Chapter 327: Let children deal with children
"Do you have a map of the forests, by any chance?" I asked Amarein the next day when we were in the library.
"A map?" she raised her brows slightly, pausing in contemplation. She tilted her head while taking out a few children’s books, before nodding. "Do you want to see the place where the Queen was conceived?"
"Mm," I admitted shyly.
"Hmm..." she had a small smile on her lips as she walked back to the low table with a pile of children’s books in her hands. "The map itself is not a problem, but you can’t traverse the Great Forests with only a map."
I clasped my hand. "Right, the illusion barrier."
"That, and..." Amarein put the books on the low table atop the rug in the middle of the library. "The kind of place you’re looking for, Valen, wouldn’t be visible on the map."
Oh, right...I didn’t think of that. The letter mentioned that the lake was a small and shallow one, and it wasn’t like a map would mark every solitary tree there was in the ocean of trees.
My lips pursed as I tried to think of another way. Amarein, meanwhile, pushed the books in front of my little boy.
Jade clapped his hands when he saw the pile of children’s books; a collection of simple fairytales written in pieces of parchments with a few illustrations, being banded with vines just like the Queen’s letters. The abundance of mana around the settlement made it possible for me to feed Jade again this morning, enabling the constant transformation. So I decided to take the little boy to the library too, while Ignis enjoyed its sunbathing time on top of the cliff.
"Which one would you like to read first?"
Without hesitation, the pair of small hands went down to a drawing of a flock of birds. "This!" he said excitedly. Not really a surprise there.