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 speaking, we

"But?"

like everyone

in my direction,

I mean, if you guys want to participate, go. Do your thing. In fact, use this chance to see

had an edge over all the other people their age participating in the tournament was

some might have a bit of experience fighting against demons and the like, but who could proudly say they had fought

don't think there are

heard that the winners from each respective

there's that

towards Hein,

how I told you that there's a way to

"You don't mean…?"

eyes locked onto

in fact the elixir

and if I didn't recall it wrong, one of them was the elixir that Hein

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

this was a good way to motivate Hein into joining the tournament and even

finally let the world see just

"You're…not joking, right?"

voice sounded rather weak. Completely different from his

care a lot about his

thought with a smile before patting him on the

why would I

"I se—"

Click— Click—

turned our heads, we saw Leopold with his hand on his

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

will take

looked appeared on Hein's

guys, I had almost forgotten my one

He gave out an

he's made up his

tying him down, his family, his growth

was what I was waiting

glad

Bang—

speech, my body crashed against something soft

"Ow."

head, I slowly looked up. It appeared that I had bumped against

"Hey, is everything okay?"

no response. Waylan stood motionless in the middle of the streets,

in

that something was wrong, I looked in the direction of

"Ah…"

was then that I let out a strange noise, as my

street, far into the distance, was a certain

the reason

"…they're here."

***

during

voice

city, once she got a close look at the place, Emma

look at

out her phone, she snapped

took enough pictures, Emma put her

I

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

"Ah, right!"

hand, she turned to

me to hold back. I'll show you how much stronger I've gotten

"I'm not fighting."

look, Melissa took her glasses out

and muttered out

long as they do the job,

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

I can

comment.

obvious that you can still

Is someone

"You…"

"Please stop."

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