The flames flared up again.

I felt a tremendous force as if I was going to kill for sure this time.

“Does it have to be cut after all… .”

Count Warrug was broken, so he strained the hand holding the sword.

‘Not yet, not yet. When he swings his sword, everything becomes nothing.’

If he was going to wield his sword here, he didn’t have to go through all that hard work to come here.

When he wields his sword here, we face enemies beyond the Kairos tribe and even the elves.

If that happened, it wouldn’t be a problem for Easton, who had barely survived the winter, to collapse.

That much should be blocked.

Is there a way, is there no way? recall a memory

Among the contents I saw in the original, I found information that could overcome this situation.

What is it?

I thought about how to calm them down.

‘uh? Wait a minute, come to think of it… .’

One thing came to mind.

Why do elves reject other races?

Are they extremely reluctant to enter their territory?

And why did the elves who possessed such strong power get helplessly defeated by Ahar?

[Kill properly this time… !]

“Three, I know why the World Tree withers!”

[…] Well?]

The wind has stopped.

The burning fire subsided, and the water that rose high into the sky returned to the ground.

The cracked ground was reattached.

“Raymond, what now… ?”

It wasn’t just elves and spirits who were taken aback by my words.

Earl Warrug, who was holding a sword next to me, and Lanos, who was preparing to run away at any time with clenched fists, looked back at me.

I didn’t explain anything to them.

Raising my hand to signal them to be quiet was my best bet.

I looked at them, begging them to stay still and not say anything.

If they bring up a strange story here, I could die without even saying it properly.

[You bastard, are you mocking ‘us’ now!]

At that time, a voice filled with more anger than before rang out.

It was bloody enough to make me wonder if a voice alone could kill a person.

[You bastard, dare to speak of him?!]

The spirits began to rage.

Nature, the entire forest shook so much that it could be felt even without seeing it with the naked eye.

It showed a willingness to tear to death the human who dared to bite the world tree.

I saw Count Warrag and Lanos looking at me with worried faces.

Everyone knew what would happen if I said something wrong.

That’s why I wondered why he said this, but the curious thing was that he didn’t show any resentment toward me.

Even if I didn’t say this, I knew that I would be attacked anyway, so I rather sent my eyes to try something.

“Please listen to me just once! We are here to help you!”

[No human help needed!]

At my words, the spirits and elves shouted in unison.

Their tendency to absolutely reject anything other than elves was evident.

“You really don’t need it? You must be frustrated. No matter how hard I try to solve it, the World Tree continues to wither!”

[that’s… .]

The voice becomes low.

That reaction showed me that I wasn’t wrong.

The elves I saw just now have strong power that even Ahar can’t touch.

Even so, the reason he was pushed back by Ahar was none other than the weakening of the World Tree.

The source of Elf’s power was the World Tree.

It is the beginning of all nature and the guardian tree that protects the elves.

The reason why the elves were able to command the spirits was possible because there was a world tree that was no different from the total aggregate of nature.

Because they were blessed with the World Tree full of spirit power, the elves could easily command the spirits if their blood was connected.

‘For some reason, the World Tree is currently withering.’

It was only thanks to the World Tree that the Elf could command the spirits.

When the world tree runs out of power, the blessings given to them run out of power.

If so, it was difficult to use the power of the spirits they had been using since birth, and even if they used the spirits, if they consumed all their mana, they would consume their own vitality.

The reason they can romp on spirits without worrying about their current mana is because they are near the World Tree.

Only in nature, in their sanctuary, the forest of world trees, was one of the reasons they were so powerful.

If they do not receive the power of the World Tree, their power will gradually dry up like a droughty brook.

That’s why Ahar was helpless.

This also happened because of their ostracism and their pride.

It wouldn’t have happened if they had accepted others just a little bit, if they had tried to get a little help.

Rather, it was because of their character that they were pushed out.

“We can solve that problem!”

[How do we trust you?]

“Then we will have to watch without knowing why the world tree is dying.”

I decided to go out strongly due to his continuing doubts.

It was a problem even if I went out too low-key.

I don’t know how they will come out after helping them.

You should be their partner, not a servant who helps them and gets nothing.

“I want you to know that we are here to help, not to be hostile.”

[Well… .]

The spirits were silent.

I could feel the eyes of the elves.

If it was originally, my words like this wouldn’t have caught on to them.

I would have killed them as soon as they entered their territory.

The reason they are hesitating is because, like I said, their guardian tree, the World Tree, withers.

Would they have been quiet?

He must have tried to find the reason why the world tree withered.

But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t find it.

So why are you hesitating like that?

