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< Go and tell them >
“Huh~.”
Before meeting the elves, the man was in a very good mood. He found himself humming, and the corners of his lips that had gone up to the sky never seemed to come down.
“You punk. Why did you pack all this stuff for me?”
Daein was opening the gift box that Golkan had prepared for him.
Inside the box were valuable items that merchants from each country had brought back as they crossed the barrier.
From gems, specialties, to magical artifacts.
And at the very top of the box was a pass with the Berger family seal on it.
A pass with a special coating that makes it difficult to counterfeit and is embroidered with gold thread, and is also imbued with waterproof, fireproof, and corrosion-resistant magic.
Inside was Golkan’s own handwriting.
“I guarantee this person’s identity.”
The man chuckled because the short text seemed to fully reveal Golkan’s personality.
“It’s cool.”
From now on, with this pass, you can freely travel to any country that is not an enemy of the Duchy of Hicks.
‘If you just stop by the Elf Forest, you can easily get to the Teru Kingdom.’
The man thought so and leaned back against the seat leisurely.
Next to him, two little kids were creating a strange scene.
When Jang Young-shin first says a word in Korean,
“mom.”
Lily said the corresponding word in Gaia.
“mom!”
The two children were holding something like a conch shell that would vibrate and store words as they spoke.
Woohoo!
The conch shell was an artifact that allowed one to quickly learn languages, and was a very valuable item.
Of course, that was also a gift from Golkan.
“dad.”
“dad!”
“mister.”
“mister!”
“carriage.”
“carriage!”
The two children recorded language in the conch shell by listing words they knew to each other. Later, when one of the children spoke to the conch shell in one language, the other child could hear the language they had entered repeated.
At that moment, Jang Young-shin hesitated for some reason and then said a new word.
“···i like you.”
The girl translated the words without thinking,
“i like you!”
The boy’s cheeks turned bright red like autumn leaves.
‘What the heck?’
The man looked at this clever yet innocent boy and snickered.
I bet that guy would shout ‘I love you’ to the conch shell a thousand times when he was alone.
Then the conch shell will say, “I like you,” in Lily’s voice.
Of course, the real girl was completely clueless in that regard. Lily tilted her head and asked.
“Why don’t you do more?”
“···I will. Sa, sa, sa···.”
Jang Young-shin turned her face, red as an apple, to the side and said, unable to bring herself to say that.
“apologize.”
“apologize!”
‘Ugh. You still have a long way to go.’
The man who was clicking his tongue turned his head and looked at the princess and her party, or more precisely, Leonard.
“Old man. Are you feeling better?”
“···It’s okay.”
Leonard looked ten years older overnight.
It was because I had forcibly raised my mana with my old and weak body and even fought fiercely.
The old man’s eyes were open, dimly, like a candle before it goes out. It wouldn’t be strange if he didn’t open his eyes the next morning.
But the wrinkled face was smiling gently.
“The princess is safe now, right?”
Leonard had a genuinely happy face.
But on either side, the princess and Hawkin looked at the old man with pitiful eyes.
“Leonard···.”
“Sir Leonard! Just hold on a little longer. Once we reach the Elven Forest, there will be a way to restore your health!”
The man said, scratching his chin.
“Hey, old man. I’ll see you later…”
Without finishing his words, the man turned his head away from the window.
“Youngshin. Stop the carriage.”
Everyone had tense expressions at the firm voice of the master.
Soon the carriage stopped, and everyone except Leonard got out.
The party had now entered the central mountain range.
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From here on out, it wouldn’t be strange to encounter various different races and monsters.
But the presence that the man had just felt was not that of a monster.
‘If it were a monster, it wouldn’t be watching us so secretly. It’s like it’s spying on us.’
Crunch.
The man took out Zeus and loaded the bullet. He aimed the gun into the bushes and said.
“Will you come out? Or should I let you come out?”
“······.”
After a while, shadows began to walk out from between the bushes. Their movements were so stealthy that not even a rustling sound was heard.
“Elf?”
Their true identities were a dozen or so elves dressed lightly and armed with bows and thin swords.
Among them, a blond male elf stepped forward.
