I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

Taking the capital of the Kingdom of Paris as an example, at its peak, it had a population of only one million, and this included the number of towns surrounding the capital. For an ordinary city, if it has hundreds of thousands of permanent residents, it is already quite prosperous. With such a population as the base, while ensuring the stability of the basic economy, a country can only have an army of one million people in peacetime. In fact, the Kingdom of Paris now has a total of only hundreds of thousands of regular soldiers, and the rest are reserve forces such as militias that are not presentable. Therefore, Mitis's achievements can definitely be said to be admirable.

"Eh... I always thought it was pretty ordinary. I should have asked the king for more gold coins before leaving."

Biting her lips angrily, regret appeared on Mitis's face.

After hearing Ruthie's explanation, Ella couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. She had learned about this world from books. According to the description, this planet was at least twice the size of the Earth, but under such a premise, the number of countries and population was not as large as she had imagined.

"Maybe the information is wrong. Next time I have the chance, I'll transform into a Loli God and increase 'Advanced Teleportation' to its maximum distance. I'll measure just how big this planet is. Maybe I'll even discover a new world like Cobo did."

Thinking of this, Ella felt eager to try it out. Of course, this measurement method was too outrageous. Even if she discovered a new continent, Ella planned to only tell her companions - it would be terrible if telling others caused a war between continents.

While thinking about this in her heart, Ella suddenly felt something flying past her eyes. When she came to her senses, she found that it was Angelini waving in front of her.

"What is Ella thinking?"

"Eh? Ah, sorry, sorry. I was wondering if we could clear out the Black Predators in the City of the Dead. That way, when the priests from the Kingdom of Uriel arrive again, they can directly purify these poor undead."

"Can't you purify it, Senior?"

"As for me, I'm a little hesitant...even though I know I'm helping them."

"Well, since Ella-chan has a way to purify the souls in a short period of time, I have no objection. However, it's best not to let the outside world know. Even though Ella-chan is now a demon king, there's no guarantee that someone won't find Ella-chan and ask her to go to some remote place to purify the undead. It would be fine if those people simply left after being rejected, but it would be annoying if they, from a saint's perspective, criticized Ella-chan for not helping when she had the ability to solve the problem."

Iris frowned and warned Ella, and Ella nodded.

"Yeah, I'll pay attention."

After saying this, Ella glanced at the terrain search and confirmed her current location - she was not far from the "contaminated core". Ella subconsciously raised her head and saw the five-story City Lord's Mansion right in front of her. Black predators were flowing down the wall from the windows on the roof.

Probably because it is close to the core, after arriving here, the concentration of black predators becomes more viscous, and the purification difficulty is also higher. Of course, when I say higher, it is actually just to cast the "Light Flame" one more time. The place covered by the golden red light will be purified in just a few seconds, revealing the original khaki color of the wall below.

Ella stopped.

"We're already here."

"Looking at the current situation, the so-called core should be inside, right?"

Iris looked up at the top floor where black predators were pouring out.

"Well, anyway, use 'Fly' to get close to the room on the fifth floor. Once 'Light Flame' has cleansed the black predators inside, fly directly into the room through the window."

No one objected, and everyone quickly flew to the fifth floor of the room. As if sensing what everyone was going to do next, the black predator on the ground suddenly flew into the air, as if someone had thrown a huge rock into a deep pool, and a huge black wave rushed towards everyone without warning.

"Tsk, are these guys intelligent?"

"They're living creatures. They must have sensed us approaching their core, so they went berserk. I'll leave it to Iris to restrain them. I'll try to purify the room as quickly as possible."

"I should think about collecting payment from Ella-chan."

"We'll talk about that later, 'Light Flame'."

If someone looked down from mid-air, they would find that due to the actions of Ella and her group, all the black predators in the city took off into the air and gathered towards Ella like a black cloud. Ella and her group were surrounded by the tide of black predators in a black sphere. Even Ella's "flame" could not break through the wall composed of dense insects that was dozens of meters thick. It could only force the black predators back to a position about three meters away from the crowd, forming a constantly wriggling black ball.

This claustrophobic feeling made everyone frown. Although they were not panicked due to Camisia's presence, they still felt a little nervous when faced with such a situation.

"Ella said they were living creatures. Could they be some kind of monster? And yet they cover the entire city..."

"No, they're just tiny bugs."

“…It’s actually a bug.”

