A butterfly, with bluish feathers that had white outlines with strange symbols upon them, flew across the sky. It flew past trees, tree roots that grow through the tree, and tree veins, until it came to an area where a tiny water path was flowing.

On one side of the tiny water path stood a giant tree, its roots gigantic, making some tree trunks look like tiny canes compared to them. These tree trunks commonly ran through this tiny water path, with the water also flowing through them, nurturing them and emitting the sound of water splashing into them.

The butterfly, flying in mid-air, descended and landed on top of one of the giant tree roots from the giant tree where a single pink flower grew. In the giant root, this pink flower glowed charmingly and also lonely.

The butterfly slowly descended and landed on one of the petals of the flower. The flower petal didn't even notice the arrival of the butterfly until it began to quiver from the butterfly's weight.

Crik! Crank! Crunch!

Nearby to the flower and the butterfly, a frost maker, white and attractive, was eating the corpse of what looked like a squirrel.

Ripping out a flesh from the squirrel's dead body, the frost maker flung it up and swallowed it while lifting its head.

Through the frost makers body, there are strange-marked symbols. One is like a shell that stretches across its back, and another gives it a bit of a fierce aura, resembling markes of teeth spreading around it's mouth and neck. On its hands there are straight lines with a few dots at the end, alos a few straight lines can be seen on the tips of its ears.

At the moment, while biting down, the frost makers gaze landed on the butterfly that was landing on the flower petal.

While biting the flesh, its eyes focused onto the butterfly. Suddenly, the few straight marks on its ears glowed mysteriously.

"Fly away."

The butterfly suddenly twitched, fluttering its beautifully wings two to three times out of confusion.

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But after a minute, it returned to its calmness, where it focused on sucking out the flower's sweet nectar.

The frost maker's eyes trembled. It had a thoughtful expression and a focused gaze.

"Fly away."

Once again, the butterfly twitched and suddenly flew away from the flower, hovering above the air a few rounds. After that, it landed on the flower petal again. Instead of getting back to sucking the flower, it gazed at the frost maker that was looking at it, then returned to its flower.

The frost maker's eyes squeezed tightly. They focused again, and the lines in its ears glowed.

"Come here."

A slight twitch became visible in the butterfly's wings, but it showed no other movements in its body.

"So, it can hear my commands but chooses to ignore them. Guess loyalty is a must when it comes to commanding others," Blanco mused to himself, reflecting on the previous experience he had.

"Which means, if there isn't anyone loyal to me, communication skills are completely useless."

With that thought, he lowered his head, biting into the corpse of the squirrel. He ripped apart another flesh and swallowed it.

"Well, if I meet Nixie or Puff again, it would be useful, but I doubt it will be a long time before I see them again. Judging from the thought response I got from Nixie, she's planning to head back to that rocky field agin. It seems she has some interest in that place and probably will make her nest there.

Even though I'm not hundred percent sure, Puff had some thoughts about moving to that deep valley area. Maybe he likes that place with lots of animals to eat."

While thinking about others, he also looked toward the destination he was heading, which could be seen in the distance as a gigantic tree reaching toward the sky, dwarfing every other giant tree in the area. The rose-colored leaves of the tree resembled clouds in the sky, spreading through the area and obscuring the sky and even the ground.

"When looking at it from afar, it appears closer, but who knew There is a large distance between them, maybe because its height makes it appear closer to everything."

After one last bite from the corpse, Blanco resolved to start his journey again.

Thuk!

But suddenly, something arrived in an instant from behind and stuck to the butterfly on the flower. Without a second of hesitation, it retrieved back, dragging the butterfly with it.

Blanco hurriedly looked back, curious, only to see nothing out of the ordinary from the area where the 'something' came from, which was a field of trees and bushes.

Blanco stared at the trees, somehow the tops of the trees were filled with branches and veins gave him an eerie feeling. Because of the dense leaves on the trees, the treetop area was a bit darker.

Suddenly, to the keen eyes of Blanco, he spotted a lizard-like creature perched upon one of the tree branches.

Although at first impression Blanco thought it was just a normal creature, he became agitated when he saw a tiny remnant of a bluish feather at the corner of its mouth, slightly falling out.