The Hero Party’s Moms Are Obsessed With Me

One elf jumped up and down among the trees, swaying his long emerald hair without stopping.

“Where are you… where are you!”

His eyes moved around as if searching for something, and he jumped between the trees.

His speed was incredibly fast.

“Chief! Chief!!”

The other elves following behind couldn’t keep up with him.

When one elf shouted out with great effort, the lead elf finally stopped on a large branch as if he barely heard it.

Elf Chief Eljeta Treseas.

She has been tirelessly roaming the forest day and night for several months to find those who dare to infect the World Tree.

But no matter how well they were hiding, she couldn’t even find them with the power of the superior wind spirit.

Euduk…

“If the Great Spirit of Wind hadn’t left me… Levian…!”

The Great Spirit of Wind who left because he thought I was weak, three hundred years ago.

Levian Rageta, the Tower Lord, who stole the Spirit of Wind from me.

The faces of the two beings came to mind, and annoyance welled up inside.

Shaking off distractions, I finally looked at the approaching elf companion.

“What… is the matter?”

“Cough… cough… Chief! You’re pushing yourself too hard! Leave the scouting to us.”

“You couldn’t find it, so I had to step in.”

“We will try harder! Please, think about your health! With Anna gone, Eljeta is the only leader we have! If Eljeta were to fall as well…”

“Tsk!”

A group attacking the World Tree.

Incompetent subordinates.

A daughter who left the village after being born, only to fall head over heels for a man.

A Great Spirit who broke the contract.

And a Tower Lord who mocked her along with that Great Spirit.

Eljeta didn’t like anything about them.

But she had no choice.

Just as the Great Spirit said, she was weak.

She was supposed to be near the forest, but she couldn’t find it.

She had a rough idea of where it was, but not the exact location.

“If I had been a little stronger…”

If she had been strong, the Great Spirit wouldn’t have left…

Could she have protected the forest, then…?

Just as a black entity that feeds on the World Tree tried to take root in her heart.

“Chief!!”

Another elf approached from afar and knelt before her.

“What… is happening with the Outer Patrol?”

“Yes! Anna has arrived in Tresias with a warrior!”

Damn it.

Eljeta tried not to rely on external forces.

She did her best to prevent the state of the World Tree from becoming known.

But she somehow managed to convey the news to Anna, who was traveling with the party of heroes.

Anna came here with the heroes.

“It seems like the elves are incompetent like this…!”

With a click, the two elves, who had been straining their necks, swallowed their dry saliva.

“Well… let’s go.”

“Yes, yes!”

“Understood!”

***

She understood about spirits.

She also resolved her relationship with the elves.

Now it was time to achieve our goal of dungeon exploration.

“Originally, I was planning to find it, but now Diarm can probably find it.”

Me?

I have no magical power, not even as much as a drop of ant’s tear, and I don’t know the geography of this place.

Me?! I raised my eyebrows in disbelief, and she smiled and pointed to the Sylph sitting on top of my head.

“Try using the spirits.”

[Our spirits are not tools to be used.]

“You’re noisy.”

[… I thought it had changed, but that attitude is the same as it was 300 years ago.]

Although it was a bit controversial to use them as La Geta said, it shouldn’t matter if it’s considered a request.

After all, everyone has their own thoughts.

“Yeah, that’s right, Sylph. Is there a dungeon nearby that hasn’t been touched by human hands?”

[I’ll look for it!]

The Sylph disappeared into the forest with its wings fluttering, like those of a beautiful butterfly, in response to my [request].

Looking at that Sylph, I thought.

“How are dungeons created, anyway?”

I wasn’t very curious about things in the past.

When I was in Korea, I learned just to survive and had no interest beyond that.

It’s the same when I first came into this world.

I only acquired enough knowledge to survive, and the rest I simply memorized without truly understanding.

But now that Lageta, who knows everything, is close by, I became curious about a lot of things.

I can find answers to my curiosity, right?

I realized the joy of learning at a late age.

“But she’s only 15?”

I tried to ask Lageta about the secret of dungeon creation, with a slight smile.

… Where’s Sylph?

My personal interpreter Sylph has left to find the dungeon.

I’ll ask later when I have time~ As I tried to move on, [Baram] stared at me intently and opened its mouth.

“Lageta. I have a question.”

“No, thank you.”

Lageta refused as if she had been waiting for it.

“That child seems to have magic power, yet she doesn’t. What’s her identity?”

[Baram] casually asked the question as if it were familiar to Lageta.

“I don’t know either.”

Once again, Lageta answered familiarly.

“Oh? So Lageta doesn’t know something. Ah, I see. Is that why you two are together?”

“If you knew, then shut up. Diam feels burdened by it.”

“Tsk. I see.”

Like a child visiting the zoo for the first time, [Baram] looked around me in circles, but it didn’t come closer, perhaps because of Lageta’s warning.

When I furrowed my forehead, Lageta reached out her hand.

“Come here before I terminate the contract.”

“Ahh! It hurts! Lageta!!”

She grabbed [Baram]’s hair and pulled…

While I was witnessing this absurd scene between the two beings, Sylph came laughing, as if she had finished her patrol.

“Diam! There’s a dungeon over there that I’ve never seen before today!”

“A dungeon you’ve never seen before?”

“Yeah! I’ve never seen it either! Who would have thought there would be something like that over there?”

This is strange.

Sylph, a spirit who has been living in this place with her previous contractor for a long time.

There is a dungeon that she doesn’t know about?

There is a dungeon that suddenly appeared today?!

