chapter 136
Episode 136. sign it
The Queen and the Royal Guard surrounded the disarmed Aaron as if they were surrounded and headed for the center of Elrond.
‘It’s different from what I saw on the screen.’
Aaron looked around Elrond in admiration.
The city center of Elrond was the World Tree itself.
Various buildings were built on rock-hard roots, and young elves and fairies were playing between them.
Branches and leaves radiated a clear green light and covered the entire downtown area, reminiscent of a giant umbrella.
[-Do not hesitate and follow me quickly. You didn’t come here to play.]
When Aaron slowed down to look around the city, a guardsman walking beside him scolded him.
Aaron glanced at him and stopped.
[-… … Didn’t you hear me?]
“Hey, this is the spirits’ paradise. Aren’t higher-level spirits also roaming around?”
Aaron let the words of the guardsman, whose tone gradually rise, through one ear and looked around frantically.
[-hey!]
A guardsman, alarmed by Aaron’s apparently dismissive attitude, placed a hand on his shoulder.
Woodeuk-
In the next moment, his arm snapped sharply and an unpleasant sound came out.
The Royal Guard knelt in front of Aaron with his mouth wide open in pain.
I never wanted to do that, but if I didn’t get down on my knees, I would break my arm.
“Didn’t I tell you not to use elvish?”
Aaron shook his head and looked down at him.
A high elf’s pride is like a fine spring;
Therefore, it was good to imprint one’s position from time to time in order to understand the language.
“Do it in moderation.”
The queen frowned at the sight of her arm breaking at any moment.
Only then did Aaron let go of the guardsman’s arm and stride away.
“I want the benefactor who will soon save Elrond to be treated like this.”
“It’s not too late to say that after you’ve asked for it.”
“Yeah~ yeah~”
Aaron responded to the queen’s words without hesitation and scratched the planting of the guards without hesitation.
‘Let’s see how long I can be so confident.’
‘Saving the world tree with your bare body? Goblins passing by must be laughing.’
‘Just try to fail. I’ll cut you first.’
The captain of the guard, the guardsmen, and even the spiritists who followed all stared at him with stinging eyes.
Aaron didn’t know, but everywhere in Elrond secretly prepared for battle.
If Aaron failed to purify the World Tree, he was to be executed immediately and use magic weapons to subdue the Holy Legion.
The expeditionary force that had left for the Shadow Forest had almost arrived, so if the timing was right, we could bury them in the forest.
“Queen. You’re not preparing a surprise attack without my knowledge, are you?”
In the midst of growing hostility towards Aaron, he suddenly turned his head away from the lead.
“Yeah, can that be?”
The queen shook her head, stuttering involuntarily.
Although she was famous for not having emotional ups and downs, she couldn’t keep her composure in front of this young fox who seemed to be able to see through her heart.
‘How did know?’
‘Could it be that he pretends not to know even if he knows?’
The guards who followed were also surprised.
As soon as you thought that in your mind, you asked as if you had been waiting. Isn’t it too strange to be a coincidence?
“What’s wrong with everyone’s expression? With a joke.”
Aaron smiled incomprehensibly when he saw the hardened guards, and soon started walking again.
* * *
Among the High Elves, there are those who hold a special position called Forest Priests or Druids, and they are in charge of the heavy task of managing the world tree and the water of life, which are the foundation of the city, so that they do not wither.
[-welcome. Her Majesty the Queen.]
As we approached the door to the heart of the World Tree, a young druid greeted us.
‘They must be easy to tell apart.’
Aaron looked at him and murmured to himself.
Druids are assimilated with nature in a different sense from elementals, and each has the characteristics of an animal or plant.
The man was not taken aback when he saw Aaron, as if he had already been informed of the situation outside.
“They don’t speak the common language. Please don’t behave like you did before.”
The queen looked at Aaron with wary eyes.
Druids do not learn the languages of other races because they have the sacred task of guarding the essence of the Elves.
Aaron would not know this, so it was better to tell him in advance to prevent a disaster.
“It is.”
Aaron nodded roughly and entered the door opened by the druid.
After passing through the winding passage pierced by the root of the world tree, called the Sacred Crown, a huge pupil surrounded by green light appeared.
In the middle of the pupil was a lake where various spirits and fairies roamed, and this lake was an indicator of the vitality of the World Tree.
‘It became a pond instead of a lake.’
This is the sap that the World Tree produces by absorbing the energy of the ground. Originally, it should remain full, but it was almost empty because it consumed too much energy.
widely-
Aaron stepped onto the bottom of the lake as the water level dropped.
Then, he squatted down in front of the remaining sap in the center and inhaled it to his mouth.
Hururuloop!
“Big. Water tastes good.”
[You have consumed the sap of the World Tree. All biological resources are recovered by 100%.]
[-What are you doing!]
[-Stop it right now!]
Seeing Aaron’s actions, the druids ran to him with white faces and cut him off.
The sap of the World Tree has already lost its ability to restore itself.
It’s a situation where I have to save even a drop, but I’m going to drink it like drinking water. It must have been crazy.
[-Leave it alone.]
The queen said to the druids who grabbed and clung to Aaron.
Come to think of it, the guards standing behind the queen just watched Aaron’s sheep and didn’t move from their seats.
It wasn’t because he trusted Aaron, but because he wanted to see what he was doing.
He would never be able to escape once he had come this far, so there was plenty of time to judge him later.
The druids reluctantly released Aaron and withdrew to the queen’s side.
“The priests are strong.”
