Chapter 153 – Fragmentation (3)
Chapter 153 – Fragmentation (3)
“I have committed a gearco. Captain, no, a true traitor. A fallen demon!”
“…”
It’s on fire. The leaves, branches, and trunks of the giant tree slowly start from the eastern part. At this rate, the whole tree will be burned before night is over.
The frightened elves hurriedly got water and sprayed it, but the fire did not go out. This is because that fire that does not even require oil is not an ordinary fire, but a fire made by a wizard with special materials.
Indeed, Ersilla, who woke up and came running, was just standing there in her nightgown, staring at it with a blank face.
“Trash! The spirits of your ancestors will curse you. You won’t be comfortable even if you die!”
“Please be quiet. Rather, don’t you guys think there’s something strange?”
Ersilla quietly opened her mouth as she saw the high elves wriggling on the floor after being overpowered after attacking her.
“How could you be so shameless…”
“The World Tree is burning. It was like the end of the world for us elves. But why… Can you who interact with the World Tree stay ‘sane’? It must be the pain of burning your body.”
“!!!”
The high elves, who had been pouring curses at her words, shut her mouth in surprise. Come to think of it, their current situation makes no sense.
The World Tree is on fire, but they are shocked and surprised, but they are fine. I couldn’t be sure that this anger was also the effect of the World Tree.
“The world tree recorded in history expressed and divided more things. The likes and dislikes are clear, and they teach us… But what about now? I do not do anything of my own accord except to maintain the Great Forest. Even if the guardians left, they didn’t catch on, and even if humans infiltrated, they didn’t react. Isn’t it a bit strange to say that the world capital has grown into a decent adult?”
From the moment Ersilla first had her doubts about her World Tree, she spoke of her own thoughts, which she had developed more and more concretely.
Her idea was based on the process of gathering information and studying while interacting with countless people during the Great War.
“It still is. That fire that seems to be the work of human wizards. Suppose, as you misunderstood, that I lit the fire. Even so, will the World Tree be quietly affected by that fire?”
“Don’t talk nonsense. Just because the World Tree is dying… You mean you chose all these things yourself…!”
“Everything has an end. It is natural for the ancestors to leave their hopes to the next generation and close their eyes. It is the same with the capital of the world and this world.”
Ercilla, who continued to look at her world tree, turned her body. Her face, as if she had clearly realized something, had a very strange expression, neither angry nor sad nor happy.
“But even considering that reason, you guys won’t tolerate it.”
“You have done a great job with this, Captain.”
Soon, with the sound of gunfire, a number of armies heavily armed with weapons rushed into this place, which was like the sanctuary of the Great Forest elves.
All of them are humans under the direction of Heinz, who became the king of Delos.
Ercilla twitched her eyebrows at the sight of someone lying in front of the door they had broken into. She is an aide, Thran, who came here with her. Suran, who was struck by the sword, was already unconscious and dying.
“This is inevitable. As an ally, we have no choice but to take up arms to stop the runaway Elder. High elves! Do you agree to this!?”
Remit said to the high elves who were lying on the floor with a face full of ridicule. But the embarrassed high elves looked at each other and smiled.
It is true that the situation is urgent, but it is because we were unable to quickly determine what had happened.
“You don’t seem to be in a lot of trouble, but it doesn’t really matter. We must seek allies.”
“…Looks like you guys are the next step chosen in this world. I wonder if it is true that the existence of the demon king has disappeared. He must have left a seed. I doubt very much that it might not have left the world in a really different form.”
Of course, Remit couldn’t follow the high elves’ words. It’s just that he took care of the cause and puppets that he will use to rule the great forest in the future. He planned to burn the World Tree and purify Ersilla this time, no matter what.
Actually, Ersilla murmured as she sighed when she saw the darkness that flashed in Remit’s eyes. Ersilla, who was not stained, was the only one who witnessed the darkness at the scene.
“You’d better surrender quietly. Everyone already in this city is your enemy. Betrayer.”
