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Chapter 136: Elkadion (1)

Enbi Arin braced herself after seeing the people in the distance.

And it wasn’t the Taruhol of the past.

While Enbi Arin was confused, the four other pillars of Akaron made distressed expressions.

‘Dragon Essence Blade… How does Taruhol have the Dragon Essence Blade?’

But contrary to the worries of the people around them, the two’s conversation actually flowed quite peacefully.

Hansoo and Elkadion grabbed each other’s hand as they communicated.

Elkadion, who had been making the Crown of Thorns and the Akadus with the information within it, found out about a special power of the Crown of Thorns.

Then Hansoo made a confused expression.

At least such information wasn’t listed in the Memory Crystal Hansoo read.

The extremely vicious and dangerous land that was beyond human imagination.

She wanted to put in the location of the Crown of Thorns as well as the mana code for controlling it.

But there was a reason why she was completely baffled.

Since Hansoo obtaining her memory crystal was impossible.

Elkadion looked at Hansoo with a meaningful smile.

She had only made the plans, she hadn’t even started to make the memory crystal.

Elkadion thought of a lot of possibilities that would explain this current situation.

If she were to exclude one very impossible hypothesis.

This man had obtained the Memory Crystal that she hadn’t even made.

Elkadion relayed her hypothesis to Hansoo.

“What the h.e.l.l happened? Did everything work out?”

Gwanje, who had been gazing at Elkadion who was leaving along with the Akarons, asked Hansoo who was walking towards him.

“For now.”

Hansoo realized something from this.

Hansoo knew.

When one roamed around the Abyss for a long time, a certain idea gets unconsciously nailed into one’s mind.

“…Are you really Elkadion?”

It wasn’t just Oteon.

In order to meet their hero who had left in order to save them but had now returned.

“I am.”

The priestess, Oteon, and everyone else made expressions of utter disbelief.

“My return here is also a gesture of the G.o.ds. To recover the Akarons.”

The main reason for this was because Elkadion had been the best researcher as well as a pioneer even before she had left.

In the current head of Elkadion, countless plans and methods for the Akarons were stacked up.

“What are your plans? O mighty Elkadion.”

And Elkadion made a slightly dejected expression as she answered.

Oteon flinched at those words.

Elkadion made an amused expression at Oteon’s reaction as she continued to speak:

Oteon and all the other Akarons now looked at Elkadion with complex expressions.

But how would they feel if the problem had already been solved when they returned.

Elkadion took note of their reactions as she continued to speak.

Everyone looked at Elkadion with confused expressions at those words.

For another stage to exist after healing the holy beast, Lazar, and removing its suffering.

“I’ve realized something much more important while roaming the outside world. No, should it be called a new goal instead?”

Danger.

Them, the Akarons, were mere frogs trapped in a well.

That she would not be satisfied with just the Body Enhancement Surgery and the Akadus.

Elkadion pointed at the humans.

Oteon was shocked as she slowly and cautiously spoke out.

“Hahaha. I’m just saying it as an example. I also believe that we need to keep a good relations.h.i.+p with the humans. But we shouldn’t lose out in strength right? We Akarons have much more potential than them, since I am here now.

The Akarons made strange expressions at the confident words of Elkadion.

The part where she emphasized getting stronger wasn’t the weird part, since she had always claimed that weakness was the greatest enemy of peace.

‘Hmm…’

Ailen, the priestess in training, carefully asked Elkadion while staring at her.

Elkadion made another benevolent smile as she shook her head.

Elkadion then spoke out loudly to every Akaron around her.

“Yes O Holy Elkadion.”

The Akarons shouted out loudly in unison after having met their great leader and spread out in all the corners of the Holy Land.

Elkadion stood at the highest point of the Holy Land and stared at the Great Temple that was being rebuilt at a tremendous pace.

‘It’s nice here.’

And even more so compared to the h.e.l.l-like environment of the Abyss that she had been in the day prior.

‘No, it’ll be bad if I become like that as well.’

And because of this they had to maintain it as best as they could and she needed to do everything she could in order to maintain the peace.

‘…She didn’t really like high places in the past.’

Hundreds of years was more than enough time for anything to change completely.

But the tiny amount that Elkadion had changed was enough for anybody to say that she hadn’t changed at all.

As if Elkadion had felt Tekilon’s gaze, she straightened herself and asked about what she had heard earlier.

Tekilon nodded.

“The world is large and there are a lot of magnificent things. Is there no way of bringing that World Tree over to this world?”

“If it was possible then I would’ve brought it here already. The World Tree can only live in that world.”

Elkadion made an extremely sad expression.

The crustacean race of the Abyss who laid 2000 eggs at a time and only took 4 days to grow into an adult, the Detuels, would destroy the enemy’s entire land even if one of their immeasurable amount of numbers had gotten killed by that enemy.

Humans were endlessly coming out from beneath the lake.

The Akarons were stronger than humans for now.

But this gap would close up and that was not very far in the future.

‘Since we supply them with the Body Enhancement Surgery for the alliance they would close the gap even faster. G.o.d is really unfair. Why doesn’t G.o.d give us a chance to get strong like that?’

Weakness was a sin and the chance to get stronger was a blessing in itself.

Elkadion was actually a bit unsatisfied with the current speed of progress.

The Gragos was no longer an existence they feared and had turned into a motherly land which supported them like in the past.

The Akarons sang songs blessing the peace and raised flags praising Elkadion.

‘Mmm…’

‘This won’t do.’

Their race had done everything in their power to survive and get stronger so they had gotten strong very quickly.

The Body Enhancement Surgery and the Akadus wouldn’t have been made if they weren’t desperate from the battles.

‘As I expected, the only person who can really understand me is Hansoo. He is the only one. He knows about everything.’

That he was preparing all he could for the Abyss.

Would a person be lonely even if their entire race was next to them?

Since she was like that currently.

But only for a moment.

They couldn’t see the same things and walk on the same road as her despite being next to her.

And something else that hadn’t existed when she had been roaming in the Abyss currently pushed down on her.

‘Not knowing is not a sin. I must lead my race. I must train them to be more powerful.’

Hansoo was the only person thinking along the same path as her.

It seemed like there was a lot he hadn’t told her yet.

Elkadion got up and headed towards Hansoo.

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