Sian Rudflika, daughter of one of the highest elven elders.

The first elf freshman at Alexandros Academy, the head of the academy’s archery department, the future priest and the elf who will become the archer of the warrior’s party.

Cyan Rudflika, who had many modifiers to symbolize her, was confused because she couldn’t grasp the true meaning of the words she overheard.

“Because there is an elf among my acquaintances, and that elf is a precious person, and I just didn’t like you fooling around in this person’s hometown forest.”

I just walked in the direction he passed in search of Conrad’s junior who suddenly disappeared during the world tree’s mother’s talk.

I didn’t know that I would suddenly hear his thoughts about himself from his mouth.

Important person.

Among his acquaintances, the elf who could be said to be a precious person would undoubtedly mean himself.

Of course, the title of precious person wasn’t like a modifier that could only be used with a lover, so it might not have been a good meaning that he was feeling a rational crush on her.

Rather, looking at the insensitive reactions he usually did, it was more likely that way in reality.

It must have just meant that he valued himself as much as he thought of the other members of the Hunt Festival party, but to Xian, just being confirmed was enough.

In other words, it meant that he could still remain by Conrad’s side.

Of course, when it came to whether it was okay to have rational feelings for him, Xi’an had also thought about it several times.

Most of the love between the short-lived species and the long-lived species was bound to end in a bitter tragedy.

Considering the nature of the race of elves, who can only love once in a lifetime, there must have been an overwhelmingly greater number of years without him than years with him.

However, if you think about it, it may not have been an important story again.

Anyway, the life that was saved by him once, wouldn’t it be nice to use it for him at least a little bit.

Even if he were to protect Conrad’s juniors by his side for the entire life, it was only a moment in the lifespan of an elf who lived for a thousand years when he could not even work.

While Sian Rudflicka stood still and thought about that, he was right in front of her eyes.

“… Senior Xian?”

wince Her body floated for a moment as if her heart had been discovered.

To hide her shame, she hurriedly told the story.

“… You don’t have a very nice personality, Konrad, to give you hope and then toss out all the information and then toss it out as soon as it’s no longer useful.”

“If you’re an ear hunter, you’re an enemy of the elves, and then you’re an enemy of senior Xian. There is no reason for me to show mercy to such a person.”

“If I become an enemy of Conrad one day, will I be used and abandoned like that? hehehehe, I might be a little scared.”

“… no way Of course, I have no reason to argue with Xian-senpai, and even if that happens, I won’t throw him away like that. Rather, a future in which the world perishes is more likely.”

“… Is that enough?”

For some reason, Xian’s heart felt like his heart was racing at his attitude of protecting himself so resolutely.

Because it sounded as if he would not abandon himself even if the world perished.

Of course, Conrad was just casually referring to a memory from a previous life, but the meaning felt a little different for Sian Rudflika to accept it anyway.

“… Come to think of it, senior Xian.”

“Why is that, Conrad?”

“Until now, you always called me ‘Konrad junior’, but the title suddenly changed?”

“… yes, what I want you to be okay soon.”

“Yeah?”

“Now, in half a year, you will graduate from the academy, so wouldn’t it be strange to call you senior and junior until when? So, Conrad, from now on, you should stop using titles like seniors and call them by their normal names. You can let go of your words.”

From now on, I want to face you not as a senior-junior relationship, but as an ordinary man and woman.

Secretly hiding such feelings, Sian proposed to Conrad.

“Are you really okay, Xian?”

“… I thought you would hesitate a bit, but aren’t you adapting to the situation too quickly?”

“why? Didn’t you suddenly feel bad when a junior who lived less than one-tenth of his life suddenly spoke in a rude way?”

Conrad raises his rim while changing his attitude with a smirk. And the emotion that came out of Xian facing him was laughter, not anger or absurdity.

“Could that be? You see me as a bitch, Conrad.”

Rather, she felt better at this quickly changing attitude, as if she was waiting for her to let go of her words.

It meant that Conrad, like himself, wanted a relationship that was more open-minded than the relationship between seniors and juniors, so just knowing that was a sufficient reward for Xian.

… but,

“Not by one tenth, Conrad.”

No matter how much he didn’t count his age after 100 years because it was annoying, it was an unreasonable guess that he was close to ten times his age.

Sian Rudflicka definitely corrected that. He couldn’t admit that the age difference between himself and Conrad was so great.

… Not sure, but probably not ten times as much. maybe.

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Almost a month had passed since I started living in the forest of the World Tree.

The month I spent in the forest was not a bad time for me in many ways. Even if it includes the elves who treat me like a sage with a little pressure and cling to me.

The punishment of the ear hunters was to be completely set according to the severity of the crime, to be chained in the root prison.

Although the amount of the punishment varied according to the severity of the crime judged by Mr. Dryad, there was a difference in duration, ranging from a minimum of 1 year to a maximum of 100 years.

