45. Elvenheim

“Does it have to be broken to enter?”

“Uwueek…?”

Raven suddenly felt as if Yoohyeon was doing something, and he couldn’t help but admire how he brought himself to Elvenheim in an instant.

As if he had elongated his body and kneaded it again, a disorienting vomit, a sound that could not be ignored came to Raven’s ears.

‘What… Broke…?’

Raven, barely holding back his nausea, glanced up at the heat,

Tooung- Towoong-

In contrast to Yoohyeon’s tapping on the barrier as if knocking, there was a barrier that swayed as if it would break at any moment.

“No!!..Ugh.. No!! You can’t break it!”

Ravn, who hurriedly stood up, shouted earnestly, and Yoohyeon scratched his head and said to him.

“Ah.. I can’t believe I’m going to break the barrier? I just tapped it once..”

‘Two taps will break the barrier…’

Raven, who clearly witnessed the boundary that was oscillating dangerously, said while hiding his feelings.

“Of course it is.. Rather, there is a way for me to enter the barrier, so please wait for a moment..”

After saying that, Raven slowly touched the barrier and released a green aura.

Ugh-

Naturally, when the barrier opened enough for one person to enter, Raven turned his head and said.

“Well… Now that I see it, I don’t even know his name yet. What should I call him? Come in anyway.”

At Raven’s words, Yoohyeon entered the passageway in the barrier.

“My name is Yuhyeon Chun. Call me whatever you want.”

As Yoohyeon said it was not a big deal and entered the barrier, she felt that Freyja’s eyes, which were always directed at him, were not reaching him for a while.

A mysterious scene unfolded before Yoohyeon’s eyes.

I couldn’t see it well when I was inside the barrier, but when I entered the barrier, I saw huge trees that were too big to express, covering the entire city.

People are not visible, but a building naturally formed from the roots of an endlessly towering tree.

Unusually, I was amazed at the scenery of the city that became one with nature, such as the fact that the tree used to build the house was alive, with branches rising above the building.

“Ohh…This is where the elves live. Living in a place like this makes me understand why the energy is so pure.”

It is a city centered on a sacred tree that is likely to be tens of thousands of years old.

‘If I was in Murim, the guru would turn a blind eye and run at me.’

As Yoohyeon scanned the place overflowing with nature’s vitality to the extent that the word “Sweet spot” Was insufficient, she felt that someone was staring at her.

[Who are you..?]

A gentle woman’s voice rang in his ears.

“Heo Eok…! World Tree!”

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As soon as he heard that voice, Raven, who was standing next to Yoohyeon, knelt down with a voice full of emotion.

Maybe it’s because he felt that he was scanning the whole city with a sense of humor. He first identified the tone that was addressing him.

“Hmm… I guess it’s the spirit attached to that tree?”

[……]

It’s not common in Murim, but I didn’t think it was a big deal because I was Yoohyeon, who had seen a creature that had become a spiritual creature after living for more than a few hundred years communicating with humans.

“You! What the hell is that…”

Raven froths on the spot, unable to bear the brunt of Yoohyeon’s last words.

[Spirits..Whoops..A long time ago..When I was still young, they were called spirits..]

Perhaps Yoohyeon’s question was unpredictable. The voice, which did not answer for a while, answered with a laugh as if recalling her old memories.

[Rather than that..What did you come here for? You are the god of the other world..]

At the question of the World Tree, Yoohyeon was slightly surprised and said.

“Ohh.. It’s amazing how you guessed my identity.”

Yoohyeon looked curiously at the World Tree, which had penetrated his realm, even though he didn’t even show his strength.

[Is it because I am also incarnated as a divinity? The scene of you wiping out the hordes of the abyss.. It was a space where my roots are in power.. It was visible to me.]

“Oh…”

After hearing the explanation of the World Tree, Yoohyeon felt strange when he said that he had watched every move of the world without noticing it for the first time in a long time.

[A situation where I can’t afford to stop the offensive of the abyss anyway.

When Yoohyeon continued to refuse to answer World Tree’s questions, World Tree jumped ahead as if giving up on hearing an answer from him.

“Hmm? No need to worry about that. I came because the children I taught are here. I heard that most elves are summoned here?”

[Yes.. Elves are children who are born with the blessing of the World Tree, and the world is the best place to grow next to the World Tree. But I wonder if it’s still safe…]

“It’s fine. I think it’s still fine.”

