Ascension of the Sylvan Cosmos - Volume 1

Chapter 55. Conversation between Humans, Sylvan, and Rose Fairies.

With Flor's words, the tension all around dropped a few notches. During the entire fight, the Rose Fairies and humans had both been tense, ready to interfere if the other side made a move.

While the Rose Fairies weren't as strong, they were much more numerous. After all, the Rose Fairies that went out with Flor had already returned. In terms of numbers, they were more than ten times theirs.

Thankfully, the fight didn't escalate, and Flor was stopped by Liu Shu. While Flor did indeed gravel injured Cinderielle, the same was true for the opposite. In short, it was a real fight where blows were exchanged, but not, it had passed, so both parties could take their time to relax their taut nerves.

Cinderielle took in a deep breath, calming her restless body after experiencing a near-death call. She had never expected Flor to be so decisive and powerful.

When she transformed, almost all her stats but Aether were clearly above Flor's, and yet, making use of very risky tactics, Flor managed to very nearly bring her down. If she failed to react at that time when Flor landed on her shoulder, her head would've probably been detached from her body before she knew what happened.

Her explosive flame attack released to blow Flor away was not controlled in any way, and its strength, with her stats while transformed, was enough to probably kill all creatures below Level 10 in a large radius.

No one knew how the rest of the battle would go after Cinderielle blasted Flor away. After all, Flor had lost a good chunk of her Phoer Body Shards and Aether Mana Shards. Flor was exhausted, while Cinderielle still had around 50 seconds more of her five-minute-long transformation at that time.

On the other side, Flor's mental strength and decisiveness were leagues above Cinderielle's, so it was normal to think that as long as she managed to give a decisive blow, Flor would be able to win eventually.

Regardless, it was a close battle that could go either way.

Liu Shu looked at both sides and seeing that they were calm, she finally decided to let go of Flor. She was a bit confused as to why she stopped Flor.

Until now, Flor has been her guardian, caretaker, and even teacher in many matters. She provided her with knowledge, sustenance, and a safe environment without asking much in return.

Liu Shu didn't take her fruits into account, even though they were incredibly influential for the development of young Rose Fairies, because it was an almost effortless action on her part.

Now that she had mastered the process, it was something that she did with her subconsciousness. 'And yet, I wanted to protect that Sylvan from Flor when that Sylvan injured Flor so much...'

She was honestly confused. 'Why?'

Her <World Tree Eye> was firmly locked on the red-haired sylvan, not knowing why she kept protecting her after Flor was injured to the point that she used her own Phoer Body Shards to enhance fruits and feed them to her.

After a while, she understood. 'Her aura.'

Liu Shu finally realized how welcoming and gentle Cinderielle's aura was. It was attractive and warm, making Liu Shu unconsciously want to get closer to her. Like gentle heat during a cold day or the feeling of her roots being nestled in warm and nutritious earth.

While Liu Shu thought of all of that, Flor used her damaged wings to fly up while resisting the pain and land on one of Liu Shu's thicker branches. She plopped her little butt there and sighed in tiredness and pain. "Tsk, tsk. It has been a long while since I got injuries like these..." While Liu Shu was a willow-like tree, not all her branches were the thin kind that dropped. A few sturdy ones in her canopy held the softer and longer branches.