Chapter 37 – Development (7)
Chapter 37 – Development (7)
‘I told Bean that, but Urea-sama couldn’t do that.’
Leon traversed the dense forest alone.
It’s true that he hates minions, and it’s true that he mentioned the possibility, but that didn’t mean that Chief Urea wanted to become such a puppet.
Rather not, he calmed himself. Urea was a village elder whom Leon had known since childhood.
The teachings she learned from her, the realizations she learned from watching her, are still vivid in her body. It seemed there would be none.
“Come on, get to work! As much as the number of workers has decreased, if we do not work, we will not be able to pay taxes!”
‘…Yurea-sama.’
But when I approached the village and looked there. Leon bit his lip at the indescribable emotion welling up inside him.
Yurea came out to the farmland and urged the villagers. It was because Leon and other operatives had to fill the vacant hands after evacuating a large number of residents.
Of course, it was unavoidable because if the taxes were not met, the traitors in the center would notice.
But if you are worried about that, the whole village can just move to Eden, but I couldn’t understand why they refused and stayed behind to mobilize even young children to work in the fields.
Especially since Urea herself doesn’t do anything and just stands still and watches.
Leon noticed that she had changed a little, seeing her as she took care of her people without stepping out on her own, even though her aging had not yet begun.
It was in contrast to the fact that Serenian always took the lead as an important high elf.
‘No. Not yet.’
Nevertheless, Leon decided to talk to her one last time.
She forcibly suppressed herself, saying that it would not be too late to talk and judge.
In the end, that night, Leon went to Urea’s house in a village that was empty, unlike before.
“It’s been a while Chief.”
“Le, Leon!”
Late at night, Urea, who was doing something with the lanterns on in her house, had to jump up from her seat in fright when Leon appeared openly after removing her poor lock.
“Why did you come here again! Bean has already been there, and I made it clear that I would not leave this place!”
“I didn’t come here for the same reason. By the way…Were you the kind of person who liked that kind of thing?”
Leon laughed bitterly at Urea’s furious appearance after being greatly surprised.
It was none other than a gold ring that she had lighted her lamp late at night and was quietly polishing it.
When Leon glanced at the ring, Urea flinched and hurriedly hid her ring.
“This, this is not just gold. It is a symbol given only to recognized chieftains. Do you think I’m not human, and I’m just going to care about shiny gold?”
“For something like that, you treat it with great care. If you don’t like it because it’s shiny gold, why would you? Could it be because of the fact that the corrupted traitors recognized you as the village chief?”
“Shut up! Is there anyone out there!”
Pretending to be nothing but sarcastic, Urea, who was hit right in the middle, shouted with a reddened face.
In fact, her desire was none other than the position of chieftain. She had no idea at first. Even if she was the chieftain, she was just the representative of the village to the elves.
But things changed when the Reformed Elves took power and turned the Central Council into an institution of power. Strongly influenced by the outside world, especially by humans, they slowly began to transplant their rank and authority half voluntarily and half involuntarily into elven society, where everyone was a member of an equal community.
It was from that point on that many of the chieftains became pawns.
The central government recognized the chieftains loyal to it as powerful in the process of putting them under its command, forcing each tribe that had been living freely so far to pay taxes.
The taste of power, that you can control your tribe members as long as you cooperate with them, was sweeter than sugar, which some elves valued more than salt.
“Is it because of that? You were an elder who was respected enough without that!”
“Shut up. No matter how long I lived, no matter how strong, no matter how helpful I was, in the end, it was all about gratitude and respect. I, no, we can become greater.”
Urea, who had a beautiful face like an elf, cruelly crumpled, picked up her own bow left in his corner and aimed it at Leon.
A kind of state where you can turn condensed mana bullets into arrows and load them without even using arrows. Leon lamented the fact that such a powerful elf had fallen madly with a lust for power.
“Do you think you are right!? Thanks to the massacre of villagers you took away, those who remain struggle to meet the taxes the renegades demand. Can you escape the Great Forest and live as a new clan? Nonsense! Our hometown is this Great Forest. We are different from those people without roots who can live no matter where they are thrown. We must live only here!”
“In that case, I’d rather give the remaining residents a choice. Those who at first rejected it out of fear may have changed their minds.”
“Shut up!”
Yurea’s blue eyes trembled with anger. In fact, she was angry with her past self.
When he first tasted power and became obsessed with being the chieftain. She’s an old and experienced elf, but a newcomer to power, she didn’t refuse when Leon said he would take some of the residents.
She thought it would be a benefit if those who expressed dissatisfaction with her rule disappeared on their own.
But it was a huge misunderstanding. A novice in power, who did not know that power ultimately comes from the number of people under his command, cut off a large piece of his own flesh and gave it to others, soon realizing his mistake and regretting it greatly.
“Let it disappear like this. Not reporting you to the center was the last mercy of my former fellow villagers.”
“Joe, chief?”
“What happened?!”
Hearing her voice and commotion, Urea, who heard the hurriedly rushing residents, chased Leon away with his bow still aimed.
“Leon, Leon…”
“What the hell is this?”
The elves stopped thinking about what happened in the middle of the chieftain’s house. This is because the people who once lived in the same village were antagonizing each other and pointing their weapons at each other.
The fallen people have already waged a civil war, but the situation is beyond common sense, which is incomprehensible to those who have lived here all their lives.
“Listen, everyone!”
“Oh no! Shut up!”
In that situation, Leon raised her voice towards the gathered villagers. YuRia, now contemplating, drew her bow more and threatened to shut her mouth, but Leon didn’t hesitate.
“When I first told you, you might not have believed it then. I wasn’t entirely sure at the time either. But now it’s different. I can be sure of everything A new paradise is on our way.”
“This is nonsense. There’s no way we, the Great Forest Elves, can live outside of this Great Forest!”
“Serenian is waiting for us.”
Urea protested in anger, but Leon immediately pulled out her special move. Everyone was shaken at the name Serenian.
“He who we betrayed bitterly once said he would always give us a chance.”
Serenian was a sore finger to the villagers.
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Even when she waged a civil war with her traitors in her center, even when she was ultimately defeated and exiled, even when she came back to help her, they failed to help her.
“Let’s go. There is no need to work in the fields so hard there. Because the world tree only looks at us. All you have to do is fight and prove it. For our long-forgotten honor and pride.”
“Shut up…Shut up shut up!!”
Urea’s hands trembled violently in panic at Leon’s words, looking at her residents. When she heard Serenian’s name, she even more so.
Her To her, Serenian was no longer the child she cared for, but her rival for power.
“No!”
“Leon!”
This was the end of the panic. Urea broke the still-usual taboo of killing her own people and fired her magic bullet at Leon.
The villagers, who were still unaware of Urea’s true nature, were astonished at the action, and Leon, as if he had induced this situation, only looked at the arrow lodged in his chest even as it bounced off the wall.
‘You lost.’
He laughed at Urea, who dropped her bow in surprise even as he flew away.