I'm Really Not the Demon God's Lackey Chapter 438: Witch of Trees

The fruit beneath the inverse tree seemed to have existed for thousands of years, and the young girl within had been sleeping for a thousand years. She was the pillar of Norzin, the one that guarded the entire city of steel.

Barr, the de facto leader of the adjudication bureau, accepted the mission of guarding this tree when he was very young, but in fact, he realized that the tree didn’t need any care.

After waiting for more than a thousand years, Barr recognized that perhaps his role was just that of a key. A key to awaken the girl within the fruit—the Witch of Trees, Fraxinus.

Although Barr had control, he had never used this key. And now, the Witch of Trees had broken out of her shell?

While Barr couldn’t be considered a good person, he, too, had quite some sentiments, having guarded the Witch of Trees for over a thousand years, among which the most important was fear. The witch who could shake the whole Norzin with a slight movement of her body was about to awaken. A heavy sense of trepidation filled his heart.

He pointed at everyone and cursed, "You disrespectful bunch! All of you will pay the price for disturbing Fraxinus."

Everyone looked at each other in confusion. Barr’s face was filled with fright as if he were afraid of the witch’s punishment. He immediately ran to the front of the witch's fruit, facing away from it, like he was condemning everyone.

Melissa watched the fruit in amazement. She recalled the smile of the girl within the fruit, and it didn’t seem like she was a bad person.

A green arm stretched out from the broken fruit surface, smooth and pale like jade as everyone stared at the girl’s movements intently.

The fruit was forcefully broken, and the girl within slowly sat up. Her skin was pale green, and her hair was like leaves floating in the breeze. Her flawless body seemed to be filled with the vitality of this inverse tree.

"Goddess..." Barr looked at Fraxinus in astonishment, then abruptly kneeling, knocking his knees on the ground in a particularly painful way. A strange smile

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