113 – World Tree – 3
Just after the porter touched the World Tree.
“Master!”
Seeing the porter fall unconscious, Chloe threw her body to catch him. Immediately, the rest of the party members ran to his side.
“Porter! What’s wrong?!”
“Polaris! Come on, get a treat!”
“I’m already doing it, but they’re not listening!”
“Queen, what the hell is this…!”
“Don’t be alarmed, I’m talking to the mother tree!”
The party members feel relieved after hearing the queen’s words.
Of course, the queen seemed most surprised, but she didn’t say anything.
“I think the lady is the most surprised.”
Except for Claw, whose eyes are smashed.
“Ajum…! Keuheum. Don’t get me wrong, I’m surprised that humans were chosen.”
Sergina cleared her throat and unknowingly corrected her grim expression.
“Listen everyone.”
Unwilling to leave the porter in this state, the warrior gave instructions while looking at the saintess.
“For now, Polaris takes care of the porter by the side and checks its condition.”
“Yes, warrior.”
After demanding intensive care for her saintess. The hero shifted his gaze to the rest of the party.
“Reina and Talia will be vigilant around the World Tree with me. Do you have any disagreements?”
“No.”
“No.”
That time when everyone tried to split up according to their respective roles.
“What should I do…?”
Chloe asks while looking at her eyes uncharacteristically.
“It seems that Chloe doesn’t have anything in particular to entrust.”
“But I also want to help Master!”
Chloe lowered her head and clutched her tail with both hands.
“Everything I enjoy right now is thanks to Master. I’ve always only received, so I want to do something for you…”
“….”
The warrior felt uncomfortable for a while at Chloe’s appearance, but at the same time, he fully understood what that feeling was like.
“Then, please stand by and help Polaris in case of an emergency. It’s for him too.”
“Yes! All right!”
Chloe sprints to the place where the saintess is on that road.
“Sacred Chain.”
While the saintess tightly wrapped the porter’s body with a shining chain and moved it to a safe place.
The elves who were listening to the queen’s words literally went into a frenzy.
“How could humans be guided…”
“A human, not an elf, is the hero chosen by the mother tree?”
“This is ridiculous…”
A group of elves confused by the fact that they chose humans over them.
It was the queen’s job to control those elves.
“Attention everyone.”
As Sergina’s voice rang out, her elves looked at her.
I thought that if it was a queen, she would know something.
“I understand that humans are surprised to have been chosen by the Mother Tree. I was too.”
Then one person raised his voice among the crowd and asked.
“Why were humans chosen and not elves!”
They demanded an explanation from the Queen. Why were humans chosen instead of elves?
Sergina looked at them and opened her mouth.
“This is the decision of the mother tree. It must have a meaning we don’t know about.”
“Your Majesty the Queen!”
“So.”
Unlike before, a low and cold voice came out of her mouth.
“What on earth do you want to say? It’s already happened. Shouldn’t you admit it?”
“But our honor…!”
“Then what should I do? If it weren’t for that human, we would have had no choice but to abandon the village and run away.”
“….”
“Are you going to abandon the village and run away? Run away. I will remain here as queen.”
After Sergina’s words of determination, she said that none of them dared to open her mouth.
“Let’s wait. For now, he is the hope of our elves.”
***
Dismissing the elves, Sergina sat at the base of a nearby tree, staring at her world tree.
“Are you here?”
“…It’s Raina.”
Reina is talking to the queen who is alone.
“You’ll only stick next to humans, so why are you here?”
Sergina replied bluntly, and she asked with a worried expression.
“Are you all right?
“That can’t be the case. I’m also confused about the current situation.”
She was surprised to learn that a porter, not an elf, was chosen for the World Tree.
“It seemed like that wasn’t all.”
“Huh.”
Sergina silently turned her head towards her world tree.
Reina opened her mouth to Sergina.
“Thank you for covering him.”
“Does it seem that way? Don’t get me wrong, I’m just protecting my honor.”
It was an awkward look, but Reina decided to ignore it to save her face.
“Anyway, that person is truly amazing.”
“I think that part is also attractive.”
“…Even if the bean pods are stuck, they’re firmly attached.”
Sergina’s beautiful brows naturally furrowed at her praise for the porter that naturally protruded.
“Apart from you, even the spirits and the mother tree. What the hell is his identity, so everyone is friendly to him?”
“I think the queen is kind enough.”
“Nothing like that at all!”
Sergina screamed at her, forgetting about her chest pain.
It was Raina who laughed as if she was having fun seeing the queen like that.
“I’m not even talking about myself. She’s being laughed at by the child she’s been taking care of since she was little.”
“It’s unreasonable to be laughed at. Who would dare to laugh at someone as good as the Queen?”
“It’s wonderful… I guess I’ve been reflected that way in your eyes.”
“Yes?”
Sergina smiled bitterly as she pointed to a part of the World Tree.
