Chapter 80. The Elves, The Demons, And The Dragons
Cedric silently watched the dwarf's battle inside the mine.
After seeing the conclusion of the battle and seeing one of the escaped dwarves has reached Level 1, he sighed. "The dwarves lost several blessed and even one Level 1 dwarf to achieve this result."
He continued to observe the situation and saw the dwarf reporting their finding inside the cave to the city's council representative.
When the representative heard it, he ordered some dwarves to help the survivor to rest. Then he quickly ordered another group of dwarves to temporarily close the mines.
While the survivors were resting, the representative busied himself and sent several messages to the capital.
The messages mainly talk about dangerous ants invading their city's mines and the fact that a Level 1 blesser has died while battling against the ants.
The representative also mentioned that the dwarves who have successfully escaped the mines have grown stronger. He suspects there is something that can strengthen the dwarves inside the mines.
Although he felt the strengthening effect was coincidental. But the representative still added that fact in his messages.
This way, the council will see the benefit and move faster to handle the mess.
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Inside the Divine Space, Cedric nodded in approval when he saw the council representative's move.
Thanks to the city's council representative, Cedric guessed that the Council would soon send a stronger investigation team or even their army that's usually used to cull magical beasts.
With the dwarf being prepared to handle the NE infected giant ants, Cedric moved his attention to the elves.
While the dwarves will soon enter an all-out war, the elves have been facing genocide all over the place.
During these few months, three small villages have been slaughtered by Level 1 demons together with some Level 0 demons.
The destruction of those three villages has strengthened one of the Level 1 demons and also caused two Peak Level 0 demons to advance to Level 1.
Actually, five small villages should've been affected. Luckily, the dragons arrived in time and saved two villages from being destroyed and also repelled some demons.
To be honest, Cedric felt a bit relieved when he saw the dragons successfully protect the elves.
After all, this is the first time he used Divine Intervention: Urge and he isn't sure about how effective it is or the specific effect.
But seeing how the dragon successfully differentiates the elves from other races, coupled with the fact that they knew how to kill the demons which are the source of the elf's trouble. He must say the Divine Intervention: Urge is indeed worthy to stand alongside the other Divine Intervention series items.
After the destruction of three villages, the news started to spread and the elves finally responded by sending some combatants.
Although Cedric called them combatants, that's simply because the average level of the group is quite high. Among the twenty-one elves, three of them are at Level 1 while the remaining elves are at Level 0.
In terms of combat experience, they're actually just normal elves who have at most killed some small animals.
Any human soldier who has entered war can easily fight elf combatants at the same level.
The moment those elf combatants arrived at the villages and saw the scene of carnage inside, all of them paled.
Inside the village, there are many traces of blood and even some body parts like limbs or a part of an elf's chest strewn around.
After digesting the sight, every single elf vomited at least once.
A slightly weak-willed elf has accidentally fainted before meeting the demons.
It took them half an hour to stabilize their emotions and another two hours to find clues about the culprit.
Following traces of the culprit, the elves soon found the demon that was responsible for the destruction of the nearby village.
It's a twenty meter long snake that's close to a meter wide.
The moment the elves caught sight of that demon, they immediately panicked.
The magical forest somehow repelled dangerous magical beasts. So, the snake is the first massive creature the elves have met.
Coupled with some leftover trace of blood and torn flesh on its jaw, the giant snake became even more menacing for the elves.
Thankfully no elves acted in a panic. They discussed it for a moment and decided to test the snake's power.
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Depending on the test, they'll kill the snake or just try to lead it into an empty place without any villages.
One of the Level 1 elves went forward and activated his blessed power.
He summoned a ball of flame that shot toward the snake at high speed.
The ball of flame touched the back of the snake's head and exploded.
Due to the distance, the explosion caused the snake's head to get knocked down slightly, but it failed to injure the snake at all.
The remaining flames caused some plants to catch fires. But before it could spread, several elven blessed activated their ability and created a ball of water to put off the fire.
While the elves are busy extinguishing the flame, the snake has turned its head toward the elves.
After glaring at them for a few seconds, the snake suddenly coiled itself.
When everyone prepared to launch another barrage of attacks upon seeing the snake's defensive stance, it suddenly launched itself toward the elf who had shot the fireball.
The speed of its movement is incredibly fast, unfitting with its massive body.
This caused the male elf to get caught off guard and failed to react in time to evade the attack.
Thankfully, another Level 1 blessed elf activated her ability and created several earth pillars in succession.
The earth pillar didn't stop the snake. But it's enough to make the snake miss its landing points and crash a few meters away from the male elf.
Every elf immediately retreated far away from the snake's landing points while launching their blessed ability.
Except for the ice element blessed that prepared to create shields to block the snakes, and the water element blessed that's busy extinguishing the fires caused by the aftermath. Every elves separated themselves into groups and activated their ability to bombard that snake.
