Chapter 110
Chapter 110
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 110
Chapter Title: Whispers of the Elf Queen
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“That’s the thing…”
Cheol Jung-bae broached the subject with extreme caution.
“There might be a way.”
Cheol Jung-bae was a recent addition to the church.
For a very long time, he had been a slave under the demons’ feet.
But no one suspected him in the slightest.
‘Bishop.’
The position he had attained was more than just a title.
He was connected, just like an apostle.
“A way?”
Go Yohan asked.
“The mages, that is. Or perhaps… even more than that.”
Cheol Jung-bae said.
“…I heard a rumor while they were making the Demon God Armor.”
“…….”
“It was something the Dvergr were chattering about.”
Cheol Jung-bae’s voice trembled.
“The Elf Queen is alive.”
“……!”
Unlike the others, Go Yohan’s eyes twitched.
“The Elf Queen? That can’t be. She definitely…”
“Yes. She died.”
In the early days when the war with the demons had intensified, she had been killed by the demons.
More precisely, by the first dark elf to fall.
“I couldn’t believe it either, but the story kept coming up.”
It was already confirmed that the Dvergr and dark elves had joined hands to target Go Yohan.
They also knew that similar forces had infiltrated Earth.
Communication between them.
If that was the case.
“It’s probably the princess.”
It made sense.
“The princess…”
“Went missing, vanishing along with the World Tree. But if there’s something worthy of being called the Elf Queen, it can only be her.”
Go Yohan nodded at Cheol Jung-bae’s words.
“Elf Queen? What’s that?”
Kim Si-on said in a bored tone.
It was Kim Si-on who had hunted the dark elves.
They were nothing but worthless scraps, with no special qualities to speak of.
“The reason they’re so weak is because they lack the World Tree.”
Go Yohan said.
“Elves are spirits in their own right, and among the greatest mages.”
Magic in Trabania was divided into two schools.
Dragon-derived draconic magic, and elf-derived elemental magic.
The vast majority fell under elemental magic.
‘Seung-ah is…’
Perhaps one could call it dark magic.
In any case, the important thing was.
“If we find them, it’ll help.”
If there were surviving elf refugees, it really would.
They had found the dwarves, after all.
“…….”
Go Yohan’s eyes darkened further.
“It’s not your fault.”
At that moment, Cheol Jung-bae spoke as if reading Go Yohan’s mind.
The apostles were new bonds formed on Earth.
But people like Cheol Jung-bae…
‘My past.’
They were connected to Mikael.
And they came crashing over him like waves at any moment.
The guilt of the world’s destruction.
The things he couldn’t protect.
Even the way he had thrown himself into vengeance against the demons, reaffirming only that hatred.
“…….”
Everyone thought they were dead.
But if there were survivors like Cheol Jung-bae, then he had failed them twice…
“It’s not your fault.”
Cheol Jung-bae said again.
“I know.”
Go Yohan replied.
“It’s just…”
A certain face came to mind.
“You’ve really changed a lot. Anyway, that’s my thought. If the Elf Queen is alive and we use her…”
“Bolstering our shortage of mages, and training new ones.”
The result would be.
“It’ll be a huge help in the war.”
Nod.
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“Gaaah!”
The screaming things were dark elves they had kept alive, just like the Dvergr.
“Guh! Gaaah!”
Unlike the Dvergr, they weren’t even minimally useful.
The spirits they handled were already corrupted, worthless for any purpose.
They served merely as fodder to squeeze out magic power.
Insurance, in case they might spit out some information.
“A-after… No, kill… kill me…”
After prolonged torture, they longed for death more than life.
“Kill… me…”
There was no need to feel pity for them.
The Dvergr had tempered steel with humans as sacrifices to create the blessed items for Geo Guild.
Later, when they made blessed items without side effects, they learned that the process wasn’t even necessary.
Items could be born simply by capturing a portion of the Dvergr’s magic power source.
But out of greed, they had sacrificed human flesh and souls.
“You trash!”
Kim Si-on kicked a hunched dark elf in irritation.
“I told you to spill everything you know!”
Thud!
“The Elf Queen? You’re hiding something that important?”
“That’s…”
Splash!
Something burst open.
When he opened his eyes, one dark elf lay collapsed with only its torso remaining.
“Do you have any idea how sorry I feel toward the Captain! Do you?!”
And these dark elves.
They had abducted boys and girls.
They had seized control of several guilds, using them to kidnap boys and girls.
Or swallowed entire orphanages whole.
