Chapter Twenty-Eight: Departure and Parting
Looking at Nelia's eyes, Dai Lin couldn't help but raise his hand and took the initiative to put it on Nelia's hand, and Nelia, whose smile became more gentle, pulled Dai Lin into her arms and hugged her.
Dai Lin did not have any resistance to Nelia's embrace, but felt that Nelia's hug was very secure, closed his eyes and smelled the scent of grass on Nelia's body, and felt the warmth that Nelia gave him.
Not far away, Ino was hiding behind the wooden sofa and observed, the dull hair on her head swaying back and forth, although she didn't know much about what Nelia and Dalin were doing now, but her intuition told her that she definitely couldn't disturb the two of them now.
Curled up behind the sofa and looked at the picture in front of him, but his stomach made a loud "grunt" sound, which immediately attracted the attention of Nelia and Dalin, and they looked at each other for a moment, and a sense of teaching a bad child appeared in Nelia's mind.
"Ahem...... Let's cook first. As she spoke, Neria looked at Dalin, who blushed and replied, "Well, okay, I'll go and prepare." Then he hurriedly turned and left.
Looking at the figure of Dai Lin leaving with doting eyes, Nelia smiled and sighed, then turned her head and looked at Eno who was hiding behind the sofa and secretly observing, Nelia took out an attribute fruit and bent down and said, "Eno, come here, eat first to fill your stomach." ”
On the other side...... In the elven settlement inside the forest, an elven girl who had just finished patrolling the woods walked into the hall, and the elven girl with a longbow on her back walked straight through the elves on both sides of the room, and her eyes looked directly at the old elf sitting on the innermost chair in the hall.
Facing the elven patriarch with a wrinkled face, the elven girl knelt down and asked, "Patriarch, I don't know what to do with me?" ”
The elven patriarch opened his eyes slightly, his gray eyes had long been blind, but he still sat up straight and looked at the elven girl, and the old voice said "Kati...... My granddaughter ......"
The girl immediately raised her head, nervously, she had never heard her grandfather call herself "granddaughter" in the presence of such elders, and uneasy emotions filled her heart.
"Katy...... Come here...... Elf Patriarch stretched out his hand, and the Elf Girl quickly got up and held the Elf Patriarch's hand.
After feeling his hand being grasped, the elven patriarch slowly spoke, "Kati...... I need you, get out of the elven lands. ...... to the kingdom of men"
"Grandfather, why is that, I won't leave the elven land! As long as you're still ......."
Hearing Katy's words, the elven patriarch shook his head, closed his eyes and said slowly, "No, it's an oracle sent down by the goddess, and we must obey it. ”
At this point, Katie fell silent.
She knew very well the gods believed in by the elven race, and she couldn't disobey the oracle of the goddess of life, but why did she have to do it herself?
"Katy...... Listen, I don't want to drag you down anymore......"
The Elven Patriarch continued, and the confusion on Katie's face deepened, and she couldn't understand why her grandfather was saying these words.
"You've been hiding your talents all these years...... Like any other child, you're mediocre, but everyone knows that you're a good learner...... Everyone knows that you yearn for the world outside the elven lands...... Otherwise, you wouldn't choose to take on the role of a forest ranger, looking out at the city in the distance from the edge of the forest......"
As the patriarch spoke, Katie interrupted him, saying "I've never thought of it that way"
But the elven patriarch stretched out his hand to stop Kati's words, what his granddaughter was thinking, in fact, not only himself, but the elves of the entire elven clan knew it, but no one had directly told the secret.
"Katie Fuanlia, listen to me......"
The elven elven elder's voice grew weaker and weaker, and he still wanted to determine Katy's determination to leave, because his time was running out.
Katy was silent, and in response, the elven elder nodded and spoke again, "A thousand years ago, I answered the call of the goddess of life to destroy the disaster caused by a demonic plant...... I was also hit hard by it...... I have survived to this point thanks to the Goddess of Life......
I also grew up with you in the place of your parents by the favor of this goddess, but now I ...... I've become a drag on you, and you don't need me anymore. ”
The elven patriarch waved his hand, and an elf in the shadows walked out of it, holding an old longbow and came to Katy's side.
"This is the 'Flame Devouring Longbow' I got in response to the Goddess's call...... I gave it to your father to go on a crusade against the Demon King...... This is the only one who came back......"
The elven patriarch stretched out his hand, and the attendant placed the longbow in the chief's hand, and then the patriarch stroked the bow and said, "Your father is like me...... I want to see the outside world, but it's a pity...... I can only survive here, and your father has returned to the Goddess of Life before he sees more......"
Speaking of this, the elven patriarch held up the longbow, and Katy also understood what his grandfather wanted to say, raised his hands to take the longbow, and then took the note in the hand of the attendant and knelt down and kowtowed heavily.
Then she stood up and left, and under the watchful eyes of the elven elders, Katie walked towards the door of the synagogue, where she heard the voice of the elven patriarch behind her, "In my place, in the place of your parents...... Let's see the outside world. ”
Katy's footsteps paused slightly, and without looking back at his grandfather's face, Katy, who understood the meaning of the words, took another step and walked down the stairs of the treehouse to the ground.
Along the way, many elves cast their eyes, and Katy already knew that the elves in the elven land knew a piece of news, but she was the last one who knew, and the elves' customs would never allow her to look back.
"Sister Katie, are you leaving...... Will it be back? A group of elf children ran to Katy's side and asked, but Katy, who didn't know what to answer, crouched down, rubbed her hands on the child's head, and said with a wry smile, "I don't know"
"No, I don't want to be among Sister Katy, I also want my sister to teach us bows and arrows and spells!"
One of the children cried, and the others cried, and even then, Katie couldn't make the decision to stay now.
I used to yearn for the outside world, but now when it's time to leave, I realize how reluctant I am to leave.
Looking at the only child holding back tears, Katie looked at the Flame Eater longbow in her hand, then removed the wooden longbow and quiver from her back and handed it to the child who was not crying.
left a sentence "In the future, everyone will rely on you." He got up and left, then took the luggage that an elf woman beside him had prepared for herself, thanked him and resolutely left.
Far away from the tribe's residence, Katy checked the contents of the note, and after checking it, Katy threw the paper into the air with the words "Rodia Mountains...... and raised the Flame Devouring Longbow in his hand to aim at the paper in mid-air, and with one hand he held the non-existent bowstring, and an arrow formed by the crimson flame appeared.
Releasing the flames from the tail of the arrow, the arrow shot straight out, burning the paper in mid-air, and Katie looked at the city at the far end of the forest......
Behind...... The elven patriarch who was sitting in the chair leaned back and looked up at the ceiling of the room and said, "I...... You can rest for ......", and then golden dots of light began to shine on his body.
After hearing a female voice whispering in his ear, "It's been a hard work, take a good rest", he closed his eyes, and the elven elders present lowered their heads one after another......