I became a vampire princess and then a dragon girl?

§134 Night Talk

"Um……"

After saying goodbye to Jessica and Leticia, Eve and her group were having lunch in the woods, but for some reason Ilvia seemed a little absent-minded.

"What are you thinking about?"

"what?!"

Seeing the little hand suddenly appear in front of her, Ilvia was so scared that she trembled all over.

"...Eve."

"What's wrong? You're so engrossed in it? You even forgot to eat your cookies."

Eve raised her chin towards Ilvia's plate, which she hadn't touched much.

Lunch had already started for a while, but Ilvia didn't eat much at all. Eve even saw her putting air into her mouth, and she didn't even touch her favorite biscuits. This was too abnormal.

"nothing…"

Shaking her head slightly, Ilvia fell silent again as she looked at the food on the plate. Seeing this, Istina came out to change the subject.

"By the way, Master Brave, I hope those two people are okay. If there really is something that has transformed into Leticia's appearance, wouldn't it be dangerous?"

"That's nothing to worry about."

Eve waved her hand and continued to explain.

"If what just happened was really done by some entity, then that entity must be much stronger than Jessica and the others."

According to this world's assessment of power levels, Jessica and the other two are just ordinary elves who exercise regularly, and are not as exaggerated as their team of humanoid nuclear weapons.

"So the other party's mentality is probably just to have fun, and when they've had enough fun they'll leave."

"That's it, then I'll be relieved."

While Eve was answering the question, Ilvia seemed to have returned to normal and began to quickly finish the food on her plate, but Eve could still feel that she seemed to be worried.

Well... since Viya doesn't want to say it now, I'll wait until later to ask.

In this way, time came to night. Everyone had set up the tent and crawled into the sleeping bags. Melchis, who fell asleep quickly, had even fallen asleep. Her steady breathing could be clearly heard in the tent.

But Ilvia, who was beside Eve, had a rare insomnia today. She had been lying in her sleeping bag for a long time but couldn't fall asleep.

"Is Wei Ya unable to sleep?"

Suddenly, a voice sounded in Istina's heart, which actually scared her so much that she shuddered.

"Huhu, just think about what you want to say. This is a new magic I developed, called the Field of Thought."

The magic "Thought Field" is very similar to "Telepathy" in function, but in order to pursue efficiency, Eve changed it into a version that can directly hear the other person's inner thoughts without actively sending a message, and it is a two-way version.

The original intention of the development, according to Eve's idea, was to enable the fastest possible communication during battle. After all, communicating directly through thoughts should be much faster than speaking, and there would be no misjudgment of the other party's intentions.

Well, when using this magic, you must not have any dirty thoughts in your mind, otherwise you will be socially dead.

For people who are familiar to Eve, she can directly pull them into the group chat, otherwise she needs to cast a little magic, but if the other party is very resistant to Eve, then don't think about success. And it is also very simple for people who are pulled into the group to quit the group, they can quit by thinking about it, so don't even think about those crooked ideas.

As for the coverage, there is nothing to complain about. Eve simply removed the limiter. As long as there is enough magic power, it can be expanded across the entire continent.

But if too many people are invited in, it will become a little noisy, which will test her ability to process information. After all, it is a public screen chat with hundreds of people at the same time with zero CD. If her thinking speed is not fast enough, she will probably not be able to keep up with the topic.

'Eve, that's scary.'

Ilvia's voice sounded somewhat complaining in her heart.

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't expect Wei Ya to be so absorbed in her thoughts. What was Wei Ya thinking about? Was it still about what happened at noon?"

'…Um.'

After a brief silence, Ilvia finally admitted it, then turned around and looked at Eve beside her.

In the dim tent, Eve's blood-red eyes stood out, full of concern. It was obvious that she was not curious about what Ilvia was thinking, but was concerned about her situation.

"Eve, what if I'm a fake..."

"Why are you talking about this again?"

Shaking her head helplessly, Eve turned slightly and gently touched her forehead with Viya's.

"I've already said it before. To me, Via is Via, holy sword or not. She's my most important companion."

"…Is it one of them?"

puff--

After hearing Ilvia's last complaint, Eve almost couldn't hold back her breath and spit out, what the hell, is Viya's skill in finishing off the enemy so sharp?

And she really had no way to refute it. In her heart, Ilvia, Arcana, Istina, and Elizabeth were the most important ones, but they were indeed only one of them.

"Hmm, well, that's one of them..."

"huhu"

Eve didn't know if it was an illusion, but she seemed to hear a chuckle. However, she was too close to Viya now, so she couldn't confirm it at all. However, Ilvia continued to speak in her heart.

"Sometimes I wonder, if I wasn't the Holy Sword, would Eve have avoided all those things?"

I don’t know if it was because of the telepathic communication, but Ilvia rarely spoke more.

"If I were just an ordinary weapon elf, would Eve be able to live a peaceful life among humans now, without having to suffer those injustices?"

As the weapon elf contracted by Eve, although she was unable to appear in human form before, she still had some understanding of what had happened to Eve, at least most of it. The fierce blade that finally pierced Eve's chest also hurt her heart.

"No, Viya, remember this, but Viya made me and Tina meet, and even my future encounters with my mother and Arcana are all thanks to Viya, so stop asking if you're a fake. To me, Viya is my holy sword, an irreplaceable partner."

After a pause, Eve continued in her heart.

