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.

others, so, realistically speaking,

"But?"

like everyone is

everyone stare in my direction,

Do your thing. In fact, use this chance to see how

over all the other people their

against demons and the like, but who could proudly say they had fought a war against

don't think there

the winners from each respective age range will

there's that

towards Hein, I grabbed his

you that there's a way to cure

"You don't mean…?"

my eyes locked onto Hein's,

prices for the tournament is in fact the elixir

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

with how much the dwarves favored us, there was a possibility of them giving it to us if we just asked, but

to motivate

let the world

"You're…not joking, right?"

different from his usual deep and

must care a lot

a smile before

contract, why would I

"I se—"

Click— Click—

our heads, we

the opportunity that I promised you. It's up to you whether you will grasp it or

will

appeared on Hein's face as

almost forgotten my one true goal, and that was to

out an aura of a man who was about to

he's made

tying him down, his family, his growth would reach a

was what I

I'm glad that

Bang—

my body

"Ow."

It appeared that I had bumped against

"Hey, is everything okay?"

motionless in the middle of the streets, prompting me

in

I looked in the direction of where

"Ah…"

that I let out a strange noise, as

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

wasn't the reason for my

"…they're here."

***

each other during the tournament, I'm going

voice rang

once she got a close look at the place, Emma couldn't

look at

phone, she snapped photos

pictures, Emma put

I saying

what she was trying to say

"Ah, right!"

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

we 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

"I'm not fighting."

Melissa took her glasses out and replaced them

at Melissa and muttered out loud, "Those don't really

they do the job, it

head and staring in Emma's direction, Melissa repeatedly

can no longer

her comment. Once she did, she shot a

that you can

Is

"You…"

"Please stop."

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