119 – World Tree – 9
While the porter is trapped in a protective barrier and forced to self-quarantine.
“…”
Reina was still in a state of helplessness.
Even the porter wants to go to the Magyesu and do his job, lamenting himself sitting here.
‘I was so powerless….’
She used to be called the shrine of the elves. Back then, she was frustrated because she couldn’t do anything.
“Master!”
Chloe suddenly called the porter next to her and was startled.
When she heard Chloe’s voice full of embarrassment, she raised her head.
“…!”
She had to watch it.
A porter who was dodging the vines with all his might at the top of the demonic tree in the distance.
And the party members knocking outside the shield.
Seeing that, Rayna jumped up to her feet and began to struggle, staring at the necklace in her hand.
‘Only once. It’s okay even just once, please….’
-Paat.
Although it was Raina who almost begged and poured her mana into turning her necklace into a bow.
A necklace with no response at all despite all her efforts.
“Why…!”
Does it mean that you don’t deserve it?
‘I have to save him….’
The demon’s weakness was clear.
You just need to aim for the only protruding part.
Instinctively, she knew that Sergina was the demon’s weakness.
‘If so, the queen….’
In order to defeat the demon tree, the queen must be sacrificed.
But the necklace didn’t show any reaction, as if it couldn’t handle itself with just that much determination.
Fluff.
‘After all, I can’t be of any help….’
Frustrated, she sat down on her road and blankly took pictures of him at that time.
“Huh…?”
Raina discovers that the Queen is nowhere to be seen in the Demon World.
Bewildered, she turns her gaze around to find her queen.
“…Queen?”
The figure of Sergina caught my eye next to the saintess and Talia.
“Ha ha…”
When she sees the queen stamping her feet in her nervousness, she bursts out laughing as if she is in a state of collapse.
Looking at the queen, she remembered the time long ago when she first learned to pierce.
***
Early in the morning when the morning dew has not yet dried.
Objects nestled between trees in a deep forest.
A small elf was glaring at targets that were hard to see even if he concentrated.
“Chase!”
A single shining arrow split in the air midway through its flight and flew towards the target with a movement as if it were animated.
-Paba Park!
“Whoa!”
As the young elf hopped in joy at the sight of the targets hit precisely in the center, applause came from the side.
– Clap clap clap.
“Queen! Have you seen it!”
A young elf who immediately runs to the elf who clapped his hands and pours out his eyes hoping for her praise.
Towards her young elf, the woman called the Queen stopped clapping her hands and let out a sigh.
“Haa… Didn’t I tell you to call her Majesty the Queen?”
But the young elf didn’t care and answered.
“But what if the queen is more palatable?”
“Really won.”
As if this is not the case once or twice, Sergina did not talk about it anymore and went back to the main topic.
“Raina. Chase seems to have become more or less useful now.”
“It’s okay! You’re talking too much!”
Reina blows her cheeks and expresses protest with her whole body.
Seeing that, Sergina replied with a face full of composure.
“It seems that way to me.”
“Ugh…”
Reina, who was already tired of her skills, couldn’t say anything.
But apart from that, young Raina, who didn’t know how to keep her expression in check, still had a pouty expression on her face.
Swish.
“But you did well, Reina.”
It was Reina whose expression softened little by little as she stroked her own hair.
“Okay. Having mastered the chase, she should move on.”
The queen removed her hand from her hair that was stroking her and looked at Reina’s expression.
Eagle Eagle.
When she saw the young elf’s eyes full of enthusiasm, she couldn’t help but smile.
“It’s nice to see him full of will to learn. Today, I’ll tell you about Pierce.”
“Pierce…? What is that, my queen?”
“It’s better to see it with your own eyes than explain it.”
When Sergina put her hand on her necklace, her necklace instantly changed its shape into a bow.
“Whoa!”
An artifact given only to elves whose skills have been recognized.
Among them, the necklace was named Queen’s Bow because only those qualified as queens could handle it.
When she first learned her chase, when she didn’t like her first attempt, she said that with the queen’s bow she could do it perfectly herself, and it was also the bow she coveted.
Of course, as soon as her queen, who saw her as cute, returned to her necklace as soon as she handed it over.
“Take a good look.”
Sergina’s target was an old tree called Ash Willow, whose strength becomes stronger after death.
Ash Willow, which increases in strength in proportion to the time it loses its life, is a tree that is known to be impervious to human knives.
As she drew her bow toward such a tree, she naturally formed a cluster of light on her string, forming the shape of an arrow.
