Chapter 455 New Alliance (1)
Vierano, who watched the situation nervously at Ambella’s willing acceptance, let out a sigh of relief.
“Then, when will it work…”
“Ah. Let’s clear up other questions before we talk about such nonsensical things.”
To say that it is unwise to do something that might lead to rebellion against the kingdom.
I was able to see the greatness of Ambella in that she sincerely thought so.
One of Ambella’s eyes didn’t fall off Rudger’s.
“He is a person with a higher spirit than you think. Usually, everyone is scared of me.”
“Because I’ve lived with someone worse for over 10 years.”
“oh. Does this hurt your self-esteem? I don’t think I’m inferior anywhere, but there’s someone worse than me. That’s amazing. It makes me want to meet who you are.”
At those words, Rudger recalled the sight of Grander and Ambella facing each other.
I was already dizzy.
I couldn’t even imagine what the heck would happen.
For him, the existence of only one teacher was too daunting to bear.
“I find it more strange that Burke’s head uses human things than that.”
These were the words Ambella said while pinching the lighted cigar.
Elves don’t smoke in the first place. It was smoked only by smoker dwarves who had melted into humans and society.
But Ambella smoked it naturally.
She looks very suitable from the outside, but her essence is that she is the head of a family that protects the elven forest.
From there, Rudgar could roughly guess what the Burke family was like.
“From the beginning, there was no attachment to the depths of the forest. Rather, was he interested in the outside like Dentis?”
“Did you just notice that?”
“I vaguely felt that even though there were humans in this place, they weren’t very hostile. It looks familiar, so it must have been quite close to humans.”
At those words, Biella, the head of household, held her breath.
He looked at Ambella with eyes asking how that could be, but Ambella didn’t even look at Biella.
“Not everyone says that. In the war that took place 100 years ago, the Burke family made the biggest sacrifice, so they’ll hate humans more than anyone else.”
Actually everyone thought so.
Because that’s a natural thing.
“Actually yes. Do you know why I wore an eyepatch? This is what happened when shrapnel from a mortar fired by humans while fighting on the battlefield. The same goes for the scars all over my body.”
Scars carved into Ambella’s exposed skin.
Most of them were scars from gunshot wounds.
“My life wasn’t that smooth, but the tribal war 100 years ago was on a different level. Among the scars engraved on my body, they left the most traces.”
“Are you still interested in the human world?”
“Ask the other way around. What do we gain by blindly hating them?”
No one could refute a word that stabbed the core.
Of course, Ambella was very angry and sad because of the war.
He lost his precious vassals and left indelible scars on his body.
Nonetheless, this punishment, never knowing when it would end, still pushed them to the forefront.
If you dare to ask for responsibility, the first is the Plante family who provided the cause, and the second is the humans who invaded the forest.
“It doesn’t make any sense. There is nothing to be gained by being angry and nervous and sharpening the blade. The place I stand in is not a place to be bound by trivial things.”
Rather, Ambella saw potential.
The humans she knew were obviously highly organized, but not threatening.
But the tribal war 100 years ago was different.
Man invented gunpowder and made guns and cannons.
The hard armor worn by knights is now a reinforced exoskeleton suit.
Even without fire spirits and magic, fire and electricity were sprayed with flamethrowers and Tesla guns.
Ambella felt a great shock.
While the elves lived only in the forest, the humans outside continued to develop.
I couldn’t just let it go.
If eradication is impossible, they thought they should learn the same.
The sense of responsibility as a leader of a family was stronger than the anger and hatred caused by the war.
The war is over and the elves have defended their lands.
But will that be possible in the future?
What if they come with a stronger gun? What if you show off your firepower this time to burn down the forest?
Even then, will the elves be able to fight back with the power of spirits and arrows?
Ambella, who had always watched only the outside of the forest, looked inside the forest for the first time.
The filthy images of other families arguing with each other, forgetting even the scars of war.
Disillusioned.
You don’t know when the external enemy will come back stronger, but the leaders are fighting over rice bowls.
