Chapter 170
The video was a little dark at first, but it slowly brightened up to reveal a male elf who held an unconscious little child next to him.
[Elder Condae, we have secured Myuu.]
[Good work. Everyone will return to their places now. Even Yuria Helishana will not be able to successfully summon a spirit when the entire forest is corrupt.]
The elf speaking in the video with a creepy smile was Elder Condae.
[But, sir... Using this child even if she’s half...]
[Ahem, are you not going to obey me?
Tsk tsk,
these youngsters... That kind of insubordination would not have happened back in my day. You do as you are told; defy me and face the consequences right away.]
[...Understood.]
[Haha, don’t forget that my will is also the will of the World Tree and the Saint of the Divine Tree.]
It was ridiculous seeing an ass draped in a lion’s skin.
[U... Understood.]
The young elf who was frowning in shock stared at the sleeping little girl, Myuu, whom Elder Condae was holding onto.
[If you want to blame someone, blame Lady Yuria, the one who defied the will of the World Tree and the Saint.]
Then, the video showed Elder Condae throwing Myuu into the middle of the swamp, the origin of corruption.
Clearly, Elder Condae had snuck back here like he knew nothing when he was the one who had accelerated the corruption in the forest.
“E... Elder Condae. What is...”
“Th—This is...”
When all the other elves looked at him in shock, Elder Condae became flustered. He did not know what to do.
“Sir Davey, do you think Rinne’s cinema is excellent?”
“Sure, excellent.”
“Requesting more compliments.” Rinne put her hands on her waist and puffed up her flat chest with a bright expression.
As Rinne confidently asked for more compliments, Davey smiled and said, “Sure, good job.”
“Re... Requesting more compliments! Requesting for materialistic compliments!”
“Stop it.”
“Hmph.” Rinne clicked her tongue, then glared at Condae.
Yuria said coldly, “Do you have anything more to say? Disgusting traitor.”
Although Condae always made a big fuss about getting rid of Myuu, it was a completely different story now. He had actually thrown a child, who was with abundant life energy, into the origin of corruption to accelerate it.
In response to Yuria, Elder Condae shouted back in feigned disbelief, “H... How could I! This is a conspiracy! It is a conspiracy! How dare someone conspire against an elder... Keugh?!”
However, Condae’s punishment came quickly. An arrow pierced his shoulder in an instant.
“If Rinne did not go and rescue Myuu after you left her like that, she would be dead. Do you understand?!” Yuria shouted at Condae furiously.
Elder Condae remained silent. Then, he looked around and glanced at the other elves, who all stared back in shock. They looked at him like they knew he would do this kind of thing. Some even looked at him with criticism, as if they were saying that he had gone too far.
“This is too...”
“How could you do this kind of thing, Elder Condae?”
At last, Elder Condae gave up pretending and screamed in fury, “This is all because of you! If you did not defy the will of the World Tree, none of this would have even happened!! You betrayed and disobeyed the World Tree!”
The elves had a strange custom of trusting people based on one’s art in spirit magic.
They began shouting one by one until almost all the elves eventually agreed with Yuria. They were choosing to trust in Yuria and making this decision on their own after facing reality. This was the kind of freedom she wanted to give this forest’s residents.
—The girl is much more outstanding than I thought. I wonder if she knows that she would have lost her life if she just messed up a little bit.
While listening to Perserque, Davey put his fingers on Myuu’s neck. He commented, “Her life energy is gone.”
“Rinne acknowledges the mistakes. Analyzing that lots of life energy was drained even with a fast rescue.”
“It’s okay, she will recover if she receives healing magic and eats and rests well.”
Davey felt guilty, because both Yuria and himself had used Myuu. This child might grow up and hate him after remembering this incident.
“I can’t...look at Myuu anymore,” Yuria mumbled depressingly as if she knew that possibility as well. Her red eyes had tears which threatened to fall at any minute. “I had to ignore her until we got rid of the traitors, even though I knew it was dangerous.”
Yuria approached Davey, who was casting a recovery magic spell on Myuu with a little holy power, and hugged Myyu. She murmured, “I’m sorry... Myuu, I’m sorry...”
“Hm...”
At the same time, Myuu moved a little and opened her eyes after regaining consciousness from the magic spell. While recovering her life energy, she glanced at Yuria and was confused. She asked softly, “Hm... Why are you crying...?”
“I’m sorry. Myuu, I’m sorry... I am so sorry. I knew you were going to be in danger... But I... I ended up pulling you into this dirty fight for power,” Yuria replied tearfully.
Myuu began tearing up as Yuria began to sob, then hugged and patted her on the back. She said, “Mm... Mm, don’t cry, sis. You always comforted me and patted me on the back when I cried. And that made the tears go right back inside.”
“Myuu...”
“Myuu really likes you, sis.”
Yuria sobbed loudly and held Myuu in her arms as the child smiled brightly.
Davey silently looked away and noticed the Demon Lord was quietly looking at them with reddened eyes. He thought,
‘Man, you are emotional.’
—Your emotions are just dried up.
‘Well, I don’t feel good either.’
Sighing, Davey stared at Spirit King Gnoass who was purifying the forest while boasting his huge presence. Then, he called Myuu, “Myuu.”
“Hmm... Uncle?”
“Myuu, you said you wanted to see Gnoass, right?”
Myuu wiped her tears and nodded.
“Do you want to see him very much?”
“Yeah. Gnoass! Is Gnoass going to be friends with Myuu, too?”
As Myuu asked that question with an innocent face, Davey silently stared at the supreme Earth Spirit King Gnoass. He thought of forcing him to listen if he was going to reject. However, it seemed like his concerns were unnecessary.
[An innocent soul. Very clean. The Earth always welcomes innocent souls.]
‘This damn pedophile...’
“Gnoass says he wants to be friends as well. Anyways, you, stop moving so much. Your movements cost too much mana.”
Everyone stared at Davey in shock and bewilderment as they heard him say that to Gnoass. An elementalist was complaining to the Spirit King to not move unnecessarily since his fuel efficiency wasn’t good. The others were even more shocked because it wasn’t a regular spirit, but the Spirit King.
[I refuse, contractor. I know very well about exaggeration. Contractor, there is no way you cannot tolerate my power when I can be physically summoned.]
“Yay!!” Myuu, who was jumping up and down in joy, let out a gasp in surprise when she saw Gonass, the huge soil giant who was in front of her. “Woah... So big! Su~uper big!”
As Myuu ran over and tapped on Gnoass’ huge foot in delight, Gnoass began moving his other hand with one still dug into the ground. Then, he slowly picked Myuu up onto his shoulder and began moving.
‘This guy, I told him to stop moving like that.’
At Davey’s annoying gaze, Gnoass moved more actively and made Myuu even more delighted. Looking at it like this, the spirit looked like a grandfather giving a piggyback to his grandchild.