Let them live with that regret for the rest of their lives!

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Feeling Lily's gaze, Elise chuckled and said, "What? You want to thank me again?"

"No."

Lily turned her head away haughtily, then quickly walked to the spot where the World Tree was rooted.

She looked at the World Tree in her hand, then carefully walked to the center and planted it.

The tiny World Tree began to grow and expand at an extremely rapid pace the moment it took root, and in the blink of an eye, a colossal tree reaching the heavens appeared before everyone's eyes.

Everyone else who was busy stopped in their tracks upon seeing this scene, especially the elves. Looking at the towering World Tree, their eyes were filled with fervor, and many elves even had tears in their eyes.

For them, it was more than just a tree; it was their hope for survival and continuation.

Vivian, who was working, stopped and turned to look at the scenery outside the window, a faint smile curving her lips.

With this World Tree, the Land of Hope has no worries.

In Elise's words, while the Land of Hope can avoid many problems in the early stages, the forbidden areas surrounding it are likely to cause problems later on.

Even with precautions, it will still be very troublesome to deal with.

But if we have the World Tree, then none of these problems will be problems anymore.

All she needs to do now is manage this place well and develop it, then she can make those people pay the price.

For some unknown reason, a cold glint flashed in Vivian's eyes.

"It's truly magnificent!" Elise looked at the giant tree in front of her. Although she had seen it countless times, it still gave her a great shock every time she saw it.

Just then, the World Tree seemed to sense Iris's gaze. Several vines stretched out and rubbed against Iris's face, just like a child being affectionate.

Seeing this, Lily couldn't help but smirk, and then said, "How did you manage to get the World Tree to favor you so much?"

“I also want to know, I feel it should be something I can better emulate,” Elizabeth said matter-of-factly.

Looking at the other person's face, which was almost too beautiful, Lily's complaints were stuck in her throat. Even she couldn't bring herself to say that the other person wasn't good-looking.

Seeing Lily speechless, Elise chuckled and said, "Now that you have time, you can perform the symbiosis ritual."

"it is good."

The symbiotic ritual was not complicated. Lily walked to the World Tree, placed her hand on the trunk, and began to resonate with the World Tree's consciousness.

This is the symbiotic ritual of the Elven race, which allows them to choose to resonate with a special ancient tree or with the World Tree.

It's unclear whether it was because of Iris's presence, but Lily's resonance with the World Tree went very smoothly. Before she could even react, the World Tree had already completed its resonance with her.

It takes her almost a month to resonate with the World Tree in the Forest of Sanctuary.

Lily twitched the corners of her mouth, and just as she was about to tell Elise that she had succeeded, she suddenly felt that something was not quite right.

Even though Elise was still standing there unchanged, why did she appear so beautiful and attractive in his eyes?

Volume 1: Chapter 344 I will come to find you tonight.

"What happened?"

When Elise saw that Lily only placed her hand on it for a moment before letting go, she thought something had happened.

Her voice brought Lily back to her senses. She deliberately avoided looking directly at Elise's face, tilting her head as if she were admiring the scenery: "No, no, this time it went very smoothly, the symbiosis ritual was completed in an instant."

"That's great, why do you seem a little off?" Elise moved closer to Lily and touched her forehead.

Lily was caught off guard by Elise's sudden approach, and a faint blush instantly spread across her fair cheeks, making her even more adorable than before.

She felt that Elise, that wicked woman, was doing it on purpose. As a ninth-level being, even if her body was completely drained, she shouldn't be sick.

Lily has finally realized that the reason she finds Elise attractive is definitely because of the World Tree.

The tree was already very close to Elise, and after she underwent a symbiotic ritual with the World Tree, she was also somewhat affected mentally.

This effect would have been negligible if she were in her prime, but she is currently in a weakened state, so she is still somewhat affected.

Resisting the urge to nuzzle Iris's palm with her little head, Lily slapped Iris's hand away in annoyance: "I'm fine, I'm just a little weak, I need to go back and rest now!"

"Okay, I'll take you back."

"No, no need!"