As Yoohyeon said that and looked inside himself, he could feel that in addition to Rebecca and Yooeun, who were connected by a certain string, several more vague lines were connected.

Among them, though weak, they felt the freshness of nature. It was undoubtedly the energy of Elleigh and Ephrin.

[If so, I’m glad…]

At Yoohyeon’s boastful words, the cryptic World Tree was speechless.

[For now, would you like to come to the plaza I am pointing to? All the elves are gathered there to maintain the barrier right now. I hope you find the person you are looking for.]

After the voice of the World Tree stopped, the huge branches of the World Tree seemed to sway, and dawn began to fall over a part of the city hidden by the branches.

“Ohh…”

The scene where a part of the city shaded by the world tree is brightly lit was something that evoked mystery even to Yoohyeon, who lacked sensitivity.

Realizing that he had never seen a creature larger than this, Yoohyeon moved to the place the World Tree told him about.

At that time, the plaza of Elbenheim.

With the sudden appearance of the leader of the Abyss Corps without warning, half of the elves distributed throughout the land of Elvenheim were swept away defenselessly.

However, the war situation is severely unfavorable.

Half of the population had already been eaten by the abyss, and the endless offensive of the abyss pouring out from the abundant vitality of Elvenheim was impossible to withstand with only Elvenheim’s strength.

In such a hopeless situation, the best warriors, the watchmen, left to ask for help from the empire, which boasts an overwhelming population and is the only country on the continent with the power to solve this situation, betting the fate of Elbenheim.

The leader of Elvenheim. Under the decision of Laurelin, a High Elf and Queen of the Elves, with the last hope, Elvenheim built a barrier blocking the abyss.

It’s already been a week since they recklessly held out like that, and Elvenheim was divided into two groups and continued intense discussions.

A relatively young elf, wearing epaulettes symbolizing sentinels, shouted in frustration.

“If we stay like this, we’ll end everything! We have to fight somehow!”

Then, an elf elder who looked like an old elf even though he was sitting quietly spoke.

“Do you think this is a place for kids to play around? Where are you arguing recklessly about this place!”

However, the watchman did not give in to the words of the elven elder and spoke.

“Are you going to die without any resistance when the barrier collapses in the end if you just sit there and lose your strength?

At his words, the elder shouted with a red face as if he was angry.

“Are you going to fight the monsters out there with old and weak people who can’t even fight?”

As the elder said, the beginning of the Abyss offensive. Those who could fight made themselves victims to evacuate non-combatants, and naturally, the proportion of non-combatants was overwhelming among those who evacuated to Elvenheim.

“Keugh… But don’t you know that the elder and I don’t have enough energy anymore!”

“Great…”

At the words of the watchman, the elder also stroked his beard and said nothing.

“Certainly, the battle period is three days.. Let’s try our best, five days.. We will have to make a decision before that.. It’s not the time yet.”

The great magic that blocks the whole of Elvenheim is magic that uses the world tree as a medium, but what the magic consumes is the mana of the residents of Elvenheim.

Therefore, men and women of all ages were taking turns maintaining magic, but this situation seemed to have reached its limit.

Even now, while supplying mana to the magic circle while drawing a circle in the plaza, elves continue to fall down one after another, and the elves’ worries deepened.

At that time, when the world tree would normally cover the sunlight pouring into the plaza, while the surroundings were dark, the world tree moved and poured bright light into the plaza.

“This is..The World Tree’s..?”

-What kind of situation is this..?

Originally, elves, except for high elves and priests, could not directly communicate with the world tree, but now, the elves in the plaza began to stir at the gesture of the world tree, which was clearly determined and reflected on them.

At the time when tens of thousands of elves were looking up at the sky, a figure appeared in the bright air.

“Huh? What is that? A person..?”

“Are you a wizard…?”

At first, a few personnel, and then most of the elves discovered the identity of the figure, of course, was Yoohyeon.

“Hmm… I made a mistake on this. I moved to the sky for no reason.”

Surprisingly, since humans don’t normally look at what’s above their heads, Yoohyeon, like his habit, moved to the empty space where the light the World Tree told him was shining down.

However, since it was a place that drew attention enough to be called a spotlight for modern people, as soon as he moved, Yoohyeon felt goosebumps when he saw countless elves looking straight at him.

“Shut up!!”

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