Chapter 196: 37th Floor: Elves
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 196: 37th Floor: Elves
"Huh...?"
Swoosh!
An incredible number of arrows flew at me, forming a solid wall.
Arrows filled every inch of space. These were skilled fighters who knew how to deal with a single powerful opponent.
There was nowhere to dodge.
'Are they really attacking me? So suddenly? Why?'
Several questions popped into my head, but I defended first.
[Divine Shield]
Ting! T-d-d-d-d-d-ding!!!
The arrows, imbued with their mana, were blocked by my level 1 Divine Shield.
No matter how low the level, when used by someone with around 10,000 divine power, it performs almost as well as an Absolute Barrier.
But then—
'Something... is coming!'
Through the rain of arrows, my eyes met with those of a blonde elf with ominous red eyes standing next to the elven queen.
A tremendous aura was gathering around her, and behind her, a massive wind spirit ten times her size assisted her.
Tak.
The moment she released the bowstring,
Shwaaaaaa!!!
An arrow wreathed in a giant storm came flying.
Just as it tore through my Divine Shield in an instant and was about to swallow me whole,
[Swaeryu]
I met the arrow with my spear and knocked it aside.
The arrow veered off, flying toward the hapless elven soldiers.
Kwwaaaaaaang!!!
The elves surrounding me were torn to shreds by the storm-infused arrow.
The blue wind was instantly stained red with elven blood and scattered in all directions.
At least a hundred elves were killed or severely injured.
The screams of the poor elves and their groans of pain echoed through the air.
"I mean, if you use such a powerful technique..."
"You bitch!!! How dare you... Archwarrior Arsilla, you must kill that wicked human!!"
The elven queen flew into a rage upon seeing her elves injured.
Arsilla stared blankly for a moment, seeing her own kin die by her arrow, before her pretty face twisted in fury as if to blame it all on me.
"Kugh... I'll kill you!!!"
Arsilla drew two daggers and charged.
'I don't think I'd lose a fight... but aren't I supposed to be protecting these guys?'
Of course, the mission is to protect the World Tree, but I'm not confident I can stop all the enemies by myself.
In that case...
'I'll run for now.'
There's no point in needlessly reducing the strength of my allies.
I wanted to smack the huge tits of that angry elven queen and the archwarrior to cool them down, but I decided to save that for later and made a quick escape.
'Come to think of it, why are they hostile toward me?'
I decided to figure it out later and just ran.
"How dare you run!"
"After her!"
They chased me desperately, but it was impossible for them to catch me when I was running with all my might.
My defense was like heavy armor; I could ignore most attacks.
Plus, I had incredible senses and reflexes.
My stamina was better than anyone's, so even without attacking, I easily broke through their layered encirclement with simple body slams.
Of course, it was still quite a struggle.
Especially that Archwarrior Arsilla.
She kept spouting something about being a proud high elf, her eyes glaring as she pursued me to the very end. I could ignore the others, but this bitch was not on a level I could just brush off.
Every single one of her arrows was sharp and threatening enough to be dangerous even to me. Her dagger skills were also remarkably precise and swift.
In the end, I lured her away until she was alone, then launched a surprise attack, gave her a good punch to the gut, and choked her unconscious before escaping.
As payback for bothering me, I felt like ramming her with my Attachment Dildo, but I didn't cross that line. If I did, they'd forget all about the World Tree and come after me and only me.
'We're still allies, for now.'
Instead, I took her white panties as a trophy while she was unconscious and defenseless. Since she was a nature-friendly elf wearing a leaf skirt, taking off her panties wasn't difficult.
Her pussy was a tightly clenched, straight line that made me want to fuck it, and her panties smelled of fresh grass.
* * *
A short while later.
Having run quite a distance, I was taking a short break in a tree.
After the long chase, the sun had already set.
“Phew… Are they not chasing me anymore? Hey guys, what the hell just happened?”
- Your necklace, dumbass lololol
- Ah, she still doesn't get it
- Tsk tsk
- These bastards were just spamming question marks too until someone posted about it in the cafe lolololol
- Ahem, we knew from the very beginning, okay?
- Isn't it obvious you should read every single one of Lee Do-hee's item descriptions? Keke
- Idiot
"Eh...? My necklace?"
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<Huygens' Necklace>
A necklace made by the master craftsman Huygens of Luella City by grinding up a living high elf.
