Legend

"This is... no way, that's... why is this happening?

As Ray and the two marinas, taken by Ragud, are on their way to the world tree, along the way...... somewhat close to the world tree, the marina screams unexpectedly and so on.

Despite wearing a hard to move outfit called a party dress, the marina runs without any delay to the ragd.

The figure was just as powerful as it deserved to be called a war adventurer.

"I don't know that much of a difference compared to yesterday... is that enough to tell from here?

To Ray, who shrugged to see how the marina was doing, Ragud, running next to it, shook his neck to the side.

"No, if it's normal, it's like if you can finally understand it in front of the world tree. However, in the case of Marina, the blood muscles are different. You can still feel the world tree from here."

"... blood muscles,"

The last name Ariansa of Marina passes behind Ray's brain.

I understood that there was something going on at the marina at the time of the surname, and I was wondering if it had anything to do with the fact that she was the granddaughter of an elder in this settlement called Optis.

As Ray thinks as he looks at the side of the marina with a harsh look on his face, he eventually gets under the world tree.

I guess some of the dark elves had already felt a world tree anomaly. There are several dark elves at the roots of the world tree.

One of them notices the marinas who have been running.

"Dear Marina!

The gaze had a colour that flashed.

I wonder why this is the case with the world tree that was supposed to have infused with magic yesterday and finished treatment.

I have no idea why, an anxious look.

To such a dark elf, the marina, which reached the roots of the world tree, smiles and opens her mouth to calm her down.

"It's okay. As far as looking at it this way, you seem weak, but you're definitely better than you were yesterday, yesterday, yesterday, before that, right?

At the time of the announcement, Marina herself was not convinced of her words.

I can certainly say that the world tree today is doing well compared to before.

But that's only yesterday today.

If this were tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, it would certainly seem weaker than it is now.

The cause of the weakening of the world tree must be addressed at all costs, beyond being

(wither the world tree... no, to keep it from dying, you might be able to figure it out if Ray did the act of instilling magic in the world tree every day... but that means tying Ray to this settlement)

If that happens, Ray will leave this settlement unless it's too much to do.

It was clear from our previous relationship that Ray hated being tied to one place.

And if the dark elves in the settlement ever get in the way of Ray leaving, this settlement will undoubtedly be engulfed in flames.

Marina, the guild master, knows exactly how strong Ray is.

Because that's how powerful it is to get the alias Deep Red.

Thinking about it, I definitely don't want everyone in the settlement to imitate it recklessly.

(Well, I made all that noise in this previous uproar of sensing magic, so yeah, I don't think I'm going to imitate it so far-fetched)

Feeling the gaze of those around her, Marina meditates her eyes and gently reaches for the trunk of the world tree.

Tokun, and.

The first thing that came through was that feeling.

I feel that magic is flowing regularly, but still its magic is undoubtedly weaker than it was yesterday.

(Keep it up, two months... no, in some cases, you'll be back in the way you were yesterday in a month. But why? Yesterday the World Tree undoubtedly regained its power. For example, something should have happened... Ragud said that the suspicious person wasn't close)

Open the eyes that were closed and look around.

Nothing in particular seems unusual, nor does it feel like a monster or something is hiding.

But given the weakening of the world tree, which had just recovered yesterday, there must have been some factor to begin with.

"Dear Marina... What do you say?

One of the dark elves who was nearby asks the marina.

By opening his meditating eyes, he would have decided that he had already figured out what the world tree was like.

"... he's definitely weak. I don't know what happened, but if we stay like this, we won't have enough magic within that distance."

"No, because yesterday was so..."

Dark elves holding their mouth all the time saying they can't believe it.

The others around him had the same shocked look.

The Dark Elves are attacked with deeper sorrow just because they saw the world tree recover yesterday.

Raise it, drop it.

It was exactly the form in which it was done.

Ragud, who watched such a fellow figure a little further away, decides that it is dangerous to stay like this.

The fact that the World Tree, which is also the home of our own hearts, should have completed its treatment and is weak again, is undoubtedly attacked by an extra strong despair just because we thought it had recovered once.

Having thought that far, Ragud comes up with the idea that maybe this was the enemy's aim from the beginning.

(Enemies... yes, you should call them enemies. If the world tree was just weak, it would have been restored by Ray's magic yesterday. Even so, it can only be assumed that someone is clearly doing it intentionally that it has weakened again in this situation)

Ragud, with his gaze toward the trunk of the world tree, sadly distorts his face.

Ragud, like other dark elves, has strong feelings when it comes to the world tree.

I admire the world tree, you can say.

If that's why you have someone who's doing something about the world tree, it's very, but unforgivable.

(No, not if you're immersed in your thoughts now, are you? Anyway, we need to prevent everyone from getting upset)

He looks around and opens his mouth to do something about the many dark elves looking sad.

"Gentlemen, you have nothing to worry about"

The dark elves gaze at that voice, which suddenly echoed.

There you are, Ragud.

