111 – A Year of Frustration
The purification of the guardian dragon Bligh was completed, and the situation was over.
The troops waiting in the rear, just in case, stepped forward and began the work of collecting and cleaning up the injured and dead, and cleaning up the scene.
It may not be possible to completely return it to its original state, but since it was originally an ablum where the residents lived normally, cleanup had to be done.
All of the personnel who went into battle, including me, were exhausted, so we all returned to the village and rested.
Well, it was closer to fainting than resting, but there was nothing I could do after fighting the dragon for several hours.
As the villagers fled, there were empty houses, so there was no shortage of places to sleep.
As I say this, I too collapsed and fell asleep as soon as I arrived at the inn after being helped by Riel.
What I saw before I lost consciousness was Riel’s worried expression and Sir lying next to me.
The forest where the world tree Yggdrasil was located.
This forest was in a state where the world tree Yggdrasil withered and died, and Saint Velia, who took away its remaining power, maintained it little by little.
However, as time passed, the power of Saint Velia’s world tree gradually diminished, and the green and dense forest gradually lost its appearance.
The trees began to dry and die, and the animals and monsters that lived in the forest disappeared.
Even the fairies trembled and hid from the hysterical appearance of Saint Velia and the fear from a year ago, making it look like a dead forest.
But still, Saint Velia lived in that forest.
Drawing on the happy times of the past when we lived while worshiping the world tree, Yggdrasil.
She was drawing her happy and loving memories that she had destroyed.
And, she found the power of the small world tree that she felt a year ago.
Saint Velia was a year ago, a little different, but she clearly felt the power of Yggdrasil, the world tree.
She immediately searched around the world to find where the power was felt, but the power was no longer felt.
No, it wasn’t that I didn’t feel it at all.
I could clearly see that that power existed.
However, as if it was blocked and blurred by something, I couldn’t even tell the direction, let alone the exact location.
It exists, but it is a frustrating situation where there is no clue as to where it is.
In such a situation, Velia spent time in the withered forest for over a year.
Her words turned her longing and her frustration over the past year into her hatred and jealousy.
And just today, Saint Velia was crazy.
This is because she can clearly feel the power of the World Tree.
The power of the World Tree soars with such force that it seems as if it is ripping open the tent covering itself.
I feel like my frustration is completely relieved.
I could definitely feel it.
This is not the power of Yggdrasil, the world tree she served.
However, it is clearly the power of the World Tree.
A new world tree was born.
I didn’t really know what happened, but a new world tree was born and its power grew.
Velia shed tears of joy.
“Right now…We have to secure it right now…”
The location of the World Tree is in the northern part of the Palatinian Kingdom.
It was difficult to determine the exact location, but the approximate location was known.
And that location was one that Saint Velia knew well.
“Is this… The place where the guardian dragon was sealed?”
In the past, a time when the World Tree was with those who controlled it to completely defeat the Demon King.
The fight that sealed the guardian dragon Bligh, eroded by demon energy, under the instructions of the world tree Yggdrasil.
It was also a special event for Saint Velia.
Something happened to the sealed Guardian Dragon, and so the new World Tree moved.
Saint Velia guessed that and acted immediately.
But a problem arose.
Saint Velia cannot move directly.
The moment you leave here, the heroic spirit, Saint Velia, will disappear at any moment.
But when we tried to send the fairies, the fairies refused.
“I don’t want to go there!!”
“I don’t like that place!! It feels bad and I don’t like it!!”
When I told them the approximate location, the fairies refused, losing the game.
It wasn’t a place where something scary had happened, and it was her first time rejecting the place because she didn’t like it, so Velia was also taken aback. She frowned and got angry, tried to appease, and tried to cajole, but the fairies flatly refused as far as the northern part of the kingdom.
If we infer from the words of the fairies that are difficult to understand, it is said that the place has been full of an aura that the fairies dislike for over a dozen years.
So it is said that it has become a place that fairies never approach.
She couldn’t tell the story of the new World Tree to the fairies who didn’t know that the World Tree was dead, so even as Velia, she had no reason to persuade them.
