Chapter 2: The Oath

"Brother, get up, you're going to be late!"

"What! Wow!" Hearing the sensitive word 'late', Ayton suddenly opened his eyes, and suddenly a petite Lori face was about to touch his face, and he stepped back in shock.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Ariel looked at Ayton's overreaction in confusion.

"Ah, nothing"

Ayton touched his nose, just now he thought he was going to be late for class, and now he thought he was living in a dream.

"Brother, let's go to the playground and gather, I heard that if you are late on the first day, you will be beaten badly"

"Oh, okay"

In Ayton's original cognition, there is no such concept of kindness as the dark elves, and those adults have a stinky face all day long, but today they are going to face the upper echelons of the dark elves, and he wants to see with his own eyes what those adults of the dark elves are like.

In the early morning, the Blood Moon glowed a faint red, illuminating every corner of the Dark Realm. The dark side of the city is also emerging.

After washing, the two rushed to the sacrificial square, only to find that many slaves were being escorted here, surrounded by many dark elf children of the same age as Ayton, and many dark elf mages in black robes on the left and right, holding staff in their hands and looking indifferent.

The surrounding dark elf guards had swords in their hands and a sickly bloodlust in their eyes. Among the slaves were humans, dwarves, elves, orcs, men, women and children, but they were not bound, among them there were the most humans, the elves and wings were the least, and most of them had despair in their expressions, but they all had one thing in common, that is, they were all ragged, emaciated, and the exposed skin was full of scars.

The stone slabs on the floor of the square are carved into strange patterns called the Pylora Mandala Flower, a strange flower species that grows in dark caves and is said to be highly poisonous. The roots of the pattern converge into a large pond in the center of the square.

Although there were many people in the square, the sound was unusually silent, so silent that it sent chills down the back.

Ayton suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart. At this time, a mage with a wrinkled face in the middle of the dark mage slowly walked out and said in a high tone:

"My name is Famas, and welcome to the Offering Square, where you will witness... The greatest wonder of our dark elves. ”

His expression was full of fanaticism, his scarlet eyes tinged with a bloodthirsty glow, and his staff pointed at the blood moon at the top of the cave:

"Blood Moon illuminates the entire Dark Realm, and plays a vital role in our people's future counterattack on the surface world, we must make it never fall, and dedicating your power to the Blood Moon will be the beginning of your becoming a good Dark Elf warrior, and the first carnival since you began training!

"You should cherish this opportunity and hope that you will remember this great and joyful moment. ”

Falmaston paused, and continued, "Now, kill all those slaves! Let their blood melt into the blood moon, let the blood moon shine more brightly, and the great revival of the dark elves will begin with you!"

After speaking, with a wave of the staff, the target was directly aimed at a male forest elf slave, a black dark magic entangled his whole body like a poisonous snake, and then slowly lifted into the air, he struggled hard, the bones of his whole body crackled, and his mouth shouted loudly:

"Fallen dark elves, the goddess of life will not let you go, ahh

"Hmph, lowly forest elves"

Famas's scepter suddenly flashed with black light, and a black light followed the magic into his body, and then a look of extreme pain appeared on his face. With a bang, the body of the forest elf was blown into countless pieces of flesh and blood sprinkled on the ground.

By this time, there had already been a large group of dark elf guards who threw some weapons in front of the children and left.

The children looked at each other, and although some of them might have killed someone, it was the first time they had seen such a large-scale slaughter, but soon they ran to the side of the weapon to select the right weapon, with excitement and excitement in their eyes, like children of their age seeing a playful toy.

Kill all of them unarmed?

Ayton watched this scene and felt a chill in his heart. If he kills some people who want to harm him, he will not be soft, but if he wants to kill these unarmed slaves, he will not be able to do it. After a while, the crowd next to them had gone to get their weapons, and he and Ariel were the only ones left in the large clearing around them.

Ayton hesitated, but pulled Ariel over to the weapon, picking out a thin sword. Although he was reluctant in his heart, if he and Ariel didn't go, they would definitely be killed as aliens. In order to survive, he had to do it.

Ariel had just picked up another thin long sword. Ayton immediately grabbed her sword-holding hand, looked her in the eye, and said seriously:

"Follow me, and don't kill as much as they do. ”

"Huh?

“... Let's do what I say."

"Well, good"

Although Ariel wondered why her brother didn't kill by herself, she decided that she would not be weak in the future, but she still didn't continue to ask, and picked up her sword and followed behind Ayton.

By this time, the dark elves had already arrived in front of the slave crowd.

The middle-aged human woman looked horrified, but didn't back away, as if unwilling to believe that the dark elf child, who seemed to be the size of her son, would kill someone.

"Ahhh~"

Suddenly, the woman's screams, her falling arms, and her splatters of blood mercilessly told the poor slaves that their group of dark elf children, who were only eight or nine years old, really could do it.

The blood aroused the desire of the other dark elf children, and they rushed into the crowd of slaves, screaming, screaming, and crying for a while, and the ground was covered with severed limbs and blood.

The slaves also realized that the children in front of them were not ordinary children, but the children of the dark elves, so the slaves also began to resist, they were not willing to be killed by some people who were less than ten years old, although the slaves were scrawny, scarred, and unarmed, but the emaciated camels were bigger than horses, and their height and weight were there, and they were twice as numerous as the dark elves.

