The white haired man's name was Silvan, a guy from Twilight household, Twilight household are one of the most famous and powerful household of the Aethos kingdom. High humans are almost completely opposite to each other as one think that world is made by the almighty gods and they should worship them, while the other thinks that they are born in this world to find true meaning of life by finding their own path and happiness and there is no need to depend on Gods .
High humans are born with natural innate supernatural abilities. The humans believed that the high humans are the offsprings of ungrateful scums who left the ancient holy land and made their own kingdom after the God abandoned the world.
Silvan brought the mana cage near him and inspected it finding out that, his speculation was right about both treant and dryad were manipulated by dark magic.
He took out a transperant spherical bottle , it had light yellow liquid inside of it. He took the lid off the bottle and sprinkled the potion on dryad. She wanted resist but her escape was close to zero due to being in a floating mana in which she was inside.
As the potion took effect on her , she started to groan as Deep pain assaulted her from inside. Dark yellowish black coloured worm came out of the Dryad, the worm was three inches long with several small legs and two long tentacles like structure on it's head.
Silvan used telekinesis to capture the worm put it in the empty potion bottle that previously used on Dryad . Then he released the girl from the mana cage after making it to close to the ground before opening it. Dryad after being released looked very thin and devoid of energy.
" Silvan came near the dryad and touched her head, she looked at him but didn't make any movement or any sound came out of her mouth."
" A dryad is spirit , who lives on certain type of tree from it's birth. They can only move freely and can manifest themselves around a certain fixed area around the tree." Said black haired man
Silvan said in annoyance and sarcastic voice " thanks for your valuable information." and continued " I know that a dryad will die if it's tree is dead, but something doesn't add up here, as she is still alive. ".
" Is that so ! , what did you find out than?" said the black haired man.
" If you will remain silent for a while I can concentrate on what I am doing "
" Whatever you say."
Silvan's hand glowed in white light as he concentrated his full mind on it flood of information started to play again his mind .
He specifically searching for the birth her finding a white colored memory like a cloud . as he touched the surface of the cloud , he got absorbed in it
In the middle region of the forest a dryad was crying below the oak tree, the oak tree was infected . All of it's roots were been infected by something unknown. It's roots and branches had become black.
Not just the oak tree , the trees in forest were dying at alarming rate. Lakes were becoming poisonous. Monsters were becoming either mutated or died after suffering from infection
Just as the situation was out of control , the Pan beast took the lead and started cleansing the all of the forest.
A pan beast is half goat and half human, a head and torso of a goat and the lower body of that human. It's hind legs were of that goat and the hands were just like any huma covered with white fur.
When the Pan beast restoring the forest near the oak tree and the crying dryad it restored the tree , which also led it to mutating in a mutated tree .
When the dryad saw what happened , she got overjoyed as the mutated tree has a longer life span and are very intelligent so she found a companion that will stay with her until their lives ends.
But the seed implanted by dark mages , that had been growing inside the oak tree didn't die. The dark kept there experiment running on for to get more data
When they found that the oak tree which they had planted the seed to control the dryad has been mutated, they kept eyes on it and experimented on it whenever they got the chance, as the dryad was not present , so she doesn't get suspicious.
As time gone by , it evolved into the treant . Treant made the dryad to it the fruit given by the dark mages to let it eat leading to the current situation.
Current time,
Silvan told everything that he understood to the black haired man. After hearing the story , black haired man said " If they had a strong connection with each other than this might work."
He lifted the dryad and placed near the corpse of the treant , but nothing happened.
" What you were trying to do.?, it doesn't work like that. A medium is need.. before he could finish his sentance the Pan beast appeared in front of them.
" The beast of fertility and nature, a pan beast. It's our honor to meet you" said Silvan.
Pan beast at the both of them and bowed and said " I might don't know what might have happened here but I am grateful for your kindness to not killing her " .
