Chapter 312: Drasil’s Treat

Before they decided to head back, he had one last thing he wanted to do.

He had planned to do it before, but had gotten sidetracked with playing with his new item.

So without further ado, he took Drasil out of his soul space. The adorable green guy popped up right on his palm. Like usual, the little lazy spirit was fast asleep, snoring away like nothing else mattered in the world.

He attempted to poke Drasil to wake him up, but all that accomplished was Drasil grabbing tightly onto his finger and snuggling it like one would a stuffed animal.

When he tried to retract his finger, he ended up pulling Drasil along with it. So with a life spirit dangling off of his finger, he waved it at Marcus.

“This is Drasil. He is a life spirit, indulgent glutton, and as you can already see, a lazy little guy who loves to sleep.” Julius quickly introduced his familiar to the other man.

“Hey, don’t talk badly about Drasil. He does his best, and you should treat him better,” Lily scolded him. She then walked over and gently removed Drasil from his finger, cuddling the small spirit to her chest while scratching his stomach with her own finger.

“I’m not wrong. He rarely does anything except sleep. The only time he really wants to be awake is to eat my mana,” he said with an exasperated look toward Drasil.

Marcus walked over to Lily and inspected Drasil up close. His eyes were glowing purple, as they had when he had analysed the items earlier.

“Fascinating,” he murmured.

“What’s fascinating?”

“Your familiar is. He is very healthy and well developed for a life spirit,” Marcus commented.

“He better be, I give him enough mana,” Julius said with a pointed look at the spirit.

“It’s more than that. He has a solid foundation, much more advanced than you would normally see from a regular life spirit. You said you raised him from a seed?”

“Yep, fed him my mana and out he came,” he said.

“Are you planning to give him that sapling tonight?” Marcus asked, still staring at the sleeping Drasil in Lily’s hands.

“That was the plan. Although if he doesn’t wake up, then I will just have to do it another night,” Julius said while removing the glass bottle from his storage ring.

He raised the bottle into the air and let the light from the room illuminate the brilliant white sapling contained within. The bottle was blocking any mana that might come from the sapling, but he could practically see the life mana emanating from the treasure inside.

After he turned it over in his hands and gave it another inspection, he walked over to Lily, who was drowning the sleeping spirit in affection.

“Hey, wake up, buddy. I got something to show you,” he said to Drasil.

Predictably, this didn’t work, and Drasil continued to snore away.

Sighing, he created a small ball of life mana in his hand and hovered it over Drasil’s face. Almost immediately, the gluttonous fellow snatched the orb with astonishing speed. Grabbing it with his two tiny hands and bringing it his mouth to suck on.

Unfortunately, his motions seemed to be an instinctual reaction, and he remained ‘asleep’ as he suckled on the life orb.

“I told you a thousand times to stop eating while you sleep,” he reprimanded the spirit.

Drasil let out a satisfied coo as he drained the orb of mana.

“If you want to sleep, that is fine with me. But I guess that means I will have to find another life spirit to give this tasty treasure to,” he said with a sad shake of his head while dangling the bottle over Drasil.

To his immense amusement, Drasil stopped pretending to be asleep and tried to snatch the bottle in front of him. However, unlike the orb of life mana, Julius was much faster than his familiar and quickly moved it out of reach, much to Drasil’s displeasure.

“What, did you really think you could trick me?”

Drasil looked away guiltily and chimed quietly. As if he were saying to Julius, “It was worth a shot.”

“You’re getting too spoiled lately. Maybe I should cut back your diet,” he muttered quietly to himself.

He heard Drasil gasp dramatically and leaped from Lily’s hand onto his nose.

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The little spirit tugged as hard as his tiny fingers could onto his nostrils and let out a symphony of sounds that vocalized his vehement protest at this idea.

Staring crosseyed at Drasil, who was staring at him with sadness, he sighed. “Okay, I won’t cut your diet, but you have to start listening better.”

Drasil nodded firmly and threw up a single arm in a mock salute, while promising Julius he would.

Seeing that his point was made, he picked Drasil up from his nose and placed him on the nearby table. Then he handed the life spirit the bottle containing the sapling with a chuckle.

The little guy yelped in joy as he grabbed the bottle, which was practically his size, and ran around the table in excitement.

Julius had learned that Drasil was much stronger than one would expect from a spirit of his size. He had personally witnessed Drasil tossing a rock twice the size of his little self with ease just because the rock was in the way of a spot in the grass where he wanted to nap.

He had also learned that Drasil could sense life mana no matter how small, wherever he was. Thus, he wasn’t surprised when the spirit seemed to know what was in the bottle or at least knew that it had something to do with life mana.