The World Tree was quite satisfied with the way it had led to a duel instead of a war.
It never really intended to grant Elcia freedom, though.
“What a foolish girl. Do you really think I’d let you go?”
Just thinking about Hyeji from earlier still made its roots and branches tremble.
In that sense, putting it to a duel was the best solution.
A woman in a blue martial arts uniform wouldn’t be able to defeat the Elf Warriors, and Kim Shinwoo wouldn’t have much of a chance either.
If, by some miracle, they did win, it wouldn’t be a problem.
Anyway, by the time the second duel was over, it was planning to kidnap Elcia right away.
“The transferral of life force will be completed in a bit of time.”
Earlier, their frantic actions were certainly fatal.
The existing core had already taken such severe damage that it was beyond repair.
So the World Tree was currently.
Creating a new core in the form of a small sphere to condense all the life force.
Once that process was over, it would kidnap Elcia and escape to a completely new place, then replant itself.
Naturally, all of this was to be orchestrated by the Pond Leaf Tribe.
While reviewing the future plans, the World Tree asked itself if Elcia was worth kidnapping.
“Of course.”
It answered without a moment’s hesitation.
Elcia’s talent.
Specifically, Elcia’s ability.
She likely thought it was just a power to manifest butterflies.
“In reality, it’s a far more profound ability. The fact that it carries the blood of elves is just a drawback.”
One of the very few genetic capabilities in the world.
Especially, the stronger the elven blood, the greater the effect.
Thus, the time when many elves had that ability was truly the golden age of elves.
But being too arrogant, they ended up picking fights with another dimension, which turned out to be their downfall.
Due to that incident, most elves perished, causing a break in the lineage of that ability and their decline.
The World Tree ordered the High Elves to encourage the purity of elven blood.
To revive the ability and regain the golden age of elves.
As a result, while the concentration of elven blood thickened, the rebuilding of the ability didn’t happen.
As ages passed, the World Tree was half-giving up.
Until quite by chance, it discovered a mixed-blood High Elf possessed that ability.
Though it was disappointing compared to pure blood, considering it had been lost, it was still quite grateful.
The initial plan was to use the pretense of a representative for welcoming the World Tree as bait, making contact with the Pond Leaf Tribe and pairing them up.
They had no thoughts and were in heat every moment, but due to their blind loyalty and strong combat power, the Pond Leaf Tribe was quite useful.
Ultimately, the World Tree’s plan was to create numerous elves with Elcia and bring back the golden age of elves.
In that process, as long as Elcia was alive, regardless of her emotions, that was all that mattered.
After all, what was important to the World Tree was the entire elven race, not just a single individual like Elcia.
Of course, as with everything in the world, it didn’t flow as desired.
“Still, this much is within the margin of error.”
The World Tree was smiling.
No matter how mad the combination of freaks was, without Hyeji, they were merely inferior short-lived beings to the World Tree.
For balance.
For the completion of this plan.
To welcome back the golden age of elves.
It was merely taking a moment to rest.
The World Tree was calmly observing the struggling short-lived beings.
The World Tree was smiling.
*
Fabianer. Commonly known as Fabian.
A High Elf from the Pond Leaf Tribe and 2nd in rank among the Elf Warriors.
His main weapon was a long spear that exceeded Fabian’s height. His secondary weapons included a single arming sword at his waist and three daggers.
His outer clothes were tight-fitting garments, green fabric with a slight sheen, except for leather added to joints like shoulders, elbows, and wrists.
It might look a bit armor-like for casual wear.
Yet, it definitely fell short of actual armor standards.
However, the pressure felt from being 2nd in rank among Elf Warriors was real.
Before the fight began, Fabian suddenly picked a fight with me.
“Short-lived! Do you know why you are inferior?”
“What is it, spear boy?”
Fabian gritted his teeth at the surprise spear attack.
Then, with a filthy grin, he placed his hand on his waist and slightly thrust his pelvis forward as if to emphasize his manhood.
“You are nothing but a cannon of the superior species that you will never dream of your whole life! Make sure to engrave that in your mind!”
At that, several High Elves watching from behind Fabian started to let out excited moans.
All of them blushing and twisting their legs, apparently already in heat.
“Darling! I can’t hold it anymore!”
“Brother! Send me off in one blow! Like we made our child!”
“Hurry and finish it, daddy! Do you want to see me lose my mind?”
