Chapter 15

Only one extra chapter and this sequence shall be completed!

Confrontations between elves and people concerning the forest had continued for the reason that daybreak of historical past with out pause.

In all ages, regardless of which area it was, so long as there was a forest, there have been elves. The elves would turn into offended on the people who cleared the forest within the space they have been in and in flip prompted timber to encroach on the people city for seven days and nights, fully reworking it right into a forest.

If the people burned the elves forest in retaliation to that, the elves would then flip the people into fertilizer for the forest.

Whereas it was uncommon for the conflicts to develop that violent, it was sure that the connection between people and elves as a species was extra inclined in the direction of battle versus coexistence. In any other case, there wouldnt be any solution to clarify the rationale as to why within the languages of nations everywhere in the world, they shared the phrase elf as a typical curse.

One of many the reason why the battle had rarely advanced right into a battle was due to the elves administration of the forest.

The forests the place elves existed have been plentiful. The forests that didnt have elves have been meagre.

If an grownup elf used a spell with their workers, they may fertilize the land and management crops. That’s the reason an elfs forest not often had a poor crop. It all the time had a plentiful harvest, and the animals that ate that harvest would in flip turn into plentiful as effectively.

To elves, people have been one of many animals in nature, and as such they might not say something in the event that they took a portion of the forests blessing.

The elves would solely get mad when the forest was reduce down on a big scale for lumber, or with the intention to broaden the arable land. The people would additionally, naturally, turn into enraged when the land that that they had labored so arduous to domesticate was turned again right into a forest by the elves.

Even whereas the people acknowledged that the elves made forests extra plentiful, numerous them considered the elves as suspicious nuisances.

The preventing spirit of the elves have been usually weaker than that of the people throughout confrontations over the forest, and as such would normally finish with them taking a step again and compromising. As such, the sphere of human exercise regularly expanded.

Now then.

This was an occasion throughout the Spring of 12 months 20 of the Showa Period. Japan was proper within the midst of the Pacific battle, and was hastening the evacuation of its capital metropolis, Tokyo.

With the recollections and scars of the large-scale air raids that attacked Tokyo nonetheless contemporary, an eleven 12 months previous boy, Ashida Kenjiro, simply barely managed to flee from a fireplace attributable to an incendiary bomb. Even whereas he felt a way of displeasure from having been compelled to the countryside, he felt reduction from the truth that the concern of getting his dwelling set aflame had been diminished.Up to date from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

The dwarves that had been merely a legend up till the nineteenth century as soon as once more appeared in human historical past once they ran into one in every of their underground cities when digging a tunnel deep into the earth. Each single article that they made was of top quality, and have been extremely standard. Nonetheless, on account of issues concerning thieves, robbers, and fraudsters in the event that they carelessly unfold their works round, their prudence prompted only a few of them to look in the marketplace. Relying on the work, a single sword was helpful sufficient to construct an entire home.

Since way back, it was mentioned that the elves, harpies, mermaids, and werewolves had commerce with the dwarves, however evidently was really the reality.

After graduating from college, Kenjiro took half in a job associated to ships, and thru many twists and turns, finally began to work as a crew member on a ship setting off to discover the Antarctic.

Earlier than setting off, Kenjiro utilized his lengthy vacation to go to the forest by that countryside village for the primary time in fifteen years.

Tsubaki, who welcomed him, had hardly modified in any respect. As Kenjiro had grown taller, his perspective had additionally turn into greater up, and as such, she felt even smaller than she was in his recollections. Tsubaki, who had appeared so adult-like when he was younger, was however a small youngster.

With Kenjiro having turn into an grownup man, it was much more obvious now how the circulate of time between them was totally different.

As they went fishing within the mountain stream collectively, when Kenjiro talked about how this time he was going to be heading to Antarctica, Tsubakis eyes brightened up and he or she bit into the subject.

In accordance with the elven legends, Antarctica was the place their Creator was. Their Creator was a mountain, and had lived for the reason that starting of Earth itself, changing into the founding father of all of the mysterious races on this Earth, and had watched over the prosperity and decay of all life.

What the Antarctic exploration staff had discovered was in all probability that sacred mountain. Kenjiro hit the nail proper on the top after listening to what she needed to say. He had beforehand learn a thesis that acknowledged that after learning the geological layer on the base of the mountain, it grew to become clear that it was an extremely previous mountain.

The elves couldn’t stay if there wasnt a forest round. The truth that they worshipped a sacred mountain mentioned to reside in essentially the most merciless of environments, enclosed in Antarctic ice the place not a single tree might develop, was an extremely unusual story.

The sacred mountain within the South Pole nonetheless had not been climbed to its summit, and was mentioned to be the final unexplored area on Earth. Just like the elves, it was stuffed with thriller.

After promising that if he had the possibility to speak(?) to it, he would inform the sacred mountain, Mt. Dragonends that Hachigatake Tsubaki was praying to it on a regular basis, Kenjiro returned to Tokyo.

As he packed for the journey to the South Pole, Kenjiro thought to himself. The mysterious races that known as themselves Kids of the Mountain all had a single commonality by which they spoke of and revered Mt. Dragonends. If Mt. Dragonends = the sacred mountain within the Antarctic, simply what was it? Humanity had nonetheless but to determine its true identification.

The twentieth century was the period of science. Humanity would absolutely journey throughout Mt. Dragonends quickly and dispel that thriller.

Kenjiro eagerly thought to himself, lets add my title to the underside of that checklist of explorers!