Wizard: I'm leveling up by AFK in another world

After a moment of silence, Elian recounted the last time he saw the Saint.

"After that, I never saw my teacher again. But what she said kept coming true, little by little..."

"I didn't expect my teacher to come back, but a glimmer of hope led me to the observatory. My intuition told me that even if he wasn't there, he must have left something behind."

"The wizards don't seem to have noticed that in the far north, everything on the glaciers is exactly the same as when I left. Until I reached the top of the tower..."

At this point, Elian's expression turned extremely ferocious, causing Ella, who was watching him, to feel a jolt in her heart.

"The top of the Stargazing Tower is the teacher's secret; he doesn't allow anyone to go up there, including me."

"And that's when I learned what the secret was: it was a magic circle."

"Although the magic circle is not large, its patterns are extremely intricate, surpassing any magic circle I have ever seen... Moreover, there are many patterns and characters on it that I have never seen before, which do not belong to elves or orcs."

Elian closed his eyes and sighed painfully to the sky. Finally, he seemed to calm himself down and smiled bitterly at Ella, "Even so, I unfortunately figured out the purpose of this magic circle."

"It's a teleportation array, and it shouldn't belong to this world."

"Moreover, it has been used."

Elian didn't say anything more, but simply stared silently at the stunned Ella.

"This can't be!" Ella exclaimed, realizing what was happening. "Impossible, absolutely impossible! It can't be like this..."

Her voice trailed off as her mind raced, trying to find arguments to refute the horrible speculation.

"That's how it is," Elian said calmly. "Teacher... the elven saint fled when the entire race was in peril."

"It's even quite possible that he was already gone before all this disaster struck."

"The teacher left behind a coordinate and instructions on how to use a teleportation array, but it requires World Tree-level energy to activate."

"I don't know why the teacher called me back that day and left these things for me. He didn't even bother to explain it to me before leaving."

Ella didn't know when she collapsed to the ground.

Surrounded by bottles of liquor, her legs slumped limply, her shoulders were being patted heavily, as if she were the one who had given up on herself.

The saint who guarded the Silver Tree Spirits for nearly ten thousand years, the most revered among the elves after the Father God, the strongest of the elves... has escaped?

"Even the teachers chose to run away, what does that mean?" Elian said. "It means that the enemy we are facing is simply beyond our ability to contend with."

"I looked through the materials and notes left by the teacher. Those wizards weren't demons, but rather a civilization from the starry sea."

"However, their civilization is far more advanced than that of the Silver Tree Elves, and even the entire Silver Tree Ring."

"Our resistance is futile... From the moment they set their sights on us, the destruction of the Silver Tree Elves was their predetermined fate."

"Neither the Father God nor the World Tree can save us. We cannot save ourselves either."

As he finished speaking, Elian's voice trailed off.

He looked at Ella, whose eyes were unfocused, and at the wounds covering her body. He wanted to say something more, but ultimately remained silent.

He picked up the wine bottle again and began to hum an elven song:

"The gentle drizzle, carried by the wind, awakens me."

"The sun shines brightly, and tender new leaves are glistening with dew."

……

……

Elian brought the listless Ella back to her teammates.

Although he felt that there was no point in doing anything now, he might as well throw everything into alcohol.

But whether out of respect for the brave warriors or because Ella's profile looked too much like Anna's... Elian felt that the other should live longer than him.

To his surprise, the elven rangers that Ella had mentioned, who had been nearly killed by the wizard, were now lighting campfires on the cleared ground and setting up camp in an orderly manner.

They were all covered in shocking injuries, yet it seemed to have no effect on their movements whatsoever.

Ellian noticed that although the group of remnants were still shrouded in the shadow of war, something was clearly leading them out of it.

Thinking of Ella, he believed that the leader of this team must be an outstanding elf.

Only then could they stand up and stabilize morale in such a disastrous situation.

The elven rangers didn't recognize Elian, but they could tell he was no ordinary person. They didn't ask any questions, but instead treated him with great hospitality.

Until Ella recovered.

"...At that critical moment, this magical forest saved us." The girl's voice was very soft. "The wizard pursuers were scared away, and the Silvermoon Trees helped us heal our wounds and provided us with fruit to fill our stomachs."

"How amazing," Elian exclaimed. "I thought all the magical forests would fall silent after Father God went missing."

"This forest is truly special. I visited here a few days ago and encountered something amazing then as well."

"Oh? Tell me about it."

Ella then recounted the unusual behavior of the Silvermoon Tree that day, as well as what the old captain had said.

Before she could finish speaking, she saw Elian's expression change, and he suddenly stood up.

"What did you just say?"

Ella was somewhat confused: "The captain wants us to go check out the base where the wizards crashed..."

"No! The previous sentence!"

Snapped!

The crudely made earthenware bottle shattered on the ground, releasing a pungent smell of alcohol.

Elian's face also magnified in Ella's field of vision.

"Didn't you just mention new saplings? There are new Silvermoon saplings here!!"

His eyes were wide open, his nose was practically touching his face, and the smell of alcohol emanated from his mouth.

Ella stared at him blankly: "It wasn't me, it was the captain who said... there's a newborn sprouting in this forest."

"This is it! This is it!"

Elian gripped Ella's shoulders tightly with both hands, and his green eyes, which had been clouded by alcohol, now gleamed with excitement.

After a period of such excitement, he finally regained some composure, but his voice was still trembling abnormally.

"Listen, Ella. What I'm about to tell you is something you've never heard before."

"It happened before God the Father became God. This is history that even the Church does not know. It has only been passed down orally by saints throughout the ages."

Elian took a deep breath and continued his story:

"At that time, Silver Tree Island did not yet have the World Tree, and therefore did not rise into the sky and separate into another world outside the Ironblood Continent."

"Our Father God, His Majesty Lares, was not yet a great god at that time."

"Back then, he was just a brave and powerful elven ranger, just like you."

"At that time, the Silver Tree Ring also suffered a terrible calamity. The sky was shattered, just like it is now, and evil gods and demons from beyond the realm descended to slaughter the world, bringing the elven race to the brink of extinction."

"At that time, the Father God was severely wounded, and his soul was almost scattered. In despair, he fled to a desolate valley. Just as he was preparing to face death, he encountered a newly sprouted sapling."

"Although the sapling's magical fluctuations were weak, it possessed incredible intelligence and vitality. It healed the Father God with its sap and influenced the nearby forest, helping the Father God evade the pursuit of the extraterrestrial demons."

"After that, the Father God and that sapling became close friends, supporting each other through hardships. He perceived the laws of nature from that tree, which ultimately ignited the divine fire, leading to the attainment of his divine throne!"

"And that tree became the World Tree, the totem of our Silver Tree Elf race!"

Ella was stunned.

This history is completely different from the church's claim that "God the Father is omniscient and omnipotent, and planted the World Tree to protect His people," which overturned her worldview.

and.

"You mean..." An absurd yet persistent thought arose in Ella's mind.

Extraterrestrial invasion, Father God in danger, near extinction, new saplings...

Everything is so similar.

It seemed as if it had been decided long ago.