Chapter 331 – 331. Interlude (1)
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It stopped snowing.
The blizzard of merciless death,
As it gradually lost its power and declined, the harsh dark clouds lifted.
The heavy snow accompanied by the strong wind stopped, the dark clouds disappeared, and the blue sky appeared. Subsequently, the warm sunlight shone down and illuminated the scene of Maherit, which had turned pure white.
“Snow… Are you done?”
“Finally, finally the snow has stopped!”
The elves raised their heads and looked at the clear sky they had longed to see.
I thought I’d never see you again
The blizzard, which seemed to last until all the elves living in the Liberia Peninsula would freeze to death, stopped and the bright sunlight appeared.
At that, the elves let out a joyful exclamation and stretched their hands up to the sky as if they were worshiping the sunlight.
Taking off the fur hat pulled over her head,
Thank you for the warm miracle of sunlight shining down on your white skin.
“It has finally stopped snowing!”
Rosta, who was protecting the evacuees leaving Maherit, ran and shouted:
And as soon as the snow stops,
The roar that reverberated in the central town of Maherit also ceased.
The elf woman with a shield approached Ilayna, who must have been more worried than anyone else, and told her the good news.
Although she has not yet obtained accurate information,
Her own intuition responded with confidence that this time, too, her demon slayer had won a victory over the brutal demons.
“Rosta Warrior Commander, continue to cover the evacuation procession until the Liana Warrior Commander returns from looking at the situation. Just in case, the enemy’s surprise might attack the evacuation procession.”
“All right!”
At Ileina’s command, Rosta nodded and raised her shield, raising her guard.
Seeing Rosta still loyal to her, Ileina gave her wry smile and bowed her head.
“It looks like the fight is over.”
Bari Theon, who was wearing a hood deep enough to cover her face, opened her mouth.
Brushing her eyes off her shoulders,
A high elf man holding a white spear took off his stuffy hood.
“Priestess, what should we do now?”
“I am no longer the head priest. He’s just a bad liar.”
Bari Theon shrugged at Ileina’s bewildered answer.
“You didn’t know and cheated.”
“Of course, I am also in a position to be deceived… , It is true that I have benefited from the lies invented by the priests behind the scenes. I have room for guilt.”
“…….”
Bari Theon shut her mouth tightly as Il Reina struggled to speak with a pensive expression on her face.
It would be nice if I could be a little more shameless….
This young elf was trying to make himself a sinner.
“Bariteon.”
“Uh.”
“Thank you for keeping me safe.”
Bari Theon made an indescribable expression at Ileina’s thanks for her pure kindness.
“So where are you going now? If you don’t have anything in mind, I can arrange a new place for you.”
At Bari Theon’s words, Ilaina shook her head.
Do you have a place in mind
The little priest opened his mouth to Bariteon.
“I’m going to go to the Valencia estate.”
“… Valencia?”
Bariteon reacted in amazement to Ilayna’s decision to go to Ardena or Valencia’s territory.
* * *
Heinkel, who was sitting on the sofa and drinking hot coffee while watching the snowstorm, approached the window as if he suddenly felt something.
Stretch out your dry palms,
He wiped the condensation off the window.
And through the wiped window, I saw that the blizzard had stopped before I knew it.
“You won.”
They defended the country of elves against a monster fox that had been around for thousands of years.
I could tell just by looking at the snowstorm that had stopped.
If the disciple couldn’t stop the fox,
Most likely, the fox would have continued to drop a freezing blizzard until all the elves living in the Liberia Peninsula froze to death.
“I’m glad, really.”
The elf woman with her pale purple hair let out a deep sigh of relief as she brushed her chest.
Mr. Gilead, too.
Ardena is also all safe.
Elle was so happy that tears welled up in her eyes.
“I never thought that the fox would break her silence and reveal itself…. After she slaughtered the damned tyrant of Vulcan, she should have immediately ripped off all of the fox’s tails and turned them into her scarf.”
Sitting on the sofa again, Heinkel recalled the white ghost who boasted of colossal greed and desire comparable to that of a beast of lust.
He ate the livers of countless strong people,
A rare yo-ho (妖狐) who created a tail by extracting the power and authority contained in the liver.
The former violent demon king was also killed by a white-haired fox.
The fox that ate the demon king’s liver accepted the demon core of violence into its own body, and thus became the absolute symbol of the demon king’s army while reigning as the demon king of violence for over 1,000 years.
‘That fox is a monster that has defended the position of the devil for a thousand years against the great demons who were frantic to usurp the demon core. Among the countless demons that became the masters of the magic core, he must be the most powerful demon.’
Heinkel, who slowly opened his eyes, felt very uncomfortable with the existence of a fox who had committed countless evil acts for a thousand years while pursuing only strength.
