Chapter 1154 – A Proper Reunion Party

Sylphie and Minaga had truly gone all out when it came to the catering of the reunion party, and it quickly became clear that the two had spent a bit of time teleporting around the Great Planet to gather food.

Was this all done because the large palace Jake had been assigned didn’t have plenty of high-quality food available? No.

Had anyone asked them to do this? Also no.

But not having been asked to do something had never stopped Minaga or Sylphie before.

After their initial light show died down, Jake shook his head. “Welcome to the two of you. Happy that you have finally decided to join us.

“Oh, come on, you totally approve,” Minaga smiled. “If not, you would have revealed our presence far earlier and ruined the surprise.”

“If you hadn’t dragged Sylphie into this, I totally would have,” Jake said in a serious voice.

“Hey! I would have you know that Sylphie and I are equal coconspirators!” Minaga expertly defended himself while crossing his arms. “Or is it just conspirators? Either way, we are in this together!”

“Ree!” Sylphie agreed, crossing her wings. Or, well, at least she tried to.

“Alright, alright,” Jake waved them off. “Thank you for the wonderful catering.”

“You’re welcome,” Minaga said. “Now, allow me to introduce the menu! From the left, we have honey-roasted venison meat cubes, prepared by- “

Jake exchanged glances with Dina and the Sword Saint as Minaga went over every single piece of food on offer. It all sounded very fancy and expensive, with Sylphie screeching out her personal verdicts of how good every food item was after the Unique Lifeform got done introducing it.

After what felt like an hour of everyone else humoring them, Minaga and Sylphie were finally done. They had taken long enough for Minaga to have summoned what looked like magical heating lamps above certain items to keep them just the perfect temperature.

“So, what do the party guests think?” Minaga said proudly.

“I don’t have a mouth and cannot eat,” the Forest King was the first to chime in.

“Yeah, which really shows that not all Unique Lifeforms are created equal,” Minaga sighed. “And by that, I don’t mean I have a biological advantage, but that I’m clearly superior in intellect. If I were you, I would have designed a body capable of eating.”

“I’m fully capable of absorbing natural treasures directly,” the King said, crossing his arms.

“Well, yeah, but you can’t taste them, now can you?” Minaga shook his head.

“I taste them differently than you do, but I most certainly can. I see no need to create a clear weakness in my own design by creating an opening leading directly into my interior, all for the sake of being able to consume food I don’t need in the first place,” the Forest King countered, holding nothing back.

“And that’s why I’m clearly superior in intellect,” Minaga proclaimed before swiftly changing the topic. “Anyway, good to see you up and floating again! Yggdrasil did quite a wonderful job creating that vessel, didn’t she?”

The King, seemingly over the bickering with Minaga, answered honestly. “Yes, it’s remarkable. I’ve yet to fully uncover all the advantages of this improved form, but the mere fact that it’s an improvement over my own original design is proof of her expertise.”

“Yeah, for sure,” Minaga nodded along with a severe look as he inspected the King. “The depth of understanding one must have to create a vessel like that is truly astonishing, isn’t it? Admirable, even.”

“It truly is,” the King agreed, fully willing to recognize just how good of a job Yggdrasil had done.

“For sure, for sure,” Minaga nodded. “Of course, Yggdrasil is no Unique Lifeform, which makes it even more impressive. Then again, Yggdrasil is a very smart Primordial, so it would make sense for her not to simply handle such a task alone. In fact, I would even expect her to ask for consultancy from others who may be even more familiar with Unique Lifeforms. Maybe even someone who knows a thing or two about multiple bodies and creating vessels for souls and whatnot. Perhaps even one without a skill to do so, as clearly freeform magic would be required for such a-“

“Wow, yeah, she definitely got lucky it all worked out,” Jake interrupted Minaga with a nod.

“Certainly she did,” the Sword Saint concurred. “And without any help whatsoever.”

“It’s only expected for the Mother Tree to perform so expertly all on her own,” even Dina fully agreed.

“I shall be sure to extend my thanks to the Mother Tree once more if I’m given the chance, her individual merit is undeniable,” the Forest King nodded, and Jake got the distinct sense he’d known Minaga had been somewhat involved one way or another from the beginning.

Minaga just looked at them and pouted. “Bullies.”

“Ree,” Sylphie screeched as she’d flown over and padded Minaga on the head… truly delivering the deathblow.

“What do you mean it’s okay that she didn’t ask me?” Minaga said, offended. “She… wow, even you are a bully.”

“The Nevermore party gotta stick together,” Jake grinned. “It’s only natural we are in agreement when it truly matters.”

Minaga muttered something under his breath as he picked up a small biscuit with cheese and quickly munched it down. “I’m gonna eat all the good snacks before you get to them…”

Sylphie was quick to react to this as she did a quick fly-by and snatched a large skewer with meat on it for herself. Jake also shook his head and chuckled as he decided to give the food a chance, the Sword Saint and Dina also joining him.

The Forest King even decided to take some of the items, talking about how they were mana-rich enough to serve as sustenance. The garden area of Jake’s massive mansion also had plenty of seating available, allowing them all to sit down, and only a minute later, Minaga had already forgotten all about the recent bullying session as he spoke animatedly about all his own recent adventures.

Jake also shared what he’d been up to since the last time they met, the Sword Saint and Dina doing the same soon after. A lot of this recapping was for the King to get him fully up to speed about everything, and the others told him a lot of the details that Jake had either forgotten or didn’t know about. Especially the Sword Saint had a lot of insight into how things had developed politically and what had happened to the areas the King ruled on Earth before his temporary demise.

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Dina and the Sword Saint also shared plenty about their hunting adventures, with Jake also chiming in. Everyone besides Minaga and the King was unsurprised when Jake talked about the contract out on his life and his encounter with the Chimera, with the three nonchalant individuals not viewing the contract on his life as a real problem.

It wasn’t, but the fact that not a single person, not even Sylphie, seemed worried did hurt a little. Or maybe they just all had confidence in him. Either way, some concern would have been nice.

The one Jake was most interested in hearing about was Sylphie, who’d spent the last many months with the Sylphs. Jake had been a little worried about how she would be while out on her own, but from the sounds of it, she’d gotten quite a positive welcome.

In fact, they had positively treated her like she was truly one of them in a fashion only the innate curiosity of elementals would allow. Sylphie had made a lot of new friends and enjoyed “traveling the winds” with them all. The biggest wind they traveled was naturally the offshoot of the World Wonder that bled through the wormhole down onto the Great Planet.