The Silvermoon Empire is basically aware of the existence of invaders.

Now in the streets and alleys, almost all the elves are discussing this matter.

But on the faces of these elves, there was not much panic. Because in their opinion, it would be good if they didn't invade other countries, and there were still people who dared to invade their Silver Moon Empire, and many elves were looking forward to waiting for the invaders to be defeated and see the scene of their execution.

Because of the secrecy of the Egre family and the Hurlis family, no one knows that the so-called invaders are actually only three people.

Pellesner has been particularly happy about this recently.

Unlike most elves, Pelesna is a very keen sprite to earn money and collect gems. He didn't think he had much of an artistic element, and he wasn't interested in warfare or magic, but instead preferred cooking, so he opened a restaurant.

Perhaps because Pellesna had spent some time in human countries, he knew more about human business skills and how to make delicious food that matched the aesthetics and taste of these elves.

All these have made his restaurant easily the most well-known restaurant in the entire Silver Moon Capital.

People from all districts, even the elves of the Imperial Family, like to dine at Pellesna's restaurant.

The reason for his recent delight is that his restaurant has welcomed more customers because of the recent discussion about these invaders, which has also allowed his store expansion plans to be realized ahead of schedule. It's just that, in addition to being happy, he also has some helplessness that he feels funny.

That's what he's recently found that the ingredients in stock, especially those semi-finished ingredients that can be eaten cold, always disappear inexplicably.

Although the ingredients always disappear suddenly and inexplicably, there are always some gems and other things left next to them.

The Silver Moon Empire is an empire of elves, although the Silver Moon Empire also issues its own coins, but all kinds of transactions do not exclude barter. In particular, some of the rarer and rare gems are loved and welcomed by the elves - of course, this kind of trading method is not seen in other regions except in the two elven empires.

Most of the gems found by Pellesna were crushed gems - the value of such gems was not impossible, but to the people of the Elven Empire who pursued luxury, such gems were worthless. But in fact, if you collect it and take it to a place outside the Elven Empire, you can still get some money.

Pellesna, on the other hand, has a business flair that gives him a knack for how to use these crushed stones: he buys small pieces of jewelry, and then sets them into small pieces of jewelry with new polishing and patching, making them even more beautiful. To this end, he even deliberately opened a new area in his restaurant dedicated to these small jewelry, which so far not only brings more foot traffic to his restaurant, but even quite a lot of extra income.

Because he doesn't know when the sale of these small jewelry has become a way of bidding.

And often every time he launches new jewelry, it is very likely that the income of the day will even exceed his own income.

Pellesna really thought it was very funny.

He also wanted to know why this was happening, so he even hid in the warehouse for a day after getting acquainted with the rhythm of the loss of goods in the warehouse, but unfortunately found nothing. Then, when he left the warehouse, it was only ten minutes before and after, and he found that the contents of the warehouse were missing again, and there were several more broken gems on the ground.

This made Pellesna realize that he might have actually met an elf.

So from then on, it was as if he and the elf had reached some kind of tacit understanding.

He doesn't care about the loss of half-finished food, and occasionally even delivers hot food or something. And he also found that every time he sent hot food, the second time the other party arrived, either there would be a few more broken gems, or the amount of food would be lost a little less than before.

This discovery lets Pellesna know that in the elf's heart, there is also a benchmark for calculating the price: the other party is not greedy.

Today, Pelesna got up early, so after he started to prepare the ingredients, he also made a large steak and sent it to the warehouse, because he found that the elves hiding in his warehouse seemed to be particularly keen on meat.

After putting down the large steak he had made secretly, Pellesna put down another bracelet next to him.

The concept of the bracelet is a bountiful harvest: leaves are circled around and embellished with rubies, obsidian, sapphire and other crushed gemstones about the size of a fingernail.

The value of this bracelet's material selection is not high, at least in the eyes of the elves of the Silver Moon Empire. But after such a toss by Pellesna, if this bracelet is auctioned by human society, I am afraid it will be worth at least 40,000 or 50,000 gold coins.

Next to the steak and bracelet, Pellesner also put down a piece of paper.

After doing all this, Pellesna left the warehouse.

He didn't hide and peep, because he knew that it was pointless. Although he didn't know how the elf did it, he knew very well that the other party must have some means to detect whether he was hiding or peeping.