But even if this side shouts with all their heart, those arrogant people won’t listen to their voices while they are being punished.
then.
“This is the only way to learn.”
“…..”
“After changing my mind, I saw many things. I knew that the world wasn’t just this forest. There are mountains, there are deserts, there are huge cities made by humans, and there are open seas. Glacier frozen forever. An endless mountain range that is said to have been crossed by monsters. Beyond that, to the unknown continent. Compared to that, these elves’ forests are very insignificant.”
Ambella’s words are to deny the basis of elves.
But Ambella didn’t think she was wrong.
The more I interacted with the outside world, the more convinced I was of that idea.
“Dentis. Didn’t you guys think that way too and keep an eye on the outside?”
At Ambella’s question, Vierano also silently nodded.
Vierano is also a long-lived elf, a generation that has gone through a war.
Even so, he taught spiritism in the academy that taught magic in the human empire.
Because I saw the possibility.
Future possibilities to expand into a wider world.
They did not get buried in the wounds and scars of war during the war, but saw beyond it.
Ambella chuckled and lit another cigar.
“When I tried to see it so widely, I saw things I couldn’t see. It wasn’t really invisible. It was there from the beginning, but they blatantly ignored us, pretending we didn’t exist.”
The reason the Burkes weren’t interested in the interior of the forest was simple.
It wasn’t necessary.
You guys play with that little bowl of rice among yourselves.
We will see a wider world.
“That’s why I saved that brave young lady there.”
Ambella pointed at Bellaluna and let out a white puff of cigarette smoke.
“I heard that they secretly hacked the World Tree. do you believe It was not an aristocratic family, but an ordinary elf who did that. But how did you escape safely from the capital and run to our territory? I mean, that’s no big deal.”
“So did you help?”
“okay. Just looking at it, isn’t it unusual? To touch the World Tree, which everyone regards as sacred. Those proud nobles of the forest were at a loss because they had authority, but a child with no genealogy did that? It’s a very good talent. At the same time, I fed them properly. So I helped him out of the forest. Giving you a way to contact me out of personal curiosity is a different thing.”
Thinking of that time, Ambella shook her shoulders as if it were fun.
“After all, the world is something to live for a long time to see. What I did that day came back like this. Who would have known that we would hear the news that Plante’s last lineage was still alive.”
“I don’t look too surprised. As if I was certain that at least someone was alive.”
“okay. At least one was thought to be alive. I never thought I would fall in love with a human in the outside world and even give birth to a child.”
“No way…”
Vierano asked in a trembling voice.
“that day. Were you the one who helped her escape out of the woods?”
I could tell who Vierano was talking about here without asking.
The last head of the Plante family.
A traitor who dared not even mention his name to the elves.
and.
She was the mother of Sedina Rosshen.
“I heard you are missing.”
I thought it would be difficult to escape through the siege, but I never thought that Ambella would help.
“It was the last present I could give you.”
Ambella let out smoke with a bitter face.
Rather, she regretted not being able to help more then.
It’s already been 500 years, but Ambella still remembers that day vividly.
Meeting her, the head of Plante at a much younger age than himself, will be an unforgettable event even after a lifetime.
– Ambella. Why the hell do elves insist on staying in this forest?
Whenever she was asked that stupid question that seemed out of touch with the world, Ambella lashed out at her.
Elves are born in the forest, so they must be born in the forest and die in the forest.
They say that there is a divine tree to worship and that this place is all of the elves.
Every time I heard that, the girl in my memories shook her head saying it wasn’t like that.
– The world is wide. Still, we insist on living only in this small well. Is that really the right thing to do?
I want to see a wider world.
She said it so dryly.
Maybe going through the war and finally being able to look outside with a proper gaze.
Maybe it was because of the conversation I had with her that day.
‘You must have already known what I realized after 400 years.’
so i let her go
But did I say that fate is truly cruel?
There is no news of her, and that her daughter was caught by Leafre and brought here.
“Ask me one thing. What kind of child is that Plante child?”
“Sedina Rosshen. The daughter of the Roshen family and a half-elf. And one of the students I teach.”
