e-booksonline Book 2: Chapter 245: Lunacy, Worship. And the Way (7)
Book 2: Chapter 245: Lunacy, Worship. And the Way (7)
The wind was gathering.
The residents of the village underneath the Erghe Mountain Range were hiding in their homes, only peeking out to see what was going on, as they were scared of the second subjugation squad.
One of the people who was looking out a window opened his mouth.
“Chief-nim, the wind is weird.”
Wind was blowing from the Erghe Mountain Range.
The wind that came down from the tall and dangerous mountain range was going past the village to the only visible field.
There were multiple strands of wind.
“...It feels like the wind is alive.”
The Chief extended his hand out the window after hearing the comment.
Shaaaaa-
He felt the breeze brushing past his hand and opened his mouth.
“The situation does not seem to be bad.”
He looked down at his empty hand.
“The wind is not sharp.”
Although it was cold, the wind was not as sharp as a blade.
The Chief, with his years of experience, knew what kind of breeze this was.
He had his memories from his youth.
"They are Elementals.”
“Excuse me?”
"The Wind Elemental-nims are moving right now.”
The villager’s eyes opened wide.
“...Haven’t Elementals been difficult to see since the cataclysmic period?”
Until the cataclysmic period, Elves and Elementals were not such distant existences in Aipotu. Of course, it was rare for them to interact with humans, but they could run into them every so often in beautiful natural scenery such as forests and mountains.
Furthermore, there were merchants who traded with Elf villages as well.
However, Elves became difficult to see since the cataclysmic period. It was even more difficult to see Elementals.
The Elementals had disappeared.
People were saying things like that.
The Chief chuckled and shook his head.
“Elementals have always been difficult to see. However the wind exists no matter where you go.”
As a result, it only made sense for Wind Elementals to exist everywhere as well.
The Chief corrected what people believed to be the changed truth or common sense since the cataclysmic period.
“It looks like the Elf-nims on our side have started to move. Or maybe it was the Dark Elf-nims.”
A countless number of large and small strands of wind all moved in one direction.
The amazing thing was that the strands of wind were so gentle that even the winds on top of the roofs did not fall.
The Chief weirdly felt his heart shaking.
The blade-like gusts of wind usually roared through the Erghe Mountain Range in a wild and free manner.
The fact that those gusts of wind were gently and stealthily moving around brought even more fear to him.
“What is going on......”
His gaze headed out toward the distant ice wall that he could barely make out.
“Chief-nim, everything should end once that ice wall breaks, right?”
“... Probably.”
The strands of wind were moving toward the firm ice wall.
The Chief prayed in silence.
‘I pray that everything gets resolved well.
And that the winds of change blow in this world.’
He buried his wishes into the breeze.
It was at that moment.
A villager pointed out the window and subconsciously commented.
“Chief-nim, over there- over there-”
They saw something shooting up into the air.
"Snake-”
That was the only word that came to mind.
The Chief's eyes opened wide.
“...The wind-”
The wind, the thing that was shooting into the air, came into view.
Shaaaaaaaaaaa-
The wind that blew over all stopped in one spot.
Shaaaaaaaaaaa-
The large wind that gathered with Tasha at the center turned into a single whirlwind as it extended from the ground to the sky without end.
The winds that gathered together intertwined and crashed into each other as they became one.
They resembled a snake shooting up into the sky.
However, Cale was the only one thinking about an existence other than a snake.
"They resemble an imugi.”
It resembled the old stories he used to hear about an old imugi ascending to the sky.
“Human, I can't see Tasha!”
As Raon mentioned, they were no longer able to see Tasha.
However, Cale was not worried about that at all.
‘...The wind.’
At the center of this imugi that looked as if it was ascending to the sky...
He was sure Tasha was at the center of this wind.
“Ha.”
He subconsciously scoffed.
He couldn't believe it.
“When did she get this strong?”
Dark Elf Tasha.
