Chapter 56-Justice?(6)
Chapter 56-Justice?(6)
“Oops.”
It wasn’t long after I traced the trail. Serenian sighed and then took the drone that was falling and held it in his arms.
We already knew that drones could not fly beyond a certain distance. And that when she gets close again, she comes to life. So she wasn’t too surprised.
“I can feel the presence in front of me.”
In the meantime, the elves made their way through the forest and arrived at a clearing in the forest before they knew it.
At the words of the warrior in the front, everyone in an instant killed their presence and lowered their bodies.
The environment has changed a bit, but moving in the thick forest is their specialty. The elves, who silently approached while carrying weapons and arrows on their bows, were finally able to identify the identities of those who had invaded the labyrinth and fought to the death with the beasts.
“Catch your spirit for a little while. A little bit…”
“It’s too late. That you’ve shed too much blood Besides, the poison spread.”
They didn’t know what to do, surrounding someone who was spread out on the floor as if they had given up.
No matter how much he killed his presence, he was so preoccupied that no one noticed even though the elves came quite close.
‘Who the hell are they?’
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However, it was the same with Serenian who was fascinated. First of all, they weren’t elves. He wasn’t even familiar with humans next to the elves.
It looked like a human, but it was distinctly different. His physique looked all flimsy, but he was so short that he seemed a head and a half lower than Serenian.
“Ah, it seems to be a race called dwarves. That they have settled down and lived in the northern part of the continent.”
“I can’t.”
When everyone was confused like that, Urea was the first to open her mouth and tell her what she knew. The story of a distant, different world that Urea herself had also heard from adults in her past.
“Hot! Who is there!”
At that moment, the agitation of the elves crossed the line. One of her men, furthest behind her, twitched her ears and turned her around hastily, raising the ax in her hand.
“…!”
At the same time, Serenian, who was lowering his body, met his eyes straight ahead.
He and the elves, including Serenian, lost their words for a moment and just looked at each other.
“Eh, elf? But how come…”
However, he was the first to speak. Unlike the elves who saw the dwarves for the first time, he widened his eyes when he saw the ears of the elves.
“We are elves. That one too.”
“Why did elves come here that I had never heard of before? We have no place to care about you right now.”
The Dwarves, who seemed to know about the Elves, did not relax their vigilance towards the Elves. Serenian set down his bow and stepped forward, flinching as they pointed their weapons at him.
“Looks like you have a patient.”
Instead, they glanced at the existence they were covering. They tried to cover him as he fell to the floor with their bodies, but it didn’t really matter because he was short.
“Then why do you…”
“I was attacked by the magic beasts of the labyrinth. We can help.”
“How to do that!”
When Serenian mentioned the Labyrinth and its magic beasts, they were greatly surprised and flinched.
“Those beasts are also our enemies. Witchbeasts basically have poison, but we can detoxify it, so please trust us.”
Serenian reached out to them first. It was an instinctive intuition that this meeting itself could be used as an opportunity to have a friendly relationship with the dwarves.
And the reason I acted like this based on that intuition was, of course, to increase my strength. Because they have already turned too much power into an enemy.
‘They already know about elves.’
And that wasn’t the only basis. They were clearly different from the elves of the Great Forest, who saw the dwarves for the first time in their lives.
“El, the elves didn’t show up for nearly a hundred years before this great war, so why?”
“There are several clans of elves. Perhaps we are different from the clans you have seen.”
There was no need for a grandiose relationship like an alliance. Serenian moved closer to them in order to know more about the outside news he hadn’t known before, and to control their mouths as they knew the identity of the labyrinth.
“How can you believe that? We are…”
“Liam! Father!”
However, when he spoke on behalf of the Dwarves, he could hardly trust Serenian. But at that moment, when the patient, who was getting increasingly critical, gasped for breath, they panicked and panicked.
“Choose. Do you want to end the meeting here or continue?”
Serenian took advantage of that gap and forced a choice. Naturally, the Dwarves fell into chaos and had no choice but to be swayed without knowing what to do.
