Chapter 207 – Elven Ruins
If you ask who the owner of the continent is now, everyone will say that he is a human.
Conversely, if you ask someone who knows 500 years ago who the owner of the continent was 500 years ago, he will answer.
I thought it was an elf.
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Nephew..? Did I hear it wrong?
I looked at Ariel and at the elf who spat out the word nephew. A beautiful elf with long green hair. Looking at the armor, it must have been a high status.
Ariel’s elven nephew?
So, is this also the blood of a person of high rank?
I turned her head to stare at Ariel. She was looking at the elf with a stupid expression.
‘It can’t be.’
Think of his usual behavior.
Wherever you look, is that of a high-ranking person? If you’re an uneducated, lowly person, you won’t know.
“Hey, Ariel. That elf says you are his nephew, is he your uncle?”
“What? Did you call me your nephew?”
Ariel widened her eyes.
Why are you surprised
But it wasn’t just Ariel who was surprised. The other party members were also looking at me with surprised eyes.
Oh, is this the pattern?
That guy doesn’t speak in human language, so a pattern that only I can understand?
It seems like a long time ago.
“Uh. Look at you and say nephew Have you ever had an uncle like that?”
“I don’t know because I don’t remember. I’m a nephew… That’s my uncle… Hee hee…”
Ariel stared at her elf through her twitchy eyes and began to smile unpleasantly.
Come to think of it, he was also an orphan with no family.
‘Coming to think of it, all of us are orphans.’
Me, Cerris, Kara, Maria, and Ariel.
Wow, this is a bit harsh.
While she was thinking such useless thoughts, the elf, who had been quietly staring at Ariel, opened her mouth again.
“I’ve been waiting for today’s meeting for a long time, but now that human words come out of your mouth, I’m a little depressed. Even more so when you bring other people along.”
“Uh? I can understand this time too!”
“Of course. It is our language.”
“I know?!”
“Why are you screaming?”
Ariel and Seris are bickering.
The elf looked at it with a complicated expression.
“Are the humans there by any chance your descendants?”
“Yes? Oh no, that’s…”
“No. He is my slave.”
I answered on behalf of Ariel, who was fidgeting in her ears.
“Hey!!! What if I tell that to someone who might be my uncle!!!”
Ariel yelled and patted me on the shoulder. Her slave contract didn’t force her. She doesn’t seem to be in pain even if she puts her strength into it.
I ignored Ariel and asked the elf.
No, I was going to ask.
If only the elf wasn’t making an angry expression.
“What did you just say… Slave? Did you dare say that you enslaved Elendor’s lineage?!”
Suddenly, a strong wind began to blow from him. The wind, so strong that it was difficult to control his body, seemed to indicate how angry he was.
“Uh? Huh?!”
Ariel’s body, desperately holding out against the wind, floated upward.
She thought it was her spirit’s doing, but when she saw the spirits’ bewildered looks, she realized that wasn’t the case.
“Lord, master! Please hold me!”
Before I could reach out and catch her, Ariel flew away quickly. As she got closer to the elf, Uncle, her speed slowed down, and she stopped right next to the elf.
Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to mean any harm.
I shouted at him.
“Hey, what are you doing here?!”
“Shut up. Lower bloodline. It wasn’t enough that she dared to call the child who inherited the holy blood of Ellendor a slave, and now she’s even stiffening her neck, looking straight at me, the child’s elder brother. That sin deserves to die.”
The elf rose from his chair. She drew her sword and pointed it at the ceiling.
“Guardians of blood who swore by the name of Elendor. I, in the name of Ariandne, command that the time has come to keep the oath.”
Elf’s cry.
The armor wearing helmets that were lined up against the walls of the corridor began to stand up one by one.
Wasn’t it dead like the guys outside?
More than that, why is that elf so belligerent?
No matter how much his nephew was enslaved, wouldn’t he be able to hear about the back and forth?
“What are you blankly doing? Pull out your knife.”
Belita gave me a slap in the back and stepped forward. A feeling of warmth is felt in the back.
“Damn, can’t you just hit me a little bit?”
“It’s because it seems like he won’t come to his senses if he hits him lightly. Look at it because it hits hard, it breaks like this.”
“I can’t deny it.”
I shrugged and looked around at the other party. Seris, Kara, and Patrick were already ready for battle.
Orca was looking at the elf with an expression lost in thought.
I didn’t know why, and I was uncomfortable, so I called out for nothing.
“What are you staring at?”
