The Queen Of The Demon World
12. Forestlands

‘Please calm down, master. I have spoken to fel, but he is too shy to meet you.’

“shame? indeed spirit animals can be shy too, yes?”

‘What do your words mean, master? of course because we are also living beings!’

ethelyne sat with her chest closed. “so, what do I do to get her to meet me?”

‘I don't know, but it looks like the presence of fel has something to do with that flower.’

ethelyne turns her face flat. “talk about flowers, have you found her place?”

‘No, I don't know.’

ethelyne put on a dumbfounded expression. “hah?? then why are you telling me if you haven't found it yourself?!”

‘I think you will help me find it when I know I can't find it.’

“haha, don't expect.I didn't find anything from the people I asked, it seems like they never heard of the flower.but, why did you ask me to look for the rare flower?” ethelyne laughed blandly upon hearing the flowing speech from within her.

‘It's just that you ask me, because I don't know anything about the flower and why the madam wants the master to get it.’

ethelyne took a deep breath, she leaned back while looking up at the ceiling. “troubles yes, I feel like I have two souls. one good soul, another evil soul. ugh.” ethelyne wake up while stretching her shoulder muscles. “well, let's run a routine that we haven't done for a long time.”

‘routine?’

“ya!” ethelyne took the robe and put it on. “hunting lowly demons,” muttered as she covered her face with a veil.

‘master, are you still not deterred too? if the crown prince or the second prince knew you were killing their people, you would definitely be made an enemy by the demon kingdom.’

“who cares, after all. I am .. no, forget it.” ethelyne walks out of her room, she comes to a beautiful receptionist who is talking to one of the strange guests. “feli, she is, I'll be out for three days. Please keep cleaning my room.”

“ah, Lady Ethelyne. of course, but where are you going?”

“um, let me think.” ethelyne holds her chin. “ah, I'm going to the forest to collect herbs. Wait until I get back, I'll give you something.” he ran out while waving his hands.

feli chuckles little when she sees the childish level of ethelyne. “I will wait for your return,” she said as she waved back.

“it looks like your relationship with that guest is pretty close.”

flei daydreams destroyed by that 'strange guest', she smiled faintly. “that's how, lady ethelyne was very friendly and kind to everyone. she once helped my mother when she was seriously ill.”

“hum, really? but why do I feel the demonic energy around it?”

the long-robed man picked up the key and walked to the second floor. ‘heh, I don't really think that he is a human being. But the devil runs during the day, interesting. I'm sure he's not just any devil, or maybe he's nurturing a powerful demon, I have to follow and watch him.’

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“master, don't you want to hunt demons. Then why go to the forest and pick herbs?” laurie asked as she tried to pull the grass, she could not even tell which grass and which herbs were.

“don't just babble on, after all. I told you to take herbs instead of grass!” ethelyne ruffled her waist while looking at Laurie, she had already shown the shape of the herbs a hundred times, but the 8-year-old girl still could not tell the difference.

laurie held the herbs in her right hand and the grass in her left hand, she then compared the two. “master, what is different? from what I see, both are the same.”

ethelyne just kept quiet while trying to focus while pulling the herbs, but because of the rant and questions kept coming from laurie's mouth. she got very upset and threw mud at laurie's face but only got hit by her dress. “secute! you don't see I'm trying to focus!”

casually, laurie cleans the mud in her dress. “master, I just ask. do you know, the more you ask, the wider the knowledge.”

“who told you?”

“kakek formerly in dragon clan.”

ethelyne again pulled out the herbs while shaking her hands. “don't believe the words of the previous grandfather, instead of being knowledgeable.you will even make people upset because of your endless questions.”

laurie clucked, she carelessly plucked and stuffed it into the basket without thinking of it herbs or grass.

both of them became silent, ethelyne turned to laurie, but the little girl disappeared leaving only empty baskets and footprints.

“laurie, where did you go?” ethelyne asked shouting, but she heard nothing in return. hesitantly, ethelyne followed the footsteps and arrived at a dark cave. she ruffled her waist. “laurie, stop messing around. we should collect herbs before nightfall.”

feeling something strange, ethelyne steadied his heart and stepped into the cave.The pitch-black atmosphere made it quite difficult to determine a step and ended up falling several times.

‘cheek, what exactly is he doing here? I also can't feel the mana at all, laurie played too much today. I will definitely punish her on returning later!’

suddenly, ethelyne accidentally stepped on a rock and made it fall. she grimaced softly as she felt her leg being sprained. “ damn it I did today,” her grunts, ethelyne stared at her aching leg. he fumbled his legs. ‘it looks like my feet are swollen, what should I do? what ... I use healing magic only, but that magic ..’

ethelyne looked doubtful, she took a deep breath and pointed her hand at her ankle. ‘it doesn't matter, I'm sure I can control it now!’ ethelyne closes her eyes. “healing.”

a green light shot out from the palms of ethelyne and propagated to his feet, the light made about a little bright.not for long, the swelling in his legs began to recover and the pain in his legs began to disappear.

ethelyne stood up while moving her legs, after feeling safe.she smiled as she ruffled her waist. “perfect, my legs were no longer injured and I could control it. At least, it did not need me to make a magic circle.” ethelyne sighed. “ I thought, it would be necessary to create a magic circle to perform healing magic. but it doesn't seem, hm. is it possible that my power was affected because I became a holy girl?” he held his chin thinking.

as he was daydreaming, the sound of a broken dry twig caught him by surprise, he slowly drew closer to the origin of the sound and found a man dressed in warrior clothes with blood continuously flowing from his head, the man seemed to tremble in fear.

“are you okay? why are you here?” ethelyne asked who was immediately approaching the soldier, but he suddenly stopped at the fourth step.