The Author's POV

Chapter 381

"Say, demons are not going to suddenly show up out of nowhere and attack us, right?"

Walking through the city, a rough voice sounded next to me. It was Leopold.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, just that…"

Leopold looked around and lowered his voice.

"I'm kinda tired of dealing with demons, and I was wondering if another situation similar to Henlour might happen."

Oh, it was about that. I nodded.

"Not sure, to be honest. But unlike the dwarves, elves are much better at detecting demons since they are super sensitive to mana, so there's a chance that no such thing will happen."

"…what do you mean?"

"Just like I said, elves are much more sensitive to demonic energy. Therefore, it is a lot easier for them to spot demons. In fact, didn't you notice the barrier before?"

Squinting, Leopold looked behind him.

"The one at the bridge?"

"Yeah, that alone should stop most of the demons."

Had Angelica not worn the special bracelet, she would've easily been found out. Even if she had turned into a ring form there was a chance for her to get spotted.

During The Conference, in the novel, it was because of this that no demons managed to interfere. That being said, never say never.

"That's reassuring."

Leopold finally relaxed and took a deep breath of the fresh air.

Then, his footsteps suddenly halted as he brought his hands closer to his face. A clicking sound repeatedly rang in the air.

Click— Click—

"What are you doing?"

"Ah, shit."

With an embarrassed look, Leopold lowered his hands and scratched the back of his head.

"I was trying to have a smoke, but I forgot we can't do that here."

"…."

Seriously?

Before coming here, I remember expressively reminding Leopold that he couldn't smoke lest he wanted to piss off the elves. I even took away his cigarettes in order to make sure he didn't. He was just that addicted.

Plus, with how nature oriented the elves were, any form of littering or smoking was a big no-no.

"Right, sorry."

Putting the lighter away, Leopold's face scrunched up a little.

Staring at him, I shook my head.

'He's already suffering withdrawal symptoms.'

The last time he smoked was not that long ago, maybe half a day? Just how addicted was he?

Shaking my head, I followed the rest of the group around the city.

Ignoring Leopold's progressively worsening face, we continued our tour of the city.

Most of the city was accessible to us apart from a few places, like the enormous building that stood in the middle of the lake.

Apparently, that place was where the elders held important discussions, and since we were not that important, we could not go there. That was probably where Douglas went.

"I wonder if we're going to be participating in the tournament…" Hein murmured from the side. It was audible enough for everyone present to hear.

"You want to participate?" Ava curiously lifted her head. "From what I've heard, we don't really need to participate."

"We don't," I replied with a nod.

already proven our qualifications to the others, so, realistically

"But?"

everyone is

in my direction, my lips tugged

want to participate, go. Do your thing. In fact, use

over all the other people their

have a bit of experience fighting against demons and the like, but who could proudly say they had fought a war against a full-on attack from the demons and came

don't think there

the winners from each respective age range will

there's

Hein, I grabbed his

that there's a

"You don't mean…?"

my eyes locked

one of the top prices for the tournament is in

if I didn't recall it wrong, one of them was

was a possibility of them giving it to us if we just asked, but that might result

to motivate Hein into

was time to finally let the world see

"You're…not joking, right?"

weak. Completely different from his usual deep and

care a lot about

before patting him on the

contract, why would I

"I se—"

Click— Click—

sound coming from the side. When we turned our heads, we saw Leopold with his hand on his mouth, trying to light up a non-existent

the opportunity that I promised you. It's up to you

I will take

resolute looked appeared on Hein's

over a year with you guys, I had almost forgotten my one true goal, and that was to

air around him changed. He gave out an aura of a

he's made up

tying him down, his family,

was what I was waiting

glad that

Bang—

way through my speech, my body

"Ow."

I slowly looked up. It appeared

"Hey, is everything okay?"

met with no response. Waylan stood motionless in the middle

in

was wrong, I looked in the

"Ah…"

then that I let out a

opposite side of the street, far into the distance, was a certain

the reason

"…they're here."

***

each other during the tournament, I'm going

voice rang

the bridge with the group and entering the city, once she got a close look at the place, Emma couldn't hide

wow, look at

phone, she

she took enough pictures, Emma put

I saying

to say before,

"Ah, right!"

she turned to look

each other in the tournament, don't expect me to hold back. I'll show you how

"I'm not fighting."

scornful look, Melissa took her glasses out and

and muttered out

long as they do the job, it doesn't

head and staring in Emma's direction, Melissa repeatedly nodded her

can

while for Emma to get her comment. Once she did, she shot

obvious that you can

Is

"You…"

"Please stop."

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