This is the story of a magician and an elf girl.

"Report - the chief dark elf has come into contact with the descendants and started a battle without authorization. Master, please give instructions."

"...It's okay, let her go... How is the cleanup of the remnants of the Orc Country going?"

"...It is speculated that there are only a few left, and the races with high combat abilities have been eliminated first."

"...Very good, my child... Now all that's left is to find Athena's location... Focus on that first."

"learn……"

Wherever there is a fight, there must be a purpose and intention. The woman who is waiting in the depths of darkness for the right time uses props like a magic mirror to watch the dark shadows struggling in the sky, just like a tiger staring at its prey, stretching out her fingertips for the tempting food.

"Rain of Arrows!"

"Mist Wind Runs!"

Arrows made of emerald green spiritual energy fell from the sky in the shape of a torrential rain, and the arrows released by Doris who was fighting against it turned into the shape of a storm and attacked the three people.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Wendy, flying at an even faster speed than before, carried the two of them and avoided the pursuit of Lanfeng. The arrows that seemed to be as numerous as raindrops were disrupted by the wind pressure, but Linnai's goal would be achieved as long as she reached this moment.

"How about this..."

"!"

Doris, who thought she could take advantage of the victory, discovered that the flying arrows suddenly turned and flew towards her again.

Being good at fighting, she knew that it was not a skill, but a method of forcing the mini dryads into each scattered arrow, thereby controlling the movement of the arrows while manipulating the dryads.

"Oh... not bad..."

Doris, with an unmoved expression, removed the suspended footboard and used gravity and the power of the wind spirit to accelerate her falling speed. At the same time, she pulled the bowstring and released the arrow containing spiritual power: "Don't get me wrong, this is not the skill of the elves, it's just an arrow wrapped with spiritual power."

"!"

Doris said so and at the moment of releasing the arrows, all the arrows following her were destroyed by arrows of the same mass. Although those arrows parasitized by tree spirits could be freely controlled by Linnae's consciousness, she had no way of making a single arrow touch the side of Doris's face.

"Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack!"

Every time the arrows crossed each other, the arrowheads flashing with sparks made a sharp metallic collision sound. Doris, who had suppressed Linnay entirely with her skills, once again demonstrated her amazing arrow-shooting speed, and hundreds of arrows turned into nothingness.

"In that case... Shadow Arrow..."

"Is this what you're trying to do... Wind Spirit... Please put on your coat for us - Spiritual Wind Barrier."

"!"

Linnai originally thought that she could finally cause damage to Doris this time, but she saw that the shadow arrows that were parasitic on the tree spirits were all torn into pieces by the invisible barrier. There was no difference between phantoms and real arrows. It was like launching a meaningless attack on a hedgehog with swords all over its body.

The airflow of the group passed by them along with the invisible wind blades. While Wendy was avoiding them, Jack, who was also protecting Linnae, released an anti-magic barrier to offset the pursuit of the wind blades. Linnae also fought back again: "Descendants of the tree spirits... Please paint the world you have described in this world dominated by the wind spirits - thorn arrows!"

“Swish, swish, swish!” As the skill was chanted and released, four arrows with tree spirits parasitized on them immediately exploded around Doris and turned into entangled thorny plants. In the midst of them, Jack and Wendy also launched a second round of surprise attack: “A flash of cracks!”

"Silver Feather Spear!"

Like Linnae, it had a ranged skill that passed through the gaps in the vines and hit Doris's barrier, but both the vines and the skill were indiscriminately cut into filaments by the wind spirit's barrier. Jack couldn't believe how she would attack if she got closer, so he couldn't help but swallow.

Doris pulled the bowstring to its full extent and used her spiritual power to create an arrow as long as a spear. Linna, who knew exactly what skill it was, immediately responded with a force of equal quality: "Rain of Spears!"

"Rain of Guns!"