After Lily finished speaking, she disappeared from Iris's sight. Now that she was living in symbiosis with the World Tree, she could once again use her teleportation ability at will within the World Tree's protective range.

Faced with Lily's sudden disappearance, Elise couldn't help but tilt her head. She hadn't gone too far in teasing her this time, so why did she feel like something was off about Lily?

If it weren't for the fact that Lily wasn't feeling well, Elise would have gone to her place directly to confirm it again.

With Vivian here in the Land of Hope, Elise basically doesn't have much to do.

She had originally planned to just stroll around and then return to the manor to rest, but as she walked, she came to a wooden house, the place where she and Teresa used to live. To her surprise, the wooden house had been rebuilt in just one day.

And it looks exactly like the wooden house I remember.

Just then, the door of the cabin opened, and Teresa slowly walked out.

As she was about to get some furniture, a rare look of panic appeared on her face when she saw Elise.

But now that she had been caught, there was no way she could leave even if she wanted to. Helpless, Theresa could only slowly walk up to Iris and say, "Why are you here?"

"I just came to take a look. I originally wanted to build the wooden house, but I didn't expect you to be faster than me."

"I... I've been relatively free lately, so I found some things to do. And that's all."

This reason was somewhat far-fetched, and even Theresa herself didn't believe it, but Elise didn't care and just smiled and said, "May I go in and take a look?"

“This place originally was…” Theresa wanted to say that this place originally belonged to her and Elise, but when she thought that her relationship with Elise hadn’t reached that point yet, she couldn’t bring herself to say it.

"Why don't you continue talking?"

"Nothing to say, just go in if you want." Theresa ignored Elise and quickly walked towards the teleportation array.

Elise chuckled softly, then slowly walked into the cabin. Although the cabin was still missing furniture, the layout was exactly the same as when she and Theresa lived here in her previous life.

For once, a hint of nostalgia flashed in Elise's eyes.

She originally wanted to live here with Theresa forever, to live a carefree life for a long time. However, the curse on Theresa caused problems, forcing her to return to the Cursed Land to find a way to resolve the source of the curse.

Then there is no more.

After an unknown amount of time, the door of the cabin was pushed open again, and Teresa returned to the cabin once more.

As soon as she entered the room, she saw Elise sitting by the window looking at the scenery outside. Even though it was probably the first time she had seen this scene, that familiar feeling surged up again.

Theresa remembers recalling this scene countless times when she lived here.

Every time I return here, I hope that person will gently say to me something like, "You're back."

"You're back~" Hearing the door open, Iris turned to look at Theresa with a gentle smile on her face.

As the scene before him overlapped with his memories, the urge to keep Elise by his side forever resurfaced.

She bit her lower lip, trying to calm her inner turmoil, then nodded and said, "I went back and bought some furniture."

"Let me help too."

Theresa wanted to say no, but Elise completely ignored her opinion and moved closer to her to start giving her pointers.

After the two of them worked hard, the once empty wooden house gradually became more complete, but it still lacked a sense of life and was somewhat different from what Teresa had imagined.

Just then, Elise's voice suddenly rang out: "Actually, you don't have to recreate it exactly according to your memory. Memory represents things that have already passed. Now you can just do it according to your own preferences."

Of course she knew what Elise was saying, but that's exactly how she liked it.

Seeing Theresa remain silent, Elise smiled helplessly, then glanced at the darkening sky and said, "It's getting late, let's go back."

"Ah."

Theresa responded softly, then followed Iris out of the cabin.

When the two returned to the vicinity of the teleportation array, the little maid and Elena were already waiting for them there.

"Let's go back."

After stepping into the teleportation array and experiencing a moment of disorientation, the group returned to the manor's basement.

The maid immediately went to prepare for a bath, and Theresa quickly left Elise's side. After what had just happened, she felt that if she stayed here any longer, she might lose control of her emotions.

After the two left, Elena was about to slip away as well, but she was stopped by Elise after taking only a few steps.

She instinctively turned around and found Elise staring intently at her.

"what?"

"I will come to see you tonight."

