I'm a forest ranger, why would I enslave a succubus?

Chapter 3 Tree Spirit
Rhodes rode into the area.

Soon we found the roots of two trees where only wooden stumps remained.

Next to it, there was an extinguished fire and some food remnants.

It's not hard to tell that someone stayed here overnight.

Rod was not a good hunter. He could only judge from the amount of food that there were at least three criminals.

"Five, all male, one halfling, four humans."

Terry didn't get off the horse, her short legs swaying in the air.

Seeing Rhodes's puzzled look, she pointed at her nose proudly.

"Don't forget who I am. I can smell a male's essence instantly."

Rod gave her a thumbs-up.

"Can you tell me where they went?"

Terry shook her head.

"They stayed here for one night, so their energy remained. When they moved, the scent was too light."

Rhodes didn't dwell on it.

Chasing lawbreakers is not part of the ranger's job. Tomorrow is the time to go to Quartz Town to collect my salary, so I can just inform the town's sheriff.

And judging from the personnel configuration, this group of people looks more like poachers.

Well known.

Humans and halflings on the continent love poaching the most.

"But where did the wood go?"

There are two Metasequoia trees with twenty growth rings, each about thirty to forty meters high.

The little ashes in the fire are far from enough.

soon.

He knew it.

In the midday sun, Rhodes discovered strange shadows on the ground.

He looked up.

Between the towering Metasequoia trees, trunks of varying lengths are tied together to form a strange pattern in mid-air.

"This is?"

Terry looked over, also confused.

"Is this some kind of spell?" Rhodes asked.

"No, there's no flow of magic power. It's purely human power."

Rhodes held his forehead with his hand.

Good news, not a poacher.

No poacher has time for such a thing.

The bad news is that those who have time to do such mysterious things are either cultists or people with special hobbies of some strange races.

Rod noted the location and drew the pattern in his notebook.

"Go, take the wood down."

He directed Terry.

Terry was stunned.

Then he pouted and swayed his shoulders back and forth.

"The tree is so big and I'm so small, I can't move it~"

"Not going? Abstain from sex for two days."

Terry immediately jumped off the horse, regaining her plump true form, with black bat wings growing from her lower back.

It is very clever to only cover the scales at three points.

She gave Rhodes a resentful look, then flapped her wings and flew up.

[Terry's obedience to you +1, current obedience 52]

Oh?
This is also added.

At first, Rhode thought it was something similar to favorability.

It seems that this is still debatable.

There were no other unusual findings during today's inspection.

Rod came to Ranger's Hut No. 1, which was closest to the town.

After a day of digesting, Terry finally regained her appetite.

She transformed into a young girl, but with a chest that did not fit her body shape.

On the way back, she hugged Rod's neck and couldn't stop sniffing him.

"You said you can't eat it outside, but you can't let me smell it?"

These are her original words.

Rhodes was also very angry because of her.

In addition, the skill [Second Heart] is continuously effective, strengthening his body at all times.

It really made his blood boil.

So, as soon as he entered the door, Rhodes pounced on him.

Terry welcomed it with open arms in surprise.

Halfway through the journey.

Ty Lee could barely maintain the Transfiguration, and her eyes turned back to her true form's red pupils, glowing red.

The exhaled breath turned visibly light pink.

The sweat reflected a white light on her body.

giggle-

There was a knock on the door.

Rod stopped.

"Who?"

He couldn't pretend he wasn't there, Terry was being too loud.

There was no response from the door.

"Don't worry about it~" Rhodes went to open the door.

Terri was furious and rushed over to hug him from behind.

And outside the door.

It was a visitor she didn't expect.

Slightly curly blue hair and long elf-like ears.

Its body is covered with green and brown interlaced leaves, and shiny vines wrap around its arms and legs like ivy.

The most eye-catching thing is that the other person's delicate face has a pair of eyes that always shine with white light.

"Tree spirit?"

Terry was surprised.

Tree spirits are not a race that likes to talk to people.

Rhodes ignored the feeling of his back being squeezed and deformed.

"Miss Vivian?"

Wind Wall Forest is a primitive ecosystem with various creatures.

Some nature-loving races even migrated here.

As far as Rhodes knew, there were the half-werewolfs in the oak area, the scorpion women in the eucalyptus area, and the tree spirits and half-deer people in the metasequoia area.

As a forest ranger protecting the forest, he naturally had met this tree spirit lady several times.

"Injuried."

Vivian uttered a single word, a look of timidity and worry on her face.

Then he pointed back to a place not far away.

Rhodes looked.

A cute girl with a human upper body and a sika deer lower body was curled up on the ground, her face pale and her eyes closed.

There was an arrow stuck in the deer's body, and there was a bloody hole next to it, and blood almost covered half of the deer's body.

"Arrows, I pulled one out."

The tree spirit said guiltily.

It seems that he was hit by two arrows, and one of them was forcibly removed, causing heavy bleeding.

Rhodes knew that there was no time to lose, so he quickly carried the unconscious half-deer man into the cabin.

He knew simple medical treatments and even had some magical potions.

Two hours later.

After consuming a magic potion, the condition of the half-deer girl finally stabilized.

Terry transformed into a cute nurse and wiped the blood off the girl's body.

Vivian breathed a sigh of relief.

But she still stayed with the half-deer girl and was unwilling to leave.

"what happened?"

"Four, humans, one, halfling, attacking."

The same group that cut down the trees?
Rhodes frowned.

Not only did they cut down trees, but they also hurt people?
The irritation in his heart gradually grew.

Rhodes glanced at the steel sword hanging on the wall.

"Can you sense their direction?"

Tree spirits are naturally able to establish connections with trees and may be able to learn some information.

Vivian shook her head.

"They left the woods."

"That's it."

Vivian collapsed completely.

"Feel sorry."

"fine."

Rhodes waved his hand and didn't care.

But Vivian took it to heart.

The simple tree spirit felt its own incompetence very strongly.

After a moment, she made up her mind.

A seed the size of a finger grew from the vine in the palm of your hand.

A strong spiritual atmosphere permeated the wooden house.

"for you."

"Spiritual seed?!"

Terry came over with her eyes wide open.

Vivian was startled and quickly held the seed in her arms.

"what is this?"

Rod was curious.

It's rare to see Terry so excited.

"This is a treasure that can transform the body! Break through the limitations of race and learn more spiritual arts!"

Rhodes immediately understood.

Like spells.

Spells are a type of spiritual arts.

Not all races can learn the various spells on this continent.

The succubus's enchanting body fluids and the dryad's tree sense are inaccessible to other races.

But it’s different with this spiritual seed.

It exists independently in the human body, and spells and formulas can be constructed freely without being restricted by race.

Rhodes' talent is average.

This seed will make his ceiling even higher.

(End of this chapter)