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Chapter 142 – The Night Before the Storm (2)

Chapter 142 – The Night Before the Storm (2)

“I can’t believe it…”

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When will the kingdom of Delos, which ended the civil war and successfully staged a coup d’état in less than a year, the Great Forest, where there was a clash between the kingdom’s army and Eden, and the Eden, which temporarily delayed the fight against parasitic bees to build a city? We are facing a dangerous state of peace that may end.

Under such circumstances, someone rode a horse across a shabby forest road to what remained of a neglected village.

She got off her horse in shock. Even her appearance, including the way she rode her horse, was different from the elves of the Great Forest. Dressed in a well-made red uniform and boots in the form of boots, she wore her sword instead of a bow in her belt and crossed the empty and neglected village with her bleak face.

“Is this your town? Why… has it changed like this?”

As she stood in the center of her village with her blank face, the tooth that came with her approached. She is a black-haired woman wearing the same clothes as her. But the black-haired woman had round ears unlike her.

“I don’t know.”

She muttered in a trembling voice as she looked around the deserted village. It was impossible by common sense for an entire village of elves who never left their home to be abandoned. Right now, this village was also a village that had been going on for more than a few hundred years.

“It’s definitely the work of bandits or rebels from Kamihi Kingdom. They dragged Ruri, your villagers. Even your husband.”

The human woman who came with her mentioned Eden with another human kingdom adjacent to the Great Grove. Both of them are the forces that the Kingdom of Delos, allied with the Great Forest, referred to as the ‘enemy’, and it actually caused bloodshed.

“Don’t call me a reactionary molecule. Because of your work. Would they have acted like that if I had let them contact me even once!?”

“If you have to argue, it’s not our fault, it’s your captain. Do not forget. I am also the one who felt sorry for you who were taken by force. Is it because I don’t know what you were like when you first came to the kingdom? I was the one who slapped you on the cheek when I was new to you.”

When her hot-headed Ruri glared at her, the human woman sighed and shook her head. She recalls the past when she first met her and was nothing less than an enemy, although now she has become a colleague who crosses limbs with her anyway.

To Ruri, they were just an evil alien race that kidnapped her.

But even Ruri herself admitted that she couldn’t change if she hadn’t been forced to do so. Instilling new ideas, values, and mana applications in such a short time into an already grown-up elf could never have been done in a gentle way.

“Right. Lua, after all, you are just a servant following her orders.”

“Thank you for noticing.”

Finally, Ruri turned her head away with a sigh. Although she acknowledged her reality, her hatred for Erscilla did not disappear.

“But it’s better not to ask us to attack those who call themselves the elves of Eden. They are our people If my husband were there, do you think I’ll let you attack them?”

“Even the captain doesn’t expect that much. All you have to do after being selected to return home is to tell the rest of your people what you have seen, heard and learned from the outside world. If that persuasion works, won’t the other elves who were seduced by the traitors come back?”

There was no way Ruri could do anything to fight Eden, where her husband, Leon, might be a part, she drew the line. Then, as if expected, Lua reminded them of the mission they had been given.

There is one reason why the Joint Knights, a mixture of elves and humans who had been active in the Kingdom of Delos, returned to the Great Forest. It was to inform the residents of how rapidly the outside world was turning, through the mouths of their own people.

“It’s going crazy.”

“The demon king is dead, and the great war is over? To be honest, I don’t know.”

Lua smiled faintly. At the same time, Ruri’s face stiffened as she thought the same thing.

The events she was forced to go through after being taken outside the great forest were no different from the times of the Great War, which we hear about in stories.

As if the continent could not cool down the body heated up by the great war, incidents and accidents continued here and there.

War, plunder, slaughter, redemption, rise and fall. All over the continent everything was happening fast and furiously.

“The gates of Pandemonium are open to all continents. It was open to the barren north and the hot desert of the south. Due to the great war that occurred, numerous races and powers on the continent had to form deep exchanges and relationships for the first time in history in order to survive. You know?”