Feeling disgusted, Mitis smacked her lips.

"Miss Ella, would you like to use Hela?"

"No, just leave it to me."

Ella, who also felt disgusted by the wriggling insects, put away the Pestle of Heavenly Punishment and switched to the Fire Arrow, which stored a large amount of magic power.

"Just use the arrow of fire—"

"—[Reverse Cross Thunder]."

Boom boom boom! ! !

It was as if an electric current ran through her body, and the dazzling lightning that stung her skin suddenly separated the sphere formed by the black predator. It was followed by violent thunder and several consecutive lightning bolts. In just a moment, the sphere formed by the black predator disappeared, and the falling ashes were blocked by Ella's "magic shield".

Before Ella used her magic, Iris had already chanted the area magic. Although the black predators were still flying towards the crowd, "Reverse Cross Lightning" was a continuous magic, and the black predators could only dissipate one after another under the lightning like moths to a flame.

Elise shrugged.

"Didn't we agree beforehand? I'll take care of any black predators that come charging at me."

"Hmm...Okay, then, next is the room."

Shrinking her neck in fear of Iris's attack magic, Ella raised the arrow of fire and aimed it at the fifth floor where the core was located.

Flame

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This is a spacious space of about 30 square meters. Apart from the severely weathered desk, the only signs in the house are the tiles on the floor where the city lord once handled government affairs. Perhaps because it has been covered by black predators for a long time, the walls have a yellowish-brown color that is not appropriate for stones. There is no other light source in the entire room except the light source created by Ella - due to the constant influx of black predators, the windows and doors are blocked by Iris with "ice walls".

After entering this purified space, everyone's eyes were all directed to the right side of the window, where a desk was placed. There stood a pitch-black object that looked like an enlarged magic core. However, what made people feel sick from the bottom of their hearts was that the magic core that occupied half of the room was beating like an animal's heart, and every time it contracted, it would squeeze out countless black predators.

Even the most stable Camisia subconsciously frowned at this disgusting thing.

"Is this the contaminated core..."

"It seems like it's the source of the Black Predator."

But what surprised Ella was that the terrain search showed that the Forest Fairy was located in the center of the polluted core. Coupled with the Forest Fairy's constantly increasing magic power and HP, it seemed as if the core was absorbing the Forest Fairy's power to produce the Black Predator.

"Little Ella, they're coming!"

Pointing at the black predator coming towards her, Angeline turned around and shouted at Ella.

Ella began to add strengthening magic to Angeline.

"I'll deal with the black predator. Can Angeline break the core? The core itself isn't very aggressive."

"no problem."

And the fact was just as Ella said. After Ella used the flame to eliminate the black predator, Angeline easily used the giant sickle to cut a gap in the core. Black liquid immediately spurted out from it, like strong acid, and fell to the ground with an unpleasant hissing sound.

And at this moment, a golden fairy, only the size of a palm, with dragonfly wings behind it, struggled to crawl out. Although there were large and small gaps on its wings, its movements were still full of energy.

"Your Majesty the Princess."

Camisia cautiously stopped Ella behind her.

Ella pressed her hand down on Camisia.

"It's okay, she doesn't have any offensive magic."

The Forest Fairy's skill column only had the words "Level Up·Lv1" written on it.

As if familiar with the environment, the forest fairy, who looked like a miniature elf, flapped its wings and hovered in the air, looking around. When its eyes fell on Ella and her group, its golden eyes suddenly lit up, and it flew tremblingly in front of everyone and spoke with an expectant expression.

"If you eat my wings, you can level up by 1!"

Chapter 34: Forest Fairy

"If you eat my wings, you can level up by 1!"

“That’s amazing…”

"No, no, this isn't the time to discuss whether or not I'm powerful."

Angelica's praise made Ella unable to help but complain. Although she still didn't know the ins and outs of the matter, it was certain that plucking the fairy's wings must be very curious.

As if she hadn't heard Ella's words, the fairy puffed out her chest proudly.

"I'm a reward item created by my master. My purpose is to give wings that absorb energy to those who meet me. Even if they're eaten, they're gone. But leveling up is the purpose of my existence."

"Putting that aside, why are you imprisoned in the core?"

"Eh? You mean the one that wanted to devour me? It was originally created with me, to protect the heart of this city, but after this city experienced two massacres and absorbed the people's resentment, it became like this. While I was imprisoned in here, I kept looking forward every day. Although it was sometimes difficult, I tried my best to avoid being eaten and stay alive."

