Chapter 371: Oh, to be the center of a drama!
After spending the whole morning rolling around in bed with Natha, I called the residents of the Lair once more to tell them that the humans were close and that the plan had yet to change.
They were to do nothing but watch, and would only make their move if I asked them for help.
Meanwhile, Heraz gave a daily update on the position of the Hero, while I...well, I was just living my life as usual. I didn’t want to leave the Lair in case the humans advanced quicker than we thought, so I merely enhanced my concentration and trained my purification. Jade was getting so happy from receiving a lot of ’yummy balls’ from me, and its wings and tails were getting even more colorful.
"You’re lacking red, though..." I stroked Jade’s tail while we were hanging out in Jade’s bedroom and Ignis, who graced us with its rare presence, hummed in agreement. "Hmm...why don’t we visit some volcanoes when we go to the human realm?"
"Oh?" the little gecko on the windowsill raised its head.
[Are we going to human land, Master?] Jade also perked up at the thought of another adventure; another new place to visit.
"I plan to do so," I nodded and looked out the window. "There’s a land in the human realm that became considerably damaged and polluted because of a war."
Well, to be precise, it was a civil war. The country where the civil war took place was famous for having a lot of magic users, be it magicians or magicswordsmen. As a result, heavy clashes of magic disrupted the balance of the ecosystem, creating clusters of chaotic mana that suppressed the production of the world’s natural mana. I had a guess that they were also draining the leyline because some of those magic users drew mana from the environment rather than from their mana core.
Ignis crawled to my head and patted me with its tail. "So you’re going to help them restore their land?"
"Well...I’m going to try," I shrugged.
Ignis grumbled, saying I was doing unnecessary things. Jade, meanwhile looking all starry-eyed. [Master will make big yummy balls?]