Before I am bound by an oath,
I should have killed that fox before the god damned put a restriction called the oath on it.
Heinkel tried to show a non-trivial appearance, but in fact, he was resenting his own complacency for not killing the white-haired fox.
“I should have killed that fox with my own hands. Before being bound by the shackles of the oath….”
Including Sword Saint Reinhilder,
The period when the strong men belonging to the oath were dominant was the hermit period when Cheonho disappeared without a trace.
Chun-ho, alarmed by the successive appearances of monsters far beyond the providence, chose to go into hiding. It was a monstrous cowardly act that forcibly took the strength and life from countless people.
“You couldn’t help it. I couldn’t have predicted that I would be bound by an oath out of nowhere. Who knew that God would step in and put restrictions on us?”
El shook his head and replied to Heinkel’s muttering words with mixed feelings.
It was unavoidable.
Who would have known that God, who had never left the seat of the bystander until now, would directly intervene and place the shackles of the oath on the five beings.
“I need to see Gilead and Ardena in person.”
Elle hurriedly put on her overcoat hanging from her hanger and hurriedly moved her steps.
I want to see the two of them unharmed.
Although their presence was detected by intuition,
I felt like I could completely shake off the anxiety in my heart by seeing it with my own two eyes.
‘Ardena. Mr. Gilead….’
Sigh.
Eventually, El opened the door.
Due to the difference in temperature between outside and inside, the door was firmly closed, but L opened it to the outside without any difficulty.
* * *
Even though the blizzard that seemed to completely engulf the country of the elves had dissipated, Maherit had already become frozen ground covered in snow and ice.
When will all the snow and ice melt?
It seemed that the snow and ice, which originated from a terrible malice, would never melt like ice caps.
“Even if it seems like the windy winter will continue, it will eventually go away when the gyeongchip comes… , Maherit, who has become a land of violence, is probably having a hard time.”
Ardena murmured sadly as she gazed sadly at the scene of the city that had turned into a pure white snowy field.
A white mist was still oozing out.
Of course, the cold that surrounds the skin,
Every time she took a careful step, the piled up snow on the floor made her step on it step by step.
Where did Maherit, who praised the wonders of life and elves and plants coexist, have gone? In the place where the worst blizzard swept away, only death and decay existed.
“Is your brother having a hard time?”
“I think I’m going to die.”
“I thought that one day, when my brother grew old and became a grandfather, I would have to take care of him….”
“I am not that old. Her teeth are strong too.”
Even after going through the worst storms that put her life in danger several times, Yoo-shin and Allen show their usual appearances while sharing meaningless jokes.
Ardena, who was looking at them, let out a sigh of her own.
“Yushin, I think it would be best to take care of yourself in the hospital palace.”
“That’s how we set up the game…. Will the hospital palace be okay?”
“Well.”
An all-out war involving as many as three demon lords took place in Maherit.
The demon king of violence escaped,
The Demon King of Tyranny and the Demon King of Explosion are dead.
The traces the demon kings left behind were truly horrific.
Maherit’s palace was almost destroyed,
Other districts, including the central city, were also sharpened by claws of destruction.
It was natural for Yushin to raise such a question, as it was in such a state of scorched earth that it was difficult to find intact buildings.
“Really.”
Yushin, who arrived in Bina with Allen’s support, witnessed the hospital palace, which had become an abandoned building with a gloomy atmosphere.
Just as a tiger with a gigantic body that could cover the sky clawed its way past,
Numerous signs of destruction were etched into the building.
It must have been the traces of a series of sharp slashes.
Proud of swordsmanship close to exquisite,
It seemed that a proud high elf knight was indirectly involved.
“Who the hell broke it like that?”
“Maybe it’s not me and my brother. You fought with a skeleton gourd and a fox bitch in a place a little far from the palace.”
“Then it might be a trace of the destruction caused by the falling of the floating fortress.”
“Brother, look at the sword marks that cut the building over there. Those are the marks of a slash created by swinging a sword.”
“Oh, yes….”
Yushin and Allen began to infer the culprit of the destruction while having a conversation in front of the Hospital Palace, which collapsed like a half-demolished building.
“Even if the hospital palace is like that…. Why is the palace destroyed like that? I must have swung my sword to protect the palace from being swept away.”
“Me and Long-eared also applied an additional hit after that to block the fall damage as much as possible.”
“Then who follows the hospital palace… A deal that even destroyed the palace.”
Yushin and Allen, who had been chatting for a while, started staring simultaneously at the high elf woman who was bowing her head from behind.
She shrugged her shoulders,
Her whole body trembled with her new red face on her face.
