The Elf Journey In The Western Fantasy World-Chapter 136: Secrets Beneath the Petals

But wasn’t the merfolk’s magic power always known for its wild ferocity?

The last one was the first-place winner of the plant appreciation festival — Ice flower.

It was strange enough that it had no inherited memories, but it also carried a mysterious energy being in his mind, which seemed to bear traces of some kind of rule.

And they all seemed oblivious to each other’s strangeness, or if they did notice, they collectively chose to ignore it.

That was truly odd.

But the strangest of all was his friend’s child.

How exactly did this little elf manage to gather such a mysterious and puzzling people in one place?

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After confirming there was indeed something odd about the Ice flower, Eoryun silently buried the matter deep in his heart.

He planned to find a good opportunity to test the system-bound Ice flower, since he had his own suspicions about its origin.

Weren’t there plenty of examples in novels where transmigrators recognized each other using secret codes from Earth?

For instance if he sang BTS’s song in front of him, he didn’t believe that this Ice flower who had a background similar to his would be able to resist replying with the second half of the song upon hearing the first.

Everything was ready. Now he just had to wait for a dark and windy night, avoid everyone, and then go meet the Ice flower in secret to confirm identities.

Before that, he also had to double-check where the Ice flower was being kept.

Hopefully, there weren’t any strange formations placed around it, and no demon servants stationed to watch over it.

Eoryun knew perfectly well that he was about to do something shady.

Feeling guilty like a thief, he didn’t even dare answer his companions’ questions properly.

Every time someone tried to talk to him, he mumbled a few vague words and brushed them off, not even daring to meet anyone’s eyes for fear of being exposed for what he was planning.

Of course, Eoryun had no idea that it was precisely because of his unnatural and evasive behavior that many people had already begun to grow suspicious.

Take his companions, for example — even the demon clansmen walking alongside them found it unbearable to watch.

Dear heavens, where did this overly naïve (stupid) hybrid merfolk come from? They clearly remembered the merfolk people as a race both wise and brave.

After all, during the chaotic wars of a thousand years ago, who knew how many people had been played to death by the merfolk?

So this hybrid merfolk standing in front of them... was he just an anomaly among merfolk?

Perhaps all races shared one common trait — a love for watching drama without concern for escalating the chaos.

When faced with such blatantly obvious but half-hearted concealment, they all chose to act like they didn’t see anything, while secretly testing Eoryun in ways he didn’t notice.

And sure enough, under their casual probing, they discovered a few things.

Every time he was suddenly called upon, Eoryun’s eyes would instinctively avoid the person calling him.

His gaze would drift, and regardless of who called him, he always looked in the same direction.

To confirm it wasn’t a mistake, some of them deliberately turned their heads to look in the same direction he did when he glanced over.

And every time they did this, they were amazed to discover — Eoryun would become visibly more nervous.

The others in the group exchanged meaningful glances, and an identical guess surfaced in all their hearts: Oh~ so that’s what’s going on.

Illiya lowered his head to look at the Ice flower resting in his hands, and couldn’t help but click his tongue silently.

He couldn’t quite understand why Eoryun was sneaking glances at the Ice flower or what he planned to do with it.

After all, he had never heard of Ice flowers having any particular effect on merfolk.

Not to mention, the Ice flower’s nature didn’t even align with that of a certain young master, right?

All in all, a young master who usually didn’t care much for external things suddenly becoming obsessed with a magical plant he clearly didn’t need — that was suspicious enough to warrant careful examination.

Then again, thinking further, this particular Eoryun was clearly walking a "challenge heaven and earth" kind of protagonist in the hot blooded fantasy novel.

What if he also had an "old man in the ring"? What if the Ice flower was the exact thing this ring-dwelling old man needed?

After all — anything was possible.

Illiya thought with a deadpan expression.

Sebastian had previously witnessed the rather astonishing feat of a merfolk being able to touch another’s spiritual power without suffering any backlash — something only elves were naturally capable of.

Combined with his unexpected discovery of the mysterious energy cluster and the current guilty behavior of that merfolk, he could pretty much deduce a rough outline of what was going on.

It was likely that this energy cluster carried by the Ice flower had piqued the merfolk’s interest, so he was probably planning to do something sneaky.

Therefore, to witness something interesting unfold, Sebastian decided he needed to make a few extra moves to help this half-blood merfolk smoothly carry out his plan.

Like, for example, making it easier for the merfolk to come into contact with the Ice flower.

He had an idea.

Sebastian smoothly steered the conversation back to the day’s Plant Appreciation Festival, "...His Majesty’s first Plant Appreciation Festival was quite the success today. But I’m really curious, Ke’Oth. You’re known for killing everything you try to grow, so how on earth did you manage to grow a magic plant that’s awakened sentience?"

Pinison joined in seamlessly with the butler’s words. His expression was honest and simple, and as he spoke, he scratched his head with one hand, looking slightly embarrassed.

"I was also really surprised that you and N’zall of all people managed to grow a sentient magical plant."

As soon as he finished his sentence, Pinison realized how ambiguous his words sounded.

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