“…Yes.”

Lua reminded her of her history, which she herself taught her Luli. Why did the continent fall into great chaos right now? Her reason was simple. Because this is the first time this has happened.

“Those who didn’t know each other well now know each other well. Why do you think even a band of thieves have invaded the Great Forest lately to harass the elves? They became much stronger, but they realized that you were weak. Because I found out that there is no beautiful and strong elven kingdom from the legends of the past.”

“I still don’t understand how they kill, harass, and enslave people just for that reason.”

“That’s why some people say that. The curse left behind by the death of the demon king… spread across the continent and created this division.”

As Ruri frowned at him, Lua smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

Luri, who had never experienced the curse of the demon lord or the Great War, could not just ignore it. Because the horrors he had seen in his activities in the human kingdom were right before his eyes.

I didn’t discriminate between factions and races. Often the victim becomes the perpetrator. However, if there is one thing in common, the weak without power have no choice but to be defeated, no matter who the opponent is.

‘No matter how urgent it is, if the people in my country are unreliable but take the time to inform them slowly, it could have changed.’

That was also the reason why Ruri couldn’t refuse an order against Ersilla, whom she resented.

“Let’s go back to Deneb for now. The original plan was to get your villagers to meet you and convince them, but it ended up like this.”

“I need to find her husband.”

“Unfortunately, there will be an opportunity later, so follow the order for now. Now I am your boss.”

Ruri couldn’t take her feet off the village, especially her home, but Lua shook her head, and eventually the two women mounted their horses again and turned their backs on the village.

***

“It’s an attack by monsters!”

“Everyone go to your seats!”

Mighty power. What everyone wants, including the enlightened Ruri. You can protect something only if you have it.

It was the same here in Eden.

Innumerable parasitic bees and their hosts break out of their nests in the dark and attack across the sky and land.

They have strength in a completely different direction from the kingdom army, and move only to kill their rivals and prey, the elves.

The elves, who were still in the middle of building the city, were preparing to stand up against the enemy who attacked them, and took up arms in their respective places to face them.

Just as Ercilla accepted her sacrifice and implanted the powers obtained from humans into the elves, the elves of Eden also felt the need for a different kind of power and were developing it.

“Shoot!”

Shining pins fired from the rubber band ballistas installed on top of the barrier flew across the sky at once, carrying the mana the elves had blown into them using their own power.

The power of the shot pins is strong enough to tear apart the body of parasitic bees passing by with a powerful shockwave wrapped around the body. Made by the Dwarves with materials from the sky and applied the methods developed by the Elves, this was the power that the Elves of Eden possessed.

But that wasn’t all.

“There are hiding guys.”

“Please light the lamp of eternity.”

Serenian, who was watching the battle nervously holding his bow from his highest watchtower, instructed to light the appearance of his mutant parasitic bees.

The weakness of parasitic bees is bright light. It is especially lethal to mutants. Soon, a bright light burst from a miniature electric lamp at the top of a huge tower built in the middle of the city, scattering the light at the desired angle.

‘We win.’

Serenian looked at the elves who were fighting desperately and defending themselves from the enemy’s attacks even if they didn’t have to step up.

Arrows flying nonstop through the air, the occasional sound of gunpowder exploding, and so on. It would be a different story if the parasitic beasts tried to attack like this every day and wage a war of attrition, but at least the elves who were well prepared for the one-night battle were not pushed back at all.

She trusted her people. Although it is true that compared to the past, it has become weak and stereotyped, it is true that the potential held inside can be awakened again even if it is not forced.

“I think it would be an opportunity for us if the elders started paying attention to the public sentiment.”

“Is that true?”

“Now, the captain is no longer openly hostile to us. Those who lost their families forcibly joined us out of anger against him…If they persuaded them, wouldn’t we be able to bring them back? If what they claim is power, don’t we just need to prove it?”

In the end, Serenian, who did not directly participate in the battle that day, came up with a plan on the fly.