“You must be very young as a student.”
“In terms of human age, he’s not even 20 yet.”
“what. For an elf, you’re a complete baby.”
The tip of the cigar burned and ashes fell.
The wind spirit immediately picked up the ashes and blew them far out the window.
“The head of Dentis. That you’re here means everyone knows. What happened to her Plante family head?”
“…I’ve done what Plante gave me.”
Ambella calmly accepted the shocking fact.
“Your order has been fulfilled. how?”
“That’s…”
“No. it’s okay. Just by looking at that reaction, I think I know who killed him and how. Apparently, the politicos with each other must have been after her all along.”
At least, when he sent her away at the end, he saw her off, hoping that she would forget everything about her family and live as a free person.
With this, he tries to console himself that he has fulfilled his responsibility.
Only with words and heart did she bless her way forward.
“After all, even after I sent her away, did she continue to suffer?”
to the pursuers of the forest.
To the assassins who seek their lives.
To the masked people who approach with a smile on their faces.
for 480 years.
I’ve been walking the hard road alone.
Ambella felt heavy.
But there was no way to resolve it.
Because she, the person involved, had already changed her name and left.
It was said that this old silver won will remain in her heart forever.
Then Rudger’s voice pierced Ambella’s thoughts.
“You don’t have to worry so much.”
“what?”
“I said no need to worry.”
Ambella smiled ferociously.
It wasn’t a smile that looked like an elf before, but a smile that would bite and kill the opponent if it was slightly wrong.
“They said it was Rudgar Chelsea. What are you talking to me like that? Do you know all the years I’ve been with her? A human who can’t live even 100 years?”
“I do not know.”
“Then why are you speaking so boldly? now.”
Anger crept into Ambella’s voice.
No matter what she said, she tried to pass it off with a smile, but at least the Plante family lord was no different from the woman.
At the moment of even the slightest slip of the tongue, the good atmosphere that has been built up until now could collapse altogether.
Even in the midst of that, Rudger spoke calmly and calmly at the same time.
“Because Sedina was born in this world.”
“…..”
At that, Ambella had no choice but to keep her mouth shut.
“I saw her daughter. She loved her mother very much. And recently I met my husband. The man I thought was cold and cold-blooded was still busy growing plants in memory of his dead wife.”
Ludger remembers Walter bowing his head begging him to save his daughter.
I remember Sedina, who looked sad and yearning when talking about her family.
“There were two people like that.”
Although the end was marked by a sad tragedy.
Even so, the path they walked did not disappear without being denied.
to love someone
to be loved by someone
The happy memories of that day remain.
“So it certainly wouldn’t have been painful.”
Ambella suddenly overlapped memories of the past from what Rudger said.
-Is it okay if we go like this? The pursuers will continue to follow.
-are you okay. Thank you for making it this far. And I’m sorry. If I hadn’t failed, this wouldn’t have happened.
– Ella.
Ella Plante.
Even when she lost everything and left her beloved hometown, she never lost her smile.
-don’t worry. The outside world will surely be harsh and difficult for me, but there won’t be only painful things.
-That’s right. I hope so.
-Do you know? Will I ever meet the person I love in that vast unknown world?
-Are you the one who rejected the courtship of all noble men?
-I hate those people because they are all shiny. I mean, I rather like someone who is indifferent to me but cares for me on the inside.
– You’re a very difficult person.
-I think it would be nice to meet the ideal type and have a child like that. If I were to have a child, I think a cute daughter would be nice. The name is um…
After thinking for a while, Ella Plante smiled at Ambella and said,
– Will Ambella build it for you?
-I?
-okay. I heard humans call it godmother? If so, I think Ambella would be nice. Because Ambella is like a mother to me as well as an older sister.
Ambella didn’t tell me not to joke about that.
She is the last one to let go anyway.
So I was able to match the rhythm to such a small stubbornness.
-is it. A daughter who resembles you. I don’t really think about it, but if I had to name it.
Ambella clearly said so in her memory.
– Sedina would be nice.
