Chapter 147 – The Night Before the Storm (7)
Chapter 147 – The Night Before the Storm (7)
“I need the power of the sky to perfectly capture the human knight Lua, infiltrate the enemy and use it as a spy.”
It seemed like he knew exactly what Serenian and Leon were planning. Leon’s wife, an elf who was forcibly taken away but eventually learned something from humans, Ruri refused to join Eden and instead offered a way to make the most of her current status.
If Lua is killed hastily and Luli joins Eden, she will certainly give her enemies a cause. It will be an incident that will confirm the suspicions of those who are aware of Eden as a reactionary force supported by other kingdoms.
“Of course, it is not difficult to show strength to those who come from outside.”
I nodded at Serenian’s words for now. She and her elves think they are really great powers or miracles, but to me, all of them are just trivial acts.
It wasn’t a big risk, nor was it a risky move. It was so light that others could see it as a joke.
Because of that, I didn’t feel particularly repulsed by simply doing those things to the flowerpot. I was able to do it 100 times and 1000 times, and I didn’t think it was arrogant at all when I asked for it. I wasn’t really a god, and I’m not trying to play god with a flower pot. On the contrary, I was even happy to see the positive reactions of the residents through my actions.
“However, I would like you to continue to know that I cannot become omnipotent. This is for you.”
“I know. The most important thing is our own strength.”
“You believe, Serenian, but maybe others don’t think so. It’s your job to catch them well.”
In such a situation, what I was most worried about was not myself, but that the elves mistook my help for the absolute and true power of a god and believed in it blindly.
Because of the fundamental difference in size, my little ‘pranks’ become a miracle to them. But in essence, I know that the acts are nothing more than a joke after all.
The more the elves took it for granted, the more they could be sure that a big problem would arise in the future, without thinking too hard about it.
When I wasn’t used to it and when the world tree was immature, my help wasn’t active yet.
At the time when we couldn’t even properly communicate with each other, I could trust Serenian, who proved himself almost on his own, but those who joined after that might go the wrong way due to overconfidence in me.
“I will remind others that heaven’s protection is never something that can be obtained for free. There is a ceremony to give thanks to God this time, so if you use it as a justification, it will be enough to give you a justification for the power that the god will show you.”
“Certainly that is enough. So, what do you think you can show the human knight to be easily captured?”
“I came here to come up with that plan. To see if Heaven can help.”
She said she would plan for any miracle. Hearing that, I picked up my phone and looked at all the things I had done to the flower pots.
Collect sunlight with lenses, turn off lights and turn on mirror balls, flash at night, shoot plastic bullets, throw pins and more.
Dwellers of Eden are no longer surprised by things falling from the sky, but when you think about it properly, most of what was on that list could be seen as a miracle itself to those who first set foot in this potted world. .
“I’ll have to check it out, but there’s no law that only one miracle will appear if God judges it necessary.”
I laughed. If the purpose was purely to show, it would have been enough to show everything on this list without actually needing to devise anything else. Indeed, Serenian seemed quite shocked to hear that he could show all the divine punishments and miracles recorded so far.
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“It may be inconvenient, but it will be soon. When you arrive, I’ll release the blindfold. I will tell you everything there.”
“Ha, shameless.”
Above a fairy ant crossing a dark forest road. Leon said while looking at the burden the fairy ant was carrying. Jim’s true identity was a small prison with a structure of bars, and inside was sitting Lua, tightly bound by chains that could not be broken even by the power of a knight, with her eyes covered with her thick eye patch.
Of course, she reacted sharply to Leon’s words and gnashed her teeth.
‘It’s clear that they intend to take me prisoner and torture me as material to boost their morale.’
Lua gritted her teeth. The moment she was hit by a bullet, she lost her mind and fainted. She came to her senses while being tied up and dragged away, not knowing that Leon was Ruri’s husband or what the couple conspired against.
‘What the hell did I lose?’
She didn’t understand the current situation itself. She wondered what Leon had done to defeat her, and why she was dragging herself alive.