Excited.

While conversing with them, he felt the presence of the Kairos warrior commander moving cautiously beside him.

You could say the timing was pretty bad, but I wasn’t.

Rather, it was good timing.

It was the timing to show the elves that we had no intention of being hostile.

Picked up nameless.

Earl Warrug and Lanos, who were watching from the side, looked at me in bewilderment at my actions.

[You bastard… !]

It was when the spirits were about to attack me.

Chow ah!

Nameless cut the warrior’s head.

The warrior commander who was aiming for the Elf lost his head in vain.

The body of a warrior who lost his head collapsed.

Wow!

A belatedly blown gale hit my body.

Count Warrug tried to protect me a step too late, but the spirits attacked me faster than that.

If I hadn’t known in advance and responded, I could have been seriously injured.

[Where do you dare… uh… ?]

Embarrassment was mixed in the voices of the warrior commander and the spirit looking back at me.

Seeing me holding up cotton, I think they thought I was taking advantage of the opportunity to attack.

But it wasn’t them that I attacked, it was the Kairos warrior who was secretly moving.

It also killed it accurately without causing any damage to surrounding plants.

[Well… .]

I felt the wind spirit approaching.

It wasn’t just the wind spirit.

The fire spirits, the earth spirits, and the water spirits came out and gathered around Count Warug, Lanos.

Earl Warrug and Lanos hurriedly ran to my side as I flew far away from being attacked by the wind spirits, and were alert to my surroundings.

They raised their momentum so that they could repel the attack at any time.

At the point of attacking me, Count Warrug began to show the life he had been suppressing.

Huung-

Count Warrug aimed his sword at the approaching spirits.

If you come a little closer, you can feel the momentum to slash them.

[Is it Master… .]

The wind spirit looked at him and murmured softly.

No matter how much a spirit wielded the power of nature, the Master was a tough opponent.

Because the Master was a being who forcibly twisted nature.

Whoops!

Moreover, his sword, which began to tremble without an aura, was cutting the surroundings with just the vibration.

The shapeless wind was cut, and the air was cut, creating cracks.

It is using power.

The Master’s power to kill a spirit known to never die.

Due to that power, the spirits couldn’t come any closer and stopped at a distance where the sword couldn’t reach them.

[sorry… .]

“… Do.”

The voice of the wind disappeared, and the elf appeared.

The wind spirit seemed to sway, but I couldn’t hear its voice anymore.

No, the wind spirit was not talking from the beginning.

It looks like he said it, because in reality the elf spoke through the spirit of the wind.

“I knew you would attack us.”

One of the elves stepped forward.

He was a mysterious man with long green hair. If it wasn’t for that neutral voice, it wouldn’t be strange to mistake her for a woman.

Count Warrug was not letting go of his guard.

In the South, the elves were notorious.

Count Warug was on good alert, as they might strike again, but now was not the time.

On the contrary, this attack increased the means to be obtained from them.

“Count. it’s okay. Please put down your sword.”

“Be quiet! They attacked us first!”

“I know. Please trust me just once.”

“you… !”

he stares at me

Angry, yet full of worries.

He let out a big sigh for a while and lowered the sword that had been filled with power.

“Only this time.”

I pushed him back and took a step closer to the elf.

One of his arms was broken and his clothes were torn.

The upper body is full of serious wounds.

The eyes of the elf who looked over my body shook slightly.

I spoke to him, squinting my eyes at the pain that came later.

“You don’t need our help?”

“what?”

“Otherwise, there is no reason to attack me, who has no intention of attacking. Doesn’t this mean that the World Tree doesn’t need our help?”

At my words, he frowned.

And then, saying that it was an unwanted attack, he spat out the words.

“It was a mistake.”

“A mistake? One mistake could kill someone. Accidentally kill someone who came to help… It’s really fun.”

He openly crumpled his face, probably offended by my sarcastic tone.

“It’d be better if I figured out your situation rather than talk like that, right?”

I shrugged my shoulders at that tone of voice, telling us to be thankful that they weren’t attacking us.

“Then kill me.”

“What, what?”

“Kill it. Now that I look at it, it seems that you don’t like the fact that you’re leaving us alone… What are you doing? I’d rather kill you.”

cool-.

While I was talking, I felt stuffy in my chest, so I knocked on my chest, and blood came out in a rush.

I was coughing up blood, but the tightness in my chest had subsided a little.

“You don’t seem to need our help, but there’s no reason to keep us alive. world tree? Ha, I don’t want to help you treat people like this.”

“It’s hard.”

At my words he gnashed his teeth.