chapter 75
Chapter 75 – Authenticity (5)
Chapter 75 – Authenticity (5)
‘I can do it.’
A light that blows away the darkness at once. Not only the other elves, but also Serenian, who frowned and looked at it, became convinced.
It is the sky that holds him up whenever he is shaken. It was safe to say that everything she accomplished now, alone in a deserted wasteland, originated from that sky.
“The World Tree has chosen its high elf.”
The determination of the world tree was soon over. A dark red fruit that grows on a single branch at high speed. Serenian took it as it fell to the ground and approached someone holding it.
Her path split open as her elves naturally moved out of her way.
At the end of the road is a small girl with a puzzled face. The outcome was somewhat expected. As for the high elves who can communicate with the World Tree, adult elves are rarely selected.
Serenian, who had just come of age and became a high elf of the World Tree, is special. She was also a minor when she first became a high elf of the Great Forest World Tree.
“Leah, your mission is great.”
“Can I, can I?”
“Everyone is with you, so it’s okay.”
Serenian smiled faintly and held out her fruit to Leah. The second high elf chosen by the World Tree is Leah, one of the siblings who stayed the longest, excluding Serenian among the elves here.
Even Leah, who behaved innocently as if she had nothing to fear even after her migration, she hesitated at this moment.
“The mission is big, but you don’t have to feel too pressured. You just became a friend of the World Tree.”
Kneeling on her one knee, Serenian handed her fruit to Leah.
She said she was a friend of the World Tree, trying to explain it to little Leah, but she wasn’t wrong. Because that was the essence of high elves.
“I will.”
In the end Leah accepted it like her elf. And with everyone watching. The moment Leah ate the fruit, she faced a big change.
“Lea!”
“Don’t worry too much! Because this is normal for a young body. She will wake up soon, and Leia will be active as a high elf from then on.”
As Leah soon fainted and collapsed, exclamations flowed from all around her, but she caught Leah as she fell, and Tina yelled at her to reassure the others.
Serenian watched with her blank eyes as she took her unconscious Leah back to her house.
“Get everything ready. Now, we set out for revenge.”
But the time was short. This is why she hastily selected her high elves to take over her own role, to fight herself.
Serenian donned her armor with her warriors. Unlike other people’s armor, the dwarves made more elaborate armor.
The golden patterns intricately engraved on the black armor represent the special power they infused into the armor while making it.
There, Serenian took his bow. Unlike other bows made of wood, it is a bow made of elastic metal with no idea how it was made. It is equivalent to a decent weapon that carries weight and wields it.
Thanks to this, no one can pull it, but once it is pulled, it shoots an arrow made of steel filled with mana, and its power is beyond imagination.
“This is an opportunity to prove to God that we, armed with His grace, have grown to this extent.”
After arming, Serenian opened his mouth with a determined face before moving with his warriors. It was dark again now, but Serenian continued his story based on the sun that had just risen.
“As I have already said, it is never right to just receive every time. I’m not sure what he expects and gives us this kind of help, but if he did at least help, it would be the world’s logic that he should show himself accordingly.”
“Yes. It’s no different from attacking a labyrinth. He has given us land, resources, and power to help us, and we must prove it.”
Garmin, who was mentally out of her mind when Shura was taken prisoner due to her own faulty judgment, agreed with her words.
Growth and change are just a process and a tool for a purpose.
As long as their true purpose is to save their fellow countrymen oppressed by radical and self-righteous traitors, they cannot live trapped in this potted world from beginning to end.
If the goal is just to live, it would be possible to cut off all interest in the outside world and continue to live only here, but Serenian, who had a deep story that he could not shake off, abandoned that thought the moment he saw the possibility.
The growth achieved through investment and the desperate struggle to prove it. Whether she was fighting monsters in the dungeon or enemies in the outside world, that was the fate she chose.
“Everybody go! Hurry up. You never know what they will do to Shura.”
