Became the Emperor in the Hero Game

29 – 28.

“The Great Advent”

While training in the north, I heard a lot of stories from the Grand Duke, including one about the great grove of elves.

“Actually, it wasn’t that long ago that the Great Forest came into being. Now it seems like they are talking about the hometown of the elves, but in fact, the Great Forest is the new home of the elves who lost their hometown. The original home of the elves was not the great forest, but the primordial forest.”

“If not for a long time, how much do you mean?”

“Um… Right after the Great War ended, so it must have been about 1,500 years?”

Ah, yes.

I gave up trying to understand the dragon’s senses and continued to listen.

“Anyway, at that time, the World Tree was victorious, but the forest in the beginning was stained with death, and as a result, it had no choice but to move. The current world tree has become very weak due to moving to a new place while already suffering from a lot of injuries.”

“If you have weakened a lot, how much?”

“Well… Maybe it’s similar to the original girl?”

It’s about the same as the grand duke.

In that case, the Grand Duke is in charge of the World Tree, the Duke of Pale is in charge of the King, and the knights under him…

“Ah, but I don’t recommend engaging in an all-out war with the elves.”

“Yes?”

“Because there lives an old dragon in the great grove.”

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It was not difficult to locate in the Great Grove.

I’ve never visited, but the Great Forest must be the place where you can feel the energy of the world.

I immediately tried to move to the place where the World Tree was, but

I felt someone intervene with space magic, and the coordinates were distorted.

“Kuh… !”

I hurriedly raised my mana to protect myself, and when I came to my senses, I had reached the Great Forest outside the boundaries of the World Tree.

“You… You are a descendant of Pluto.”

The one who greeted me at the border of the great grove was an elf, no. It was a dragon that took the form of an elf.

A dragon that loves the World Tree, Arbo the Green Dragon.

He looked at me with his pupils slit vertically.

“Please understand that I was a little extreme. As for me, I couldn’t stand to see a transcendental being try to break into her abode.”

“Arvo, is that right?”

“Yes. Not many people know my name.”

“I heard from the Grand Duke.”

“The Archduke? Ah, you mean Artemia.”

Arbo, who called the Grand Duke as if he were a child, came to me after clearing his guard.

“Hmm?”

Pajijijik!

As Arvo moved a few steps and got closer to me, five red lightning bolts flew and obstructed his path.

At the same time, the magic tool that had been sleeping in my subspace opened at the same time and aimed at Arbo.

Seven magical tools that protect the caster, five that amplify the effect of magic, and three that contain the power of the old gods.

Each one is an artifact of the final level, and it is a magic tool that helped to control the demon king’s army even when he was just a mage.

“Stay away.”

“You don’t have to be so vigilant.”

Arbo raised his hands to indicate that he had no intention of fighting,

I still couldn’t let my guard down.

Unlike me, who has just reached the realm, he is a dragon who has lived in the same realm as me for at least a thousand years. I can’t let my guard down unless I’m sure you’re favored with me like the Archduke.

“Well, I don’t understand why you come out like that, but I can’t kill you. I don’t know why you came to the Great Forest, but even if things go wrong, kicking you out will be enough, so relax.”

“What do you mean you can’t kill?”

“That’s true, aren’t you a descendant of Pluto?”

I nodded my head at the sight of Arbo talking about the imperial guardian dragon.

“Yes. It’s been a while since he returned to the Valley of Dragons, so you may not know. Haven’t Artemia told you about Pluto’s personality?”

“I haven’t heard anything specific.”

“Well, Pluto’s personality is a bit off.”

I looked at Arbo with eyes wondering what the hell the dragon was talking about.

“No, of course I know how our dragons are perceived in the world. A little arrogant, selfish. It must feel like that. But Pluto… Could you have gone further from there? You. Do you know what happened when Arhan was founded?”

“Okay. The guardian dragon helped the founding festival and established the country. You know only this much.”

“Really? I guess it wasn’t communicated correctly. It’s long to explain, but roughly speaking, a warlock almost ruled the continent. He is an agent put up by one of the courtiers who lost in the Great War, but he must have been more talented than I thought, so he quickly rose to the level of a transcendentalist and tried to swallow the continent.”

“It’s the first time I’ve heard of it.”

“Anyway. After the Great War, ah. Do you know about the Great War?”

“I only heard from the Grand Duke that there was a war between the gods a long time ago.”

“Yeah, that’s all you need to know. After the Great War, among the remaining Transcendentalists, several laws were established, and one of them was not to intervene directly on the continent. Of course, there are some exceptions, but the situation at the time was not included in those exceptions.”

Damn, another story I didn’t know.

‘Shien Chronicles’ was simply a game with a royal story of a hero slaying the demon king, but why are there so many behind-the-scenes stories?

Rather than that, what does that transcendent person that was mentioned earlier mean?

“What is the Transcendent?”

“Hmm? Aren’t you also a transcendentalist?”

“… ?”

“Ah, don’t you use these words these days? Twelve thousand years ago, there were many people who used that word. That, what do you call a wizard like you these days?”

“A mage who breaks the rules is called a great mage.”

“Yes! That’s it. Rule. In the past, those who deviated from the law were called Transcendentalists. Whether it’s magic or witchcraft. They just said that those who do not obey the law are all transcendentalists. Ah, those with swords were a little ambiguous, but whatever.”

