201 – The Place to Return (1)
Chapter 201 – The Place to Return (1)
“Is that really a weapon made by humans in collaboration with demons?”
“You created something terrible.”
Not only Serenian, but other elves too immediately observed it and were shocked.
It looks slow because of its size, but it was actually quite fast. At least, it wasn’t a speed that a person could run away from.
It is also pointless to fight against them. Golems are not living creatures. Even if it was a great sacrifice, if the opponent could make another one, it would be too big a loss.
In the end, killing the creator and pilot is the most effective way to neutralize that gigantic weapon.
“Quickly step back. There is no reason to fight.”
Of course, that was impossible right now. Serenian urged his people to hastily withdraw from the capital.
I got everything I wanted anyway. Her idea was to pretend to retreat like this, return to the great forest, and then kill them if Benert gave him information.
“Hmm, after all, the only thing you can do is run away. Chase to the end!”
The problem is that they misunderstood the elves’ swift action as running away in fear, and they judged this as an opportunity and started chasing them to the end, not just reclaiming the capital.
The giant golem chased after the elves who hurriedly retreated to the great forest, going backwards through the highways and gateways they had broken through and destroyed.
“They wouldn’t dare stand against the golem. So, come back soon, Master. We need Master’s strength to rebuild the kingdom that suffered great damage.”
[You’re too introverted even though you’ve done your best job of buying time. You don’t have to. If the research being conducted here yields more results, we will be able to gain more than before!]
Watching on the scene, Benert subtly persuaded Stas and the vampire to reveal themselves and return, but it did not work.
Intoxicated with the results of their research on the giant golem, which was made entirely of a large granite rock wall, they declared that they would remain hidden until the end of their research.
‘Things are getting a little messy.’
Bennet, who had already decided to side with the elves, bit his lip with a puzzled face, regretting that he had moved too hastily.
The antipathy towards the demons is still there. Especially those who directly experienced the Great War.
However, in the absence of clear evidence to prove the existence of the vampires, who were so shocked at the first meeting that they did not even know their identity, let the residents who cheered at the golems drive away the terrifying invaders, the elves, know what golems are. Seeing it doesn’t get a good response. Conversely, it can be driven into a buntang seed.
So, if the elves were completely destroyed by the giant golem, all plans would go haywire.
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“Queen…! He keeps chasing me without stopping. There must be a pilot in there!”
“For now, keep stepping back.”
In the morning, the sun rises in the middle of the sky. The elves who stopped and rested looked back and felt uneasy. This is because the giant golem over 10m in height, which is constantly following up, relentlessly pursues it over mountains and rivers.
Of course, fairy ants are fast, but fairy ants are not machines. When I was tired, my speed dropped, and I had to rest, sleep, and eat.
Every time that happened, the golem continued to close the distance they had opened and pursued them.
‘What should I do? Would it be possible to defeat it with a cannon?’
Serenian himself desperately shook his head, leading his tired body.
Even if I arrived at the Great Forest as it is, I couldn’t figure out how to deal with that golem when it started to trample on it.
“Unlike here, which is mostly flat, there are many terrains in the great forest that make it difficult for such a gigantic being to move. If you lure it there and focus your firepower, you will be able to catch it.”
“Then I will.”
Though Garmin came up with an idea. Serenian, who couldn’t refuse the proposal that seemed the most realistic, decided to increase his speed as much as possible, aiming to return to the Great Forest first.
‘What if even that fails?’
But the uneasiness remained. Golems, like the elves of Eden, are new beings that did not exist before.
Because if I lose in this competition, my future plans will be disrupted.
“That giant golem? That it is following the main unit?”
And this news was delivered to the Great Forest through the messenger sent earlier, and of course, the elves of the Great Forest, who were managing the captured human prisoners and taking care of the aftermath of the war, even burst into the joy of a great victory that will go down in history. I couldn’t help but be embarrassed.
“Leon-sama, this is him. As a wizard, he says he knows about the giant golem.”
“I hope you don’t talk too long and go comfortably.”
At the time when news of a huge golem attacking elves spread agitation among the elves.
Leon, who was unable to keep up with Serenian due to a fractured bone, found a wizard among the captives and was able to hear a story about the golem from him.
“What the hell is that giant golem?”
“Hey! Sah, in fact, I just picked it up from my dead boss at a drinking party!”
The wizard, frightened by Leon’s willingness to torture himself, confessed what he knew without taking any action. It is said that he heard some of the contents leaked by the royal wizard Stars, who is in charge, from the superior of the magic corps he belongs to at a drinking party.
From the fact that the entire body is made of solid granite bedrock, to powerful protective spells, strength, and a gigantic body that exceeds 10m. He went so far as to say that he never dreamed he would actually make it.
The countenance of those who heard the contents was not good. It was hard to imagine, and even if I succeeded in imagining it, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to catch it.
‘The trials never end. When it’s like this.’
Leon frowned when he saw his leg that hadn’t recovered yet, and limped back to his seat. First of all, the plan was to lure the golem to an advantageous terrain and focus firepower on it, so the main unit remaining in the Great Forest had to respond to the strategy.
“What are you doing?”
“I have work. Even though the humans surrendered, the war is not over yet.”
It was then that he met Rin, who, along with others, was looking after fairy ants. Leon, who had already known her by chance meeting her, casually told Rin the story of her giant golem, and told her that she would have to fight again.
‘A huge enemy…!’
However, Rin, who heard the story, did not turn a blind eye to it. Her eyes lit up when she said that she needed a way to deal with a huge foe.
At that moment, Leon didn’t even notice why she reacted the way he did.
“Let’s go. Urgent!”
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Lynn left her seat and rode bareback on her fairy ant. She and immediately she ran in the opposite direction of the wire. She was in a hurry to ask someone for help.
“Help us. A huge and powerful enemy is coming here. While chasing after the queen and her warriors.”
Rin rides the fairy ants day and night to arrive at the forest near the entrance to Eden. Exhausted, she dragged her weary body and shouted to ‘The Being’.
She has already spent quite a bit of time getting here. When she goes back to the battlefield, the battle will probably have already taken place. So she didn’t have time.
“…”
Her rin and her communicative ‘it’ looked at her with her black, big eyes. It finally escaped from the chrysalis and became an adult, moving her body slightly.
“This is our enemy. You said you wanted to fight. I need your strength now.”
She asked to lend her powers. Only Rin knows the proper form and power of ‘it’ that escaped from the chrysalis in the hectic situation immediately after the outbreak of war.
Until now, she didn’t bother to say anything because she didn’t have to step out, but at this moment, Lin-eun felt that she definitely needed that power.
“Ah…”
And it gladly accepted Rin’s request. It was born in a completely different world, but from the moment it awoke from her egg, its home was right here in the Great Forest.
Her last guardian tree, which grew up feeding on her last legacy left behind by her former World Tree, reached out her paws to her, allowing her to ride on top of her own head.
“Ugh.”
She opened her back at the same time and pulled out the huge wings nestled within.
This is the first time even Rin sees this guy who usually crawls on the ground flying.
A huge rhinoceros beetle that flew up over the giant trees in the great forest at once thrust its horns forward and started flying towards the approaching enemy.