After the great tree, which had been swamped by worms and was dying, regained a little vibrancy.
Even though the elves used to expose their joy, the joy gradually disappeared.
And only when, they looked embarrassed.
"… William. Are you sure about this?
Mr. Dine asks, as he represents them.
"What is it?
"If you do this and a dragon or a demon notices you..."
"That's important."
Nodding. It does matter.
Already at the foot east of the mountains. If we get this close, we won't be inverting the force that stretched us to the west all at once to the east, but still the risk is high.
"Then... Huh!
"But."
Turn your palm against Mr. Dine, who is trying to recruit something further.
"There can be no more abandoning this settlement right now. By the time we get back, we'll have no idea how many dead people there are."
Poison. Monster. Food. Supplies. I don't have time to list the ingredients that make someone die in this place.
Plus, there's a chance we won't be able to come back.
It is a fool's deed to try more than to fight and be willing to win, but that's why he doesn't think about it at all after he loses.
"So this is fine"
As I proclaimed to the Immortal, I am not willing to abandon someone and win.
Me and Menel took that vow, and we're going to keep it.
And that's why God is giving me extraneous protection.
The question of whether to break an oath or not is even more so now.
"……… Are you sure?
"On the Goddess Light, I have no regrets"
Yes, I have no regrets.
Perhaps from the chilling sensation of the neck muscle, it turned out not to be very good, but I'm ready for that too.
That's from the day I chose this way of life. It's just...
"- Lu, Mr. Leistoff, Mr. Gerreyes, I'm sorry you got into this at my convenience, too."
Menel, anyway, is a less involved story for the other three.
Inside, if you may not feel too comfortable, lower your head.
"I knew I would, and I didn't mind.
Without Lord Will, I wouldn't have made it this far. "
Probably would have died on the way.
Yes, Lulu laughed.
"You're right, young man."
Mr. Gerreyes nods slowly with his usual harsh face.
"Right, now. … more about you than that, I would go straight ahead like this"
Mr. Leistoff understands my behavior patterns.
Thankful.
"Oh, keep going straight..."
"Yeah. Could you show us to the nearest underground?
... Oh, the ship will be thrown away, so please let go of the loads and food that you couldn't hold. We also have a simple map. "
I throw it away to push because it is possible that you will not accept it when I say I will give it away.
... Once someone in the elf uses our boat to retrace to the lake and head to the town by the lake, the gas will take care of the rest.
He would be fluent in elf, and he knows our city is under the river.
…………
"If the enemy had noticed, then speed would say things. So hurry up."
"Okay."
Mr. Dine nodded, and gazed at the elves behind him to make sure something was up.
And turn around,
"Inside, let one go to the news.... so take us too. It should be like a shield or something."
Uniquely, with a ready look, I said so.
Menel says something to it, but I control it.
"I don't want to. Insufficient force."
I cut the readiness and dropped it.
"………………"
Even though they said they recovered, they just removed toxins and temper from the body.
Health, invaded and decayed by poison all the time, cannot be recovered by prayer.
Even the best of them don't have a very good look.
"I can't afford to walk with my feet."
I assure you, Mr. Dine distorted his face.
"This is all you've got to do...... just ask me to let you go to the dead end?
"Yeah."
"It's humiliating…………………."
Mr. Dine, who shrugged so with wrinkles between his eyebrows, seemed to drink something terribly bitter.
"But, okay, I got it. … let us obey your judgment."
"But Dinelindo"
"This is too much"
"- Are you going to distract yourself from your helplessness and apply shame?
Although the elves behind it try to utter words of protest to their mouths.
Mr. Dine, who turned around again, silenced it.
"We are now sick and weak, no matter what we raise. He's a weak person…………."
It was the kind of word I would say to myself.
"- This way. Follow me."
She walked out.
Tears of remorse seeped into the slightly visible, tiny eyes.
Menel hisses and talks.
"Hey Will. Oh, I……………"
"No, I should have told you."
Menel would have taken on the haters.
But maybe, because that's too cruel.
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It was a strange metal door, stuck in a giant arch of stone.
Its doors, mixed with Dwarf-style creation and elf-style decorations, have multiple inscriptions of the Word.
From the gap, there was a toxic air leak.
"The West Gate…… Again, I don't know if this is the day to come."
Mr. Gerreyes snapped emotionally.
"This is the entrance to the Land of Candles…………"
Lu also looked at the door, often pulling his lips together, silent.
Everyone hasn't said anything for a while.
It's been two hundred years for Mr. Gerreyes. And it's Lu's first home.
"... are you sure you want to move on here?
"Yeah."
The magic and prayers of the poison-resistant system are repeated on each side.
Menel calls for some more fairies of the wind to gather fresh and clean air around him.
Mr. Leistov ran his gaze around without alarm, and Mr. Gerreis and Lu also have no spare time for the final inspection of the weapons.
In the meantime, I put my gaze around the door.
Just around the human hand, a large metal door knocker following the flowers was placed.
Read the Word, which was engraved large near it, a lot more frightened, carefully.
"" Knock it off (Pulsate) "," Otherwise it opens "Eto Aperietur" … "For you (Warbees)"
If carefully observed, the doors were made of exorcised metal that the refining method had lost, and were blessed with multiple blessings.
Bad god's family members will suffer serious damage just because they come close to poorly on the beating.
