208 An Unpaid Blood Deb (1/2)

As if sensing Leon's gaze, the tree spirit glanced over after it finished savoring the last trace of the tier-2 healing pill like a child would with its candy. \”Rao?\”

\”I have a favor to ask,\” Leon said directly.

\”Rao!\” The tree spirit uttered without waiting for Leon to say what the favor was. The tree spirit struck an upright and poised standing while facing in a different direction before it reluctantly reached out an open palm in demand while giving Leon a sneaky sideways one-eye glance.

It did not take long for Leon to guess what it was implying. It was a great elder tree. It will not lower itself to do menial tasks for lesser beings, let alone favors without offerings. There was no free lunch in the world. However, it will reluctantly agree if Leon offered it more healing pills.

Leon smiled wryly, before asking helplessly, \”Oi, oi. I am telling you right now, I don't have that many pills left, alright? How much do you want in order to help me find the runaway spy?\”

The reason Leon thought the tree spirit would be able to find the spy easily was simple. The whole elder tree belonged to itself, it can understand everything that happens within a certain radius of itself like a large-scale divine sense.

Leon wouldn't be fooled by the appearance of the small tree spirit. It was after all the tree spirit of an elder tree at the peak of its growth. The tree spirit only manifested itself to such a small size for easier communication. If it wanted to, its manifested spirit would be no smaller than the elder tree itself. Looking for someone on its own body wouldn't even break a sweat, but even so, it was still demanded something for its 'efforts'.

Leon's face twitched when the tree spirit raised up five fingers.

\”You want another 50 tier-1 healing pills?\” Leon said in a low tone. However, the tree spirit shook its head. It just tasted a tier-2 healing pill, why would it settle for anything lesser?

\”Rao!\”

The tree spirit made several gestures urgently in order to get its message across. Leon sucked in a deep breath and said darkly, \”You want 50 tier-2 healing pills for such a small favor? Why don't you go rob a bank instead!? 5 tier-2 healing pills! Any more than that then you can forget about the deal.\”

\”Rao!\” The tree spirit remained unflinching in the face of his threat to cancel the deal and even looked at him with antagonizing smugness like it was daring him to find the spy on his own. However, it cannot guarantee that it would not play some tricks and make it difficult for him, even if he scours through the entire place to search for the spy. Also, it was confused about what a bank was, but why would it need to rob a bank when it can rob him instead?

Just as Leon was about to explode and call off the deal, the tree spirit quickly made a concession and pointed at the little pool of water that reduced by a large portion after the treants all took a dip in it. Even the supposedly treants that were burnt to death got revived after being tossed into the pool of water. The only ones that didn't revive were the ones that had their emerald jewel destroyed.

\”You want water like that instead of my healing pills?\” Leon calmed himself down and asked.

The tree spirit answered with a vigorous nod.

Leon looked tree spirit suspiciously and said in doubt, \”From the beginning, the water is what you really wanted, right?\”

\”Rao.\”

The tree spirit easily admitted abashedly once the question was raised. Leon raised an eyebrow and began looking at the tree spirit differently. The tree spirit might have the mentality of a child, but it was after all a 10,000-year-old tree. One should not look down on it, lest they are in for a reckoning.

\”Fair enough.\”

Leon only contemplated for a moment, before he agreed. Although the water was also important for hydrating the team and he couldn't recharge his ice elements quickly in the underground, it could still be done nevertheless due to the presence of elements in the air that could be used in the creation of water, albeit at a slow rate. At least compared to 50 tier-2 healing pills, his heart would not bleed.

Leon conjured another body of water of similar size and sent it over to the tree spirit. However, the tree spirit was just a manifested projection of its own spirit and couldn't absorb the water immediately.

Some rumbling was heard before a few roots appeared from below and sucked the body of water dry in an instance with its tips. The treants weren't surprised by the tree roots appearance, but everyone from Leon's group was very surprised.

'The length of the roots is greater than its height huh.' Leon mused.

\”It's time for you to honor your side of the deal. Even better if you can bring the spy to me.\”

The tree spirit nodded happily. Although the small pool of water was far from quenching its thirst, it was still very satisfying to be able to drink water for the first time. The spy's location was instantly found and one of the tree spirit's roots went straight for him.

Surprisingly, yet at the same time not surprisingly, the direction came from the village! In a short moment, the horrified scream of a man was heard.

\”Arghh!! What the hell is this!? Why is it catching me again!?! Fuck! Let me go! I didn't do anything!\”