When the door to the warehouse was closed, the warehouse was plunged into darkness.

After a short while, the originally dark warehouse suddenly lit up with a little fire.

It was a small flame made of magic and fire.

It's a little trick that all apprentice magicians do.

A small, thin figure, moving with the light of the flames, gradually ran out of the corner of the warehouse.

This figure is not tall, only about one meter six. He was wearing a pure black cloak, and judging from the jagged marks on the hem of the cloak, it could be seen that this was supposed to be a longer cloak, but it was only because it was too long to affect the movement of this thin figure, so the hem was torn short. Judging by the dirty marks on the cloak and some raw edge damage, this should be a cloak that has been thrown away.

It's just that the figure in front of me picked it up from the garbage heap.

Yes, it's the garbage heap.

Because there are some other very noticeable stains on the cloak.

The owner of the figure walked briskly over to the large steak, and dropped four red shards on the ground, almost as thin as a cicada's wing, and a small piece of black crystal about the size of a knuckle of a finger.

Under the light of the small flower seedling in his hand, it can be seen that this figure has long golden hair.

But it is likely that due to the lack of care for a long time, her hair not only looks dirty, but even the color is very dull. There were a lot of stains on her little face, of course, there were several shallow scratches, and there were also a lot of scars on her hands.

Like, a little flower cat.

Looking at the large steak in front of her, the little girl swallowed her saliva and then looked away with difficulty.

She picked up the scrap of paper on the ground.

It reads-

"To the mysterious elves: Thank you very much for these gems that you have sent me recently, and with our cooperation, these gems have been given a new glow and brought us a good income. This bracelet and this big steak are your dividends, so be sure to accept them. ”

The place where the payment is made: a merchant who wants to know the name of the elf.

The elf's gaze once again looked at the beautiful bracelet on the ground.

She hesitated for a long time before turning the piece of paper over and began to reach for it to write.

Because she didn't have a pen, she could only control the magic power on her body to perform extremely subtle mana output operations to prevent the piece of paper from being accidentally damaged.

Judging by the sweat that began to flow from the girl's face, it could be seen that this was a very difficult operation.

But she worked very hard and was careful, and by the time she finished writing the last word, the piece of paper was still undamaged.

This made a rare smile on the little girl's face.

Then the little girl sat down on the floor and began to enjoy her extra steak.

Probably because he was really hungry for a long time, the steak quickly disappeared at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

It only took a minute before and after, and this steak, which seemed a bit heavy to an adult elf, completely disappeared from the little girl's mouth.

I saw the little girl wipe her mouth gently, and then she glanced at the other ingredients around her with some unfinished eyes. However, her eyes were a little dark, and she could only sigh softly before she got up and hurried to the corner, for she did not dare to linger in one place too long, otherwise she would leave a very noticeable aura, which would make her easily bitten by the hound that was chasing after her.

This warehouse was the only place she could find where she could get food.

So, she didn't want to expose the place.

It's not just about depriving her of a stable source of food.

The bigger reason was that she knew that once this place was exposed, it would definitely hurt the kind shopkeeper.

This is something she will not allow.

And the reason why she has been wandering around here is because there is a very unique and familiar atmosphere in the neighborhood that attracts her. Her instincts told her that it was where she had to go, but no matter how much she searched, she couldn't find the right place. Because the scope of this familiar aura was so big, that she didn't even know where the core was, and how she was going to get there.

So, she can only use the stupidest method: an inch of exploration.

This makes her physical and mana consumption very large.

It also made her more dependent on this secret stable food source.

The hard walls are like a pool of water for the little girl.

She charged at the wall as if she had jumped into a swimming pool.

After seeing a ripple on the entire wall, the figure of the little girl completely disappeared into this warehouse. And with the disappearance of the little girl, after losing the light of the little flame, this warehouse also returned to darkness again.

The only thing left is the aroma of food that has not yet completely diffused.

And, the bracelet on the ground and the piece of paper that glowed with a faint blue magic glow on the back—

"To the kind merchant: Thank you for the steak, but I haven't been able to find any more gems lately, and I'll make up for it next time to pay for this steak." As for the gems you mentioned, while that still doesn't hide the fact that I'm stealing, I'm actually paying for the missing food, so the bracelet isn't my dividend. ”

The inscription reads, "Anna, who is full of apologies and begs for your forgiveness." ”