Ludeus's eyes were closed for a few seconds as flames appeared all around his body before he unleashed a ring of fire that covered around 600 meters front, back, and the sides of the plain we were on. It wasn't much, but the heat from the fire was stopping snow from gathering on the ground, and melting the one on the ground at the same time, he created three such rings and sat down on the ground after all the snow melted around us, he then took a meditative position, and all I could do was wait and watch. It took thirty minutes to melt all of the snow without attracting attention. The fire rings continued to stay active as Ludeus got up and looked around before frowning and saying: "There are no ruins, but they shouldn't know about the secret chamber that I left. You guys wait here, I will be back shortly, do notify me if anyone comes through." Ludeus disappeared, leaving me and Maria alone. It was an awkward silence that covered both of us, the snow continued to pour down from th

The guards guided me towards the underground city, we entered an alleyway that led us to a tunnel that went straight down, and with some magic, we arrived there in seconds.The place was quite beautiful, slightly dark, but well illuminated by some rocks that were inserted in the ceilings above us, from a distance I could see that the rocks had some light elementals that moved slightly inside them from time to time.The streets were full of people that had red hair, long ears, and immense amounts of energy in their bodies. The underground city was rather big as well, but all you could see were blood elves, meaning that the other humanized elves that lived below must have been evacuated to the surface of the city above.The guards left me there, but before they left they gave me some instructions:"You are not allowed to leave for three weeks. You and your people are in quarantine, so we can observe your behavior, and make sure the rumors we have heard about you aren't true, we don't wa

As I was being dragged around, people started to look at us, whispering to each other, and wondering what Nua's mother was doing with me, considering she was married.People loved to gossip, regardless of race, and it didn't take much time for some rumors to spread.But it wasn't like I cared, nor did Nua's mother.As we made our way through the city, we arrived at the biggest building that could be found around.It was a tower, ten meters tall. It was decorated with some big jewels on every floor on the outside, and the jewels in question were flickering with elemental light that was helpful to those who trained, rested, or simply lived inside the tower.This was a special location for the underground city, and I was quite surprised the humanized elves parted with this place so easily. Did the jewels have other functions that I couldn't decipher at first glance?My questions had to wait as we appeared at the entrance of the tower where Nua's mother knocked three times before waiting

When I arrived back at Nua's home, I was greeted by Nua's father, who approached me slowly, and then patted my shoulder before saying:"Hey there, Minato. I heard quite a lot of gossip about you and my wife. You didn't even taste the daughter, and you want the mother now?!"However, his words came with a joking tone as there was no malice in his eyes, it was quite obvious he didn't put the gossip into his heart, but he still had the time to joke around about it.He was a funny guy, I chuckled awkwardly and shook my head, making him laugh as he said:"Nua is inside. she said that if you are hungry, she will provide you with more blood."I nodded at him and decided to drink some more of her blood. It would be needed to get more memories about the blood elf tribe without having to ask around. That would lead to my cover being blown.I went inside the house as the father decided to leave us alone, her mother was nowhere in sight as we were the only ones in the house.Oh, they were already

The guards listened to me and decided to come to my house a few days later, just as I instructed them.It was most likely that they would report what happened to the higher-ups, but they would see it as an opportunity to use the blood elves' infighting to get rid of them!It was hard to sleep with a wolf as your neighbor, the rumors about the blood elves' hunger and instability made them enemy number one in the humanized elves' eyes, combined with the fact that they became more and more distrusting, paranoid and hateful as they accepted the human lifestyle made them as unstable as the blood elves!The humanized elves accepting human nature was the worst thing that could happen to the elf race, but it was a very good thing for me!I found an empty house and decided to rest there, sometimes doing simple shadow-boxing matches with imaginary opponents to keep my wits sharp, other times experimenting with the blood-hardening technique.I would need to become quite proficient with it to con