Episode 43
“…What should I do?”
Jihad looked at the skinny world tree and sighed lightly.
Whenever he had time, he would meditate in front of the world tree.
Death of the World Tree.
I have no choice but to be more careful because I know what that means.
I responded enthusiastically to my father, but in the end it was like this.
“Please answer me, great mother. What can we do to save you?”
Jihad earnestly and earnestly requested.
I knew that she hadn’t responded to the elves’ words since the world tree began to suffer and dry up, but what can I do?
that there is no way… ….
After that day, the best they could do was to keep talking to the World Tree like this.
I just hope that the mother who took care of them will answer this wish.
Jihad awaited.
But, as always, the World Tree did not answer.
I don’t know if he didn’t answer or if he didn’t even have the energy to answer anymore.
“it’s okay.”
Jihad laughed, trying to hide his disappointment.
“If you disappoint us in anything, we will fix it. If this is the case because we cannot take care of ourselves, we will, of course, find a way, just like our ancestors did.”
It doesn’t matter if you don’t answer.
He was carrying the fate of his people.
Since his father, the current king, was getting old, he had to shoulder all the burdens of the future.
“But please know this much. We will not abandon our mother and we will not make the first last.”
So please… ….
Jihad bowed his head once more.
I hope that the long-cherished wish of my people will be fulfilled in my generation.
If there is a god, please.
I earnestly hoped that he would grant this wish.
But then.
“My child.”
A holy voice came from above Jihad’s head, who was earnestly praying.
“…?”
For a moment, Jihad reflexively raised his head and looked around.
“This is it.”
As I turned my gaze to the direction where the voice came from, a bright light filled my eyes.
At the rising sanctity, he involuntarily lowered his head again.
‘no way.’
Jihad’s eyes were trembling with joy even as he said to himself that this couldn’t be the case.
How can I not know!
There is no way he himself, who was destined to become an elf and lead them, would not know this.
“Are you a mother…?”
“Some people will call me Mother, and some will call me World Tree. Anyway, what you think is correct.」
At that moment.
“Ah, benevolent World Tree! Great first tree that embraced us!”
Jihad was moved by the presence of the World Tree and shed tears.
His elf spirit was speaking.
This voice is the world number.
He is the one that his own people have so longed for and that his father has so longed for an answer to!
“What can I do! How can I solve the burden you are carrying!”
“I don’t have time, child,”
said the world tree, caressing him with the light as if feeling sorry for him.
“The darkness is trying to swallow me. However, there is still time. There will be someone with my light. If we help him, hope will shine on us… ….」
“Those with Mother’s light… …tell me! Who is he! I will definitely find him and give my life to help him!”
With a feeling of vomiting blood, Jihad shouted.
As long as he could save his people from the fate of destruction, his own life did not matter.
It was then.
“Wherever you are, behind you.”
“…?!”
A voice suddenly came from behind.
Jihad looked back in amazement.
A blond human male stood with a crooked smile.
“All you…”
“Now, did you hear about the world tree?”
He shrugged his shoulders with a nonchalant face and said.
“Guide me.”
“…who are you?”
“Mikhail Walpurgis.”
He grabbed Jihad by the scruff of his neck, forced him to stand up, and said:
“He is a person who acts as an agent for the World Tree as a hobby.”
“yes?”
What is your other hobby?
* * *
The grass and flowers I had never seen before were gently rustling in the wind.
Everywhere chattering little fairies were flying, and from the poles of the great trees hung beautiful buildings made of intertwined trunks.
The water was always blue, as if it contained the sky.
haha.
‘Was it a scenery like this?’
fairy forest.
Origin of the Elves and the greatest and deepest forest in the world.
This was the first sight even I had seen.
After all, it was already too late when I visited this forest.
The World Tree is dead.
The king is also killed by the demon, and all that remains are the wounded elves and their prince, Jihad.
When I arrived, indeed, everything was broken beyond repair.
burned and trampled on
It was just an empty forest.
‘I can’t believe they’ll take me to this place right away.’
After the conversation with the World Tree, she moved me to the forest without the slightest hesitation.
[Let’s save that child, Michael. Can you do it?]
“I have to save it.”
The existence of the World Tree is very important when looking at the entire world.
Because her presence alone can effectively block the Demon God’s intervention.
It wasn’t for no reason that he used his remnants to persistently harass her.
‘First of all, it would be better to change the fate of the current Fairy King.’
He was senile, but if it weren’t for this problem, he could have lived a long time.
Elves have a very long lifespan.
The current fairy king has certainly lived a considerable amount of time, but it is not yet time for his lifespan to end.
If there is one reason why he passed away, it is only one.
‘The death of the world tree.’
As soon as the world tree died, he was killed by the remnants of a demon that was released outside like a ghost.
The current Fairy King is by no means incompetent.
A person who is multiplied by being alive.
can’t let it die
“Are you there?”
Then Jihad, who was walking behind me, asked timidly.
“Didn’t you ask for guidance? But you’re just walking in the lead by yourself.”
“It’s roughly this way.”
“that…however.”
“Tell me if I’m wrong. Then I will move in the direction you said.”
