76 – Ellinia (1)
The next day.
We quickly got ready and then prepared to leave the village.
However, there is something you need to do before leaving the village.
I went to the door where the monsters of the other world were sealed.
Then, Lee Ji-hoon, who was guarding the place, made a puzzled expression.
-Are you leaving now?
“Okay. “It will be like that.”
-Hmm, then you came to say hello to this ancestor.
“I’m sorry, but that’s not it.”
-What?
He makes a puzzled look at my words.
I ignored his reaction and breathed magic into his hands.
Then, I quickly drew the circuit.
Next moment.
-Wow.
Innumerable magic lines are created.
I then combined the lines.
-Whaaa!!
The barrier was quickly deployed.
A barrier made of magical power was created at the door in the basement.
Lee Ji-hoon, who saw that, clicked his tongue.
-They are my descendants, but they are such monsters.
“I just trained according to the magic book you wrote down.”
-You did that? I told him to do it, but this is the first time in my life I’ve seen a crazy person digest it.
It definitely seems like a compliment, but why does it sound like an insult?
While I was dumbfounded, Lee Ji-hoon asked in a serious voice.
-Are you planning to go somewhere else this time?
“Okay. Yes.”
-There must be people like me guarding the door in other places. All you have to do is tell them my name.
“Hmm. “I think it would be a blessing if I didn’t get cursed while saying your name.”
-I’m sorry, but I think my true feelings came out.
“That’s not my intention.”
-If I weren’t a ghost, I would have beaten up that descendant.
He grinds his teeth as if he is angry.
No matter how bad it is, there is nothing you can do anyway.
Kael turned his head to Lisa, easily ignoring Lee Ji-hoon’s reaction.
Then, she looked at her own body curiously.
“I just woke up and I feel stronger.”
“That means your potential is high.”
“I see that my potential is outstanding.”
Looking at the reaction, it seems like there wasn’t much awareness.
Kael opened her mouth, ignoring her reaction.
“So Lisa, what are you going to do? “Would you like to come along?”
“Uh, no. I’m going to the royal capital. “I feel like even if we go together, it will only be a distraction.”
“Okay. “If that’s the case, keep training until you come back.”
“Huh, huh?”
Her expression turns perplexed at those words.
Then, she asks her question.
“Are you really going to train me?”
“Then you thought it was a joke?”
“Uh, about halfway?”
“I’m sorry, but I meant it. “If you don’t get stronger by the time I come back, I’ll force you to behave like other students.”
“You’re really addicted to training…”
“This is all done to please you.”
With those words, we left Rico Village.
***
After parting ways with Riza in the royal capital, I headed to Yggdrasil.
I would like to go directly to Ellinia using the gate, but the problem is that it is impossible.
There is a barrier in Ellinia Forest.
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Elves do not have a hostile relationship with humans, but they do have an extremely friendly relationship with each other.
So, to get to Ellinia, you have to walk directly, not through the gate.
For this reason, in order to get there as quickly as possible, you need to go through a nearby city.
‘It’s been a while since I’ve been here.’
I slowly looked around the surrounding city.
A building that is considerably lower than the royal capital.
Ferocious-looking people wandering the streets.
This place, called the city of adventurers, is none other than Galn.
‘I often walked around here with the warrior party.’
I often stayed here with them at the time.
Because there was no place on the continent where information and reorganization could be done as well as here.
‘Anyway, it shouldn’t be like this.’
I was thinking about something else.
Rather than that, you need to quickly go to Ellinia Forest and check the sealed door.
‘The devil certainly won’t target just one place.’
Thinking like that, I headed to where the coachman was.
At that time.
“Hmm?”
I ended up discovering an unexpected person.
As I stared at her, Seria, who had been stamping her feet as if she had finally noticed her gaze, turned her head this way.
Soon, she asks a question with a surprised expression.
“Why are you here?”
“Is that what I’m going to say?”
I think I need to talk to her for a while.
***
I took a carriage and headed to Ellinia Forest.
An awkward silence passed between the two for a moment.
Kael quietly examined her.
‘Hmm, it looks like there’s something to worry about.’
Unlike her usual self, she looks quite serious.