Had she always been this strong?
“No.”
Cale changed his thinking.
It was not that Tasha was strong.
He could tell the choice that she had made.
‘She started to use her surroundings.’
Cale kept his mouth closed as he looked at the large wind whirlwind.
He then flinched.
Ssss–
Another wind was blowing.
No, it was shooting up.
Baaaaaang-
The snow on the field shot up into the sky.
The inquisitors.
Peterson, who was fighting against Tasha...
A large gust of wind burst out of his body.
“Human, human! I'm certain that a gust of wind burst out of that Elf!”
The gust of wind did indeed burst out of Peterson's body as Raon mentioned in a shocked voice.
Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-
This green gust of wind swirled before shooting up into the air like the wind around Tasha.
“Raon.”
Cale opened his mouth to speak.
"Tell people to be careful so that they don't get swept up by the wind.”
“I got it, human! I'll go tell Choi Han!”
Wind and wind...
This standoff between these two large pillars seemed quite serious.
Cale observed them as he thought to himself.
‘I’ll get involved if things don’t look good.’
Despite his trust in his allies...
He did not want to see his allies getting hurt.
Cale’s gaze moved away from the gusts of wind for a moment to look elsewhere.
Slash.
Red mana was ruthlessly being sliced apart.
“Ugh.”
Rosalyn groaned before swearing.
“Fuck.”
Baaaaang!
After the loud explosion, Rosalyn was almost flung back and rolled on the ground.
She rolled through the snow before quickly getting up.
Her whole body was a mess, covered in snow and dirt.
Cale looked away from there.
Shaaaaaaaaaaa-
It was because the noise of the wind had changed.
The green gust of wind started to move first.
"Why do you think that the Dragons are strong?”
Peterson had a cheeky smile on his face as he spoke.
However, his gaze was deeply sunken.
He took a step forward.
Shaaaaaaaaaaa-
The green gust of wind moved with him.
He looked directly at Tasha, who was inside the large whirlwind.
He observed her handiwork as well.
“Dragons are born with amazing talents. That is why they are strong.”
Shaaaaaaaaaaa-
The two gusts of wind were roaring fiercely but Peterson was sure that his voice would reach Tasha’s ears.
"There is no special reason for their strength. They are just strong. End of story. It is like their attribute.”
Peterson longed for the Dragons.
"Truly, that is the reason that Dragons are beautiful.”
That was why Peterson wanted to be like them.
Her Wind Elemental called out to her.
– Tasha.
She responded to it.
“Let’s get started.”
Now that the enemy had shown his full strength...
Shaaaaaaaaaaa-
She had to do something fitting as well.
“It’s time for the full assault.”
The whirlwind broke apart.
To be more accurate, the winds that had gathered together as one split off into all directions.
The group of winds that had moved apart like a bomb all moved toward one spot.
Peterson's green wind.
Dozens, no, hundreds of Wind Elementals all charged toward it.
They all attacked with their sharp wind blades toward the green wind.
Tasha was riding on the wind and shooting forward in the vanguard.
Swooooooosh-
The long spear surrounded by her wind stabbed toward the green wind.
Baaaaaang-!
Bang! Baaaaang! Baaaaang!
There were small and large explosions here and there.
The noises weren't too loud.
However, there were hundreds of these explosions.
These explosions were endless unlike the other large explosions.
“You shitheads-!”
Peterson couldn't believe it.
His eyes had seen everything.
He even saw how small wind blades, how extremely small Wind Elementals attacked his green wind.
They were despicable. They would withdraw to the back whenever he tried to react to them, making room for much larger Wind Elementals to continue their attacks.
Furthermore, Tasha's long spear endlessly stabbed at the green wind as well.
“Fuck!”
Bang, bang! Baaaaang!
The endless attacks gave Peterson no room to move.
Tasha could feel Peterson getting anxious.
He should not be able to move even if he wanted to do so.
