＜ Chapter 117 – Corps (17) ＞
Chapter 117 – Corps (17)
“Hold on a little longer, hold on a little longer. Support will surely come.”
“It’s just a foolish hope.”
A battle that has been repeating itself for days. But Lucy, who had even their last hope in her hands, laughed at the elves who were slowly crumbling while looking only at that.
In fact, it didn’t matter what choice Naan, the only one who managed to escape, made. Lucy will destroy the elves like this and get what she wants.
“I think it’s about time to come to an end.”
Lucy predicted today as the day she would win the battle. It would take more time to occupy all of the elves’ territory, but the elves who continued to gather to protect the world tree were at their limit now.
“I-I-I can’t believe that!”
Lucy took out the last card she had prepared and showed it, simultaneously charging it forward.
A super-giant Behemoth Beta, which was created by collecting nutrients right after occupying a part of the Great Forest, and which was impossible to carry on Island Alpha’s body.
This gigantic assault soldier, which began shaking the ground with its huge body, began to charge towards the elves’ defenses with their signature large head and jaws.
Lucy intended to completely dismantle the defense line with this rush and send her allies there.
“Uh, ah!”
“It’s pierced!”
And finally, when a super-giant species that succeeded in maintaining its charge rushed into the battlefield, the elves, who forgot their mission for a moment in their overwhelming majesty, were swept away by dozens at once and the ranks collapsed at once.
In the first place, the overwhelming difference in mass that could never be endured with only mental strength. It is as powerful as a giant heavy machine pushing away weeds.
“The elves are finished.”
Lucy, standing on top of a giant bell and protecting it with her own shield, smiled and watched her soldiers intruding into the opponent’s camp that had been pierced.
Already, the whole area is abysmal itself.
On the left side of the battlefield, Kim Seo-yoon with Gungnir, and on the right side, Raon with Titania at the fore, were fighting and pushing the elves back.
Lucy, who had risen into the air in such a situation, now had a giant tree right in front of her nose. Lucy aimed her weapon, the decisive battle weapon Longinus, at the World Tree.
When the world tree disappears, the barrier also disappears. Hundreds of fleet-level forces are waiting beyond the barrier.
If they were mobilized, it wouldn’t take a few days for the elves to disappear from this land.
“no!!”
Lucy was directly intercepted by the elder, who floated with the power of the wind spirit.
“I don’t know four years. What a great role the World Tree is playing in this world!”
“Even if I knew, my behavior would not change.”
“If the World Tree disappears, this land will come to an end!”
While the other Elders fought with all their might, the Elder interrupted Lucy and shouted, The fact that his remarks were not in the information. After glancing at Raon for a while, Lucy took Longinus and listened to the story for a while.
“Wasn’t the role of the World Tree only to maintain the Great Forest and create a barrier?”
“······under! Even most elves probably know that.”
At Lucy’s genuinely questioning question, the bearded general’s face contorted. As if it’s hard for him to speak.
However, since everything had already passed and the situation was imminent, the general had no choice but to open his mouth.
“The World Tree has one more role to play. Ooh, it’s close to the shame of us elves, but there’s no problem with the World Tree blocking it anyway.”
“If you don’t tell me what it is, I have no choice but to push this place away.”
“Three, the world tree protects the rift. The cracks that our ancestors scratched when they came here in the distant past. If the World Tree disappears, the rift will widen, and evil people from ‘there’ will soon be rampant in this world!”
In the end, the captain had no choice but to tell the truth. A crack in the world, and the evil monsters that are said to come out of it.
Lucy, feeling something familiar, shut her mouth for a moment.
[An author named the Elder gave this testimony.]
He reported this to Changhyun. Changhyeon received the report almost at the same time and was taken aback and hurriedly left the seat with his cell phone.
“What do you mean by that? Monsters coming from another world?”
[However, I have not confirmed what exactly that word means or whether it refers to an invasive species.]
Lucy felt the need for some more information. Still, before Lucy could say anything, the captain was already spewing out information on his own with a pale face.
“Most of the elves don’t know, and only some elders know this. In fact, our ancestors who came here long ago… escaped. After losing the war in my hometown, I borrowed the power of the World Tree and forcibly opened up a gap to arrive here.”
“Your defeat is worth knowing. But who the hell drove you out?”
“Fallen elves, dark elves. Those who enslaved the World Tree occupied all of our homelands.”
It was a really far-fetched story that even the captain himself had only heard about. I wondered if Lucia or Changhyun might be an invasive species currently invading Earth, but it wasn’t.
“So stop right now. If the world tree falls and those monsters, who are greed and corruption itself, learn of the existence of this world, they will surely try to invade this place.”
“It’s definitely an interesting old story.”
