<h4>Chapter 231</h4>


    In the form of an owl, Elder Safran descended from the sky andnded in a forest bordering Nond.


    After traveling for twelve days, they’ve finally reached Nond’s border. Elder Safran decided for the group to rest and reorganize themselves before entering Nond.


    “Unbelievable.”


    Priestess Oranka transformed back into her humanoid appearance from that of a purely white owl and descended onto the ground. The very instant she stepped foot onto Nond’s soil, she let out a gasp of exmation.


    “The Holy Tree Narushi is absorbing new nutrients... The quantity far surpassed that of the ckwood Forest.”


    Priestess Oranka arrived before Gallolei. Back when they were still in Fari, she was already able to sense the faith energiesing from all over Fari and gathering at Gallolei’s body to provide nourishment for the World Tree within her body.


    But, the nutrients the World Tree was able to absorb back in Fari was simply too sparse. But, upon arriving in Nond, the quantity increased many folds all of a sudden...


    “Daughter of the Forest, could it be... believers of the Holy Tree Narush are present in Nond too?” In the end, Priestess Oranka voiced a question that she felt to be impossible.


    The faith energiesing from Nond and gathering on Gallolei was simply too pure. Normally, the World Tree will only be able to receive faith energies of such quality when the ckwood Elves offer prayers to it.


    For such a situation to ur, the only possible exnation would be that there were hundreds or even thousands of people offering prayers to Gallolei in Nond.


    “Hmm... I think it’s most likely because the box office for ‘Léon: The Demon’ has been pretty good recently.”


    Gallolei could only view the faith energies as the happiness felt by the moviegoers. After watching a movie, it was only natural for many of the audiences to like the lead actress. Their feelings of fondness and admiration were then gradually absorbed by the World Tree.


    Even though many of the people in Fari have heard of the ‘Flower of Fari’ before, it has been a long time since Galloleist performed in Fari. As such, the ‘faith’ the people of Fari had for her would naturally be much lesser.


    Their faith was simply incapable of beingpared with Nond’s faithful fans. Oftentimes, faithful fans would re-watch a movie they enjoyed multiple times.


    “Daughter of the Forest, you mean... what you’ve gone through in the past?”


    Priestess Oranka has seen the movie too. She even discussed with the Brass Dragon about serious issues like how destructive the magic craving crystals were toward one’s body.


    “I’ve already told you that it’s a fictional story and not what I’ve experienced in the past,” Gallolei couldn’t remember how many times she has exined things to this old elven priestess.


    “My apologies, I was joking with you. Daughter of the Forest... I think your decision to guide us to this city was the correct one.”


    After traveling for so long, Gallolei finally saw a heart-felt smile on Oranka’s face. After all, Oranka was able to see hope from how quickly the World Tree was growing inside Gallolei.


    “There’s a human vige ahead. Daughter of the Forest, should we stay in the vige for the night?”


    Elder Safran also became very hopeful toward the future because of the World Tree’s growth.


    It was not wrong toe to Nond. Elder Safran firmly believed in that. He was already looking forward to meeting the artist Gallolei spoke of.


    But, Elder Safran did not rx his guard just because of that. They’ve encountered too many mishaps on their way here. They were attacked by human bandits and also encountered magic beasts hiding in the forest...


    The reason why Elder Safran decided to descend in the forest near the human vige was so that they could avoid those dangerous elements.


    “I wish to check out that vige...”


    Gallolei took a nce at her elven bodyguard’s backpack. The backpack was filled with fruits. For the past half month, Gallolei has only been eating fruits and vegetables.


    While elves might be fine with eating only fruits and vegetables, humans were omnivores... In order to maintain her figure, Gallolei knew that she needed to maintain a nutritional bnce.


    “Please wait... Daughter of the Forest!”


    Elder Safran suddenly stopped Gallolei. He swept his gaze all around the forest. As a druid, his sense of hearing was far superior to ordinary elves.


    Using his sharp hearing, Elder Safran could hear something enormous was approaching them.


    Elder Safran was unable to determine what was approaching them. It sounded like a giant-sized orc. But, its footsteps were not boorish like that of the orcs.


    When Elder Safran was nning to transform back into an owl to bring Gallolei away, it was already toote.


    A teleportation formationposed of dark green mes appeared on the other side of the forest. A creature over two meters tall slowly walked out from the teleportation formation.


    Sin... Sin Demon?!


    Elder Safran immediately recognized what that creature was.


    As the ckwood Elves rarely interacted with demons, their knowledge about the demons were all from the rumors spread by the Holy Church... It was through an ancient book that Elder Safran read the details about the terrifying Sin Demons.


    ‘The Sin Demons are the vanguards of the demon’s invasion army. They are extremely cruel and violent. Their dark green mes could easily burn a person’s flesh to nothingness...’


    Now that Elder Safran thought about it, that ancient book must be written by the Holy Church.


    The Holy Church was the arch-enemy of the ckwood Elves now. As such, Elder Safran was unwilling to believe in his arch-enemy’s derations.


    But, the outward appearance of that Sin Demon was simply too imposing.


    Elder Safran did not immediately show hostility. Instead, he decided to attempt tomunicate with the Sin Demon.


    When Elder Safran was pondering about how tomunicate with the Sin Demon, a little girl suddenly appeared on the Sin Demon’s shoulder.


    Human? Elder Safran took a nce at the little girl on the Sin Demon’s shoulder. No matter how he looked at her, she looked like an ordinary human girl. There was no trace of magic power to the little girl at all.


    Such an ordinary girl couldn’t possibly be able to enve a Sin Demon.


    Furthermore, their rtionship doesn’t seem like that of a master-servant either.


    “Big Cat, are these bad people?”


    “No, they’re not bandits. They seemed like lost travelers. They’re also elves.”


    The Sin Demon lowered himself to examine Elder Safran.


    “We came from the ckwood Forest located in Fari. We are en route to Nond. We hope to be able to lodge in that vige for the night.”


    Even though Elder Safran had no idea how that little girl managed to be on the shoulder of a Sin Demon or how she had such a close rtionship with the Sin Demon, Elder Safran still didn’t lower his guard.


    Fortunately, the Sin Demon was not brutal and vicious like the Holy Church described. At the very least, it possessed intelligence and was capable ofmunication.


    At this moment, Gallolei walked over from behind the elves. Elder Safran didn’t have the time to stop her at all. Just like that, the Flower of Fari walked over to the Sin Demon.


    “Zenarth, I need to enter Nond to see your master.” Gallolei recognized the Sin Demon. He was none other than the demon prince in ‘Beauty and the Demon.’ In that performance, he had captivated the hearts of countless youngdies.


    Gallolei has been pondering why she has never encountered this Sin Demon again after that one meeting...


    To her surprise, the Sin Demon has been at Nond’s border the entire time. Furthermore, he even had a... sweetheart?


    Gallolei took a nce at the little girl sitting on the Sin Demon’s shoulder. She was looking at her with full alert.