episode_0232

“……Sirocco.”

I kept calling Sirocco’s name out of reflex. Not only was my head not working properly right away, but Sirocco had never failed to respond to my call.

No, there is. When I was on Earth, it was a completely different dimension and I had no connection to Sirocco.

So does this mean that Sirocco, who still hasn’t answered my call, is now in another dimension, or has fallen into a situation at a similar level?

It was something I had never expected, so I knew nothing about it, but I knew that I shouldn’t just sit still and lose my mind like this.

“Asha… Adele…!”

Something shoots up from the soles of my feet and fills up to the tip of my head. Energy, or emotion. If it were energy, it would be faith, and if it was an emotion, it would be anger.

When I recognized myself, my body was already in space. Flight was also possible through faith. However, fuel efficiency is not overwhelmingly better than with the help of Sirocco.

On the contrary, it also meant that after receiving the dwarves’ faith, I had built up my faith to the point where I could handle this bad fuel-efficiency thing.

For an instant, I feel dizzy and dizzy. It wasn’t a burden on my body, it was the effect of pure emotion. I feel like my anger is welling up all the way to my head.

The object of my anger is one-dimensionally directed at myself. I feel self-loathing over the fact that I lost the most precious thing in the world so vainly.

I trusted Sirocco that much, and I believed in my own abilities. In fact, the act of believing itself may not be wrong.

However, it is an undeniable fact that if a problem arises due to that, there is ample room for blame.

“How dare… who…..”

The problem is that even if you get angry at yourself, you cannot overcome the current situation. Naturally, my anger was directed at someone who had no idea what they had done to Sirocco and the children.

“…If you touch even a single hair, you will be killed…”

In essence, such purposeless anger tends to become meaningless. But things are a little different here.

This is a world where faith gives strength. Among them, faith, which can be said to be the most essential faith, overflows through my body.

Although it is not a specialized field, if you use enough faith, you can achieve what you want.

Shaking….

A scenery that shimmers as if reflected in the water. Everything you see before your eyes returns to the past. When I looked down, I saw myself and my children sleeping in the field.

“…….”

I could see the two children sleeping without a care in the world, and Sirocco watching us while enjoying the wind around us.

The scene that followed next was so outrageous that I couldn’t even speak of it.

***

Druid. It is a general term for those who consider nature sacred and worship it, and value balance, harmony, circulation and regeneration.

At first glance, you might think that there is no difference between them and elves, but if you look at them one by one, they are completely different people.

Although elves are also a nature-friendly race, they are nothing more than ordinary creatures living in the underworld.

On the other hand, strictly speaking, Druids were difficult to consider as pure creatures. This is because they are a mixture of nature’s blessings.

To put it simply, they were beings no different from spirits. If spirits were able to see the descendants of creatures such as humans and elves, beings similar to druids would have been born.

There was also a clear difference in the object of faith. Elves serve the World Tree and its predecessor, Prinia, but what druids serve is nature itself.

Of course, it was impossible for a god to be born just by accumulating faith in nature. As a result, they were able to use their faith as their own strength.

Since people who were in control of nature worshiped nature, in a way, such a boomerang-like circulation of power was natural.

“…The balance is off again.”

Those gathered in a structure similar to Stonehenge on Earth, with large rocks standing in a circle, let out sounds of lamentation.

They were all druids, and they all had the same concerns.

“Everyone probably knows that the flow in this area is clearly strange.”

A druid taking the form of a deer chanted. The flow he was talking about meant mana itself.

Mana, which can be considered the most important element that makes up this world, was naturally the natural element that druids considered most important.

This is consistent with the fact that no one considered Eugene to be a living being when he first came to this world, as he had no mana in his body and could not feel mana.

“There have been a lot of changes recently. Surely in the past, this was the most fertile land.”

These were the words spoken by a druid in the form of a bear. The ‘recently’ he meant was before Arjen devastated the Eletrobe area.

From this point, you can understand their concept of time. Having no set lifespan, they just dismiss events that have occurred over 400 years as ‘the past’.

“After being devastated once, it grew again. Every time I see something like that, I truly realize the greatness of nature.”

Druids dismissed everything as a change in natural phenomena. There was no concept of the land being devastated by ‘Dragon Arzen’ or the land becoming green thanks to the power of ‘Goddess Prinia’.

We only consider what happened and the results. And I believe that almost all of those phenomena and results occurred because what they were serving ‘was of their own accord.’

However, something has recently occurred among druids that has shaken that belief. To conclude, it was all because of Arjen.

“I don’t want to believe it, but I think someone is artificially influencing nature.”

The druids gathered there all stirred at the words of the person in the shape of an owl.

” That’s ridiculous. How dare any living thing influence the great nature!”

Tiger was the first to become indignant, and the other druids also nodded in agreement.

To them, nature is great. All living things on this earth were weak beings that could only survive by borrowing the power of nature and could never go against nature.

This was actually true. No matter how much humans damage nature, nature eventually purifies and regenerates.

Even if it is a dragon and not a human, this proposition cannot be overturned. No matter how powerful a dragon is, it cannot defy the laws of nature.

And contrary to the prejudice held by creatures other than dragons, who fear dragons, dragons had surprisingly little impact on the environment.

Basically, they spend most of their lives within the rare, and even if they engage in destructive activities, they rarely cross the line.

Arjen was a very unusual being in that respect. There has never been and will never be a dragon that has shown such great power in front of others as her.

Even from the druids’ point of view, the fact that the entire Eletrobe area was completely wiped out as a wasteland where not a single plant could grow was something they had experienced for the first time in their lives because of their separation from Eugene.

How could it be that Prinia brought Eugene back to Earth?

There is a good reason why the Druids, the embodiment of nature, accepted this as an abnormal situation and the goddess Prinia decided to appease Arjen.

It wasn’t for nothing that he got the nickname “Crazy Dragon.”

“It is foolish to close our eyes and deny something that has already happened. In fact, how do we accept the recent upheaval in nature?”

“Forget the days of devastation and look at the present. Didn’t nature say hello and regenerate as always?”

“Okay. I have something to say about that. What if we say that even the replay was artificially intervened by someone?”

“What?”

The Druids who heard those words were all excited.

“Who would dare do something like that!”

The destruction of nature is something that all living things can do, just to different degrees. But regeneration wasn’t like that. At least from the druids’ perspective.

Because regeneration was one of the four elements they considered most important.

However, it was a clear fact that Eugene used the power of the World Tree to help Kaela transform the devastated land into a green land.

Each druid knew a different degree of the truth, but nothing was more foolish than denying the truth.

“…I have to admit what I have to admit. That dragon has a different level of influence on nature than the dragons that have existed so far.”

“Ha… Then what can we do? Are you willing to kill that dragon?”

“No. The dragon has already lived for quite a long time and has become an element of nature. I can’t do any harm now.”

Dragon is also a creature. In other words, it was an element that made up nature. Of course, they worshiped nature and could not harm its components.

“Then what are we going to do?”

“Clearly the topic of the first conversation was the newly distorted balance of magical power, right? The reason is because the dragon had a child.”

“Hmm…….”

“If those children also had the same level of influence on nature as that dragon, it would be a disaster. So let’s prevent that disaster in advance.”

The result of the Druids’ meeting was suicide.