chapter 39
Chapter 39 – Development (9)
Chapter 39 – Development (9)
“I-I can’t believe it. Did a place like this really exist?”
“Nothing different from the great forest…What the hell is that?”
A group of elves, each carrying their own burdens, moved to Eden in droves.
And as soon as they first opened the rift and entered the village, they couldn’t help but be greatly surprised.
A town centered on a huge world tree that is difficult to see even if you turn your head all the way back. The landscape had changed into nonsense compared to the desolate wasteland when Leon first came here.
“Is this a stone?”
Some of them showed interest in houses made of clay and coated paper. The Edenic buildings, made by mixing wood or stone with clay and with roofs made of light and waterproof coated paper, were pure white that seemed to exist in nature, and reflected the light and shimmered.
“You are here at last! I knew you would come.”
“Sharon!”
Originally living in the same village, they recognized each other and hugged each other. Even though they were seeing each other for the first time, there was no big problem. Those who had already adapted to Eden were confident that the newcomers would be just as satisfied with their new land as they were.
‘How did this happen?’
However, even in such an atmosphere, there was one existence that stood still.
Urea, who covered her tightly bound figure with her coat, was unable to properly think in front of an unimaginable scene.
Literally everything was beyond my expectations.
The house, the environment, even the tools the elves of Eden hold and the clothes they wear.
After a few people skilled in weaving and sewing migrated in, Urea blinked her eyes when she confirmed that the clothes made with small cut handkerchiefs were not inferior in quality to those that humans brought to sell to them.
“Did you think I was falsely inciting my own people? For what am I, who lost everything to the traitors?”
Seeing her like that, Leon snorted at her and whispered next to her. Urea couldn’t believe her own eyes, this reality.
“That can’t be. Serenian, that young one accomplished all this by himself? Ah, in a wasteland where there is nothing? It’s impossible even if you’re a high elf. It takes a lot of hard work to take care of the young World Tree, which attracts the villains around it with its enormous vitality!”
“According to our clan’s common sense and notion, that’s correct. But Urea, you, who have fallen after all, must know. That our common sense and ideas were actually very small and narrow. That narrow-minded view has ruined me and you.”
Urea, her older elf, was denied her common sense and she had a fit, but Leon made her shut up with a single word.
“And as I said, we are not alone.”
At the same time he pointed to the sky.
The empty sky. Urea said she looked up at the sky without realizing it, but she said, of course, there was nothing in the sky.
“What are you talking about…hik!?”
Then, as she frowned and tried to turn her head to Leon again, a blue thunderbolt flashed through her skinny sky, splitting her sky.
The thunderbolt that drew everyone’s attention was an arrow shot by Serenian.
“Everyone is welcome.”
‘This is ridiculous.’
Yurea, who was no longer surprised, saw a mass of blue lightning floating next to Serenian who was approaching this place, and she completely gave up her thoughts.
“Disappointed. Miss Urea.”
“Kuh…”
Serenian, who had already received the word, took off her outer garment while the other elves watched her. When the robe that covered her ankles came off, her tightly bound body was exposed, and the residents of Eden, unaware of the circumstances, murmured in surprise when they saw the elder and chieftain Urea tied up.
“To be deceived by traitors and to betray your own people, no, those of us who believed in you and followed you.”
“I am not wrong. At first, of course, I hated them and rejected them. But the elder, Ersilla, said that was the only way for us to survive. I heard it too and just thought it might be right!”
Yurea raised her voice even more because she couldn’t bear the gaze of her people. No matter how old and experienced she was, she had always been respected and recognized by her people, and she couldn’t bear to see them look at her with disappointment and resentment.
“Ercilla, what the hell did she say that made an adult like you change like this?”
On the other hand, Serenian, who had been praised and praised, scolded and flogged by his own people, was not pushed by Urea’s momentum, but rather gnashed his teeth and mentioned the name of his enemy.
Elder Ersilla. A great elven hero who is the incarnation of the wind and saved the world from the villains of the underworld by belonging to the warrior’s expedition. Although he was, of course, only a fallen kinsman who had forgotten his duty to the elves of Eden.
