Chapter 34 – Development (4)
Chapter 34 – Development (4)
“Did it end well?”
I sent a drone to check it, but it didn’t look like Serenian would scold Ren separately. I laughed and packed my things to go back.
The first thing I packed was a portable battery. It’s a method devised to charge Serenian’s radio, so if you send Ren a drone and controller later, you can charge them too.
‘I’ll continue raiding the dungeon.’
After getting out of the herb pot and starting to recharge the batteries I took with me, I now looked at the elves who had all gone to bed except for a few vigilantes.
Now, from bustling towns to newly reclaimed and still barren new lands.
The purpose of the elves, including Serenian, is clear. Rescuing those oppressed by their own people and pioneering and cultivating new lands with them.
For that, more supplies and more land are needed. And in order to obtain that vast land, you must overcome the given trials and grow the world tree.
The dungeons that appeared whenever a new area was opened, which obviously didn’t exist when I was making pots, were those trials. So I will watch and help them through their trials.
‘5 Chances. If they give you a drone, you only have 3 left, so you have to save it.’
Lying on my bed and picking up my phone, I started shopping online again.
At first, I was excited about the idea of being able to give Serenian the things of this world that were made small, so I started to spread them out, but it was foolish.
There was a limit to the number of times it was useful, so it was impossible to use it recklessly.
In the first place, if you spread the sacred things that are bestowed by the spirits, the authority of Serenian, who used the existence of the spirits to control the elves who tremble in fear and anxiety about the unfamiliar world, will fall that much.
‘Purchase complete.’
I spent a lot of money and bought things this time too. A drone for Ren, and batteries for Battlebot 001 to replace.
As expected of a mini radio-controlled toy, Battlebot 001’s battery is not elongated, but a fairly small round coin-type battery.
Of course, it’s a huge and heavy thing for elves who are less than 1 cm tall… But that can’t be helped. Since the number of workers has increased, I have no choice but to trust them.
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“Oh, my money.”
The salary of a new employee is not very generous. Even though I only bought a few things, my bankbook is bleeding a lot.
If the scale of the world in the flower pot grows in the future, perhaps the expenditure may increase. So, you need a new source of income.
‘Doesn’t come to mind right away.’
For that purpose, I am editing and uploading a kind of observational video of the elves and the world in the pot, but it is not meaningful right now.
It’s something that comes to mind at once, whether it’s benefiting from the commonly-known algorithm or spreading word of mouth. Right now, I have no choice but to upload steadily.
Until then, it is best to work hard as a wage slave for the company. Like an office worker in this era, I hurriedly went to sleep to go to work tomorrow.
***
“They are coming! They are grubs!”
“It’s starting to get boring. Come on!”
From the perspective of the demon beast daughter-in-law, the world tree and elves are the enemies that invaded their territory. They continued to emerge from their burrows and waged war to reclaim their lands, and the elves also fought against these giant monsters for their own survival.
“The chieftain doesn’t have to step forward.”
“I see…”
Serenian watched as his people ran out with weapons. He was for some kind of training.
A training to awaken the combat sense of the elves who have been in peace for a long time in the great forest even while the continent was caught up in the war with the invaders of the Pandemonium.
The elven warriors used greatswords made of cutter blades and spears made of needle pins to fight against the beastly buggers armed with hard back armor and sharp jaws.
‘Is everyone getting used to it now?’
Seeing that, Serenian felt a strange emotion. Originally, the elves rejected change and considered old things and customs to be the right things.
But it was different now. Under the clear purpose of surviving, they were boldly accepting change and creating new customs and culture.
Certainly, the image the elves of Eden show now is the same as the logic that the reformist elves insisted on, accepting the flow of the world and changing and developing.
‘No. We are fundamentally different.’
However, Serenian, who had gone mad in his thoughts, gritted his teeth and shook his head, convinced that he was definitely different from his traitors.
The traitors did not hesitate to attack and oppress their own people for development and reform. It was violent, self-righteous, and greedy.
