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.

proven our qualifications to the others, so, realistically

"But?"

everyone is

stare in my direction, my lips

couldn't. I mean, if you guys want to participate, go. Do your thing. In fact, use this chance to

an edge over all the

demons and the like, but who could proudly say they had fought a war against a full-on attack from

don't think

from each respective age range will

there's

towards Hein, I grabbed his

told you that there's a way to cure

"You don't mean…?"

my eyes locked onto Hein's, I

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

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

the dwarves favored us, there was a possibility of them giving it to us if we just asked, but that might result in

motivate Hein into joining the

time to finally let the world see

"You're…not joking, right?"

sounded rather weak. Completely different from his

must care a lot about

before patting him on the

why would I lie to

"I se—"

Click— Click—

our heads, we saw Leopold with his hand on his mouth, trying to light up a

you. It's up to you whether

I will

appeared on Hein's

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

out an aura of a man who was about to

like he's made up his

resolved the one knot that was tying him down, his

what I

I'm glad that

Bang—

body crashed against something

"Ow."

I slowly looked up. It appeared

"Hey, is everything okay?"

with no response. Waylan stood motionless in

what in

in the direction of where he

"Ah…"

I let out

side of the street, far into the distance,

that wasn't the reason for my

"…they're here."

***

during the tournament, I'm

voice rang

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

look

phone, she snapped photos

enough pictures, Emma put her phone

was I

to say before, Emma's brows

"Ah, right!"

fist on the palm of her left hand, she turned to look

I'll show you how

"I'm not fighting."

her glasses

muttered out loud, "Those

long as they do the job,

in Emma's direction, Melissa

yup, I can no

a while for Emma to get her comment. Once she

you can still

talking? Is

"You…"

"Please stop."

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