Nevertheless, Remit was confident. Because he knows he has an absolute advantage.
Ercilla is strong enough to be called a hero, but that’s all. No matter how much she resists, she is just an individual when everything she tries to achieve collapses. It’s a perfect judge.
“…That’s it.”
“What, what is this!?”
At least until now. The moment they try to attack Ersilla.
The fresh wind blowing from outside and the brilliantly shining particles of light began to spread around the space they were in.
Coming from the World Tree, which is still burning at this moment, it flew to elves who died or were seriously injured in the riot, and healed their wounds.
‘As expected, I was taken advantage of. Not to humans, but to parents who dared to go against them.’
Ersilla smiled faintly at Thran recovering, then she looked at the World Tree.
The old world tree’s intentions, which had been used to revive the elves without extinguishing the flames that burned her body, even though she had the last bit of strength she had saved, were now clear, and Erscilla recognized it as well.
“Keah!!”
“Stupid human bastard. Did you know that you are above our heads? You guys, like me, were just chess pieces that could only be used. To the World Tree, who could no longer protect his children in a world moving to the next level, and chose a different method.”
Leaping off the ground without a sound, Ersilla flew up into the air and instantly fell down in the middle of the bewildered humans, trampled on Remit’s head, and summoned a strong wind to knock everyone standing there.
“Attack everyone! Aww!!! Kuhe..”
“I die here today. Because it has to be. And that goes for you too.”
As she raised him up by grabbing his ears and ripping them off, Ersilla, who shattered the powerful advanced magic that exploded from his reflexive casting with her bare hands wrapped in wind, and blew him away, Ersilla raised all her strength against the enemies who attacked her.
With the gigantic wind spirit appearing like a gigantic bird, the sanctuary was swept away by a gigantic gust of wind, instantly turning the sanctuary into a disaster scene where the floor was ripped off and the pillars collapsed.
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“What the hell is this?! Dare to know what the World Tree means to us!”
“Follow orders! This is an arbitrary act by the elder. Right now, our troops are in a hurry to quell it, so you guys are ordered to stay still!”
While Ersilla engages in a life-and-death fight with those prepared to capture her.
In the great chaos of Deneb, there was also an infighting between the joint knights in the inn.
The human knights tried to block the elven knights as ordered by their superiors, and the elven knights, who had to go see the world tree, protested against it and drew their weapons and confronted each other.
“Keep your mind up and block it. This is an order from the King himself.”
The vice-captain said with a nervous face while blocking the elves with the human knights. While scaring him by directly mentioning the king’s name.
“…”
“..!”
However, he did not notice that Lua and Luli were exchanging glances with their weapons pointed at each other.
“Now!”
“This is crazy!”
In the end, Lua is the moment no one expected. He turned his sword upside down and attacked his superiors and human companions.
At the same time, the elves rushed like lightning, and the scene became a mess in an instant. Ruri and Lua eventually got out of there and ran through the streets of chaos.
“Uh, what should I do? What should I do?”
“I have to go to the World Tree.”
“Then me too…”
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“No. Luah you go to the city entrance. Just in case, wait there and wait for the signal.”
In that urgent situation, Ruri made the best decision. He thought that perhaps the Eden’s Special Operations Forces, who had witnessed this terrible situation, might also come here.
Actually, it was so far from Eden that it would take several days, but Serenian was running at a distance that could be covered in a day by passing through the base and changing fairy ants, so it was not a wrong decision.
‘Signal?’
As Ruri said, Ruri, who approached the castle gate that humans had taken over and closed tightly, hid herself and waited for the signal.
“Burn, lightning.”
How many hours did you wait that long? Even though the dawn is dawning, the chaos still doesn’t seem to subside. In the meantime, Lua sees a thunderbolt striking not far away and opens her eyes wide.
It wasn’t a real signal, but seeing it as a sign that Serenian was using the power of the Lightning Spirit to see distant places, Lua instinctively felt it, grabbed her sword, and slowly approached the branch troops who had now seized the castle gate.