Chapter 145 – The Night Before the Storm (5)

Chapter 145 – The Night Before the Storm (5)

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“If you have anything you need, including food, we’ll give it to you…You don’t have to migrate, so don’t fall for the conciliation of the Central Conference…I really wonder if this will be enough.”

“I was explained that it was a kind of power war rather than an all-out war. To win the hearts of his own people. Did you see it too? Changes coming from all sides eventually changed our people, but they are our people.”

After getting out of the village, I almost threw the things I brought to town. After taking a break, Leon and Bean, who started moving again with the fairy ants, recalled the faces of the villagers who had suddenly appeared and talked.

The Central Council defined Eden as a group of traitors, but not all elves, who were not accustomed to centralized authorities, agreed with that opinion.

Eden aimed for that gap. It is impossible to accept all of them as migrants, but it is possible to increase the number of friendly people. In a way, it was similar to what the humans were trying to do to color the elves of the Great Forest, but the elves of Eden had one more weapon that was the most powerful for the elves.

“It’s not polite to visit late at night, so let’s hurry up a bit. According to records, it is the most northeastern town.”

The task force, composed of a few people under Leon’s command, headed for another village with the remaining supplies. Although the distance was not small and the further away from the center, there were no proper roads, but thanks to the speed of the fairy ants, who were more flexible and could not be faster than this in the forest, they were able to get to the area much faster.

“…What is that?”

However, all they found were ruined facilities and the surrounding environment of the village, which had been ruined by the fierce fighting.

Frightened, they put down all their belongings and hurried to the village.

The town is already a cruel hell. Bodies were dumped here and there, and it had been a long time since every house or building had been destroyed and rummaged.

“Leon! There are survivors!”

In the meantime, Bean found a person who was still alive. The survivor with a deep wound in his chest is an old man who has already aged considerably, and whose life span is short.

Intuitively, they thought he must have been the chieftain of this village.

“Take care. Are you okay?”

They hurriedly took action and anxiously called the old man’s ritual. Although he had already lost too much blood, the old man struggled to open his eyes.

“Human…! And those with beast ears attacked the village…! They plundered the herbs and forcibly dragged a few…”

“…I know.”

Leon has already been through this situation. External aggression and plunder began to appear exactly after the Great War ended.

Those who openly identified themselves as thieves did not hesitate.

“Leon, he is already dead.”

In the end, the old man died with his eyes open. Leon, who continued to hold on to the old man’s body, stunned at Bean’s words, put the old man on the ground and closed his eyes.

But even after that, they couldn’t easily leave their seats.

“I don’t understand. Why are those motherf*ckers doing this!?”

“What can people who are full of greed not do? The demon king who brings chaos to the world is dead? It seems to me that the Demon King still exists in this land.”

Bin shouted in anger, but Leon rather coldly and cynically said. His enemy, of course, was Ersilla, who destroyed his precious family, but the root of that enemy was the world itself, which is still in chaos.

‘If you keep doing things like this, it will only end up empowering the Elder. We have to do something like this.’

At the same time, Leon was convinced. Since the world does not leave the Great Forest alone, Eden must eventually spread its influence to the world beyond the Great Forest.

Only then will the people of the country believe in them and agree with them.

“Sarah. You’d better bring this to Eden. After we spend the night, we go to another town.”

“I’ll be right there. After coming and going, we will wait at the meeting point.”

Leon instructed Sera, one of the crew members who came with him, to report this horror to Serenian. If you’ve been through terrible things, you’ve been through, and right now you have to do something.

“Are you trying to save the kidnapped people?”

“If permission is given, I am willing to go. Because it’s not just today. An unknown number of my own people have already suffered this way. If we succeed in rescuing them, our people will turn completely against us.”

Bin recognized his friend’s thoughts and asked with a nervous face, but Leon did not deny his words. There was not one enemy, and the anger that was building up had already burst.

***

“I heard the rumors. Evil humans dared to invade this place, completely plundered a village and killed many of their own people!”

Rumors that outside forces are continuing to invade and plunder around the border area naturally spread throughout the Great Forest over time. To the extent that Ersilla dispatched an army of elves who had accumulated experience in combat to the border area and carefully cracked down on it.

Of course, it doesn’t make sense to protect all areas with just that many. Unless the root of the problem is rooted out, marauders will continue to try to invade.

“So those humans are our enemies?”

“That makes sense! Aren’t you the same person as you!”

Thanks to this fact, those dispatched from the branch were struggling to convince the residents.

Even if it was explained that another human kingdom, which was pointed out as a possible background, was a completely different force from the Kingdom of Delos, which was allied with the Great Forest, most elves did not easily understand the perspective of humans divided by region, origin, and country.

“What she said is true. Humans are so different that they can live anywhere, and they kill and kill each other without hesitation. It’s just such a creature. Not all human species are the same.”

