A little girl was running toward them.
“…Priestess-nim?”
‘Priestess? […] Isn’t her face too pale?’
The little Elf seemed completely petrified. […] The young priestess had a look of urgency on her freckled face as she walked in front of Cale.
Cale slowly took a step backward. This priestess seemed to be a bit weird.
However, there was a noise that intrigued Cale at that moment.
Clang.
It was the sound of coins. Cale looked down at the young priestess.
The priestess raised her head and tried to hand the bag in her hand to Cale.
Clang, clang.
It sounded like coins clanging against each other inside the bag. The young Elf started to speak.
“It might be old human money, but please take it! Apparently, they are silver coins!”
‘Hmm?’
“Here, here! Now!”
The priestess shoved the bag toward Cale and Cale accepted it for now. The priestess then rummaged through her wide sleeves and took out a flat rectangular item as well.
“Here is gold as well! There were no gold coins!”
The young Elf seemed to be panicking.
“…What the hell?”
Cale was shocked and swore without thinking about it. However, the young priestess did not even care about that.
In her ten years as a priestess, this was the first time that the World Tree was so scared. The priestess raised the bar of gold back toward Cale and started to speak.
“The World Tree told me to give money to the red-haired person! It told me to give you coins!”
Coins.
There seemed to be a reason she kept saying coins.
Cale opened up his left hand.
Crackle, crackle. The Fire of Destruction was still there.
The young priestess urgently started to speak after seeing Cale looking back at her.
“Please take it! Otherwise, the World Tree said everything will burn! There will be a sea of fire!”
-Adite in Chapter 170
...what is this about, you ask?
So basically, a number of "challenges" from other tumblr users, which consisted of making avatars in online apps, made me realize something quite obvious... even if I have difficulty drawing, I can technically still make fanart. With apps. 🤯
You see, I've looked, but there is literally no fanart of Adite online. None. Zero. And that's a shame! She seems really cute!! Also, her introduction was hilarious. So I used this app to make a basic character design, edited it a little bit, added a background and viola: Adite fanart!! 😄
...Even if it's a cheap method, I think it turned out pretty decent 🤔 At the very least she looks just as cute as I imagined her to be. (There is no detailed description of her in the novel, btw. Only that she's smol and has freckles <3 So I took artistic liberties.)
(You can find the next fanart of Deputy Chief Priest Cotton here)
