-Dark City-

Elves are blessed with magicians on the continent of Arad, and their innate affinity for the natural elements makes them easier to learn magic than humans. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Dark Elves used to be one of the elves, but they were cursed by Venus to be forced to live underground, in a place where magic elements are scarce, and if they want to survive, they must learn other skills to fight against the monsters underground. After a long period of exploration, the dark elves have created a new martial art modeled after human martial arts - assassination!

The characteristics of the dark elves make them the most powerful assassination race on the Arad continent, and there is a saying on the Arad continent: "If you are targeted by the dark elves, then don't close your eyes in the dark!" "Because the dark elves are accustomed to assassinating at nightfall, they are able to blend perfectly into the darkness, which greatly increases the success of their assassinations.

In order to cultivate outstanding assassination elites, the Dark Elves built a special assassination training ground in their royal city, the Dark City, where all the Dark Elves with assassination talent will be sent to cultivate.

Because of the ravages of the plague, the cultivation ground was much more deserted than before, and people stayed at home for fear of being infected by the plague, and they all chose not to go out as much as possible, because of the sudden plague, there was a heavy aura in the dark city.

"Hah! Ha! ”

However, despite the high tension period, there were still people who insisted on cultivating in the cultivation ground, and the powerful shouts echoed in the cultivation ground for a long time, as if to show the surging vitality of the cultivators.

A dark elf with short silver hair was wielding her silver short blade in the center of the training ground, she was wearing a small black bandeau vest and regular training leggings on her lower body, which was sixteen or seventeen years old according to the age of a human being. To prevent the blade from slipping due to sweat, she also wore fingerless gloves and white bandages that bound her little arms tightly.

She danced the short blade so fast that people could only see white light and shadow, and the white trajectory line cut the darkness into countless small pieces, but she tried her best to extinguish the sound of the short blade swinging with each swing, which is the basic technique of assassination, ensuring that the whole process of assassination does not make a single sound, so that the target does not know that someone has approached at all.

A long-haired dark elf uncle was carefully observing the woman's movements, but judging from his frowning brow, he was not very satisfied with the cultivation shown by the woman. He must be this woman's instructor, right? However, judging from his non-wording behavior, he didn't intend to give the other party too much guidance.

The woman suddenly stopped swinging her short blade, and her pale blue eyes were firmly fixed on the tall wooden stake in the center of the cultivation ground, which was more than three meters high. "Whew", she took a deep breath, and slowly closed her eyes, she was adjusting her breathing, the sweat on her body stopped flowing, and soon there was no sound in the cultivation ground, and the heartbeat of the dark elf woman was inaudible.

"Hah!"

The woman opened her eyes suddenly, and in an instant there seemed to be two blue halos flashing in her eyes, and when she blinked, the woman was already in place, and found that she was already in front of the stake, and the distance of more than ten meters crossed in an instant. Not even a single fluctuation was emitted, and even the air did not vibrate, as if she had teleported over, it was really a perverted speed.

"Hah!" The woman swung the short blade in her hand again, and the speed of her swing was so fast that she could only see a vague figure swaying around the stake, and her movements could not be caught at all.

After a few seconds, the woman finally stopped moving in her hand, and when she put the blade down, the stake also made a crisp "snap" sound, and then crackled and disintegrated, and the stake was divided into dozens of pieces, and the incision was smooth and smooth, as if it had been carefully processed.

But her mentor was still not satisfied with her results, he didn't even pay attention to the woman's attack on the stake just now, his eyes kept closed.

"The blade isn't sharp enough...... It seems that your heart is still hesitant and not firm enough! The mentor commented on the woman's attack.

"I was seen by the master again, when will I be able to judge the sharpness of the attack just by hearing, like the master? Forget it, there's still more time anyway! The woman thought to herself with her lower lip flattened.

However, the teacher obviously does not intend to stop teaching his disciples just like that, "There will come a time when you will need to make your own judgment, and at that time you will need to swing your sword at the enemy without hesitation!" There must not be the slightest wavering, otherwise it will only be your own life that will be buried! ”

Listening to the words in the master's eyes, the woman's face flushed slightly, and she knew that this was the master's consistent way of expressing love.

"Yes, master!" The woman said a little embarrassed as she stroked her face.

"Ahem, cough, cough, ......"

As soon as the instructor finished speaking, he covered his mouth and coughed.

The woman immediately walked up to him and asked with concern, "Master...... Why did you cough again? Have previous treatments worked? Didn't the medicine I got from Neupera last time work? ”

"This cough is nothing...... as if to prove himself, the tutor immediately stopped coughing, but his face turned a little pale from the cough.

"Master, this must be to keep me from worrying, right? This cough has spread among the dark elves, and even the able-bodied master has not avoided the fate of contracting this cough. Many of the people in the royal city have lost their lives because of this cough, and even their bodies have not been found. Some people speculate that it is a symptom of the plague and that if you don't get treatment, you will die......" The woman recalled in her mind that there was information about the cough.

