I Picked Up the Abandoned Hero

76. Cause and Reason

“Is there no one there?”

“That’s right, even if you look around, you little bastard, you can’t find it. Oh, is there one here?”

“…Stop arguing and just walk forward.”

The dark interior of the tomb is not much different from before.

The only difference is that you can see where the shadow teeth passed, but other than that, there wasn’t much difference from when I first came in.

“It seems a little cold somehow.”

“Would you like me to take off my clothes?”

“No, it’s okay. “Your clothes are so small right now that it’s hard to put them on.”

“Now that I see it, it seems so.”

“It’s strange, the temperature is the same, but the perceived temperature seems to have dropped significantly.”

As Arcel said, the inside of the tomb is getting colder.

At first, it just felt dark and lonely, but now the coldness has increased.

However, according to Stella, the temperature inside the tomb was the same, so it was really strange.

“Anyway, her grandmother’s room will be out in a little while, because I secretly brought her grandmother’s diary.”

“Is that okay?”

“What do you think? The original diary is there for you to steal.”

“…I think it would be very tiring to have a family like you.”

Stella looked at Alfred and shook her head.

Arcel could not bear to tell Stella her truth.

If you think about it, even though it may seem like something important, it seems to be such an important matter that the parties involved cannot just ignore it.

It’s even weirder not knowing in the first place.

“But does the diary even show the structure of this place?”

“It’s not just the structure, but the surrounding features, the ceiling with the pattern of the tree engraved with the imprint of the roots. “That is the prison-like room I will be living in from now on.”

Alfred moves forward while reading the diary.

Just as Alfred said, the ceiling was full of tree patterns, and soon a room with a large door appeared, which is said to be where Zion, the elder of the roots, stayed.

“Is it just an ordinary room?”

I open the door carefully.

Alfred tore off the lock by hand.

“Come in, a precious person like me has come to such a shabby place, right?”

While Arcel and Stella are cautious and do not enter hastily, Alfred steps forward readily.

Rock!

And then, as if waiting, the floor where Alfred was standing disappeared.

Of course, Alfred was flying in the sky, so he just looked down at the floor.

“…Isn’t that a spear?”

“Yes, it is coated with a deadly poison that will kill you if you touch it. Is it in good state of preservation? Even after hundreds of years, the poison looks fine. Should I take some to my castle?”

“No, stop.”

It seems there is only one trap.

It seems that he had arbitrarily unlocked the door and prepared for someone to come in.

I think the contrast is a bit extreme.

Fortunately, once the trap was closed, it did not open again.

“But I’m not sure that the books we’re looking for are here. There are other places I suspect, but they came from nearby places.”

First, everyone disperses and looks at the books in Zion’s room.

“Can you read here?”

The books in this room were fully readable.

Of course, most of them were written in elven letters, but Arcel learned elven culture little by little from Stella and was able to roughly understand the meaning.

But this time again, perhaps it was a waste of time. There were many books on magic, but none on curses.

At this point, I wonder if Sion may have given me wrong information, but as Alfred said, I haven’t found everything yet, so it’s too early to give up hope.

“Alfred. Stellar. “Come here for a moment and look at this book.”

But then Arcel suddenly found a strange book.

Although Arcel knew the elven letters in his own way, this article is full of letters he had never seen before and had no meaning at all.

If anything, I would say it resembles a history book I found at a demonic bookstore earlier.

“Why did you call me? “Is that the book her grandmother was talking about?”

“I can’t read this at all. “I called Alfred or Stella to see if they could read it.”

I wondered if this might be the curse-related book I was looking for.

“Ah, this is a devil’s book written in ancient script. It’s amazing. “Good luck finding it.”

Looking at Alfred’s reaction, it seemed like he had finally found what he was looking for.

“…Wait a minute, what is this?”

However, Stella’s reaction was the exact opposite of Alfred’s.

“Why are you doing this? “Isn’t this the antidote to that curse?”

“Give it to me for a moment.”

Stella received the book from Arcel and began to read it carefully.

I wondered if it was an important book, but the more she read, the more serious Stella’s expression became.

Hasn’t Stella’s complexion turned pale before you know it?

“It is the law that makes a god come down… After all, my grandmother is also a bigot, isn’t she? She also collected a lot of strange books.”

“What do you mean, the law of making a god come down?”