“Huh? Ah, just a thought, but that elf seems to have lived quite a long time, right? Seeing as they mention the old elven royal family, like Ellendor, it seems like they were in a high class.”
“So?”
When I asked back, Orca looked at me with a puzzled expression.
“Don’t you know? None of the elves on the market today are over 300 years old. There is no one who mentions the already ruined royal family there. In short, that guy is a storehouse of knowledge from 500 years ago. All I have to do is capture it alive and my name will be in the academic world…”
Having said that, Orca raised the corner of her mouth.
Seeing that, I laughed too.
Thank god.
Orca as usual.
“You? I don’t think you have time to flirt with other girls anymore.”
Seris, who said the word strangely different woman with force, pointed at the guardians who started approaching her with a gesture of her chin.
“It seems so.”
I drew the dagger with both hands.
“Execute the guilty.”
At the words of the elf, the Guardians started running.
We immediately formed battle formations.
Belita, Patrick, and Seris are in the vanguard.
Lieutenant Kara and I.
Orca was the rearguard.
‘The opponents are 12 knights called guardians. It’s the number that doubles our number.’
Both qualitatively and quantitatively, our side is at a much disadvantage. Still, we have what they don’t have.
“Roe Chang!”
It was the presence of a wizard.
Six lightning spears bloomed around Orca and rushed towards the Guardians.
However, the guardians were not stupid enough to greet the lightning spears flying openly. They effortlessly dodged the lightning spears that flew in a straight line.
“Can’t you break it halfway through?”
“If you use a lot of mana. It’s a luxury for a fight that might be a long one.”
“Well. Whether it will be a long game…”
I turned my gaze away from the orca and returned to staring at the Guardians. The vanguards collided with the Guardians who had just run the fastest.
Belita and Seris let the guardian’s attack flow or deflect it. As the other guardians are also running, the longer you fight with one, the higher the risk.
It was a smart choice.
Patrick, on the other hand, was holding his shield against the Guardian’s sword.
He had to push it out, but he couldn’t push it out.
‘As expected, Uncle Patrick’s side is the worst.’
I hid my presence and slowly moved forward. As it was, he hid behind Patrick’s back and said softly.
“Mister, if you say one, two, three, the road opens to the side.”
“..!”
Patrick was a veteran adventurer. He looked surprised at my sudden appearance behind him, but he didn’t show up and continued to standoff with the Guardian.
I counted to myself.
One, two, three.
Patrick, who was blocking the sword with his shield, twisted his body sideways. The guardian’s body leaned forward for a moment.
But are articles articles?
The Guardians quickly regained their balance. However, that short break was enough for me.
Hooked The dagger thrust forward penetrated the gap between the helmet and the armor. The Guardian’s body completely tilted and collapsed. No blood flowed out.
Despite the fact that I could feel the sensation of cutting through my flesh and stabbing my bones.
‘What is this again?’
Undead? No. It tasted too good to be an undead. He died without breaking his brain.
‘No, that’s not what’s important right now.’
You can think about it slowly later.
The important thing now is that these guys are weaker than I thought.
I thought he was a strong knight after seeing the full plate armor covering his entire body and the name Guardian, but he wasn’t.
Rather, it is not even the level of an ordinary article.
‘If this is the case, there should be a good chance.’
That’s what I thought when I saw the Guardian who had just been decapitated by Seris’ sword.
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“It’s been too long.”
The guardian of the royal family of Elendor.
The elite knights who swore blood to protect the lineage of the royal family at the cost of their lives.
The brave knights who fought against dragons with their own body were currently being pushed by humans whom they had never heard of.
It was no longer a royal guardian.
It’s just a shell with no kernel left.
Ariandne looked at the fallen guardians with bitter eyes.
“Um… Uncle…?”
Ari Andne erased his bitter expression at the voice of his beloved nephew beside him. He smiled again and turned to Ariel.
Ariel looked excited, but had a little uneasiness on her face.
“Am I really your uncle’s nephew…? Maybe you misunderstood…”
“I’m sorry. I forgot to explain to you, lost in old feelings for a while. You are my nephew Even if it’s the first time I’ve seen you, you look exactly like my sister’s face, so there’s no way I could misunderstand you.”
“You know about my mother?!”
Ariel widened her eyes. There is anticipation in her eyes.
Having spent her whole life without her memory of her parents, she has to be. It was a fact that not only Yuseong but also Seris and Kara knew that she had a sad expression whenever she saw her harmonious family.
Seeing Ariel like that, Ari Andne patted her head with a bitter smile.
