World's Strongest Troll

Chapter 195 Resurrection of the World Tree (1)

Where Tree Rest, the village of elves.

In this place, which has now turned into an area of fierce conflict (?) with ugly humans who have a passionate camaraderie with dwarves, Jae-young walked towards Melissa's residence amidst the elves' infinite interest.

“Ah! Human! long time no see!”

Kanna, the little elf, noticed Jaeyoung from far away and waved her hand with her little ears pricked up. When Jaeyoung awkwardly waved back at her lively and innocent smile, the eyes of the users around him began to focus on Jaeyoung.

“What is that guy?”

“It's the first time I've seen this face... Our Kanna greeted me in such a friendly way...?”

Eyes full of unpredictable vigilance. It seemed that he felt curious and wary at the appearance of Jae-young, whom he had never seen before, perhaps because he was tired of searching for humans who were constantly hiding in the village.

[Check the title ‘Savior of the Elves'.]

[The conditions for entry have been met.]

Maybe thanks to the title, the elves guarding the front didn't block it and let them in with a free pass. Seeing Jaeyoung enter Melissa's residence without hesitation, she asked with her eyes wide open.

“oh....? you are....?”

“long time no see. Didn't anything special happen...?”

She looks like she was busily cleaning her bow and doing maintenance. When Jaeyoung asked how he was doing with a strange expression on his face, she noticed the meaning of the question and answered with a grin.

“Oh sure. I had just returned from hunting and was cleaning up. It is over now.”

“Hunting...?”

hunt.

A word too awkward to come out of the mouths of elves who do not eat meat and live on only plant by-products such as tree nuts. That's why Jaeyoung felt something ominous and asked with a worried expression. And the ominous fit so exactly as he expected.

“The ugly humans are getting more cunning and aggressive in their attempts to enter our village. I don't know what kind of kingdom it is this time, but it came to attack with an army, so I cleaned everything up before coming close to the village.”

“.....”

Yes.

Elves who hate ugliness extremely much.

Melissa, in particular, was willing to risk the bloodshed of staining the forest with the blood of ugly people rather than walking around in her homeland, so the great forest in the Amil area had already been stained red with the blood of ugly people.

-No, even NPCs are rejected mercilessly if they are ugly.

-You know what? The first prince of the Bamal Empire personally led a delegation to visit, but was silenced hahahahahaha -huh

? Wasn't the Bamal Empire the strongest force on the continent? but how do you know

-Because I was by your side too hahaha. These crazy elf bastards are really noobs because the prince is angry and runs wild, so if the ugly bastard doesn't want to die, he says get out of here right away lol.

-What is this?

A cross-species elf with a reckless spirit who would mercilessly shoot an arrow into the muzzle of any opponent if he was ugly. Seeing that their exploded personalities were already working like a runaway locomotive on their own, as if they were not going anywhere, Jae-young looked at her with a puzzled expression and asked.

“No, you don’t like ugly people like that? I don't know what it is, but it seems like it's pretty loud, but then what are you going to do if you really can't handle it?”

I don't know if those who were ‘hunted' this time are the soldiers of the Bamal Empire or which kingdom, but it's clear that this one attack won't end. However, at Jaeyoung's words, Melissa smiled coldly and said with a slightly mocking look.

“Do not worry. I don't know if it was before, but now it doesn't matter how many humans invade.”

Melissa is very confident. Jaeyoung tilted his head as if he couldn't understand Melissa's words, as if she was confident that she could overcome them no matter how many people came. And L, who was looking at him like that, opened his mouth.

“I don’t know if it was before, but if it’s now, it’s not wrong. Perhaps even if humans from all over the continent come to attack the elves, they will never be able to defeat them?”

“hmm? What do you mean?”

“Elves are basically strong in the forest. They have combat skills specialized in assassination or sniping using a bow, but what is more terrifying than that is that the entire forest where they live protects them and confuses and interferes with their enemies.”

The elven races received tremendous combat power correction from the topographical characteristics of the forest. In addition, the place where they are located is not a normal forest, but the biggest forest amil, which was once designated as one of the continent's bans, so the effect was bound to rise to the limit.

“Besides... thanks to Dex-sama, the World Tree was fully awakened, right? Seeing that even humans were freely commanding spirits earlier, it seems that the channeling with the spirit world, which was cut off, has been completely restored.

In the aftermath of the Holy Demon War, after the world tree went into eternal sleep, the connection with the spirit realm was completely cut off, and the elves could not control the spirits as freely as before. Spirit magic, which could not be used in a tense battle situation, because even summoning a lower spirit and using its power required a tremendous amount of mana and spirit power. However, from the moment the World Tree woke up, the game was completely reversed, as evidenced by the girl in the blue dress floating next to Melissa.

[Elestra, the highest level water spirit.]

“Heh..... It's been a while since I've seen the highest level spirit. I haven’t seen it since the Great War.”

“Hey, don’t be caught wandering around and stay calm. It won't do any good if those talkative bastards find out we're going around and spread it all over the place.”

Tan looks around at the spirit that is sticking close to Melissa as if it's strange. L, who was bruising with a face that said he didn't like him, soon finished explaining to Jaeyoung.