The blonde elf stopped at an appropriate distance and said.
“Are you part of Alina Reinhardt’s party?”
The voice was polite, but also wary and hostile.
‘Did you know we were coming?’
As the man frowned and thought that, Alina stepped forward in front of the group.
“I am Alina Reinhardt.”
At the same time, she took off her freckled mask.
Sizzle.
The exotic face of the half-elf was revealed.
Her appearance was not lacking at all compared to the elves who were called the embodiment of beauty. Rather, she gave off a more lively and unique atmosphere.
“ah···.”
The blonde elf admired her face for a moment, then came to his senses and greeted her formally and politely.
“I am Garland, the explorer of Sephiroth, son of Yurin.”
Explorer.
This is what the elves who were given the task of scouting the Elven Forest were called.
They were generally assigned roles such as reconnaissance, surveillance, and guidance, and also fought when necessary.
Among the elves, those who were quick and had quick judgment took on that role.
Because of this, their status was much higher than that of ordinary elves.
Garland continued.
“The elder sent us.”
The moment he heard those words, the man remembered a rumor he had heard before.
‘They say the elven elder has the ability to foresee. I guess it’s true.’
Alina, on the other hand, looked quite moved.
“Grandma told me···.”
Sefersil, the forest of the elves.
The land where her mother was born and raised, and where her grandmother helps her gain strength.
When I thought that the elves had come out to greet me there, I felt a sense of relief.
“We will do it from here on out.”
Garland and a dozen elves approached in a carriage.
‘I guess I’ll take it easy now.’
The person also felt relieved.
Even if monsters appear on the way, those elves will take care of them all.
“Then let’s go back to the carriage and…”
It was when the great man looked around at the group and said that.
“Before that, let me confirm one thing.”
Slurp.
Garland drew his sword. His expression was as cold as ice.
“Are there any objects or people possessed by magic among your group?”
Garland treated everyone except Alina poorly.
Moreover, they treated humans as if they were an inferior race to elves.
“···What are you doing?”
The atmosphere suddenly becomes cold.
Although the man frowned, Garland did not change his forceful attitude.
“The Elven Forest, Sepersil, is a sacred land. It is our duty to protect it.”
The other elves were also soon drawing their swords and bows.
“What does that have to do with us?”
At the man’s question, Garland wrinkled his nose and said.
“I sensed a magical energy from you from afar. It was incredibly dirty and unpleasant.”
“so?”
“Until that issue is resolved, no one other than Lady Alina will be allowed to enter Sephiroth.”
“···what?”
The expression on the face of the person asking the question was also frozen stiff.
“What the hell are you talking about? We came all this way and you want us to just go back?”
A flustered Alina tried to intervene between the two,
“Wait a minute. There seems to be some misunderstanding···.”
The two men did not back down an inch from each other.
“There is no misunderstanding. My intuition has never been wrong.”
“Hey elf. Are you kidding me?”
“That’s unpleasant. I don’t mess around with humans.”
“This kid···.”
The two men’s gazes clashed fiercely in the air. The princess was at a loss as to what to do between them.
The man who saw that sight clicked his tongue quietly.
“Tsk.”
After all this time, some weird guy was nitpicking. I was getting annoyed, but I couldn’t turn the tables here.
‘Galland. I’ve heard that name somewhere…’
It was a name that I vaguely remembered, but couldn’t quite remember.
Anyway, in the end, the man pulled Charlotte out from his waistband.
“I think that’s why it’s like this.”
Slurp.
Charlotte, her blade exposed to the sunlight, exuded a sinister aura.
A powerful magic sword that will later be recorded in history.
If you were an elf sensitive to magic, you would have been able to sense the energy.
“···It’s a demon sword.”
Garland’s face showed disgust as if he was looking at something dirty.
The man put Charlotte back into her scabbard and held her out.
“Should I leave this to you guys?”
“I don’t even want to touch that dirty thing, but···.”
Garland’s expression crumpled as if he was very displeased.
He was known among the explorers for being sensitive and obsessive. Magi was the energy he was most sensitive to.
“There’s nothing I can do. Bring me some cloth.”
After a while, Charlotte was wrapped in a thick cloth and handed over to Garland.
