NOVEL NEXT chapter 20
20 – Elaim, King of the Water Spirit
“Is it your fault…?”
“Huh? What am i It’s just that I’m saddened to see you, the hero, leave without even having breakfast…”
As Edwin said…
Illuen She has a shamelessness that is hard to see for an elf, and I get tired of her opponent.
“Did you not hear now? I heard there’s a fire in the forest… What? Morning?”
“It’s a fire anyway, only the elves who live here put it out. Would a high elf like me need to pull it?”
“Isn’t that what you said?”
“What do you mean~ Why would an elf like me who loves the forest start a fire? Ha ha ha.”
As for her… She’s more than capable of screaming.
For her own purposes, it’s her forest fire.
“Hero, let’s start.”
“Lucia..?”
“If it were me… I think I could do it.”
Lucia, she’s illuen Where did her weak figure in front of her go? She talked to me with a confident face
There was not the slightest hint of hesitation or anxiety in her voice.
“Okay. Roman, let’s start.”
“Yo.. Hero.. Are you going to go to the place where the fire is now?”
“Yes. If you go there, Lucia will take care of it.”
“Ah.. I see.”
Only then, Roman approached the wagon and began to prepare for departure,
Iluen, who thought we wouldn’t start due to the forest fire, approached me with a puzzled face.
“Ka.. Carlos.. Are you crazy? The forest is on fire. Are you going there? Are you listening to this mongrel?”
“Yes.”
“What can such a half-baked man do? Can you properly summon a spirit?”
When I did not stay as planned, Iluen, who was furious to the point of anger, argued with me in an annoyed voice.
I approached her like that to give her one last word before leaving.
“Iluen, I’m sorry it didn’t go as you planned, but I’ll say it again. It’s not half a mongrel, it’s Lucia. Lucia. No matter how stupid you are, if you’ve said this much, shouldn’t it be time to understand?”
“Kalos…!!”
“And I never had a good time sleeping with you. I just did it because I was curious about what that proud high elf would taste like, but the smell of the gutter is, after all, trash is trash.”
“Kalos.. You.. How.. Would you say that…”
“So be well. Don’t get out of my sight…”
If it were me in the past, I probably wouldn’t have been able to talk to Iluen the way I do today.
I’m sure she was dragged here and there, but in today’s case, she might have just trusted her words and returned home…
“Hero! Ready!”
At Roman’s cry, Lucia got on her carriage first,
I left behind Iluen, who was sitting down, and followed Lucia to the carriage.
“Hero, if we go on like this and encounter a fire, the road will be so narrow that we won’t be able to turn the wagon… Would that be okay?”
“Yes. Are you okay. Because I believe in Lucia…”
I just gave an answer to Roman, who was anxious, but Lucia, who sat next to her, stared at me with her face burning red as much as it would turn red.
I looked at her Lucia with a questioning expression and made her gestures by shaking her shoulders.
It was Lucia who covered her red face with her hand and bowed her head.
“Then let’s go! What!”
With the sound of driving Roman’s horse, the carriage slowly began to depart,
As the carriage left the village and entered the narrow and dark forest road, the acrid smell of smoke was getting thicker.
“Mr Roman. Go as far as you can, then drop me off.”
“Yes. Miss Lucia!”
Lucia must have felt the fire approaching, she was already preparing to dismount,
As we got closer to the fire, the number of elves running away began to increase one by one.
“Don’t run away!! We must protect the forest until the end!!”
An elf warrior I saw at the banquet hall yesterday shouted at the fleeing elves from a high branch,
A few elven warriors, including him, remained there until the end and extinguished the fire by summoning Undine, the water spirit, to catch the flames.
However, the number of remaining elves was absurdly insufficient to catch the fire that was spreading through the wind.
Some elves have already collapsed due to excessive use of mana.
“I’ll be back, warrior.”
“Be careful. Lucia.”
As the Undines disappeared one by one and the flames intensified in the gaps, Lucia got off the wagon and slowly approached the flames.
“I’m in the way, so go back!!”
An elven warrior who was using Undine to put out the fire saw Lucia approaching and stopped it as if it were annoying.
“I’ll help too.”
“How do you put out the lights on a half subject? Do you know how to summon spirits?”
