117. how to ask
Chi-Ik-Chi-Ik-.
Inside the Adventurer’s Guild, only the sound and smell of burning flesh spread. The smell of burning goblin and elf ears made even adventurers with a good stomach vomit. Liche, who was holding her ears, and Yui and Luna, who were standing next to me, all held their breath.
“aaan!!!”
“Oh, my baby is noisy!”
– Kwajik!
It doesn’t take long to put on your ears, so why are you screaming like this? It was noisy, so I made it quiet with a silence punch. I think I know why general anesthesia is used for major surgeries in my previous life. If it’s noisy like now, it has a big impact on the doctor’s ability to concentrate, so it seems to be telling them to be quiet.
“uuu—!!”
“Patient. You can’t do this here.”
By the way, the first elf passed out due to the pain during the process of attaching the ears. Some kind of warrior faints just because his flesh is being burned. A true warrior should be able to jump rope with his intestines even when they protrude.
When I handed the mirror to the elf whose ears had become goblin ears like that, when he glanced at himself, the shock must have been great. After that, I approached the female elf. Similarly, to make Kamplin. So she glared at me like she was going to kill me. It was them who attacked first, but as if I was the villain.
“Kuu… kill it!”
“You’re doing lines that seem to come out of some doujinshi.”
It’s a shame since you said that line here, if you did it in front of an orc, you’d be having a great time. All the other kids have become Kamplins, so why would a person called a superior try to be comfortable with himself? They made me the same Kamplin, but they didn’t even open their mouths as if they had undergone torture training.
Likewise, I handed a mirror to her who became the captain of Kamplin, but she threw it into the corner as if she didn’t want to see it.
“Now then, let’s get ready to go to Alfheim.”
“”·······?””
It wasn’t just the elves who looked at my words as strange. Luna, Yui, and Riche all wanted an explanation as if they were talking about it.
“That… Luke? Didn’t you go to Alfheim?”
“You should get compensation for the damage.”
In the yard where he came to a person who was still and even brandished a knife, I wonder if it would be over just to hit them. Retaliation is retaliation, and you have to get what you get. Don’t you know that superiors are responsible for subordinates’ mistakes? It’s a joint responsibility. I can’t sleep tonight because I feel unfair if I don’t receive at least a reward from the World Tree.
“You have to go and break at least one branch of the World Tree to make ends meet.”
Finally, I needed materials to make weapons, but a branch from the World Tree would be a good material. Since I said that with all my heart, the elf… No, the elf woman who has now become the captain of Kamplin came up to me, grabbed my leg, and begged me to look at it.
“I-please, that’s all…”
“Polite word.”
“·······?”
“Please, please.”
I don’t understand the situation, but I’m the one who’s in charge right now. Where do you speak half-heartedly? First of all, it starts with respect. So she asked me without hesitation.
“please······.”
They seem to be a nuisance to the gods they serve because of them, so is pride important? Of course, if it’s for the peace of the god you serve, mere pride is more worthless than scraps of paper rolling on the floor.
“No, it’s the wrong attitude to ask.”
They don’t even know the basics of asking people for something. In Korea, there is an attitude of writing when you do something wrong or ask someone for a favor. As everyone knows, it is a Grand Day. However, if you go across the sea to the next island, you have a higher attitude than Grand Temple, which is a magnificent temple.
“Naked Dogeja.”
“···Yes? “
“Ah. There doesn’t seem to be a word for Togeza here. Get down naked and bow down.”
If you’re going to ask someone, you have to show that much sincerity. How could a noble elf warrior, united by our arrogance, do a doggeza naked in front of so many people? But the question of do or don’t has already gone.
Reluctantly, the elf woman began to take off her clothes one by one. At this time, when the male adventurers who wanted to cast their eyes one by one, he showed a momentary hesitation, but he took off his clothes shortly after. Neatly folded the clothes she took off and put them aside, she knelt in front of me and bowed her head.
“Fu, please…”
“Yeah~ I hate it~”
“·······.”
If that’s the case, then why are there cops in the world? I didn’t know that I would really do it, but even if I did, I had no intention of watching it from the beginning.
“Let’s change seats.”
I felt the need to move in order to continue. The back of my head felt sore from continuing to order a naked Dogeja in the middle of the guild. Who looked at him so fervently, but when he turned around, Adela was shooting lasers from his eyes. So we moved to the restaurant. I also picked up the elves.
“Why did you bring us here?”
“Because I need a guide.”
Basically, the location of Alfheim, the village where the elves live, is private. The world tree puts a huge barrier in the forest, so if you don’t accompany the elves, you’ll keep wandering in the forest, so you have to accompany them to enter and exit.
“I’d rather kill you. I don’t think you can harm Yggdrasil, but I won’t take you because you can cause a nuisance.”
“Really? Can I?”
“…what do you want to say?”
