The Game Rune System

Tetsuya left his hidden pathway.

Before he could raise his eyes at other fairies, their voices pushed him down as they all happily responded to their return. Relieved that their queen returned safely, the fairies teemed around them and asked the same question in many ways, "The queen, are you okay?"

The game master took his lady out the pathway and claimed one of the trees for themselves.

In the meantime, Maya and Mayu spoke to the fairies, "We have safely returned, but the queen needs our forest's help to nourish her body. We also have to find as many fairies as possible!" By using the game master's minimap, the fairies' coordination skyrocketed and they could go around the forest safer.

They still couldn't save other fairies en masse, but it was a matter of time before the queen and the game master formed some kind of plan for retribution!

For now, all the strongest had to recuperate.

Tetsuya obviously regenerated himself within Adventurer Yuhi's hands, his face digging in her bosom.

As for the queen, she sat down in the biggest tree filled with vitality. Her eyes closed, she seemed like a serene and the wisest fairy. However, her mind swarmed with many thoughts that conjured into plans.

She couldn't try out all her plans, though, "They didn't even dare to help us... Sheltered their race in formations and waited for our horror to end..." The neighboring races couldn't be used as allies. The more she thought about them, the less she wanted to actually associate herself with them.

The queen's plans began to break one by one, but then she opened her eyes, "Scums will be our weapon."

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"Scums?" Tetsuya asked.

Within his tree, that teemed with a little musky smell that had yet to air itself out, Tetsuya faced the queen who wasn't surprised about Tetsuya's messy hair nor the fragrance floating about them.

She faced him with proper and royal etiquette that put many nobles such as Henryk to shame. Her eyes never left Tetsuya as she explained what had formed in her mind.

The plan was to use scums and toxic air, "They desperately want to get those pills and change their future. We can give them delusions."

With Tetsuya's potions that could be turned into pills, Maya wanted to mix both the fire resistance and pure sacred spring water that would implode the devils later on. At the beginning, the fire resistance would give them hope to train and change their futures. They would work hard and join the devil's palace up in the horizon.

Later on, the queen's sacred spring would kick in and torture those devils from within.

"By the end of your pathway, the worst of the worst gather. We can use them to enter the devil palace and spread our pills here." Maya said and before she could explain, Tetsuya cut and parted his lips.

"They would get bullied by stronger devils and those would snatch our pills from them," He replied and immense joy chirped within the queen's eyes.

She nodded, "Exactly. The stronger like to bully and we don't have to make sure that devils have that kind of side. It also can be a method to stop the competition, but we want our pills to spread within the devil palace and make them pay the price for attacking us!"

The queen's method was commendable, but they question whether they could make such a pill had yet to be answered.

Tetsuya and Maya decided to try this immediately.

They stood up and went to the queen's room while Milady Yuhi got left behind. She decided to clean their current headquarters and so Tetsuya thanked her with a deep kiss. Then, he strutted toward the queen's tree.

No fairy found it weird and they even raised their voices to cheer on them.

Tetsuya laughed at all those fairies being so supportive and gentle. They were all nice women, "I can't find any male fairy, though..." He didn't want to ask, but surrounded by fairy women only, Tetsuya wanted to ask many questions.

He just asked one of them, "Did the devils just kill them instantly?"

"The devils wanted to see death immediately as if they had been lacking it. I can only think that they have never seen the fairy' death with how disgusting their underground is... So our male fairies became the priority targets to relish on death." The queen narrowed her eyes and looked down sadly.

Tetsuya replied, "Surely, some fairy males must have survived somewhere..."

"My guess is that, if not dead, then our neighboring races must have sheltered them." They wanted a bloodline, the fairy bloodline that could turn into rune mutation later on! And those male fairies had fairy runes anyway, so they could share it later on to keep the fairy bloodline alive.

The queen's eyes shone with red glitter, "I will visit them later."

"Since I got such a proposition from you before, I also want to go with you." Tetsuya smiled, "I want to see the faces of more scum." And then jested to the queen's heart's content.

"I would like to have you by my side," The queen accepted the request, then the tree spread its doors before her. The heavy and tough bark spread itself, revealing the comfy queen's chamber that exuded sweet fragrance.

Tetsuya stepped in, inhaled deeply and commented, "I feel a little sleepy. Is it because of my exercise earlier?" He yet again jested, then smiled, "Well, the queen's eyes can awoke me just fine. I am all fired up for some more work."

The queen's glance was what he needed to get some excitement and anticipation. It was a sultry glance that he, as a man, couldn't not enjoy. He added, "I am sure we will be able to create this pill together with you."

"Mr. Tetsuya can also use our fairy rune. This must be connected to your abundant power and bountiful knowledge that comes from the side I can't see through..." It was also risky for the queen to just rely on Tetsuya, but she had no choice nonetheless.

The prince charming's eyes also worked on her, though. "It's a bloodline that I will share with you in the future. If things turn out well, that is... I want to ask about the technique to bring back the body, though."

"This technique can not be used in our current state. Our forest is one of the factors that help with this technique." The queen explained, "I have already connected to the hidden spring, so I can use it for the pills. If our forest regenerates later on, we will get enough water for your beloved's perfect return. I will also try more than just perfect."

"More?" Tetsuya inquired!

"The old records say that our bodies have been tainted by the energies of our world the moment we arrived here. This kind of impurity is hard to explain and it's even harder to see through it, but it leaves a stamp on our bodies and bloodline. Our fairy ancestors once managed to get rid of it and bring the fairy of exquisite bloodline that allowed her wings to cross the continents. The tale goes even further and says that she had crossed worlds, but I find it unlikely." Maya replied with a faint smile, then swept her hand.

The tree's branches sneaked into the queen's chamber, then from their tips, the sacred spring dripped. It fell onto a small grail that got filled in ten minutes.

"Let's try to make the first pill," Maya's lips curved.

"Not even giving me time to comment on that story?" Tetsuya was glad that the fairies had that kind of deep background. He extended his hand, "It's good that you had such an ancestor. It makes our joint future more feasible." His smile deepened, then the fire potion made out of the devil's blood appeared in his hand. He poured it onto his purple cube.

Then, the queen's grail lifted up by itself and poured its content into the purple cube as well.

"You see, Maya..." Tetsuya spoke a little fondly, "I want to cross continents and worlds. There is so much enjoyable content in this world, such as you, but there are also goals that I have been holding within me deeply. If you can give me a way to go around the world with your fairy bloodline..." The purple cube flashed with a bright, blinding light, "Then I will work harder than you can even imagine." 

The purple cube spat out the pill that didn't look any different from what the queen had seen in the underground! She had yet to talk about it to Tetsuya, but he achieved this feat alone, with her just looking over the process.

Her hand moved on its own and more sacred spring poured into the grail.

And she just could swear that a little lust could be seen within the game master's eyes. Why would her heart flutter so much because of it? "Don't act too cool, Prince Charming." Maya replied, "Too much and women's hearts might get fed up with it."

"I find it unlikely," The heart thumped with a little ego within the game master's body, "You can't get enough of my smile once you fall."