LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 250: Chapter 247 - The Grindelwald Plan (3)
Hearing the fairy's words, Asterion's lips lifted into a particularly charming smile with his handsome face. You could call him many things like Monster, Executioner, Murderer, Tyrant, but it was the first time he had been praised as a nice guy.
"Tink, can I ask you something?" Asterion asked as he walked in the direction he was feeling Grindelwald's magical aura, the man was in the North of Avalon.
Tink swung her slender legs back and forth as she looked at Asterion curiously, waiting for his question. She seemed eager to answer, trying to look very intelligent in front of the new friend she had just made.
"Is Vivian still alive?" Asterion asked, his voice trying to sound as casual as possible. The reason for the question was simple, if the Wizard Goddess was alive, he might as well turn around and go back to the Border in the Principality of Andorra.
He was absolutely certain that if Viviane were alive, she would never let Grindelwald's plans come to fruition in the face of the possible consequences of the Dark Lord's plan failing.
"Vivian?" Tink looked confused for a moment, but she soon remembered who Asterion was asking about. "You're talking about the Great Mother!"
Asterion wasn't surprised that the fairies had called Vivian that. As far as he could remember, Vivian possessed an Innate Technique related to Nature, more precisely the manipulation of the Seasons.
It might seem like a weak power, but it wasn't. It was a frightening power, capable of reducing humanity to mere ash or ice if the goddess so wished. It was quite normal for the fairies to have accepted Vivian as their goddess.
"I don't know." Tink showed a puzzled expression, pondering how she could answer her friend's question.
"Every hundred years, our elders sing under the Great Lake to wake up the Great Mother, but no matter how many days, weeks, months and years we sing continuously, she shows no signs of waking up."
Tink spoke such important and valuable information as if it were nothing, like any conversation between friends, without any fear or thought of the consequences her words might cause.
Vivian is dead or in a deep sleep, maybe she's not in Avalon.
These were the three possibilities that Asterion could think of with the little information he had gotten from the naive fairy. Personally, he liked the first and last option. Dead or not in Avalon.
If Vivian was in a deep sleep, Grindelwald's plan would wake the goddess up and, like any woman who hadn't had enough sleep, she would wake up stressed and would probably want to crush the insects that had disturbed her sleep.
"Asty, can you do me a favor?" Tink suddenly asked, drawing Asterion's attention.
"Of course, we're friends, aren't we? Friends help each other." Asterion replied by poking Tink's cheek with his fingers, to the obvious dissatisfaction in the little blonde fairy's expression.
Although dissatisfied with the touch on her face, remembering how everyone treated her like a child, Tink was still very happy with Asterion's words. It was possible that she could finally help the elders get rid of the monster beneath the Great Lake.
"There is a Great Lake in the center of Avalon, the elders are fighting the monster that looks like the one in its shadow. Can you chase it away?" Tink asked with a pleading look on her face, and even though the monster had killed some fairies, she just wanted to chase it away.
Asterion blinked and understood Tink's request; at the same time, it was a great opportunity to investigate whether the Goddess Vivian was dead, asleep or not in Avalon at the moment.
Asterion seemed to hesitate, but in the end he looked determined and reluctantly accepted Tink's request. "All right, guide me towards the Great Lake."
The fairy put a big smile on her face and spun in the air while releasing a large amount of golden glitter into the air, which Asterion subtly collected without the little fairy noticing. How could he let such a rare medicine go to waste to nourish the soil?
"You're the best, Asty!!!" Tink said excitedly, giving Asterion a kiss on the cheek.
Rolling his eyes, Asterion was really surprised to meet such an innocent being as Tinker Bell, but thinking that the fairy had never left Avalon, it was quite normal for her to be so innocent and helpless, trusting a person who had just happened along.
Asterion, under Tink's guidance, changed direction and headed south instead of north, where Grindelwald was located. He had plenty of time before Grindelwald's Plan began, so he wasn't in a hurry and flew over Avalon calmly enjoying the scenery.