"Swoosh, boom, swoosh, boom!" The slender arrows burst apart the moment they were released, turning into countless huge arrows that attacked each other. Every time the arrows collided with each other, the magic ripples produced were enough to cause huge shock waves in the world in the air. Doris, who was blessed by the wind spirit, was naturally unmoved. Wendy, who could only fly in the air with her wings, couldn't hold on to them at all.

Fortunately, Xiaobi was quick-witted and used vines to wrap around the bodies of the three people, so they were rescued.

"...What the hell... Isn't this a war of attrition of arrows... but a war of attrition of magic power..."

"How about this... the elves' quivers are originally permanent arrow-making machines... as long as you inject mana into them, they can generate the power of elemental elves and create arrows on their own. Instead of thinking about this now, why not..."

"You deserve praise, Linnae... This is the attack method that a servant of a dryad should have... An elf with grace should have - but you are still too immature. If the dryads you raise can release attacks with a range, it might be a little tricky. You are always like this... You never use your brain or put in any effort. That's why I killed that person. Because of your immaturity, his efforts were trampled on by me; because of your naivety, his kindness was tainted by me; because you can't do anything - you can only watch him die unilaterally."

"..."

Linna, who knew that was the truth, stopped attacking due to her inferiority complex. Doris, on the other hand, took the opportunity to use the power of the wind spirit to release a wide range of arrows to attack them.

"Hey! Spirit! This isn't the time to be depressed!"

"!"

If it weren't for Jack's invulnerable leather armor and cloak that blocked most of the attacks, they would have been knocked down by the air currents and rain of arrows.

"You don't have to tell me..."

"You don't look like you want to fight, get serious! Did you really do that in front of that man? Did you really betray his trust?!"

"!"

Jack gathers his magic power with his lion claws and swings his claws with a skill that has a range and a magical outline.

The three sharp claws then attacked towards Doris, but were offset by the wind elves' barriers and turned into magic particles in the atmosphere.

This doesn't work... My strength alone... is not enough to break through that barrier...

"The facts are the facts. You may not know this, so let me tell you how naive and powerless that girl is. She just wants to believe everything she sees. She is so blind and childish... It's really laughable. If you want to save someone, you have to kill them. It's just because she can't accept such a thing that a lot of tragedies happened around her."

"!"

"You should know it well, right? If you hadn't bothered to look for him, we wouldn't have found his whereabouts, let alone killed him. If you hadn't protected him in the beginning, we wouldn't have had to be hostile to him or doubt his intentions. If you hadn't met the magician in the beginning, nothing would have turned out like this. This is all yours—"

“——That’s enough! Shut up!!”

At this moment, the person who uttered those words uncontrollably was not Linnay. Even though she had this idea in mind a moment ago, she really did not expect that Jack would actually say those words for her.

"Hey... Elf, are you going to keep silent until we die? Stop it! If what she said makes sense, then what about what the goddess did? You know the real history, and you have seen the real facts - I say it again, Linna, the reason why the one you love died is definitely not your fault. I choose to believe you, and you believe in him, right? If so, don't give up without permission! You haven't finished what you wanted to do yet!"

"!"

Linnay, who recalled why everything happened in the past from Jack's inspiring words, should know better than anyone that the cause of his death was always due to his persistence in the path of good deeds.

It wasn't because of anyone, not because of Linnae, not because of Doris, not because of Athena, not because of Xiaoguang, not because of Hera - the murderer who killed the magician was due to his innocent kindness.

If he had not accepted Athena's proposal, humans might still be in the ancient times.

If he had not rejected the devil's invitation, human intelligence might not have progressed until now.

If he hadn't helped Xiaoguang, she would most likely have been abused to death without being rescued.

If he hadn't saved Linnae and the elves, they would have been killed by the hedgehog tiger.

If he hadn’t reached out to people, none of this would have happened.

Even though he knew it would turn out this way, he never went against his firm beliefs.

"...I believe you...you believe me too...okay..."

The one who granted him salvation was none other than the elf named Linnae.

Even if he would die because of this, he would never blame Linnai in the depths of the underworld.