Chapter 1168 – Shrine of Wind

Me and my companions stride towards the dark forest.
The elves moved quickly, and a rescue team of ten people was formed.

Me. Intangible. Lena. And five Knights of the Midwind, including Lewis, the head of the Knights of the Midwind, and two elders.

It was the strongest force in the Holy Land that everyone acknowledged, but there are people who don’t understand.
He is the head of Winte.

“Why do you want me to stay here?”

Palryu kept chasing after him and trembled. I replied casually.

“No, man. In common sense, would it be okay for the chief to enter the enemy’s stronghold?”
“Stripe…”

He seemed a little delighted at the title of chief, but Palyu immediately burst into tears again.

“But think again. I’m strong. I could use an artifact in case of emergency…”

I cut her off and said.

“This is my hunch, but the Holy Land may be more dangerous than the forest.”
“Yes?”

As if to say something, he turned around and met her eyes.

“It’s just a guess. My senses fit well. Palyu. As you said… Among the elves in this holy land. Except for Aldia or Dimir, there are no elves stronger than you.”

And with such a strong Palryu Artifact, you can even go beyond your limits.
If it’s the momentary output that ‘resonates’ with the artifact, it must be much stronger than me.

“It’s about trusting and entrusting it.”
“Trust, entrust…”

Palryu, who repeated my words in his mouth, quickly brushed the hair under his ears.

“Whoa. In that case, it can’t be helped.”
“Yes. Please.”

Palyu flew away on the wind.
It seems they are after Dimir.

“What’s happening in the Holy Land?”

The intangible asked me

“Are you talking about Dimir? He was strong, but the thief sister seems to have become very strong too. Isn’t there nothing to worry about?”
“I’m not worried about the Rabband side.”

Dimir, pierced by the intangible sword, must have been greatly weakened. Even under normal circumstances, the hero’s companion, Rabband, would put up a good defense against Dimir all day long.
But… There’s something bothering me.
For example. It’s like a seed-shaped spirit that hasn’t been fully resolved yet.

“It’s just. It’s really just a feeling.”
“…Hmm.”
“Because the teacher’s intuition fits well.”

Unexpectedly, intangible and Lena seemed to agree.
What. As I said earlier, the work of the Holy Land was left to Palyu.
Our job is to rescue the captured elves.

On the wall of the gateway leading to the Dark Forest.
The elves were already gathered when we arrived. And Aldia cast a spell.
The huge door engraved with glowing letters presumably in the Elvish language is the Ku-Goo-Goo Palace. It opens with a heavy sound.

Aldia came up to my side and she made a worried face.
Pretty.
I hated myself for giving this beauty a worried look.

“Heir sir. Please do not overdo it. Nothing is more important than the life of the heir, so please put your life first.”
“Yes. Don’t worry.”

As I smiled brightly, Aldia held my hand tightly.
Beside her, Lena glared at her, but Aldia didn’t let go of her hand and trembled. She said in a small, weeping voice that the elves couldn’t hear.

“Please. Save Yufi.”
“Please leave it to me.”

Aldia soon removed her hand from me and walked through the open door.

Woo-woo-!

Just like when we entered the holy land of the elves, the path we stepped on extends straight into the darkness beyond, like a moving walkway.

The atmosphere is great.
The surroundings are as black as the night, and kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwak. I heard a bloody sound as if something was going into a blender, so I went to the danger area. It feels like entering a hidden dungeon.

“The dark forest is a monstrosity left by the true demon king. It keeps moving to devour the living.”

And the dark forest cannot pierce this colorful storm left by Pryunar.
The night-like darkness that fell around them was the remnants of the dark forest ground by the storm.
A forest in a deep, deep abyss where even a slight touch would rot.
But I was more afraid of the typhoon than the dark forest.

“It’s amazing. This wind.”
“Yes. Thanks to this wind, which is said to have been left behind by Pryunar, we were able to successfully block the Dark Forest for a long time.”

This wind is the true first-class contributor that has blocked the darkness for countless years.
What. That doesn’t mean the elves in the Holy Land weren’t needed, or that they weren’t helpful.
For 10,000 years, there have been quite a few cases where demons have used the dark forest to evade typhoons and try to cheat, so the existence of the holy land was absolutely necessary.
Their efforts cannot be underestimated. Rather, it is a great and sublime achievement that deserves praise.
But… Even so, this wind is so great.
Just looking at it makes me feel elated.
Invitation Fryunar. That damn bastard is good at his abilities.

“If something goes wrong when you return and this storm doesn’t let you in, there will be no answer.”
“Don’t say anything stupid from the start.”