With Tink sitting on his shoulder, Asterion gradually got a clear picture of Avalon.
The place had stood still in time for thousands of years. The fauna and flora was completely different from the mainland, with all the species he had seen so far in this place being extinct on the continents, including Red Oak, one of the best materials for wand-making.
In all honesty, Asterion wanted the whole of Avalon for himself, and if the war had no clear objective so far, he had no doubt that everyone wanted a piece of this untouched world full of untapped resources. Only a fool would stand still when he saw such a big cake in front of him.
At the same time, Asterion was surprised to discover from Tink that at each end of the island, there was a completely different biome.
Spring, summer, fall and winter, respectively.
They all coexisted at the same time, and it was also where fairies of different ethnicities lived.
Asterion, for example, was in the Spring Region, the home of the Spring Fairies. However, he saw no other fairy than Tink herself.
To which the fairy replied with all possible sincerity.
"The fairies live in a place called the Hive, given by the Great Mother to the Four Matriarchs of the Seasons, very few fairies leave the Hive and enjoy life sleeping or gardening, painting or singing." Tink replied with a bored tone as she looked at the beautiful surroundings, but something that had become commonplace in her eyes and those of the many fairies.
Asterion nodded, this happened to humans with short lifespans, let alone long-lived beings like Fairies, who could easily live for thousands of years.
It's like traveling to every corner of the world and over time, the landscapes, which were spectacular and beautiful, become something futile and dull in your eyes.
(Note: This is something that happens when you travel a lot, I've read about it and I'm still surprised by this information. I wonder what these people do for fun).
At the same time, he knew that fairy society was a society completely devoid of predators, only those who have nothing to fear can live in such a calm and simple environment.
Asterion continued to ask questions, delving deeper into fairy society and gaining knowledge about Avalon. Every time he heard about something that was extinct or even extremely rare being used by the fairies, he showed a helpless expression full of envy.
The fairies used rare materials and resources as if they were nothing, and this seemed to cause a pain in his chest, as if they were using his fortune to shop.
Without realizing it, the journey lasted about five hours, when Asterion finally found himself facing a huge lake. If he hadn't known it was a lake, he would have thought it was a sea; his eyes couldn't reach the other shore of the lake, showing just how big it was.
The water was a sky blue hue, like a huge mirror reflecting the orange sky, which surprisingly had a four-colored sun, green, yellow, red and white.
Although he knew the difference between the Special Grade and the Divine Grade, which he had theorized, seeing the difference still made him surprised, amazed and eager to obtain such power.
Although he didn't know whether Avalon had been born naturally or artificially, he still admired the power of the Goddess, capable of changing everything within a Barrier.
Suddenly, Asterion's eyes were fixed on the bottom of the lake. As the water was extremely transparent and still, Patriarch Black could perfectly see the bottom of the lake, which was several kilometers deep.
Inside the lake, buried deep down, a huge sea monster was sleeping without moving!
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Next Chapter of the Third Volume: Chapter 248 - The Grindelwald Plan (4), Chapter 249 - The Grindelwald Plan (5), Chapter 250 - The Grindelwald Plan (6), Chapter 251 - The Blasphemy (1), Chapter 252 - The Blasphemy (2), Chapter 253 - The Blasphemy (3), Chapter 254 - The Blasphemy (4), Chapter 255 - The Blasphemy (5), Chapter 256 - Change in the Wizarding World (1), Chapter 257 - Change in the Wizarding World (2), Chapter 258 - Change in the Wizarding World (3), Chapter 259 - Change in the Wizarding World (4), Chapter 260 - Attack of the City of Marseille (1), Chapter 261 - Attack of the City of Marseille (2), Chapter 262 - Attack of the City of Marseille (3), Chapter 263 - Attack of the City of Marseille (4), Chapter 264 - Attack of the City of Marseille (5), Chapter 265 - Attack of the City of Marseille (6), Chapter 266 - Revealing Magic to the World (I), Chapter 267 - Revealing Magic to the World (II).