Helmut: The Forsaken Child - H.F.C Chapter 276 (Part 1):

The one who crushed the white rabbit was the gigantic white leopard, Elaga.

It rolled the unconscious rabbit back and forth with its front paws. It was certain.

[It’s unconscious. Or is it just pretending to be?]

“Naho, you say? But it’s dead, isn’t it?”

Helmut jumped down from its back and said.

[Yes, very dead for sure. But the corpse had to remain. I swallowed the core, but what do I do with that big body?]

Elaga sniffed the white rabbit.

[This one has the scent of Sarah. Did it already eat her?]

Grrrrr!

Elaga opened its mouth wide.

A roar infused with magic shook the surroundings, filled with fury.

Black energy burst forth from its body. Contrasting with its white fur, the black energy made Elaga look terrifying.

Even though Helmut raised his Vis to defend himself, his skin still tingled.

Helmut frowned.

‘This is unfair.’

Compared to Helmut, who had trained to death to become strong, Elaga had done nothing yet was much stronger.

If becoming stronger was a matter of luck, then Elaga must have been born with extraordinary fortune.

“If you’re going to attack, at least give me a warning.”

[Aren’t you bothered that Sarah is dead? She was your disciple. How heartless of you as a human.]

“She doesn’t seem dead.”

Helmut gestured towards the front.

He could feel a small, familiar presence rushing towards them.

“Pomi!”

A name that shouldn’t exist in the Forest of Roots was shouted out.

Soon after, Sarah appeared.

Hearing the resounding roar, she had sensed something had happened to the white rabbit.

Sarah looked at the white rabbit lying at Elaga’s feet, expression horrified.

“Lord Elaga killed my friend!”

Elaga snorted.

[Who’s a friend? This annoying white rabbit?]

“Pomi is my friend! Get your foot off him!”

Sarah shook the white rabbit’s body as she burst into tears.

Elaga hastily made an excuse.

[No, I just felt an unpleasant presence… Hey, it’s not dead! It’s just unconscious, unconscious. Do you think a demonc beast dies that easily?]

“I don’t know! Elaga is violent!”

Sarah sighed in relief and shouted at Elaga. At times like this, she was clearly a child.

Elaga, who was witnessing Sarah’s defiance for the first time, was greatly flustered. But this was not the time to be criticized.

Elaga angrily retorted instead.

[Violence, my foot! Where the hell are you wandering around? I told you not to leave my territory!]

The timid Sarah raised her voice.

“But Elaga said you didn’t want to save those people! I just wanted to save them!”

“[And what do you think you’re going to save with that weak body of yours! Did this white rabbit tell you they were in the south? Is that why you followed it around like a fool! Do you even know what kind of creature this is!]”

“Pomi is kind and gentle!”

[Don’t give me that kind of nonsense. Naho is only kind when he has a dark scheme in his belly!]

“Naho?”

Sarah’s eyes widened.

She had heard the name Naho before, but she didn’t know why it was mentioned here.

[Well, if it were Naho, it wouldn’t be this weak. It’s probably just a trace of its consciousness lingering. Do you even realize how worried your mother must be about you?]

“M-Mother?”

Sarah became dejected.

Leaving without even telling Susan was an inexcusable mistake.

[Just because you learned a bit of swordsmanship, do you think you’re something? A little further and you’ll be surrounded by beings who couldn’t care less about your scent or anything!]

As Sarah’s spirit was dampened, Elaga’s nagging poured down on her.

With his gaze no longer on the rabbit reeking of Naho’s aura, Helmut stared in the other direction. That was the direction Sarah had come from.

‘There must be something over there.’

When standing next to the overwhelming energy of Elaga, one’s senses became numb to the surrounding energy.

But now, separated from it, Helmut focused his senses. Something had caught the attention of his keen perception, like a spider web.

A huge energy and the presence of multiple humans.

‘Humans?’

Helmut furrowed his brow.

Yes, although it was obscured by the immense energy, that alien presence was undoubtedly human, not just a beast.

There was nothing in the Forest of Roots more foreign to the atmosphere than humans.

They were approaching this way cautiously, having sensed Elaga’s presence.

The terrifying roar just now had caused the nearby beasts to flee en masse.

‘Humans, in the Forest of Roots.’

It had been a long time since this happened. Moreover, they had managed to survive entering the Forest of Roots, where they should have died immediately. But they came from the south, accompanied by a massive energy.

Helmut thought he knew who the owner of that energy was. He had encountered it before.

‘It’s been a while.’

While curious about the circumstances, Helmut’s attention was focused elsewhere.

His heart was pounding strangely. Tension permeated his entire body.

Is this an enemy? His instincts to sense an enemy have awakened.

‘No, this is…’

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