Chapter 114 – One Heart (4)
Chapter 114 – One Heart (4)
“Why is your expression so dark? As if you are worried about something.”
“Are you asking because you really don’t know? What’s going on out there right now.”
“Just kidding. Of course I know.”
When Pia opened her eyes, I smiled and shook my head.
There is no way you don’t know. Because there is a war going on outside. It was for this reason that the elves had been conserving their energy in pots.
They didn’t come here just to run away and hide.
Serenian literally dragged the power of the world inside the flowerpot, including equipment made by elves, fairy ants, and dwarves.
“Did you want to follow me?”
“I don’t know. I don’t know if I’d rather drag you by force.”
However, Serenian did not take Pia, one of the greatest forces. Seeing her come to me and complain like this, it seems that Pia herself is also confused about that part.
The justification of needing someone to protect this flowerpot, where only the weak remain in preparation for an unexpected situation, was certainly plausible, but I noticed that there was a different intention.
“To fight outside is to go against the will of Ersilla, whom you believed in and followed. Are you afraid of it yet?”
“I am not afraid. It just makes me feel a little uncomfortable.”
“You can do that.”
Pia frowned, but did not deny my words. There’s no way that Serenian didn’t know what I knew, so she didn’t take Pia either. For both sides.
“I still don’t know. Who’s right? Who is it?”
“Well, I haven’t lived long, but I do know one thing. That there is no right answer in the world. The answer is that it doesn’t matter that much. So, instead of focusing on the correct answer, it would be right to focus on the content.”
I shrugged at the confused Pia. As I said, it was also a realization that came from my experience.
“When countless monsters pop out and disturb the world. When many people died and martial law was declared and the existing order was disrupted. Probably many people, including myself, realized then. That many of the things they believed to be the right answer are just a house of thought.”
Those who were driven to a corner, the group called the society they formed, abandoned the order and justice they believed in as if they were devoted partners when disaster struck.
The cost of that hypocrisy is, of course, the sacrifice of a few. The Awoken were driven to the frontlines before realizing why they had become such mutants.
To my disgust, everyone took the sacrifice for granted. Now that you have the power, you have to take responsibility for it.
Sacrifice was forced, and many were torn to death by the monsters.
“The story you are talking about…Similar to the Great War. Innumerable Demon Kings who opened the Dimensional Army in the Demon Realm and came over, the people who had to come forward to fight. Maybe there were people who had a billion things in the process? Is that why it is only now that such dissatisfaction has erupted?”
“But even so, if there is a war, the great forest will be greatly damaged. Why the hell is Ersilla risking it and being so self-righteous? Didn’t you think of taking things a little slower?”
At Pia’s muttering words, I brought up the story of Ersilla. She swallowed without bothering to ask why she was being so stupid.
Honestly, I couldn’t understand Ersilla’s behavior by my standards.
“Sah, actually I don’t know. Ersilla explained it, but it was so boring that I fell asleep listening to it and forgot everything afterwards. He didn’t do anything to me after that.”
“…The World Tree, the World Tree, is a divine tree that elves believe in and follow. Of course Ercily would, but why go against the will of the World Tree?”
“The World Tree is like the incarnation of our ancestors, the 12 fairies. But that doesn’t mean perfect. I remember hearing it before. During the Great War, Ersilla was particularly interested in the religions and myths of other races.”
Pia frowned and rubbed his temples, rummaging through her memory, and as a result she was able to give me some testimony.
‘I think I know.’
With a hard face, I guessed Ersilla’s intentions. Of course, I didn’t know much about it, but if Ersilla wanted to manipulate even the world tree according to her own intentions, the story might be right.
“Tell me one thing. The World Tree is not going to punish its own child, the elves… Do you have a pulpit?”
“D, never heard of it. Maybe it’s impossible?”
“Well, I heard that the other world has already withdrawn from direct intervention by the gods? If the World Tree had that kind of personality in the first place, this wouldn’t have happened.”
At my last question, Pia shook her head with a pale face as if she was asking what kind of fearful and horrible words she was saying.
And with that answer, I was able to guess one thing.
It’s not uncommon to talk about unscrupulous idiots who arrogantly try to defy and control a godhead who dares not harm their children.
Ersilla, who worshiped the World Tree just like other elves, obtained information about the divinities worshiped by other races during the Great War and changed the definition of the World Tree, which she believed to be all-knowing and omnipotent. Now he wants to realize it with his own hands.
“All I have to do is wait and see how it ends. It’s not even happening here.”
I’m sorry for Pia, who still has a dark face, but I can’t untie the twisted knot. Solving it was something that those who went out now had to do on their own.
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“The installation seems to be complete.”
“Looks like they still don’t know. To be honest, I was prepared to get caught.”
“It seems all nerves are focused on the bombardment.”
In the middle of the Great Forest, closer to the center.
A large garrison built on the basis of an empty elf village is bustling with dozens of smoke from cooking rice.
Serenian, who was watching the place from a distance on top of the hill, clicked his tongue as he saw the flame bullets falling across the air and all over the forest even at this moment.
“Just give the command and we can shoot right away. I was worried that it might break, but everything works fine.”
Beside her, her handful of elves who had followed her had already finished her preparations and were waiting.
Dwarven ballistas, thoroughly camouflaged with tree branches and leaves, were already aiming their spears at the enemies.
“Shouldn’t that be enough?”
“Enough. It obviously gets there. I’m sure they’ll be surprised too.”
Not even an ordinary ballista. It is a special object made of materials that do not exist in this world, such as rubber bands and tack pins.
Its power has already been proven by hunting monster earthworms.
Liam, the dwarven craftsman who followed Serenian to teach the elves how to operate and install the ballista, nodded his head with a spleen face.
These ballistas were the counterattack prepared by the elves against the human army that was waiting to dig a trap.
Just as they fired indiscriminately at the Great Forest to lure the elves out, Serenian also intended to fire indiscriminately at the garrison to lure them out.
“Queen. The main body reached nearby. It is a message that the preparations are complete.”
“The time has come. All ready to fire.”
Then a contact reached them. There was a message that the main unit had settled down and were ready to fight from a little further away.
At the same time, she clenched her badge around her neck and gave her order with gritting teeth.
It was time to try a proper counterattack against the enemies who were shooting fire happily without knowing why.
“Everything ready! Strength to the max! It won’t break, so don’t worry and pull it!”
Liam ran between the elves and loaded the ballista. These thick rubber bands, pulled to the limit by the power of the pulley, will send the pins flying with unprecedented force.
“Please lend me your strength.”
Serenian imbued it with the power of the lightning spirit he summoned. As the chimney pins filled with blue thunderbolts began to emit crackling sparks, the elves, their eyes tightly closed, fired ballistas into the air at once.
“The angle is nice.”
Liam, who was adjusting the angle and direction for the last time, put down the measuring tool hanging from her neck and muttered blankly as he watched the dozen or so giant spears flying across the air.
I don’t know if humans noticed that they were flying. All I could see was the pins with crackling thunderbolts falling precisely and straight into the middle of the camp.