chapter 38
Chapter 38 – Development (8)
Chapter 38 – Development (8)
“Chief. This is.”
“Because there will be many dangerous things while doing activities.”
Serenian handed something to Leon who was about to leave again. Recognizing this, Leon’s eyes widened. It was never light.
“Infused with the power of the World Tree.”
At first glance, it is nothing more than an ordinary, thick tree bark. However, the shining pattern engraved on the outer surface of the shell means the powerful power contained in it.
The World Tree ‘removed’ a part of itself, and it was a proof of how much the World Tree, growing together, trusted Serenian, his one and only high elf, and how much Serenian trusted him.
“Thank you very much.”
Leon couldn’t refuse the gift given to him by the young World Tree, and he had no choice but to show his respect.
And from the time he carried it around as armor, he thought of a way to use it.
At this level, at least once, you will be able to save your life in a critical situation.
‘Shoot me!’
It was for that reason that he provoked Urea. She says Urea can’t stand it and even if she attacks herself, she herself can survive.
“Kuu!”
“No! Leon!”
In fact, Urea fired magic bullets with the determination to kill him. The moment her condensed mana surged and lodged in her own chest. The power of the world tree she had been putting in her clothes also burst out and pushed away the mana from the outside that was trying to harm her.
As a result, the only injuries Leon suffered were bruises from breaking the wall, being bounced off, and rolling on the floor.
A great pain rushed through his chest, but he was still able to get up from his seat with a trembling body.
“You also fell as a result. You’re trying to kill your own people.”
“Oh, no. I, I…”
Leon, frowning at his throbbing chest, dropped his bow and pointed his finger at the trembling Urea.
The moment she shot an arrow at him, unable to overcome her fleeting emotions, the result was already out.
As Leon, who was not dead, as well as all the residents around him, looked at him, Urea’s normally pale face became even more pale.
“You are not qualified to be a chieftain.”
“How could this be, Mr. Urea! Shooting an arrow at Leon!”
“What is the alternative reason? He was our neighbor!”
Starting with her Leon’s words, her other elves also condemned her. However, Urea only opened her mouth, but she couldn’t say anything.
Even if he died, he couldn’t say it because he coveted the power as a chieftain.
‘I’m glad I didn’t get mad.’
Leon let out a sigh of relief at the sight of her lowering her head as she sat down in despair at the elves’ outcry.
If she had resisted with all her might, she would have been prepared for an armed conflict. If that happened, his own people would have fought for him, but it’s clear that he couldn’t have prevented the casualties in the end.
“The village is finished now. Let’s all go Rather than be persecuted by those who betrayed our people, let us cultivate our land in a new world.”
Risking his own life to reveal Urea’s true nature, Leon once again convinced his people. Unlike the first time Leon visited, the other elves who were tired and exhausted this time all agreed with Leon’s words.
“What will Urea-sama do, Leon?”
It’s late at night, but in order to leave immediately, the elves decided to go to their respective homes and pack their belongings.
It was then that one of them looked up and asked about Urea, who was still sitting on the floor.
‘I don’t want to take him with me, and I don’t want to follow him, but I know all of our information, so I can’t leave him here.’
Leon couldn’t answer easily and fell silent. The neatest way he could think of, twitching his fingers, was to get rid of the aftereffects by killing them, but it was impossible to do something like that while other people of his kind were watching.
“Take it. Instead, she is a corrupt traitor who cannot be treated like her fellow countrymen.”
Leon bound Urea. Most of her elves felt awkward treating her existence as her captive, having been her chieftain until just a few hours ago, but a few elves who were disappointed and angry with her took the lead and bound her body tightly.
Of course, if Yurea gave her best, she would be able to cut off these ropes right away, but if she sensed something like that, Leon would pull out her sword without hesitation and was prepared to cut her throat.
“You are confident, Leon. Can you afford it? Serenian, do you think that young child will be able to lead his people well in a strange and new land? The lives and fates of many people depend on it.”
Urea gritted her teeth with her face distorted by Leon’s hand, which had caused her to be rough.
“I have already seen it. He knows how He can lead us. And above all, he is not alone.”
But Leon rather laughed at her. Urea’s eyes wavered when she was told that she was not alone, but Leon didn’t bother to say more.
I’ll go and see it anyway. And I wondered what he would say if he saw those miracles with his own eyes.
“All preparations are complete, Leon. I took only the essentials…and threw the rest away.”
“Good. Let’s go now.”
It is an ambitious dawn that requires quite a bit of time before the dawn is still bright.
Leon soon led dozens of his people to the rift. The gap in the world known as the place where Serenian was banished.
Because the place known as a wasteland with nothing has already been changed to a new place.
“A whole village in the southwest disappeared?”
And the village where all the residents, including the chieftain, disappeared overnight, of course, soon became known to other elves around it.
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” Is this true?”
“That’s right, Chief. The collector who went there to collect taxes found the village empty.”
The place called the center by the elves of the Great Forest, the place where the World Tree of the Great Forest exists.
In Deneb, a city that has grown considerably in recent years, in a luxurious palace-like place at the very center, the head of the Central Council, which has been transformed into a power organization that governs the entire forest clan, frowned upon receiving a report.
With long wavy blonde hair, she is now an elf who is only over 100 years old, and in fact has become an absolute ruler, and has no qualifications for the position of elder, but no one has any complaints.
It was obviously a big reason that she was one of the warriors’ companions and a strong person who had rapidly strengthened through the great war with the demon world, but now another reason was bigger.
“Do you know what happened, Rhodes? Couldn’t the uncontrolled humans be fooling around?”
“That can’t be.”
Sitting hunched over in an ornate chaise-like chair, she looked to her side. Then the being next to her flinched, and it was a middle-aged human male with his head half-naked.
“We are also in control. There are many factions who covet interaction with the elves, but will we share this opportunity with others just because we’re crazy? hahahaha…”
“It’s because humans are the only places to be suspicious. We never leave home But recently, there are reports that several people have gone missing.”
The man by the name of Rhodes laughed awkwardly and shook her head, but she didn’t doubt it.
Human forces, including Rhodes, were the main agents that brought her into the Great Forest and transplanted human civilization, including this palace.
The relationship started with her man, a human hero whom she met when she was a member of the warriors’ party, and now ascended to the throne of a kingdom through a coup d’état. .
As the elves, who had been shrouded in mystery, began to communicate, the number of humans who crawled in without knowing the subject and died or were kicked out began to increase.
Of course, there were cases where the elves suffered damage in the process.
“All right, let’s check again. But I swear, we don’t know, Chief Elder.”
“Let it be. But we can’t sit still, so…We’ll have to find out.”
Of course, she didn’t leave it to humans alone. In the first place, she held hands with humans, but she didn’t trust humans.
“I heard you called, Elder.”
“Originally, I was going to order it for an idiot who only plays and eats, but after thinking about it, I think I will have to use my brain, so I think I will have to leave it to you.”
It wasn’t long before an elf was summoned and brought before her.
It was a young male elf whose expression was full of ambition and ambition.
“Recently, the number of disappearances of my own people is increasing, especially in the Southwest. The humans are suspicious, but there’s no evidence and they’re not lying. It’s hard to know why, so you, Ethan, move in with her men and investigate.”
“Sil, you mean missing?”
The man called Ethan was taken aback by her words. To the elves who did not leave the great forest and their hometowns, this was a common response when they said they were missing.
“…My gut feeling is that something is going on in the Great Forest.”
She didn’t say anything more, she just muttered that she didn’t like it.