“Ooh, we…”
His eyes shook as he stood at the crossroads of his choice. Will you believe the words of a different race you’ve never seen before in a state where you can’t even speak, or will you let your colleagues die like this.
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‘I can’t believe that such a connected rift was created inside the dungeon.’
When I saw the crack. My first thought was disappointment. The elves in the pots, which had immediately become hostile to external forces, were able to expand their territory by attacking the underground dungeon.
Based on that, they can receive new migrants and keep their belief of ‘saving their oppressed people’.
However, if such a crack is formed in the underground labyrinth, which is the target of the attack, and external enemies come through it, the plan will be put on hold.
If an underground dungeon is stolen by enemies, it is always exposed to danger. I can’t protect you if I’m attacked while I’m not around.
So I and Serenian have no choice but to react sensitively.
“But what is it really?”
The last time I laughed while operating the drone was when one of the elves brought a leather jacket that looked a bit small in size.
I know that beings from outside came here through a new passage. That they fought a battle with the demonic daughter-in-law. However, I had no idea who they were.
So I moved the drone. It would be better than sending the elves to an unknown world first.
If you get far away, you can’t control it, but you can do it with a drone to look around.
‘Is it a forest? But it’s a bit different.’
In the end, the first drone to pass through the rift showed me a new world spread across the other side.
It felt different from Daesurim, which I had seen several times. The trees and the forest were ordinary, so it was to the point where I felt more familiar with this one.
“—.”
Soon the elves came over, and they froze in place as if in shock. Come to think of it, they had never been out of the great forest. The familiar scenery of the forest must have come as a great shock to them.
‘Is the forest everything?’
I left them alone and moved the drone to look around. The purpose is to find those who entered the dungeon unknowingly, fought with the demon beasts, and retreated.
I stopped speculating what they might be like. The other side of the world is a world where the elves, a different race, also exist.
“Uh.”
Soon I went up to the sky and looked down and saw something in my eyes.
The warm traces on the forest road. When I saw that they were connected far away, I immediately went back to the elves.
“—!”
Of course, the elves found the trail and pursued it. But I couldn’t be together until the end. This is because the connection to the drone was lost shortly after following the trail.
“…”
Now I have no choice but to trust them. The power that Serenian showed was more than that of an average A-rank hunter, so there is no need to worry too much.
But it was also true that I was anxious, so I put down the controller and sat down in front of the flower pot, looking down at it.
Even without Serenian, the remaining elves are continuing their work diligently.
“—, –“
Among them, there was one that stood out to me.
A male elf who wears armor made from the back armor of his demonic daughter-in-law and carries his own weapon.
Leon, along with the elves he worked with, was about to head to their hometown, the Great Forest, once again.
The investigation team sent by the central meeting was captured and the humans who ate them were brutally executed, but the anger of some elves did not go away, but it seemed to burn more.
“–.”
Leon soon crossed the rift with his comrades.
They were a symbol of resistance. According to Serenian, the members of the Special Operations Forces to which Leon belongs are all volunteers, and most of them are directly affected.
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Traitors and humans are already unforgivable enemies to them.
Just like those who lost their families to monsters in the chaos of the past and want to take revenge by becoming hunters… They won’t hesitate to set themselves on fire.
‘It shouldn’t be too much.’
In the end, Serenian’s shoulders become heavier. The anger and resentment of the immigrant elves can certainly be a powerful driving force, but as a leader of a group, uncontrollable emotions are only harmful.
All she wants is a paradise where she can live in peace as before, not a group of crazy fanatics.
Now it seems like there is no problem because the scale is so small, but since new connections have already been discovered, it seems meaningless to predict how big the world in this pot will grow in the future.
“Yes, manager.”
“I’m sorry I called you after work.”
When I got up in front of the potted plants and returned to my room, I got an unexpected phone call from the team leader.
“I have to go outside tomorrow?”
“Yes?”
I had to hear something as embarrassing as the unexpected phone call.