Ye Chui and Debbie stood in front of that big tree. The texture of this big tree was white, not the dead greyish white, but a holy white. The green leaves had not a speck of dust. They rustled and swayed, as if listening, or as if whispering.
After learning that this big tree was the Elven Queen, Ye Chui and Debbie took more than half an hour to barely recover. They had been circling around this big tree all along, while Viya stood smiling beside them.
“Can she hear us speak?” Ye Chui asked.
“The Divine Lady can sense your presence, but it is on a soul level. She cannot listen, but she can perceive any of your thoughts.” Viya answered with a smile.
“Eh?” Hearing Viya say this, Debbie, who was quietly sneaking around to the back of the Elven Sacred Tree, preparing to pluck a leaf as a keepsake, immediately withdrew her hand sheepishly. She even chuckled “heh heh” at the big tree a few times.
“You said the Elven Queen transformed herself into this big tree for a certain purpose. Can you tell us what that purpose is?” Ye Chui continued to ask.
Viya tilted her head and thought for a moment, seeming unsure how to answer Ye Chui’s words. After a moment, she replied: “I do not need to answer. You will soon understand the reason, anyway we still have plenty of time.”
“Plenty of time?” Ye Chui’s brows furrowed. He stepped closer to Viya a few paces. “How can Debbie and I leave here? I mean, return to our companions’ side.”
“Return?” Viya suddenly laughed on her face. Her countenance appeared so profound and inscrutable. “This world does not exist in the past, nor in the future. It is a forgotten land in the crevices of spacetime. Return? Perhaps you will never be able to return. Perhaps you will return in the next moment. Everything you do here is meaningless, and meaninglessness is precisely its reason for existing.”
Hearing Viya’s words, Ye Chui immediately showed a contemplative expression.
Debbie leaned close to Ye Chui and asked in a low voice: “Hey hey, did you understand what she meant?”
“Not a bit…”
“Then why are you making that thoughtful face?”
“This is to seem a bit smarter, right? Let me tell you, when encountering this kind of mystical situation, the best is to pretend you understand.”
“Oh…”
Watching Ye Chui and Debbie whispering to each other, Viya nodded in satisfaction. It was worth the thousands of years she spent to come up with these words. What she wanted was this profound and inscrutable effect. Her face carried a mysterious smile, but suddenly her expression twitched slightly. She looked down. The iPad boy did not know when he had rubbed up to her side. He was squatting at her feet, strangely rubbing his head on her leg…
Viya’s face twitched: “What is wrong with this guy? I cannot feel any human aura on him at all. What on earth is he?”
“Actually, I do not know what is going on with him either…” Ye Chui saw the iPad’s behaviour and was immediately shocked, just like in another world, when out walking the dog, suddenly discovering your dog rubbing against someone else’s leg. He explained, “Do you not know? In the outside world now, there exists something called a Magus. They use magic guide books as their source of power… He is what my magic guide book turned into after coming to this world.”
By now, Ye Chui had roughly sensed that although Viya had pointed out that this was not five thousand years ago, it was indeed in the late period of the War of the Gods. In this era, magi had not yet appeared. There were no magic guide books in the world. Perhaps it was because of this “rule”-based power that Ye Chui’s iPad magic guide book could no longer exist in the form of a magic guide book, but had turned into a humanoid form.
However, Ye Chui actually had two magic guide books on him. His other magic guide book, although still unable to be summoned, had not turned into a humanoid form. In this way, the appearance of the iPad boy was mainly due to the special nature of the iPad magic guide book.
Hearing Ye Chui’s words, Viya slightly furrowed her brows. She seemed to have understood something?
“What… is he called?” Viya continued to ask.
“iPad.”
“Ai Pai De? Alright, I remember this name.”
Viya nodded. She seemed to have quite a fondness for the iPad boy. She reached out her hand, intending to stroke the iPad boy’s head.
However, at this moment, the iPad boy suddenly did something that made Ye Chui and Debbie both stare in wide-eyed shock and stiffen all over. This brat suddenly took a strong interest in Viya’s skirt hem. He lifted up the hem of Viya’s white robe. Viya’s two legs, white as jade, were thus exposed. The iPad boy even lowered his head further, leaning in. He seemed extremely curious about the view under Viya’s skirt…
“Ya, ya!” He even let out a series of happy calls from his mouth.
“…” Viya’s expression also stiffened slightly. She maintained the smile on her face, her eyes narrowed into a line, but… on her fair forehead, several blue veins had already bulged. She forcefully pressed the iPad’s head with her hand: “Do not fool around, do not fool around…”
“Ya! Ya!”
“Do not fool around…”
“Ya! Ya!”
“I told you not to fool around!”
Bang!
With a heavy strike, a big pit had directly appeared where the iPad boy had been squatting. Viya was in a posture of bending over with a clenched fist. Do not judge her arm as white and slender. The power of this punch was truly astonishing. If it had landed on someone else, it would probably result in shattered bones and mangled flesh.
“Ya, ya! My name is iPad!” The iPad boy seemed frightened. He had already darted behind Ye Chui and Debbie, grabbing Ye Chui’s trouser leg, peeking out to look at Viya.
Viya’s anger had not subsided. She directly rolled up her sleeves and shouted at the iPad boy: “Come out! If you have the guts, fight me one-on-one. If I am afraid of you, then I am not someone who follows the Divine Lady…” While shouting this, Viya looked around left and right, as if searching for a handy tool, like a brick or wooden stick, but in the end, she picked up a leaf from the ground.
