So fast?!

It's only been less than half a day since Luca left.

The little wizard with a confused expression looked at the female elf in a daze, and Lusen, who was leaning behind the door, did not squint, looking like he was facing a great enemy.

Disguised Ashamai and Peter Fasa hide in the corner with hoods on, always on their toes.

The black-haired wizard with the corners of his mouth slightly curled up glanced sideways at the female elf's obviously pretended indifferent expression.

Mentor Dalton, Judge Victor, Rutt Infinit, Edward the Night's Watch - after seeing so many "zombie faces", Loren can already easily tell who is really "expressionless", who is born with facial paralysis, and who is pretending.

"Well, since we've agreed, then we'll ......"

Just as everyone in the house was about to get up, the female elf suddenly raised her hand and stopped the gray-eyed boy who wanted to go out.

"What does that mean?" Lusan narrowed, his gaze as sharp as a blade.

"It didn't make sense, only Loren Turin was invited, and no one else. The elf replied unceremoniously:

"So, he can only go alone, and the others will stay here for the time being. ”

The crowd stopped and turned their gaze to Loren.

"Impossible!" The gray-eyed young man's face changed, and his voice became deeper and deeper: "I am the Duke's bodyguard, and I don't want to let me leave Lord Loren half a step." ”

"Really?" Leah snorted, glancing at the black-haired wizard opposite, "looking down" at Lusen, "Try it, little carrot head?"

"Or are you like some unashamed 'men', using pretense words like 'don't hit women' to pretend that you can beat me, stinky little ghost?"

Undisguised provocation.

The gray-eyed young man's face did not change, his forearms behind his back were already tense, and his temples were bruised: "You are not the first to laugh at my height, and you will not be the last, as for women, I can let you have two ...... on one foot."

"Leah, that's enough. Loren sighed softly:

"I'll go with you alone, will this be fine?"

The female elf, who ignored him, turned her head directly, as if she was very dissatisfied with the black-haired wizard who had dragged on for a long time to agree.

Under the gaze of the gray-eyed young man with an iron face, the female elf walked out of the door with a helpless Loren like a victor.

"Leah!"

Inside the room, the call of the little wizard dragged the female elf's footsteps.

Loren looked at the female elf in amazement, and found that her shoulders were trembling slightly with her back to the door, as if she was desperately trying to restrain her emotions.

"Tell me, Leah. Aine didn't notice this, stared at the back of the female elf, and said softly, "You won't hurt Loren, will you?"

It was silent for half a minute, as if time had frozen.

Not only the black-haired wizard was now, but even Peter and Lusen were faintly aware that something was not right.

Haringvan Ashamai, who hid his gaze under the brim of his hood, looked at his apprentice with amusement, and then looked at the female elf and the black-haired wizard with a blank face outside the door, and curled the corners of his mouth as if remembering some past events.

"Rest assured, Ain, if I want to kill this liar... The Duke," said the elf, as if gritting her teeth, "I must have stabbed him to death with a spear in front of you!"

As the words fell, Leah walked away as if she was in a hurry, as if she was panicked.

Loren, who looked ignorant, could only shake his head and follow closely behind her.

Compared to the scene in his memory, the Morning Star Forest in front of him was much more slaughtered.

An elven girl who didn't clean up an orchard, a mushroom, a young samurai who practiced her skills among the branches... The settlement was empty, and only the war dancers could be seen patrolling around.

There are no women and children, old people and children, and even women are very few... Except for this one that is ahead of itself.

Where have they all gone?

"What are you looking at?" The female elf, who noticed the "absent-mindedness" of the person behind her, turned around angrily and snorted coldly.

"Oh, nothing. Immediately turning around, a smile appeared on the black-haired wizard's face: "I'm just waiting, waiting for when you'll tell me." ”

"Tell you what?"

"Tell me, why did you lie to me to come out. ”

“......”

"You're too anxious, Leah. Loren smiled undiminishedly, looking at the female elf with an obvious stiff expression: "Luca has just left for less than half a day, if I am a little more concealed if you want to do it, as long as you have to wait until the evening." ”

The moon is dark and the wind is high, so it's good... Ahem, ahem.

