To make matters worse (2)
A cool breeze blows refreshingly, and warm and cozy air wraps your body.
I wonder if the baby in her mother’s belly feels like this.
The sense of absolute security and fulfillment that surrounds him fatally seduces him.
He could have resisted enough if he set his reason straight and set his mind properly, but he didn’t feel the need to do that right now.
In the end, he fell for its charm and immersed himself in it.
Just like that, while forgetting the flow of time, he was just floating in his subconscious…
“···Monk? Harris! Are you okay?”
Due to repeated external stimuli, his mind slowly began to return to his body.
“Are you having a hard time these days? I’ve had that feeling before, but it seems to have gotten worse lately. To the point where it looks a bit dangerous.”
“Ah···.”
Harris, who was lying in the shade of a tree on the hill as usual, looked at the person who called him with only his pupils rolling between his eyes wide open.
Wave-like blue hair and lake-blue eyes.
It was Shapiron Silvesty, an elf girl whom he became close to because he often hung out over various things.
But when he opened his eyes and just stared blankly at her, she tilted her head, then nodded her head, then gave her a look of understanding.
“Hmm, yes! It’s not easy to build a culture as a high elf, right? Of course, I’ve been educated about it since I was young, so it’s an easy win!”
Having said that, she shrugged her shoulders.
“Huh-huh, Harris-sama, shouldn’t you be nervous too? When I become a high elf, things will turn around in no time! After going through image training several times already, the preparation is perfect, right?”
“…”
Of course, her delusion was just a meaningless chant if she wasn’t chosen by the World Tree, but Harris didn’t bother to point it out with her grown-up mind.
…Actually, even opening my mouth was bothersome now.
However, she seemed to take his reaction differently, as she was chatting with excitement.
She suddenly shut her mouth tightly, and softly she wanted to check his eyes, then she wiggled her fingers and she added a few words cautiously.
“That… That means to do your best… Of course, isn’t it amazing that you started from the bottom and have already grown to that extent? Uh… And…”
“Aha—.”
A laugh leaked out of me at the clumsy consolation.
She’s got her narcissism. It was a fact she knew from the first time we met her.
It’s just that he’s a bit immature, but he’s not a bad guy either.
Also, since Harris became a high elf first, he might feel a sense of distance, but the fact that his attitude towards him hasn’t changed that much even though he’s been using honorific titles all the time is just as refreshing.
It was a very sweet relationship for him, who had few close friends here because his status had changed so quickly.
After hanging out there for a long time, he now had his own know-how in dealing with Shapiron.
Her most effective method…
Swoop—
Her slow-moving Harris hand passed through her sub-space magic tool and then reached towards her.
In her hand was an envelope with a savory scent.
Sniff sniff—
“Oh! Is this popcorn? Thank you for this food!”
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Shapiron, who smelled it, seemed to have noticed her when she noticed it, and she immediately accepted it, then sat down next to him and opened the envelope.
‘Now I’m eating well without saying anything.’
Her Harris nodded quietly at her as she put her popcorn in her mouth and watched her munching intently.
In the early days, she was the one who showed a reaction that she couldn’t eat her food, but as she kept repeating it, she came to the point where she naturally accepts even if she suddenly offers her food like now.
Looking at it this way, it seems that she somehow tamed a stray cat as a snack, but…
‘It must be because of my mood.’
He stared at Shapiron for a while as he lay down, then lifted her suppressed will and slowly raised her upper body.
“Mmm.”
Since the control that forced me to move my body under any circumstances disappeared, every movement of my body was an ordeal.
Now, I had to overcome the indolence of this assimilation with nature only with my mental strength.
Still, since the mental stats assigned to the object itself were superior to those before, it wasn’t impossible to move as usual if you wanted to.
The only problem is that if you have even a little extra time, you will become soggy and lazy like before.
‘By the way, that feeling from before…’
Harris, who sat up with his upper body like that, turned his head and looked in the direction of the World Tree.
