Shut up, brave man! I don't want to atone for my sins to you!

"Now," she repeated her request, "fellow countrymen, please lend me your strength."

This time no one stopped her.

In deathly silence, her compatriots passed on all their remaining magic to her.

The magical attributes of the elves are complex, and when they gather on her, they become a brilliant and colorful halo.

Selowei was enveloped by the halo, and her old and aged body gradually could not hold on. Starting from the fingertips, she was gradually decomposed into dust by the terrifying magic power.

But she was still smiling.

"Goodbye, my compatriots."

The old man said goodbye to the elves.

But as if she suddenly remembered something, she suddenly turned her head to look at Fuwenna and said softly:

"When everything is over, please be sure to visit the breeding room."

Fuwenna was no longer able to speak and could only nod in agreement dryly.

After completing this task, the old woman finally had no regrets, so she turned her head and looked at the mistress who had been almost completely eroded.

"Mom, am I doing the right thing?"

She asked in her heart.

As expected, no one answered her.

But Selovi seemed to have heard her mother's answer.

She had a satisfied expression on her face, like a child.

Then, she controlled the huge amount of magic power that was almost overflowing from her body and rose into the air.

The gorgeous magical halo enveloped the old elf's shriveled and slender body, making her look like a piece of charcoal stained with rose-colored flames.

Charcoal always burns.

Then Selovi slowly began to burn—the tiny elf pounced on their mother like a spark.

And their mother, the main engine that gave birth to the entire Lentiheim, struggled to turn her body that was about to completely lose control, exposing the only place that had not yet been eroded by the shadow to Selovi.

It was as if the children wanted to kill their mother, but the mother took the initiative to straighten her chest and offer her heart to the children's swords.

Serlovi easily penetrated the mistress's defense.

A fire started.

The magic fire came out from all the cracks in the mistress's body and ignited all the plants attached to her body.

The fire grew bigger and bigger. The shadow that had almost corroded the entire body of the mistress was slowly burned into pale ashes along with the mistress under the burning of the magic fire.

The mistress's dream gradually collapsed.

The elves' bodies were becoming blurry again, almost transparent.

They gathered together and looked up at their mother who was being burned to ashes by the magic fire.

Every elf understood that this might be the last time they would see their mother.

From then on, Lentiheim no longer had a matron, they lost their mother.

No one will arrange their future work and life when they are just born, no one will restrict the development of Lentiheim, and no one will stop them from going to the outside world.

They are free.

But no one was happy about it.

They just felt sad.

An elf began to sob softly.

More elves stared blankly at their mother from beginning to end, as if they wanted to remember this scene forever.

And this is their coming-of-age ceremony.

Starting today, they...

adult.

……

But not all elves choose to grow up.

Some children are still lingering in their mother's warm embrace and are unwilling to leave.

The mother felt that this was not right, so she woke up her sleeping child.

Selowei slowly opened her eyes.

What came into her eyes was a pure white world.

There was warm and soft light everywhere, and she felt as if she was soaked in hot water, her whole body warm.

"Is this... the world after death?"

She couldn't help but think.

Then, a familiar, gentle and kind voice answered her:

"you are still alive."

That was my mother's voice.

Selowei subconsciously looked in the direction where the voice came from, and saw a vague human figure in the pure white world.

He stood there. Seloie couldn't see His face clearly, but for some reason, she felt that He was smiling at her.

"Mother……"

Serlovi shouted subconsciously.

Then, as she had done in countless previous conversations, her mother answered:

"I'm here."

Selowei's eyes suddenly felt a little sore.

"I was dead, wasn't I?" she murmured. "Did you save me?"

"Ah."

"But why..."

"I'd be sad."

"..."

Seloue was stunned.

This was the first time she had received such a clear response from her mother.

Obviously, the mother in her memory always gave the most direct answers or solutions, just like a...

A cold machine driven by gears and crankshafts.

But before she could figure out the cause of this change, she suddenly heard her mother's voice again:

"Time is up."

The blurry figure walked towards her.

Selowei was a little overwhelmed. She didn't know what the time had come meant, and she didn't know why her mother was walking towards her.

She could only watch as her mother approached her, came to her side, and then...

Her mother gently touched her head.

Then, her mother suddenly gave her a gentle push.

Just like falling from a great height in a nightmare, Selowei's soul began to sink, sink, and sink again.

Endless darkness enveloped her.

Then, before the sudden sleepiness overwhelmed her, she heard her mother say to her:

"You did a great job and I'm proud of you."

——That was her mother’s belated answer to the two questions she had asked earlier.

[To be continued]

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34. Crying

The elves killed their mad mother.

So peace and tranquility returned to Lentiheim again.

No elves were sacrificed in this special rite of passage.

Even Selowei, who finally turned into a raging fire and ignited the polluted mistress, miraculously survived.

——Fuwenna found herself, who had been reborn, in the breeding pool in the breeding room, along with all the elves that had disappeared in the fog.

Somehow, the mother didn't kill them, she just sent them back to those breeding pools.

The brave warrior and the witch who were entrusted by the elves to kill the mistress also returned safely.

Serlovi killed the soul of the mistress from the inside, and the brave man who was fighting with the mistress outside seized the opportunity, went deep into the mistress's body, and found the core of the mistress.

He then shattered the Matron's core, killing Her once and for all.

The source of all anomalies in Lentiheim has been resolved.

The elf couple who had been sent away also returned to Lentiheim - they said that their children should be born on the land of Lentiheim.

However, none of the elves knew how to deliver a baby, and in the end, the witch found an experienced doctor from outside to help them.

The night the young mother gave birth happened to be the third day after the elves' coming-of-age ceremony.

As the consul, Fuvenna must of course witness this historic event.

Then, on her way to the elf couple's house, she met Serlovi.

Before being completely killed, the Matron gave Selowei a new body.

Therefore, Serlovie now does not look old at all. When she stands next to Fuvenna, she is even a whole head shorter than Fuvenna. Anyone who comes would probably think that she is Fuvenna's daughter.

Three days ago, all the elves became adults through the coming-of-age ceremony, but she was the only one who turned back from an adult into a child.

But it doesn't really matter.

The important thing is that the Matron was killed, the elves successfully passed their coming-of-age ceremony, and the anomaly in Lentiheim disappeared.

"But mother...why did she become like that?"

As she and Selovi went to the elf couple's house, Fuwenna couldn't help but ask.

This was a question that had troubled her for a long time.

She thought Seloway might know the answer.

But Serlovie also shook her head:

"I don't know, I just know...it seems to be some kind of pollution."

"pollute?"

"Well, didn't Mother tell us before we killed her? She was in pain, she warned us, she was tainted in some way."

"So, the pollution is the direct cause of the mother's madness?"

"Ah."

Serlowei nodded, but suddenly murmured in a trance:

"But... is mother really crazy?"

"What do you mean?" Fuwenna frowned, "Do you think mother is not crazy?"