chapter 110
Chapter 110 – Pioneering (10)
Chapter 110 – Pioneering (10)
“I never thought something like this would become popular again. It seemed to have disappeared about ten years ago.”
“Originally, it was said that trends come and go.”
The team leader smiled. Actually, as she said, originally these things were popular in the past. Before the present world takes a proper foundation.
At that time, there were many sacrifices and confusion. Most people were forced to fight, so they couldn’t survive without something. In such a situation, the most useful thing was a companion by his side.
And the ‘sense of belonging’ that I could share with such colleagues was everything to me at the time.
“Do you want to go home?”
“Yes, because my previous work remains at home.”
That afternoon I went home from work as usual. Because I have already decided what to give to the people in the pot who want to take another meaningful leap forward.
“This is the symbol of our team. So everyone just focus on surviving. If we just survive this crisis, this symbol will become incredibly popular.”
At that time, before our team was wiped out, we were still running and fighting on missions. Eunyoung Seo, the leader, gave us something. A kind of mark with an unusual pattern.
She was acknowledged by everyone and became the leader, but she was the youngest in the team except for me, and she definitely had a childlike side.
As she handed it out, she emphasized only one thing: survival.
We were driven to the battlefield because we awakened a power that others had not awakened to. That’s why I didn’t fight with a sense of mission or sacrifice. All we wanted was to survive.
“…”
When I got home, I immediately went through my luggage. In order to bring out the things that I had randomly inserted and neglected but could not throw away, that I could not forget where they were and remembered accurately.
I tried desperately to forget everything, cut off the ties and ran away, but I couldn’t throw it away, so it is said that I am still trapped in those days.
‘Is it my greed?’
I blankly looked down at the dusty thing I placed on my hand.
We fought to live, but in the end we failed. The only ones who survived among the team members were Seo Eun-young and Kim Dong-chun, who became Ban Byung-shin, and I, who had been away for a while and joined late.
In other words, this mark is a symbol of failure. Can the symbol of failure be given to those who are just starting out?
Perhaps I was hoping that Serenian and other people in the pot would take over this token and accomplish what I couldn’t achieve instead.
“You got something for me?”
But in the end I summoned Serenian with a pot of herbs.
Serenian doesn’t anticipate what I’m going to say, just widens his eyes and tilts his head.
…It didn’t matter if my greed was right. So far I have helped them without any conditions. No matter what they thought or did, they simply observed it from the standpoint of an observer.
But from my point of view, no matter how trivial it is, it is definitely a big help to them. However, to the extent of filming their lives is actually a price to pay.
So this time, for the first time, I wanted to give them a mission. Of course, I’m not trying to forcefully manipulate them according to my will. We just don’t want them to be like us.
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“Serenian, Queen of the Elves.”
“Eh, huh?”
The atmosphere was unusual. He was usually very kind to her, but her today was a little different. There was no laughter at all, and I felt a ‘wall’ that I had never felt before.
“You said you would create an organization that would encompass everyone and rule the whole of Eden.”
“Yes. Like the great conference that existed in the elven kingdom in the past, we will create a conference where there is no top or bottom, but a strong will to lead everyone.”
“Heaven supports your will. Take this.”
“This is…”
A true heavenly priest gave her something of her own, referring to her sky. Her eyes twitched and she tried to pick it up with her trembling hands.
“Huh?”
But he didn’t give it right away. She pulled it back from her outstretched hand.
“Are you trying to get this without paying anything like now? Even you, this is not something you can easily accept.”
“That, that is.”
When she asked if she would take it for nothing, her heart sank and her face turned pale. I’ve been trying to ignore it until now, but it was a fact.
I tried to repay them somehow, but as time went on, what they paid me was far less than what I received.
“I am not talking about material things. As you first did to me, the heart is what matters.”
“Our hearts are always desperate.”
She hurriedly knelt on her floor. It was so obvious that he was anxious that God’s heart would leave him.
He also could easily see that it was not for personal advancement, but the responsibility of a leader who shouldered the lives of many people.
“That god…What he wants from you is not that difficult.”
He himself got down on one knee with her and brought her to eye level with her. In order to say what was in his heart, he too needed a certain amount of determination.
“Don’t give up. So stay alive until the end.”
‘Even if only you.’
Finally speaking to her, he put the token in her hand into her hand.
At the same time, Serenian’s eyes widened as he looked at his face. What he just said was not what the priest said. It is the will of the sky and its meaning.
Then she had no choice but to go against it. It was like that originally, but I will be more faithful to the mission in the future.
“Ah.”
In the blink of an eye. Manipulating something invisible to Serenian’s eyes, he got out of the herb pot at once.
In her eyes, it was as if he had just evaporated.
After kneeling on her floor for a while, staring at the token, she got up with a dazed face and left her herb pot.
“Queen. Where did you suddenly go…”
“Call a meeting, please. Call the dwarves too. I have something urgent and important to say.”
Serenian, who returned from a trip to the herb pot, called a meeting with a stiff face. Her elves couldn’t bear to ask the reason for her unusual face, and soon her officers gathered in a hurry to her.
“I was surprised. I’m on the verge of entering the den of the monster earthworm, but I didn’t know you would call me.”
Aron, the leader of the dwarves who joined the meeting, opened his mouth with a surprised face. If he knew her personality, he wouldn’t call people in such a hurry unless it was an urgent matter.
Others reacted similarly to Aaron’s.
“Heaven and God recognized us. This meeting.”
Seeing them like that, Serenian took out the token he was holding in his arms.
The thing that everyone’s eyes were focused on is actually not a very good quality item. It is nothing more than a cheap product that someone bought through online ordering.
But what is important to them is not the material. The meaning and power it contains. Since they had already witnessed it all, they were shocked and agitated.
“Make a flag out of this. Let everyone know so they know. This is the symbol of our Eden.”
Serenian made it clear that this symbol symbolizes this world. It is a symbol directly recognized by Heaven. There was nothing like this to gather a sense of belonging.
“But this is not something you get for free.”
“Well, then what the hell am I supposed to do?”
“It’s not different from what we’ve done so far. A heart that can fight without giving in. Are there any who dare to be defeated or run away with God’s will on their backs?”
Serenian correctly conveyed the warning he had heard. Like I said, it wasn’t that difficult. Because that’s what they’ve been doing. It was just that there was no room for the unknown.
“Searching for the nest of the monster earthworm. I will definitely come and succeed. With the banner of heaven in front of him.”
Aron jumped up from his seat with high morale.
They still had to fight for their lives. It was something that had to be successful in the past, but now it has become more important.
“Everyone seemed a bit tired as the battle they weren’t used to lasted for a long time. This can be of help.”
“Who dares to tire?”
As soon as Aaron returned, he told the Dwarves what Serenian had said and at the same time instructed them to make his own flag. It was not made properly because it was made in a hurry, but it was just overlaying the color on the existing flag, but for now, I had to be satisfied with that.
The way to move the mind is often surprisingly simple. Considering the power of the mind, it is an unbelievable value for money.
And now, the heaven-sent token was enough to move the hearts of the dwarves.
“Let’s go. I need to see what the hell is in those monsters’ nests.”
The Dwarves, armed both physically and mentally, headed for the pit they had prepared in advance with ladders. The purpose was to enter the hole through which the beast earthworms dug through, explore the interior, and bring the dungeon core.