Episode 141 Moving into the Elf Village (1)
Two days have passed since I tried to ignore the dryads and climbed the Grencia Mountains.
It’s not so cold now, and if you look around, you can sometimes see a forest.
“A cancer mountain should be like this.”
In the meantime, I had a hard time in the snowy mountain that didn’t even look like a mountain.
After uttering the same words as an old man exercising in front of a mineral spring, Ray began to enter the forest.
The clear air and the greenery of the dense forest greeted him.
If you slightly turn your gaze to see the peeling tree skin, it is certain that this is where the elves live.
He began drawing mana and scattering it around.
Perhaps if you constantly flow mana like this, someone will feel it and come out to meet you.
Ray, who ran for two full days without eating to get out of the snowy mountain, prepared a meal.
The familiar pot wraps around your hand.
It’s not much food, but it’s enough to last for three days.
Now, it can be said that he is in the process of opening up the realm of homelessness.
Since it is a village of elves, we must not harm the nature recklessly.
It’s annoying, but when I picked up dead tree branches and lit a fire, smoke soared high into the sky.
“I’ll be flexible enough to light a fire.”
He, who had absolutely no flexibility, cried out for flexibility.
A group of elves approached me when I was pounding my stomach after eating all the ingredients I had made.
When I saw the elaborately made cloth clothes and the taut bowstring, which seemed crude, I was in awe.
It looks simple, but only elven artisans can make it.
The technology that could make metal as thin as a thread and make it look like cloth was the exclusive property of the elves.
It was clear that even a dwarf would not be able to imitate skills like mine.
The elves looked at Ray with wary eyes.
“What are humans doing here? It’s a great conceit to spew mana in front of an elven village.”
“What is pride? I just called the guide. You’re going to get angry if you go inside, right?”
“Fuck the joke. We’re not easy enough to bring in unknown people into the village.”
“know. That’s why you’re politely asking for permission.”
“I will not speak at length. Go back the way you came, human.”
Go back the way you came?
This elf must be crazy now.
If you see that even a troll is told to go back into the freezing cold, where it will freeze to death in an instant.
“Let’s talk to each other…”
“No need. Disappear immediately.”
The elves cut off their words midway through, revealing their hostility.
As always, elves do not like humans.
I didn’t expect to be greeted warmly, but Ray, who had been eating porridge with no nutritional value while crossing the insanely cold snowy mountains, didn’t have much patience left.
Did they say that if you endured it three times, you would avoid murder?
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath three times, and just as he was about to continue the conversation, a small figure landed in front of Ray.
“what’s the matter?”
Short sky-blue hair with high ears.
Even at a glance, her appearance was comparable to Aira.
The elves, who had stood stiffly up until now, hurriedly lowered their bodies.
“Chersey!”
“What is the fuss about?”
“It’s not a big deal. Here, this human was making a fuss in front of the village…”
The gaze of the elf called Chersi turned to Ray.
“human?”
He tilted his head for a moment at his non-human appearance, but quickly erased his doubts about the divine power that raged around him.
Elves can’t handle divine power.
Just as the Elyos could not handle demonic energy and the demons could not handle divine power, the elves and divine power were not compatible.
From the person in front of me, such divine power was terribly pouring out.
It’s like a huge pillar supporting it.
Ray also faced Chersi.
Perhaps judging from the atmosphere, the small elf in front of me seemed to be the tallest here.
Unlike the other elves, he doesn’t show any hostility, so there’s no other good person to talk to.
“Hello, what’s going on in our town?”
purple!
Don’t you kindly smile and ask about business!
It felt like the sadness in the snowy mountain was relieved to some extent.
As he was about to say something, Cherthy’s eyes caught Ray’s ear.
He stared at the ink-tinted earrings and hardened his expression.
“Cecily’s eyes…”
Hearing that muttering, Ray intuitively sensed that something was going wrong.
Cecily’s eyeball is the name of this earring.
Apparently, Iriel had heard that it was one of the works made by a famous craftsman among elves.
Did you say that you don’t even know where one earring is and that only the other pair are waiting for a relationship somewhere?
Ray turned his gaze to look at Chersi, who had a serious expression on his face.
Then, from his left ear, an earring the same as his own was dangling dangling!
He said he was waiting for a relationship, and it was true.
However, it seems that the relationship was not as good-natured as Ray hoped.
Chersi raised her mana to the fullest and said.
“human. Where did you get those earrings from?”
“I just got this.”
“You got it? Those earrings are a valuable property in our town. It is also a keepsake of my mother. I’ll ask again. Where were those earrings and who did you get them from?”
The genealogy is quite long to say that it was received from a sword master of the Lessian Empire.
