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 undead elf's words entered my ears:"We have an army consisting of rangers that number in the hundreds of thousands, foot soldiers approximately three hundred thousand, mages fifty thousand, summoners fifty thousand."The army made up around seven hundred and fifty thousand in total, which wasn't a lot considering the human armies were way bigger, what I saw on the battlefield was only a fraction of the Churches' strength as they were most likely conspiring something at that location, which wasn't related to Ludeus. However, since Ludeus didn't make a fuss about it, it most likely wasn't very important.However, even though the number wasn't even one million, they all should be way stronger, making up for the lacking numbers, quality over quantity.I wasn't familiar with the abilities of bowmen and mages aside from necromancers, but I wasn't here to destroy the whole elven realm by myself. I was only preparing them for what was to come, weakening and confusing them.The undead was
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
After we made the promise, the dad waved at us and said:"Let's get in. I guess you are quite tired after your journey to the capital, right, son?"I nodded and made myself look a little bit weary as I said:"It's been a long trip from our home to this new place, and I had to sleep less due to possible ambushes from the dark elves' ambushers and assassins."The father looked at me with pity in his eyes as he patted my shoulder and said:"Go inside and sleep, son. You deserve it since you covered our back to escape."I nodded and entered the house along with Nua. The mother, who resembled Nua in all aspects while having a slightly more mature charm came to us from what seemed to be the library.She also had glasses on her face, just like the father. She wore a green dress that covered her whole body, not revealing any bit of skin.She had a book in her hands which she looked up from as she said:"Nua. And this should be that young man that was fortunate enough to survive the druids' pu
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
All five elders were looking at me while Sikaw waited on the side.I made myself look as humble as possible as I started telling them what had 'happened':"I was making my way to the border of our forest after I had volunteered to be one of the people that remain back to stop the pursuing assassins when I encountered one of the dark elves' scouts, I was able to make short work of them after I used the blood hardening ability to clog their arteries briefly before killing them in one go."After that, I moved away from the forest, making my way through a plain where I met a group of assassins that almost claimed my life, I won't go into details about this fight as it would look too trivial to your highnesses, but in the end, I was able to escape with my life while also delaying the assassins from catching up to the civilians.""I was able to gather some information about the dark elves, but I'm not sure if it's news for the elders."One of the burly male elders said with an annoyed tone:
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
Narwa had just finished the story when her husband walked in, seeing us talking to each other with no Nuwa in sight made him understand that she got quite exhausted after our 'actions'.He made a serious expression as he wanted to listen to the conversation, but it had already finished."What have you two been talking about?"Narwa looked at her husband and then told him that she had informed me about Nuwa's situation."Oh, so now you know why she had chosen you this quickly?"I nodded, and responded:"It seems like she is on the rebound after losing her former boyfriend, and she is now leaning on me for support because I'm one of the survivors, she is most likely projecting his image over mine."Narwa's eyes widened as she listened to my logical and mature response. Even though I was young, that didn't mean the bandits didn't teach me how to seduce, it all came in the same pack with acting!Getting a heartbroken woman on the rebound was rather easy, but it wasn't going to be a long o