Chapter 64
“Ughhh! Why is everyone getting in my way like this!”
The neighboring kingdoms that she had been contacting periodically to maintain friendly relations.
To think that all those kingdoms were preparing to wage war using love as their justification.
“There’s a limit to what can be resolved through conversation…”
She didn’t know where exactly things had gone wrong.
But the current situation of the Maselin Kingdom was absolutely not good.
“Even if we just keep exchanging Magic, it’s too bad. Our Wizards will eventually get exhausted!”
Mirne tried to suppress her anger alone, but she felt that the fire in her heart wouldn’t easily go out.
If she had the Wizards of the Magic Tower at a time like this, it would have been incredibly convenient.
Lamentably, the Wizards of the Magic Tower were already confirmed to be entirely affiliated with the Empire.
Even the Genius Wizard Teo, whom she had trusted, had already gone over to work under the Crown Prince.
If only she had the World Tree at a time like this.
If only she could use it to raise Spirit Affinity to the extreme and train Spirit Masters.
“Ughhhh… I need to go meet Eiloren right now, so why do I have to be tied down here!”
Mirne roughly messed up her own hair.
Then she focused on coming up with a way to immediately break through the current situation.
The surroundings were constantly provoking wars.
Because they thought a war wouldn’t actually break out.
“…Where the hell did that damn rumor spread from, anyway! Who spread the rumor that… if they wage war, they can hear my answer!”
As a result of investigating the source of the rumor.
It was said that it didn’t spread from a specific place, but rather spread simultaneously across the kingdoms in the Western Region.
It was truly a wonder how that could even be possible.
“Did someone intentionally… No, who would even be capable of doing that.”
Mirne ignored the possibility that momentarily came to mind.
That was an impossible feat.
Seeing how the rumor spread simultaneously, it seemed like it just happened because Human psychology was mostly similar.
She couldn’t just leave this as it was.
“…I really didn’t want to do this normally, but.”
Being swayed any longer was out of the question.
Now was the time she truly needed the World Tree.
Only then could she slowly start contracting with Spirits, enter the Spirit Realm once, and so on.
Therefore.
“…I’ll have to go to war.”
Mirne decided to face the war head-on.
It was an unavoidable choice to completely put an end to the rumors.
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“…If you kill us, you won’t be able to avoid the World Tree’s punishment!”
“Does that mean I can kill you if I’m prepared to be punished?”
Slash.
Splaash!
As I sliced the inner thigh of the Elf, blood spurted out like a fountain.
I thought the color of their blood would be different since they were a different Race, but it was the same red.
“I thought it would be blue or green.”
Kuaaaagh!
I ignored the scream that came a step late.
It wasn’t like they lost a limb, yet they were making such a fuss over something like this.
If they were going to scream in pain over this much, I didn’t know why they even acted so tough.
“Earlier, even while under Subjugation, you acted like you were going to chew me up, but your attitude sure changed completely.”
“Th-That’s… S-Suddenly… I’m sorry.”
Just from getting their inner thigh sliced once, the Elves' momentum completely died down.
There were two captured Elves; I was holding onto one.
And the other one was.
“Your Highness, this one has spat out all of the Elves' Boundary Spells. Now, even if we break through the Barrier, no wave will be left behind.”
On Pavan’s side.
To put it accurately, should I say they were cooperating.
At first, they had strongly resisted.
But when Pavan lightly squeezed their palms with both hands.
Craaack.
“…P-Please stop, I’ll tell you everything I know… Please!”
They immediately blabbed all the information they knew.
“I didn’t know there was a separate way to see the World Tree.”
First of all, a special Magic was required to see the World Tree.
Come to think of it, it was strange.
Going by Pavan’s explanation, the World Tree was supposed to be incredibly huge.
Yet, no matter how much I raised my head to look, I couldn’t see such a large tree.
“To think the Elves hid it so thoroughly that we have to learn a separate Magic just to see it.”
Just how cowardly were they to be afraid of even showing the World Tree.
Still, as a result of capturing the Elves, I was able to quickly learn the Magic to see the World Tree.
“Hah. It’s definitely big.”
I didn’t know when it was invisible.
But once I became able to perceive the World Tree, my mouth naturally fell open at its astonishing size.
Even when I raised my head as much as possible, I couldn’t see the end of it.
I wondered just how high it soared; from the middle section onwards, it was completely above the clouds.
“They were planning to take this and cross over to Maselin? No, can it even be crossed over in the first place?”
“If the High Elves combine their strength, they can move the World Tree once. Of course, they can’t do it frequently.”
“What’s the condition?”
“Once every thousand years.”
Once every thousand years.
Did that mean once the World Tree’s location was moved, it could stay in that state for a thousand years?
“Then does that mean the moment it moves to Maselin, a Thousand-Year Empire is confirmed?”
It was truly a blatant device meant to make Maselin wealthy and powerful.
I felt that I absolutely had to either steal or burn the World Tree.
If the Elves were a Race that was friendly or kind to Humans, my thoughts would have been different, but.
“…How on earth could Humans, an Inferior Race, do this to us…”
“You spit out criticism the moment you turn your eyes; it seems you’ve never had a history of getting beaten by other Races?”
Looking at their actions, they were knife-ears through and through.
But thinking about it the other way around, considering that such a Race would give special treatment only to Mirne.
“That won”t be easy either.'
I thought it was a real relief that I did the Confession Attack.
Because that alone bought a tremendous amount of time, allowing me to make contact with the World Tree first.
Anyway.
“Now that we can see the World Tree and won’t get caught in the Barrier, we can just head straight to meet the High Elves.”
