The Devil Who Grants Wishes

146 – Gaia (2)

“Mmm… I never thought I’d come back here.”

The Great Forest can be seen in the distance. I’ve ruined a lot of it, so it’s not at all spectacular when I first saw the Great Forest, but the scenery of the Great Forest is so spectacular that I can vividly feel what the sentence ‘abundant with life’ means.

Lucia is also looking around with a rather vague expression, as if she is recalling memories, perhaps because she has sparse memories of living in the Great Forest when she was young.

“Ugh…! It’s been a while, is Aren doing well?”

“…The Great Grove.”

Of course, the feelings Lucia feels cannot even be compared to those of the elves Lena and Irene. For the elves who have lived in the Great Forest for a very long time, isn’t the Great Forest the source and home of everything they have?

Lena feels happy to return to her hometown after a long absence and worries about Aren, who returned to Daesilim first.

…To think that such a pitiful woman is the incarnation of Gaia.

[Gaia’s… incarnation?]

[Yes, to be precise, it’s just because Gaia was the only member of the family created when she was fine, so she inherited everything as soon as Gaia was broken. Although he doesn’t seem to be aware of it.]

The identity of Irene that Belial told me about was truly shocking.

I thought she was just an old woman elf who had eaten so much that I couldn’t guess her age, but she was actually Gaia’s incarnation.

From Irene’s unique magic to the soul contained in Irene’s body, everything is no different from Gaia’s alter ego.

[Hmmm, then let’s go to bed soon—- wait, where are you going like that again!!]

[Do it after work is done.]

[I don’t know if it’s something else, but I’m going to go to that Gaia girl! I can’t stand abandoning me in front of my eyes and going to that bitch— please wait!!]

Gaia and Irene are literally the same person from the point of view of the demons, who treat them as the same being if they have the same magic or magic power, no matter how different their personalities may be, so Belial treated Irene like Gaia.

When Belial met Irene, there was a reason why he treated her as an acquaintance he hadn’t seen in a while.

Anyway, I hurriedly came out of the demon realm and met Irene, but the result I wanted did not happen.

[…Faust-sama, what are you doing now?]

[Ah, Dad…! What else are you doing!?]

[Hmm, it doesn’t appear.]

If Irene was the incarnation of Gaia, she would have been able to summon Gaia through Irene and achieve what she wanted, but unfortunately Gaia did not appear no matter what she did to Irene.

If Gaia had appeared, she wouldn’t have come to the Great Forest in person like this… Well, according to Belial’s words, Gaia will be sleeping under the World Tree, so you’ll find it right away.

Above all, seeing Daesoorim after a long time is not that bad.

‘Playback is really fast.’

The parts that were damaged by being soaked in the magi that I had naturally released are neatly restored as if they had never been.

Of course, you can clearly see that it is strange because there are many newly grown trees in that part.

Go oh

And looking at that part, the magic sphere that was made by sacrificing a part of the great forest vibrates and resonates.

It’s just a black sphere of Magi, but there’s a feeling that it’s somewhat similar to Lena and Irene’s reaction.

I don’t know if it’s because he’s happy to be back in his hometown, or if it’s for some other reason, but the Magi Sphere is clearly showing some kind of reaction to returning to the Great Forest.

…are you reacting like some kind of creature?

I remember that it was just an aggregation of demons, so it just stayed still like an inanimate object, like a tool, and never showed a reaction like the one it is now… well, it’ll be fine. It’s a small magic sphere at best, but what?

“…let’s go.”

“Yes.”

Starting with my words, the party of warriors, who had been watching the spectacular scenery of the great forest until recently, stopped watching and moved their feet again as if they hadn’t done it before.

Since we have to go straight to the world tree and dig under it, we need to get permission from the elves… well, even if they don’t allow it, can we just do it by force?

In addition to doing it to save the world, Gaia’s intentions are more important no matter how much the elves fuss.

……….

“…that’s fishy.”

However, something is strange.

In the center of the Great Forest, the more you walk toward the World Tree, the fresh smell you could smell in the Great Forest before disappears as it is covered by the fishy smell.

it smells like blood

In the Great Forest, where elves who do not prefer to eat meat, the smell of blood is everywhere.