She doesn’t believe anything Leon tells her about Eden, and based on her own common sense and notions, she is convinced that they are a reactionary force supported by other human kingdoms. No matter how much I tried, I could only draw a disastrous future.
Because the elves of Eden who were instigated by the enemy country couldn’t let themselves go.
“Now we have arrived.”
‘Arrival? Oh, I can’t hear anything?’
Around the time Lua’s guess turns into all sorts of delusion. Leon reached the front of her rift to take her and enter her Eden. Lua pricked up her ears, unaware that her body was trembling, but in front of the rift, there was just a forest.
Imagining a town or city where at least hundreds of people live, she was taken aback by the inaudible presence.
“Yes.”
She passed through that tiny crack in that state. A strange sensation as if something was going through your body. But after that, as the space changed at once, the countless people she was looking for began to be sensed all around her.
“You are the first person who did not come here voluntarily, Lua, the human knight.”
“What is this?”
Confused, she was pulled out of her prison without any help. She stood in front of someone and her eye patch came off.
The first thing Lua saw was a gigantic tree with intricate patterns carved on its trunk and branches beneath a layer of crowns that were huge enough to cover the sky, and a female elf looking at herself right in front of her own nose. .
The tiara on the elf’s head reflected the light and shimmered. Lua’s eyes trembled when she saw the tiara. Serenian’s appearance wearing a tiara was the same as the testimonies about the hero of the rebel forces who killed Alex Peak, the commander of the kingdom and the war hero.
“What did you imagine?”
Serenian raised the corner of her mouth faintly as she watched Lua look around her with her wildly shaking eyes.
A huge world tree, countless elves watching her, houses made of pure white clay made here and there, and so on. Lua hesitated involuntarily at the scenery that was completely different from the elven village she had seen.
“This is Eden. A land protected by God. We didn’t lie.”
Serenian turned around and headed to another place while walking first. Even as they were being forcibly dragged along, Lua could not get her words out, only her mouth twitching.
“Is this all a world that can be created with the help of human kingdoms like you?”
“Oh, no. This is nonsense.”
Serenian crossed the rift and showed Lua everything Eden is like. There is no need for torture or intimidation. Just showing reality was enough.
Eventually, the last time I went over to the pots in the river area to show the city being built. Lua staggered, denying the reality.
All the predictions about Eden that the superiors are making are wrong. They did not suffer from food shortages, did not earn money by selling themselves to enemy countries, and were creating a proper independent force.
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“Now speak with your own mouth.”
With his back to Deneb, the central city of the Great Forest, as well as a huge tower that is hard to see even in the human world, and the city that lights up the darkness every night with brilliant LED lights installed on it, Serenian pointed his finger at Lua’s pale face.
“Who is right? Are your superiors doubting our strength? Or are we the ones who proved that power?”
‘Are you trying to capture me? Well, there’s no reason to show something like this to a mediocre prisoner.’
When Lua was asked who was right, she intuitively realized that this question was asking for her own betrayal. In fact, if you admit the identity and power of Eden, you will have no choice but to go against the orders of your superiors.
‘That’s stupid. It’s enough just to say that I know.’
“Woah, the queen is welcome.”
Lua, who rolled her hair for a moment, nodded her head and wept. It was true that he was scared, so he didn’t even have to act.
“Hey!?”
“Don’t tell lies in front of the high elves.”
But she was unaware of the power of the high elves, so Serenian laughed coldly, grabbed her chin at once, and touched her madly beating heart.
“It was Ruri’s earnest request that gave her a chance, but she, like a human, thinks of deceiving others. You’re not cheating on us You deceived the world and the sky that is watching over you even at this moment.”
“That, what is that? Wait a minute!”
“Please take me with you. I must offer this human as a sacrifice before the gods get angry.”
Serenian began her acting in earnest with the elves around her. She was just trying to scare her by moving according to a pre-planned script, but Lua, who couldn’t figure it out, instinctively felt fear and struggled.
But she couldn’t resist being tied up. She was dragged along and once again tied to a metal pole built in the clearing in front of the World Tree.
‘What are you trying to do?!’
Under the sun beating down on her head, Lua began to break out in a cold sweat and struggled against her.