chapter 21
Chapter 21-New Paradise(1)
Chapter 21-New Paradise(1)
“Ants! There are even demon ants!”
“I hope the bull doesn’t step out this time. Because we want to test how effective our barriers are.”
A deeper dungeon that I haven’t even bothered to clean yet. There, ants continued to pop out, revealing their hostility towards the World Tree and the elves who tried to protect it.
Serenian climbed the barrier with his children. Currently, the ants rushing toward this place are one demon ant and dozens of ordinary ants.
Raising her bow, she glanced at Battlebot 001, which was perched outside her barrier. Until now, whenever the ants came out, Battlebots sortied out to fight for them and protect them.
But Serenian didn’t want the battle bots to step in now that she had finished building the barrier. She wanted to test the power of this barrier she had poured everything into.
As I already said to Seunghyun, she had no intention of just relying on her. She was convinced that if she was going to survive in this world, no matter how terrible her enemies were, she would have to face them on her own and win.
“Well, the black bull really doesn’t move! Why?!”
“Thank you Ren. Because the divine spirit believes in us and gives us a chance.”
And as if he knew her heart, Battlebot 001 did not explode that loud motor sound this time and just stood still.
Ren, expecting the battlebots to trample the enemies to death, was taken aback, but Serenian smiled faintly and gave Ren a bow.
“I will get their attention. Renne shoots a bow at the safe place in the gap and kills the little guys. You are also a warrior of our clan.”
“…Yes!”
Her eyes widened at the words of Serenian, who no longer let her run away but let her join her fight, and she nodded her head with her eyes quivering.
She also gave Ren a chance because there was a barrier, a minimum means to protect her body.
“Lea, stay on top of the world tree. It won’t take long.”
Leah, still a young girl, escaped, and Serenian took a bow and arrow and ran over a barrier covered with coated paper, luring her ants to herself.
‘As expected, they’re following me.’
When she shot down one with her arrows loaded with her mana, her group of ants with her antennae up recognized her as her enemy and flocked to her. There were not a few of them, so no matter how many arrows she fired and sniping them one by one, her ants came close to the barrier at once.
“That’s right…!”
However, Serenian bravely attacked, stopped in front of the barrier, and laughed at the ants flinching.
The height of the barrier, which has only been built in one layer, is about 1cm. Not only ordinary ants with a height lower than her, but also the demon ant, which is about 1 cm tall, could not hastily cross the barrier.
It was because she had driven her hand-made basting pins the size of her own height into the outer wall of her wall like stakes.
The ants with their inflexible bodies could not easily avoid the needles and climb the barrier. I don’t know if I had a lot of time, but while the time was dragging on, I was only knocked down one by one by Serinian and Ren’s arrows.
“Will it work?”
While all of her kin fell, the monster ant climbed over the barrier, putting her front leg on her chin and risking being scratched by the stake.
Waiting for it, Serenian aimed the arrow he drew as far as he could in a straight posture, and shot the arrow toward the chest of the demon ant that was clearly exposed.
Blue mana burned like flames from arrows and bows as well as from her whole body.
Unlike Wi, who is armed with a hard carapace, an arrow reinforced with mana is inserted into his fragile chest, which is normally attached to the ground, and a hole larger than the head is pierced in the beast ant’s chest with a shock wave that bursts like an explosion. The huge body just collapsed.
‘The wall is safe.’
Unlike before, she looked down at the ants that had been unilaterally beaten and scattered on the floor. Proof is over. The proof was the corpses of those ants.
“…This.”
Just before the emotions raised by the battle subsided.
She felt something in her and her eyes widened as she turned to her world tree behind her. Her world tree was sending her signals to her now. That, too, is by no means light.
“Time of the world. Open the cracks in the world and allow visitors. Let me greet you.”
Serenian hurriedly came down from the wall and ran to the place where the World Tree was. Her exact destination was the place where she first came to this world.
With her distraught heart, she asked the World Tree, who was contemplating whether or not to invite outside visitors, to allow her to visit.
Before the world tree didn’t grow, it was possible to come and go freely without any time to control it, but now this world is clearly under the rule of the world tree.
“Thank you.”
And the world tree granted her request. In fact, her relationship with her world tree is a bit special. For normal elves, the world tree is the root and foundation, but this young world tree she saved followed Serenian like her parents.
“Who is coming here?”
“Yes. I don’t know who.”
Serenian came up to her side and stroked Leah’s head as she asked.
“Are you banished like us?”
“…I don’t know about that. That is, until we meet face to face.”
Laughing bitterly at Leah’s question, she shook her head. The identity of the opponent is still unknown. If it was just an attempt to invade with malice, Segesu would have stopped it, so I just thought it wasn’t.
“But no matter who comes, there is no reason to shrink. We are no longer outcasts. We are a new clan that protects this land. No matter who comes, I will not bow my head.”
Before the rift opened, Serenian firmly told the children who had shrunk somewhere. She was exiled and denied her fundamentals and identity.
“Go, the space is open!”
At that time, the cracks in the space that the World Tree had closed began to open again.
‘Who is it?’
And then someone appeared inside. It was not a group, but alone, but it was not small. He was a stout man with a bigger build than Serenian.
[Population: 04]
At the same time, the population count increased by one in a place she couldn’t see.
“Leon…!”
“Sir Serenian.”
After that, stealthily clutching her bow, she opened her eyes wide to see her fully revealed opponent. Because she was someone he knew.
Her opponent, who already seemed to have lost her sanity, staggered as soon as she saw her, then dropped to her knees.
***
“What the hell is that?! Are they taking Ruri?!”
“I-I couldn’t help it either. With weapons drawn and threats, there was no way.”
The town was troubled in many ways. There were many things, but since he was just a resident, Leon, who was lucky enough to maintain his daily life, returned home after finishing his work as usual.
However, the wind and waves of the world overcame even him, and he ran straight to the chieftain’s house, frightened by the sight of his wife disappearing from the house in disarray.
And I heard the shocking news from the chief. It was the fact that the elves from the center had hired his wife and taken them.
“For what the hell? Why us?”
“I don’t know. Where the hell did this happen?”
After hearing that among those who dragged his wife, there was also a sly-looking, thick-bodied human man, Leon finally stopped the accident. It was something I hadn’t even imagined, let alone expected.
‘Something went wrong.’
He pondered his thoughts as he walked down the street blankly with empty eyes. The Demon King, who was said to be the evil of the world, has disappeared, but the world has become more vicious and terrible to him.
‘It’s my, our fault.’
I made various excuses to avoid fighting and forcibly handed it over, and it came back as poisonous. The fear of change and the fear of taking risks, which had been silent, became a bigger cataclysm and a wave that destroyed daily life.
“Please forgive me, even now.”
After he went to find his wife and was kicked out after being beaten, he had extreme thoughts and changed his mind several times to try to do it. After that, he finally made a decision.
Even if I die, it would be unfair to die without being able to do anything.
It was in his heart that he murdered a drunken reformist elf and ran away from a human food tavern in Deneb, the largest village of the Great Forest elves and now quickly turning into a city.
However, after committing the horrific and unforgivable sin of murdering his own people, he felt guilty towards a completely different target. To the strong young elves who fought to the end against the enemies they were unable to help, buried in fear and cowardice.
“Wake up. This is not a place of exile where people commit crimes and run away. It is a sacred land where you can gain new life and strength.”
Serenian snarled at him in a cold voice.
Leon looked up at her blankly, and Serenian, who had her back on her giant tree, was glaring at him in her devastated state.