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.

qualifications to the others, so, realistically speaking,

"But?"

everyone

my

if you guys want to participate, go. Do your thing. In fact, use this chance to see how much you guys have improved over

over all the other people their age participating in the tournament was true

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

don't think there are

the winners from each respective age range will get quite

right, there's that

my head towards Hein, I grabbed his

you that there's a way to cure

"You don't mean…?"

my eyes locked onto Hein's,

top prices for the tournament is in fact the elixir

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

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

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

let the world see just how

"You're…not joking, right?"

rather weak. Completely different from his usual deep

a

before patting him on the

already signed a contract, why would I

"I se—"

Click— Click—

sound coming from the side. When we turned our heads, we saw Leopold with his

promised you. It's up to you whether you will grasp it or

I will take

appeared on Hein's face

forgotten my one true goal, and that was to

the air around him changed. He gave out an aura of a man who was about to

like he's made

as Hein resolved the one knot that was tying him down, his

was what I was

glad

Bang—

speech, my body crashed

"Ow."

my head, I slowly looked up. It appeared that

"Hey, is everything okay?"

Waylan stood motionless in the middle of

what in the

was wrong, I looked in the direction

"Ah…"

let out a strange

side of the street, far into the distance,

the

"…they're here."

***

we're going to meet each other during the tournament, I'm going to go all out and won't

voice rang

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

look

out her phone, she snapped photos of the

pictures, Emma

I

trying to say before, Emma's

"Ah, right!"

left hand, she turned to look at Amanda and Melissa with

back. I'll show you how much stronger I've gotten during

"I'm not fighting."

look, Melissa took her glasses out and replaced them

at Melissa and muttered

do the job, it doesn't

Emma's direction, Melissa repeatedly nodded her

yup, I can no

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

you can still

talking? Is

"You…"

"Please stop."

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