<h4>Chapter 347 Ray’s Distress</h4>
"Aurora, this staff. I feel a very pure energy flowing from it," Ray spoke to Aurora. Trying to get some pointers from her about the staff in his hand.
"Ray, I don''t know if I will be help you out much. This isn''t just some staff, its a very strong piece of equipment," her voice echoed in his mind, a hint of hesitation in her voice as Ray found it very unusual. He knew how confident Aurora was in these matters and with her acting like this, he knew something was off.
Turning to Magdroth, he asked the only being that he trust might know something about the staff. After all, it was Magdroth who had asked him to pocket it as soon as possible, "Atleast you will know something about it," he asked the Void Dragon as the entity in question just sighed.
"What''s up with you guys?" Ray asked in agitation. He was getting pissed of by their behavior. Right now wasn''t the time to drag things out and they were being so hesitant and unwilling about the subject that Ray couldn''t believe it.
Almost seconds away from losing his cool to the rage in his mind, FengFeng''s voice echoed in his mind as she spoke, "Leave them be Ray. I will tell you about it. They are just scared of the thing in your hand. It holds a lot of power and potential and has scared the shit out of them,"
FengFeng''s unceremonious words put Magdroth and Aurora on a back track as they didn''t expect her to be so straightforward about their thoughts but what could they say? How could they retort when what FengFeng had said was the absolute truth and they couldn''t refute it either and just shut their mouths.
"Okay, please tell me what it is that it has those two scared so much," Ray asked and decided to sit on the ground. He had a feeling that the talks weren''t going to be easy and it would take some time for him to get to know about it all.
"So what it is?" He readied himself and FengFeng''s next words hit him like a truck as shock ovee his mind, his eyes widening as his grip tightened around the staff in his hand.
"You might have heard of the great Yagdrassil which is also known as The World Tree. It is the connector of the worlds and has lived for millions and millions of years," Ray intercepted her words as he asked, "What does it have to do with the staff in my hand?"
"It has everything to do with the staff in your hand idiot," FengFeng replied in slight anger, a bit pissed off at being cut off by Ray as she said, "The staff in your hands is a small part of a branch from that f*cking tree,"
It were those words that made Ray gulp and made his mind go in overdrive. For a few seconds, the state of shock was too much for him to handle and he just sat in his ce. Gazing down at the staff in his hand, he felt like holding the greatest treasure in the whole world as he suddenly stood up and kept it back in his dimensional storage and then with a jump, he had vanished from his ce.
Appearing in the sky, wings already pping out of his back as he looked around and saw the trees around him stretching more and more as they barred his path upwards.
"FengFeng, does anyone else know about this staff?" Ray asked, having a bad feeling and regretting taking out that staff in the middle of the forest.
"Ray, I don''t think anyone would have knowledge about it but I advice you to keep it hidden for now. It wont be of any immediate use to you and would only paint a target on your back if you take it out and someone recognizes it,"
Ray nodded at her words as he pped his wings once more and appeared in front of the head nurse. Startling the poor woman, he looked at her and asked her for a chat to which the woman replied, "You could havee to me with less urgency. You scared the shit out of me," her words and expression showed her shocked state and Ray profusely apologized her for that. He didn''t know she would get scared but Ray was in such hurry that he wasn''t thinking properly either.
"What is it that you need?" She asked, hurrying to a tent as Ray seemed to be in rush for something important.
"I wanted to ask when the attack will happen," he asked the head nurse, impatience written all over his face.
"Whats the hurry child?" The head nurse asked, not getting why Ray seemed so impatient.
"I just have a bad feeling," Ray replied, keeping it as vague as possible. He wouldn''t tell her in a million years that he was afraid that the damned tree might have gotten to know about the Yagdrassil wood in his possession and would try to use some other methods to get its hand on the wood.
"Ray, listen to me," the head nurse looked at him, her expression softening thinking that he might be afraid that something bad might happen to Ae. s only if she knew that it wasn''t Ae that he was thinking about right now and that matter was about something else entirely, she would have cursed him down to his 9 generations.
"Right now, we need to prepare for the fight and make some contingency ns too. Also, we wont be taking the fight to them but we will lure the fight over here," the head nurse said and afterwards exined to him her whole n.
Ray nodded along her exnation, not knowing how he would tell her that the tree mighte to them even before theypleted their preparations.
However, he remained silent and listened to her. He knew that apart form the truth, nothing would change the head nurse''s mind and he wasn''t willing to let her know of the truth. Who knew if the head nurse got jealous or greedy and ended up killing him.
As Ray left the head nurse''s abode and walked back to his tent, he wondered about theing battle. He was told that the battle would take ce in a couple of days at most and albeit the fact that they were outnumbered, they could at least give some good resistance to the enemy and rescue Ae and the others. There were other students who had been captured and the head nurse thought about them as well.
"No, it wouldn''t be enough. I need to take action myself," Ray thought as he called for all of his teammates to gather inside his camp.
He could have also used his authority given by the dean and included everyone into his ns but he knew that the Warmacks didn''t trust him and their trusty with the head nurse. Also, the students he had brought along with him would be better if they teamed up with the Warmacks.
What he was going for was a covert operation. One that would strike the tree right in its heart and weaken it from within while the head nurse and the rest fought off the horde of monsters from the forest.
Half an hourter, his tent had his whole team sitting on the ground. Making a circle around the smallmp that gave off just enough light for their faces to be visible. Ray sat with everyone as he exined his n to them and how they would use their abilities to their best and aplish victory.
"We break into two teams. One stays here and manages the situation from this side while the other team delves deeper into the forest and hit the tree when its focus is on the battle raging outside," Ray spoke and then exined everything.
Meanwhile,
The core of the forest was almost asrge as the whole forest itself as the tree had used its powers to creat a separate area and expanded the whole area to amodate the whole forest.
Right now, the forest lords looked down the ground as they bowed in front of the tree.
Listening to it, they received their orders as the tree told them to strike tomorrow at first light.
"Your wish is ourmand," the lords said simultaneously and vanished from their positions.
As the lords vanished, the tree spread its senses outwards. It observed the region of that betraying lord that had wrestled out of his control and was now nning against him but the tree knew, it was for nothing.
The tree would have its way tomorrow but before that, what interested it more was the piece of wood in the boy''s hand who had just came to the forest recently. The aura of the wood was so familiar yet so different at the same time.
"I need to have a deep look at it as the tree marked the boy. He would deal with the boy himself,"