With Marina...... more precisely Ragud, who dropped the stock a lot in his interaction with Ray, but still the word now reached the ears of everyone around him.

"In the first place, everyone saw Ray treat the world tree yesterday... no, but you know what? If so, Ray will not be able to do anything about the world tree."

The word was something that I would never want Marina to say.

The Dark Elves turn their gaze of anticipation to Ray, as if it were going to be a stream that could be called the worst development for Marina.

Before one of them says anything, the marina opens her mouth.

"Wait a minute. I know what Ragud said about getting Ray to treat the world tree, but that's a little problematic."

The other dark elves look at the word problem that came out of the marina's mouth and ask what it means.

Ragud, who took it to the current course of the story, also pointed a gaze of doubt at the marina.

Naturally. If Ray has a problem restoring the world tree, it's nothing more than that, that is, the world tree is likely to dry up in earnest as it is.

"Okay? Ray did treat the world tree yesterday. This is an unmistakable fact."

"Then..."

The marina blocks off and continues the word that one of the dark elf men is about to say something.

"Listen to me till the end. Okay? I used Ray's magic to make the world tree go all fast at once. But the act itself must have been a corresponding burden for the world tree. Because I was weak, and I was instilled with the magic of just being completely quick at once. If that was only once yesterday. Still, what do you think would happen if it were done again and again?

"It's... the world tree is treated..."

"Wait."

Another guy who was listening to Marina and the Dark Elf guy pinches the words as if he noticed something.

"Repeating debilitation and full speed means that's all the burden on the world tree?

The man's words give Marina a glossy grin that she gets my will.

Despite this moment, the man can be seen as a marina laugh for a moment, but he immediately turns back to me and opens his mouth.

"Being burdened is naturally not a good thing for the world tree either?

"You will. Remember how people reacted, especially when they saw Ray, who could feel magic. That's all the magic you pour into the world tree at once? Whatever happens once or twice, if you do that again and again, it could even end up being the worst possible outcome for the world tree."

"If you water too much, the trees wither too..."

To the whining voice of another dark elf, Marina nods back.

"Yeah, you got a problem over there, too. Ray's magic is both quantitative and qualitative... no, it's too unusual compared to our dark elves. Seems like I've said it many times, but for once or twice, anyway, if I pour such magic over and over again..."

Worst of all, the world tree withers with too much magic before it weakens.

The Dark Elves had a harsh look on their face at the marina telling them otherwise.

Ragud, who watched such an exchange, turns a stern gaze at the marina of things he doesn't speak to.

I was wondering what I would do to depress everyone here.

Ragud also naturally noticed the problem of letting Ray treat the world tree more than once.

But... Still, now it was necessary to give hope to everyone.

It's also hard to hold back the frustration inside when Marina interrupted it.

(What are you going to do! If you let everyone down here, it will spread throughout the settlement!

I didn't feel Ragud's will clearly with my gaze, but I still somehow understood what he wanted to say to the marina.

"I'm pretty sure someone from somewhere in the world tree is doing something. That means we need to do something about it before we can treat the world tree. That way, the world tree won't weaken any more."

"... but who says how you're getting your hands on the world tree? A lot of guys had a banquet near here yesterday, so if someone did something, they'd have noticed it from the beginning."

"Yeah, I hear it from Ragud around there. But... still, we have to find the killer who's got his hands on the world tree, right? Otherwise, the world tree will only gradually weaken."

What Marina ran out of was also an unmaskable fact.

If we cannot find a cause here that is weakening the world tree, the world tree will eventually fall ill.

If that happens, it will naturally also disappear about the junction that the world tree was straining.

We really have to avoid that.

That's how this settlement survives… and most importantly, to help our iconic world tree.

"But..."

I guess I'm not somewhere confident in the man's words because I still have no idea who's doing something to the world tree.

"I don't think anyone in this settlement knows, but Ray is a famous adventurer. He's a rank B adventurer at this young age, and he even has an alias."

The aliases also knew the dark elves in this settlement.

Because a handful of merchants dealing with this settlement had heard from adventurers who would bring them as escorts, and some of the settlements, though few, acted as adventurers like marinas.

"Has an alias...?

When someone squeals, the voice sounds all around him.

That's how everyone turns their gaze to Ray.

But there is no suspicious color in that gaze.

Because he knew how much magic Ray had if he was capable of feeling magic, and he saw with his eyes that even the others had quickly treated the world tree, which they had finally been able to slow down the progression of their medical condition.

... It is more right that I did not see exactly the treated scene, but the world tree after the treatment.

Therefore, almost all of them were convinced that Ray was an adventurer with an alias.

Sometimes that would have meant that I wanted something that would have been hopeful if I could have done it now.

Ray, gazed at by everyone around him, nodded in a small way.

"Restoring the world tree is the job I was asked to do. Let's promise to cooperate to the fullest beyond being"

The confident words echoed wonders in the hearts of the dark elves who were there.