Chapter 231 – 231. The Elf Queen (2)
“… Indeed.”
In the middle of a fierce battle with many elves at the forefront, Derkin, who quickly jumped up and received Eleanor’s words, nodded his head with a serious face.
“Do you know what the intention is?”
Lawton, who had just conveyed Eleanor’s words exactly, but did not understand the meaning of the words, asked Derekin.
“The priest said this?”
“Yes? Yes. Yes.”
“A human who is still a little older than 20 years… You had the same thoughts as me.”
“Yes?”
“That priest decided that if we continued like this, we would lose this battle.”
“What is that…”
Derkin, who did not have time to explain in detail, left Lawton with a dumbfounded expression behind and shouted in a loud voice to the elven guard elves fighting the hordes of zombies.
“All troops! Retreat!”
“Yes!”
Following Derkin’s order, the elves fired arrows to keep the zombies from approaching and left the fighting area.
While leading the elves of Elven Guard to retreat all at once, Derkin’s formation collapsed and joined the elves who were fighting individually to find Eleanor’s location.
Eventually, they joined up with the fallen elves repeatedly, and a total of 90 elves found Eleanor and Elvin and joined them.
“You are here.”
Eleanor, who was looking at the condition of the elves by purifying the wounds contaminated by the zombie attack, found Derkin while Elvin was single-handedly blocking the hordes of zombies.
“Did you find a good number?”
“I want to change my purpose.”
“You mean the purpose?”
“Yes. Not ‘extermination of enemies’, but ‘enduring’.”
“… Okay.”
Derkin realized the meaning of Eleanor’s words and nodded her head.
If the barrier that covers the entire area is a miracle that Eleanor activated, then it makes sense that the elves who were currently scattered all over the place were gathered in one place.
“I’m going to reduce the range of my barriers that I’ve placed throughout this area.”
If all the elves were concentrated in one place and the barrier was reduced to an extent that could accommodate them, the amount of holy power required to maintain the barrier would be reduced by nearly half.
This means that it can last longer than expected.
“But at the same time, the dispersed zombies will flock here at the same time.”
The method Eleanor chose is to gather all her powers in one place, build a barricade to block the entry of zombies, and annihilate the approaching zombies with a ranged attack.
While taking the so-called defense strategy, Eleanor’s best effort was created by minimizing the amount of divine power consumed to maintain the barrier and maximizing the power of the elves within the barrier.
“Our role is to stop the zombies that are concentrated here. But… Even with this strategy, it is difficult to guarantee victory.”
“I know. But it can take longer.”
That’s why, rather than annihilating enemies, the goal is to survive for as long as possible.
“If you hold out… Do you have a chance?”
“Yes. Certainly.”
Derkin saw Eleanor’s determined eyes and nodded her head.
Seeing that Illyana, who had come with Eleanor, was nowhere to be seen, she could see that Illyana was doing something of her own to break the situation.
Even Eleanor, she wouldn’t know what that number was, but the fact that she devised this strategy based on her unwavering trust in Illyana made her want to pay tribute to Eleanor’s guts.
“Let’s try.”
“I will put Alvin in the vanguard. Elves camp inside the barrier to prevent zombies from easily approaching, and assist Alvin with ranged attacks.”
Alvin was the only force in the elves camp that could fight outside the barrier.
Elvin accepts her role without hesitation and is still single-handedly defending against a group of zombies outside the reduced barrier.
“The wounded go this way!”
“Haha.”
At the sight of a young human woman not even 100 years old taking the lead in commanding the elves, Derkin laughed as if it were amusing even though it was a situation where his authority to command was being violated.
“Is she really the woman he chose?”
Under Eleanor’s command, the elves camp built a barricade made of earthen walls and trees inside the barrier, and kept the zombies in check with long-range attacks using arrows.
And even in the middle of a one-sided offensive, such as smashing the zombies’ heads with shadow weapons outside the barrier, tearing off their legs, and breaking their arms, the war situation did not change so easily.
It is a situation where zombies are desperately blocking their approach to Eleanor’s barrier, but if the archery of the elves who are keeping the zombies in check from a distance runs out of projectile arrows, they must also engage in physical close combat.