Perhaps Arbo had a talkative personality in the first place, and continued to explain excitedly.

“At that time, it was actually a situation where Pluto shouldn’t have stepped forward. That god didn’t come directly, and since he set up an agent, we had to either appoint an agent as well, or we had to wait until an exception came.”

“But do you know what Pluto did? Thinking that one of the people he liked was going to die, he shook off everyone around him and went to kill the warlock. God, to break the law because of one human being. Considering that it was our Lord who first proposed the law, it was absurd.”

“Do you know what the situation was like back then? Public opinion among us dragons is divided because of one Pluto. He said that he should punish him for breaking the law, and he would rather throw away the law at this point. Oh, of course there were more opinions that he should be punished.”

“So, how did it go?”

“While we were talking about this and that, Pluto got back on his feet. He said this to us after a long meeting.

‘One Hundred Years. In a hundred years, I will return to the Valley of the Dragon and be put on probation.’

Then the dragon who hated him the most said this. He was an old man who lived longer than me, but he was an old man who helped Lord to frame the law.

‘Don’t be funny. You are a sinner Get your disposition right now. If you refuse, I will personally kill the human you love.’

Hmm? Oh, the law? One of the exceptions I mentioned is when another transcendent first breaks the law. So, even if that inspiration killed your ancestors, there was no particular problem. If it were you, what would you have done in that situation?”

“Well… If it were me.”

Someone is threatening someone I care about.

If that happens…

“Perhaps I didn’t kill him.”

“hahahaha! I can’t even bleed. That’s it. Pluto killed the dragon on the spot. The conference hall is in an uproar. Of course it’s not that uncommon for us to kill or fight each other, but that’s a thing of the past. Since many of our own people died in the Great War, we have tacitly avoided killing each other. In that situation, in front of so many dragons, even in front of the Lord, I killed an old elder.”

“Has anyone stopped you?”

“Of course there was! By the way, there was the faction of the old man in the meeting room, but there were also Pluto’s followers. It was very upsetting. Before that meeting, our number was in double digits, but after the meeting, it was reduced to one digit.

Many of Pluto’s followers died, and the faction of inspiration died.

Only the dragons who belonged to neutrality and a few followers of Pluto survived.”

What… ?

“That isn’t enough of a fuss.”

“Well, it was actually a civil war.”

“What was that Lord doing just watching him?”

“Nothing. I just watched it with interest without really doing anything. Ah, now that I think about it, I think I ordered a young dragon to bring me something to eat.”

… Are you really crazy?

“Well, anyway. What I want to say is this. Pluto is the one who killed his own people for ignoring the law for the sake of a human and threatening to kill that human. I don’t want to be with him by killing his offspring.”

Ah, so. Is it that he won’t kill me because he’s afraid of the guardian dragon?

“You don’t seem to care about me and the Empire.”

” Oh, I apologize if I sounded that way.”

I apologized verbally, but he didn’t deny it.

Even the emperor of an empire that already rules half of the continent, and the one who transcends the law, is weightless in front of this gigantic lizard.

I felt the urge to slay this dragon right here and prove that judgment wrong, but I barely held it back.

Apart from the fact that my skills have not reached the dragon yet, at least for now, I must not fight this dragon.

So you won’t even be able to negotiate to get the elixir.

“Ah, now that I think about it, it’s too late to ask. Why did you come here?”

“I came to see the World Tree.”

“Looks like you need an elixir. Are any of the people around you seriously injured or sick?”

“… How did you know?”

“What else could be the reason the Transcendentalist seeks the World Tree? However, the handling of the elixir is entirely within the elves’ authority. Do you know that?”

“Isn’t that the world tree? I thought I would just have to convince the World Tree.”

“It’s an old tradition. That way other races couldn’t ignore the elves.”

I didn’t touch the elves out of fear that I might need the elixir, Arbo said.

“Did you have to do that? Elves aren’t that weak.”

“Now it is, but it wasn’t before. There were many people of our own kind, there were giants, and there were many strange things of all kinds.”

Sometimes people like you pop up.

“Damn, that’s bothering me.”

“hahahaha, but you haven’t had a dispute with an elf yet, have you? Since we’ve come this far, I’m going to see my daughter. Lately, my daughter doesn’t look bad at humans, so she might be able to give me one if she’s good.”

“Daughter?”

“Yes, I am not bragging, but I am the prettiest and wisest elf in the world. How beautiful is your voice Do you think that’s all there is to it? He shoots well and uses magic well. How eerie it is to be friendly with the spirits.”

Shoot a bow well, use magic well. Doing spirit magic well.

No way…

“Is your daughter the Elf Queen?”

“Hmm. That’s right. Oh, come to think of it, you must have met before. That, the anti-demon lord union? You mentioned that you met the Emperor of the Empire while doing that.”

“Yes. When I saw her at that time, she didn’t seem to like humans very much, did I get it wrong?”

“No, you must have seen it properly then. It’s only recently that my daughter has started to look favorably on humans.”

“Recently… ? What happened recently?”

It’s something that will make the relationship between elves and humans better.

No matter how much you think about it?

Ah, no way…

“Anyway, I thought my granddaughter-in-law would become a human.”