It was suspicious, too suspicious.

Even though my intuition shouted not to go, I warned.

“A hidden dungeon! Your Excellency! Let’s go right away!”

Eri! Let go of this!! Aaahh!!

The powerless Eri, who is determined to explore the dungeon, could not win…

Somewhere in the forest where she was dragged by Eri.

In my eyes, there were trees~ grass~ and the sky~ It was totally indistinguishable from an ordinary forest.

“There is a dungeon here?”

“I don’t see anything that looks like a dungeon entrance.”

In Olivia and Eri’s eyes, it seemed like an ordinary forest.

“There is a dungeon here? I don’t see it either?”

[Hey, is there really a dungeon here?]

If even the great Tower Master and the Great Wind Spirit cannot find it, could it not exist? I wondered.

[What? You don’t see it over there?]

Sylph smiled confidently, slightly bigger than the things around her.

If you didn’t concentrate, you would just point at a tree that you could easily pass by.

We all saw that tree, but we couldn’t see anything.

Sylph flapped her wings in frustration as if to say it’s annoying, and touched the tree.

[Huh? Why isn’t it opening? It’s supposed to be here?]

She flew around the tree in confusion.

“Rageta. Lower and intermediate spirits move instinctively and may lie.

But the higher ones think and do everything on their own, so they may lie.”

“Well, that’s true… Then there is a possibility that the spirit is lying to you, Your Excellency.”

“There is a possibility, but it’s unlikely, right? That little one was originally a lower spirit and became a higher one today. She can think, but she hasn’t grown enough to lie.”

“Then if there really is a dungeon entrance…”

While listening to their conversation, Sylph approached me with an awkward expression.

[Diarm! Can’t you see it with your Diarm eyes? There’s an entrance there!]

Yeah. I can’t see it.

I wanted to coldly push him away, but his eyes, looking at me, were so innocent.

Can he lie with those eyes?

Learn that in Korea. No, become a politician.

Thinking like that, I approach him with a fake smile.

The moment my palm touches the wooden pillar.

Creak!

Huh…?

A familiar sound echoes in my ears, and the wooden pillar opens up.

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Quite literally, the wooden pillar itself becomes a door, creaking open.

Stairs unfold as if telling us to go underground.

“Oh my! The wooden pillar suddenly opened!”

“W-What is happening?!”

“Hmm? This is fascinating, isn’t it?”

[Rageta! What on earth is that ability?!]

When everyone is surprised by the sudden appearance of the entrance.

“Look! See? Only Diarm believes in what I say~”

Sylph, laughing to himself, flies around me.

***

Just an ordinary tree, but the moment Diarm’s hand touches it.

Thud!

The wooden pillar becomes a door and opens.

Everyone is amazed, and when they explore the pillar, Rageta also stretches out her hand and grabs it.

The sensation of the sturdy wooden pillar felt on her fingertips.

It’s a real tree.

And.

“It’s a magic I’ve never seen before…!”

She is shocked by the fact that there is magic that she doesn’t even notice without touching it.

Levian Rageta.

The only high magician of this era who has lived for 1,098 years and knows both lost magic and modern magic.

Even she didn’t know that there was magic hanging on this wooden pillar.

The exact effect of the magic is uncertain.

Since it hasn’t been discovered for hundreds and thousands of years, it must be concealed magic.

Whether it is an animal or a person, they might accidentally touch it, but since it hasn’t been discovered until now, there must also be a locking magic.

Being hidden like this, there must be all sorts of trap magic as well.

Sylph saw through the concealment.

Diam ignored all the traps and unlocked the lock.

Thanks to that, even though the door was opened, the magic remained, creating a strange situation.

“What era’s magic is this? No, who’s magic is this?!”

Rageta’s heart raced.

She lost her mind and analyzed the unknown magic.

There are familiar incantations as well, but the majority are unfamiliar, making it predominantly magic she doesn’t know.

When she was silently engrossed in magic power, others entered the tree while marveling.

“Hey! Rageta! What are you doing there? Come here quickly!”

Elli shouted, but Rageta didn’t react.

The wind spoke next to her, but she couldn’t hear it.

Although she analyzed magic power mechanically.

The moment a solid object grabbed her hand.

“Ah…”

Her eyes, which had been spinning backwards, returned to normal.

If she just had a little more time…

If she could properly capture and analyze it for one month… no, one year, she could make this magic her own!

It seemed possible!

Although the likelihood was very small!

But she was interrupted in this happy situation.

She almost destroyed everything around her in her rising anger.

But when she lowered her head, Diarm lifted Rageta up.

Their hands clasped.

When she saw Diem, who cared for her, the irritation that had been building up dissipated.

“I have Diem with me, so I can take my time to examine this.”

She, who had been impatient, gently caressed Diem’s head.

“Thank you, Diem. Shall we go then?”

Lageta and Diem held hands and entered the forest.

“Huh? Why are you all like this?”

“Uh… I’m sorry…”

Olivia sat hesitantly on the steps, crying.

“L-Lageta… I’ve… I’ve been sorry all this time…”

Elli stood on shaky legs, trying to hold herself up.

“[Waaah! Diem! I’m scared of that old lady!]”

Sylph attempted to embrace Diem but, upon seeing Lageta beside him, couldn’t bring herself to do it.

“It seems Lageta got into trouble.”

Baram raised an eyebrow in disbelief.

Lageta just shook her head as if it were all strange.

That day, the elven forest managed to escape something even more terrifying than the arrival of the Demon Lord.