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
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
Even though he wasn't fully conscious during this 'rage mode' he was using, Zichi could still follow me around and recognize me.Did I strike such an intimate cord to the point his hatred was this intense?Despite his recognition, he was still as uncontrollable as ever, so even though he could follow me around, that didn't mean he didn't create mass destruction everywhere he went by. It got to the point that the training troops of the blood elf tribe had to be summoned to retrain him, but as soon as they arrived, the humanized elves' reinforcement came, and they started fighting with the blood elf's troops!It was pandemonium, the children were crying, and the elderly were shaking as they tried to protect their grandsons and granddaughters.The able-bodied men tried to fight it off with the humanized elves while protecting their weaker compatriots, the troops were trying to take the fights away from the living areas, but the humanized elves didn't care!They used elemental magic combi