguished the moving leaves and the stationary tree trunk.
And somewhere in between.
He could see a rainbow-colored fruit hanging.
The size was about a pumpkin, and the shape was close to an apple.
타앗.
Davian kicked off the ground and rose.
A height that was difficult to reach with even one jump.
He used telekinesis magic and wind element magic to float his body even higher.
He could hear Liber and Latia talking below.
"Since when did Davian start flying around like that?"
"I don't know either."
"I'm not even surprised anymore."
"He's the first person I've seen besides my father. A mage who flies around in the sky like that."
As a result of quickly scanning between the moving leaves through the skill 'Eyes that See the Sword's Path', the number of fruits was not that many.
A total of seven.
If he hadn't dealt with all the people he had met in the underground cave so far, there would have been a shortage of fruit.
툭.
Davian, who had picked the first fruit, nonchalantly dropped it towards the floor.
'Latia will catch it on her own.'
툭, 툭.
After picking all seven fruits, he came down to the floor.
As expected, Latia had safely caught the fruit with telekinesis magic.
Liber was holding and caressing the Millennium Tree fruit with a delighted face.
띠링.
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[Event 'Acquire Millennium Tree Fruit' Completed]
―Reward: Millennium Tree Fruit (Rarity ★★★★)
―Reward: Mana Point 35K (x2)
―Caution: A hidden quest may occur during the event.
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That hidden quest in the notes was the fight with the Emperor.
A hidden quest with no reward or penalty.
Liber asked.
"Since it's a fruit... we eat it, right?"
"Probably."
"We can eat it, right? It's not poisonous or anything, right?"
Davian answered with a confident voice.
"I don't think so."
It's a ★★★★ rarity item.
It can't be bad for the body.
Liber tapped the fruit.
"Should we split one and share it?"
That way, you might not be able to see the full effect of the item.
"No. Let's eat one each."
Latia asked in surprise.
"This big one?"
"It's just a fruit. You might not be able to see the proper effect unless you eat one whole."
"Ah... is that so?"
So the three friends sat on the floor and began to eat the Millennium Tree fruit one by one.
"Eat it with the peel. We can't miss out on any effects."
Liber, who was the first to bite into it, widened his eyes.
"It's delicious!"
He didn't expect it to even taste good.
Davian and Latia also took big bites.
It looked hard, but it went in easily.
띠링.
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