Chapter 533: Fairy (17)
It was around the time when the war against the Evil God was slowly escalating that the hero's party set foot in the Fairy Queen’s Forest.
As the situation became impossible to sustain with only human strength, the party sought help from other races, and one of the places they visited in the process was the Fairy Queen’s Forest.
“The Age of Myths was a far harsher world than you might think. A world where gods and humans coexisted means that the human touch was minimal on the land. Back then, the world was more vibrant and green than it is now. Even though I grew up in such a world, I was still in awe of the hidden beauty of the fairies' home in the midst of all the chaos.”
The home of the fairies, which once brought even the reclusive Erginos to marvel, was a sight of wonder that could brighten even the bleakest of places. Despite the wars, the forest still held a magical, awe-inspiring beauty.
“Fairies are born as children and die as children. The fairies who rarely visit their own forest approached us with kindness and played many pranks on us.”
Of course, "pranks" was an understatement. The fairies, who had rarely seen humans, created situations so dangerous that an ordinary human would have died multiple times over.
Luckily, since it was the hero's party that visited the forest, no one was harmed, but at the time, the party didn’t even consider the pranks to be acts of kindness.
Instead, they thought the fairies were rejecting them, and if they had to persuade them, they did so with the sense of duty to their mission, enduring the fairies’ pranks with their bodies as they ventured deeper into the forest.
“Then, as all sorts of phenomena around us suddenly vanished, a woman appeared from the sky.”
She introduced herself as the Queen of the Fairies, and after apologizing for the pranks, she healed the many minor wounds the party had received.
The Fairy Queen, who could be called the origin of all fairies, was a divine figure, and her powers were so awe-inspiring that even the great wizard Erginos was left speechless. However, he didn’t take a single glance at her powers.
To be more precise, he couldn’t look at them. From the moment the Fairy Queen appeared, Erginos couldn’t take his eyes off her smile.