After being hit by several fireballs that were strengthened by winds, smashed several times by rocks, and electrocuted by lightning. Even the snake became dizzy and quickly coiled itself to defend itself.
With its hardened scale, the snake defended itself from the elf's bombardments. It only moved once the elves became exhausted and their bombardment slowed down.
After several minutes of bombardment, many parts of the snake's scale have peeled showing its pink flesh and blood.
While in pain, the snake launched itself once more toward a tired elf.
This time, the elf failed to respond in time and only successfully erected a thin wall made of ice.
The snake easily broke through the ice wall and bit the elf's body.
Hearing their comrade's scream, the elf standing nearby immediately paled and activated his ability in panic.
But the ability of Level 0 blessed can only slightly deepen the injury of the snake.
Redirecting its anger toward a new target, the snake bit down hard at the elves while ignoring his scream.
That's when the Level 1 fire element elf who stood behind the snake tried to launch a sneak attack.
Watching flames gather on the hand of that elf, the snake moved its tail like a whip and smashed it toward the elf.
Although that attack directly caused its injuries to worsen. The tail swipe successfully hit the male elf and caused half of his body to explode into red mists.
Watching three of their comrades die in an instant, the elves became panicked and disorganized.
Watching the panicked elves, the third Level 1 blessed among them commanded, "Summon water on its head and try to envelop its head with it!"
The water element blessed who still had some energy followed the command and shot several water balls on its head.
When the water balls enveloped the snake's head, the third Level 1 blessed activated her ability, "Freeze!"
The ball of water froze while enveloping the snake's head.
When the snake felt its head frozen, it took an extreme approach and smashed its head to the ground to shatter the ice.
But just when it could take a breath after shattering the ice, another ball of water shot toward it before instantly freezing.
The snake continued to smash its head while the elves kept on freezing it.
Watching the snake's frantic movement, the Level 1 ice blessed shouted, "What're you waiting for? Use your power and attack its injuries!"
The already exhausted elves pushed themselves to activate their power.
Meanwhile, the snake finally went berserk after having its head frozen for a long time.
Without shattering the ice that froze its head, the snake suddenly lunged toward a group with two water blessed and two other Level 0 elves.
Being caught by surprise, the snake easily killed them before launching toward another group and killing three other elves.
The elves only responded when the snake prepared to lunge toward another group.
The Level 1 earth element blessed quickly created several earth walls to block the snake.
Although it smashes through the walls, it's still enough to slow it down.
Even though it is stopped in time, crashing with the walls allows the snake to crack the ice, freezing its head.
The ice element elf watched it and wanted to continue fighting. But when she saw that most of the water element blessed had died and the team's low morale, she commanded the team to retreat.
"Let's lead it away from other villages. Then, we'll retreat!" After she shouted that command, the elf with ice power immediately shot a freezing power that froze part of the snake's head and angered it.
Seeing the ice element blessed has captured the snake's attention, the other elves helped to delay the snake's movement and allowed the ice element blessed to lead the snake toward a direction without any village.
They lead it long for an hour before suddenly dispersing while hiding their track.
This made the snake who had lost its target to continue slither forward, away from any elven village.
The elven group soon regathered and everyone looked around in sadness.
From the twenty one elves, only nine remained. Among them, two elves are in grave injuries and are currently being healed by two Level 0 healers.
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Inside the Divine Space, Cedric is messaging his temple.
The snake that elves target is only at Mid Level 1. Meanwhile, the elven hunting team is composed of three Lower Level 1 and eighteen Upper to Peak Level 0 blessed.
Even so, they still failed to kill the snake in a gang fight.
That snake might indeed be a bit ridiculous in size. But that's all it has.
Except for the massive size and stronger physical strength, that snake doesn't have magical means like spewing water or even poison.
"Maybe I shouldn't have brought the demons to forcefully increase the elf's level." Cedric sighed while watching the elven corpse lying around.
He gently shook his head, "Never mind. If I didn't increase their level with demons, the elves might not be powerful enough to protect themselves against humans in time."
Regarding the contact between the three intelligent races of his world, Cedric has decided to only delay until his world reaches Level 3 at the latest.
Once his world upgraded from Level 2 to Level 3, he should've gained another chance to directly intervene.
If nothing changed, Cedric planned to open several passages through the mountain range and allow limited contact between the races.
Actually, if the humans somehow came into contact with the elves or dwarves before his world reached Level 3, he planned to let nature run its course.
Of course, there is an exception.
If it's Lacius who comes into contact with the other race, he'll stop him from doing audacious things to the elves and dwarves.
God knows what kind of messy thing he'll do upon seeing the elf and dwarf that can live for four times and twice as long as humans respectively.
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