Looking over many elves bowing before the World Tree was the quite curious sight. Hundreds of elves would pray before the world tree everyday and among them there was an addition in a form of a six year old boy.
After I bombarded Arthur with complex questions about vengeance he ignored all of my words and started to again run towards the Dragon to go and try to kill it. Lucinda stopped him before he did something stupid and explaining how weak Arthur was.
I washed my hands of this troublesome problem and Ethan and Lucinda too didn't intervene with Arthur's problems. This really confused me because from their actions I knew they truly cared for Arthur. Lucinda found him and she thinks it's her responsibility to look after him. Knowing her personality I think she would've been the first person to storm Dragon Kingdom to try and kill the dragon. She has a straightforward personality and she's scared of no one. So her actions made no sense.
Curiosity took over my better half and I called Lucinda why she was acting really weirdly. She was actually really near me looking over Arthur who joined the mob and started to pray. She came towards me and I asked, "Lucinda I want to ask you something!"
She looked at me confused and I said, "Knowing you it's really weird you having such a good self control! Did you finally felt fear?"
She was still confused but answered by saying, "What fear? I never feared anyone in my life! And what are you saying by me acting strangely, it is you who was the most strangest person around. I don't know why but after Arthur came here you're acting like a different person!"
Now it was my time to be confused and with confused eyes I looked at Lucinda waiting for answers. Lucinda said, "The teacher I knew was a collected person. He would have everything under his control and no matter the situation he would always be collected. Now you became something unrecognizable. When is the last time you looked at yourself. Your hair is a mess and right now you're always thinking about something. The teacher I knew would always try and help others. You right now is too self centered! When Ethan came to ask you help Arthur he did it because you always had the answers. He knew if it was you, you could always help. Oh also! If you want to know why I didn't go and attack the dragon king is because it's now what Arthur wants. He wants to kill the dragon with his own powers and that's why he's trying so hard to become stronger. For three days he didn't move from that position. Day and night he prays in hopes he could get recognized by the mother. For three days he ate nothing and looking at him my heart hurts!"
I looked very closely at Arthur and saw something. His legs were shaking, no all of his body was shaking and it looked like he could fall any moment now. So he's trying to be recognized by the Tree.
Recognized by the World Tree means that the person gets a mark of their forehead. Only two creatures were successful in that. First one was the deer that came here few years ago. After he healed himself he received a mark on his forehead. Other person, no elf who received the mark was my student Ethan.
Only little bit is known about the mark but from hearing about it from Ethan the mark is something quite powerful. After he received that mark the first thing I did was ask him questions. From the interview I learned about two things that the mark helped Ethan do.
First thing it did was making the person with a mark closer to the nature. You may ask what the heck it means? By closer to nature I mean the speed they absorb the mana increased tremendously. The mana is absorbed by the individual every time they breathe but the amount absorbed is limited everyday. Even thought many creatures breathe mana in everyday few of them could increase the size of their vessel In their lifetime. Let's take elves for example they are one of the closest beings to the nature(maybe because they were born from a tree). Meaning they absorb a lot of mana everyday. All the elves when born had a gigantic sized circular vessel but even now many and many years after they were born no elf has ever increased the size of their vessel except for Ethan who evolved his vessel making it a teardrop shaped.
Other perk of receiving the mark is that it would make it easier for you to control plants. In other words it would make you closer to the nature, again? Jokes aside what I mean is that after you receive the mark you could control plants. This may sound not that strong but.....