"The King of the Woods."
On the way home. On foot, we talked.
As always, the trees pave the way, and the beasts avoid us.
Apparently, the influence of the royal power that once resided is still present in the Menel.
Even at the moment, he may still be proceeding to the staircase a few steps up as a fairy user.
But it's not very important to me or Menel that I'm not as strong as I am now.
Rather, the topic is "King of the Woods", where it goes.
"…… Will, what do you think?
"I think it's amazing, but the scale is a little too big for me, I don't know."
"That's right."
On the side of the walking menu, you can't see anything special or unusual.
As usual, he walks at a constant pace, looking at any abnormalities from time to time.
"Even beyond a hundred years, as King of Hiiragi says...
Until my life runs out. So, 200, 300 years, or more... that's the world. "
Very unimaginable.
"I'll be dead by then."
"Right."
Menel nodded.
"While doing it in your grave guard, look at the fate of your children, grandchildren, and high-grandchildren...
Well, around that time, too. "
"... that's what I was going to do"
"I was gonna do it. You owe me a lot of money."
When Sarali and I were told that, what a return.
Now that I know what Menel is serious about, I nod with a strange face, without mixing it up.
"But that's right.
It's not a bad way to live when you're done with mountains and woods. "
I kept my mouth shut. [M]
"Half an elf has to be chosen decisively one day.
In the woods, living long with water and earth, close to the Spirit, the way of life of the elves?
Or shimmering like a fiery fire, extinguishing like a blowing wind, the way humans live. "
Selection.
That is the fate of what was born between the two blood, Menel said.
"Disappear into the woods, be such an ancient tree, and look at the fate of what you will exchange.
Then slowly, wither and fall, and return to the circle. - That's not bad. "
He laughed.
"'Life is in death,' you said in some sort of theory before.
… that unfamiliar arr "
"Oh, my God, I tried so hard with that one! … but yeah, I did say it"
"Life expectancy is long, and if I fell and died, I would have done so.
I didn't really feel it, but I finally figured it out. "
Living, what's wrong, eventually returns to death.
So when I start thinking about "how I want to die," I inevitably return to "how I want to live."
"…… I want to see the end of what you've accomplished"
For that, you can choose your way of life.
Menel said so and smiled clumsily at me.
That smile clogged my chest.
"……… it might not be that big a deal."
"Jokes."
Menel grinned bitterly and flaunted her shoulders.
"You, what have you done since you met me?
Kill the Fei Long with your bare hands, Kimyra, break the Devil's Chieftain's Horn, and now take a single hit at the General-like Devil... it's legendary enough.
... So, anyway, I'm going to make a legend out of such a poignant face "
I got slapped in the back by a rampage.
"I'll fight next to it - and if I survive to the end, I'll disappear into the back of the woods at the end.
Of course, say something that sounds like it and put it on exactly. "
"…… It's gonna be a legend."
"Mutual. That's not bad, is it?
"Yeah."
I thought that might be a kind of fun future diagram.
Of course there is always something to be accomplished in the battle, in which case I do not know which passes first, though.
If I survive, I will definitely die before Menel.
That's something I can't help but feel sorry for - I feel kind of lonely.
But if that's how you can laugh and paint the future, then I'm sure that's not too bad.
"Hey, Will.... How do you want to die?
"That's the thing, I haven't decided as much as Menel."
Surprisingly, Menel opened her eyes.
"…… I thought you'd be thinking a lot."
"That's it..."
After making a tattoo a bit like that,
"I'm thinking, reality is changing too fast!
I scream as if I am no longer angry. [M]
"Get out of that city! When you realize it, you're a knight! When I realized it, I could take care of my lord!
Looks like Vi's song is reaching some northern continent... and at this rate I have no idea what's happening to me in ten years!
Menel laughed at the pieces.
"People's raw is short and intense, but yours especially is. It's the fate of a hero."
"Nothing heroic or whatever, but I don't know if I can design a life or anything at all..."
"A hero who designs his life is unusually unfit and funny."
"Terrible!"
We talked to each other like that, and then we looked up at the sky.
There was a gap between the trees, and the blue sky was visible.
"It's been three years since we met..."
Three years. It seemed long, it was a short time.
- I was eighteen.
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A few days later. When you walk back out of town,
"! Will, Will!
And then a dark-haired, loving child came running.
Anna is following her on a small run from behind, saying, "Wait."
She's the eldest daughter of Mr. Leistoff and Ms. Anna, and it's Shannon.
"Ya, Shannon."
"Yikes!
I nicknamed it, and the payback was a stick of sticking out trees.
On the count of three years old...... I mean practically two years old and a little sharp for that penetration, pinch with two fingers to stop.
"Wow!
And then, hell! and Shannon was so excited.
"Here! Excuse me, lord... my daughter."
"No, how are you?"
"No, that's not true! Already, really……………………………"
etc. And while Anna and I were talking,
"Menelu! Menelu too!
"I don't know what to do……….."
Menel is caught in a chamberlain with Shannon.
"Uh... reports, takeovers, that's it, you guys"
Shannon's rolling, slightly lower back sword muscle for a three-year-old, crouched and twisted with twigs around it, Menel says.
Menel is popular with kids for some reason, even though his attitude is blurry.
"I'll take a look at Shannon for now, why don't you say so?"
"…… excuse me. You must be tired."
"It's not like I'm dealing with a kid. It's a big deal."