"And if I stay with the human race, that wouldn't necessarily be a good thing. After all, Viya knows a little bit about the Land of Wealth. It's definitely not a place for normal people. As someone who came from a family orphanage, I guess my fate is to be trained to be a family assassin. So I'm very satisfied with my current life. Viya, just stop having these crazy thoughts."

'……Um.'

After a moment of silence, Ilvia returned to her usual taciturn self.

'Good night, Eve.'

"Good night~"

In the darkness of the night, Wei Ya's sleeping face looked exceptionally peaceful, as if she had unloaded a heavy burden.

§135 Ash Forest

Above the endless forest of elves, Eve and her companions were flying towards the border between the sea elves and the moon elves, but the scenery below was slightly different today.

"Mr. Brave, look over there."

After accelerating in the air, Istina flew to Eve's side and pointed in a direction and said.

"Ok?"

Looking in that direction, for some reason, a large area in the distance looked like it had been burned by a fire, with large patches of black charcoal standing out against the green forest.

"It's probably because of the fire that happened not long ago. Is there something wrong?"

There's nothing special about this kind of thing. It's most likely that an accident like lightning or fire ignited the forest, and then it either went out naturally or was put out by the elves. If other elves discovered this scorched earth and used magic to catalyze it, it would become a forest again.

"But it seems that many elves live over there."

"Eh? Let me see."

Hearing this, Eve finally became interested.

If no elves discovered the fire, they would just let the forest recover on its own. But if there were elves living nearby, Eve didn't think they would just leave it alone.

With her eyes slightly narrowed, the scene of the village in the distance also came into Eve's eyes.

Just as Istina said, there was a very small elf village over there with a pitifully small population, similar to the situation in Libel.

Their method of dealing with the scorched earth was also strange. They did not use magic to restore it, but instead used the method from Eve's previous life, that is, transplanting trees.

This is not right. Even if they don't have such high magical attainments to restore the forest, they can ask other elves for help. The elves are definitely very concerned about the matters related to the restoration of the Elf Forest. It is not the turn of such a crude method as transplantation to be used.

"Hmm...something is indeed wrong. Let's go and take a look."

After saying that, Eve changed the direction of her flight and headed towards the village with a few people.

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"call--"

When they fell from the air, they were already noticed by the villagers, but after seeing Melchis in the team, they let down their guard and warmly welcomed them into the village and entertained them.

During the chat, Eve and the others also got to know a little about the situation here.

The scorched earth that the few people just saw in the air was not actually the product of a recent fire, but a mysterious area that existed hundreds or even thousands of years ago.

Their ancestors discovered this place long before and after the establishment of the Far Western Front.

At first, their ancestors were just like other elves. When they saw the scorched earth, they wanted to use magic to restore it to a forest.

But they unexpectedly failed. For some reason, their magic became ineffective after entering this area, as if there was a magic vacuum there.

Their ancestors were also people who liked to argue. After their magic failed, they did not choose to give up. Instead, they started to argue with this place.

After consulting a white elf, they learned that the situation here was very special. It seemed that it was filled with a force that would rapidly devour the magic in the air and thus affect the operation of magic, but it would not affect objects, people or animals and plants. If they wanted to restore this place to a forest, they might have to manually transplant trees in.

Originally, the white elf meant for them to just leave this area alone. After all, the situation was special, and there was absolutely no sign of expansion here, so it could be judged as harmless.

But their ancestors said, "No! If I say we want to restore it to a forest, then we must restore it to a forest. No one can persuade us otherwise."

The final result was that they settled here directly and began to restore the area little by little by transplanting trees. Later, some like-minded elves came to help after hearing about what happened here, and slowly this place became a small village.

Thanks to their efforts, this area has become much smaller than it was before. I believe it will be able to return to its original forest in some time.

Well, it's the kind of time measured in decades.

"Your ancestors were truly resilient."

After listening to the elf girl's story, Istina said with admiration.

"Haha, thank you."

Although she spoke so modestly, it was easy to feel the pride in her words.

After all, it is not easy to spend hundreds of years doing the same thing every day.

"Um... could you please take us over there to have a look?"

But when everyone else was expressing admiration for the elves' ancestors, Eve's expression was a little strange, as if she had thought of something.

Uh, this couldn't really be the place she thought it was...

It can't be such a coincidence, right?

To be on the safe side, I'd better go and confirm it. If it's true, then maybe she can solve the abnormality here.

"No problem, please follow me."

Although she didn't know why Eve suddenly suggested going to take a look, the elf girl still enthusiastically led a few people in the direction of the scorched earth, introducing some facilities in the village as they walked.

"This is the nursery area."

In the direction pointed by the elf girl, a large number of saplings were growing neatly on the ground.

"At first, we used the usual method of transplanting trees from far away, but the survival rate was very low. Later, we unexpectedly discovered that planting trees nearby could significantly increase the survival rate, so we established a nursery area here."

"This is where the turf is cultivated."

"This is…"

Following the girl's introduction, the group quickly passed through the village and entered the forest that they had spent a lot of time restoring.

"This is the forest we rebuilt. After entering here, your magic power recovery rate will decrease slightly, and your normal magic power consumption will also increase. This is normal, so there is no need to worry."

As soon as they entered, the elf girl reminded everyone to prevent them from being suspicious.

This forest is much smaller than the normal elf forest, about the size of an ordinary forest on the human side, and the traces of artificial construction are also quite obvious, because the trees are relatively neat, not as random as those outside.