Serenian knew about his corrupt compatriots who fell into luxury and pleasure in the process of accepting human civilization led by traitors after experiencing a great war with the Pandemonium.
He said at the same time that he accepted change but promised that it would never happen. Only then will he be able to prove why he has decreed the right change for the people he brought here.
“Look. The warriors have defeated all the monsters.”
“I trusted them.”
“However, if we don’t completely attack the base of those monsters this time, the endless fight will continue.”
A female elf who was sitting on a chair next to Serenian opened her mouth with a voice of pity. She was bitten by the poisonous sting of a monster ant in the previous anthill dungeon, and this elf, who managed to save her life, lost her legs under the influence.
It was only natural that he felt sorry for his fellow tribesmen who had to fight continuously because he had ended up like this while fighting in a dungeon.
“Even if it’s difficult right now, if you gain enough experience and prepare, you can clear any dungeon.”
Serenian, who recognized his heart, sighed and spoke brightly.
I have felt and learned that it is important not to lose hope while going through all kinds of hardships.
“Chief! Now the Divine Spirit!”
It was at that time that a gift sent by a divine spirit from heaven arrived.
Serenian, who had been expecting to some extent due to the radio call with Seunghyeon, hurriedly ran in front of the World Tree.
“Isn’t this the divine beast that flies?”
“All of these things are given by the spirits.”
Of course, they threw away what the elves were doing and flocked in front of them in twos and threes.
Serenian silently took off the post-it notes attached to them. Now she could read the letters that the elves knew to be divine letters.
“Ren, he chose you. Begin your mission now.”
And then he held it out to the very nervous Ren.
It was the moment when a new kind of priest, different from the elves’ common sense, was born.
“This is the heart of the black bull. The spirit said that this must be replaced so that the black bull can continue to live.”
“What is that!? Are you saying it’s possible to replace the heart?”
“I just heard that…”
Len scratched her head as she explained to her adults what she had learned.
Serenian took a step back and watched it. It’s true that I’m worried, but this was Ren’s mission anyway.
“I think it went well. The Chieftain has so many and so many more to do, so it would be great to have someone to share them with. She is what Ren deserves. Because I saw it.”
“Yes, but…I don’t know.”
Serenian tried to refute Leon’s words, but he sighed and shook his head. Even though I acknowledged his words, my heart felt uncomfortable because of the guilt I felt towards Ren and Leah.
The fact that he couldn’t protect their parents who fought traitors alongside him, and the reality that because of that, they couldn’t grow up like normal children.
“I can’t help it. In a messy world, someone has to be a hero.”
Hero. Serenian’s eyes shook at Leon’s words.
The fallen traitors were also once the hopes and heroes of their clan and the world. Indeed, the thought that Serenian himself and his own people were not responsible for their depravity struck his mind.
When I thought about it calmly, the elves of the Great Forest put the chaos that the entire continent was in the background and only made a handful of people shoulder all the burdens.
“Now we must move the heart to the black bull. Everyone please help.”
“Joe, chief?”
By biting his lip, Serenian stepped forward at Ren’s request for help and approached the black bull’s heart, the coin battery, and helped with one hand.
I didn’t care even though everyone was surprised. I had no intention of making a few people shoulder all the burdens anymore.
“Come on. It’s so heavy that everyone uses mana…Kyaaa!!!”
“What!”
“Avoid everyone!”
However, at that moment Serenian put his hand on the battery and raised mana to strengthen his body and give him strength.
Crackling sparks came out of the batteries, scattering strong shocks all over the place.
‘This is…’
Serenian, who was closest to him, also received a direct hit and fell to the ground.
But, unexpectedly, her blow wasn’t great, and even at the moment she hit the floor, she felt this strange power sweeping her own body intensely, and her eyes widened.
‘What is that?’
In response to the mana she evoked, something shapeless that bulged out of the battery along with sparks.
It looked down on her as she stood still, with her body covered in electric shocks that crackled in the air where everyone was staring at her in amazement.