Chapter 231 – 231. When to Force Yourself (2)
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Emotions, not reason
Arbitrary deterrence, not sober judgment,
The cry to act according to the heart, forgetting all justice, duty, and responsibility, worked as a result of putting a wedge in Ardena’s heart full of sorrow.
Do what you want.
Ardena opened her eyes wide as if realizing something about her at Allen’s exasperated cry.
“Dare to me, irresponsible… And disorder, are you asking for, Allen Roxfield. Do you mean that you should avert your eyes from justice and duty and act unreasonably against Master?”
At Ardena’s answer, Allen scratched the back of her head and distorted her face in annoyance.
“What was that about! If you’ve lived your whole life listening to the docile words like a nerd, wouldn’t it be worth trying to force yourself?”
It was an absurd word.
Ardena put on a dumbfounded expression for a moment at Allen’s reckless reply, which had no reason or logic at all.
But why
I wanted to listen to her cries.
She wanted to nod her head at her words to fight head-on against her master, who had been semi-forced to bestow a harsh fate on her.
“However, Master has made an agonizing decision so that all of our compatriots in Liberia can enjoy peace and prosperity…. I dare not destroy with my own hands the justice of Master, who sacrificed his own life to save everyone….”
“You’re really stingy! So? Then, as the proud master intended, are you going to drive a knife through his chest?”
No, it can’t be.
No matter what happens, never
It was a messy persuasion that couldn’t be found in her head, but Ardena nodded her head as if she realized something through her conversation with Allen.
And she got up on both legs.
“Your words are nonsense. It’s nothing more than a child’s nonsense. Did you not receive basic home education as well as basic education at an educational institution, Allen Roxfield?”
However,
She opened her chest, which was frustrated by her insistence.
What should I do,
He seemed to know what he wanted to do.
Still unable to find the right direction as if trapped in a thick fog… She came to realize that she had to move her steps on her own while she was trapped in the fog.
“It’s a pretty refreshing face for chewing on me like that, long ears.”
Said Allen sarcastically, crossing her arms.
To her words, Ardena replied with a nod of her head.
“I think I have found the answer to some extent.”
A bright glow began to form in the emerald eyes of the high elf warrior chief, who had lost the light and was immersed in the gloomy darkness.
After holding the blue jeweled holy sword stuck in the floor,
She tidied up her disheveled clothes as she returned to the scabbard.
“I have a destination. Accompany you, mad dog.”
“Huh! Suddenly, I want to pamper you like a master.”
At Ardena’s request to accompany her, Allen snorted at her but did not refuse.
Allen granted her request.
She decided to help the high elf, who had gone from being an ugly person to being an acceptable one.
“This body will help you in particular, so from now on, stay away from my brother. No, that seems too harsh, so I’ll accept it on the condition that you give up your loyalty. I’ll prepare a kennel for the newlyweds who share my love with my brother, so live there.”
Give up your seat
You look good in the dog house in the yard.
Ardena replied to Allen’s barbed remark.
“You just said it. If they force you to be unfair, shout confidently, ‘Don’t force me like a dick!'”
“This year?”
Ardena responded by immediately applying what she had learned, and Allen revealed it.
It’s kind of back to normal now.
Seeing Ardena’s impudent appearance, Allen burst into laughter.
“Sister!”
Cried the blonde high elf girl.
She landed where Ardena was, throwing her body from a predicament that looked as if she would fall at any moment.
The place where the shockwave that shook Valencia Castle for an instant started. Alone, who had returned after evacuating the maids around her to a safe place, first looked after the safety of her sister, who was in a precarious state.
“Are you okay? Are there any injuries? Your clothes are a mess! Let’s change our clothes first!”
Ardena raised her hand at the sight of Alone watching her own well-being with her worried eyes.
Stroked her sister’s hair.
She also apologized to her sister for causing so much trouble.
“I’m sorry, Alone. Because of my ugly appearance, I have caused you to worry.”
“Uh, sister?”
“Don’t apologize again later. I have somewhere to go now.”
Ardena’s empty eyes began to burn with her will.
Seeing that, Alone nodded her head.
With her tears in her eyes, she smiled brightly at her sister as she nodded.
“Yes, go!”
* * *
The world tree has begun to bloom.
A sacred tree that does not bloom,
Dark green buds filled with vitality bloomed from the branches.
Everything was as El Cid said.
Even though it was not the time for the full moon to rise, the full moon rose, and even though it was a tree that did not bloom, flower buds formed.
It was like watching Cassandra’s prophecy. Just as Leticia, who said that it was not the time for the full moon to rise, and Elaine, who said that the world tree did not bloom, all denied their words, El Cid’s words eventually came true.