A one-year sentence is a one-year sentence, but the actual pain is equivalent to 5 or 10 years.

Her entire body was fixed at the root of the World Tree, unable to move, and she was not even allowed to starve or die from exhaustion due to the vitality that permeated her body.

To be honest, it was not a very nice sight to see over twenty root prisons lined up.

It would be a lie to say that they had no sympathy, but it didn’t change that they invaded Xian-senpai, no, Xian’s hometown.

After going through that root prison sentence for even a year, he probably wouldn’t even think of breaking into the forest of the World Tree again.

For your information, ‘Water Ghost Bingo’, who organized a ghost hunter unit that invaded the forest of the world tree, was sentenced to a thousand years in prison.

Not only did it provide the fundamental cause of killing in the forest of the World Tree, but it was also connected to the Dark Church, the cause of the weakening of the current World Tree.

It was a result that could be known without seeing what kind of judgment Mr. Dryad would have made after reading his memory.

Of course, there’s no way an ordinary human could survive a thousand years, so he’d probably fall down before that and become manure for the World Tree.

It was the perfect punishment for him who had been making money selling other people’s lives.

And not too long ago, I received the Seed of the World Tree from Mr. Dryad.

The seed of the World Tree used to move one’s body to another place when it is determined that the body of the World Tree cannot be protected.

After using the power to create the essence of life, it takes a thousand years before the next use.

In a word, for the next thousand years, he cannot preserve his own life when the main body is in crisis.

I thanked Mr. Dryad over and over again for giving me one of his own lives.

“If it weren’t for the stupid judgment I made in the previous world, the wise man would have been tied up in the same place as them and begged for mercy.”

“… Please refrain from making bloody jokes.”

“Isn’t this a joke?”

“… … .”

“hehehehe, I’m actually joking. Still, I might have been sentenced to a month in root prison for making such a cheeky proposal.” “… Thank you for your mercy.”

Perhaps because of my hard roll and roll in my previous life, at least in this life, I was able to avoid her root prison sentence.

For that terrible punishment, having suffered it once in a previous life was enough.

“I’m still not sure if giving my seed to the wise man is really the right decision.”

“… Is that so.”

“That’s right, you failed once in the previous world, right? Even in that world, I gave up on resurrection and was the seed I gave in hopes of saving the world.”

“… Ten mouths have nothing to say about him.”

“Of course you should. How dare you disappoint anyone’s expectations.”

Her roots, rising from under my feet as if they were going to tie me up right now, created a strange sense of tension.

“The reason why I give my seed to the wise man is simple. If I don’t invest in the wise man in this world, it’s because what I did in the last world really becomes a foolish judgment without any reason.”

“… … .”

“Even if I didn’t expect the wise man to cross the timeline and return to the past, even if the present I am facing here is a reality created by the overlapping of many coincidences, I will always focus on results, not causes or intentions. You see and judge.”

“That’s why he gave the greatest punishment to the novice archer who committed murder.”

“… So, please don’t fail this time. Just in case you don’t feel like I made a foolish decision twice.”

“I was thinking of doing that even if you didn’t ask.”

Since he had already received the same expectations twice from the same demigod, he could never fail in this world.

Not only subjugating the demon god Cardia, but also stopping the process of Stella degenerating into a demon.

And, to prevent anyone else from obtaining the magic sword containing the will of the demon god.

Because that was the mission that must be fulfilled in this world.

“Use the seeds of the World Tree right here and now. Right at this place where I am watching the wise man.”

“All right.”

I had learned how to use it in my previous life, so there was no problem.

The seed of the World Tree, the size of a fist held in two hands, touched his heart with his chest.

The power of the World Tree, which contains the essence of life, began to be buried as if it was slowly seeping into the heart.

Eventually, the moment the mysterious mana, which is the life force itself, was engraved in my heart, a new flow of mana that was completely different from before surged through my body like a whirlpool.

I could feel with my whole body that the level of the magic formula that I could have had been upgraded.

With this sense intact, I wrote down the magic formula from the first stage in the air.

Every ninth chapter, using the paper of the world tree, the magic formula carefully written down one by one in the air became an 8×8 shape and was made into a huge square-shaped magic formula.

The paper of the world tree, which was temporarily fixed so that magic would not be activated, was wiped out at once with the fire magic that had been cast beforehand.

Each time the papers of the World Tree burned one after another, the magic formula that started from step 1 quickly continued the chain.

10, 20, 30… .

The moment the last magic formula, the 64th formula, was reached, the chain magic spread like hundreds of millions of pieces of magic power bursting.

And the fragments of magical power that spread like that wrapped around my body without exception, returning to the sensation of seeping into every corner of my body.

What remained was the heart that had received the life force of the World Tree and my magic circle that had been upgraded to the 8th circle.

In the original world, the level of the 8th circle that could have been reached in the next three years.

It was the moment when I finally reached the level that seemed impossible to build up again on the first day of returning to the past.