“…why is there no sentry?”

As can be seen from Lena’s reaction, sentries stationed at the edge of the Great Forest to prevent outsiders from entering are also nowhere to be seen.

It wasn’t that he got scared when he saw me and ran away. It really didn’t exist from the beginning.

“…”

As a result, everyone walked slowly, being very wary of the surroundings, unlike the moment before, when they were watching the spectacular view of the Great Forest.

Not only was I unable to see the sentry, but I also couldn’t hear the birdsong, which is common in the forest, so I had no choice but to know that something was wrong in the Great Forest, no matter how ignorant I was.

“…It’s a bloodstain.”

“It belongs to the elves.”

“Come on, come on, go to town!”

One by one, bloodstains begin to appear. It had lost moisture and dried up since it had been made for quite some time, but the mana contained within it did not disappear.

Irene, who read the mana, concludes that this blood belongs to the elves, and when Lena hears that, her face turns pale from moment to moment, worried that something has happened to the elves of her own kind.

Lena’s screams made the party quicker, and as a result, the frequency of encountering bloodstains increased even more.

Although there is no special inspiration because he has gone through all the battles to get upset with only bloodstains, the bloodstains everywhere are enough to make the viewers nervous.

“what is this…”

“…Is anyone there?”

And the result of that quick step is very strange.

I reached the village of the elves, but there is no presence felt here. Even the corpse.

If there are bloodstains everywhere like this, it is normal for there to be at least one or two corpses, but the elves’ village is just covered in blood, and not a single corpse can be found.

“Arn! Rio!! Eri!!”

Lena, who had turned pale, called out her friends by name, but no voice answered the call.

Not even the sound of the wind can be heard, only a truly bizarrely calm silence returns.

“Irene, it seems that you don’t know anything…”

“Yeah… I’m not sure what happened…”

I hoped that Irene might know something, but it seemed that the expectation was in vain.

Irene, who had lived for a very long time and had seen everything, was also just standing there blankly with her mouth slightly open, as if this scene was too horrific.

…Kuh, what the hell happened.

I’ve come to meet Gaia, but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to meet her in an abnormal situation like this—

“Le, Lena…”

“Aren!?”

At that moment, a moaning sound pierces our ears, breaking the eerie silence.

Despite being so small and so delicate, the silence that was so quiet conveyed that small sound perfectly to our ears without any distortion.

Lena, who has been constantly looking for friends with a pathetic voice, finally hears the voice she wanted and is thrilled to turn her head there and run.

“Uh… ah…”

“Are you okay? Can you hear my voice?”

“Yes…”

Upon entering the small house, Arwen appears lying on the bed with a frown on his face. Lena hurriedly hugs Arenne’s body and asks if he’s okay, and Arenne barely answers Lena’s question as if the strength of the hug is too strong.

…First of all, it looks so fine from the outside.

Unlike the elven village covered in blood, there is no visible trauma to Aren.

“Are you okay? What happened?!”

“What’s going on…? Ugh, ah…!”

“Oh, no… You don’t have to say it. It’s okay, it’s okay.”

After hearing Lena’s question, Arenne, who seems to have remembered what had happened, begins to tremble and has a seizure. Lena, who saw this, hurriedly wrapped Arenne’s body and patted him on the back, desperately trying to protect Arenne. trying to reassure

…Looks like it didn’t look good at all.

If it’s hard for Arn to talk, I’ll have to find out for myself.

Read from noble mtl dot com

Keying

After carefully getting out of the house, a screen that can see the past made using time reversal magic is floated in the air.

As if watching a black and white TV made a long time ago, colors are not displayed, but that is enough.

“…what?”

And on the other side of the screen, a scene that was never thought of is unfolding.

Because the elves were whipping themselves.

They don’t care that blood is splattered everywhere and ruining the view of the town, they are just constantly whipping themselves.

…I thought it was because of an attack, but it wasn’t.

But why is there no one there? Even if they were whipped, they shouldn’t all suddenly disappear, so why?