Volume 1: Chapter 345 - I Saw Something I Shouldn't Have Seen

Late at night, in Flora's magic workshop.

Flora looked at the magical flying swords placed on the table. After another round of improvements, she had added magic array modules to these magical flying swords.

Each sword is engraved with a portion of a magic circle. When needed, these flying swords can be arranged in a specific order to form various magic circles.

Using these magic circles requires extremely strong mental power, but if it's my sister, there shouldn't be any problem.

What she's struggling with now is whether or not to add modules for magic-aggregating beams to these flying swords. While this would greatly enhance their ranged combat capabilities, it would also increase the size of the magical flying swords.

Flora has been agonizing over this for over half an hour.

She checked the time, then decisively got up and left the magic workshop.

You won't get anywhere by worrying about this on your own. It's better to just ask your sister, since she's the one who uses the magic flying sword.

Although it was already late, she knew that her sister had the ability to fall asleep and wake up at any time, and she believed that her sister would not mind her disturbing her at this time.

Soon, Flora entered the manor and arrived at her sister's room. Just as she cautiously opened the door a crack, some strange noises suddenly came from the previously quiet room.

The naive Flora paused for a moment, then curiously peered through the crack.

Before long, a faint blush appeared on Flora's fair cheeks, and the blush spread rapidly, eventually even turning her ears bright red.

After an unknown amount of time, Flora carefully closed the door again and tiptoed back into her magic workshop.

Originally, she was preoccupied with how to improve the magic flying sword, but because she had accidentally glimpsed something she shouldn't have seen, her mind is now filled with the two people entangled together.

So, that's how girls do that kind of thing?

At this moment, Flora suddenly felt as if she had grown up a lot.

Given the situation she just witnessed, it's impossible to get a solution to improve things tonight, and she's not in the mood for that anymore. All Flora wants right now is to take a nice shower and calm down.

……

The next day, when Elena woke up, the sun was already streaming into the room through the gaps in the curtains.

For someone who always wakes up early, sleeping until now is a rare occurrence.

But there was nothing that could be done about it; after all, that wicked woman Elise sneaked into my room in the middle of the night.

Although she felt completely drained, she had to admit that Elise in her succubus form was truly...

Just as Elena was reminiscing about what happened last night, there was a knock on the door: "Sister, are you awake?"

"Wait a moment, I'll be right there."

While speaking, Elena used her magical hand to open the window, then quickly tidied up the clothes scattered on the floor, and even changed the bed. From her practiced movements, it was clear that this was definitely not the first time she had done this.

After tidying everything up, Elena opened the door and let her sister into the room.

As soon as Flora entered her sister's room, she smelled the scent of Elise, or rather, the fragrance of morning dew and flowers.

Noticing her sister inhaling, Elena coughed lightly twice and said, "What do you think of the aromatherapy I just bought?"

Elena had already prepared the morning dew flower scented diffuser, since Elise smelled so good that the whole room was filled with her fragrance. Fortunately, her scent was that of morning dew flowers, so as long as the corresponding diffuser was prepared in advance, there wouldn't be any problems.

"It smells quite nice, very similar to Miss Elise's scent."

Hearing her sister mention Elise, Elena's expression stiffened slightly: "It's just ordinary morning dew floral scented perfume. It's normal that it smells similar to hers. But what brings you here so early?"

Flora wanted to say that it was getting late, as she knew her sister liked to get up early to exercise, probably because of what happened last night.

For some reason, Flora avoided eye contact with her sister somewhat embarrassedly and whispered, "It's about the modification of the magic flying sword."

Flora quickly shared her thoughts with her sister. There was a reason why she was in such a hurry: Iris had said that they would be setting off for the Holy Kingdom in a few days, and she needed to complete the modification of her sister's magical artifact within that time.

"I'll install some more. Anyway, I have a lot of magic flying swords, so I can just switch them out later."

"Alright, then I'll go back and modify the magical device."

After saying that, Flora turned and left. Actually, she wanted to remind her sister that the scent of the morning dew flower was a little different from the scent on Miss Iris, but if she said it, the scene would be very awkward.