“I’m over half daddy, let’s hurry and have a wank together!”
Given their speech, they probably seemed like his wives.
[…Disgusting and filthy.]
“Are you messing with me? You’re dead.”
You shouldn’t run away from this kind of thing.
Those bastards were as useless as Lucian, so the little brother would probably be similar.
“Neo Armstrong”
I loosened my belt.
As I was about to drop my pants, I said.
“Cyclone Jet.”
“Kim Shinwoo, you f*cking lunatic!!!!!!”
Just as I was completely dropping my pants, Hyeji threw an axe at me.
Thanks to the effect of the Defensive Coat, the axe bounced off, but fearing a follow-up attack, I hurriedly pulled my pants back up.
However, Fabian and his wives, who were right in front of me, roughly saw the size of my Juji and reacted differently.
Fabian pointed shakily at my Juji with a terrified expression.
“…Wild Horse?”
Meanwhile, Fabian’s wives had erased the pink glances they had been giving Fabian just moments ago.
Instead, they began glancing at my lower half.
‘Suddenly, I feel a bit sorry. This is an NTR vibe.’
[If things go south, become a Milf Hunter of the Forest of Elves.]
‘This loser idiot has no ability to write dirty stories, so that’s impossible.’
[True, he’s a guy with no experience to begin with.]
– Ouch, you bastards.
I thought I heard a faint whimper from somewhere, but I ignored it lightly since it wasn’t the first time.
At that moment, Fabian shouted and thrust his spear with all his might toward my solar plexus.
“You black-haired, cross-eyed bastard!!!”
“Don’t spout nonsense like the golden sun, you whore!”
I reacted a beat too slowly since I’d been lost in thought.
In a rush, I manifested a shield at 9 o’clock with my magical power tattoo and angled it up to deflect the spear.
– Kwa-jik!
“Are you insane?”
Fabian’s spear pierced right through the shield I created with magical power.
Though the spear tip didn’t touch my body since I had been raising it, experiencing my shield being pierced with a single attack was a first.
Still, Fabian’s spear was now lodged through my shield.
As it deeply burrowed inside, it pushed the shield outward, clearing the spear away.
At the same time, I manifested a hand axe at 4 o’clock with my magical tattoo and slammed it down on Fabian’s left shoulder.
– Kwa-jik!
The magically manifested hand axe embedded deep in Fabian’s left trapezius muscle.
However, that was all.
No matter how much I pushed, it felt as if the axe was being pushed back instead.
No.
The axe was truly being pushed back slowly.
“Damn. What the hell is this guy?”
[Focus!]
Fabian made no sound, instead trying to pull the arming sword from his waist with his left hand.
I released the axe from my hand and lowered my stance.
I promptly struck the pommel of the arming sword, which was half-drawn, with my right elbow to prevent it from being fully drawn.
In that state, I quickly stepped forward and stomped down, enhancing my left hand with magical power, and deeply thrust it forward.
– Puddududud!!!!
“Ugh!!!”
Fabian let out a short groan and was sent flying far away.
However, he didn’t drop any of his weapons, and when Fabian got back up, he appeared completely fine.
Instead, he roughly pulled out the axe lodged in his left trapezius and hurled it at me.
‘……The sensation of hand-to-hand was definitely like my solar plexus breaking.’
[Given the axe is embedded, it doesn’t seem to be like the Defensive Coat.]
While dodging the incoming axe, Fabian put away the arming sword in its sheath, targeting me with his spear and grinned ferociously.
“You hit pretty hard! Inferior race!”
“Yeah, but why the hell are you unharmed?”
“Did you think I would get hurt by an inferior race?!”
Thinking while observing Fabian as he slowly closed the distance.
The axe blade had surely penetrated deeply inside the muscle, even grazing my collarbone.
At that level, it should be a major hindrance to using his left arm.
Yet, Fabian moved his left hand without any issues and even managed to draw his arming sword.
The strange phenomena of the axe being pushed out and other weird happenings.
‘……The axe blade is being pushed out? Ah.’
[I understand now.]
Then, Piece seemed to also realize and spoke to me.
[That guy seems to have a recovery ability.]
‘The recovery speed is insane, seriously.’
Looking closely, the wound that had been bleeding from when the axe was lodged was now healing over with new flesh.
There were no traces left on the area where I thought his solar plexus had been dented.
Seeing Fabian’s unharmed state, the elves watching with bated breath cheered.