He took the monster core out from the treant and crushed it with his bare hands. He removed all the impurities from it than , brought near the mouth of dryad and made her to drink it.
A green light envoloping the dryad appeared as she started to ascend.
" She will ascend in to a catastrophic monster, she will be no longer need to have a tree as a manifestation. " Said Silvan
After the ritual completed, dryad opened her eyes and looked at pan beast and than looked at the corpse of treant for few seconds. She approached it and inspected the treant finding a healthy root, she looked at the Pan beast again.
" Hmm yes that might work." Hearing she got overjoyed and suddenly looked at the surrounding environment she was standing on. Everything was destroyed and death was lingering.
The pan beast used his leg to stomp on the ground as , a light appeared swallowing the whole city, reversing the destruction like it never happened. Monster and humans alike both got healed in seconds, but the dead stayed dead. As the life and death is not something that anyone can control .
Pan beast bowed to them again and started to walk down towards the forest, dryad watched the fading treant body for last time and also bowed and then followed the Pan beast along with remaining few alive monsters.
Selena and Cedar after getting completely recovered and got escorted towards the Silvan and black haired man were present. Black haired man's name was Voltan , he was from the Vaxenroth house hold.
When both Selena and Cedar looked at them no words came out of their mouth .
Voltan looked at them said " we should first try to stabilize the disturbance caused by this incident and after that we can talk about all the things we want."
Cedar said " that will be the best."
Silvan looked at Voltan and said " you know sometimes even person like you can become sensible."
" What do you want to say, that I don't think about someone else". Said Cedar
" May be sometimes you don't". said Silvan.
People started coming out and started to find what had become of their houses , city guards helped everyone to find their way out. A shelter was created for the people who had their home destroyed.
There were also relieved expression of the people whose known once participated in the battle and returned alive. But there was also grief and sadness as many died in battle and will not return again.
The night was long as people either grieving for loss or relieved of being alive. Still in this hard time they supported each other and overcome the hurdles.
Celena and Cedar returned to their with their family, as there home was fine as it was not in the battle zone.
The long night ended, leading to a beautiful morning.
" How is life here, is everything going alright?." asked Silvan to the butler and Martha , as both of them were half high humans that served under him..
" Life is good for them, your young daughter is no more a cold flower or ice queen, rather she has become a warm hearted mature woman who still has little childishness in her."
" That is good to hear" said Silvan
Voltan was becoming impatient asked " what about Cedar" . The butler replied " master has not changed a bit , but now he has someone who controls him however she wants, so it's all good."
Before they can talk more both Selena and Cedar came down in hall room with John. ' so they are my grandfather , it's obvious who is from whose side . It is very easy to guess just by seeing them.
Both of them looked at the child and Cedar said " he looks more like me ." Silvan said in annoyed voice " having black hair doesn't prove anything, his face provides clear evidence of he has gone towards to me than you.".
" So why did you came here ?" said Selena
Both Voltan and Silvan stopped their arguments and became serious and said " it would be better if we sit down and talk. It will take some time."
Silvan and Voltan were friends from young age as they had gone on adventurers together for many times. As they became friends and married and started their own lives still stayed in touch . That is how both Selena and Cedar met each other.
" As you know it has been more than thirty years since you both dropped your house hold names and started your own journey and none of us ever contacted you and after all that we have come here in front of you . So you are right there in a reason that is why we are here." Said Voltan
" Beats me , it might be related to our chid . Which I will reject without hesitation." Said Selena
" Yes we are here is the same reason you said , but not here for taking him with us." Said Silvan
" I appreciate your help yesterday by saving everyone and helping us out and giving some donation for the people but this is a whole different thing." Said Cedar
" Yes I know, we are not here for harming the child , instead we are here for to see how he is developing and is there something we could do like giving a blessing." Said Voltan
Cedar looked at Selena and she nodded and said " you can do it , but I will stop it immediately If I felt something wrong."
Silvan nodded and took the baby from her hands and touched head of the baby with his hand.