Chapter 92 – The Pirate (2)
Chapter 92 – The Pirate (2)
Change does not stay in place. Inevitably, the surroundings are also affected by changes. No matter how trivial it is, it cannot be the same as before as long as you are in contact with change.
And that minor change sometimes triggers cataclysms.
“What is that, dwarves being captured? I can not understand.”
“Well, I just relayed what I heard. Right now, the messenger sent by the Dwarves is waiting below. How about meeting him in person?”
“I will.”
Shocked by the sudden news, Serenian managed to catch his spirit and nodded his head.
Soon, she and her officers rushed to the underground dungeon, and there, in fact, there was a dwarf trembling as Urea was asking questions with her serious face.
“I need to hear what’s going on.”
“Can I explain? This one is also insane right now.”
Serenian, who sighed at the sight, demanded an explanation from her, and Urea stepped forward. Serenian nodded her head as the dwarf’s condition did not look good.
“The dwarves have been hiding the details of their trade with us until now. But it seems there was a traitor inside.”
“Wait, who the hell did you hide it from?”
“To their king.”
Urea, who clicked her tongue, has been carrying out her trade for a while, and she has told the dwarves about the history and society of the dwarves.
The fact that they made quite a profit from the great war, and their king, who tasted it, gradually became greedy, amassing wealth and raising an army.
Aaron, who was a kind of lord and administrator, was aware of his greed, so he hid trade with the elves and dagger fragments, and paid taxes by deceiving the iron made by melting cutter knives and scouring pins as the iron they dug up.
But there was a traitor in Aaron’s territory. The traitor reported this fact to the center, and Aaron and the officers of the district were arrested and dragged away by the army of the center.
“Then isn’t it a big deal? The poor Dwarven royal family found out about our identity.”
“…If that were the case, I don’t think it would be as quiet as it is right now.”
The elves were worried that their identities would be leaked to the dwarves, but Serenian shook his head. It was too quiet for the identity of the elves to be revealed.
“Perhaps that ugly traitor, Korn, is only the lowest and doesn’t know about you. I just know that the district manager brings a lot of resources from somewhere.”
The dwarf, Liam, who came looking for a lion as a messenger, guaranteed that guess. The informer was the last person who didn’t know how to deal with the elves.
“But you never know when your identity will be revealed. They will surely torture those who have captured them to uncover the source of the rare resource. So… I’m sorry. I don’t think we can meet the quantity promised to you.”
He sat down on the floor in despair and murmured. The fact that he was betrayed by his own people is a fact that no one can bear.
But what was more difficult to bear than that was not simply that there was an informer and that he was being snitched.
I was resentful of this situation in itself where I had no choice but to hide and be arrested the moment I was informed.
“The Great War has ruined us all. The brave and wise lord gave in to greed when he tasted war, and his warriors, overconfident in their own strength, forgot his humility and turned violent. It’s not just us.”
“…”
Serenian looked at Liam, the dwarf in despair, and bit his lip.
The novice queen who will lead the group is now put to the test. Because of them, those connected with them are in danger.
She just ignored it as someone else’s business and already knew that if she passed this situation on, she would be no different than before.
“Shouldn’t we… Find another way? It’s between the dwarves. Trying to deal directly with the Dwarf King at this point.”
“It is a loss of both faith and practicality.”
One of the officers broke the silence and asked how it would be to trade properly with the Dwarven royal family. But Serenian shook his head.
“The Dwarf King is a person no different from Ersilla.”
A dictator who forgets his duty and becomes corrupted, whether it’s simple greed or his own unbreakable convictions. Serenian hated them.
That’s why I decided that interacting with such people would have a negative effect. Especially if it was a Dwarf king who was united by greed, he was sure that he would make excessive demands on the elves beyond simple exchanges.
“But if that happens, we will no longer be able to obtain steel armor.”
Of course, there are definitely issues that need to be resolved, and those are issues that cannot be resolved with just beliefs or justifications.
Serenian’s eyes, which continued to shake, met Liam, who was sitting on the floor.
Seeing her despair-filled eyes, she finally made up her mind. This is the price she paid for staying in the Great Forest and not stepping out. So it was with the mind that she couldn’t do it again.
“Can’t we just rescue Aaron, the district manager? If you do, you can keep everything. No secrecy, no fidelity, no truth.”
“Yes!?”
“Me, us!?”
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Everyone was taken aback by her words. Liam was the same.
“We are sending a small force to rescue Aaron and his companions who are being escorted. And if they want, I will make sure they can relocate here to Eden.”
Even Serenian went one step further. Thought she was a paradise for elves, she declared that she would accept the different races here.
“For this place to be a true paradise, it must be a world where people with scars like us can live.”
“That, it is.”
“But…”
Even though she was surprised, the elves didn’t protest, either because her will was determined or because her justification was strong.
“Please, Queen of the Elves. Please save my brothers!”
Then Liam, who noticed her, hurriedly bowed her head to her. She meant to please help her own comrades with her feeling of grabbing at least a rope that she didn’t know what it was.
“Selecting a few of the best…”
“Oh please, are you sure you want to go there yourself? A place you don’t know where?”
Serenian, who brought his own armor, tried to select those who would move with him on the spot. Seeing that, Urea sighed openly.
When everyone was hesitating and unable to stop Serenian. Only she who didn’t notice her opened her mouth.
“You said you would go directly to a place where you know nothing about geography or topography, unless you know about our hometown Daesurim. A person called the Queen.”
“Then you go. Because trade with the dwarves was also your responsibility, Urea.”
“Yeah, I’d rather… huh?”
Unsurprisingly, however, Serenian quickly gave up. However, in return, Urea, who was pointed out instead, was embarrassed and only smiled when she saw Serenian’s finger pointing at her.
“Oh, no I am.”
“I will lend you a sacred instrument bestowed by a divine spirit. I think you know what that means.”
Moreover, Serenian forced Urea to hold her own bow. Now, he broke into a cold sweat at the fact that he was not paid, but no matter how much he looked around, there was no side of Urea.
‘I can trust you.’
Urea is the most experienced and powerful elder among those who have not aged.
Her Although her arrogant personality that had awakened remained intact, Serenian, who knew that she was diligent in her work these days, would treat her frugally until decades later, until she grew old. I was thinking of pampering.
“Please help me. It’s not like we’ve only seen it once or twice.”
“Ah, okay, get away from me, you! Profit!”
Looking at the atmosphere, Liam this time clung to Urea’s leg and complained.
‘Rescue operation, can it end with just that.’
Serenian looked darkly at Urea and several of her elves, who eventually put on her armor and climbed atop her fairy ants.
The only plan is to rescue Aaron and some of his companions from being dragged away. However, the root cause of this situation cannot be solved with such a thing.
Just as this incident happened when she led her trade with the dwarves, it is certain that this incident will also lead to something else.
“I think it’s the best choice, but if this fails, in the worst case, we may have to go to war with the dwarf kingdom that regards us as enemies, my queen.”
“I decided not to be afraid. That way, I don’t think anything like this will ever happen again.”
Her senior, Tina, quietly said to her as she watched Urea and her special forces leave in a hurry. Serenian shook her head even as she agreed.