“No~ I heard that the World Tree told me to bring me.
What kind of guy would disobey his superior’s orders? Even in the military, if an officer is rude, there will be no one who will hit an iron wall saying, ‘I have the right to veto orders.’ If that’s possible, I didn’t even create a class.
“…We reserve the right to refuse orders if Yggdrasil’s safety is in jeopardy.”
“Hey~ These days. The world tree has lost its status. Elves have the right to refuse orders.”
Even though I said ‘elf’, they didn’t say anything and stayed still. Even in their own opinion, compared to the World Tree, it was ‘like an elf’. Honestly, what kind of madman would try to match the god he serves. If there is such a god, he is just an asshole.
“They were praising them saying that they were gods, but if they’re going to do whatever they want, what kind of gods are they? They’re just idiots.”
Ugh, when I insulted the World Tree, the elves bit their molars and glared. But that was all. It’s obvious that it’s going to break if you try again.
“The world is in danger~?
“·······.”
“Hey, why don’t you tell me? Then there’s nothing I can do. I have no choice but to kill all of you and burn the forest.”
“······!”
The elves reacted only when I said I would burn the forest. I can’t get in without them, but that’s all. If you can’t get in, just burn the whole forest down. Together with the World Tree, I will exterminate the elves. After everything burns down, we can collect the remains of the World Tree.
The elves who knew the human fragment called ‘me’ would have realized that I could really set fire to the forest. That’s why the female elf, the leader, began to think seriously. It seemed like it would take a long time, so the moment I took a bite of the bread, Luna asked a question on behalf of the three.
“Luke. Can you explain it to us?”
“What?”
“The reason they came. Isn’t it some other event?”
“It’s like an event.”
world episode. The scale is quite large to be called an event, so instead of calling it an event, we combine it into one and call it an episode. Even though the elves had grandly said that the world would perish, in reality the world would not perish if left unattended. Instead, about 1/4 of the continent will be deserted.
“Do you guys remember the monster we talked about in Marquis Territory?”
“I don’t know…”
There was no body at that time, so such a reaction was natural. On the other hand, Luna and Yui remembered it roughly, if not precisely, because it was a few months ago.
“Remember me! The monster that created that desert!”
“Probably… I thought it was an S-class monster.”
“He’s coming out this time.”
“Yes?”
“yes···?”
Only Richie, who doesn’t know what it is, tilts his head. Luna and Yui asked back as if they heard it wrong. The S-class monster Volcanic Ceratopsian, which has been mentioned several times in the past. It is a monster that appears in this World Tree episode. It wasn’t the halfway monsters that had appeared before, but it was a monster that was so dangerous that one could change the map.
“The monster that created that desert appears.”
“Well, then you can’t win?!”
“Yui, as you said, if you’re normal, you won’t be able to win.”
So, the place where the event takes place is Alfheim. As explained before, elves have the highest average strength among the races, so they can confront S-class monsters.
Another reason is the world tree. The world capital is equivalent to an S-class monster, but it has no means of attack. That’s why you have to play a long game with a focus on defense.
“In the first place, this episode was just made to get on the bus.”
“A bus…?”
“Just have someone else carry you.”
What an S-class monster? No matter how much the main character is, as long as it’s a growing product, you can’t catch it already. Even in the original work, in this episode, it is a part that grows while fighting moderately. So, I might as well take the bus.
“By the way. How much experience does an S-class monster have?”
Didn’t the 8th level go up even though we shared the experience when we did the A-class monster raid the other day? Then, even if you can’t become an S-class monster, won’t you go up to level 10 or higher? If you do a hyper-burning event and just pass by, you are not a Korean gamer.
“You really do intend to hunt…”
“Then do you do it for real or fake it?”
“Is it true that we can win among ourselves?”
“Of course not.”
“·······?”
All of World Tree’s skills are focused on defense and support. It gives a buff or something to increase the attack power of allies, but if an A-class gets a buff, it doesn’t become an S-class, even though it can get closer to an S-class. So where do you make up for the lack of attack power? To prepare for that, there are people who are counted among the top three on the continent.
“Weapon Master. An S-class adventurer is on a long-term dispatch to Alfheim.”
If Lucia is the pole of the sorcerer called the Elemental Master, then the Weapon Master is the pole of the warrior. He will make up for the lack of offensive power.
“There are S-class adventurers, so is there a reason we need them?”
“You know Nandle? You should ask the World Tree about that.”
Then, at the right timing, the elf’s long agony ended.
“… I will guide you, so please stop burning the forest.”
That’s what it will be.
“Then let’s start in three days.”
“Why?”
I need to get Luna’s weapon.
***
three days later
“Yeah, why are you here?!”
“That’s what I want to ask.”
Ha… Dog-like dwarves. If I’m going to do it, I only do one thing. I have a lot of greed behind me.