Like a citadel that blocks out shouts, huge stems came into full view.
‘As expected, isn’t it because of my mood?’
In the midst of being deeply buried in nature and becoming one, something vaguely felt was the will of the world tree.
For some reason, it wasn’t very clear, but I could vaguely grasp the meaning contained in it.
‘Oh, that’s annoying. But I can’t ignore it.’
After staring at the world tree, he finally got up from his seat and raised the natural power within his body.
And at the same time.
Whoa-!
In an instant, the wind blew into a single point, and a translucent yet gigantic bird appeared from there.
A high-level wind spirit, Pascal, who wears gusts of wind all over his body.
It was the third spirit of Harris.
“Ubnium? . . Harris?”
Harris hovered slowly in the air, yielding to Pascal’s manipulator, looking down at Shapiron, who gulped down what was in his mouth with his eyes wide open.
“Ah—I suddenly remembered something urgent. Miss Shapiron, I’m sorry, but I’ll go first.”
“Yes! Please go in carefully!”
Just like that, Harris hugged her bag of popcorn, exchanged a brief greeting with her waving her hand, and immediately took off in the direction of the World Tree.
Just in case you didn’t know, I thought I’d talk to the other high elves before doing anything.
‘Uh? But is this more comfortable than walking? It’s a bit cumbersome to summon, but if you keep it for now…’
Of course, it was his unavoidable instinct to constantly pursue convenience.
***
In a space where the boundaries of the world are blurred and mixed here and there—only the unknown and chaos.
There was a being who was walking leisurely as if he was taking a walk, as if he was not affected by such surroundings.
“It’s going smoothly so far.”
There was no gravity, earth, or air in this space, and even direction and time were disturbed.
It was just a trivial matter to him.
‘…Should I have done this earlier?’
The man, the founder of the Oath of Reversal and the apostle of the human spirit, the revolutionary, observed the outside through the cracks everywhere and nodded his head.
He had prepared his hand in advance so that things would proceed in this way, but he was still prepared that things might go wrong due to the intervention of unexpected variables…
‘It’s all right. Hounds have also started hunting hybrids.’
He turned his head and gazed at a rift with eyes of a grotesque glow.
There was a blurry reflection of a group of black people approaching a huge tree towering high.
‘The World Tree is the pillar and root of the Enamel Continent. When it shakes, the continent itself shakes.’
The tree, which was no different from a part of a god who had descended into reality, was definitely a great being.
Because it was the world tree that made the land that was only a fairly large island in the first place into the current continent.
However, as the world tree took root in the present world through incarnation, it also came to bear a formidable constraint, a representative example of which was that it was much more vulnerable than other gods in terms of causality.
Part of that was not being able to accurately inform his servants of the location of Cecily, a high elf candidate.
And it was something that could be applied to other things as well.
…Even if it’s an event that poses a fatal threat to the World Tree.
‘Obaipo’s side isn’t bad either. Although the sudden appearance of hybrids is a bit annoying. Still, I’m prepared, so it won’t be a big threat.’
His gaze turned to another rift.
In fact, he had a lot of regrets about vampires.
Unlike the lycanthropes, who were relatively easy to attract, they were already well mixed in human society, and even the leadership was scattered and antagonized, so power was dispersed.
So, at first, he too tried to approach Upersh, who had the strongest power, but at that time, it was the time when Bisque Upersh had just succeeded to the Holy Blood.
The young vampire was so overconfident that he couldn’t speak.
‘But recently, I thought they were tied up in a cooperative relationship. You mean they’re stuck with each other now?’
The revolutionary frowned and clicked his tongue softly.
He thought that all lycanthropes and vampires in this world should follow him, so he couldn’t help but dislike the current situation.
“… Tsk, stupid people who don’t even recognize the creator’s apostles.”
It is a fact forgotten even by the parties involved, but in fact, they had a different origin from other heterogeneous tribes.