In addition, the thought of having to explain how I received it made my head hurt already.
But that didn’t mean I wanted to fight the elves.
I don’t know where the earrings were, but I could explain who got them.
Chersi, who had been silently listening to the story, showed hostility from the moment the ‘Lesian Empire’ came out.
“Looks like I don’t need to hear more! Allies of the Empire are our enemies!”
While talking, it pours out offensive magic with tremendous firepower.
bang- bang-!
The forest screamed.
Of course, Ray, who was in it, also screamed at the same time.
“Aaaagh!”
I don’t want to reveal my magic in a place like this and get caught by proxia’s spy who might be somewhere.
Necromancers and inaction in war have already been exposed, but most of the troops who have seen their skills are all lined up around the castle.
It means that the remaining troops of Proxia do not know themselves.
That’s why I couldn’t use that simple shield magic because I was worried that it would be discovered.
In order to block such an attack magic, it was necessary to spread a defensive barrier of that power, but if it showed such a mana flow, it was natural that it would attract Proxia’s attention.
Watching him run away after activating mana in his body, Chersi chased after him.
“You are quick to run away! Give me that earring right now!”
“I’ll kill you even if I give it to you! You killer elf!”
“Who is the killer!”
The chase between the two continued for a long time.
* * *
After running for almost half a day and being able to pass Cherci, Ray hid himself in a tree and gasped for breath.
Considering Ray, who rarely showed signs of exhaustion, this was surprising enough.
What the hell did the empire do to show such an aggressive reaction!
“Egogo. As expected, except for Aira and Pia, elves are only beasts.”
He scolded the elves who climbed the mountain on all fours like a beast and fled.
I had to run away so suddenly, I left my backpack and everything I had with me.
All she had was the clothes she was wearing and her weary body, a grudge against the elves.
The situation in which he crawled out as if he was kicked out as soon as he came here after suffering all kinds of hardships in the snowy mountains was enough to give him a thrilling sense of collapse.
He only wanted to build a good relationship with the elves and drive Proxia out, but he himself was driven out.
What the hell are those earrings! What does the empire have to do with it!
He wanted to scream at the sky, but if he did, he would be caught by Chersi, who would still be looking for him while snorting.
You can’t do this, you can’t do that!
Okay, let’s just think of it as being on vacation anyway and enjoy it to the fullest.
There were even puddles everywhere in the barren land, so it was uncomfortable to lie down, but thinking positively in my own way, it wasn’t necessarily bad.
Elves do not travel well here, and there are no monsters.
If you get the ground right, you will be able to live for days or even months.
Thinking so, Ray began to build a place to sleep.
I picked up dry twigs and made a tent, and when I brought the fallen leaves and spread them on the floor, a wonderful bed was completed.
There is a risk of getting caught if you light a fire, so I split the mana into very small pieces to minimize the flow and applied strengthening magic and heat magic to the tent.
Then, the inside became much more comfortable than expected.
Of course, the exterior looks poor even to call it a tent.
I left my backpack behind, so I couldn’t make a roof with a cloth.
The tent, which was built using only tree branches and fallen leaves, looked precarious as if it would collapse if the wind blew strong.
It wouldn’t happen because there was a strengthening magic on it.
For some reason, it was a more tiring day than usual.
He dragged his weary body into the tent.
Even though it was an uncomfortable bed, he was able to fall into a sound sleep like honey.
* * *
Three days have passed since arriving at the elven village in the Grencia Mountains.
Even so, the village was still unable to see even the entrance.
As if Ray couldn’t use mana during the baptism ceremony, he ate fish by catching fish in a nearby stream.
I couldn’t light a fire carelessly, but I was about to come up with a trick of my own.
When the caught meat was buried in the soil and the ground was heated, the fish could be grilled with only a small amount of smoke.
The saint’s behavior was so shabby that one wondered whether he should live his life like this.
Perhaps if God saw this, his day was modest enough to suffer from guilt.
Nevertheless, Ray is having fun in his own way, so the situation can be said to be ironic.
However, I couldn’t just stay here for a while just because it was fun.
He looked around and memorized the terrain.
High terrain to low terrain.
What is the best environment for people to live in?
If only that could be known, it could be said that the location of Proxia was roughly grasped.
This place where Ray is located is also close to the Elf Village and is located quite out of the Grencia Mountains, so there are few people.
There was little to no fear of getting caught.
“I wish I had learned at least stealth magic.”
He can use magic regardless of the circle, but in order to use it, he must be able to fully understand the process of magic being manifested.
His reality was that he couldn’t use Invisibility, which could be used even after reaching Circle 4, because he didn’t know the process.