"It doesn't matter, I didn't intend to hide it from you anyway. ”

Although she said it very frankly, the female elf did not forget to observe her surroundings vigilantly, and her voice was so small that only the big liar behind her could hear it:

"You really shouldn't have come at this time, Loren. ”

The black-haired wizard sighed tiredly, "You're not the first to say this. ”

"Oh, it seems that there is more than one—who else cares about you so much besides Ain?" the female elf raised her eyebrows, still angrily asked:

"That female relative who you 'inherited' together when you inherited the family property?"

"Poof————!!!!"

Loren almost squirted out.

Ruben Fried... He really has the urge to strangle this big-mouthed, open-mouthed guy now!

The elf tilted her head, her emerald green eyes seemed to be still looking at the black-haired wizard, her expression full of suspicion.

"Let's get straight to the point, Leah. Holding back the desire to roll his eyes, the black-haired wizard sighed and said softly, "What is the purpose of calling me out alone?"

"There's no why, it's just for you to hurry up and get out of here, get back to your Byrne and that... Charlotte's side!" The elf seemed to think for a long time before she remembered the name that Leven had said:

"The current Morning Star Forest is not the place you should be, it has nothing to do with you, and the situation here is not something you can change, understand-don't be presumptuous, you can't do anything!"

Hasty words, almost incoherent.

"Not necessarily, right?" Loren tugged at the corners of his mouth, looking at her anxious expression: "The battle of the Eternal Night Forest, the sewers of Ebolden... Every time someone tells me that you're killing yourself, and then what?"

The female elf did not contradict him this time, but stopped and looked around vigilantly.

Well?

This is finally going to tell me... Belch?!

Before the black-haired wizard could laugh, Leah grabbed her collar and knocked her whole body up against the wall of the wooden house behind her.

"One of the things I hate most about you is your inexplicable self-confidence. The female elf flipped her right wrist, and the dagger pressed against his jaw:

"Listen to me, go back and tell your gang and Ain and them now, you didn't talk to our elders, and then go back to your Byrne and that Charlotte, and don't come back for the rest of your life!"

"Yes, but you have to tell me what happened. The smiling Loren and the female elf looked at each other, still not letting go: "Or, at least give me a reason, right?"

"Just one, I don't want to see you again!" the vicious Lia's eyes widened, and the dagger in her hand thrust hard.

It's as unreasonable as ever......

"Then you should always know that if I return in vain, the next step will not be the mission, but the army of the Empire. Loren's expression became serious:

"You've been to Ebolden, you've seen with your own eyes how the Empire's legions breached the city gates, how the demon dragon with wings spread its wings tore monsters to pieces, and how the soldiers in armor turned half of the city into a sea of corpses and blood!"

"It's just a legion, a dragon - tell me, Leah, do you really want those scenes to play out again in the Morning Star Forest, in the east, and in the entire Ancient Wood Forest?!"

The female elf was shocked, and the dagger in her hand almost fell to the ground.

"Do you really want to see the ancient wood forest burned to ashes in the sea of corpses and blood?!" Loren stared at her deadly, "If you don't want to, tell me why—because I'm here to try to prevent this from happening." ”

"I don't want something I couldn't stop happening again!"

The clenched female elf stared at him, her hand trembling uncontrollably.

After five seconds of staring at each other, she finally lowered her head.

"It's useless, it's too late......" Liya muttered in a low voice, her voice carrying unspeakable pain: "It's too late, you're too late......"

"What's too late?!"

The black-haired wizard can feel that he is about to find the truth!

But Leah just shook her head desperately, refusing to speak, not even looking up at him—but the more she did, the more convinced Loren was that she was getting closer to the answer.

He was prepared to take a small risk.

"Isn't it... Something to do with an elf from the Azores?"

At that moment, Loren could clearly feel the dagger in his jaw, almost piercing his throat!

Sure enough, I guessed it right.