Isn’t it possible that a species that can only increase its number by infection because it is unable to reproduce itself is a proper life form in the first place?
They were sub-species created by mixing humans with seeds brought in from the outer world by human gods.
To put it bluntly, you could call it a kind of illegitimate child.
Afterwards, the god was exiled to the abyss, deprived of all authority, and all associations were erased.
‘···Baltheon is also doing better than I thought. He was a little worried as it brought madness.’
Then his gaze went through the other cracks one after another.
Unusual movements were occurring not only in the Confederation of Tribals in the south, where the grip of power was coming to an end, but also within the Empire.
A male and female member of the hostile forces who want to defeat the crown prince and assassinate the princess who became the first heir.
If everything that’s happening right now works out…
‘The board led by the church will be shaken, and the current trend of everyone cooperating will inevitably be broken.’
Looking at it like this, I regret the previous plans that were stranded without being able to start again, but in fact, even the things prepared now were enough to turn each region upside down.
Even more so, if there were cracks between each other in a precarious situation like now, the next thing would have been obvious.
‘If even the immortal king goes wild here, the icing on the cake. The message was delivered properly, but the response was slower than expected. I thought it would move a long time ago.’
The revolutionary, unable to find what he was looking for even after examining the cracks lined up everywhere, sighed and closed his “Eyes.”
And focusing his nerves on his own ‘ears’.
He began to eavesdrop on the sound of the world through the boundary.
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Noise, like grains of sand, could be heard from all directions.
The thoughts of those who make up the world and the sound of the world itself.
However, no matter how much his authority was strengthened in this space, it was not possible to grasp everything in the world just by eavesdropping like this.
However, despite this, one thing was clear…
‘Oh, but something will happen sooner or later. Shall I try my hand a little more here?’
Opening his closed eyes again, he nodded his head with a satisfied smile.
He just stretched out his hand to the side — and gripped something that wasn’t there until just now.
Wiggle— wiggle—
It wriggling as if resisting, the seed of madness twisted the whole body repeatedly.
Ignoring him, the revolutionary slowly opened his ‘mouth’ and ordered it.
“———.”
Right after that.
Coo goo goo—
Stimulated by some kind of energy from the seed, something from the depths of the abyss rises one after another.
The monsters on the continent began to move in perfect order due to the waves that spread through the cracks that were pierced everywhere.
‘This should be enough.’
Madness belongs to the relatively low-ranking dregs of the abyss, but thanks to that, it was quite easy to manipulate in this way.
It’s quite a contrast to death, where you have to give up on dealing and throw it like a bomb and wait for the result.
What prompted him to bring out his madness in the first place was also part of that strategic choice.
“Anyway, it’s frustrating not being able to smell it.”
After completing all the follow-up actions, the revolutionary muttered lowly as he stretched his body.
This side is showing a very good development, but the other side has been waiting for quite a long time, but there is no progress.
‘Are you still attached to the name line in this situation? Even with that much bad luck, you can be tough. If only I could know where they are, I’d move myself.’
I thought that if I turned the continent upside down like this, I would soon die in chaos.
From the fact that there has been no news yet, it seems that they are in a fairly safe place.
Considering that I couldn’t find it even after looking through the high-ranking people of the continent for a long time, I don’t think I’m in a very high position.
Maybe the bad luck was so strong that I was in a situation where I would have been better off dead.
“…If you keep flipping the continents, you’ll find it or die somewhere.”
That’s all I can do right now.
Still, it would be nice to have a ‘sense of smell’, but even if I didn’t have it right away, there was no big problem.
After all, the plan was proceeding smoothly.
***
Taraq, a large city in the northwestern part of the continent.
“Ehchu~! Great.”
A girl with a pile of her papers in her arms at a sudden sneeze wrinkled her nose once and moved her steps diligently.
‘Shall we go buy fries after work today? Raffy likes it.’
With no worries whatsoever, thinking of such a carefree thought.