It was still an unrepeatable door at the current technical level, made of advanced technology from the Great Federal Age (Union Age).
"Lu.... knock on the door, that's the signal"
I called out to my sweet friend with red hair.
"Lord Will. … that, me,?
"Lu is the right man."
The original heir to the lost Land of Candles is him.
So I have the right to open this door - there is no one else but Lu.
"You should."
".................. Yes"
Lu hesitated for a while to be silent, eventually pulling his lips together and facing the door.
He's a long shot as a dwarf, but he looks smaller on a boulder when he faces a huge big door.
He took one breath.
――……
I used a door knocker and knocked on the door twice with a solemn gesture.
Ko, ko, and the good sound sounds twice.
Then the Word engraved on the door shines, and the perimeter of the gate rings slightly.
Slowly, heavily, as if to welcome us with open arms.
- At that moment, a mighty chill ran.
"………………!?
My whole body is stiff and my nose pops.
It's just one image I can slap on the head.
gazing at us (...), reptile-meshed (...), golden-eyed (...).
I get shot in the heart, and my chest hurts.
My legs tremble. I think I'm going to fall off my knees.
"Ha... Ha, ha..."
It disturbs my breath and makes me rough.
Instinct grabbed the chest of reason with all his strength, screaming insanely.
- Run. Run. Run, run! Throw everything away and run away! You can't win!
"... ugh, gu..."
If you notice, all your friends are on their knees holding their breasts.
It seems that some people have already fainted, such as Mr. Elves.
In the image behind the brain, the golden eye is narrowed, along with the killer.
The pressure increases even more.
My anxiety and fear mess up my mind.
Unexpectedly, I was about to get on my knees.
"……………!
Eat your teeth off.
Strengthen the muscles throughout your body, open your eyes, and step on the ground with both feet.
When you calm your wavy mind and forcefully control your disturbed breathing...
"Courage!"
He spoke aloud of the Word, which meant courage and power.
At the same time that the authority of the Word spread around - so that it could be played, both the heavy pressure and the image of the golden eyes disappeared.
"... ha... ha"
Just. Then, leave a laughing sign.
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"… I knew, they noticed…………."
This is not the devil's intention.
General, no, even a demon in the throne of kings would not be able to do such a work.
Since the Tree Spirit of Immortality, despair and heavy pressure like never before felt.
I've given it to you with just one glance.
- No wonder the dragon did it.
Even the gods at first glance, the Immortal prophesies death to me, the evil dragon of the gods.
"Sickle of Disaster (Varakhiaka) ……"
Regardless, the devil didn't think he could fool this one with a small hand.
From before and after purifying the Lord of the Forest, I also somehow knew that I had been perceived because I had a sense of chilliness in my neck muscles.
Though I knew it - but I didn't know it was out of standard so far.
"... Ha, ha! Damn............!
Menel breathes loudly, slapping her trembling leg over and over again.
"Phew... Phew..."
Mr. Leistoff is slowly getting his breath ready.
The hand gripped the pattern of the sword firmly.
Mr. Gerreyes and Lu are preventing him from leaning against the door and managing to fall.
- Turn around, the Elves were all faint, except for Mr. Dine.
"Ah, ah...... eh"
Even Mr. Dine, who is safe, is entering the ground, shuddering and weeping.
Simply gazing and killing was also an easy damage.
"... eh"
So this is the dragon, and this is hostile to the dragon?
... I expected it, but I can't prohibit war for the first time out of that too standard.
Digits are different from dragons. Even compared to the "Wood Spirit (Echo)" of the Immortal, it would be above in the sense of combat power.
"Are we going to try something like this………?
Suddenly, Mr. Dine shrugged.
"Yeah. I'm here to try."
Looking up at the nearby reddish mountains.
... of White Sail Capital. I thought of the peaceful scene of the Lightning River Harbor.
The whiteness of the sails that cross rivers and seas, and cheerful boat songs.
Start with Shannon and smile at the children.
the bragging of people who put their energy into their daily work.
"To get the mountains back. I'm here to restore my peace."
Again, re-grip the pattern of "Pale Moon".
The spear I used a lot longer was familiar to my hand to suck on, just like the first time I had it.
One word, utter the Word and light the eartips.
... Everyone was already in shape before I said anything.
With the weapon in his hand, he restarts his mind and stands firm.
Everybody looks good, I thought.
I'm ready, a warrior's expression.
"So I'm going"
"I'll manage to get home alive."
"Yeah. Doesn't make a difference."
"……… I will do my best."
"Uhm."
Saying so to my mouth, I turn to the door.
Beyond the open door, a dark tunnel awaited us, like a flat, creepy open mouth.
"……… Wait."
I heard Mr. Dine.
Turning around, she stood up with trembling feet and looked straight at us.
With a faded face, still gracefully palm your left chest...
"-We, the Elves of the Land of Flowers (Rossdoll), will not forget this grace.
I hereby swear to my grandgod Rare Sylwia. Sooner or later, I will reward you for your generosity. "
To bless, laugh.
"May the good gods and the Spirit of courage bless you in your journey"
Everyone snorted, smiling back.
That's how we walk.
of stone, to the tunnels of the Dwarves.
Root of the Iron Rust Mountains. The remains of the once flourishing Land of Candles. Downhill in the dark.
Without looking back, I walk.