Alfred says that the book contains instructions on how to summon God.

“Literally, how to call on God. “I only skimmed through it, but it seems to be a book about how to summon God.”

“God, does that mean God really exists?”

“Well, no one knows that unless they see God directly. Does what that book says mean the true God that people call? Or are you talking about something that resembles God?”

But it was a little strange that an elf was looking for a god.

Elves had virtually no religion, and if he looked for something to worship like a god, it was their great ancestors.

However, in that book, it was not about the ancestors, but something completely different, a god that humans believe in and worship, and a similar being, if at all similar, was called a god.

Tuck!

“This is such a crazy cult, is this the way to call God? “This is just crazy stuff!”

Stella got angry and closed the book.

When Arcel asked why, Stella frowned and glared at the book.

“It’s a common story, but it’s simply about gathering enormous magical power and summoning a being called God. “Even though that method is a crazy thing that even the devil wouldn’t do.”

“It might be enough for the Demon Lord to simply exterminate one of the races, either humans or demons. “If you can face God with just that, wouldn’t it be a relatively cheap price?”

“…What?”

What Alfred said could not help but be very shocking.

In the book Arcel found, it was written as follows.

How to call God.

Exterminate all races, either humans or elves, and gather the souls from their corpses in one place.

The soul is used as a sacrifice to gather special magical power, and by offering it to the sky, it is said that one can summon the gods beyond the sky.

With that, we can finally reach God.

“That’s crazy! How do you do something like that?! “If you were a demon, you wouldn’t know!”

Stella was naturally angry at Alfred’s remarks.

Eliminate all of one race.

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Of course, the book says that it is simply to collect magical power, so there is no need to kill all entities, and you only need to collect a certain amount of souls.

It was strangely similar to the current situation of the elves.

“Are you sad about this? This book doesn’t say anything about demons. “It seems to be a fairly old book, but maybe demons didn’t exist back then.”

“…First of all, I don’t think this book is needed right now. Let’s stop and look for another book. “We cannot waste time on irrelevant content.”

It was a concern, but it wasn’t necessary right away.

Arsel put the book back on the shelf and decided to look for another book.

“Okay, when I look at it, it doesn’t look like there are any books here, even after a cursory glance. “If I had been here in the first place, my grandmother wouldn’t have told me because she would have been embarrassed.”

Shaking his head, Alfred pointed to the trap.

When I think about it, if it wasn’t for Alfred, either Arcel or Stella might have been left out.

Furthermore, looking at the books I had already looked at, nothing seemed very important.

‘…It’s a way to call on God.’

Except for the book I just found.

“Alfred, could you please put this book in your pocket?”

“Yes, but why? “Do you want to call on God?”

“It’s because I’m a little nervous.”

“That book is the only one written in our elves’ ancient language. All the other books are ordinary.”

I hoped I would never have to take out that book again.

But Arcel knew.

My sense in this field is extremely accurate.

“Next, let’s go to the place where the heads of the village of demons gathered for a meeting.”

“He’s not the village head, he’s an elder!”

“I heard that the elders’ job was to manage their respective tribes? “In the end, you’re no different from the village head, right?”

“…Why don’t you both quit?”

Arsel stopped the two people who were about to fight about their pride over something useless again.

I moved right away without wasting any more time.

“Maybe that’s the conference room.”

The second place Arcel headed to was the place where elf elders gathered for meetings.

This time, Stella, who had memorized the directions to this place, took the lead, and contrary to her determination, she did not encounter anyone.

Of course, that eerie elf was nowhere to be seen.

When such uneasy peace continues…

“…Oh my god.”

Stella, who had been leading the way, stopped in front of the conference room and let out a sigh.

“Stella, why suddenly-“

And Arcel, who looked inside, also stiffened.

Stella did not lead us to the wrong place.

This conference room had a large round table large enough for people to sit around, a total of 12 chairs, and one particularly large chair.

However, the reason Arcel and Stella stopped was that there were high elves sitting on those chairs.

“What on earth is this…?”

He was brutally murdered and only the corpse remained.

They were dead, bleeding from their eyes and mouths, but strangely enough, there was no signs of decomposition.

According to the circumstances, these people were similar to the elders who were said to have been killed by Zion, and if so, they must have died hundreds of years ago.