The road itself remembers.
Even in the forest that was completely devastated, there were only a few roads left.
Jihad then asked.
“excuse me…Have you met your mother in person? I really said that to him directly… …”
“Oh right. He asked me to sleep.”
“How? Just tell me and I will prepare what I need right away.”
“it’s fine now.”
In the first place, blindly defeating the devil does not mean that the world tree will be freed.
The thing covering the world tree is not something that can be done alone right now.
Maybe it’s because I didn’t respond.
Jihad asked me again with an impatient expression.
“But are you here alone?”
“no. But you don’t have to worry, I’ll find out for you.”
“…You know?”
As if hearing something strange, Jihad tilted his head.
“It’s not that I distrust the abilities of the agent’s comrades, but our forest is not such an easy place to enter.”
“Yes, it is not an easy space.”
The fairy forest was pierced from the ‘inside’, but never pierced from the ‘outside’.
one.
“But one person out there is a little far from common sense.”
“…yes?”
Jihad widened his eyes.
“No, anyway…”
It was then.
“Wow, Prince!”
An elven guard rushed in hastily and shouted.
“Chi is an intruder!”
“What?!”
Jihad opened his eyes.
“What do you mean intruder! Are you saying that someone broke through the border?!”
Jihad’s eyes trembled.
It has to be.
It’s not normal for there to be an intruder here in the fairy forest, not anywhere else.
But if I just let it go, I’ll be heard, so I went first.
“Oh it’s okay. The person I mentioned earlier has no common sense.”
“yes?”
“Prince Iza…”
Jihad and guards all looked at me with puzzled expressions.
But I slowly walked away with my hands behind my back.
“I can get a rough idea of where you are, so follow me.”
“Oh no, it’s like I was asked to guide you…”
“Uh huh, I don’t care about trivial things.”
“…Ah yes.”
I felt that he was looking at me from behind as if he was looking at me from behind, but I decided to ignore it.
‘I miss even this.’
– Are you sane, Mikhail?
Even before the regression, he looked at me like that whenever he had a chance, so he’s used to it.
I slowly moved to find the energy of the party.
It’s not hard to find because I knew this would happen in advance and confirmed it.
After a while we arrived at the place where the party was.
and….
“What is this?!”
Jihad stared blankly at the situation unfolding in front of him 5 minutes ago, with his mouth open.
“Aaaaaaaaa Flying Human!”
“The human is flying!”
“Four Flying Humans!”
The elves were looking up at the sky and shouting madly.
In the sky, there are four people on horseback flying in splendor.
Seeing that, an elf pointed a finger and shouted.
“Is that the 4 Horsemen of Perdition!”
“I think I’m going crazy!”
“Let’s shoot!”
The elves were making a fuss with their eyes closed, saying ‘omens of misfortune’.
Looking at it, I was intoxicated by the fresh scent of grass around me for a while.
um yeah
“It looks like my lack of companions have caused a lot of trouble.”
“….”
The guards and jihadists who had been following me stared at me.
It’s been a long time since I met the eyes of criticism.
To be honest, it hurt a bit.
* * *
A few minutes later,
the four people who bravely flew their horses to break through the fairy forest were arrested by the elves.
“It is a very, very good thing. You didn’t even think about stopping the butler, were you really excited?”
“It’s not. The butler started first.”
Secretly, Lian turned her head away from the butler and began to tell me.
I quietly looked at the butler.
“Yeah, that’s a very, very good thing. tell the butler Actually, isn’t it like the 8th circle great mage or something?”
“It’s a magic tool.”
“Among the magic tools, is there anything that gives wings to horses?”
“Isn’t it possible? Master, to think of everything as omnipotent with magic is disgusting with magic tools.”
“I don’t think the elves here think so.”
“….”
The butler glanced at the elves who were glaring at him.
Then, he gently lowered his head.
“…Yes, I am the one to kill.”
While he was saying that, the butler Dojin suddenly had anger control problems and shouted.
“No, but if you think about it like that, isn’t the boy who abandoned us more of a problem?! If that’s the case, don’t neglect it!”
“hmm.”
“Hmm not! The seed’s fault is the owner’s fault! Therefore, this is not just me, but the boy’s… …“
Okay, arrest me.”
I glanced at Jihad and winked.
Jihad looked at me dumbfounded and then called for the elven soldiers.
“Redeem me.”
At Jihad’s words, the soldiers also looked dumbfounded, but they caught the butler as ordered.
“…Are you also a young boy? young master! I was wrong! Come to think of it, the master’s fault is also the servant’s fault. Yep!”
“late.”
But I roughly shook my hand, passed the butler, and looked at the other three.
“So, anyway, how did you come in? Congratulations.”
“It sounds fun to ride a flying horse.”
“…what sure.”
Cassandra and the paladin spoke in succession.
Lian looked at the seat where the butler was with a blank expression and said to me.
“So what are you going to do?”
“I received a branch of the world tree. But since I received an advance, I think I will have to do some work.”
I looked at the three of them and said.
“Let’s do something with me.”
Great mage who transcends by regression