The number of remaining zombies is about 500, and although the elves are doing well without any damage to the elves, it is an unchanging fact that the elves are at a disadvantage in long-term battles.
“Ah!”
The screams of the Dark Elves hiding somewhere resound, and the corpses of their fellow tribesmen grab and eat their flesh.
The zombies made from the corpses of the Dark Elves attacked not only the Elves, but also the Dark Elves, who were their kin in life, contaminating their bodies and contributing to making them into zombies.
In fact, the struggle between the elves and the dark elves was confirmed by Eunhyeon’s intervention and surprise operation, but the game was completely turned upside down by the curse triggered by Lydia’s self-determination.
The horror created by Redia’s individual selfish desire for revenge, who wanted to drag Eun-hyeon, who was no different from her own enemy, to hell, even while admitting her defeat and giving up the life and future of her people.
Perok
‘More, faster and stronger.’
In that situation, Alvin gradually learned how to use his body made of artifacts.
In an attack that uses all of its power with a large motion, it seeks an efficient and optimized way to crush the head of a zombie, which is a vital point, with precise and minimal motion.
‘I think he moved like this.’
After kicking off the limp zombie’s legs, he stepped on the zombie’s head as hard as he could as he staggered and fell to the floor.
Other zombies grabbed Elvin’s shadow armor and tried to hit and bite them, but the attacks of the zombies, which did not have her intellect and just acted instinctively, did not harm Alvin at all.
No matter how many zombies clung to her body, Alvin didn’t care at all.
Kwajik
Twisting her ankles, the Dark Elf strained her foot, which crushed her zombie’s head, crushing her skull and spattering dark rotting blood.
‘Isn’t this it?’
The movement was only mimicking Eun-hyeon’s movement, which he occasionally showed when training knights of the duke’s family, but it was not as easy as he thought.
‘Right now, swordsmanship is impossible for me.’
I felt it through my own experience.
It is also impossible to use an imaging technique with poor fuel economy.
In this situation, if one’s magical energy runs out and he becomes unable to act, it will lead to a direct blow to the elf camp that is struggling.
‘If the sword doesn’t work, use another weapon.’
A weapon for slashing black enemies.
No matter how good a sword you hold, if you lack the skills to cut enemies, it’s like putting a diamond necklace around a pig’s neck.
‘The strengths I have right now are the armor that boasts the best defense that never takes damage and the power to break through those hordes.’
Then, what is the weapon that can save those ignorant advantages?
Alvin was worried.
Shortly after her troubles were over, Erwin created her two weapons using her own shadows.
A mace in one hand and a hatchet in the other.
Regardless of skill or proficiency, he grabbed bloody weapons that could crush his opponent with just force, and walked around the battlefield again.
How many zombies do you have to defeat?
How much longer do you have to endure before you can see the ‘win’ that Eleanor said?
Actually, it wasn’t that important to Alvin.
She just did her faithful role and best behavior for the given situation.
Because that was the way she repaid Eun-hyeon for giving her a new chance, she doesn’t worry.
The dark knight with flashing red eyes continued to swing his weapon without stopping.
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“Chief! All arrows… !”
“Shit… ! Raise your arms!”
Finally, when the elves’ arrows, which were consumables, started to run out one by one, Derkin, who distorted her face, shouted.
They swung their swords at the hordes of zombies who could no longer enter the barricade because their lower bodies and backs were caught, and tried to block their entry as much as possible, but seeing the hordes of zombies stepping on the dead bodies of zombies and trying to cross the barricade, the Elven Guard elves hardened their expressions.
“This…”
“Shit… Help from the spirits… Even if only elemental magic could be used… !”
There would never have been a situation where he had to resort to attacks using only physical weapons such as arrows or swords.
“Uh… ?”
Derkin was the first to feel the sudden change.
He feels a nostalgic feeling that he has not felt in nearly 20 years, and he cannot believe that he is dreaming.
And, although lower than Derkin, the other elves, who had similarly signed a contract with the spirits but couldn’t use spirit magic because the spirits couldn’t manifest due to the power of the World Tree diminished, gradually followed Derkin and noticed the change.
“The energy of the spirit… ?”
“Are you coming back?”
“No way, the world tree… ?”
