Arise: Dark Crusader: A Dark LitRPG Adventure by Jez Cajiao

Author:Jez Cajiao [Cajiao, Jez]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: MAH Publishings Ltd
Published: 2022-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One

I walked from the cave several hours later, stopping outside and looking up at the gentle rain that fell from the canopy of leaves overhead, and I wondered what I’d done.

The Erlking hadn’t used any tricks to make me agree. This was a choice that was too important, and as such, it’d left me to decide things naturally.

The other conditions were simple. Well, they were complicated to fuck in reality, but in comparison, they were easy.

Return the dryads to the world? Rewild the area currently known as the Sahara? Stop the runaway greenhouse effect? Check, check, and fucking check.

Yeah, nice simple ones, but...but the Erlking would give me some of the tools I needed and set me on the path to gaining a hell of a lot more. It wasn’t like they’d given me a hard deadline to do it all by. After all, I could take a little time and work on the problem.

“The cost is always highest to those who can afford to pay it,” the dryad whispered, stopping next to me. I glanced at her.

“Surely it’s the other way around? The cost is highest for those who can’t afford it?” I asked, only to have her shake her head.

“The cost that you cannot meet matters not. If I say that you will die in a minute unless you gift me snow from the forgotten mountain, you would shrug and turn away. No way to achieve it, and thus nobody would care beyond a little sadness or rage. Taking all that can be taken, however? That is the highest cost.”

“I can pay the debt.”

“You can, or the Erlking would not have asked nor offered. You are what is needed, but the cost is high. As such, I will aid you.”

“Really?” I asked, glancing at her again and seeing a tremendously beautiful, and again, goddamn naked woman standing there leaning against the wall next to me. “Uh...could you stop that?” I asked. “It’s kinda distracting.”

“Sorry,” she said, smiling and blurring. Her skin shifted, the eyes becoming more inhuman, the skin darkening as whorls and patterns grew more pronounced. Her hair shifted to a more mosslike consistency. “It’s not intentional, but a reflection of my need.”

“Your need?”

“I am a dryad bonded to one of the last trees of its kind on the planet. To produce more, I require fresh seeds and land. Yet, to achieve either, I must leave the sanctuary of the Erlking and possibly open myself to being destroyed like my sisters.”

“Your sisters? How many are there?” I asked, looking her over and noting how inhuman she looked now, while only seconds before...I shook my head and straightened.

“There were once thousands of us. No longer. There are four of us left. My sister Barishka is in a hidden valley far to the south, Annai is graced with life on a small island far, far from here, south and east, almost the entire world between us. Little Jamya is buried in the mountains far to the west. A landslide long ago consumed her valley, leaving only small fractions of her exposed.

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