“Yes!”
At first, the elven warrior, who ignored her when she said that her Lucia was helping her, looked at her half-heartedly when she heard that she knew how to summon her spirits. I was watching…
“[Elaim]”
Even at the scene of an urgent fire, Lucia’s soft voice filled with mana resonated throughout the forest,
After a while, a woman in the form of water appeared in front of her Lucia, wearing a gorgeous dress with her long hair, looking at her and smiling at her.
[Long time no see? Lucia.]
“How are you?”
[Do you always call me only in case of emergency?]
“I’m sorry.”
[Last time they took in monsters, but today is fire?]
Elaim saw the flames rising around him and spoke her words to Lucia with her disappointment.
Lucia put her hands together towards her and expressed her regret.
“This… This is…”
The elf warrior who was watching the conversation between Lucia and Elaim was at a loss for words,
I was so flustered that even my concentration was disturbed, and I didn’t even know that the summoned Undine had disappeared.
The only one among the spirits that can communicate…
He heard the conversation between Lucia and Elaim and knew that the spirit she summoned was not an ordinary spirit.
Even the undines summoned around it were agitated by its existence and could not be controlled.
So…
Many elves who put out the fire, including the elven warrior, watched the scene,
All of them were stunned at the sight of the King of Spirits for the first time in their lives.
[Then I guess I can turn off the light?]
“Yes. Elaim. Turn off the lights and help our wagon pass that way.”
[Yes. Okay.]
After answering Lucia, Elaim floated her body into the sky and opened her hands to begin communing with her nature..
Kurrr Bang!
[Heavy Rain]
The sunlight that had been pouring down through the trees surrounding the forest just a few seconds ago went somewhere, and thunderstorms accompanied dark clouds that filled the sky, followed by torrential rain.
Shuaaagh!
The flames began to die down in the fist-sized rain pouring down from the sky,
Fire was still burning in places where the rain couldn’t reach due to the thick leaves.
“Elim. Over there…”
[Yes. I know.]
Lucia pointed with her hand to the place where the flames remained, wondering if Elaim hadn’t seen them.
As if Elaim was already aware of the place, she stretched out her hand in the direction of the flames to use her next magic.
[Waterproof]
Four magic circles appeared next to Elim and were shooting streams of water, concentrating on burning trees or places where rainwater did not reach due to thick leaves.
If the amount of water or the water pressure was strong, it would break quite a few tree branches.
In an instant, the flames that did not know how to be extinguished even if dozens of elves who summoned Undine clung to them all died down.
Embers remaining on small fires or dry leaves were being naturally extinguished by the rain.
In the dense forest, only bare tree branches that were scorched black were left behind, and only white steam was rising from the burned-out trees meeting raindrops.
“Thank you. Elaim.”
[Thank you, please call me next time you go out to eat something delicious or watch something interesting. The spirit realm is so boring.]
“Yes. Sorry.”
Elim smiled while stroking her hair, as if the answering Lucia was cute…
Woong, woong, woong.
As Lucia heard the buzz here and there, she looked around and saw that the elves who had put out the lights were gathering one by one to see the spirit king.
“Is that… The spirit king…?”
“The spirit king that even the queen can’t summon?”
“Why is that half-elf…”
Everyone was in great shock at the fact that Lucia, a half-elf who felt inferior to them, had summoned the Spirit King.
At that time, the elven warrior who told her to go back, saying that she was in her way, approached and carefully asked Lucia.
“Ji.. Really… Are you Elaim, the water spirit king?”
“Yes.”
He had been dealing with a blunt tone and an annoyed face until just a moment ago, but he looked at Lucia and Elaim in turn, and he couldn’t believe it even when he saw it with her eyes,
He rubbed his eyes with his hand and looked at him again.
Since the elves have a stronger affinity for spirits than any other race, I couldn’t believe the current situation even more.
In general, when it comes to the spirit king,
It is known that only dragons, the strongest race in the human world, or elven queens who have accomplished great achievements in legends can summon them.
But…
Among the elves, not the royal or noble High Elves,
Not an ordinary elf, though.
The summoning of the Spirit King by a half-elf, a mixture of human and elf blood, foreshadowed that a great disaster was coming to the elves in the near future.