The man, whose hands had become lighter, shrugged his shoulders and said.
“Then, since all the problems have been solved, let’s go.”
But Garland still seemed to be dissatisfied.
“Not yet. I can still sense the magic around here.”
The blonde elf sniffed and passed the man.
The man said with a hardened expression.
“Hey. Stop it? Are you planning on going through all my luggage?”
Ignoring the words of the elder coming from behind him, Garland began to look at the group that had come out of the carriage one by one with an arrogant expression.
Soon his gaze stopped in front of a girl with flame-red hair.
“!!”
Garland’s pupils gradually dilated.
The elf’s expression, which rarely caused any disturbance, began to shake with extreme anxiety.
Lily asked with a puzzled look on her face.
“why?”
‘Abominable thing!’
Although he had an innocent expression on his face, he couldn’t fool his senses.
A magic so terrible it’s scary,
A huge evil that could explode at any moment,
A terrible murderous intent suppressed at the bottom of the soul,
All of that was sealed inside this little girl’s body.
Garland drew his sword and aimed it at Lily. For a moment, the girl’s eyes widened.
On the other hand, a thin smile appeared on the elf’s lips.
“Unclean thing. You’ve been hiding your identity well.”
“Hey. What are you doing?”
The man spoke from behind, but Garland ignored the words and looked back at the man and his group.
“You idiots. This is a being that has been baptized by the devil. That is to say, it is the devil.”
“No···.”
The demon disguised as a young girl appeared startled. Its large eyes shook and its small body shrank.
“I’m not a devil···.”
Garland laughed at the sight.
“Abominable thing. Are you saying that you are not a devil, since you were baptized by the devil?”
At that moment, the girl, recalling her past trauma, shuddered and denied it.
“That wasn’t me who did it···.”
“···I told you to stop. You just have to not enter the Elf Forest.”
The man’s voice, now lowered to its lowest pitch, was heard again from behind, but Garland ignored his words this time as well.
The thrill of discovering hidden evil lifted Garland up.
“You are a cunning demon. You may have tried to enter Sephersil by hiding your identity, but you cannot fool me.”
An aura formed at the tip of Garand’s sword. A twisted smile formed at the corner of his mouth.
“You will be executed by me here and now…”
At that moment, Garland felt an overwhelming murderous aura behind his back.
“Tell me a few times.”
“!!”
The moment he heard an eerie voice in his ear, Garland unconsciously swung his sword to the side.
WHEEK!
Split the black void.
And when the man’s voice was heard again, his fist was striking Garland’s face.
“I remembered. What kind of kid you were.”
Bam!
Garland lay sprawled on the floor with a broken nose.
The man grabbed Garland by the collar and lifted him up. His voice was eerily calm.
“I told you three times. Stop it. Why are you ignoring people?”
“Ugh, ugh···.”
When Garand was attacked, the elves drew their weapons and aimed at the man.
“Garland!”
“Get your hands off me right now!”
The man looked back at the elves and snickered.
“When your captain was being rude to the kid, didn’t you stop him?”
Kwakwakwakwakwakwa!
The man drew up all the mana in his body.
Pacheonshinkong instantly raised the mana in his dantian. As he swept the momentum in all directions, he could feel the elves being shocked.
“You tried to kill the kid first. So even if I kill you all, it’s self-defense. Right?”
I could feel the elves shuddering.
That was when.
“Why, why is this happening all of a sudden···.”
The man turned his head and looked in the direction from which the voice came.
The girl who had come here in search of her only hope in life was seen sobbing.
“Now, wait a minute. There might be some misunderstanding!”
I saw a young wizard who was at a loss and didn’t know what to do.
“······.”
An old knight with not much time left to live was bowing his head to him.
My head feels a little cold.
‘I’ll tolerate it this once.’
The old man sighed softly and said as he put Garland down on the floor.
“Go and tell the elder that I won’t enter the Elven Forest. So you have to come find me yourself. You have two days to come. If you don’t come within that time….”
The man’s eyes shone coldly.
I only tolerated it once.
“Tell them I’m going to burn it all down.”
< Go and tell > End
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