It was a small banyan leaf, blown over from somewhere else in the village. At the moment Viya picked up this small leaf, it suddenly began to change. Roots of vines started growing on its small leaf blade, growing from small to large, and quickly turned into a huge wooden stick half a zhang long in Viya’s hand.
Ye Chui and Debbie could not ignore its shape, one end thick and one end thin, just right for hammering people.
Viya swung the wooden stick a few times in her hand and continued to shout at the iPad boy: “Come out, come out!”
Ye Chui and Debbie: “…”
iPad boy: “My name is iPad?”
Just as the situation was about to spiral into an irreparable direction, at that moment, the magician Malens suddenly ran over hurriedly. His face was full of urgency. Just as Ye Chui thought he was coming to stop Viya, Ye Chui heard him shout in panic: “Lady Viya, bad news, the wolf bandits have appeared!”
“What?” Viya was slightly stunned. Then her gaze turned to Ye Chui and the others. “Oh no, because you barged in, it caused those detestable guys’ attack to come early!” She said these unclear words, then quickly issued orders. “Tell everyone to be on alert quickly. They will launch the attack from the hillside on the east side of the village. Have the archer team watch the high air. That group has a few wolf eagles. They will swoop down from the sky at any time!”
“Yes!” Malens hurriedly nodded and retreated hastily.
Viya then quickly walked to a high platform nearby. That place was obviously built to observe movements elsewhere. The entire Green Leaf Village was built on a small hillside, and the place where the Elven Sacred Tree grew was in the central area, with higher terrain. Standing on that high platform, one could almost overlook the surrounding environment.
Ye Chui and Debbie also hurriedly followed. Then they saw that on the wilderness around Green Leaf Village, rolling smoke was spreading. That was dust. Amidst that dust, vague shadows of huge and terrifying wolves could be seen.
Giant wolves!
They had brownish-grey fur. Their form was very similar to ordinary wolves, yet not entirely the same, because they were truly too enormous! Their height was fully two or three metres. Incredibly ferocious. On their backs, robust men with dark skin and bodies covered in blood-red tattoos were riding. Those people, called humans, were more like some kind of humanoid monsters. Muscles bulging, appearances savage and ferocious. Some even had bone spikes and single horns growing.
They held strange and huge weapons in their hands, letting out roars one after another, rolling in.
Wolf bandits!
“These are the wolf bandits?” Ye Chui showed a stunned expression. They had heard Old Harley mention the matter of wolf bandits harassing Green Leaf Village, but… these wolf bandits were truly too savage. Just seeing their appearance made one feel how difficult they were to deal with!
The iPad boy’s eyes sparkled. He lay on the railing of the high platform, looking at the charging wolf bandits with an extremely vigilant expression, baring his teeth.
“Awoo-”
A roar suddenly came from the sky. Ye Chui raised his head. His pupils contracted instantly. The sky was full of dark clouds. Amidst the dark clouds, black shadows flipped and moved. In an instant, their true forms were revealed. They were terrifying monsters with wolf heads and eagle bodies.
They let out wolf howls, rolling and circling in the high air, and swiftly dove towards Green Leaf Village. Their target was precisely the Viya below!
“The wolf eagles have moved out so quickly? It seems your two’s arrival has triggered quite a chain reaction.” Viya said to Ye Chui and Debbie with furrowed brows. She showed an appearance ready to welcome battle.
However, at this moment.
“Roar-”
A huge roar erupted from beside them. Turning to look, the one roaring was the iPad boy. He was now making a somewhat strange pose. Head raised, eyes staring at the wolf shadows circling down from the sky, knees bent, one arm hanging down. Seeing his appearance, Ye Chui inexplicably thought of the pose of that banana protagonist in a certain anime when using second gear.
“Roar-”
Accompanying another huge roar from the iPad boy’s mouth, “Rip-” his back suddenly split open. A pair of black and gold wings stretched out. Those were the wings of the Black Gold Flame Dragon!
At the same time, a suit of armour also appeared on the iPad boy’s body. Jarvis’s armour!
He waved his hand. A golden greatsword condensed in his hand. The Wealth Goddess’s golden greatsword!
“Swish-” A ferocious dragon tail covered in bone spikes whipped out behind him. Black and gold flames began to burn on his body.
Black Gold Flame Dragon wings! Dragon tail! Dragon flame! Jarvis battle armour! Wealth Goddess greatsword!
Ye Chui, Debbie, and Viya all stared in wide-eyed shock at the same time, looking at the iPad boy who had transformed into a dragon-armoured warrior.
This was the iPad boy’s ultimate battle form!?
“My name is iPad!” He roared this to the three of Ye Chui with a hoarse, low voice. Then his wings flapped. “Whoosh-” His body shot up into the air. At the place where his feet had stepped, cracks appeared, spreading to the surroundings.
His figure appeared in the air. The golden greatsword slashed through the air. “Puff-” A terrifying wolf shadow was directly beheaded with one sword. Black blood sprayed into the sky!
“Roar-” The sound of the dragon roar shocked the entire sky!
Ye Chui stared blankly at everything happening in the sky. Suddenly, he seemed to understand something.
“This is… the true way to use my power?”
