Chapter 340 – Punishment
Tap!
“Now, Minister. “This is the tea you asked for.”
A secretary carefully putting down tea on the desk.
Denis, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United States of Elence, who was in the middle of working on documents, paused for a moment and glanced at the tea.
The rich scent of flowers seeps deep into my nostrils.
The scent was so strong that I felt like I could get drunk just by smelling it.
It was like black tea brewed from tea leaves carefully cultivated by elves, a natural race.
It just smells like this, but what does it taste like?
In my heart, I wanted to immediately reach out and savor the taste.
But Dennis couldn’t do that.
It was because of the only speck of jade visible to his eyes.
It may not be visible to human eyes, but it was clearly visible to his elf eyes.
The surface of black tea with your own face reflected on it.
A small strand of hair floating in the middle of it.
There was no need to think about whom the owner of the fur was.
“Nya, nya? Minister, why are you looking at me like that? “Is there something wrong with me?”
“… It’s nothing. “Go back to your seat and finish your work.”
“I understand.”
The secretary returns to her place as if running away.
Instead, she left behind a few strands of her hair, as if she were leaving a trace of her presence there.
As she inhaled, a few strands of the hair seeped into her nostrils along with the fragrant scent of tea.
Dennis showed no reaction.
When she drank black tea, a few hairs along with the bittersweet black tea passed through her esophagus and into her stomach.
Dennis showed no reaction.
No, in fact, the elf’s unique long ears perked up and the corners of his eyes twitched, but at first glance it seemed like nothing was wrong.
Knock! Knock!
When he finished the tea, putting on his best poker face, a translucent bird flew in and knocked on the window of his office.
‘Is this mana, Chairman Nahiru?’
Dennis, who realized who was the owner of the mana contained in the translucent bird, the wind spirit, hurriedly got up from the window and opened it.
Then the wind spirit jumped up and entered the office and handed him a small note that was in his mouth.
“… Chairman Nahiru is calling urgently. “She will go out for a while.”
“I understand.”
Dennis hurriedly left the office with the clothes he had left behind.
He came out and confirmed that there was no one around,
“Shit! Shit! Damn beast! How dare you feed me the animal’s dirty fur!”
Only then did he begin to vomit out the things he had buried inside.
“Tsk! Tsk! Boom! Boom! Shit! Damn it! Damn half-animals, I will definitely get rid of them.”
Dennis spits and blows his nose and vows to eliminate the beast people.
He wasn’t saying this because he couldn’t hold back his anger at the moment, but he truly wanted to do that.
That’s right, because he was one of the passionate supporters of elf-monoism, which states that races other than elves should be thoroughly raised under elf management.
“Ha~. How long on earth am I going to have to keep that half-animal around?”
The reason he had the beastman he hated so much as his secretary was because the representative of the Unitarians wanted it.
The representative did not bother to explain the reason, but all comrades who received his instructions guessed his intention.
It’s obviously to prevent the identities of the comrades from being discovered by other races, including half-beasts.
And the reason why they hide their true identity while keeping such a hated being by their side is probably due to the very insufficient number of elves.
“Shit! “If only the reproductive ability had been better, this country, no, this world would have belonged to the elves a long time ago.”
Even elves, who were the epitome of perfection in appearance, physical ability, and ability, had just one thing they lacked, and that was the ability to reproduce.
Elves’ reproductive ability was the second worst after dragons.
There is almost no will to give birth, and even if there is will, it is not made well.
What’s worse, even though elves have a lifespan of over 300 years, they will only have one baby in their lifetime?
To that extent, the elves’ reproductive ability was at its worst.
It may be unfortunate for the elves, but it was an perfect situation for other races.
If elves’ reproductive ability had reached that of humans, this world would have centered on elves as Dennis said.
It may not seem to make sense, but considering the racial characteristics of elves, which are so superior to other races, it was a very possible story.
Anyway, for that reason, the representative was hiding the identity of the Unitarians.