“You know pretty well. Is it because you tried it once in the past?”
At Yushin’s sarcastic question, El nodded her head while smiling bitterly at her.
Readily acknowledged.
It was tried 300 years ago.
She confessed that she had ruined it with her own hands.
“… Why did you stop then?”
L answered Yushin’s question.
“Because Ardena tried to sacrifice herself. She doesn’t receive all the powers and powers from me… She, she said she would sacrifice her own body for me.”
Make my body a new vessel.
Ardena said so.
He asked me to take over his body without sacrificing his life in order to pass on all his powers and abilities.
On the contrary, the person who decided to sacrifice put the sacrifice in his mouth. Ardena, who could not let go of her beloved Master and the peace of her compatriots, chose her third option, which in the end she herself accepted her sacrifice.
“The kid told me. I can’t give up on Master and all of my compatriots. So I’m willing to sacrifice.”
Elle bit her lip.
She let out her sorrow with her face contorted as if she were about to cry.
“Just as I was willing to sacrifice for him, he was also willing to sacrifice for me… ! If she forced her ritual… , Ardena must have really sacrificed her body!”
Elle had no choice but to interrupt her ritual.
Because she couldn’t sacrifice the disciple she loved.
“Is someone who knows that well entrusting Ardena with a harsh fate again?”
Perhaps what Elle really wanted was a ‘death with dignity’.
Noble sacrifice,
An honorable death.
Last for all.
As she witnessed the deaths of countless compatriots, she felt guilty for not being able to protect them. So, through her death, sacrificing her own life for everyone, she tried to escape her old guilt in the same way as her sister’s death.
“World Tree…. In fact, this tree does not deserve to be called the world tree or the pillar of life.”
El moved her steps.
Her steps were toward the World Tree.
Feeling threatened by her sudden action, Yoo-shin moved her legs and chased after her.
“How can a tree that realizes blessings only through the sacrifice of others be called a world tree, a pillar of life? This is just an altar. An altar of offering that only accomplishes miracles by offering sacrifices. It was planted on this land for that purpose in the first place.”
She closed and opened her eyes gently, recalling her past.
My older sister and wife of the Sword Saint.
A prophet who saved elves from oppression by humans.
And a seeker who sacrificed his life to purify the Liberia Peninsula, which was polluted by the Sisan Blood Sea.
Her older sister was what the elves called the ‘first god manager’.
“But I heard that the first priest enjoyed a heavenly life. Ardena also lived at the same time as the first priest….”
“There were two first priests.”
“Yes?”
At El’s unexpected reply, Yushin looked at her with a surprised look on her face.
Lorelei’s elf who was El’s older sister and Reinhilder’s wife. And another elf. El revealed that she had a total of two elves serving as the god’s director.
“My older sister, who was the savior of the elves and the first priest, and another one….”
As he continued his explanation, El’s body began to stagger.
She trembled precariously.
It was sudden, like an anemic patient passing out without any sign.
Yushin, who listened to her explanation, reached out her arms and picked her up as the elf woman with her pale purple hair fell down in front of her.
“What the hell is going on!”
Surprised Yushin shouted.
El’s weight was too light.
It’s not that I’m skinny… , She was of an abnormal weight, as if holding a person with only bones and skin left scrawny.
And her complexion was also very pale.
Like her corpse placed on the ice, her warmth had disappeared, leaving only her chill.
“Whoa…. It seems to have started in earnest now.”
“Yes?”
Seeing Yushin react in surprise to her own words, El opened her mouth again.
She let out a deep sigh.
Unlike Yushin, who was flustered, L was calm.
“Mr. Gilead, I am a pledger. It is infinitely close to being invincible. So that… , I can’t die unless I do something like this….”
The only beings who can kill an oathlord are other oathbreakers, so El Cid chose to weaken herself.
So that Ardena can kill herself.
Deliberately, she put herself to death by leaving herself at her most vulnerable.
Cowardly and selfish to the end. Yushin shuddered at her act while holding Elle. I wanted to throw her away from holding her in my arms right away, but I couldn’t because she was Ardena’s precious teacher.
“The World Tree (altar) chose me. I am the next victim of the World Tree. After the World Tree swallowed all my strength and powers, I will pass on the things I swallowed to the opponent who stabbed my heart.”
“Then it’s just a matter of keeping you away from the World Tree.”
Yushin hugged L.
Holding her in her arms as if hugging her princess, Yushin tried to separate her from her world tree, the medium of her consciousness and the culprit behind her.