It was because the wind was swirling so hard that he had no chance to do so.
Swooooooosh-
The green wind rotated even more fiercely.
It was as if it was trying to brush off the winds around it.
However, the wind was not something that could be brushed off.
If something shook the wind, they just let it shake as they moved.
When the green wind moved back, they followed it as well.
Bang, bang!
Even the small winds attacked.
There were no rules in their movements.
It was free.
That was why he could not easily make any sort of judgments.
However, Tasha was able to move as she pleased within this freedom.
– Tasha! It said everybody can get on its back!
Tasha took a step forward.
She stepped on hundreds of wind as if they were part of the ground as she walked.
Sometimes she shot up into the air and sometimes she dipped back to the bottom.
She just stepped as her heart told her to go.
She swung her spear as she moved.
Bang!
Baaaaang!
The green wind... She could stab her spear into any spot in that wind.
Baaaaang! Bang!
Both she and the Wind Elementals knew.
They all knew that it was the right answer to relentlessly attack Peterson so that he could not move.
And-
"The wind does not rest.”
There was nothing easier than continuously moving for an existence that was always on the move.
“Heh-”
Tasha couldn't help but laugh.
‘Now I get it.’
Having this experience fighting together with hundreds of Wind Elementals allowed her to finally realize it.
How she should fight.
‘I need to mix into it.’
She needed to let this free wind take her body.
She needed to become a part of nature.
Even without talking about it, as long as she headed toward the same goal as them...
Even if they were just a collection of hundreds of different pieces...
"We are bound to become a large flow.”
Similar to how drops of water gathered together to eventually form a lake and then flow into the vast ocean...
The wind just had to do the same.
‘No, I myself can move that way as well.
While doing it freely...
And as I want.’
The wind had never forced anything on Tasha.
It simply pushed her from the back no matter where she went.
“Ha, haha-”
She couldn’t help but laugh.
She didn’t know why she was laughing. She just felt like laughing.
Although she had not even won the battle yet...
Leaving her body to the numerous Wind Elementals and fighting together with them weirdly made her feel excited.
She stepped forward.
A wind appeared under her foot.
It was as if it existed there from the beginning.
Her spear moved again.
The wind created a path for it.
It was as if it was always doing that.
‘Yes.’
The wind always existed and had always been like this.
Being within this wind made Tasha finally understand what it meant to mix into the wind.
She then truly realized something.
‘I really am a part of nature.’
I too existed and always acted like this.
I am someone who is allowed to do this.
“Pfft.”
Tasha wondered what kind of enlightenment she was having in the middle of a fight with an inquisitor, but it allowed her to feel certain.
“The flow has come over to me.”
The large flow was following her.
That was enough for her to win.
She didn't think of this as faith but as the obvious reality.
It was at that moment.
Shhhhh-
One strand of the wind approached her.
“!”
Tasha flinched.
– Tasha, Tasha!
A Wind Elemental urgently called out to her.
Raon, who had returned from seeing Choi Han and was lying down on Cale’s knees, jumped up.
“Human, human!”
“Huh?”
As Cale half-assed a response as he was focused on looking out the window...
“I can feel an intense wind!”
“...What?”
“I can feel a super strong Wind Elemental! This is my first time feeling such an Elemental power.”
‘A super strong Wind Elemental?’
As Cale was blankly trying to understand the meaning behind those words...
– Oh Dark Elf.
Tasha heard someone's voice.
– I can feel the wind coming from you. You are a child who creates the flow of things.
She could feel a small wind tickling her cheek.
She turned her head.
There was a butterfly made of wind existing without being affected by the numerous winds.
The butterfly asked her a question.
– Child, can you save this world’s wind?
Tasha heard her Wind Elemental's voice again.
– O, oh King-
The Wind Elemental King was the only one a Wind Elemental would call king.
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Translator's Comments
Butterfree, is that you? Did you grow up into the Wind Elemental King?
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