Chrysalis

Chapter 757

[Hmmmmmmmmm] the big tree blinks at me slowly a few times, as if surprised that I still exist rather than focusing on the question that I asked it.

I wait patiently whilst he inspects me but my patience is quickly running by the time he finally gets around to talking again.

[You look different,] he observes.

[Obviously, I've evolved!] I explode at him. [Can you explain to me why your plant-based parent is sprouting willy-nilly and soaking up gross mana around the place?! Do I have to ask every question three times or something?!]

He blinks.

[No.] He says finally.

I take a breath.

[So why aren't you answering my question then?] I grate out.

He looks at me with an almost palpable sense of pity.

[Because mother finds it amusing and so won't let me answer.]

The leaves and flowers that sprout from every surface around us seem to wriggle with amused joy and I slump where I stand.

[This might not be diplomatic of me, Mr Grove Keeper, but your mother is a massive pain in the thorax. Is she always like this?]

The tree nods in understanding.

know. I ask that you be patient with her. She hasn't had the easiest life on this

and the Grove Keeper

more, but I think I might be able to

and the giant tree dips his head

full, I will need to explain a little about mother, which may be why she is reluctant that I share, but

I can get

wide, the bark on his

her roots can sniff

massive thing I ran into was a tertiary? So it branched from a secondary that branched from

The Grove Keeper chuckles.

will not bother attempting to describe it to you. As for your other question, I will not reveal much other than to say that it is likely less than you think. Our Mother is not a normal tree, but rather a monstrous tree, thus she does

an accusatory fashion and the Grove Keeper once

he says to both

again but I can tell they

it about this particular brand of mana, I don't even know what kind it is, that your mother finds so attractive that she would sprout up in

Suffice to say, Mother is an expert when it comes to containing and eradicating this

around us

delicious,] the

I raise an antenna.

[Delicious?]

[Yes,] he nods.

guessing the Mother Tree doesn't need water to survive,

[This is true.]

the siege, if not more so. What I don't see is nearly as many Bruan'chii. There are a few here and there, tending to the plants, engaged in what appear to be lively conversations with each other, but I expected to

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