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“I can’t really tell because I’ve only seen it briefly, but one thing is certain. revenge. The man was literally the embodiment of revenge.”
Ethan’s face hardened at those words.
I was stabbed in the face when I asked the question out of curiosity.
“Then I will go back to my room. See you later in New York City.”
Calia’s eyes were also correct.
Ethan hurriedly left.
But even after Ethan left, Calia stayed there.
He closed his lips, regretting that he didn’t know what to say.
* * *
the next morning.
Ethan narrowed his brow as he looked at Calia in front of him.
Calia just looked at Ethan with a blank look.
Ethan said.
“I must have asked the Dwarf for a guide to guide us, so why are you here?”
“I am the guide.”
Callia replied calmly.
Ethan rubbed his forehead.
It was difficult to think of going with that elf who had seen his true nature.
“Why didn’t you talk last night?”
“You left before I could even say that.”
Ethan made a grunt.
Christopher and Dylan grinned at the strange confrontation between one man and one elf.
Ethan sighed and waved his hand.
“Well, it’s pretty good. I’m just leaving.”
That was then.
Calia stared into the forest as if strangely.
Dillon, wide and distant, asked.
“Elf, why are you like this?”
“If you want to guide the heir of the pact to the place where the dwarves are, you have to go that way. However, the spirits have just informed me. There is an uninvited guest on the way out of the forest.”
“… Maybe a rebel?”
“Or maybe a dark follower.”
The two knights’ expressions became serious.
Ethan asked.
“Are you sure you have to go that route?”
“yes. You must go that way.”
Ethan shrugged lightly.
“Then there is nothing you can do. If you run into an uninvited guest, you can go ahead and deal with it.”
“Let’s do that.”
Calia agreed.
It was not uncommon for uninvited guests to come to the forest of dawn light.
But after a while, Ethan’s face turned to embarrassment when he saw the uninvited guest.
“You, no, why are you here?”
Calia looked at Ethan’s expression as if it was very interesting.
I couldn’t help but be surprised to see Ethan, who was always relaxed, looking like that.
Moreover, the two knights were equally astonished.
Calia was also wise, so I asked Dylan instead of Ethan.
“Who is that human being that the heir of the oath is so surprising?”
“That, that… I… … .”
Naturally, they were surprised.
“You are the daughter of the regent of the new empire.”
Who would have thought Vivian would be here?
“I didn’t even come here to find it myself!”
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Vivian, who was tired of the traveler’s characteristic, exclaimed proudly.* * *
Ethan and his party were leaving the forest of dawn light.
Not long after leaving the elf village, Mareum, with a new hump.
Ethan, who was at the forefront, looked at me.
There was Vivian.
‘The uninvited guest that the spirits talked about was this guy.’
In fact, Ethan tried to send Vivian back.
But Vivian stubbornly refused.
– What are you going to do if something happens after I send it back by myself?
It was.
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Vivian may have been lucky all the way to the Forest of Dawn, but no one knew what would happen on the way back.So Ethan eventually decided to take Vivian with him.
‘Why are you here?’
Although it was not comfortable to be in the fortress because of the war, it would have been much better than wandering around and homeless.
But I couldn’t figure out why he had to follow me all the way here.
So Ethan asked Vivian.
Why did you follow me all the way here?
But Vivian kept her mouth shut.
‘okay. It’s fine up to that point.’
Ethan knew Vivian’s fussy personality from the beginning.
It was the same in Velium and in Graytown, because he was someone who never knew when or where he would come out.
But Vivian was strange today.
peek.
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Vivian continued to stare at Calia with a squint.That was the problem.
‘It’s strange that he’s been like that ever since he saw that elf.’
Even Kalia noticed Vivian’s gaze and looked straight at her.
“Do you have anything to say to me?”
“Oh, no.”
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Vivian quickly shook her head.“but. It’s my first time seeing an elf, so it’s surprising. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you humans, so it’s a new feeling.”
But Calia didn’t care.
Rather, Ethan was more concerned.
‘what. Why is he like that?’
Ethan wasn’t overreacting.
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Vivian always looked at Ethan after seeing Calia.There was a complicated feeling in those eyes, and Ethan had no choice but to annoy him.
Before Ethan’s patience ran out, fortunately Vivian asked first.
“Priest, how did that elf come to join?”
He had a determined face, as if he had made a firm decision.
But Ethan said with a puzzled face.
“Didn’t I already tell you when you joined?”
“Well, I was tired and tired back then, so I couldn’t hear it well!”
It wasn’t.
At that time, Vivian was stunned for a moment by the shock of seeing the elf for the first time.
“It’s simple. I asked the elder of the elves to cooperate, and I asked him to show me where the dwarves are. So I joined as a guide. They said the eyes are the brightest.”
“ah. That’s it. I again… … .”
“… … ?”
“Then, have you not shown any unusual behavior until now?”
“Is it unusual?”
At Ethan’s response, Vivian stumbled.
“Uh, um. that, that… If you’re next to me without feeling too far away, or if you ask me something strange… Oh, there are things like that!”
Then, at the end, he screamed loudly.
