Chapter 102 – 6-Academy (40)
“Ah…! Wait a minute!”
After turning the tree into ashes, our group tried to go inside right away.
However, Mist stopped us and started to move as if in a hurry.
Seeing the trees burnt to ashes by lightning, Mist was excited and began to collect the remaining stems.
“Ahahaha I never thought I’d get something like this here. This is great!”
As if he had won the lottery, he began collecting branches diligently, his eyes shining.
Most of the branches turned to ashes due to the lightning I shot, but fortunately, a few branches were burned to the middle or only the ends, as if they were less affected by the lightning.
And Mist diligently picked up those branches.
In response, Ruri and Rubel made faces that seemed to understand why Mist was doing this, but Russell, on the other hand, looked puzzled as if he didn’t know why Mist was doing that.
“Why are you carrying it? It doesn’t look that valuable.”
Russell tilted his head as if he didn’t understand and asked Mist, who was diligently putting the stems into his bag.
“It’s a material for research! This is the first Witchbeast that has such pure magical power!!”
As she spoke with sparkling eyes and shouted out with a hint of excitement, Ruri and Rubel made faces that understood her words.
That’s how we got into the room where Mist had to burn the tree to appear after collecting all the trunks.
First of all, it was assumed to be a reward room with treasure, so we smiled happily and entered the room.
The reward room is the room where the treasure is stored at the end of the special ruins, and the shape of the reward room varies depending on the value or purpose of the special ruins.
In this case, it felt like there were no traps inside the reward room, but in the case of other special ruins, there are many cases where the last trap is hidden in the reward room.
But maybe it was the high elves who made this ruin, so the trap wasn’t set at all, and we entered the reward room without any problems.
Our party, Laylac, was cheering and delighted, and Eileen seemed to be secretly nervous.
But Ruri kept her expressionless as if she didn’t care much, Rubel yawned at her as if he didn’t care anyway, and finally Russell was holding twin swords in both of her hands.
And I was staring at somewhere with strong momentum, and it was where the pursuers were chasing us with my ability.
If left alone, I approached Russell and said a word to him, in the spirit of running and causing bloodshed at any moment.
“It’s okay to throw at least a knife.”
Currently, my detection detected one of them aiming a bow at us, so she told me it was okay to throw a knife.
It seems that he has enough skills to avoid a knife anyway, and even if he gets hit, he will have the ability to avoid a vital point.
At my words with that in mind, Russell smiled at her and threw one of her swords from her own hand lightly like her boomerang, then turned around behind her and entered her reward room.
And the thrown sword didn’t rotate beautifully and draw a parabola, but flew in a straight line.
After that, after cutting the bow that was aiming at us, we passed by lightly cutting the neck of the opponent who was aiming at us.
It was a light cut, so it was at the level of a small solid line, but my sensing ability was blown away! I could clearly sense the figure of the guy falling to the floor.
“Hmm… I don’t think it’s that strong of a heart.”
Of course, it’s natural to be surprised when a sniper is about to shoot, but something like a knife suddenly flies and brushes at us, but it’s reckless to shoot at us without being completely concealed.
Thinking that way, I felt like the guy whose bow had been cut from behind got angry and cursed at Ura.
But now, securing the seed of the World Tree comes first, so I entered the reward room as well.
And then Laylock’s screams of disappointment filled the room.
“Ah ah ah ah ah…”
When Laylock looked inside the reward room, he was frozen as if a ghost had appeared, and the other kids were making strange faces.
That would be the case, because the treasure inside the reward room was a seed.
“Ah… Aaaaa!!! Seeds! Seeds!!”
Laylac sat down on the floor and began to sob, and Ruri didn’t say anything, but her face was broken.
Eileen goes to her sobbing Ray Lock to calm her down, making her doubt who her teacher is.
It seemed that everyone was quite disappointed that the reward for the special ruins was a seed, so Russell looked at me and asked.
“Isn’t that an ordinary seed?”
Speaking in a strangely confident voice, she pointed to a seed, and I approached it and held it up.
“Okay! Everyone did a good job! We cleared the first ruin, the Ancient Elf High Elf Ruins, and got the seeds of the World Tree like this!”