Since I had acquired all the information I could get right now.
I gave Pavan a look, signaling her to gather all the Elves.
“I also understand how they run away.”
I thought they would disappear like Magic the moment they felt an Anomalous Sign.
But if it wasn’t that, and instead a method where several High Elves combined their strength to flee.
“Then I just have to prevent them from combining their strength.”
There was definitely a way to stop their escape.
“Shall we quickly claim it, the World Tree.”
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The forest where the Elves lived was peaceful.
Because they resorted to any means and methods to protect this peace.
They would do anything as long as a tranquil atmosphere could be maintained.
However, if that became impossible, they would run away.
The Elves, who had thoroughly kept this principle, for the first time in history.
“All High Elves, assemble.”
Not only allowed the intrusion of a Human.
BOOM!
But also witnessed the sight of the World Tree being scorched by the flames created by that Human.
“It’s an intrusion! A Human intrusion!”
“How did an Inferior Race get here!”
“A variable has occurred! Variable occurred! We must immediately summon the High Elves and evacuate with the World Tree!”
“Stop the Human!”
It was an incredibly huge shock, but the Elves tried to calmly handle the situation.
They didn’t know how he got in, but he was just a Human anyway.
They concluded that the difference in power would be overwhelming, so they could quickly pressure him.
“High Elves, prepare to move the World Tree! Combatants, step forward and neutralize the Human!”
Just as they were about to punish the Golden Hair and Red Eyes Human who had fearlessly appeared with such quick judgment.
“Wait! Wait a minute! No! Don’t attack! I could die too!”
“Me too! I’m here too!”
“…?!”
Behind the Human.
They stopped all their actions at the shouts of the beings tucked under both arms of a woman with a visibly tall and massive build.
“Dorareun… Hegail!”
Dorareun and Hegail.
They were beings known to have quite strong martial prowess even among the Elves.
As soon as they realized those two had been helplessly captured, most of the Elves lost their will to fight in an instant.
“…Dorareun and Hegail being captured means they”re stronger than them, right.'
“Besides, seeing how they were Subjugated without a single injury… aren”t they ridiculously strong?'
“Can we win? Aren”t we just going to die for nothing if we fight?'
Because they were a cowardly Race, the Elves were extremely reluctant to engage in combat itself in the first place.
As soon as they faced a situation where life and death could be on the line, their morale plummeted like a lie.
Of course, they did have the thought that they needed to save their comrades.
But before that, due to the nature of Elves who cherished their own bodies terribly.
The fear that they could get hurt or die firmly gripped their bodies first.
“They’re all frozen stiff without a single bit of resistance, to the point it’s almost anticlimactic.”
“The Elves are a Race that is far removed from fighting itself. Even if they engaged in general toying and hunting, they avoided all battles in evenly matched states.”
“Are you saying they have no fighting Spirit.”
“Yes, that is correct.”
The Human and the Giant.
While the two conversed calmly, they were rapidly Subjugating the High Elves gathering in this place.
To the point where the word 'anticlimactic' naturally came out.
The entire Race that had lived for a long time could be seen helplessly collapsing.
“Is this even possible?”
No matter how much they distanced themselves from conflict.
Was it right for them to be doing absolutely nothing like this in the face of the crisis of extermination?
Why on earth were the High Elves not putting up any resistance at all.
No matter how strong the Giant was, they should at least be able to struggle.
It was incomprehensible that an entire Race was being pushed back by just two people.
Did they use some sort of trick? Did some unknown special power exist?
Around the time the Elves were truly unable to do anything and were just staring at the Human and the Giant.
[ The Villainess, rejoices. ]
[ The Villainess is saying that the expression of affection just now was very good. ]
[ The Villainess says it’s been a really long time and that she wants to touch you. ]
[ The Villainess Subjugates all beings interfering with the reunion. ]
“Hah.”
The Crown Prince, Bellon, stared at the messages popping up before his eyes as if he was dumbfounded.
“A long time?”
'I' was seeing the World Tree for the first time.
But did that mean the Crown Prince wasn’t? But the Crown Prince would have also seen it after regressing.
“The World Tree remembers the regression? But what the hell does it mean by expression of affection.”
The moment Bellon had that thought.
- I couldn’t understand why the World Tree… liked being hit
- But it couldn’t be helped in order to buy the World Tree’s favor
- A whip… was needed
- Honestly, it was something I felt a great aversion to
- To think I had to whip the World Tree?
The Crown Prince’s Memory rose to the surface as if it had been waiting.
“…”
Bellon stared at the World Tree without a word.
So the World Tree was currently the Villainess, and her tastes leaned towards being an M?
“A female… World Tree?”
The shock was only momentary.
“What on earth is going on! No, how did this… even before meeting Mirne.”
“What?”
At the line of the Elf who belatedly revealed himself, Bellon’s head sharply turned in that direction.
Because he hadn’t made direct contact with Mirne yet, the information didn’t pop up properly.
Therefore, since the narrative hadn’t built up, he also knew that he couldn’t kill him.
He was also aware that even if he killed him, he would quickly be replaced by another character.
However.
“I can at least do some behavioral correction in advance.”
Still, education didn’t seem impossible.
It just so happened that the position of Gardener #1 was vacant, too.
As Bellon muttered that and looked towards Eiloren.
[ The Villainess strongly appeals that she wants you to only look at her. ]
[ She asks you to quickly trample her roots mercilessly like before. ]
The Villainess’s appeals continued.
“…”
It was a moment where the Crown Prince’s psychological pressure was 100% understood.