My Beautiful Disciples, I'm really not the Main Character!

Chapter 176: Chapter 176: Birth of a Spirit

Eren was truly at a loss of words. Did he make a wrong choice in haste? Or did the system intentionally reduce the selection time to have him make this mistake? He wasn't sure.

He immediately stopped the activation of the attack, not wanting to waste a use before having a proper plan.

Fortunately, since he hadn't attacked, it didn't count as a use of the Pendant of Poison.

[Pendant of Poison]

[Uses Left: 2/3]

The only time he had used that pendant was when he killed the Sea Dragon Prince. And he knew how precious this pendant and every attack filled with its power was.

He didn't have a pendant of protection or the pendant of strength anymore. Amongst the Pendant Series rewards, he only had Pendant of Poison left.

If possible, he wanted to use it only when he was absolutely certain that it would help him complete this option.

Although he had gained quite a lot of skills, they couldn't be counted as a hidden card powerful enough to turn the tide of any battle, especially against an Overlord Level threat.

When it came to that, he could only count a few things that fit the criteria of being his trump card in that Scenario. One of them was this Pendant of Poison and the other was a Temporary Unsealing Talisman.

He also knew the limitations of relying on external items for survival. That's why he wanted to go to the Hero Academy to find the thing that could permanently unseal his cultivation. But things kept happening one after another.

Eren's mind was filled with a lot of thoughts as he considered his next action. Was it right to be hasty and attack right now? Or was that another mistake without knowing much about this place?

For the time being, he decided to observe this place a little longer. Now that he already selected an option, there was no need to rush.

A mistake in this situation could be more deadly than anything else.

He didn't want to become a victim of his own mistakes. He had already made a hasty decision after all.

Eren retracted his aura. His pendant also stopped shining as he descended.

During his descent, he didn't take his eyes off the Spirit Queen, particularly paying attention to her hand.

She had sliced her own fingers off to prevent the poison from spreading in the rest of her body. But new fingers had started growing in their place.

Her healing even surprised Eren to some extent. She didn't use any healing potion or spell like people did in the human world. Instead, it was as if this was perfectly natural for the Spirit Queen.

The Spirit Queen, assumed to be cold and ruthless, had apologized to him. Meanwhile, he had selected an option that was no different than making the Spirits his enemy.

Just thinking about it gave him a headache.

'Maybe... Just maybe second option was possible.'

Eren wondered if his assumptions about the Spirit Queen were a little exaggerated. He had based his assumption on Estelina's words and behavior, forgetting that they were completely different people.

He was also suspicious about the system's options. Most of the time, he was given hell level difficulty hidden behind the most normal looking options. He had thought that the second option was the same.

Unfortunately, he had a feeling that this time, he might have been trolled by his system. This time, the hell level difficulty was hidden behind an option that appeared to be the most difficult at first glance.

'This system... Is it truly sentient?' Eren thought.

Every time he was made to select an option, he felt like he had to play four dimensional chess with something that was far beyond comprehension.

Soon, Spirit Queen's fingers had completely healed. Looking at her hand, no one could have guessed that just a few minutes ago, there were no fingers there.

While Eren was paying attention to Spirit Queen's healing, he noticed that something felt wrong. He just couldn't put his finger on it. He felt like he was missing something obvious.

He thought about it for quite some time, before finally realizing what it was.

'Ah, right. It's too silent. What happened to that blabbering grass?'

He turned to the place where the Spirit Grass was scolding him in the past. There, the spirit grass was still present, but it had started shining.

Every passing second, the grass shone brighter as it kept getting bigger in size.

Eren didn't know what was happening, but he had a feeling that it had something to do with the Spirit Queen's fingers.

When her fingers fell on the ground, they dispersed into a form of spirit essence. It was absorbed by the ground and went to the Spirit Grass in the form of nourishment.

"What is happening to her?" he asked out loud.

"She is evolving," Spirit Queen answered. "Just like Estelina did once upon a time."

"I see." Eren nodded, but the moment he processed those words, his eyes snapped open. "Wait a minute, just like Estelina did?"

"Are you saying that this is how Spirits are born?" he asked, not expecting to come across a secret like that. Did that mean he was actually talking with an infant spirit and not just blabbering grass?

"That is right. Let me introduce you again." She gestured towards the evolving grass. "She is Resphi, my second daughter."

Eren didn't know how the Spirits were born. But he truly hadn't expected something like this. He could only rub his forehead, thinking about how he threatened to stomp Resphi in front of her mother.

'I keep forgetting that I can't judge this world with my common sense. Does that mean she's also going to evolve into a loli or something like every cliche out there?'

He shook his head and dropped that thought, finding it to be impossible. The Spirit Queen looked like a mature adult woman. Estelina also looked decent. Hence, it seemed unlikely.

After what felt like an eternity, the evolution process ended. The bright light disappeared and Resphi was revealed.