The intangible was annoyed.
Around that time. The road has reached its end.
From here, the appearance of the entrance looks like a black monster with its mouth wide open, as if it were claiming that it was a different world.

“Then, I’ll send you all to the center of the forest. Tell me when you’re ready.”

As Aldia raised her wand and began to cast her spell, I placed my hand on Lena’s shoulder.
Lena laughed and clung to my hand.
Cute, but not for petting.

“Lena. Do you want to summon the Earth Spirit?”
“The Earth Spirit?”
“Yeah. Ever since I saw the Dark Forest, I’ve been thinking about it.”
“Okay sir!!”

Lena immediately closed her eyes.

Aaaaa-!

A rainbow-colored light that seemed to erase even the darkness of the forest overflowed brilliantly from Lena’s body.
The rainbow-colored clothes made by the spirits and the tiara swelled with ignorant power.
Aww.
It’s not just a cool look, it’s an item that helps summon spirits, right?
In addition to that, I energized Lena’s body.

…What. As a result, Lena didn’t need that little help with her talents.

Oooh-!!

The surroundings became even darker.
Did you summon the spirit of darkness?
No. No.
Even though only the upper half of the body appeared, something huge like Mount Tai was standing behind us.

Go go go go go.

At the overwhelming presence, the intangible and I opened our mouths wide.
The Midwind Knights looked back and up in amazement.

“Oh my god…!”
“He’s the spirit king of the earth…!!”

Amidst the frightened elves, only Aldia calmly chanted the spell to the end.

“Lena. It’s okay to use all your strength, so ask us to wrap our bodies with the power of the earth.”
“Yes, teacher!!”

As soon as the words were finished, a thin layer of soil was applied to all of us.
I can feel the power of the power of the thin subject.
The spirit king of the earth did not stop there.
He raised his mighty arm and stretched it out into the dark forest.

Quagga gaga gaga-!!

It was felt that the entire dark forest, which was said to be larger than the Enganhan Kingdom, was enveloped in the energy of the earth.
The dark forest is so full of poison that it won’t last long, but it will allow you to navigate much more smoothly.

“It’s okay Lena. It’s going to be hard, so cancel the summons.”
“No! I think I could do it all day today!”
“…Uh, uh, yeah? But just in case…”

As I shuddered at the crazy talent and couldn’t finish her words, Lena cried out with a single, single laugh.

“Okay sir! Thank you for your help, Lord Spirit of the Earth! From now on, we’ll try our best to get through it!”

The spirit king of the earth grins at Lena, who nods.

[See you again. Princess. We will wait for the day when you will call our father someday.]

The spirit king of the earth, who used an old-fashioned way of speaking that did not suit his rough appearance, returned.
And. Aldia is ready.

“Are you ready?”

The rescue team, including my party, nodded in unison.
At that moment, Aldia extended her wand forward.

Gurrrr!

Right after the sound of something being sucked in.

Kwak-!! Rurrrr

Sound. It exploded.
…Thunder?
No, I was mistaken because the blast of wind was too big.
Our subjugation party was suddenly blown forward by a huge storm, the wind that could be called a natural disaster itself.
…Crazy.
The speed of activation and power are astounding.
Aldia. Are you so damn strong?
We made our way through the forest so quickly that the figures of the Elf Queen and her elders shrunk in an instant.

The dark forest notices the creature and closes the distance to intercept us, but the wind crushes it all and moves forward swiftly and swiftly.
Not one storm, but several.
…I repeat. You are strong. Aldia.
He wasn’t the head of the elves for nothing.

“Heir! After entering the center, leave the exploration to us!”

I nodded at Ruid’s words and closed my eyes.

“Hey. It’s there~ It’s over there.”

The intangible squinted at my sudden murmur.

“What’s there?”
“There is such a thing.”

My weapon to seduce the enemy.

***

The dark forest is a demonic realm that cannot be expressed in words as being terrifying.

The demon of darkness is in the shape of a forest, and although it only looks like a forest, it is actually made of poison-filled slime, so if you step into it without any defense, you will continue to fall into the bottom like an endless swamp.

Also, as expected, it is an extremely strong acidic ingredient, so it melts even a tolerable amount of strong people in an instant, and emits extremely poisonous demonic energy that is poisonous even when standing still.

When exploring the dark forest, the elves of the Holy Land at least prepare a ‘guardian’ containing the power of the spirit to prevent poisoning and falling into a swamp.
It is an essential talisman that prevents you from falling to the ground with the power of the spirit and is safe from miasma.
And the elves who came fully prepared are now. I was having an unfamiliar experience.
The two elders continued to admire.