“And the world tree will watch the human army come and attack the village of the elves? If they judge that it is a threat above a certain level, they will intervene right away, right?”

world tree.

A transcendent being that protected all life on the continent during the Great War of the Holy Spirit in the past.

Even now, seeing the tremendous idea of merging all the continents scattered in Arcadia into one, it seemed clear that the likes of humans were not something that could be matched. And it seems clear that she has a particular preference for elves. When Jaeyoung thought about the existence of the world tree, he could understand why Melissa was so confident.

“Ha... you know what to do. It seems that they are using humans to block them well anyway, but I don’t think it’s a situation where I can say what to do.”

It's not that the personality has exploded, but the elves who have a personality that will explode from the beginning. Thinking that it would be easier to catch one more dragon than to convince them, Jaeyoung shook his head and changed the topic.

“Rather than that... how are the lemons and apples doing?”

“You mean those adventurers who take care of trade with the dwarves?”

“Is there a particular problem or not?”

“No problem. They bring exactly what I requested... and they are surprisingly resourceful merchants.”

At first, they were reluctant to accept Jae-young's request, but they accepted it. However, it wasn't long before Melissa had no choice but to acknowledge the ability of the top of the pie.

“If you ask me to bring you what you want, they will find and save you somehow. The other day, when I was making a magic accessory , I needed siren's tears, so I requested it without expecting much, but where did you get it from?

Jaeyoung hurriedly cut off her words as she seemed to continue talking if she didn't stop.

“It’s okay if it doesn’t matter. It's not why I came here.”

“Then what did you come for...?”

“I want to talk to the world tree, is that possible?”

“With the World Tree...?”

Melissa, who twitched her ears at those words and put on a puzzled expression. Then she clapped her hands and shouted as if she had remembered.

“ah! Is it because of the request from the World Tree?”

“yes.”

[Please bring me some dragon hearts. An ancient dragon-class, if possible.]

An ancient dragon-class dragon heart.

It's not a neighborhood mutt, it's an outrageous demand to bring you the heart of a dragon. However, Jaeyoung somehow managed to make that ridiculous request. Although, of course, Melissa didn't seem to think he had brought it at all.

“You don’t have to.”

“yes....?”

“As usual, World Tree asked me to deliver a message to him after Dex-nim left. He said that he must be having a hard time without being able to find a heart, and asked me to let him know when he comes back.”

Meanwhile, Melissa takes out a very old map from a bookshelf on one side of the wall. She pointed to a spot on the map of the entire continent of Arcadia and said.

“The dragon's heart is an extremely rare and immeasurable object. So it probably doesn't exist on this continent, but if there is, there's only one existence that would store it.”

“Who is that...?”

“I am the Dragon Lord, the leader of all dragons. I believe that there must be a dragon heart in the report that is handed down only to those who have been elected as Lords.”

Melissa explained while chattering with a bright smile on her face. Seeing her like that, Jaeyoung could see that coming back was a normal part of the process to solve this ridiculously difficult quest.

“From the Dragon Lord's point of view, the complete recovery of the World Tree is a welcome event. Though we may think differently, the mission of protecting and protecting Arcadia is the same. Perhaps an ancient dragon-class dragon heart is an extremely valuable item for them too, but if I were to use it for the World Tree, they wouldn't stubbornly reject it. And the World Tree said... that you already gave Dex-sama the means to trade?”

“Means of trading?”

“Have you not received the fruit of the World Tree?”

“Ah...”

The fruit the World Tree gave him in his dream as a reward for waking him up. Realizing that the fraudulent item that guaranteed a tremendous increase in stats was actually a card for negotiating with the dragon, Jae-young felt as if his head was lightened.

“what? Master, when did you talk to the world tree?”

“That is strange. We've never been away from each other... When did you make that deal?”

After Deathbringer was shattered, what happened when Tan, who was enraged, was having a fight (?) about staking his soul with El. Jaeyoung also hadn't properly explained his encounter with the world tree to the two, so Tan and L looked at each other with puzzled eyes.

“I will give you this map. Go to the dragon lord's rare that is supposed to be around here. And if you explain the current situation well to him, I'm sure he'll gladly agree to this deal.”

[The quest ‘30,000 li to find the dragon' has been created.]

Monsterland, one of Arcadia's bans. After seeing the quest to find the rare dragon lord nesting somewhere in a place teeming with all sorts of powerful and dangerous monsters, Jaeyoung told Melissa.

“I don't think that's necessary.”

“yes....?”

widely.

Melissa asks Jaeyoung with a puzzled expression. When she saw something that looked like a bright red jewel that Jaeyoung had placed on the wooden table, she froze with a face as if her jaw was missing.

“This is...?”

Shock. fear. astonished

Jaeyoung gave a brief reply to her, who was making an expression of disbelief as if she was mixed with all kinds of surprise.

“I already got the heart of that damn old lizard.”

“.....”

At the moment Melissa sat down with a blank expression on her face without answering anything, an alarm sounded in Jaeyoung’s ear.

[The quest ‘30,000 li in search of the dragon' has been deleted.]