Chapter 200: Tree Spirit Baby Naqiya
Tree spirit babies are different from human babies. Although they are not even as big as a human baby's arm when they are just born, they can grow to the same IQ as a six or seven-year-old human baby within a few months.
Normally, tree spirits of this age would have just learned to detach their roots from the soil and transform fully into human form, walking on the earth. But Naqia was different. As the first tree spirit to be given a name by the headmaster, she seemed to have received a special blessing, naturally behaving differently from other tree spirits.
She learned in just a few days what an ordinary tree spirit baby would take a month to learn. While ordinary tree spirit babies were still ignorant and doing things obediently according to the requirements of their elders, Naqiya already had many ideas that seemed very childish and rebellious to her elders.
For example, upon learning about the humiliating history of the Tree Spirits, who had been enslaved for nearly a hundred years and had not yet regained their sovereignty, Naqia became furious and transformed into a curious baby, asking her elders every day when they would attack the Kingdom of Theodore to take back their territory and dignity.
Yes, when other tree spirit babies didn't understand what territory and dignity were, Naqia already knew that he had to take back these two crucial things.
However, in response to her innocent and naive words, the elders always smiled bitterly and told her that their tree spirit clan did not have strong power and could only barely protect themselves, and this was only possible with the protection of the fantasy paradise.
Naqia was shocked by the weakness of her own race. She could not accept that the race that she thought was powerful and beautiful was actually the weakest in the fantasy park.
After a period of depression, Naqia suddenly came up with an idea. "Since we don't have a strong offensive force ourselves, why not tame those powerful races to serve as our guards?"
The elders began to laugh at her naiveté again, saying, "Since they are a powerful race, how can we give them orders? And how can we guarantee that we won't be retaliated against?"
Naqiya said: "Then we can give it a try."
Her childish words made the elders laugh. "But no matter how powerful a guard is, how can they compare to a god? The Four Seasons Goddess worshipped by the Kingdom of Theodore is so powerful. Even if we defeat Theodore's army, we will never be able to defeat the Four Seasons Goddess."
Nakia refused to let go of the topic. "But Theodore has the Goddess of the Four Seasons, and we also have the Director! The great Director will surely be able to defeat the Goddess of the Four Seasons."
The elders said: "But we are not the director's followers, we are just his employees! How can we have the nerve to ask him to take back our territory and dignity for us?"
Naqiya said innocently, "Then let's go to the headmaster of Faith Garden!"
The elders shook their heads: "The director forbids us from believing in Him, nor does he allow any race in the park to erect a statue of Him privately."
"Nazia, we know what you're thinking, but this isn't an easy task. It might require several generations of effort. You're just a baby now, so don't worry about it. It's more important for you to grow up happily."
Nakia became furious. "But if we weren't in paradise now, but were still in Theodore's slave camp, how could I have grown up happily? I should be being abused and toyed with by Theodore's humans just like you were when you were little!"
The elders were shocked by her rich vocabulary. This was probably the smartest baby in the history of their tree spirit clan.
Naqiya was standing among the leaves at the time, her head held high as she greeted the elders. She clenched her fists and shouted, "Just give up on yourselves. I'm going to seize this opportunity and show you what I can do!"
Then Naqia jumped down from the tree nimbly, slipped into the grass and disappeared.
Despite his bold words, Naqia couldn't come up with any good ideas for a long time.
Every day she either stayed in the Tree Spirit Children's Area to play with the children, or visited the territories of other exotic races. At first, when she realized how popular she was among these human tourists, she thought about asking for their help.
She said to the human tourists, "Can you help us, the tree spirits, to avenge our Kingdom of Theodore and reclaim our territory and dignity?"
The human tourists began to speak something she couldn't quite understand. They were saying, "Ah, is this considered a mission?"
"Now, apart from killing monsters every day, there are basically no NPC quests! Could it be that we are so lucky to have come across this?"
They were very happy and said, “Yes, we do.”
And then, nothing happened. They opened their phones and muttered, "There's no task listed in the app! Is the baby tree spirit just teasing us?"
"That's right, the Theodore Kingdom is just background information and it's not open to the public, so how could they possibly start a war?"
The human tourists just left like that. The baby tree spirit understood what they said. She was a little angry and a little discouraged. After thinking about it again and again, she decided not to ask humans for help again. After all, although they were separated by a world, they were still human beings!
If the Tree Spirits' territory and dignity need to be reclaimed by humans, then the Tree Spirits have failed miserably. When people mention Tree Spirits, they'll say, "Oh, that weak race that was enslaved by humans and relied on them to regain their territory!"
The tree spirit baby Naqia decided to find a new way. But for a baby, this was too difficult. Furthermore, she often wandered into other races' territories, and they worried that she would steal their business.
But the tree baby didn't want to stay in the children's area all day. The elders there would lecture her every time they saw her. So the tree baby ran out of the children's area, even out of all the operating areas of the park, and ran to the undeveloped wilderness behind.
The Fantasy Park is vast. Besides the daily operations, there's a large undeveloped area at the back. While there's nothing there, the park's director has fenced off the edge with a wall. While the wall isn't high, it's incredibly powerful, supposedly to prevent outsiders from sneaking into the park. (In reality, it's to prevent the peculiar races and members of the Four Churches from escaping.)
When the tree spirit baby Naqia was bored, she would explore the wilderness. One day, she discovered a group of white-haired mice there. Unlike the gray-skinned wild mice that human tourists hated, the white fur on these mice looked clean, their teeth and claws were very sharp, and they had some supernatural powers. They were not ordinary animals, but extraordinary creatures.
So Naqia worked hard to use his innate skills to tame them, turning this group of seemingly powerful white-haired rats into his subordinates.
Naqiya made a great wish, "One step at a time. Today, I, Naqiya, can tame these white-haired rats. In the future, I, Naqiya, will be able to lead a powerful army. I will start accumulating strength from today!"
However, it is difficult to feed an army. Although there are only a dozen white-haired rats, these extraordinary creatures have a huge appetite and they don't like to eat grass in the wild. Even if Naqia steals his own rations a little bit every day to feed them, it is still not enough.
So one night, she drove these white-haired mice into the business area of the park and began to search for suitable food. These white-haired mice, who were good at eating ordinary food, burrowed under the soil and found the food stored by the rolling sheep.
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Under the night sky, Navia, the leader of the tree spirits in the children's area, was filled with apology as she shamefully held down the struggling tree spirit baby. "I'm sorry, we didn't keep an eye on the child. We will double the compensation for the food the child stole from you."
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