CH 61

The forest was seemingly quiet on the outside. However, Ivan could feel the dark magic mixed in it. There was a lot of miscellaneous energy.

“The forest is in disrepair. Much worse than it looked from the outside.”

Irene murmured lowly. The condition of the forest was so strange that even she, who had closed herself to the World Tree, can sense it. Naturally, the Fairy Legion sensed it much more directly.

“It seems they have been preparing for much longer than expected. Surprisingly, they didn’t notice until this happened.”

The commander of the Fairy Legion, Philane Greywood, looked around. There were no outward emotions, but he could guess from his attitude that the atmosphere of the forest was very unpleasant.

If the elves were uncomfortable with the forest, it meant that the current forest had deviated from its normal state for a long time.

“It’s frustrating. This isn’t the forest I know.”

Ferocious Tooth stared at somewhere with sharp eyes. It seemed that his warrior instinct continued to signal danger.

“They are adjusting the ground to make it easier to summon demons. As time goes on, it will become more and more like the Demon Realm. The inside will be worse.”

Delfino and the priests of the Kundara Temple raised a prayer after giving a warning like that. The divine power spread, and the demonic magic that had touched everyone’s nerves retreated.

Meanwhile, Ivan swung his spear repeatedly. (dlazarturead(dot)wordpress(dot)com)

Swish!

Lightly stab the air and return it. Then he takes a step forward and then stops.

Ivan looked at the imaginary enemy right in front of him and then looked at the bird flying in the distance again.

Ivan frowned.

‘As expected, the response is a little slow.’

It wasn’t even that long ago that he lost his eye. However, Ivan fought fiercely in the meantime, and a strange habit was formed because of it.

Apparently, not being able to see one eye was a fatal weakness, and he became overly defensive to cover that weakness. Even when he should have attacked, he unconsciously evaded or defended and distanced himself.

Now that he had his eyes back, he was preparing to pull his body back unconsciously even when he didn’t need to. When he tried to change it consciously again, he flinched, and the reaction was a little delayed.

People said that if you take a day off, you have to devote three days to make up for it, and he did just that.

‘I think it’ll be fine after fighting at least once.’

Ivan was the type who grew up through real battle rather than practice. I think he’ll find a sense of it again if he gets used to it by warming up his body moderately against an enemy, but Ivan never had a chance.

This place was originally a place with many monsters, and now it’s even more ferocious with the demon’s dark magic, but even those affected by the magic did not attack now. The momentum emitted by the fairy legion was that strong.