However, it is difficult to use the World Tree Church.
The World Tree Church also does not know that the World Tree is dead, and simply obeys, mistaking its voice to be that of the World Tree.
If you go there and encounter a new world tree, you don’t know how they will come out.
And Velia didn’t know it, but in reality, the World Tree Church was not in a situation where it could be easily moved.
Even now, the church is completely divided in two.
In addition to losing ground in the continent’s two great powers, the Marcos Empire and the Kingdom of Palatinia, those two countries openly criticized the actions of the Church, or more specifically, the Cardinals.
With the two major countries openly at odds with the Cardinal faction, several other countries began to sympathize with the two major powers and reject the Cardinal faction, and the church was now in a situation where it was busy trying to resolve the situation.
Even if Velia thoughtlessly gave an order to the church, if he was told to go back to the territory of a kingdom that was already on bad terms, the cardinal, whose ambitions were greater than his religious beliefs, would not have actively carried out the order. .
In the end, there was only one piece left for Velia.
Alan Ludwig.
The power given to him had already raised him to a level of considerable strength.
It will probably get stronger as time goes by.
However, his current condition was difficult to call good.
He disobeyed orders and was imprisoned in a church, and even lost his left arm.
Of course, Velia can fix the condition of his arm if she uses her strength, but Velia is saving what little strength she has left just in case.
I don’t like him enough to fix his arm, so what if I don’t have my left arm to check the situation?
So, if it’s just a small miracle that can be performed without the need to use force…
Depth of the night, a cell in a church.
In consideration of the power of the person imprisoned inside, Alan Ludwig sat quietly in a room that was locked with several strong locks and even magic.
Hate, jealousy… Quietly burning all of this.
But it was that time.
A jingling sound, and then the sound of something exploding.
When Alan raised his head at the sound, the door to the cell he was locked in opened with a heavy sound.
However, there was no one beyond the door.
Although Alan had become well-trained and sensitive, there was no sign of anything.
Alan slowly got up and walked towards the door.
…As expected, there is no one.
Only the quiet and dark underground passage of the church was visible outside the door.
At that time, Alan felt a sharp pain in his head.
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I could understand.
He knows where he should go and what he should do.
I couldn’t figure out who opened the door and gave me this order, and for what purpose.
But it didn’t matter.
That command had something in common with his own purpose.
Go to the North, the County of Wentos.
Go…
The day after defeating the guardian dragon Bligh, when I woke up, I found myself on the bed.
I definitely remembered coming to the inn and falling asleep with Riel’s support.
When she turned her head, Riel was sleeping face down with her head on the bed.
Has he been watching me like this all night?
Feeling grateful and happy, she reached out her hand and stroked Riel’s head.
Riel flinched for a moment, but then smiled pleasantly.
I felt like I needed to get up, and I couldn’t leave Riel like this, so I tried to get out of bed.
At that time, I realized that someone was holding the hem of my clothes on the other side.
Now that I think about it, I remembered Sir sleeping across from me before I went to sleep.
Thinking of the strong grip that always pulled my hair, the moment I turned around to take Sir off with a bitter smile on my face.
“Huh?”
A slightly foolish sound came out of his open mouth.
Surely, on the other side, Sir was asleep, holding the hem of my clothes.
However, the appearance was clearly different.
The sir I saw before falling asleep looked like a young baby, about 1 to 2 years old.
However, no matter how you look at Sir, who is currently sleeping next to me, holding the hem of my clothes, he looks like a child of about 5 years old.
Though things had changed a lot, I was still certain that this child was Sir.
“Sir?”
“Ugh…?”
As if my voice had awakened his eyes, Sir slowly opened his red eyes.
Sir slowly got up, but he was still sleepy and looked around with his eyes blankly open.
When he saw me, he smiled brightly and ran into my arms.
“Dad!”
Bam!!
“Wow?!”
Hmm, this momentum. Sir is definitely right.
With the shock that came over my body, I was convinced.
But, even though he has only grown a few years, his strength is no joke.
Someday, I could get hit by my daughter and die.
I thought that as I fell backwards just as I had caught Sir.