“Talk.”
Corrupted spirits.
To create them.
“Talk, you maggots.”
They had tortured those children, tortured them relentlessly.
When pure souls lost their light in agony, the dark elves’ forbidden arts birthed new spirits.
That was why.
Kim Si-on had volunteered to handle them.
Shing.
What the dark elves had done was the worst sin, enough to make even apostles tremble in rage.
“It’s insane, isn’t it?”
In the pitch-black darkness, only Kim Si-on’s eyes and mouth seemed to float.
If all demons commonly feared Go Yohan.
Scratch.
The dark elves feared Kim Si-on even more.
“…We don’t know!”
The dark elf screamed.
“W-we really… sob! We don’t know!”
Scraaatch!
Kim Si-on dragged his dagger along the dark elf’s skin.
“We don’t… guh! We don’t know! We only heard the same rumors as everyone else!”
“Keep talking.”
“The d-dark elves are divided into several factions! One of them is searching for the Elf Queen!”
Scraaatch!
“There might still be pure-blooded elves left!”
Scriiiitch!
“Th-that’s really all we know!”
Only then did Kim Si-on stand up.
“Whew.”
Kim Si-on exhaled, a bright smile spreading across his lips.
“Really?”
“Yes! Yes! It’s true!”
They screamed in terror, a sight that would horrify anyone else.
“Then I guess it’s fine to open your faction’s door, huh?”
“Yes! P-probably…”
Swish.
Kim Si-on turned to look at Yun Seung-ah.
Today’s torture hadn’t been approved by Go Yohan.
Go Yohan wasn’t heartless enough to permit torture to someone with Kim Si-on’s young body.
It was just the apostles acting on their own mutual agreement.
“What do you think, noona?”
“Doesn’t seem like a lie.”
“Ha, that means it’s no help to the Captain.”
Kim Si-on scratched his head with his dagger.
“Then can I kill them?”
Nod.
The moment Yun Seung-ah nodded.
Spluuurt!
Blue blood erupted simultaneously.
They were monsters who weren’t even human, spraying azure blood.
“Useless bastards. Trash! Maggots! How dare you…”
“Because they’re demons.”
In the end, only Go Yohan seemed able to resolve this.
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“There was nothing to gain from the dark elves.”
“I see.”
Go Yohan nodded as he heard Yun Seung-ah’s report.
“Keep that in mind going forward. There’s nothing to get from them anyway.”
Rescuing Cheol Jung-bae had been possible only because they kept the Dvergr alive, one might say.
But Go Yohan didn’t think so.
‘It would have opened anyway.’
The black gates opening now were surely linked to the demons who had infiltrated Earth.
As they entered this world, they would have connected to their own territories.
Cheol Jung-bae’s rescue might have been delayed.
“You all are more important.”
There was no need to waste mental energy dealing with demons needlessly.
“Don’t keep getting close to them. Don’t try to use them either.”
Go Yohan warned.
“Just being near them will keep corrupting you.”
“We’ll keep that in mind.”
“And.”
Go Yohan said.
“There might be a way.”
“…How?”
“Taking in the dwarves strengthened my Divine Eye.”
He could now see threads that were previously invisible.
They weren’t the most fundamental components of the world, but things that could influence them.
And when the dwarves were recognized as residents of this world.
Swish.
The world fragments given as reward began to glow.
Several strands.
New threads revealed themselves.
“You don’t need to investigate the world fragments further.”
“May I ask why?”
“I’ve figured out what they are.”
And the threads that appeared were a color all too familiar to Go Yohan.
“Prepare the warp gate.”
White.
“We’re opening a door.”
“…….”
“You’re coming with me.”
“I’ll prepare.”
Yun Seung-ah vanished like a shadow.
“Whew.”
Left alone, Go Yohan exhaled.
“Damn things…”
Just how far would they torment him?
But that was why he was grateful.
Ripple!
This rage felt like it would never fade.
‘Goddess.’
He also felt that all of this was her arrangement.
[Faith stat has increased.]
He received word that preparations were complete.
Go Yohan headed to the basement of the church, where reconstruction was underway.
There was no elevator, but Yun Seung-ah’s magic transported him.
Woooong!
The warp gate hummed in resonance.
But without coordinates, it couldn’t even gauge where to open.
Wung!
Go Yohan’s Divine Eye activated.
And.
Click.
He barely grasped a single, extremely thin white thread and connected it to the warp gate.
White.
It was.
“Trabania.”
The color of Mikael’s destroyed world.