The black-haired wizard's expression remained unchanged, but his mind kept thinking about the connection between the two things.

Three years ago, a group of Azorean elves destroyed the Empire's ocean-going fleet;

Three years later, a ship from the Kingdom of the Azores appeared along the coastline of the empire, in the north of the Gumber Forest.

Where is the convergence point between the two things?

What is it, what is it that I have inadvertently overlooked, and what is it that I don't know yet?

From the mouth of Harlem Van Ashamai, it is known that at least at the beginning of the eleventh generation, the elves knew nothing about the Empire, or at best, like the Empire, knew that there was such a country.

What kind of earth-shaking changes have occurred in the middle that have begun to make the elves in the west of the Misty Sea begin to be interested in the Sakran Empire?

"I don't want to interfere in the affairs of the elves, this is your land, and it is your freedom to do whatever you want, I have come to prevent a catastrophe, a catastrophe that should not have happened... Whether it's the Ancient Wood Forest or the Deep Grove, Lothair or the Empire, I must ......"

"Don't ask again!"

The female elf interrupted him sharply.

"Don't ask, don't ask again... I won't say it, I, I can't say it. Leah, who raised her head tremblingly, had a somewhat sad expression: "I am... Morningstar Forest, the war dancer of the Ancient Wood Forest, I, I can't... betraying their own compatriots. ”

As the words fell, she withdrew her dagger and turned her back to Loren, no longer facing his eyes.

The black-haired wizard sighed.

Leah... Isn't that just telling me that's what happened?

Loren felt like he could already guess seven or eight points.

Seal off the Ancient Wood Forest, cut off contact with the Deep Forest Fort and even the outside world, and gradually integrate from the scattered settlements into one Ancient Wood Forest Elf......

Everything that has happened in the past six months has a lot to do with the Azorean elves!

Wait a minute.

Loren, who was stunned, suddenly guessed something, and his expression froze.

This matter, Eckhart II of the Heavenly Dome... Does he know?

The shipwreck of the ocean-going fleet, the sudden appearance of the Azorean elven ships, and the unusual movements of the Lothair border and the Oldwood Forest—if he knew all of this, then he had to make his mission for more than just because he "knew the elves of the Oldwood Forest very well".

Eckhart II... He didn't want to use his own hand to provoke the elves of the ancient wood forest, and turn against the elves from the Azorean kingdom?!

"Hey, Loren, you... Why this expression. ”

Sensing the black-haired wizard's pale face and trance-like eyes, Liya frowned: "What kind of crooked thoughts are you knowing? Again, die, I will never tell you!"

"You're going to stay with that Charlotte, your kids, and Ain, and they're going to stay in that place called Byrne, and never come back!"

"......" Loren Turin.

He really wanted to do it now, he wanted to think very much, especially to strangle some big, nonsense Lord Earl of Deep Woodburg!

Just when the black-haired wizard resisted the urge to roll his eyes, and was about to explain to the female elf that these were all Ruwen's nonsense, and he was still innocent, Luca's voice came from behind him.

"Lord Loren, I've kept you waiting. ”

The female elf who heard the sound immediately turned her head, and couldn't help but look at the middle-aged elf with a gentle face in panic, and looked at the two of them with her hands behind her back, her expression was very calm.

"Luca?!"

The female elf swallowed hard, and subconsciously took half a step back towards the black-haired wizard.

Apparently... Although she had already taken over the position of the leader of the Morning Star Forest War Dancers from the other party, Liya would still instinctively be in awe of the other party, and even faintly afraid.

"I—I'm not ......"

"Excuse me, Leah. Lukka didn't say much, and glanced at her gently: "It's okay to get here, I'll take care of the rest." ”

The female elf, who didn't dare to say anything, could only stand aside, her eyes constantly wandering between the two.

"Regarding your proposal, the elders of the Morning Star Forest have decided to agree to you after discussion. Lukka turned his gaze to the black-haired wizard again: "If you want, you can go now." ”

"Where?" asked Loren casually.

"Settlements in the North. Luca replied:

"Foggy Moon Court. ”