1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 38

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 2 Episode 13

13. Village of Elves

[The spirit king ‘Hieros’ wants to make a contract with you.]

With the system message, a magic circle emitting black light was created under Hoya and Hieros as the center.

The light emitted was black, but it was not dark at all, but rather bright.

When he expressed his intention to sign the contract, the magic circle engraved on the floor shattered like a glass window.

The fragmented magic circles rushed towards the back of Hoya’s right hand and permeated it.

[The contract with the Spirit King ‘Hieros’ has been completed.][The skill ‘Help of Hieros’ is created.][The engraving expressing the contract with the spirit is engraved on the back of the right hand and cannot be erased.][Help of Hieros]

A contract with the spirit king ‘Hieros’ has been made.

You can summon Hieros and borrow his power.

MP used: 0

Cooldown: 6 hours

When I checked my right hand, the magic circle that had formed under my feet was engraved on the back of my right hand.

After waiting for a while, everyone went through the same process as Hoya and finished the contract.

[Experience points and items are settled by clearing all of the ‘Elves’ Coming-of-Age Test’.][Level has risen.][Level has risen.]

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Finally cleared all the dungeons after making a contract with the spirits.

Hoya went up 7 levels, and the members of Seolbaekho went up 2 or 3 levels each, so everyone’s faces were full of laughter.

“I’ll give you back the item according to the arrangement we made before we came in.”

Most of the items from the dungeon were by-products of the monsters hunted in the second test.

After distributing items, clearing the dungeon and passing through the wall of light, came out to a village in the middle of the forest.

It was a forest very similar to Komia’s forest, but they knew at once that this was not Komia’s forest.

In front of them, a tree large enough to reach the clouds that had not been seen anywhere else in the forest of Komia was showing off its existence.

A murmur was heard all around.

“Human? Why are humans here…?”

“Are the spirits with you?”

“no way…….”

An elf walked out among the murmurs of elves with long ears and beautiful looks like Lencia.

Unlike other elves, who only looked like they were in their twenties in human terms, he was an elf with a certain age.

“Sylphid, can you explain the situation?”

“These humans have completed the coming-of-age test.””These people? Did Sylphid help you?”

“A little? Still, borrowing the help of a spirit is also part of the test. Do you have any complaints?”

“No, no. Getting help from spirits is also a test. Welcome to the village of Yggdrasil. Those who have passed the test are welcome regardless of race. I’m Warin, the village chief.”

Somehow, he approached Hoya, who was standing in front of him, and asked him to lay his hands on him.

When Hoya took his hand, he smiled.

However, his expression changed to a surprised face due to the engraving on the back of Hoya’s right hand that he discovered shortly thereafter.

“Maybe that’s…”

“It’s my stamp.”

Hi Eros, who had been hiding behind Hoya, poked his face over Hoya’s shoulder.

“Hieros-sama, did you sign a contract?”

“Why? Can’t I sign a contract?”

“No, congratulations on your first contract. What’s your name?”

“My name is Hoya.”

“Please take good care of Hieros-sama, Hoya.”

He sincerely thought that Hieros was lucky to have signed the contract.

The spirits of the spirit world are not easy to contract because the elves fear their power.

What if it was Hieros, the apex of such spirits?

He had never signed a contract before he signed with Hoya.

“By the way… Hoya, have you ever met an elf somewhere?”

“Yes?”

“Ah, please don’t get me wrong. I can feel the elf energy from you. All the elves live here, so if anyone falls out of the group, I ask them to bring them here for safety. Of course, when he wants it. It is.”

“Hoya is friends with Rencia.”

It was Sylphid, not Hoya, who answered Warin.

Her voice was not the bright one that Hoya had heard before.

She had a low, low voice.

Even a small amount of hostility was felt.

It has been like this ever since I came to town.

Because Sylphid’s voice was so loud, all the elves around could hear her.

It was a louder roar than the first roar when Hoya and her companions appeared.

“Lee, is Rencia still alive…?”

“Ah… I’m glad…”

“Hey, this is not the time! I’ll tell Elysia and come back!”

Hoya, who had been looking around at the sudden murmur, turned his gaze back to Woin.

He was crying silently.

“I really… do you know Rencia? Where is she now!! Oh, I’m sorry for suddenly shouting. I’m so happy that I didn’t know……”

Warin carefully wiped away the tears with his fingers.

Hoya wondered why they reacted so much to the name of Rencia.

Simply because she is a legend?

It didn’t seem like it.

As they responded to the name Rencia, the emotions they expressed were gratitude, guilt, and relief.

“First of all, since you are the first guests to our village, would you like to see the village?”

Warin forced the story a little and asked the elves to guide them to the village.

We each decided to take action, and we decided to come back here in an hour.

They dispersed, leaving only Woin and Hoya, the two spirits, in their seats.

