Upon hearing Serti’s words, Ye Dui’s face lit up with joy. He instinctively wanted to retrieve the potted plant where the elf queen had reincarnated from the [Storage Space]. But at that moment, he suddenly remembered something and said worriedly, “The secret realm world has powerful restrictions. Anything brought from outside, if taken out of the [Storage Space], will suffer time corrosion and turn to ash…”
“This corrosion is a defence mechanism of the divine domain itself, similar to the divine domain heavenly thunder. It seems Zaguras that fellow activated the prohibition using my head. But do not worry, these measures are ineffective against the god clan. Most importantly, the elf queen innately possesses the complete eternal life rules. Even if time corrosion affects her, it will cause her no harm.” Serti explained.
Hearing Serti say this, Ye Dui finally relaxed. He took the potted plant out from the [Storage Space].
The pot was not large. Ye Dui held it in one hand. Inside the pot grew a humanoid plant, entirely green. Its branches divided into arms and body. The head part showed delicate features. Due to being confined in the dark [Storage Space] for so long, she appeared somewhat weak, looking listless. Those branches like arms and hair hung limp and dejected.
But when she noticed she had arrived in a new world, she seemed to regain vitality instantly. The branches and leaves swayed. Her delicate face showed an angry expression. She even made faint “crack, crack” sounds, as if protesting to Ye Dui and Debbie, this irresponsible pair of parents.
“Poor Lier. Choosing you as parents is truly her sorrow…” Seeing the elf queen’s current state, Serti could not help but sigh. She continued, “What are you standing there for? Hurry and free her from the flower pot. Let her touch the ground.”
Ye Dui agreed. He squatted down and carefully smashed the outer shell of the flower pot. He gently gripped the elf humanoid’s body and lifted her up, placing her on the ground from the broken pot shards. Ye Dui looked up, about to ask Serti what to do next. But the next moment, a change suddenly occurred: that small humanoid plant, upon touching the ground, had its fine roots wriggle as if coming alive. They quickly burrowed into the earth. At the same time, the roots and her body grew thicker, like a sapling that in a few seconds completed over a hundred years of growth.
Ye Dui pulled Debbie and hurriedly retreated to the edge of this temporal gap space. They slowly raised their heads, watching the great tree that rapidly filled this narrow space. Ye Dui and Debbie were familiar with this tree’s appearance. The sacred tree guarded by the goddess Viya in Greenleaf Village looked just like this. It was the unique elf tree.
The great tree flourished and grew. Green branches and leaves covered every inch of their view.
Even the temporal gap formed by Ye Dui’s time seal magic could not stop her rampant growth. Ye Dui and Debbie felt an odd sensation underfoot. Looking down, they found the ground already covered in a layer of soft green grass. The elf tree could bring greenery and prosperity.
Where she grew, green grass carpeted the land. Heaven and earth flourished.
“The elf clan is a race born from the ancient world tree. Every plant in this world derives from the world tree’s evolution. The elf tree is a variant of the world tree. It will bring the breath of life.” Serti said with reverence for life.
The massive elf tree quickly grew to fill the entire space. Its branches bent slightly upon touching the top of the temporal gap. At that bent treetop, a huge flower bloomed.
The flower was immensely large and beautiful. It trembled slightly. The petals slowly opened. Ye Dui and Debbie watched the flower curiously. But Serti hurriedly reminded them, “Hurry and catch her. Your daughter is coming out!”
“Eh?” Debbie was guessing if the flower would bear some magical fruit, and if eating it would grant immortality or something. Hearing Serti’s words, she froze. The next moment, the flower fully bloomed. A pure white figure slid down from inside.
Ye Dui saw it most clearly. His face showed slight shock. He rushed to below the flower and opened his arms to catch her.
His face was already completely stunned.
Debbie, holding Serti’s head, came to Ye Dui’s side. They saw a snow-white little girl nestled in Ye Dui’s arms. Her fine, soft pale green long hair draped over her body. She looked just like a human three-year-old child. Her features and body were identical, except for a pair of pointed ears. The green long hair was not a colour humans possessed.
Her eyes were full of liveliness. She stared curiously at Ye Dui and Debbie.
“Eh? Eh? She is the elf queen? Born already this big?” Debbie exclaimed. She carefully poked the little girl’s cheek with a finger.
The little girl seemed annoyed. She huffed angrily and turned her small head aside. But her big eyes darted about, curiously examining Debbie.
Seeing Ye Dui and Debbie’s careful yet slightly panicked manner, Serti knew these two probably had no preparation for being parents. Their bodies were stiff now. So she said, “Elf young females differ from humans. She possesses sufficient intelligence from birth. And since she is a royal elf, she already chose you as parents long ago. So do not worry she will not grow close to you later. Her current attitude is probably just because she blames you for keeping her in the flower pot so long.”
Pausing, Serti continued, “I was not present at her previous life’s birth. But I heard she gestated in the flower for a long time before emerging. This time, she was confined too long, so she was born so quickly. I just wonder if it will cause any bad effects…”
Debbie barely listened to Serti. Her heart full of joy, she examined the little girl. She kept asking the elf girl questions like, “What is your name?” “Do you know who we are?” and such.
The elf young female’s initial displeasure was fading. But she did not speak. She only made vague “ee-yah, ee-yah” sounds from her mouth, like a human toddler just learning to babble.
Debbie sensed the elf young female’s closeness to her. She shoved Serti’s head into Ye Dui’s arms. Full of maternal love, she took the young female from Ye Dui’s arms and hugged her close. As Ye Dui and Serti felt moved by this overflowing maternal scene, they heard Debbie say in a rapturous tone, “When I was little, I had a toy this big. It was my favourite rag doll!”
