104. Seo Jinhyuk: Exposition

104. Seo Jinhyuk: Exposition

The dark elf village I returned to at full speed had been reduced to ruins.

It was a truly horrific sight, enough to make all our efforts to protect it from the snake-dragon seem meaningless. Even the tower that had once soared high into the sky was collapsing.

My heart pounded at this incomprehensible situation. I hurriedly spread my mana and searched for Eleanor.

And that brings us to the present.

-Puhk.

A black spike, seemingly woven anew from the branches the snake-dragon had controlled with shadow magic.

A strange flow of mana emanated from the spike protruding through Eleanor's back. It felt familiar somehow.

The spike extended from an unknown black mass far away. The mass writhed and took shape.

A roughly humanoid figure, as though it had been molded from a sloppy lump of mud with too few components to be called human...