Aaron, who had been hit on the butt by five or six druids, smiled and adjusted his dressing.
“What are you going to do?”
“I know when I see it.”
He roughly answered the queen’s question and then stretched out his hand towards the center of the lake.
“Summons. the water of life.”
[Summons a young water of life to the target location.]
* * *
[-her… … .]
[-oh my god… … .]
[-How… How could… … .]
After a while. Heart of the World Tree.
Everyone who looked at the lake of life let out a sigh with a dumb face.
Something huge sprang up in the Lake of Life, which had lost its self-cleaning ability and had shrunk to the level of a pond.
[-What am I looking at right now?]
[-Queen. That… … .]
[-This is a hallucination. The hallucination is clear.]
The people who were barely able to speak spoke one word at a time pointing their fingers at the lake.
Standing tall in the center of the lake was none other than the water of life.
Someone said it was an illusion, but everyone in the room knew that it wasn’t.
It was because he could see the sap of the lake, which had been gradually shrinking right after the water of life sprang up, gradually filling up.
oops- oops-
Aaron didn’t care if they were surprised or not, he squatted in front of the lake and washed his face with the sap of the World Tree.
Every time the cold sap touched my skin, it felt good to feel the clear feeling spreading through my skin.
[-The power of the World Tree is returning!]
[- This is a miracle! The author, no, he must be the messenger sent down by the World Tree to save Elrond!]
[-I told you! The World Tree didn’t abandon the high elves!]
The druids were busy marveling at Aaron washing his face with a sap that was no different from holy water.
The creation of the water of life is a power unique to the world tree that even the Sephiroth, the highest in rank among all gods, cannot imitate.
That’s to the point of spitting out a small seed every hundreds of years, but Aaron summoned the fully grown tree of life into the heart of the World Tree.
This was a miracle that even Mia, a friend of World Tree, who was active during the Great War in the past, could not accomplish.
“Ugh, cool.”
After washing his face as rough as washing his face in a rural stream, Aaron roughly wiped his face with his sleeve and approached the group of high elves.
[-Ahh… You are the incarnation of the World Tree.]
[-Please forgive my rudeness.]
As Aaron approached, all the druids trembled, fell to their knees, and bowed their heads.
Instinctive actions that come from overwhelming emotion and respect.
A good idea flashed through Aaron’s mind.
[-Holy priests of the forest. The World Tree appreciates your sacrifice. However, the world tree is not the property of the high elves. From now on, I hope you will serve for peace on the continent, not as a queen.]
He spoke with the most benevolent face and raised them up with his own hands.
[-The World Tree… Us?]
[-Yeah, whether or not!]
[-I will serve even harder!]
The Druids nodded their heads eagerly with a thrilled look on their faces.
There was no sign of hesitation even after hearing the explicit words not to follow the queen.
The World Tree is like a high elf god.
Even the queen who received the blessing of the World Tree was insignificant compared to the incarnation that summoned the water of life.
“… … .”
When Tinubiel saw the druids, who were only supposed to be loyal to him, prostrate themselves in front of Aaron, he made a complicated expression.
She absolutely hated to admit that Aaron was the embodiment of the World Tree, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t find anything to refute.
Everyone, including her, witnessed the creation of the water of life in his hands.
[-Queen.]
Aaron, who raised the druids, finally looked at the queen.
He took out the Declaration of Elrond that he had returned earlier and held it out in front of her.
[-Please sign.]
* * *
“Would it be okay?”
Outskirts of Elrond. Near the World Tree’s Veil.
Nesty looked at the world tree and muttered anxiously.
It’s been several hours since Aaron went into the city center, but there is still no news.
If I had given him a tip and left, I would have had a sense of how to deal with it, but I was getting more and more impatient as he just left the word to wait.
“It will be fine. They know very well what will happen if they attack the lord.”
Rhaast said while fiddling with Cosmos.
The Holy Legion and Elrond’s defenders were resting in a confrontational situation.
Even during a break, the atmosphere between the two armies was quite different.
Most of the Holy Legion was unarmed and resting, but the defenders of Elrond were watching the Holy Legion with a tense face.
It is to know that if Aaron is killed or injured, a battle will begin immediately.
Tak Tak Tak-
As the tension continued, the sound of urgent footsteps came from Elrond.
A young druid with small antlers on his head was running this way.
[-This is an order for both the Elrond defenders and the holy corps to enter the city center!]
Standing between the Holy Legion and the defenders of Elrond, he cried out loudly.
“What is that saying now?”
Rhaast looked at Raven with a nervous face.
Druids did not speak the common language, so only the Dark Elves could understand what the Holy Army was saying.
[-Ghosts, deliver the author’s words to each unit.]
Raven gave orders to the ghosts with a clear expression of annoyance.
The ghosts soon carried the Druid’s words to the troops that each guided them.
[-Is this an order from Her Majesty the Queen?]
Elrond’s captain asked with a stiff face.
The Druid shook his head resolutely.
[-The incarnation of the World Tree ordered it.]
[-Incarnation of the World Tree?]
[-Aaron-nim.]
[-… … what?]
[-what?]
The captain of the defense and Raven asked at the same time.
“Why? Did something happen to your lord?”
“Please translate quickly. Mr. Raven.”
As the atmosphere went strangely, Raast and Nesti impatiently brushed Raven.
Raven blinked her eyes a couple of times and muttered with a dumbfounded face.
“That Aaron, he said he became the embodiment of the World Tree.”
Only I am immune to magic
Author : Sileng
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