ALL NOVEL chapter 12
12 – Warrior Party
“I’m… A half-elf…”
“No. Not that identity… That spirit’s identity.”
I was staring at a spirit named Elaim, who had come to Lucia’s side and was staring at me.
I’ve heard a lot of common spirits like sylphs and undines…
I don’t remember hearing about a spirit called Elaim.
“Elim? Ah! Warrior! Say hello This is Elaim, the water spirit king.”
“Spirit… King?”
“Yes. He presides over all the water in the world and rules over the water spirits…”
“Th… I know that, but… Lucia, how can you summon the Spirit King?”
I didn’t know the name Elim, but I knew very well about the existence of the Spirit King.
According to the story in the legend, I knew that there was not a single elf that ever made a contract with the spirit king unless it was a dragon who was very friendly to the spirits once in a while.
But…
I couldn’t understand the fact that a half-elf, a mixture of human and normal elves, had summoned the Spirit King, not a high elf that maintained a pure bloodline among elves like Illuen.
“Lu… Lucia… You… Are you not a dragon?”
“No. Warrior. That half elf is right.”
“Then how do you get the spirit king…”
“That’s… there’s a reason…”
Lucia’s face, which had been smiling all day today, was getting darker, as if I had touched something I shouldn’t have touched.
“By the way… Oh… how are you? My name is the hero Carlos.”
[Yes. Hello. My name is Elaim.]
Elim, in the form of water, reached out his hand toward me, which seemed strange to me, but
I also held out his hand with him and shook his hand.
“Wow… I heard that the spirit king can communicate with humans unlike normal spirits… That’s true.”
[Ha ha ha, yes.]
As Elaim laughed, the shape of the water gradually changed and her face began to look like a smiling face.
As Elaim and I laughed and chatted with each other, Lucia’s darkened face suddenly became brighter as before.
“By the way, Lucia, how did you come here? And since when did you know that I am a hero?”
“Ah.. I doubted the hero because he killed the orcs so easily… But to be precise, I heard the hero go to the reinforcement barracks and talk.”
Lucia pricked her ears, fluttering her own ears, sticking out as if to show me,
It was only then that I realized belatedly that elves have good hearing, and only laughed bitterly.
“And I hope the hero is going somewhere…”
Wheei yi yi
“I asked this sylph to follow me.”
When Lucia held out her palm toward the sky, an opaque sylph in the form of a mischievous child who had flown in before her knew it, was fiddling with Lucia’s hand.
“And did you follow me all the way here?”
“Yes.”
If Lucia hadn’t come, what would have happened to her…
Dantalion and the numerous Demon Lords would have turned to ashes here today, but it would have been difficult for those who were isolated in the valley to return alive.
“Thank you. Lucia. If it wasn’t for you, everyone in that valley would have died.”
“No! I… I am… I am grateful to the hero for accepting me as a party in the first place.”
“For a party…? Ah…”
I wondered if I had been given a warrior’s party at the moment when I heard the word party, but as I recalled what happened at the adventurer’s guild, I started laughing again.
And after a while…
I saw soldiers waving flags at me on a hill far away, which meant that the soldiers stranded in the valley escaped safely.
“Shall we go back to the village for now? It looks like everyone came out safely.”
“Yes!!”
Thanks to Lucia’s efforts, one of the two paths into the valley was safely blocked,
The Demon King’s army, which was trying to enter the other side of the road, was able to defend itself sufficiently with only the isolated army, so everyone could be safely rescued.
“Hero!! Thank you!”
“This is all thanks to the hero!!”
“Hero! Thank you for saving me!”
When Lucia and I returned to the village, the knights, soldiers, and adventurers who had already returned from the valley gathered to thank us.
Aside from that, everyone was cheering for me, the hero who brought their families, friends, and colleagues back safely.
“Hero!! You are the hero of our kingdom of Horon!!”
Even Count Rochelli ran to the entrance of the village, took my hand and waved it up and down, and before I knew it, the crowd gathered more and more, to the point where I couldn’t go forward or back.