“Of course I know. Your mother was the most beautiful elf on the continent. He was a wise monarch who protected the World Tree and ruled over the continent.”
“Yes..?”
Ariel’s mind wandered over her secret of her unimaginable birth. When she saw Ari Andne, she expected at best that she would be a person of high status…She was a monarch? Doesn’t that sound like a king!
When she realized that her blood was that of a high-ranking person, she was delighted Ariel, but when she heard that she was a monarch, she hardened.
I don’t have the confidence to rule other elves well!
She asked cautiously with a different attitude than before.
“That… Uncle, do you know where my mother is…?”
“…I’m sorry, but I can’t answer that question. I don’t know where my sister is since we were separated 500 years ago during the Great War.”
Ariel’s ears drooped.
I thought I might be able to meet her mother…
The excited feeling subsides.
Ariel Andne gave her hand a little strength as it stroked Ariel’s hair.
“Don’t worry. Even if you are far away, you can feel that your mother is alive.”
“Is that really?!”
“Then. Isn’t it a family that swore an oath of blood? I can tell that much. If it’s my sister, she must be hiding somewhere and gathering strength. If you look for it, you will be able to meet it.”
“I see…”
“Tell me the outside story. I’ve been here for 500 years, so I don’t know anything about the outside world.”
“Ah yes. I don’t know much, but…”
Ariel told Ariel Andne about the experiences he had been through. Exaggerating the pleasant experiences as much as possible so that her uncle would not worry.
But as she continued her story, Ari Andne’s expression worsened.
When Ariel’s story ended, she had an angry expression on her face.
“In the end… Did the immature god go the way he wanted…?”
“Uncle..?”
“Listen to Ariel.”
“Yes? Yes!”
In a serious atmosphere different from before, Ariel sat upright in the air.
“I spoke hopefully earlier, but based on your story, there is a high probability that your mother is currently in a bad situation.”
“That…”
“And in that case, you, the direct descendant, must take her place.”
“…Yes?”
Ariel couldn’t keep up with the rapid flow of the story. Even though she sounded embarrassed, her uncle didn’t wait.
“Take it. This is proof that I acknowledged you.”
Her bluish orb flowed from Ari Andne’s palm, and she turned to Ariel.
“Uh? Uh?”
“Do not be afraid, accept it.”
At her uncle’s words, Ariel closed her eyes and let her blue orb enter her body.
Then a strange phenomenon happened.
It’s a strange feeling.
It felt as if her connection to herself and her spirits had grown stronger. It seems that the power of her spirits has become slightly stronger.
“Uncle, is this…?”
“It is a mark of blood kinship. Please tell me what you need to do from now on. First of all, find your mother who is hiding somewhere. If your mother is all right, help her with her work. If not, take the token and go to the priest. If she obtains all three marks, she will be recognized by the World Tree and will be able to reign as the Queen of the Elves.”
“Yes yes?!?!”
“Ariel. Please don’t The fate of the clan depends on you.”
Ariandne’s earnest voice.
Still not sure what it was, Ariel nodded her head.
“Yes. All right. I will work hard. I’ll find my mother and the fate of my clan… I’ll try my best. Will your uncle help you too?”
Ariel laughed at the words Ariandne made a vague expression and caressed her face.
“That… I’m sorry, that’s impossible.”
“Yes? Why?!”
“It has been too long.”
500 years.
It was a burdensome time even for elves who lived a long time of a thousand years.
Ariandne was even the elder of the royal family 500 years ago. Her lifespan, which had already expired, was only sustained by the magic she created 500 years ago.
Even then, the barrier was broken and her magical power gradually faded.
She said that the time allowed him… Is running out.
“Oh, no. Without my uncle, I wouldn’t be able to do anything. I’m stupid and stupid and I’m going to ruin everything.”
Thinking that she might be parted again with her first bloodline, Ariel clung to him like her own child.
Ari Andne looked at her troubled nephew with her loving eyes, stroked her hair, and then slowly removed her arm.
“You are my sister, the daughter of Elena, the most beautiful and wisest lord. If you put your mind to it, there’s nothing in the world you can’t do. So don’t worry too much.”
The distance between Ariel and Ariandne grew little by little. Ari Andne, who was walking towards her battlefield, only slightly turned her head and smiled at her, she said.
“There are many things I want to share, but I’m sorry I couldn’t share them all because of my circumstances. I love you. He is my sweet nephew.”
After that, Ariandne didn’t look back.
Even though I heard Ariel’s crying voice.
He walked slowly towards what would be his last fight.