I could feel the eyes of the children suddenly change at the words I shouted.
What is the world tree? It is more beautiful than anything in the world, and its body seems to hold up the sky, and the magic and power sleeping in it are said to reach the realm of the gods.
In addition, according to legend, beings called high elves were born from the fragments of the World Tree, so elves protect nature under the protection of the World Tree.
In other words, it is an item that can be said to be the source of elves, and its value is beyond imagination.
In fact, even Ruri, who always maintains a calm expression, was openly surprised this time.
Aileen seemed quite astonished, and even Rubel was genuinely admiring it, unable to believe it this time.
In this situation, Russell raised her hand and spoke like a quick-fire.
“So, do you intend to grow that seed?”
At Russell’s words, the eyes of the children focused on me, and I laughed viciously at the sight of such children.
The reason kids do this is really simple.
The power of the World Tree, which is said to be comparable to the gods, is underestimated by the humans who pushed out the elves and ruled the world, but in fact, if the World Tree sincerely moved to destroy humans, the first hero would become the first hero.
At least in the original work, the world tree weakened as time passed by blocking demons and demons, and because of this, it was later burned mercilessly, but even so, the power of the world tree cannot be ignored.
In fact, with the magic of the World Tree, even Darkness, who is currently in a spirit state, can be resurrected as a living being rather than a spirit.
He probably has an edge over me in terms of magic attribute and quality.
And since it was the seed of the World Tree, it was inevitable that the eyes of the children would gather, but what I would do as the seed of the World Tree was decided.
“Eat Darkness”
At the same time as I said, the children looked at me with a frightened expression, but they did not stop my action, and I took out the Darkness from my waist and brought the seed, and black energy came out of the sword and absorbed the seed in an instant.
As a result, the children’s eyes of astonishment and incomprehensibility were driven to me, and only Myst was looking at the demon sword with strange eyes with a dry smile.
Then, red light leaked out from the red pattern on the sword body, and enormous magical energy shook. At the same time, Darkness shouted with a cheering face.
[Ohhh! On… All! Come! Come! Come! Come!!!!!]
With her excited cry, the light that shone in the demon sword gradually subsided, and after the light disappeared, I felt the touch of the demon sword more full than before.
At the same time, her stats also changed.
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Name: Dustiness Pod Lalatina (sealing abilities) (unsealing)
Title: Great Spirit of the Demon King Sword (S), Master of Black Magic (A)
Attribute: Darkness, World Tree
Available Skills: Black Lightning (A), Predation (A), Blood Magic Sword (A)
***
First of all, a new word “Unsealing” Was created next to the name’s ability to be sealed, and the spirit was upgraded to a great spirit, and a new attribute called World Tree was created in the attribute.
It seemed that I could absorb the World Tree with this.
And, as if Darkness felt this as well, she began to glow happily.
[Good! If you absorb the world water with this, I will be revived too!]
Seeing her screaming as if she was genuinely moved, I smiled and put my sword back on and walked towards the entrance to the treasure room.
And I said to the party who looked at me with a surprised expression.
“Let’s go back now!”
This is the end of our first ruins exploration.
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Meanwhile, one of the pursuers who was watching Artel’s party, a woman, had taken off all of her black cloth that was wrapped around her body.
Her green, starless clothes were exposed, and at the same time, her long pointed ears, like the leaves of the elves, were revealed, and a neatly cut bow was in her hand.
And with a face stained with anger, she tried to send burning eyes to Artel and the others who were just leaving the ruins.
“Stop… Any more than this will be judged as obstruction of mission.”
Her unclothed male elf side stood in her way.
Currently, their situation is not very good.
The woman’s bow was cut by Russell’s sword, and her pride was hurt, burning her murderous intention, but she had no real way to take revenge.
No, to be more precise, he tried to take revenge, but the male elf was blocking it.
For her elves, it would be a great disgrace to have her bow broken, as she was her own alter ego, and it was intolerable to her.
However, since their location had already been discovered, staying as they were was tantamount to committing suicide, so the men stopped the women and quickly prepared to retreat.
And they won’t know
Shine Artel’s gaze toward the outside was, at some point, directed towards them, especially the female elves, and that gaze contained the joy of a child who discovered a new toy.