While speaking, the fairy opened its eyes wide and acted very energetic, but combined with its previous words and the wings that were corroded with several holes of various sizes, Ella felt sympathy for it.

“Hmm…”

Seeing Ella's silence, the fairy clenched her fists and placed them under her chin, looking very pitiful.

"Are you going to pluck my wings even though this is the case?"

"He said he would give it to us before."

"Iris is such a heartless woman..."

Mitis, who was as reluctant as Ella, couldn't help but murmur.

Iris's words were quickly answered, and the elf returned to its original expectant expression, as if its previous pity was just an act.

"Sorry, sorry. What I said just now was an instruction from my master a long time ago. It said that when the destined person hesitated, I should use a sympathetic statement. Um... I remember it said 'to pinch him' or something like that. I think as long as I give you the wings, my mission will be completed."

"Pinch him..."

Hearing this word, Ella couldn't help but think that this must be a prank by a time traveler in the past, or perhaps something made by the Holy Son of the Kingdom of Kumheim. Thinking of this, Ella looked back at her companions. Except for Camisia and Iris, everyone else looked uninterested, and didn't seem to care about the method of upgrading by eating wings.

Although it was very curious to her, the common sense in the two worlds was different. In this world, eating wings to level up might be a normal thing. To be on the safe side, Ella chose to ask Camisia, who was the most difficult to level up among the group.

"Does Camisia need it?"

"My apologies, Princess. I was only wondering about the creator and the underlying principles. I had no intention of plucking the fairy lady's wings."

"Where's Elise?"

"I'm like Camisia, and I'm skeptical about the idea of ​​leveling up by eating wings."

"That's too much! I'm telling the truth!"

Iris's suspicion made the fairy angrily wave her fists and shout, but considering her palm-sized body, she looked cute.

"So, no one here has that thought."

Ella looked around at her companions, and after confirming that no one wanted to use the Forest Fairy to upgrade, she bowed slightly to the Forest Fairy.

"Although we appreciate your kindness, we have no intention of plucking your wings, so please live well."

"Hey, you really don't want it? That's a treasure that can level up, you know?"

"Well, if Miss Fairy wants to leave here, you can come with us."

Ella's words made the fairy pause for a second. He stared into Ella's eyes, and after a moment of silence, he sighed softly.

"I understand. In that case, I'll give you another gift—hehe!"

The forest fairy flying in the air made a gesture of throwing something forward, and countless golden light particles suddenly fell from its hands, and finally gathered on Ella who was standing in the front.

It was like soaking in a hot spring, and the warm feeling spread from the heart to the whole body. However, this warmth only lasted for less than three seconds before disappearing, and the forest fairy seemed to have lost its strength. It flew crookedly to Ella's shoulder and lay there gasping for breath.

"Huh, huh, it really consumes a lot of energy."

"Eh? Level up two levels?"

Because the Forest Fairy only had the skill "Level Up: Lv. 1," Ella subconsciously glanced at her level bar and saw that she had gone from level 30 to level 32.

Still maintaining the posture of lying on Ella's shoulder, the forest fairy let out a long breath.

"That's right. This is the energy I've accumulated since I was born. Don't expect me to use it a second time. Even if I eat its wings, it won't have any effect."

The Forest Fairy pulled the wings full of holes in front of her body and showed them to Ella. Just as the Forest Fairy said, the wings that were originally full of gold were now just an ordinary transparent color.

Ella couldn't help feeling embarrassed.

"But……"

She didn't need to upgrade these two levels at all. Her companions who were having difficulty upgrading needed it more than she did. However, things had already happened and there was no point in regretting it. Ella could only look at her companions behind her with an apologetic look. However, apart from curiosity and surprise, no one showed any other emotions.

[After we leave here, please apologize.]

After making this decision in her mind, Ella extended her finger towards the forest fairy lying on her shoulder. Since forest fairies belong to the category of living creatures, healing magic should be able to work.

『Elementary Healing Technique』

Visibly, the Forest Fairy's dragonfly-like transparent wings returned to their full form, reflecting light.

"Eh? Your wings have become more beautiful?"

"Well, no matter what, we can't let Miss Fairy stay in the state she was in just now."

Very happily, the fairy flapped its wings and flew around the room. After about a minute, the forest fairy flapped its wings again and returned to Ella.