No matter how long an elf lives, it is natural for its body to decay when it dies.

This would be the same for high elves as well.

“Hmm, is it because it is sealed with a barrier? It has been preserved quite well. Or they used magic separately.”

Alfred spoke with a bright expression.

“Is it possible that it has been neglected for hundreds of years…?”

Stella sat down in her seat and looked at the conference room with a disappointed expression.

Even though there was no corruption, it did not mean that the bodies of the elders were completely unchanged.

Even their skin turned white and they looked like plaster statues.

Is that why?

It still seems like red blood is particularly emphasized.

“That’s right, according to her grandmother, the ears heard that when her grandmother left this land, her grave was sealed within the barrier forever.”

Perhaps you thought that Zion had set up a trap in the tomb?

It is said that the remaining elves left this tomb untouched for hundreds of years.

If you think about it, the bodies of the great elders of the past who were said to have been killed by Zion could not even be found.

“No matter what, that’s true…!”

I wasn’t looking for it exactly.

Of course, in modern times, there would have been more elves like Stella who didn’t know about their deaths, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t people who don’t know about their deaths.

Aren’t elves a long-lived species to begin with?

“The other elders are just like that elf! “I told you so much that my father and I had to open this tomb before the situation gets any worse…!”

Stella gritted her teeth and became angry at the actions of the elves so far.

I learned that when I was young, I was worried that this tomb would be damaged, so I placed it behind a barrier on purpose.

Despite the fact that there are many magic leftovers from the glory days, I thought it was just too inflexible as the elves value history and tradition.

“If those damn elders were still alive, I would have put an arrow between their eyes…”

Now that I see it, they were all just cowards and hypocrites.

They were just idiots who were afraid to look back on the past and buried it in the ground forever.

In particular, Stella, along with her father, the Root elder, insisted that this tomb be opened quickly, but due to Zion’s actions in the past, the Root tribe’s position was greatly reduced.

“Alfred.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Two seats are empty.”

“That’s right, it looks like someone was sitting there, but it seems like it happened recently.”

At that time, Arcel pointed to two empty chairs.

One is where the root chief sits.

This is probably where Zion would have sat, so it was natural that it was empty.

And the owner of the remaining seat was someone Arcel and Stella had seen before.

There were several books left in the conference room, but I didn’t dare to go in.

Except for Alfred, who casually sits in an empty seat.

“Then, shall we take a moment to read Grandma’s diary? Why did her grandmother kill and stuffed these ears? “I think she also explains why she had to be killed.”

Alfred said, waving the diary.

†††

“I think it is important to first invite the remaining foreign compatriots to our land. If we continue like this, we elves will be the only high elves left in about 1,000 years.”

An elder wearing glasses spoke while showing various documents.

“But you’ve already sung as much as you can. Or are you planning on calling those bastards?”

The elder who was applying rouge to his lips laughs at that.

“Elder of the Branch, please do not call me by such vulgar terms, but use the official name Dark Elf.”

“Is there anything wrong with calling me a bastard because I’m black?”

Elven elders were currently discussing the most serious issues in elven society.

However, since the Supreme Elder passed away, the meeting has not proceeded normally.

“Besides, what are you doing by calling those vicious bastards? Are you going to take them and raise them as livestock for baby production? I agree with that. “Of course, I have no intention of putting such a dirty seed in my stomach.”

“Elders of the branch, refrain from using vulgar words or actions during meetings. “Even if it is a fact that both demons and humans outside know that you are a shallow woman.”

Even the highest-ranking elder didn’t seem to have any intention of taking the lead, so rather than a meeting, it was just a fight between the elders.

“Why does the elder of the stem keep criticizing everything I say?”

“Well… Let’s start with the solution to the aging problem first…”

“Elder of the Leaf. Instead, how about banning elves from going outside?”

“If you do that wrong, there is a possibility that a riot will break out, saying it is suppressing freedom…”

“Then tell them to start a riot. “I just have to execute them all myself and that will be enough.”

It was originally difficult to even have a proper conversation, let alone unify opinions, but the highest elder managed to control them and lead them.

But now that there is no supreme elder, it was just a natural result.

And Zion, who was watching this scene, thought.

‘Ah, I want to kill the elder and all.’

These people are the elders who lead the elf society. No matter how you look at it, they had no future.