“No. Can we go somewhere quiet for now?”
“Yes! Come this way!”
I wanted to introduce Lucia’s performance to the people gathered here and return her cheers to her, but
When she said that she wanted to keep the fact that she had summoned the Spirit King a secret, she had nothing to say.
Count Rocelli came out and guided Lucia toward the barracks prepared in advance, and the knights who broke the road suffered more as people flocked to them on every road they passed.
“Hero, but this side…”
“Uh…. This is the Elementalist who helped me. If it wasn’t for this Elementalist, it would have been a tough fight for me too.”
“Ah! Is that so! Thank you so much for helping the hero and helping us!”
Count Rochelli stood up from her seat and greeted Lucia politely. Lucia was ashamed to be greeted like this, but her face turned red and she couldn’t even answer properly.
“For an elf to help me like this… It feels like watching a warrior party.”
“Yes!? Ah.. No.. How can I have a warrior party for my subject… And I’m a half-elf.”
“Ah… I’m sorry. This is so hard to distinguish from the human point of view..”
“Ah… No…”
As Lucia continued to feel awkward about Count Rocelli, he didn’t speak to him anymore.
Now, let’s get to the point and start talking about Dantalion.
“Hero, what happened to Dantalion?”
“Looks like he ran away.”
“Ah… I see.”
“But he is mortally wounded and will not be able to move for a while. Apparently, it was his colleagues who took him and ran away…”
“Comrades…”
“Yes. There were also other Four Heavenly Kings.”
Dantalion, who had suffered quite severe injuries even after using a sword at a certain distance,
In a situation where swords were facing each other in close proximity to me, there was no way he would have been fine even after being hit by a blow.
I’m sure the other Four Heavenly Kings watched and took them back…
“Then there were only two Four Heavenly Kings…?”
“Yes. It’s just my guess anyway. Not sure.”
“Well.
From what I felt from the battle with the demon 3 years ago, I learned that there is a power struggle within the demon army, just like us humans.
While there are Four Heavenly Kings who persevere in making achievements in order to impress each other with the demon king, others do not hesitate to do villainous things to rise to the position themselves by putting others down.
“Count, what happened to Iluen?”
“Anyway, according to the report that just came up from the border checkpoint, it seems that we have already left the Kingdom of Horon and headed for the Kingdom of the Elves.”
“Yes…”
“It’s a big deal anyway. Warrior. It is said that our Majesty was furious after receiving the news about this place, but it seems that the aftermath will probably blow hard sooner or later.”
“Sure. Because too many died…”
With the help of Lucia, Count Rochelli, and I, we were able to save the isolated army and adventurers, but
Before that, too many people had already died.
It seemed difficult to escape from the responsibility, from the empire that provided obviously incorrect information, to Iluen, who created this division, and the elven kingdom that dispatched her.
As Edwin said, if I had made the warrior party a little faster…
So if I had participated in the battle properly, things like today probably wouldn’t have happened…
Of course, no one is going to hold me accountable for this, but I couldn’t help feeling guilty.
“I have been…”
The Earl of Rocelli, after receiving a report from an administrator, was temporarily absent, as if something had happened,
In the barracks, only me and Lucia were left.
“Thank you so much for today. Lucia. I will tell Count Rochelli that he will be rewarded for his performance today.”
“Ah… No. You don’t have to.”
“No. Adventurers are supposed to receive commission fees according to the number of demon lords they killed, so they should be fine.”
“Rather than trying to make money… I did it to help the hero.”
To help me…
If it’s her performance today, it’s as good as the old warrior’s party… No, it’s even better than that.
Maybe just by summoning the spirit king, you can join the warrior party and even line up to take him to any kingdom.
“So, Lucia.”
“Yes?”
“I just want you to listen without being pressured…”
“Yes. Please speak.”
“Could you come into our warrior party?”
After hearing what I said, Lucia must have been misunderstood for a while,
There was no change in his expression, but after a while he understood the meaning and covered his mouth with his hand to hide his surprised face.
“Yes!!!? Me?”