The moment the identity of the Unitarians is discovered, the Unitarians will all be exterminated, and even other innocent elves will be witch-hunted.
Since the elves are already so numerous, if such a thing were to happen, the race itself could become extinct.
Knowing that, Dennis and his comrades were swearing, but were hiding their true identity under the leader’s instructions.
Phew~
Dennis sighed deeply again in frustration and looked down at the note sent by Chairman Nahiru with mixed feelings.
‘If only she had helped her, at least this country would have belonged to the elves.’
Nahiru.
Among the existing high elves, he is the bloodiest high elf and a powerful person who has already held the position of chairman of the Elance Alliance for several consecutive terms.
Even if she had had the will, the Elance Alliance would have fallen into the hands of the elves long ago.
But she didn’t have that will.
She valued the harmony of all her races, and other races called her the greatest leader they had ever had, against her sincere will.
There was a time when one of her comrades could not overcome her frustration and went to persuade her in person.
And along the way, the comrade went missing.
It was obvious what kind of answer Chairman Nahiru gave to his comrade, and the Unitarians, including the representative, scrapped the proposal to bring Chairman Nahiru to the same side.
It was frustrating.
She was definitely an elf who deserved respect. But Dennis could never understand her will.
‘As expected, there is only one answer.’
Many elves believed that the reason why the number of elves did not increase beyond a certain level was because of the vocation entrusted to elves.
Guardian of the World Tree.
The elves thought that only protecting the world tree was their mission, and that was why the number of elves did not increase more than necessary.
At first, it was just an assumption, but when the elves working as adventurers asked Bright God about the rewards they received from conquering the labyrinth, the assumption turned out to be true to some extent.
From then on, Unitarians tried to somehow increase the number of world trees.
If that assumption is true, as the number of World Trees increases, the number of elves to protect it will naturally increase.
However, no matter how many means and methods were used, the number of world trees did not increase.
This was because the World Tree was a divine tree that did not tolerate world trees other than itself.
The representative spoke to the Unitarians who were in despair.
Unlike our world tree, the martial arts world tree tolerates other world trees. So, let’s get the world tree from the martial arts world and crossbreed it with our world tree.
In that way, most of the comrades became adventurers to obtain the World Tree of Wulin.
And Dennis and other comrades engaged in diplomacy-related work began to search for ‘it’.
The nectarine seeds that the warriors of the previous generation obtained by completely conquering the labyrinth-Murim.
‘According to information, the last person to possess the seed was a former saint. However, it is said that at the moment of her death, her seeds could not be found anywhere near her. So, it means that someone took it, but my guess is that that person was the paladin who was guarding the saint at the time.’
Coincidentally, that paladin happened to be in the Elance Alliance.
After the meeting with Chairman Nahiru, Dennis made a plan to go see him.
But the plan,
“Swear once. “I’m not a piece of shit like an elf-onlyist.”
He couldn’t achieve it.
In addition to Chairman Nahiru, there was one more person in the interview room written on the note, and that person was the one who was causing an uproar in the Elance Alliance differently than the warrior and the saint.
When Dennis first heard the rumor about him, he scoffed and said it was ridiculous.
There is no way a dragon, who is more honorable than an elf, would have a child with something as insignificant as a human.
But when I actually met him, I had no choice but to admit it.
That rumor is true. Otherwise, its domineering and overwhelming presence could not be explained.
Dennis swore, oppressed by his presence.
He couldn’t remember exactly what he had sworn to say. He only vaguely remembered that he had made a false oath that did not contain any sincerity.
Dennis, who was so distraught, arrived at his house with the help of his hated prisoner secretary, and it was not until a few hours later, in the middle of the night, that he came to his senses…
‘Dangerous. It’s dangerous, it’s dangerous!’
I quickly grabbed something from the library and started heading somewhere.
Even if you jump like that, you don’t even know that you’re in the palm of the dragon’s hand.