“…My God. The Guardian Department’s energy is not consumed at all, is it?”
“Heir sir. Could this be because of the power of the Earth Spirit King?”

Dre nodded, looking a little excited.

“After examining the ingredients, it seemed that even the magic of the Dark Forest would not be able to penetrate easily if the powerful power of the earth and Ryunar were combined.”
“Oh oh…!”

It’s not that elves haven’t tried various things until now.
As Dre said, he tried to combine the power of Ryunar and the Earth Spirit, but he had never seen anything like this before.

Dre added an explanation.

“It’s only possible if the power of the earth is above a certain level.”
“Okay…!”

In other words, it is a phenomenon that is only possible because of the power of the spirit king of the earth.
Unlike the admiring elders, the faces of the morning breeze knights were dead.

Elves are born hunters to the extent that they are called the tribe of the forest, but this forest is only in the shape of a forest, but the reality is that it is a vicious trap and a life that tries to kill living things with malice.
Their existing knowledge of the forest doesn’t work at all.

‘I can’t find the way at all.’
‘I want to change my appearance every moment even at this moment…’

Nervousness.
Right now, with the power of the earth, which is Dre and Lena’s secret plan, they are walking leisurely as if they were taking a walk, but one day there will be a limit.

And the savagery of the dark forest is not in the miasma.
Monsters that are strong and powerful enough to make fun of the endless swamp and acidic miasma rise without knowing the end.

There was no clear standard for that generation pattern, so I could have encountered dozens of monsters right now.
Because of this, the rescue team’s chosen method is basically a run. I was ignoring it and running.
But… I can’t find the way, so if I run, I’ll just fall into the labyrinth.

‘It’s far more complicated than has been documented. This…’
‘The data obtained from risky reconnaissance in recent decades is useless. Kut. Have I been fooled by the demon lord of the forest?’

Complexity that makes it impossible to even run blindly.
A sense of nervousness deepens.

Still, the dark forest is not focusing on the foreign substance that has entered it.
The most disgusting and frightening thing about this forest is that storm and the Holy Land.
But if the manager of the forest considers even this forest-shaped mass of demonic energy to be a forest, and the ‘Devil of the Forest’ comes, who can move at will…

“Everyone. Wait a minute.”

Dre, who had been chatting with Lena, raised her hand.

“For a moment. Leave it to me.”
“Yeah? What are you trying to do…?”
“I didn’t really want to use it because it was a technique that put a lot of strain on my body, but~”

Dre, who looked a bit excited, activated his skill.
God Score Skill. Transcendence.
With his senses maximized, Dre closes his eyes and searches for ‘something alien’.

Or a bit stronger.
Or weaker.
The range of his senses, maximized by transcending his senses… Reached a kingdom.
And he found the little ‘marble’ he had seen before.

“Found.”

With a grin, the sword…

“Sleep!”

Startled by the sudden voice. Rescuers were surprised.
At that moment, the intangible pulled out a dagger and rushed at the monster who suddenly appeared, and Lena radiated spirit power to keep him in check.

Gurrrr! Aaaaah!!

An intangible dagger cut through the air.
The opponent, who melted into the ground and avoided the intangible attack, sprouted from a huge tree next to him and drew an X with his arm.

“Now. Like intellectuals, let’s talk first.”

A creature whose body can only be seen as a monster made of grass or pebbles.
The eyes have vines or leaves instead of eyeballs.

I felt nothing but displeasure when such a hideous-looking thing used the same gestures and tone as a normal human.

Even if it’s not the appearance. The elves broke into a cold sweat at the ferociousness of the enormous demon that seemed to twist their stomachs just by looking at it.

“The Demon King of the Forest…!”
“Hey man, what have you done to our children!!”

The worst demon king who turned the already catastrophic Dark Forest into an artificial disaster.

The supreme elder, Aldiana, was pursued by the legendary Midir to kill him, but he was also the one who had avoided countless crises in advance with his ‘instinct’ intuition that could only be described as a miracle.

The demon king of the forest shook his hand as if telling him to calm down.
No, I was trying to say

Hijab.

Until you see that smiling human.

“…”

The demon lord of the forest.
He is a demon lord with developed instincts thanks to the power of the forest, which tends to be wild.
Such a demon king intuition.

‘Die.’

If it goes on like this, die.
Being made fun of, they die like worms.

The demon king of the forest thuds from the tree! Fell off
Then, he got down on one knee and said to ‘Dre’.

“…The children are returned.”

In front of the rescue team showing disbelief, the demon king of the forest spoke in an earnest voice.

“Help me.”