Jua Orez, Mercenary Guild.

Venegia was intently fiddling with a small delicate box in her hand, the size of a palm, with dots on the surface.

Venagia held a magnifying glass in her hand, and her gaze swept over the surface of the box inch by inch, even at every star.

Venigia's door was suddenly pushed open, "Winnie, what are you studying?"

Winnie exclaimed, and the small wooden box in her hand fell to the ground. Winnie leaned over to pick it up, and her other hand ran to the box at the same time.

Winnie looked up, and what appeared in front of her was Arthur's face, and the small box that fell on the ground was the small box of celestial star wood that Arthur gave her back then, and the scene was extremely embarrassing.

Arthur, who straightened up, looked at Winnie with a smile, "Didn't you say you lost it?"

Winnie was stunned for a moment before stammering, "Ah, I accidentally turned it out when I was packing up my old things that day, and before I could tell you, you ran over by yourself." ”

Arthur held out his hand directly to Winnie.

Winnie reluctantly slapped the starwood box into Arthur's hand.

Arthur also inspected inch by inch as Vinnie had done before.

"Don't bother, I've checked it countless times before, and I almost smashed the box and there was no clue. Winnie's words inadvertently exposed her previous lies.

Arthur looked up and glared at her. However, as Winnie said, there was no clue to be found in this box. Originally, there should have been a craftsman's mark on the side of the inner corner of the box, but that mark was artificially erased.

Arthur sighed helplessly and put the box away directly, but this clue was finally broken.

Arthur shook his head, turned and prepared to leave.

"Well, wait, why did you come to me this time?"

"Originally, I wanted to tell you about my experience in the past six months and the mystery of the Giant's curse, and by the way, see if you have any news about the Cloud Firm, but I'm not in the mood now, let's talk about it next time. ”

"Don't go!"

Arthur was in no mood to pay attention to Venicia at all, and pushed the door straight out.

"Don't you really want to know anything else about that little box?"

Arthur, who had already walked out, reappeared in front of Winnie in the blink of an eye, "What clues did you find in this?"

Winnie looked at Arthur with a smile, "Are you in the mood now?"

Arthur didn't dare to offend her at this time, so he nodded busily and said, "I'm in a good mood now, I'll tell you anything you want to know." ”

"Okay, I'm not going to tease you. No clues can be found from the box itself, but two things are very strange. ”

"Those two?"

"One is that my uncle can't even remember the physical characteristics of the client, and as the president of the mercenary branch, this is almost impossible. The second is that the artisan mark in this small box has been erased, and few people in other races know about the elf mark except for the elves themselves. ”

"But what does that mean?" Arthur was still puzzled.

"If we make a bold guess, it all makes sense. If the task client is a high-level elf, he will naturally erase his own mark, and the spirit magic of the elf can unconsciously affect my uncle. ”

"You say the mission client might be an elf?" Arthur was stunned by Venegia's speculation.

"It's just speculation, after all, only elves can master spiritual magic among the known intelligent races, and there may also be summoning spiritual magic involved in dark magic, but it is difficult to leave no traces. ”

"I just don't understand how the elves, who have always hated war, could get involved in a conspiracy related to the Divine Judgment, and what are their motives?"

"You've always hated war, it seems that you know too little about the elves!" Winnie said, pulling out a large thick book from under the table, "This is the general history of the elves, do you know who the most powerful race was before the establishment of the Empire of Light?"

"Aren't they orcs?"

"Wrong, although those irascible orcs have strong individual combat power, they have always been in constant internal friction, and a unified orc kingdom has never been established in history. Before the rise of the Bright Empire, the most powerful force in the continent was the Elven Empire established by the Elven Race, an empire that lasted for nearly 10,000 years. Half of the land of Kildan, Locke, Rouge, and Norman belonged to the elves, while Isaac's land belonged to the orcs. ”

Arthur really didn't know this history, so he couldn't help but ask, "Then why did the Elven Empire decline?"

"In addition to Garanlot's personal factors, there is the sheer size of the Terrans and their brutal, greedy nature. Elves are stronger than Terrans in terms of martial arts, magic, wisdom and technical talents, and the only weakness is fertility. The elves only have a higher fertility rate than dragons and giants, and are even inferior to dwarves, so the overall strength of the race is gradually surpassed by the orcs and humans. From the most powerful empire on the continent to the southeastern corner of the continent, from the nobles who rule the human race and the orcs to being captured as slaves by the nobles of these two races, in exchange for you being the queen or elder of the elven race, what will you do?"

Arthur was stopped by Winnie, he did know too little about the elves, and a few years ago he even knew about the existence of ice elves and dark elves.

"How do you know so much?"

Winnie pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose and smiled, "Research and exploration, the truth of history will never be truly buried, and there will always be some clues left in some inadvertent places." ”

Arthur was stunned for a moment, and then slowly shook his head again, "Even if your speculation is correct, this clue is broken, the scope of the target is too large, even if we can go to the elven kingdom, there is no way to continue to investigate." ”

"Is there a place you'd like to visit?"

"Does it have anything to do with the clues?"

"On the surface, it has nothing to do with this matter, but it has something to do with the Elven Empire back then. Winnie was worried about Arthur's refusal, and quickly added, "History always leaves clues in some inadvertent places. ”

Arthur smiled, he really didn't have anything else to do during his return to Huaorez except for cultivation, so he simply agreed, "Where are you going to let me go?"

"Grievance Forest, and it's not you, it's us!" Winnie corrected.

"What is that place? I can't guarantee your absolute safety if you go along. Arthur knew that Winnie's cultivation talent was average, and she was still only a junior magician.

"The Forest of Grievances is a remnant of an ancient battlefield, the last fortress of the Elven Kingdom, and the fiercest battle between the Terrans and the Elves, after the defeat of the Elves, they completely retreated into the Elven Forest. There's no danger there, even Warcraft are very rare, so you don't have to worry about my safety. ”

"Nearly a thousand years have passed, what can you find in the ruins of an ancient battlefield?" Arthur didn't quite understand what Winnie was thinking.

"Go ahead, you should take it as a trip to relax. ”

But is it really just a tour?