“…” Well, she just thought the elf young female was as cute as a doll toy.
“Yah!” Debbie suddenly thought of something else. With a tense face, she looked down at her chest. Her cheeks flushed slightly as she asked Serti, “She, what does she eat? I… I have no milk.”
“…”
Well, none in any sense…
Ye Dui grumbled a bit in his mind, then looked at Serti.
“Elves do not need to eat at all. Water alone suffices. But they may choose food based on their preferences. Do not worry too much about food issues.” Serti explained.
“I see. Then I am relieved.” Debbie clearly sighed in relief. Then, examining the elf young female’s bare white body, she hurriedly said to Ye Dui, “Quickly summon that Bear Grylls. Have him make some comfortable clothes for the baby.”
Ye Dui also thought this important. He hurriedly began summoning the man at the top of the food chain. His special ability could quickly weave clothing. At the same time, Ye Dui thought about deciding the elf young female’s name soon.
The elf queen’s previous life was named Lier. Ye Dui and Debbie had long decided to use the same name this life. But just as he prepared to say something, the little elf young female in Debbie’s arms suddenly waved her arms and said in a childish voice, “Baby, baby…”
Ye Dui and Debbie were stunned.
Serti said with some embarrassment, “Though young, her intelligence is not low. Debbie’s words just now made her think you named her Baby…”
“Er…” Ye Dui and Debbie exchanged speechless looks. They had casually named her just like that… It really suited their style.
Debbie tried to correct the elf young female, saying Lier was more formal. But it was useless. The elf young female seemed to like the name Baby a lot. She kept waving her hands, calling “Baby” “Baby” from her mouth. In the end, Debbie helplessly comforted herself, “The name Baby is actually pretty good… So you will be called Baby from now on.”
At Ye Dui’s request, Bear Grylls quickly wove a green dress from elf tree branches plus some animal hides and coarse cloth. He also made shoes and socks. To conceal her identity, Ye Dui had Bear Grylls make a hat to cover her ears and hair. Finally, Debbie somewhat clumsily helped Baby dress.
Baby clearly loved the outfit very much. She immediately jumped down from Debbie’s arms and bounced around to show it off…
Ye Dui and Debbie were speechless again: “She cannot even speak properly yet, but she can already bounce around…”
“Elves are such creatures.” Serti explained. “I have seen elves that could battle high-rank magical beasts right from birth. By the way, regarding the elf clan, why do I feel you two know nothing about it?”
“The elf clan has been extinct for five thousand years. Now many people think elves are just imaginary creatures from human fantasies. How could we know so much?” Debbie said casually.
Serti’s expression froze slightly. She murmured, “Is that so? The elf clan is extinct… Then, she is now the last survivor of the elf clan.”
Just as Ye Dui and Debbie finished tending to Baby, they suddenly heard a terrifying roar. It was the devil’s roar. The sound rose strangely, continuous and unending, as if carrying waves of echoes.
Ye Dui’s expression grew tense. He knew what was happening: the devil had realised what was going on now. The devil was originally forever trapped in less than a second of time. His consciousness had only less than a second of thinking time. When time passed and looped again, he would revert to the previous state, over and over.
But now he was gradually breaking the loop. The original one-second thinking time was strengthening, letting him sense the anomaly here. So he let out an angry roar. He roared every loop, making the roar sound continuous with echoes.
At this point, the elf tree had nearly grown to fill the entire gap world. The massive trunk was about to break through the gap world’s barrier. Ye Dui held Baby in one arm and Debbie along with Serti in the other.
The devil’s active time was speeding up. He would soon be able to attack Ye Dui and the others.
The gap world would soon cease to exist too.
So Ye Dui had to take advantage of the elf tree madly absorbing the time misalignment energy here and leave quickly!
……
In the outside world, Posri, Reisha, Xilesi, Guni, Green, Danni, Jacob, and the now-arrived sixth prince and others surrounded the white mist formed by the temporal gap with anticipation and tension. They waited for Ye Dui to bring Debbie and Serti out from inside. Their faces were very urgent.
Green suddenly thought of something and said worriedly to Reisha, “Miss Reisha, time magic is very strange. Like when Miss Debbie was once trapped in the shattered ruins of the goddess of wealth, with time displaced by sixty-three years. Do you think the guild leader and Miss Debbie might encounter something like that?”
“Nonsense, how could that be!?” Reisha immediately scolded Green unhappily. But her brows furrowed right after. Who could say for sure about time magic… Maybe something like that really could happen.
Guni was very interested. While gnawing on a piece of roast meat, she leaned in to join the topic. “Then, when Ye Dui and Debbie come out from inside, will they have already given birth to a little baby?”
“That kind of thing…” Green’s expression became extremely odd.
Posri did not join their discussion. At this moment, she suddenly noticed something and said tensely, “Something is breaking through the time barrier… That is… a tree?”
At the top of that white mist where vision could not probe, a bulge slowly appeared. Then green branches and leaves grew out from inside. It was a tree, the elf tree. It broke through Ye Dui’s time magic and rapidly grew out from inside. Branches extended, leaves flourished.
Everyone watched the scene in utter shock. Then they saw Ye Dui and Debbie’s figures leap out swiftly through the gap broken open by the great tree. Ye Dui held Debbie’s waist with one hand. Debbie held Serti’s head in her arms.
And in Ye Dui’s other hand, he held a little girl wearing a simple long dress, yet cute to an excessive degree!!!
At this moment, Reisha, Green, Posri, Green, Danni, and the others all widened their eyes, faces full of disbelief.
No way, did they really give birth to a child inside there?