In the end, the elder, who revealed the shame of his tribe, wanted to protect the World Tree even by doing so. Because that is their life itself.
When Lucy heard that, she didn’t immediately attack again.
“Not lacking in information, Lucy? We don’t know how strong these Dark Elves are or what kind of existence they are. There is no need to pluck up or destroy the World Tree right now.”
“It is a reasonable decision.”
Changhyeon decided that it was right not to destroy the World Tree right away, and Lucy also admitted that his opinion was reasonable.
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No matter how emotionally she behaves, Lucy now manages her emotions only within the framework of rationality.
“But not killing the World Tree doesn’t agree with the need for the elves to survive.”
“Yes, four years!”
However, Lucy did not hold back the corps in the end. If the world tree is that important, then in the end, just keep the world tree alive.
There was no reason to spare hundreds of thousands of surviving elves. All you have to do is kill them all and take control of this great forest for food.
“Don’t worry about the World Tree, just die. New elves who want to evolve again will take care of the World Tree, not losers like you.”
Lucy raised her double-edged sword again and this time aimed at the Elder, not the World Tree. Changhyun, who watched it, also did not stop Lucy’s actions this time.
“I will not kill you painfully if you quietly utter a spell that takes you to another world.”
“Shut up. If you open your mouth, will you believe that filthy tongue that is a lie!”
“It doesn’t matter. Even your own people, who fought against the demon lord and received the title of hero, couldn’t stand it.”
[Longinus Output Expansion]
Lucy’s powerful flash hit the elder and its surroundings. The Elder gathered all his strength and managed to block the blow, but Lucy immediately rushed forward and swung a double-edged sword at the Elder, overflowing with red magic.
“all! Fight for the last!”
The elite elven knights whom the Elder had prepared in advance attacked Lucy. This is their last fight against everything.
It was a strategy to catch Lucy and seek a reversal. But unfortunately, even with her own body cut and mutilated, Lucy just focused on killing them.
“how······.”
After a fierce bloody battle that destroyed the whole area, the captain, who was seriously injured, trembled as he saw Lucy’s body lying on the floor with her arms and neck cut off. Obviously, as planned, he succeeded in attracting the enemy general and capturing it at great cost.
The existence that came here by trampling on the corpses scattered around is just an ordinary high-ranking Orc/Gamma.
However, the captain who saw the red eyes of Gamma, the Orc who retrieved Longinus from Lucy’s corpse, gave goosebumps for some reason.
“Cheuk.”
[Did you think it was over? I am all and one. As long as you don’t incinerate a single cell, I can exist anywhere.]
Orc Gamma grabbed his head with one hand that was not holding Longinus, and the captain was startled by Lucy’s ridicule echoing in his head.
[Now is the time to talk to Jindeuk.]
Lucy, who had completely destroyed the elves’ defense line and turned her back on the Demon King’s army that was spreading beyond the world tree and spreading around it, dragged the elder, who was gradually tinged with fear, somewhere.
***
‘Ahhh······.’
[Do you understand now? You are completely defeated]
Right after the elves’ defenses were broken, Lucy notified Naan at the same time.
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Naan, who was already in a weak state of mind and body, could not deny Lucy’s words and believed them. And now I couldn’t stand it any longer. Her mind, a mess of guilt, sadness, and anger, was on the verge of completely collapsing.
[However, the world tree is still alive.]
Lucy then tossed a carrot that was fatal and irresistible.
[You still have a choice. Either go crazy and die like this, or evolve into a new being and protect the world tree again.]
Lucy now held the World Tree hostage and dazzled Naan. The fact that he betrayed his people and became part of the monster was a noble sacrifice for the World Tree, and he continued to brainwash him.
“My, what should I do?”
[It is your duty to become stronger and grow. Only then can we protect the world capital and survive. But for that, you have to win the competition.]
In the end, Naan gave in. The self-justification that he couldn’t help but save the world tree in a situation where it was already too late because he couldn’t do it himself worked.
As if Lucy had been waiting for that, she told Naan what to do next.
[Others shouldn’t know that the old elves have fallen. From now on, you will succeed Raon as a new wanderer. Run from place to place and stir up strife between the Cult and the allies and keep fighting. You, who have gained strength while they are exhausted from competing with each other, will eat them all at some point and become the true winner of this world.]
Lucy thought her persuasion was over and stopped the Brain Maw controlling her body. Of course, it was possible to destroy her brain at any time if you wanted to.
“All, you.”
“Welcome, Elf. that which came into his bosom.”
And the person in front of Naan, who opened her eyes voluntarily and jumped up, was a red-eyed human woman with blonde hair darker than Nain.
With a bitter smile, Yuria welcomed her comrades.