◇ Agility +20
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Reading the necklace's description, it said it was made by grinding up a high elf. Others might not have known, but the elven queen must have noticed.
"Why does it have a description like this...? Was this here when I bought it?"
And of course, almost none of the viewers knew at first either.
They had all forgotten until someone posted the description of the necklace Lee Do-hee had bought in the past.
Yeah, honestly, who would pay attention to something like that? You'd just assume it was a normal item description and move on.
“Agh… So if I take off the necklace and go back… no, they've already seen my face.”
And I think I came here with the status of a Hero. Even if I disguise myself now, I'll just be Unidentified Human #1. They seemed to hate humans, so it won't be easy.
So, is this trial a complete failure?
No.
“Hmm… But do I really need to be on friendly terms with the elves?”
The goal of this trial is to protect the World Tree.
If the target I must protect is clear, then the enemies I must eliminate are also clear.
The elves aren't going to destroy their own World Tree, so all I have to do is kill every single enemy.
The elves' support?
'Maybe I don't need it.'
Lee Do-hee is always getting her pussy taken and getting gang-banged by weaklings, so she might seem pathetic and sloppy, but her actual combat power is transcendent for the 37th floor.
Frankly, she's at a level where it wouldn't be strange for her to just brute-force her way through the hidden or true endings of an S-rank Ordeal.
And isn't there a saying that the best defense is a good offense?
“Shall we see who's bullying our pathetic little elves?”
I spread my senses out wide.
I can't search for something specific, but I can detect the presence of people over a very large area.
Looking back, of all the abilities from my past life, none have been as useful as detection.
'Because these damn trials always throw weird shit at me...'
A lot of my Tower Climbing know-how has become meaningless, but I should at least make good use of miscellaneous skills like this, right?
Besides detection and spear throwing, it feels like I don't really use anything else.
As I was lost in thought, I sensed a large number of presences to the east.
The elves are to the south, behind me, so there's a high chance these are enemies, not elves.
'I'll wipe them out in one go.'
I picked up my spear, and as for my outfit... since it was night, I took out an outfit I'd bought for an event a while back.
“Hoo… Mission start. Tonight, all enemies will disappear.”
- ???
- Who asked you to?
- There she goes again
- And the outfit is the Pussy Peek-a-boo again
- Dammit, Pussy Peek-a-boo again
- Pussy Peek-a-boo, is that you again?
- Flap flap...
- lolololol
- This bitch is just enjoying it now
- But for real, her pussy looks like a clean virgin pussy
- A pussy's gotta breathe too~
“Huh…? Wait, why doesn't this have panties?”
I usually store outfits as a set, so I must have forgotten the panties. Or maybe they were intentionally left out since it was for an event.
To be honest, my memory is hazy, so I don't know.
“Then I'll just wear these... Ah, anyway, I'm off!”
I put on the grass-scented elven panties I'd taken as a trophy and set off. They were a little small, but it wasn't bad, giving me the strange thrill of indirect scissoring with an elf's pussy.
- Ah
- Hey, why'd you cover it up!!!
- ???
- Do-hee's lost her touch
- Booo~ You lost your touch
- Look at these bastards, just a second ago they were teasing her lololol
- lololololol
- Give me back my pussy, you wicked human!
- Ah, why'd you cover that up
- Hah... to think there's no pussy
“Ahem, no more pussy! Pussy is forbidden!"
I felt like I'd go crazy if I kept reading the viewers' chat, so I turned it off and ran.
I sprinted through the dense trees, and after about five minutes, I saw the enemies.
A huge base, estimated to hold about ten thousand people, was hidden in the middle of the forest.
'So it's humans who've come to hunt elves. I see slave hunters and regular soldiers, too.'
The ones who came to attack the elves weren't demons, but humans more demonic than any demon.
'The women will be taken as sex slaves and fucked for as long as their long lifespans allow.'
As a fellow human, I cannot forgive this.
I raised my spear and took a throwing stance.
Wooooong...!!
I gathered my energy, kicked off a tree branch, and leaped high into the air.
I stacked both my strength and agility buffs to eight.
I could feel power overflowing my entire body.
*
Meanwhile, at the elf-hunting outpost.
The sentry on night watch duty today was Kent.
He was looking out at the forest from atop a three-story watchtower.