He was really incomprehensible.
“no. There has never been.”
Ethan replied frankly, but he thought to himself.
‘Are you suspicious of elves?’
Apparently, Vivian didn’t trust the elves that much.
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Vivian’s strange behavior could only be explained like that.‘Well, I know that elves don’t interfere with human affairs, so it makes sense to feel that way.’
Moreover, there was no record of the elves being active in the Anti-Magic War, so it would have been a surprise to those who did not know about the oath.
Didn’t Christopher or Dylan do the same?
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Vivian was deeply relieved by Ethan’s answer and asked:“I understand that you sought the help of the elves because of the dark follower. But why are the dwarves visiting?”
Even if not as much as the elves, the dwarves were also quite closed beings.
Because they are a race that is focused on maintaining their own unique culture by being locked up in the mines.
However, unlike the elves, they interacted with humans to some extent.
Therefore, Vivian was a well-known existence to humans enough to know the habit.
At Vivian’s question, Calia also looked at Ethan.
It seems she was curious too.
Receiving their gaze, Ethan opened his mouth.
“I’m going to kindle a kindling of a forgotten grudge.”
* * *
bang!
The Dwarves drank beer in a cool way, and then laid the glasses down loudly on the table.
“After all, beer is the water of life!”
“cancer. I can’t live without beer.”
Behind the dwarves were piles of beer kegs.
Had he been a human, he would have already been drunk.
The city where the dwarves lived, Ferratem was lively and noisy.
It was the same impression that humans had of Dwarves.
That was then.
The dwarves who finished their day with beer could hear a murmur.
To be precise, it was the sound coming from the highway side of Ferratem.
“What is this sound?”
The eyes of the Dwarves all turned to that direction.
said one dwarf.
“Are you humans?”
“What? Then the merchants are here, so why so much fuss?”
It was common for humans to go up to the Dwarves’ cities.
So it just couldn’t be cluttered like this.
“I will go!”
A curious dwarf went forward through the onlookers.
Seeing a being among the humans, the Dwarf frowned.
“Elf? No, why is that idiot here?”
Tall, slender, with pointed ears.
Looking here and there, he was an elf without fail.
Dwarves and elves were almost dog breeds in human analogy.
We got along very badly.
Because of that, no Dwarves ever questioned why elves were like humans.
Every time a group of humans passed by, the onlookers booed the elves.
“Shut up you idiots!”
“There is no room for elves in our Ferratem!”
But despite all the booing, the elf didn’t respond.
Dwarves didn’t seem to care.
“Hey, hey! I have no luck.”
It was right after a dwarf spit on the floor.
Suddenly, a voice shook the entire city.
“How dare an elf come to the holy city of iron?!”
It was a voice that almost sounded like the eardrum was about to burst.
And the dwarves cheered for that voice.
The floor of the city cracked, and someone appeared through them.
“Wow! Milio! He is our Holy Lord!”
“Milio-sama, let’s get that elf out right now!”
It was Milio, the castle lord of Ferratem, the city of dwarves and the city of iron.
* * *
Ethan and his party were walking along the street, feeling the gaze of the Dwarves.
There was no way the knights could not notice their hostile gaze.
Christopher, unknowingly withdrawn, asked in a low voice.
“Priest, why are the dwarves doing that?”
“You know it, don’t you? That elves and dwarves don’t get along.”
“Still, I didn’t know it would be this bad.”
Dylan scratched his cheek.
Even Vivian shrugged her shoulders and said.
“The hostility of the Dwarves is too strong. It doesn’t look like we have any emotions, but it’s still terrifying.”
Ethan looked at Calia with a squint.
“Shut up you idiots!”
“There is no room for elves in our Ferratem!”
Despite the boos from everywhere, she remained calm.
In fact, the reason Ethan asked the elf for directions was because he was aiming for this.
He actually knew the way to get here.
If you go into the deepest cave in the mountain range adjacent to Miles, you will find Ferratem, the city of iron.
‘You’re more hostile than I expected.’
Ethan was satisfied.
Like a hundred years ago, the dwarves still hated the elves.
That was then.
Suddenly, a loud voice came from somewhere.
“How dare an elf come to the holy city of iron?!”
The floors of the city ripped apart, and a new floor rose up in the middle.
It was like watching a stage set in a puppet show.
Ethan looked tired.
‘To make something like that with that great technology.’
However, except for Ethan and Calia, the reaction of the humans was great.
“Oh my gosh! A dwarf has emerged from the cracked land!”
The two knights opened their mouths, and Vivian covered her mouth with her hands.
“Wow! Milio! He is our Holy Lord!”
“Milio-sama, let’s get that elf out right now!”
The Dwarves welcomed their lord with cheers.
‘Long time no see.’
Ethan recognized the lord of the dwarf at a glance.
It looked like nothing had changed from a hundred years ago.
‘The lord of the dwarves who hate elves more than anyone else in the world.’
Ethan was going to use that to lure the dwarves into a war against the Dark Followers.
So, I was happy to see his presence.
The dwarf, Milio, which rose from the ground, pointed to Ethan and the others.
“Lock them up!”