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.

our qualifications to the others, so,

"But?"

everyone

everyone stare in my direction,

we couldn't. I mean, if you guys want to participate, go. Do your thing. In fact, use this chance to see how much you guys have improved over the past

the other

like, but who could proudly say they had fought a

think

respective age

there's that

head towards Hein,

how I told you that there's a way

"You don't mean…?"

locked

the top prices for the tournament is in fact the elixir that can cure your

to the top winner of the tournament, and if I didn't recall it wrong,

a possibility of them giving it to

to motivate Hein into joining the tournament and

time to finally let the world see just how

"You're…not joking, right?"

voice sounded rather weak. Completely different

a

smile before

contract, why would I lie

"I se—"

Click— Click—

we heard a clicking sound coming from the side. When we turned our heads, we saw Leopold with his hand on his

you. It's up to you

will take

appeared on Hein's

forgotten my one true goal, and that was to save my

an aura

he's made up his

him

what I was waiting

glad

Bang—

through my speech, my body crashed against something soft and

"Ow."

my head, I slowly looked up. It appeared

"Hey, is everything okay?"

in the middle

in

wrong, I looked in the direction of where he

"Ah…"

that I let out a strange

side of the street, far into the

that wasn't the

"…they're here."

***

if we're going to meet each other during the tournament, I'm going to go all out

energetic voice rang

city, once she got a close look at the place, Emma couldn't hide her excitement,

look at

her phone, she snapped photos of

enough pictures, Emma put her

was I saying

was trying to say before, Emma's brows knit, forming a

"Ah, right!"

palm of her left hand, she turned to look at Amanda and Melissa with a challenging look on her

meet each other in the tournament, don't expect me to hold back. I'll show you how much stronger I've gotten during the time we've not seen each

"I'm not fighting."

look, Melissa took her glasses out and replaced them with

Melissa and muttered out loud, "Those don't

the job, it doesn't really

and staring in Emma's direction, Melissa repeatedly nodded

I can no longer see

her comment. Once she

you can

Is

"You…"

"Please stop."

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