It was the night of a full moon, so it wasn't too dark, but guard duty was an incredibly boring job by nature.
“Haaam… Why do we even have to stand guard when the base was built in secret? Right?”
Next to him, his junior was watching their surroundings with a tense expression.
“Tsk, you're such a coward… Want me to tell you about the elf slave I captured? Her skin was so fucking soft, and she kept resisting, saying she didn't want to…”
“Huh? Sir Kent, there's something over there.”
“Hm?”
Beneath the round full moon, he could see the silhouette of a person.
It was... a very lewd-looking figure, and as he stared, mesmerized, a pink light suddenly twinkled like a distant star.
“Hmm?”
Blink.
When he blinked his eyes open again, that small pink light was brightly illuminating the entire world.
"Huh?"
The world started spinning.
Peeeeeeeeee—
That was his last memory.
*
[Meteor Spear Fall]
The spear falls.
KWAAAAAAAANG!!!!!
A hemispherical shockwave, visible to the naked eye, spread out and annihilated the surroundings.
The center of the enemy base was gouged out as if struck by a meteor, and the nearby area was swept clean by the shockwave, leaving nothing behind.
'Now that's what I call power.'
I felt a sense of satisfaction, as if I were regaining the power of my past life.
'It's not over yet.'
The place I destroyed was the base of those presumed to be elf hunters.
The regular army's base was still intact.
I could see people, startled by the massive shockwave, rushing outside in a panic.
“One more.”
I loaded another spear throw... and let it fly.
KWAAAAAAAANG!!!
With a single attack, over a thousand people were swept away and annihilated. Unless you were a Swordmaster, no human could counter this.
And finally, it was time for my pig magician to shine.
“Come out, Hosu!”
I've even memorized his name now.
“Hit them with wide-area magic!”
“…Yes!!”
He hesitated for a split second upon seeing the people, but he immediately followed my command and cast his spell.
[Fire Rain]
A rain of fire fell from the sky. The magic of a pig in a magician's outfit incinerated the humans. Barracks caught fire, and people engulfed in flames ran around screaming, accelerating the chaos.
In the midst of it all, I threw another spear near the command base.
KWAAAAAAAAANG!!
The commander-level personnel who had gathered there died in an instant.
The rain of fire poured down even more fiercely.
“If you came prepared to kill, you must also be prepared to die.”
An overwhelming massacre.
I don't have the luxury of indulging in the strange logic that they're innocent because they haven't committed the crime yet. They are the enemy before me, and I am here simply to kill the enemy.
KWAAAAAANG!!!
The spear throws continued, and the rain of fire fell without cease.
For the enemies, it was hell on earth.
A massive explosion somewhere deafened them and kicked up a fierce wind, fires raged everywhere, disorienting them, no orders came from the commanders, and the enemy was nowhere to be seen.
They had been taught that to flee at a time like this was death and that they had to stick together to survive... but sticking together meant death.
An incomprehensible bombardment fell wherever they gathered.
No, they couldn't even tell if it was a bombardment. It just felt like divine punishment raining down.
“R-Run!!!”
The soldiers, finally realizing they would all die if they stayed, began to flee.
The knights and mages were no different. In fact, they had realized how hopeless the situation was even earlier and were already running.
“Phew… This can't be all of them. Are there humans at other bases?”
The moment I decided to catch one of the fleeing soldiers to interrogate them.
A sudden, chilling sensation made me turn and swing my spear.
An arrow, just an instant from hitting me, was deflected.
KWAANG!!
The impact, unbelievable for an arrow, pushed my body back slightly.
'An arrow? Don't tell me it's that bitch?'
“Die. You piece of trash human!!”
And in the opening created as I blocked the arrow, I saw an elf with daggers in both hands rapidly closing in on me.
The elves' Archwarrior, Arsilla.
Her gaze, from beneath her golden hair and red eyes, was filled with rage.
“Wait, hold on! Let's talk. I'm not an ene— Ah, screw it!”
Thwack!
"Kuek!!!"
She took a direct kick to the solar plexus and went flying. With my eight-stack buff, my raw stats were twice what they used to be.
"I told you we should talk."
She tumbled backward and slammed into a tree, her body landing upside down.
Her skirt flipped up, vividly exposing her now-bare pussy.
"Oh... I guess conversation doesn't have to be verbal."
A physical conversation might be nice, too.