“Pierce.”
– Piing.
As soon as she let go of the string with the chant, the arrow left her hand and shot out like a darting arrow.
-Kaang!
It crashed into an old tree with a tremendous sound.
“Wow…!”
Surprised by her voice, Reina closed her eyes tightly, holding her big ears with her two hands.
“I told you to look closely, but what if you close your eyes?”
“Sorry…”
She opened her closed eyes as she answered in a crawling voice.
“Whoa!”
She patted both her ears as if she had never done that and looked at her old tree with those big eyes.
Before she knew it, her body bent in the direction the arrow had come from, and the back of her old tree was hollowed out.
“It’s a powerful skill that can penetrate anything.”
“Can you really penetrate anything?!”
“That’s up to you. Now lift up your bow.”
The training that started like that was difficult to follow even with her genius.
“Raina. Couldn’t you put more strength on your shoulders?”
– Tak.
“Profit…!”
“Didn’t you put too much energy this time? Get down a little more.”
– Tak. Widely.
“Ugh…”
Reina endured hours of training just to get her stance.
– Pierce!
Under Sergina’s training, she was able to use the Pierce skill for the first time.
– Wedge!
The result of the genius’ hard work for half a day was an arrow that penetrated halfway through the target.
Choo-wook.
Reina ends up hanging her ears at the fact that she’s not fully penetrated.
Sergina comforted Reina.
“You can’t be full on the first drink. The fact that you realized it in just half a day is proof that you have talent, so cheer up.”
“But…”
Sergina sat her little Reina on her lap and stroked her hair.
“Pearce’s feeling will be different from Chase’s, so you should be content with this much today.”
“But…!”
Reina said in a timid voice.
“Unlike the other children, the queen teaches me directly… So, of course, I have to do better…”
Knowing how she was treated by the other elves, Sergina’s expression darkened for a moment.
Her idea of changing the perception of others by what she was good at was admirable, but the fact that it was the thought of a young elf sitting on her lap came to me bitterly.
“Reina, there is no elf who objected to teaching you directly.”
“That’s because I learn from the Queen…”
“Stop.”
Reina shuts her mouth after briefly revealing her queen form.
“Did you really think so? Your talent is superior to mine.”
“Is that really…?”
As if in disbelief, her own face was reflected in her wide-open eyes, Sergina replied with a smile on her face.
“Yes. If it’s you, you might one day use skills that surpass even pierce.”
“Yes? Do you really have a skill like that?”
“Didn’t you say it might be?”
“Then how do I do that…”
Choo-wook.
Her ears dropped back as if she was quite disappointed with her infinitely lofty goal.
Sergina smiled at Reina like that.
“That depends on how you do it in the future. You could be a better archer than I am.”
Finally, in her memory, Sergina said to herself:
-I believe. Raina.
***
With that memory in her mind, Reina opened her eyes.
Swoop.
She grabbed her collar lightly and stood up from her seat.
“Please keep an eye on me. You hoped for me and he changed me.”
Did she recognize Reina who had abandoned her hesitation?
-Paaah.
The necklace in her hand began to glow and change its shape.
The appearance of the bow with its well-balanced white and green colors was similar to the bow of the queen in my memory.
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However, the part she held on to her handle was different.
Only that part was black for some reason.
Like the head of someone she knows well.
Swoop.
She pulled out a halo of arrows from the air, put them on her string, and then aimed them at the shield.
“Pier…!”
Just when she was about to recite her chant.
-Beep!
– Whii!
-Pie!
Spirits that had not been summoned gathered around her and whispered something in her ear.
Reina, who heard her spirit’s language, looked at the place she was aiming at.
There, the cornered porter caught my eye.
It was the back that didn’t look trustworthy at all.
“You really… Always amaze me.”
She looks different to her.
Chuck.
Reina, who understood the words of her spirits, immediately corrected her posture.
Not the piercing she was using. Another pose.
Soon after, the spirits gathered behind her and formed a huge shape.
As if her white radiance enveloped her body, her whole body glowed, her form holding a huge bow the size of her own body.
-Seueueu.
The figure soon began to mimic her posture.
The two took the same posture as if they were one body.
Then, an arrow made of light was born from the string drawn by the gigantic shape.
Out of her mouth came the name of a skill that even the porter did not know existed.
“Aden Trare.”
-Ting.
Her clear voice rang out as she let go of her empty string.
– Piing!
Her linear figure followed her behind her and also fired an arrow.
An arrow of unfathomable power was moving towards where he was, tearing through the air.