Chapter 72 – Authenticity (2)
Chapter 72 – Authenticity (2)
“The King says that action is needed soon. Please lend me your strength, Captain.”
“The story is a bit different. Didn’t you say you needed some time?”
“As you may already know, it is taking more time to put an end to the turmoil outside. Our kingdom, which is just laying the groundwork, is still unstable, and has not been able to subdue all those who dare to resist and resist the king’s ascension. Isn’t that kind of confusion eventually affecting the great forest? We are also doing our best in the midst of hard times, but we cannot protect this vast Great Forest.”
“… Ha.”
Ercilla sighed softly and frowned. But from her point of view, her spirit-mongering partner kept her back straight and her will unbending.
That big man in her uniform is the king of her and her allied human kingdom, the messenger sent by her former companion and the companion of her close friend.
She was no match for the one who now rules her Great Forest.
“The Elder. That’s not wrong. In recent years, the deviance and disappearance of residents has been repeated. It is true that there are invasions from outside, and there have been cases where they have been repulsed or killed, but there are cases that are still unclear, so separate measures are needed.”
Besides, the other elves who were listening agreed that action was necessary.
Now that it came to this, Ersilla couldn’t just ignore it. No matter what she tries, it’s impossible if she doesn’t stabilize it from the inside out.
“Call Pia. And Thran, notify the entire village right now. From now on, we Great Forest Elves train a proper army. An army capable of protecting everyone from any danger that dares to threaten us, both external and internal enemies. Call out a certain number of warriors from each village and send them up to the center.”
“…I understand, Chief.”
Erscilla, who finally made a decision, hastened her plan that she had set up in advance. It was a policy she had been discussing for implementation anyway, but she had no idea it would be pushed through so quickly, so her elves in her conference room as well as her aides who were instructed by her looked at her. She nodded.
“We will train the troops we have recruited and cooperate with you. Until then, you should help us too, Rhodes.”
“Yes?”
But Ersilla’s instructions didn’t stop there. Turning her gaze, she addressed a human man next to her.
He is the head of the general command of the humans dispatched from the kingdom to the great forest. He said that he would lend the strength of the elves to solve the external problem, so please lend the human strength to solve the internal problem.
“There are enemies whose identities are clearly unknown inside. They are strong enough to annihilate the investigation team we sent earlier, so search for them with Pia and be sure to subdue them.”
“That, that is.”
“Haven’t you guys suffered a lot too? Are you not going to take revenge? Surely you’re not that courageous? The proud ‘humans’ who went through a great war.”
As Rhodes seemed to be paying attention to the lion, Ersilla deliberately laughed at them. The king’s messenger, who glanced at him, eventually closed his eyes, and Rhodes, embarrassed, nodded hurriedly with his shiny hair shining.
“Okay, Chief. We will do our best to help with that.”
“Okay. Then it’s over.”
The meeting ended there. Both humans and elves hurriedly left the conference hall to carry out their assigned missions, and Ersilla, who had been sitting until the end, slowly rose from her seat.
“I’m only reporting now, but I couldn’t find any trace of the investigation team. Ethan, who served as the leader, also completely disappeared from the place where the traces of the battle remained. I’m telling you because I don’t think any further investigation will be possible.”
“…We are not relaxed enough to care for those who are lacking in their mission. Throw away those you want to throw away and go and do your own thing.”
“Oh, I see.”
Her aide, who hadn’t gone out yet, told her the news of her investigation team, including Ethan. However, when told that her investigation team could not be saved, she just smiled and replied coldly.
Knowing the affection she usually shows for Ethan, who is loyal to her soul, her aide, Thran, flinched in embarrassment at her cold demeanor.
‘I’m not wrong.’
Ercilla looked out of her window at the giant tree as he heard Suran’s footsteps as he hurried outside.
Huge and thick stems that cannot be captured at a glance. Branches and leaves that seemed to cover the sky.
The world tree of the Great Grove is literally everything to the elves who live here.
Ercilla, a hero who came back alive from the war to change this reality, his hometown, and his people, the first thing he did was make that world tree his own. To that end, he kicked out and killed many existing high elves by any means.
Suddenly, an unforgettable memory came to mind. A new high elf who resisted him to the end. The appearance of a young junior who ended up being kicked out by Edan begging to be saved.
It was to the point where I regretted not being able to persuade and appease him with his firmness and firmness.
‘It’s already past. Things have already happened and we survive. No matter what.’
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Now the few remaining high elves are her puppets.
Anyway, even though she just went out like this, she couldn’t use any power except to maintain her bloated size, but she got the world tree in her own hands anyway.
It’s something to be angry about. It is unimaginable in the past for an elf to harm her people, blackmail the world tree, and wield the Great Forest at will.
However, having already had her experience to destroy such fixed common sense, she shattered that notion without hesitation. This was the answer, she believed, and she didn’t look at anything else.
Now, it was clear that if they didn’t focus on just one thing, they would be swept away by the world and perish. It was also the reason why he restrained himself so that he would not have any emotions even though the subordinate he had been loyal to was dead.
***
“Pia. Are you inside?”
Aide Thran received an order from Ersilla. He hurriedly moved to the mansion in the corner of Deneb.
The owner of the mansion, who hired human servants instead of elves who were not accustomed to serving others, was sleeping in his room even after the sun rose in the middle of the sky.
“Ji, you will be out soon.”
It’s an ordinary knight, but the human man who came all the way here and became the head of the butler, who had a relationship since the Great War, smiled and waited for Suran.
In fact, the owner of the mansion who just woke up is about to wake up yawning.
“What’s up? Ugh…”
“Kuh, kuh hmm!”
Then she opened the door and appeared. The butler, who hadn’t expected to be wearing thin pajamas, cleared his throat, but she didn’t care.
“Miss Pia, the elder has asked for a mission. We need Pia-sama’s strength.”
“Is Ersilla?”
When Thran spoke politely, she tilted her head. Suran swallowed dry saliva.
The being in front of him now is a short, slender girl with a height that reaches as far as his stomach. Unlike the other grove elves with dark or light blonde hair, she grew her gorgeous silver hair down to her waist and rubbed her eyes, still sleepy.
‘Did you understand?’
Thran, who was uneasy at the sight of her still asleep, opened her mouth.
Pia, she is a sorcerer who is said to be one in a generation or not. Due to the nature of the elven shaman, she is older than Erscilla, but she grows and develops slowly. In fact, she only knows a lot.
“If Erscilla wants to do it… I have to do it… She said she wouldn’t do it after coming to her hometown.”
“That’s how important it is. Evil foes harming their own people now threaten even this great forest.”
“That can’t be. The Demon King was killed by a hero, and all the Demon King’s forces fled to the Demon Realm.”
Surran was taken aback by her words, but she didn’t believe it.
In the first place, after Pia won the victory in her expedition, she returned here to the great forest, and she stayed in her mansion all the time, playing and eating as she pleased.
“Really. Please save my people from those villains.”
“Then I can’t help it. Anyway… It’s because Ersilla ordered it.”
Eventually, Pia accepted the job she was given. She hates being bothered and acts according to her mood, but since she belonged to the expedition corps, she has been doing everything Erscilla told her to do.