Originally, I would just stay still, but since the destination is the same, I can’t stay still like this.
For countless times, Kael was the first to break her silence.
“Seria.”
“Uh, uh.”
“Is there a reason you were lingering around in front of the carriage earlier?”
“Uh, um. “Were you watching?”
“It was only for a moment, but I was watching.”
“Okay…Ha.”
She lets out a deep breath and scratches the back of her head as if troubled.
Soon, she slowly opens her mouth.
“Actually, you know that I ran away from home, right?”
“I know, but didn’t they reconcile again in the last imperial castle?”
I saw you with an elf elder at the imperial meeting the other day.
Looking at that, I thought she must have reconciled, but looking at her expression, it seems that wasn’t the case.
“Reconciliation was nothing more than fighting.”
“Is that so?”
“Oh, he told me to stop wandering around outside and come back. “Of course I said I didn’t like it, so we got into a big fight, but it didn’t show on the outside.”
“Hmm. But is there a reason to go back now?”
At that question, Seria let out a shallow breath.
Then, she answers in a gloomy voice.
“According to rumors, the devil’s army is on the move.”
“Hmm?!”
Upon hearing her words, Kael’s eyes widened.
The next moment, when Seria hears her words, she is once again startled.
“But they said they were going to Ellinia this time.”
After hearing her words, a thought passed through Kael’s mind.
‘Are you targeting the door in Ellinia?’
No, it makes no sense other than that.
There is no reason for the Demon King’s army to suddenly attack Ellinia.
While Kael was thinking like that, Ceria caught her eye and spoke.
“That’s why it was like that. “I want to go back and check, but they didn’t let me in last time.”
“Was it something like that?”
“Yes. But why is Kael suddenly going to Ellinia?”
The next moment, Seria tilts her head with a puzzled expression.
Kael explained to her what had happened recently.
Then, after hearing her entire explanation, Seria’s eyes widened.
“Well, then the Demon Lord’s army is really coming to Ellinia Forest?!”
“That could be possible. However, there is no guarantee that it is absolutely correct.”
“I guess so…”
“Have you heard anything more than that? “A sealed door or something?”
“Hmm.”
Seria ponders that question, placing her hand on her chin.
Looking at the reaction, it seems like nothing in particular comes to mind.
Well, when I think about it, she ran away from home, so I wonder how much she really knows.
‘I guess I should ask Elaine or something. Or an elder or something.’
That’s when Kael thought that way.
“We have arrived.”
Before long, she had arrived at her destination.
Kael quickly broke the barrier of Silence, a magic that prevents conversations from leaking out.
Then, she handed over the bag of money.
“You worked hard.”
With those words, the carriage leisurely leaves.
The two people looked at the forest in front of them.
Soon, Seria asks in her curious voice.
“So how are you going to get in?”
“You just have to go.”
“Just?”
What on earth does that mean?
There is definitely a barrier in front of here.
As she questioned, Kael slowly walked in front of her.
Seria quietly followed him.
Next moment.
-Wow.
A barrier blocks Kael before his eyes.
Kael quietly places her palm.
Then, magical power was infused into the barrier.
-Hwaaa
In an instant, the barrier opened slowly, as if it was natural.
Seria, who was watching this from behind, was shocked.
“Let’s go.”
“Uh, uh!”
Seria follows him with a perplexed look.
That time when you take some steps like that.
– Stop there.
Suddenly, a warning voice was heard from the forest.
The two people quietly looked at each other.
Then, elves competing with bows on a tree appeared in the field of view.
-Wait a minute, isn’t that Seria?
-Huh? Is it true?
-But what is that man?
The elves are looking at us with perplexed expressions.
Although they ran away from home, their faces showed confusion as to where the business card of the elf elder’s daughter was going.
That time when the elves were so embarrassed.
“Huh?! Professor!”
I heard a very familiar voice.
When she turned her head, she saw that, as expected, it was Elaine who had called her.
But.
“Hmm?!”
Kael looked at Elaine and opened her eyes.
It doesn’t really matter that she’s in Ellinia Forest.
But now, there is a spirit around her.
It is not an ordinary spirit, but a spirit of chaos.