Several kilometers from Rumalow, Michael and his 3 "wives" were at Boran's farm, clearing boulders that were flung to his field from the nearby mountains, after several powerful beings fought each other. 

Having met Boran, they proceeded to the field to clear the fields, and Michael left Aria, Sylvie and Naya to clear each their individual boulders

This was a good oppurtunity for Michael to test his alraune abilities!

He somehow no longer regarded the alroune as simply his armor. After the journey from the forest to Rumalow, building houses made of vines, producing fruit for him and the nymphs, it was now like an extension of himself!

It didn't even have a name, besides Sylvie calling it Naughty Plant, so he decided not to name it. After all, one never names one's own arm or leg, does he? But then again, there are some people who name their penises....

At first he tested the durability of his wooden sword, easily smashing the boulders into bits. But the smaller bits littered the ground too, which would make the soil rocky

Then he used the vines to create catapults and other contraptions, flinging the boulders off the plowed field

That worked well enough. He then used his armor and enhanced it with the vine's strength, lifting and throwing a boulder off the field

He could probably do it with Fenris, Florencia or Serena's strength as well, and he wasn't sure how strong Adeline was. But the armor did the job, and he can still remain in his human form under the armor

At the end, it was easier to just sprout vines and throw them around like a giant octopus!

He looked at what his wives were doing when he was stunned

"What the hell are they doing?" he wondered

He walked up to Naya, who was the closest to him

"What are you doing?" he asked

"Water will erode the boulder over time! I am doing the mission using my water abilities" she smiled

"But... that will take centuries!" Michael shook his head and started explaining things to her. 

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After talking to Naya and Sylvie, he approached Aria

"Whoooo! Whooooo" Aria was saying as she blew onto the boulder and used her hands to fan it.

Surprisingly, there was a breeze coming from her, hitting the rock and bouncing back, blowing her long hair all over her face.  

"Let me guess, you are eroding the boulder?" he asked 

He had the exact same conversation with Naya and Sylvie. One was trying to erode the boulder with water, the other growing a plant through the rock to slowly break it apart. 

After a quick suggestion, Naya was now using water to push the boulder away, while Sylvie did similarly using vines

They were against flinging them away, even though they could, as it would be "unnatural" to do so

He sighed as he talked to Aria, finally convincing her to also use wind to roll the boulders away!

"Cute but naïve girls aren't they, these nymphs?" Boran the farmer said as he approached

"Yeah. But at least they can be taught" Michael answered

"Are they.. your wives?" he asked again

"Yes" Michael nodded

"All 3 of them?' Boran asked, surprised

"You know about nymphs?" Michael asked in return

"Well, legend has it my great great great grandmother was a nymph. My great great great grandfather eloped with one" Boran answered

"Makes sense. Boran looks a bit different than the normal human. Looks like a half breed of some sort" Michael thought to himself

"So what happened?" Michael asked curiously

"My great great great grandfather lived to 200 years old! They lived until I was a teenager, before he died of old age. My great great great grandmother died the next day! Their lives were linked. 

Do you know, my grandmother looked like my sister, up to the day they died when I was a teen" Boran said, remembering his youth

"My condolences" Michael said

"No need. They were wonderful ancestors. But beware. My great great great grandfather had many envious people who lusted after my great great great grandmother. This is why we moved out of the city to start a farm" Boran said

"I assume you have a big family? How come you are the only one on this farm?" Michael asked

"Oh.... many of my older brothers, all 15 of them and my 24 uncles died in the war!" Boran said with a tear in his eye

"The war?" Michael asked

"Yes. The second Demon war. They signed up and as Careyse teamed up with Evalonia in the south, the Demon Lord attacked from the south, killing millions. None of my brothers or uncles returned. I was but a boy then" Boran said sadly

Michael patted him on the shoulder 

Suddenly, there was a scream as Michael felt the nymph's anxiousness

He looked and saw that several men appeared from the forest and was holding Naya captive!

The other two were yelling at them to let her go

Michael ran towards them, but stopped when the man holding Naya held a knife to her throat

"Hold it right there E Rank. We are all at least C Ranked. You don't have a chance! Now, we are going to take your wives and sell them after we have fun with them.

If you resist, we will kill them. That means you die too, right?" he smiled and evil smile, pushing the knife slightly into her throat, drawing blood!

The other men laughed. There were 8 of them, all looking like tough hooligans dressed in chains and leather

Sylvie and Aria had already been grabbed by then, as the men held them like Naya was, and ripped their clothes off

One of them started groping Sylvie's breasts, while the other started finger fucking Aria before Michael's eyes and then licked his fingers provocatively 

Suddenly, multiple vines shot up from the ground, instantly holding all the men in the air in a spread eagle position! 

The girls, now freed, ran to Michael and hugged him in tears

Michael had secretly extended his vines from his ass, through his armor, into the ground and was preparing to attack when they molested the girls

He looked at the men panicking in the air, unable to move

"Do you know what the bamboo torture is? It is a torture where a man or woman is tied up like this and the Chinese torturers plant a fast growing bamboo between their legs. As it grew overnight, the poles will impale the victims in their asses until it comes out the other side" he said

The girls looked at him, unsure of what he was saying

"Luckily, we don't have to wait so long" Michael said as more vines shot out from the ground, impaling the 8 men through their asses and out their screaming mouths!

Rather than waste the life energies, the vines sucked the men dry as their torture only lasted for seconds

Their withered bodies disintegrated as the vines absorbed the carcasses as nutrients before disappearing back into the ground and back up into Michael's body

The nymphs felt a strange feeling as if they had just eaten a meal and Michael hugged them tightly. 

By now, Boran was running towards them with his hoe to help

"Are you alright?" he asked, seeing that the trouble was over

"Yes. It's been handled" Michael said as he consoled the crying girls

They had a meal together as Boran signed a piece of paper to prove that the mission was accomplished

He promised he wouldn't tell a soul about what happened to the other adventurers. 

After all, he knew and experienced the worst of people when it came to nymphs

The 3 nymphs were amazed that Boran knew what they liked to eat. 

He told them the story of his great great grandmother being a nymph too

"Oh! That must have been Naisha!" Aria said

"Yes... how did you know..." Boran asked

"She is... was my sister! No wonder she disappeared" Aria said

"Er... how old are you girls anyway?" Michael suddenly asked. Were they centuries old like Ryania, Florencia, Serena or perhaps Adeline?

"What do you mean how old?" Naya pouted

"Er... it means how many years have you been around?" Michael clarified

"We don't know how old we are. We've just always been around! " Aria said

"My great great great grandmother Naisha used to explain to me when I was a child that you girls... came to being when the forest first grew" Boran said

"Yes! That's right. My first memories were playing in the forest and helping those weird little creatures move out of the water" Sylvie said with a smile, remembering "the good old days"

"Oh yeah! I remember those! At first, they could breathe water. Later, they suddenly drowned when they returned and I welcomed them back! So weird" Naya said

Michael watched in amazement as the nymphs described how they were there and helped the first mammals come out of the sea!

He realized that his 3 cute little wives were millions of years old! They were much more ancient than any of the beings he encountered, even Ryania's grandfather Elderich!

No wonder they were more than happy to erode those boulders with their powers in a gentle manner! They had all the time in the world!

But now that their lives were linked to him, did he shorten their lives? 

Then again, with the abilities of the alraune, together with that of Serena and Florencia, and potentially Adeline, he could indefinitely absorb lifeforces and live as long as he wanted to!