“This…”
Eleanor looks surprised when she discovers small wind spirits with butterfly wings appearing from the air and entering the sanctuary barrier.
“Fairies?”
Some spirits were smiling, some were giggling, and some were thrilled. It was the moment when a moving scene was about to be created, where they were reuniting with the elves who had signed a contract with them after 20 years.
“All troops, Joo Mo-ok!”
It was none other than Derkin who prevented that touching reunion.
He grabbed the bow from his shoulder again, and there was nothing hanging on the string he was pulling.
However, as the bowstring was pulled, the flow of wind that began to blow around Derkin soon became an arrow and caught on the bowstring, creating a gust of wind.
[Elven Guard Spirit Art]
[Wind Fairy’s Arrow]
The moment Derkin let go of the taut bowstring, the arrows of the wind that bounced off the bow and stretched out in a straight line pierced the heads of the zombies in an oblique line all at once.
“… !”
Sensing the existence of a straight line drawn by an arrow filled with tremendous magic power, Alvin, who was nearby, paused during the battle with the zombies and looked in the direction where Derkin’s arrow flew.
“… And.”
Feeling the tremendous destructive power that pierced the heads of dozens of zombies, Eleanor let out her exclamation.
Derkin, who immediately drew the attention of the panicked elves with a single arrow, shouted.
“The power of the World Tree has been revived!”
The spirits reappearing and being able to use spirit magic meant that the World Tree in Moon Village was regaining its original power.
Derkin realizes that this is the moment Eleanor has been waiting for while commanding the elves while maintaining the sanctuary barrier like tenacity.
“But where are we now!?”
“It’s a battlefield!”
The earth outside the barrier, which was gradually being polluted by the curse, was purified little by little, driving away the turbid energy.
“Then, is it time for us to be happy and cheering that we can use spirit magic again and that the power of the World Tree has returned!?”
“It’s not like that!”
It was such an auspicious event that the whole tribe had to hold a festival while drinking toasts after the war ended.
Then, the first thing you need to do to hold the festival is simple.
“Toasts lead this struggle to victory, and then it must be heard! Power! Alive!”
Ugh
A magic circle of transference drawn on the floor next to Derkin, who pulled the bowstring again and aimed it at the zombies.
Eleanor, who recognized the identity of the magic circle, let out a sigh of relief belatedly.
“Haaa…”
“Yes, priest!?”
Perhaps it was because she was relaxed, seeing Eleanor slump on the floor, the elves around her were startled and supported her.
Knowing that it was all thanks to her, Eleanor’s, her divine power that all the elves had been able to fight without losing a single death, the elves looked at her with worry that she might have done her hordes. Saw.
“Are you okay. Just to relax…”
At the same time that the barrier of sanctification that reached its limit was finally lifted, Eleanor smiled when she discovered Regina’s appearance in the teleportation magic circle.
“Liana-sama did it…”
Regina smiled as she turned her head to see Eleanor perched on her floor.
“How her wives sit down on the floor alike…”
“Yes?”
“No. You are also the benefactor of our elves. On behalf of the hard-working elves who struggled for the sake of their people, I, the queen, will not forget and repay them.”
After that, Regina walked in front of her, leaving Derkin behind.
‘Beautiful…’
With each step, the sight of dozens of small wind spirits flying around Regina was very beautiful.
At the same time, with each step she takes, she begins to purify the entire land and forest around her.
A powerful deity that offsets the power of the curse, which was impossible to completely purify even with Eleanor’s divine power, and completely eradicates all deceit and grudges rooted in this land.
Is it divine power, magical power, or is it a higher concept that encompasses both concepts.
‘It’s similar to that person’s energy…’
Eleanor, who thought it resembled the aura felt in the body of her husband, Eun-hyeon, realized that the identity of the aura Regina exuded was the power of the World Tree.
Eleanor, who was staring blankly at the beautiful figure and the elf queen with her divine aura, recalled the story Eunhyeon had told her before.
– ‘Elf Queen’ is a title that represents her authority as a ruler representing all elves. There is a title that fits the characteristics of a queen who can freely draw and use the power of the world tree.
“Queen of spirits…”
Eleanor, who had been staring at her enchantedly, muttered, putting another of Regina’s tinnitus in her mouth.