“The war against the Demon World is definitely over. However, Ersilla, who went through an expedition of heroes of all races and powers, said that this continent would fall into greater chaos in the future. Why? It is because too much power was exposed during the fight with the demon king, and the power that was already boiling hot will inevitably bring chaos once again rather than dissipate.”
“More Chaos…”
Urea told the story she had heard from the traitors in the center as she was officially appointed chieftain.
It was a story that neither Serenian nor anyone else present had heard.
“The war ended in an instant when the demon king was expelled from the demon realm. Ersilla described it not as a blessing, but as an out of balance. When the demon king disappeared and the hero, who suddenly became the center of the world, irresponsibly returned to his world instead of taking care of himself, the remaining expeditionary force realized that they had become the true strongest in this world.”
I thought that since everyone who gathered together had achieved their goal, they would disperse again and live as before, but the reality was not at all like that.
Mixed with one another, they lived only for war regardless of means and methods, and the expeditionary force obtained enormous power and power accordingly.
Most of the expedition did not want to give up their power.
“Ercilla said that bloody winds would blow again on the continent. And he prophesied that the winds of blood would be incomparable to the war against the Demon World, and that even we, who were calm in the Great Forest, would be unavoidable. Does that sound wrong to you? How can we be left alone by greedy alien races who already know everything about us?”
“What does that have to do with persecuting my own people?”
“…Ercilla and other elven heroes took advantage of the expedition’s ties and joined hands with a human force. To prepare for the future by holding hands with them. I was convinced that we could never win if we stayed stuck in the Great Forest like we are now.”
Urea told us exactly what she saw and heard. The contents were a little shocking, to the point that Serenian was at a loss for words.
I thought the elven heroes were simply corrupted. They were convinced that they were doing this to get along with the other races and solve their twisted desires.
But there was a reason. If true, it is a reason that can never be taken lightly.
“There is no reason for conflict, chieftain. Whatever the reason, they have betrayed us and must be punished!”
Leon shouted as Serenian fell silent. He wasn’t wrong. Just because the purpose is right doesn’t turn the wrong way into the right one.
“If that’s true, we can’t stop. This is where Eden will be a haven for our people from another war that will overtake the continent.”
“Oh, you are so arrogant.”
“Leon, lock her up for now. I’ll have to think about it a little more.”
Serenian opened his mouth again, hardened his face, and ordered Leon to confine Urea. The prison was to be an old anthill dungeon that had been cleared and now abandoned.
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“It’s surprising that there was a reason, but if so, I still don’t understand why it was chosen this way. Did he think that we could change only by using such radical and rough methods?”
“…I don’t know if I should say this, but the reason the elves who immigrated, including you, were able to change was definitely because of an opportunity.”
I have a headache as well. After watching the elves come in groups and dragging one of them tied up into the dungeon, the information was incomplete.
But more than that, it was more pitiful to see Serenian holding a walkie-talkie with gloomy eyes on the roof of a miniature house.
“It was unavoidable?”
“It wouldn’t have been easy no matter which way I chose. And now it doesn’t even matter why. The important thing is that we can do what the renegade elves claim.”
I wanted to give her hope. She wasn’t even floating.
The reforms and changes that the renegade elves are insisting on are being steadily achieved by the elves who have migrated into my pot.
“It’s enough to get bigger, get bigger and prove their methods wrong.”
[Population: 101]
I had heard that the size of a typical elf village was around 100 people, but now I glanced at the number, which was larger than most elf villages.
The new immigrants were the people of Serenian’s home village, but there were also elves brought in from other places little by little by elves who acted as operatives, so the number was considerable.
They are now settling down by the lakeside and are in the process of building a house with the help of their seniors.
“Seunghyun, you are right. Even if a war really breaks out on the continent, we can be the hope. There is no reason for my own people to forcefully follow the will of the traitors.”
Fortunately, she listened to me and regained her hope.
It has a greater purpose than simply surviving and enduring. I also cheered for it and was willing to help.
For me, she who suddenly moved into my pot one day, and the very existence of the elves were a joy.