And the dark elf guards next to them were just watching coldly, and they didn't have the consciousness to come forward to help at all, and after the slaves realized this, they worked together to kill several dark elves, seize their weapons, and then launched a counterattack.

Ayton walked slowly behind, but because there were too many slaves, there were always a few people who missed out in front of him running in front of him, and an old man in front of him saw Ayton and Ariel, and directly waved his fist and shouted with red eyes and shouted 'I'll fight with you'.

Ayton protected Ariel behind him, his face was flat, and he stabbed the old man in front of him in the heart with a sword.

The old man fell to the ground, his face was expressionless, and he slowly drew his long sword, and blood burst out of the arteries of the wound and stained the corners of his clothes. Ariel silently followed behind her, not making a move along the way.

Ayton didn't want blood to stain her white hands again, so let's do it for her, every time she killed someone on the way, her heart would be even colder, looking at the blood-covered people in front of her, the hideous smile, the distorted expression, and the desire to kill in her eyes.

The more Ayton looked, the more scared he became. Will I ever have to live with these crazy people? Will I become like that? Will Ariel become like that? I can't imagine it. For a moment, Ayton was in a trance.

Suddenly, he felt someone behind him knock him forward.

"Ding!" the sound of metal clashing sounded in my ears.

Ariel stood where Ayton had been, clenching her teeth and struggling to hold her sword to block a human male-slave slash.

"Damn it!"

Ayton severed the slave's sword-holding right hand with a struck in anger, spurting blood onto Ariel's clean clothes. At this time, Ariel, who was the cleanest in the room, was also dyed red.

"Ariel, how are you feeling?"

"I'm fine, brother"

But Ayton noticed that Ariel had her hands back slightly, her tiny fingers trembling slightly.

The full force of the adult human male, with Ariel's petite stature, how could it be okay. Ayton couldn't help but secretly feel annoyed, if it wasn't for his own distraction, the blow just now shouldn't have been borne by Ariel.

Living in a dark region, how can your hands not be stained with blood... Only strength can protect oneself and others.

"Ariel, stay next to me and protect yourself"

Thinking about this, Ayton, who turned around, also flashed a bloodthirsty red light in his angry eyes, and began to kill every slave in front of him with all his might, Ariel still followed behind him, silently guarding him.

Slaughter, screaming, roaring ...... And so on

I don't know how long it took, Ayton felt that the air had turned into viscous blood, his whole body was slimy, as if he had just taken a blood bath, his arms were numb, and the situation of Ariel behind him was similar, but fortunately, there were dark elves standing around.

The slaves all fell in pools of blood, their eyes full of unwillingness, anger, and hatred, and about ten of the dark elves fell to the ground. The blood on the ground flowed down the pattern to the central pool of blood.

Seeing this scene, Famas smiled with satisfaction, raised his staff, and shouted:

"Congratulations! After passing the first training, do you have fun with this killing feast, as long as you can obediently receive training and sacrifice your strength for our people, there will be more slaves on the ground for you to kill. Now the time has come for you to witness the miracle. ”

After that, the rest of the dark elf black-robed magicians chanted a spell, pointed their staff to the center of the blood pool, and a blood-red demonic magic array suddenly appeared above, and the blood on the ground was attracted by the magic array, and quickly flowed to the blood pool along the lines, and then the blood rose into a huge blood ball, and the blood ball turned into a blood-colored red light, and was finally injected into the blood moon in the sky, and the blood moon light suddenly became more shining, looking a little dazzling.

I don't know how long it took, after the ceremony was over, the dark elf children all looked at the blood moon with excitement, as if they were proud to be dark elves. Ayton stood in the middle of the crowd with a calm face, and Ariel looked at Ayton suspiciously, saying nothing.

"Now you all go back and rest, and go to the training playground at the same time tomorrow, the instructors will teach you swordsmanship and magic, don't be late, unless you want to become crippled." With a happy finish, Famas turned to leave.

After hearing this, Ayton immediately pulled Ariel and walked briskly towards his house, with a gloomy face all the way, and did not say anything.

Go back to the cave and plug the hole.

"Ariel, do you like it here," Ayton asked in a deep voice with his hands on Ariel's shoulders

"Yes," Ariel replied briskly

"Why" Ayton suddenly felt a pain in his heart

"Because my brother is here."

"What if I wasn't here?"

"Why isn't my brother here, doesn't my brother want Ariel?" Ariel was stunned for a moment, her body suddenly trembled violently, and her eyes were slightly red.

"No, no, it's just that I don't like it here, and I want to get out of here," Ayton quickly explained

"I'll go wherever my brother goes," Ariel hesitated for a moment, but said firmly.

"Even if you leave the Dark Regions, will you follow me?"

"Even if I follow you to the depths of the Trials Land, I will follow you, let alone just leave the Dark Realm" Ariel disagreed, at this time they did not know the true situation of the dark elves on the ground.

However, a firm look in the eyes, a determination not to be afraid of death. It was like a warm spring that warmed Ayton's cold heart just now.

As soon as the words fell, Ayton hugged Ariel and said softly: "Thank you, Ariel, I will definitely protect you and take you out of here safely, I promise." ”

In this dimly lit cave, the dark elf boy took the maiden and made his first vow after being reborn.