Menel, who answered that at his leisure.
"Guys! Menel, play me!!
When Shannon said that without a tongue, a lot of the kids showed up cheering,
"Wow, hi, you're cowardly, you guys!?
"Hiki-kun, blah, blah!
"You don't know what that means!
"That! Him!"
Bye. Oh, and I heard a scream from behind, but for now, I decided to ignore it and walk.
Menel, I won't forget your sacrifice.
"... while you're away, anything unusual?
"Especially. Another group of Dwarf immigrants has arrived, so to what extent have you arranged a place to stay?"
"Got it, I'll meet you later, and I'll show you my face on Dwarf Street."
"I will contact the other party as soon as possible."
"I'm sure they'll drink again..."
"Hehe, I asked. Sacred knight drunk and crushed Dwarf."
"Yes, no, that's... well, I'm careful not to drink in the first place, aren't I!?
As I walk down the road with such an exchange, I can speak of "Hello" or "Welcome back Lord".
Walk through townships mixed with stone and wood as you wave and smile at them.
This is not the village where Menel and I used to live.
It was near there, renovating that semi-submerged city.
… The Beast Forest (Beastwoods) has developed considerably in the last three years.
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Originally, there was a shortage of wood, including building materials and fuel, in the vicinity of White Sails.
Tonio, who laid eyes on it, asked me and the adventurers to carry out a massive sweep of that semi-submerged city and some port maintenance.
Then, in the Forest of the Beast, we set up a raft and started selling firewood for Marutai Fuel along the river stream from the river harbor to the White Sail Capital.
This hit me right first.
Next, create a little woodworking plant to process the wood, and flush the woodworking as well.
You can also take a lot of Warcraft leather, so the leather processing plant.
In doing so, not only agriculture will come out no more, but also people will open shops for people working in processing plants, which will be busy.
Although I received occasional reports and consulted with Tonio about these developments, I was basically in a position to view them.
While watching the development, he was in an extended battle with warcraft crusades, ruins exploration, or the demons of the east.
… After Kimaira's defection, the Lords were given responsibility in the process of discussion in the surrounding area, but there is no such thing as a mountain that should be decided by the Lords of such a neighborhood.
The number of ministers is insignificant.
Instead, expectations are stronger for aspects as "a slippery and strong man of strength who can control and secure the area with all his arms".
As a result, Mr. Leistoff and Anna's husband and wife and Tonio left it all to themselves to run around with Menel, but that might have been better.
When they heard that the forest was much safer, a group of miserable mountain people (dwarves) arrived.
I was the first one to meet them in the woods, but they got a lot dirty and drooling, and I felt so sorry for them.
Because he was struggling, he arranged food and an inn for the moment to introduce the processing plant to people who could do woodworking and leather processing...
When I spoke, some of them had ceramics skills.
Interested, I decided to invest some of the funds in hand to get a solid kiln built.
About half of them, I think, had the sympathy and compassion for Mr. Dwarves' misery.
But there were also plans to build a proper kiln and wake it up in the baked goods industry, which would add a little bit more to the development of the region.
In response to me, Mr. Dwarf wept and thanked me that he had just blessed himself with lodging and food, and that he would even make a kiln.
So, motivated, they began to try this, whatever the material around here was, in an attempt to make a specialty.
Among the materials tested by the potters, the bones of the Warcraft, which had been thrown down at the leather processing plant, just happened to be a big hit.
A baked dish made from a mixture of Warcraft bone ash with clay turned into a wonderfully smooth, white, milky porcelain.
… that sold.
I peeled the skin of the warcraft, took the meat, and all I had to do was mix it with the clay and cook it "eh!?" and turned it into so many silver coins that I screamed at the time.
Mr. Dwarf did not hide or deceive me, and he proudly paid me the silver coin as a "kiln rent".
Not gold or silver, but their feelings delighted me, and I gave to His Highness Ethel some of the porcelain they made for me.
His Royal Highness the Brother Wang, so I was hoping to add a little publicity.
Then His Highness found it amusing in the half, and strategically sent porcelain to his brother, His Majesty King Tata Owen of Fur Tile.
His Majesty King Owen was pleased to receive and love it, a rare gift of porcelain from his beloved brother.
… The result is the added value of the joke of fur tile royalty. I was surprised to hear about it later.
That's all the added value, but the productivity is low because it's been there for a year or two since we started.
I'm sure we can't keep up with production! Waste! If I thought that, on the contrary, it created a sense of premiere, or even higher prices and I don't know how to do business anymore.
… Now, it seems that the value of that white magnet, called "The White Porcelain of the Warcraft (Beast White)," is amazing.
Tonio and others, who are entrusted with the sale, say they are already busy enough to turn a blind eye.
I haven't been able to come back from the store I recently set up in the White Sail Capital, but is it really okay?
That's how, as we left it to the stream, places that were ruins of semi-submerged cities became more and more central to the river trade.
Now leather products and woodworking go down the river in a boat with Marutai, and from under the river a boat loaded with goods comes up in the wind on the sail.
The houses grow day by day, and the hammering and saw-drawing sounds of the craftsmen who make the buildings never stop all day.
At first, I lived in the village, and ended up staying here more often at work...
Eventually, due to the flow and necessity of the scene, the residence was transferred.
Though I still go thriving through that village because there is an untrained chapel that I had built around the corner.
But this city is my hub now.
- The city is called the Lightning River Port.