Chapter 100 – 6-Academy (38)
A smoky, disgusting scent began to permeate the Ancient Forest.
The bright light disappeared and what appeared was a large amount of ash, the traces of burnt trees, and a green door shining brilliantly among the ashes.
“Eutcha! Then let’s go in!”
I kicked open the exposed green door with my foot and nodded my head to the party as I said so, and the entire group of us cautiously entered the green door.
When the green door opened and went inside, the first thing I saw was a jet-black space and vines emitting green light.
The vines that emitted their own light wrapped around the inside of the ruins and illuminated the jet-black space with their own light.
Also, for a special ruin, the road was not complicated and it was like pure elves as expected.
Originally, special ruins were created to hide treasures or something great, so of course the path is complicated.
A large number of traps are set even on that complicated road.
It is also a place made with the intention of saying, ‘This is our property, so don’t touch it even if we disappear!’
Of course, a large number of traps and complicated paths must be included.
However, the ruins we entered now did not have that.
“As expected, the elf… You’re stupid.”
Russell was calling the elf an idiot with a face full of ridicule.
There was something unusual about her face about elves.
And Rubel was excited and ran amok in the ruins, and Luli was tinkering with the glowing vines with interest.
Originally, if it was a special ruin, the current action would be equivalent to suicide, but it’s okay here.
Even though I checked with my ability, there were no traps here.
“No matter how much elves value nature and hate intrigue, tricks, traps, and dirty tricks… But is this serious?”
Elves are known for being just, brave, and very good at defending themselves from generation to generation.
The way to catch the ignorant elf is to use a child slave to make the slave chased by nasty guys, and the elf naturally intervenes to protect the child.
The way to catch the elf is to make the elf careless and use a child to stab him in the back with a sword coated with an anesthetic.
And this method is said to be successful even after about 500 years, so that’s enough.
And, befitting the ruins made by the elves, the appearance itself was magnificent, but there were no traps, and the creatures presumed to be guardians were detected.
“Looks like there are guardians.”
When I said that while looking away, Russell also muttered with a cynical smile.
“As expected, it’s like an elf… It’s been and now, it’s lost in ideals and neglects the most important thing.”
…How to say, she has a lot of grudge against the elves right now? Seemed to have the same thing.
Unlike usual, as soon as he entered the ruins of the elves, and the high elves, he spoke without hesitation.
“Really… While protecting nature, I didn’t do anything to punish the demons at that time, I just hid by the proud world tree and watched us drive out the demons… Damn you guys”
It seemed that it was the memory of the soul (EX) passed down from generation to generation that she possessed.
However, if I continued like this, it seemed like the whole day would pass by just with the complaints of those days, so I fed Russell’s head with chestnuts to calm him down.
Quaang!
There was a sound that shouldn’t have sounded like a bad night, but the person who was hit by the bad night didn’t even hurt that much! Surprised, and seemed to realize what he had just said.
“Well… You’ve been talking a lot since before, have you calmed down now?”
Having let go of such Russell, I called Rubel and Ruri as well, gathered the members again, and finally started real exploration activities.
What… Even if you say exploration, it’s just moving forward.
We started walking through the Gaenojam ruins without any traps or anything and ended up having a very boring time.
At least, I wrote down the unknown characters engraved on the wall in the notebook that Mist had been working hard on, and I was able to get a lot of rare herbs and fruits that are hard to find now, but no one here was happy.
Except for Raylac, of course.
Ray Rock is happy to see the herbs and fruits, and she is happy to take just the right amount, just like she said when she first came.
“But why are you carrying that?”
On the other hand, Rubel, who is a great mage and takes care of himself even if he stays still, does not understand Laylac’s actions, and the others do the same.
At least, he noticed that the cold-hearted Ruri and the student council president, Eileen, sympathized to some extent.
“…Rather than that, Russell, you don’t have to take care of yourself as a commoner, do you?”