“Is that true? Such barbaric…”

As the residents hardly believed it, Luri sighed and guaranteed Lua’s words, and only then did the elves believe them to some extent. It was a bonus to mutter about what kind of people there are.

Likewise, Lua was speechless at the sight of the elves having a strong sense of kinship, but he didn’t bother to argue.

“Anyway, Kamihi, who are sure to be behind the thieves, are not on good terms even with our kingdom. Where did the Eden elves get so many supplies? Everyone was taken over by them.”

“They said they had been helped by the true God and would work for the true liberation of the Great Forest without asking for anything. Actually they didn’t force anything on us.”

“Does it make sense? It’s god It’s been a very long time since the beings of godheads disappeared from the world. All they can do is lend their strength indirectly, and no god gives them food, salt, or iron tools.”

Lua shook her head, suppressing her snoring at the elves’ words.

“I’m not saying anything bad about the elves of Eden. After all, they too have been tricked by those evil ‘other country’ people. But if you continue to side with them, you’ll be rightfully beaten by an enemy who invades the Great Grove from behind and uses tactics to lure the Elves in the future. Rather, you have to be firmly centered and persuade them to go down the right path.”

As instructed by his superior, Lua instilled facts into the villagers. From their point of view, they had no choice but to think that there must be someone behind the mysterious resource power of the Eden forces, so strictly speaking, it was a huge misunderstanding, not a lie.

As there were no gaps in that logic, the elves looked at each other with worried faces. I know the same elves well. The fact that they do not yet have that level of technology or room. Certainly the elves of Eden had something hidden.

“Currently, there are too many villages scattered across the Great Forest, making them too vulnerable to enemy raids. The elder believes that it is right to create a city for each region and live together with the people living in the village, so please follow along. It’s all for you.”

“There is the biggest flaw in your words. Why don’t you humans, who are said to have formed an alliance with the elder who collects taxes and recruits soldiers to lend us strength, to save the abducted people by attacking another human kingdom that is actually trying to attack us?”

“Yeah, that still needs some time…”

However, Lua was flustered by the chief’s last answer and couldn’t answer properly.

Waging a kingdom war is not an easy task. Of course, since Ersilla had raised a decent elven army at the cost of a lot of sacrifices, she tried to wipe out the thieves in the border area who had been raiding the border area by moving her army on her own accord, but the king of the kingdom of Delos, an ally, made all sorts of excuses. It is because of the use of threats and threats to prevent it.

Lua, who was only a member of the Knights Templar, didn’t know that, so she was just evasive.

“Calm down. I will take responsibility for the problem and find out the reason somehow. And if a war breaks out, I will take the lead, kill my enemies, and save my people.”

This time, Ruri stepped in and intervened. Seeing Ruri’s unshakable eyes, the chief sighed a little and suppressed his momentum.

“I don’t know why a stalwart warrior like you is so enamored with the humans…But I want to fight them too. However, if the elder who gathered the strength of his own people did not step forward at all, he would have no choice but to think it was all a deception and not believe it anymore.”

However, the chieftain’s words as he turned his back strongly shook Ruri’s heart.

“Ask me when you get back. There is a limit to just defending, so why not declare war on obvious enemies? If you can’t achieve that, it’s impossible to earn the people’s trust. You know why we grit our teeth and do these things, and why I was forcibly dragged in to learn the sword while rolling in the Order of Knights with you.”

“Yes. Know. I’ll ask you once.”

In the afternoon, when the sun was about to set, Lua and Ruri left the village with a small group of troops from the branch. At the words of the dark Ruri, Lua could not resist and nodded his head.

“This! This is Joe’s request for assistance to the nearby town!”

But at that time, a wizard who was one of the party saw the crystal ball ringing in his arms and shouted in astonishment.

The urgently sent signal was a signal from those who split up and headed to another village, indicating that a battle had broken out. They changed their momentum at once and were alert on all sides.

“Go get it. Hurry!”

Lua ordered everyone to hurry and decided to go to support his comrades.

‘Could it be with those thieves?’

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Ruri also drew her sword and ran at her horse. Her mind was full of her thoughts of the external enemies she had been referring to just before.

“Get off your horse. It’s the hill over there.”

It wasn’t long before they had to dismount from their horses on a rough forest road. The knight’s excellent hearing, hearing distant shouts and the clashing of metal weapons, found the direction and immediately started running in that direction.

‘Eden’s Kindred!’

There, Ruri saw them. Those wearing black clothes made from the skin of the beast and fighting with the troops of the branch along with the fairy ants.

Looking at the appearance, it seemed that the branch troops who had discovered the escaped Eden’s special operation team were mobilizing all kinds of methods to pursue them without fail.

“Hurry up and apply!”

Lua rushed into the battlefield at once and started fighting, but Luli couldn’t bear to let go.

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