In place of the exhausted and hungry warriors, warriors mounted on newly dispatched fairy ants started running in unison.
The dimensional rift used the gap to pour them into the great forest, and Serenian, who held the reins of the fairy ant, was one of them.
“Should I send Shinsu?”
“Yes. You should look first to see if there is any danger where we are going.”
Serenian instructed Ren, who was riding in front of her, to send her drone flying. Soon, a drone with a blue body soared into the sky and flew ahead of them.
According to the information Leon delivered, the place where the punitive force is stationed is a village that has become empty thanks to the relocation of the residents. It’s a little far away, but it doesn’t take too long if it’s the speed of the fairy ants that run on rough terrain as if it were flat.
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“I think it will take some more time. I can’t put my hands on it, so this is really…”
“I can’t help it. If it wasn’t for her sorcery, it would have taken longer to find it.”
Rousseau, the leader of the punitive force that created the garrison, sighed at the words of his vice-captain.
A village that has become empty with its residents disappearing overnight. Unaware that the death squad, which had made a decision in just a few hours, was now rushing here at a crazy speed, they still couldn’t leave.
We captured prisoners alive, but the problem was that we couldn’t dig up information. The basis of the interrogation was torture, but it was because Pia was watching the side with her eyes wide open.
Torturing an elf in front of Pia? On the way to burning her flesh and breaking her bones? It was something I would never have done with my mind.
“Above all, it is only one day. If you missed it anyway, you better make sure you go. By the way, is that fist injured?”
“…I wonder how the armor was made.”
Russo glanced at the vice-captain’s bandaged hand. Then, the vice-captain smiled as he looked at the black armor lying beside Russo’s desk.
An armor made by the Dwarves using fragments of the hunter’s dagger that Shura was wearing.
It was an ordinary armor without any treatment, but the vice-captain who struck it with his fist was greatly surprised by its durability.
“Still, I don’t have much time. You have to go with the results. Do you think you can dig it up if you take the time?”
“It is not impossible. Making them sick is not the only method of interrogation.”
At his words, the vice-captain grinned. At that moment, a faint sound of laughter came from outside.
But it was a strange laugh. The laughter that seemed to cry while laughing sounded like a scream.
“If you really make me laugh like that, will you answer me? Is it because it makes you feel better?”
“Rain, you can see it’s similar. So don’t worry too much. Aren’t you laughing like that? If you feel better, you will cooperate with us.”
Actually, laughing wasn’t laughing, but the knight of the punitive force tried to reassure Pia. In fact, inside her house, where she held her captive and redeemed Shura, her tight-knit chains are tickling her madly.
Forcible tickling is definitely torture. I chose this method to catch Pia’s attention, but the effect was not small, so Shura cried and laughed as if she was out of breath, and then her body trembled.
“Why did you do that? Ersilla said that we can only survive if everyone works together.”
“…Originally it is very difficult to bring everyone’s opinions together, Mr. Pia. Even during the Great War, there were people who fought each other apart. In my view, it is like a law of the world that transcends race.”
At Pia’s muttering, Hans, the butler, replied with a bitter smile.
Hans actually knows the inside story. What actions Erscilla took to subvert reality and what consequences she had.
No matter how elf you are, it’s strange that there’s no backlash. How ideal it would be if they could communicate and understand each other and gather their will into one, but in the face of the urgent reality, no matter how intelligent and lofty they were, they eventually chose the easiest way, that is, armed force.
“Something is coming. They are coming.”
“Yes?”
And it was no longer only the central meeting that could wield that force.
As Pia let out a small sigh and looked around with her eyes wide open, Hans raised his alertness as he saw nothing around except for the murmur of the forest at dawn.
“A lot. And fast!”
“Rain, emergency. Emergency!!”
At the same time as Pia heard the information through the forest, a red flare was fired into the sky.
In case you didn’t know, the guards who were on the lookout found something and hurriedly fired at it.