Even in the midst of this, Russell didn’t particularly pick up her berries or herbs, so when I questioned her, she turned her head to see Laylock and put on a puzzled look.
“She’s not poor enough to take care of that.”
Her spirit of not taking care of things that cost a few golds because she was not poor was great even though she was a commoner.
`Hmm… There seems to be an organization related to demons…”
And at this point, it seemed that there was a demon-related group to which Russell belonged.
Otherwise, her Russell abilities and powers are not explained.
While I was thinking that, Rubel and Ruri were walking in the lead, Eileen glanced at me and stuck behind Rubel, and Laylock clung to her Ruri.
And at the same time, at the same time, behind where Russell and I were left, I could feel a sign that only a person with skills like us could feel.
“Ah… That’s right. The crabs came in too, I forgot.”
The ruins were so boring that I forgot that there were guys who couldn’t tell whether they were pursuers or stalkers at the moment, clinging to us and chasing us.
And Russell also asked me, frowning at her and pulling out the twin swords in her hands.
“Shall we deal with it? To be honest, with the two of us, I think we could kill the king of demons or something recorded in the literature.”
Mentioning the king of demons casually, she began to reveal a perfectly restrained spirit that was quiet and secretive, yet intense at the same time.
If I accepted, I could feel the promise that I would run right now and tear them to pieces.
But it’s dangerous to step forward when you don’t even know who your opponent is… I wouldn’t do it, but it might bother me later, so I just ignored it and turned around without saying anything to join the group.
Russell, who quickly understood my intentions, removed the swords in his hands and quickly followed me to the side of the party.
And in my electromagnetic waves, I could feel that the mysterious presence secretly watching us stopped at the place where we were.
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What appeared where Artel and Russell were were two archers wrapped in black cloth.
One of the two figures holding a green and gold bow and a blue and gold bow looked forward and said in admiration.
“…I never thought he could reach this level at such an age… Besides, this ruin must have been created by our ancestor, the High Elf.”
The two figures Artel had just sensed were genuinely admiring the two rapidly disappearing boys and girls.
The boy with the ability to detect their pursuit, the physical ability beyond imagination, the ability to handle lightning, which can be called the power of a god, and even the outstanding leadership, and the girl who is as talented as that boy, were all beyond their imagination.
“Really… Humans are amazing as expected. The majority of beings are always ugly and dirty, but there are exceptions that shine so brightly and are intense.”
It was another In-young standing in the same place as him that raised a question about his remarks, which were generally well-received.
The figure also wrapped her whole body in black cloth, but it couldn’t suppress her voluptuous breasts and buttocks.
Also, what dwelled in the two eyes looking at Artel and Russell was not admiration but hatred.
“Even so, humans are enemies of us elves… They’re just targets for our treatment.”
Whether she had great confidence in her strength or was an idiot who didn’t know what to think, when she said that, the person on the other side shouted.
“You should have seen his skills enough, and the two of them didn’t do their best at all. They are literally unknown. Don’t attack recklessly. Don’t show your hostility. Don’t show your anger. I’m here to find an artifact.”
As she analyzed her coldly, as if to bruise her woman, her woman cried out, crumpling the cloth wrapped around her face, and at the same time using her own spirit to keep her voice from leaking out.
“But you’ve seen it! Those filthy humans have trampled the sacred domains of our ancestors and burned the great ancient trees as if they were getting in the way!”
There was deep hostility in her words, which she shouted in line with the elf’s central ideology, and the man scolded.
“Stop! They definitely burned the ancient tree… But that’s natural in nature’s providence! Humans, as beings that rule this world now, have chosen to pioneer nature!”
I could feel the woman’s expression getting distorted as the man’s words continued.
“When the creatures that reigned at the top were elves, we chose to protect nature. But humans took a different path from us.
And when her man finished speaking, the woman trembled all over her body, but she couldn’t refuse the man’s words.