“Are you not interested in seeing the town, Hoya?”

“…May I ask you something more than a tour of the town?”

Hoya confided to Woin the doubts he had.

Woin smiled bitterly at Hoya’s question.

“The story will be a little long.”

* * *

Hundreds of years ago, an elf child was born.

He was a child born to parents who were congenitally weak from an early age.

But fortunately he was born without inheriting the weaknesses of his parents, and he grew up like any other elf child.

“Oh! Rencia is amazing! Isn’t it the first time among our peers to hit the center of the target 30 times in a row?”

“But all the adults who have had a coming-of-age ceremony do it, right?”

“You idiot! We haven’t even started learning bows for a week! Adults do it all because they’ve been learning for a long time!”

“That’s right! I’m great!”

“Huhuhuhu, Lencia, I didn’t say that directly.”

“Oh! Mom!”

Lencia, who had boasted of herself with her hands on her waist in front of her children, ran straight to her at the sound of her Elysia’s voice.

She put her in her arms in Eli Issa’s arms, rubbed her face, raised her head and looked at her.

“Mom, I just saw it! That’s what I did!”

“Of course I saw it! When we, Rencia, grow up, we will become one of the best archers among the elves.”

“Ugh, that’s not it!”

Lencia, breaking away from her Elysia’s arms, raised one of her fingers high.

She said, “She will be the strongest archer among the elves!”

It was a dream that all the young elves had and couldn’t achieve, but it seemed like it could be achieved if it was Rencia.

Elysia smiled happily and stroked her Lencia’s hair.

“Yeah, if it’s Rencia, I’m sure you can do it.”

“Hey, of course not!”

“Yeah, yeah… … Cool, Cool!”

Elysia, who had been smiling while stroking her Rencia’s hair, suddenly vomited her cough.

When she lifted her hand that was covering her mouth, her hand was covered in bright red blood.

“Mom! Are you okay? Isn’t it too much today?”

“Hmm, hmm. Mom is fine. Look at this.”Elysia was naturally weak.

However, she said that Elysia was deliberately exaggerated to reassure her Rencia.

Perhaps she was relieved by that, or if she was worried about Elysia, her expression on Rencia, who was looking at her, softened a little.

“Still, can’t we just go home today?”

“Hey, how’s the weather like this? Mom wants to see our Lencia play more than stay at home.”

“I’m not going to play! So, Mom, go home and get some rest!”

Elysia, who had been pushed to her by Rencia, eventually returned to her house and lay down on her bed.

As time passed, the amount of time that Elisha was allowed to go outside was getting shorter and shorter.

* * *

Shhh, bang!

An arrow pierced through the trees and accurately hit the monster.

Due to the destructive power that could not be considered as the power of only one arrow, the monster instantly became a light and disappeared.

“Hwiyu~ I don’t know who you are, but you have great skills?”

“Huhu, I can praise you a little more. It’s nice to hear that from others as well.”

“Sister, don’t you want to act with us?”

“That’s not a good thing. It’s a body that wanders here and there alone.”

“Then tell me your name.”

“It’s not a name worth mentioning. I’m sorry.”

Rencia is now 46 years old.

Lencia wandered through the villages of humans, covering her ears with her hood.

For an elf, even an elf who couldn’t even attend a coming-of-age ceremony, to wander around the villages of humans, it was impossible for the elves, and it shouldn’t be happening.

But even before her coming-of-age ceremony, there was no one who could stop Rencia, who became the most powerful force in her village.

Only his mother, Elysia, could stop Rencia.

But she said that she couldn’t stop Rencia from working for her because she knew that she was the reason for Rencia wandering around her human village.

Fortunately or of course she said that she was Rencia and she was visiting the human village and in the process of her return she was doing nothing and she was unharmed and precious.

It is already the eighth time she has visited the village of humans here.

During her visits to the villages of humans, Rencia told her mother, Elysia, the story of her travels whenever she returned to the villages of the elves.

It was started because I wanted to let her know and feel her wider world, now weak enough to spend most of her time in her bed.

“It’s a commercial city… I hope there’s a good present.”

The commercial city of Igusse.

True to its name as a commercial city, it was a bustling place with many people coming and going on the streets.

Even if you look around, shops are lined up and you can hear the tossing noises everywhere.

Lencia moved her steps, looking around the various stores.

I have to find a gift for Elysia, but the elves don’t like products that have been deliberately damaged by nature, even if they fall from nature.

Therefore, ornaments in the village are mostly made of cut dead trees or weaving leaves that have fallen on the floor.

They needed a gift that was worthy of the elves’ iron rule not to intentionally damage nature.

Stop.

The place where Rencia, who was looking for gifts for Elysia, stopped her in front of a small bookstore located on the outskirts of the commercial city.