Chapter 9 °•○● To Magic or Not to Magic, That's the Question!

A few hours later, Anais brought all the flowers she had filled into a small basket to Eren. Shortly after, Yana appeared, running as if it were a race to get there.

Yana's breasts, which bounced from side to side, stirred strange desires in Eren. He forced himself to swallow and took a deep breath. At that moment, he was forcing himself to look at the young girl with normal eyes.

"Welcome, but you didn't have to run. This isn't a race-"

"I finished my job first, Master! I was late because I was curious about what my brother was doing. Otherwise, Yana would have finished the task master gave her first." Yana screamed. Then she looked at him with a needy face that want approval and a pat on her head.

Eren understood from the look Anais threw at him secretly. She knew her sister. Yana's competitive side was on display now. Yana probably tried to finish the job before both Anais and her brother Matyev.

With her red cheeks and breasts, which showed more than half from her clothes, Yana was more devilish in terms of sexuality than her sister. Eren swallowed again and suppressed the unnecessary thoughts in his head. At that moment, more important things awaited them. There would be plenty of time to have fun with these two elves later.

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The three of them sat down and examined the plants. Eren recognized the scent of a few plants. They seemed to be the same as those on Earth, even though they looked different.

However, Eren didn't know which plants were edible, toxic, or could heal wounds like the other two girls did.

When Eren asked the system about this, he learned that there was something called the "Botanical Pack - I," which cost 1000 EXP.

"It's expensive for now. I wonder how much exp I'll earn from today's daily mission?"

Eren whispered to himself without realizing it and sometimes even used languages from his old world. He had lived as an antisocial and elderly man for so long that he had become accustomed to talking to himself. He didn't even know that it would seem strange from the outside socially. Although this situation was not valid at that moment.

The two elf girls sitting close to him looked at his mouth and red lips as if hypnotized. Although they couldn't understand what their Master was saying, they saw him as more charismatic and mysterious with each passing minute. Anais felt something strange between her legs as she looked at Eren's right hand, which he occasionally scratched his chin and lips with.

While Eren was talking to the system, he yawned and his tongue appeared. Anais felt even more awkward with this sight. Her cheeks turned a little pink, and she looked down, embarrassed.

Yana seemed unaware of anything.

The few minutes of question-and-answer battle between Eren and the system ended in defeat. He couldn't get what he wanted.

The trio decided to take a break and boil the plants' effects to try them. But just as they were about to boil the clean water left from yesterday, they decided to take a break due to Matyev's shouting in the distance.

When Eren went to Matyev, he came across a very interesting scene. Just two hours ago, one of the branches of a seemingly ordinary large tree had wrapped itself around Matyev's waist like a vine. But it wouldn't be funny, it would be scary if it were just that.

What made the incident funny was Matyev's position in the air. He was upside down, looking down at his two sisters and his lord crying.

"How did this happen?"

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"How did this happen!" Eren yelled this time, making sure Matyev could hear him.

Matyev heard him, but it took about twenty seconds for him to react. Yana's kick to the tree didn't help either. The skinny elf closed his eyes in a hurry and began to say something. Then the huge tree suddenly lost interest and expanded its branches. And Matyev fell hard to the ground.

The fact that he was able to save himself without needing help was a good sign to Eren.

"I combined both magic and physical training. You saw the consequences of trying to do both at the same time."

Excitedly, Eren grabbed Matyev's arm and pulled him up firmly. The skinny elf, whose whole body trembled with adrenaline, had a hard time standing at first. He had many thin cuts on his cheek and arms. If it weren't for the leaves stuck in his blond hair, he would have looked like he had just won a big fight.

"Tell me everything from the beginning." Eren ordered in a commanding tone and sat next to the sundial without approaching the tree.

Anais and Yana, who hugged Matyev, helped him calm down and sit next to Eren. The skinny elf looked at his master with chaotic excitement. He was sure that his lord would love him more after he said everything.

With a strange loyalty not unlike his sisters', he would do anything for a "well done" from Eren.

"Master, as far as I can tell, if we talk insistently enough and have close or directly physical contact, plants can hear our voices."

WHAT!

With an excited face Eren gave the order. "Show me now!"

Matyev got up with Eren's help. He had just sat and didn't have the time to rest but he was happy. He took deep breaths while leaning on his Master for a while. As an elf Matyev hadn't sweated despite being under the sun for a long time, but he looked a bit bad in his torn clothes. Then he reached out to the tree.

"If we communicate with grass or flowers, I think we need to touch them, or we need something else I don't know. I couldn't communicate with them. We can talk to a big tree like this without even touching it. But still touching them makes things easier.

Also I say "talk" because they don't like being commanded."

Actually, a few hours ago when Eren left here, Matyev didn't know what to do. Then he decided to do the first thing that came to his mind. Instinctively, he tried to talk to the tree with a calm and cowardly voice. In this way, he successfully established his first communication and made the tree move its branches. Then he pushed harder and even made the tree lower its branches all the way down.

Everything changed minutes ago. Matyev started feeling tired and distracted for an unknown reason. The small and large experiments he had been working on for hours had spent something from his body. Mana. But he didn't know then.

Matyev got caught up in his excitement and tried to command the tree, but things got heated. Despite not being enchanted, the massive tree wrapped one of its large branches threateningly around Matyev's waist and lifted him into the air.

Now calm and aware of his mistake, Matyev would not make the same mistake again.

He spoke to the tree with great concentration. Although he didn't realize it, the sentences he constructed were rhymed and somewhat melodic.