“Do you see that wound over there?”
“Yes.”
“It is the only scar left on the mother tree’s body.”
At the word scar, Reina asked with a puzzled expression.
“Why isn’t it getting better? If it’s a world tree, it should be able to get better.”
“How many times have I told you to call me Mother Tree? Anyway… It’s a wound you inflicted on yourself, so it’s not getting better.”
“The wounds you inflicted on yourself, how could you do something like that…”
“The mother tree succeeded in purifying the world, but she had already died under the influence of demonic energy, so there was no environment for anything to live in.”
Sergina said, touching the dandelion blooming at her feet.
“The sap that flowed through the cracks of that wound moistened the ground we stepped on, turning it into a place where life could live.”
Reina muttered as she listened to the queen’s words and stared at her World Tree.
“A truly generous tree.”
“It is a tree that gives generously. It is a very fitting word for a mother tree.”
“This is one of the things I heard from him.”
“I didn’t want to know…”
Sergina praised the porter with her own words.
She frowned and opened her mouth, holding the World Tree’s scars in her eyes.
“Whenever I had doubts about my own qualities, I came here and looked at those scars and thought about it.”
She looked back at her own past with her eyes closed.
“I want to become a good queen like the mother tree.”
Hearing her words, Reina smiled and replied.
“As I said before, you can already see it in my eyes.”
“Thank you for your words.”
It was a time when they had a heartwarming conversation.
“Your Majesty the Queen!”
Regilos, her face wrinkled, approached them.
“Humans are guided by the mother tree. Is that true!”
When she was not chosen by the World Tree, he left immediately, and he came to know about it belatedly.
“Still heard that. Didn’t you see how she lost consciousness as soon as she touched the body of the mother tree?”
“I didn’t see it! It must be some kind of trick!”
He couldn’t calm down despite the queen’s explanation.
“Why! Why is that human! That role is me! Regillus should be in charge!”
“How can I know that. Everything is the decision of the mother tree.”
“Your Majesty the Queen!”
“Stop it.”
Sergina silenced him, saying that she didn’t want to hear any more.
“Since when did it become the honor and pride of elves to be jealous that we did something we couldn’t do?”
“….”
“If you have honor, you’d better not say more.”
Regilos was silent with his head hanging down as if he was at a loss for words.
“Ha… ha ha ha!”
He suddenly burst into mad laughter.
“Yeah… Is everyone so fooled? It’s naive.”
“…Regilus?”
He suddenly stopped laughing and shouted, alternating between the Queen and Reina.
“Her Majesty the Queen! Reina and the Spirits! They’re all being tricked by that goddamn human!”
Eyes full of inferiority and envy.
His eyes were out of the normal range and glistening with madness.
“But I’m different! I didn’t fall for that shady bastard!”
“In moderation. I won’t stand it if you talk about it any more.”
In the end, Regilus’ expression became even more distorted when Reina, who couldn’t stand it, stepped forward.
“Open your eyes, Reina! You weren’t such an elf!”
“I don’t know what you thought of me, but I have no intention of adjusting to that.”
“Reina…!”
At that time, he was experiencing a deep sense of despair after being rejected again.
Wriggling.
Something pulsated inside his pocket. Like reacting to the negative emotions he feels.
He stole it from the humans he found after leading his subordinates.
A seed that can artificially create a world tree.
This seed.
I want something now.
Regilus muttered as if possessed by something.
“Yeah. He’s been doing weird things too, so there’s no reason for me to be like this.”
‘The human who had the seed did that. To make a world tree, you need a tree that has lived for over a thousand years.’
His gaze turned to the scar on the World Tree.
‘A tree that has lived for over a thousand years. It’s right in front of your eyes right now, right?’
Regilus immediately turned and ran to the World Tree.
This is just a compromise.
It is only now that we stand up squarely.
– Tak-tak-tak!
Regillus wanted to step back, but he suddenly turned around and started running toward the World Tree.
“Can’t you stop right now!”
He didn’t even listen to the queen’s orders.
No, I didn’t hear.
‘If the mother tree made the wrong decision, I have no choice but to make the right decision with my own hands…’ !’
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Because he was already broken somewhere.
Sure.
Almost reaching the World Tree, Regillus took a seed out of his pocket.
– Wedges!
“Aagh!”
An arrow pierced through his leg.
It was Reina’s arrow in response to his unusual behavior.
However.
– Iron f*ck.
Regilus succeeded in applying the dark red seeds to the wounds of the World Tree even as he was struck by an arrow.
-Saah.
The green leaves of the world tree withered in an instant, and the air around it began to change.
The ominous aura felt through her skin was felt by everyone present, except for Regillus, even if it was not a saint.
The being praised by the elves as the Mother Tree could no longer maintain that appearance.
-Woo Jik. Uzijik.
Soon, the ground around them began to wriggle and shake.
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