Chapter 225
—Guardian! What are you saying……!
—Are you afraid?
The Guardian asked Natura. Then Natura, who had been angry, immediately denied it.
—Of course not! It’s just that you said ‘we elves.’ You’re not planning to participate in that plan yourself, are you?
—Of course I must. This is a matter of the village’s survival. I can’t let my brothers fight while I alone run away.
—You may do so. The Guardian is the same as our identity. Besides, since you said you’d use the essence of the World Tree as a lure, there’s no reason for the Guardian to step forward.
—Natura is right. The other elf warriors will think the same. Please reconsider.
At Vita and Natura’s dissuasion, the Guardian yielded his intention.
—I understand. Let’s do that then.
Thus, the Guardian eventually decided to evacuate outside the World Tree with some elves who couldn’t fight.
‘I persuaded the Guardian…… I wonder how the other elves will be.’
It was because the hostile reaction I saw before entering the temple was concerning.
Contrary to my worries, the elves were quite cooperative. The gazes they sent us were still not kind, but there was no open criticism.
It seemed largely thanks to the Guardian turning favorable toward us. It was fortunate in many ways.
With the elves’ help, we scooped up all the World Tree essence that had pooled in the stump in front of the temple and divided it into several containers.
After that, we headed to the underground location where we would lure the Nex, guided by Vita.
“So this is…….”
I looked around and barely finished my words.
“The place the Nex destroyed?”
—That’s right.
“Really, it’s terrible.”
That was all I could say. The tree trunk path leading to where the Nex were trapped was also strange with bark peeling off in places, but the completely destroyed place was horrible. The tree trunk connected to the floor was completely bright red.
If I hadn’t heard from Vita that it turned that color due to the Nex’s poison, I would have thought the tree was bleeding like a human.
—Hurry and place the containers. One at the end here, and the rest at regular intervals should work.
At Vita’s words, the elves moved quickly. They placed containers filled with World Tree essence to connect with the barrier where the Nex were trapped.
And Isaac, Reno, and Vita along with other elf warriors decided to wait below so they could immediately kill the scout individuals they lured.
After that, I came back up near the barrier with Natura.
Since there was nothing I could do down below anyway, I planned to stay near Meliana and Killis and be inside the barrier together.
In case Killis ran out of mana, I could also provide emergency treatment…….
“You’ve arrived, Your Highness.”
“It seems you persuaded them well.”
Following Killis, Meliana welcomed us. Meliana looked at Natura who came with me and was about to say something, but closed her mouth again at his hostile gaze.
“The barrier, is it okay?”
“As far as we can see, there’s nothing wrong……”
—It’s about to break. It’ll break if we wait just a little longer.
Natura informed us from the side. To think it would break soon when it looks so fine…….
“Are we just going to wait for it to break? Can’t we do it right away?”
—You, fool! If you don’t know, at least stay quiet!
“W-what?”
“Insolent.”
The guardians behind Meliana silently drew their swords.
—What? You want to try?
Just when the atmosphere was about to turn ugly, making my mediation meaningless, I was about to intervene. Unexpectedly, Meliana spoke first.
“Everyone put your swords away!”
At that, the twin guardians and Cain sheathed their swords again. Then Meliana looked at Natura again and said.
“My guardians are sensitive, so that’s why. I’d appreciate it if you could be careful with your words too. I really asked because I was curious just now.”
—Hmm, hmm. Who told you to cause such a big accident.
Unexpectedly, when Meliana took a humble stance, Natura also seemed to lose his will to fight.
He cleared his throat awkwardly and shrugged his shoulders.
—Anyway, spirits prioritize their contractor’s commands above all. But that spirit has lost its master. What do you think that means?
“What?”
“Since there’s no contractor to withdraw that command, it would only keep following that command.”
—Right.
At Killis’s words, Natura crossed his arms and nodded.
—In the worst case, it keeps following the command until the spirit disappears. Brother Pinus’s spirit is the same.
“Until it disappears?”
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