Perhaps sensing the apprentice's concern, in order not to make her so worried, the tutor immediately changed the topic and let the apprentice divert his attention.

"Compared to this...... You're not too young anymore, shouldn't you think about lifelong events? ”

"Huh?" I didn't expect to ask such a question at that time, the woman was so surprised that she didn't react for a while, but her face was already full of redness, and she immediately turned back in embarrassment and said, "Ah...... This one...... I don't want to get married so early......"

"Marry? ...... "This time the tutor is speechless, the apprentice is completely misinterpreting his own meaning, what is wrong with the children now, their thoughts are so mature, so early to think of the problem of marrying, the mentor embarrassedly covered his face with his hand, but couldn't help but quickly explain, lest the apprentice think that he is an uncle who loves to gossip."

"The big thing I'm talking about is whether you belong to the queen formation or the senate formation......"

"Huh?!" It turned out that the master was talking about this, and the woman immediately stood in place with a cute wood.

The power in the Dark Elves is now divided into two parts, the Queen Formation and the Senate Formation. The queen formation is ruled by the Dark Elf Queen, and the enlightened Queen Majesty will open the policy and human transportation, but the feudal senate does not approve of this policy, they have a great prejudice against human beings, believing that the brutal human beings will only continue to scavenge profits from them, for this reason, the power of the dark elves is divided into two formations.

And the assassins cultivated in the Dark Elf Training Ground are the existence of sending new forces to the Queen's Formation and the Senate Formation, and every assassin who graduates from the Cultivation Ground is faced with such a choice - to join the Queen's Formation or the Senate Formation.

In the eyes of the mentor, although her disciple is not mature enough in some aspects, she already has the ability to stand alone on time, and her body is ...... It may not last long, and it's time for her to make a choice.

"Hmm...... The master seems to be in the queen's formation, but now the power of the Senate formation is a little greater...... Which side do you want to join? The woman thought in her heart.

"Ah...... That one...... I'll have to think again, and I'll decide to give you another reply today! "The woman is arrogant, don't turn away.

Night has also fallen, and it's time to go back.

"Bang!"

Just as the woman turned away, a dull sound came from behind her.

"Master?" The woman turned her head curiously, and found that her master was now falling to the ground in pain, and he kept making painful sounds, and the woman could not see his face clearly, but from his heavy gasps, she knew that he was in great pain.

"Uh...... Uh......h Uhhh The Mentor cried out in pain, and powerful qi flowed out of his body, but the aura was very chaotic, and it was not like the calm qi that the woman was familiar with, and the woman could even hear the sound of her heart beating violently.

What was happening in front of her made the woman a little overwhelmed, and she wanted to get close to her mentor, but the powerful aura at that time made her body stiff and unable to move in place.

"Woohoo hoo hoo!" The mentor raised his head and shouted loudly, his skin turned dead gray, red streaks crawled all over his body, and not only that, but his pale blue eyes also turned pale, and there was no spirituality at all.

"Ho!" Before the woman could recover from the changes in front of her, the mentor who had undergone the mutation caught him, but fortunately, the woman's cultivation had saved her, and she instinctively took a big step back to dodge the deadly attack.

"Division...... Master! ”

The woman called out to her mentor, but the other party had clearly lost her mind, and only the stiff arms responded to the woman.

Faced with the attack of the mentor, the woman who did not know the truth could only dodge and shout at him. The Mentor's attack was relentless, and his hardened arm easily sliced through the hard stone slabs on the ground, and if the woman's weaker body was touched, it would probably end up being flesh open.

"Pilala!" The woman dodged the Mentor's attack again, her right foot opening up a long distance on the ground.

But this time the Mentor had seen her movements clearly, and when she looked up, she saw that the Mentor was already raising his arms to attack her.

The woman stabbed at the Mentor's wide open chest in shock, but her affection for the Master caused her to pause at the moment when the blade was about to stab the Master, and the Mentor immediately raised his hard arm to block her attack. "Whoa!" Both sides were pressing forward hard, and the short blade in the woman's hand began to tremble, and if this continued, her short blade would be pushed away.

"This ...... What the hell is going on?? The woman thought to herself with difficulty.

"Alas...... I said don't hesitate! ”

Just when the woman hesitated, the master's familiar voice sounded again, and before the woman had time to be happy, her wrist holding the knife was tightly grabbed by the master.

Then there was a scene that the woman could not have imagined, the mentor controlled the woman's arm holding the knife to the location of his heart, because he regained his senses, and because he was bent on seeking death, the short blade passed through the teacher's body like piercing tofu, and his heart was also pierced, and a large amount of blood flowed out of the wound.

"Division...... The woman ......was so surprised that she didn't know what to say, but just stared at the master in front of her with wide eyes.

"Hehe, you're still not firm enough......" The master said with a smile, and the master, who had always been unsmiling, actually laughed at this moment, as if he had a sense of relief.

After the master finished speaking, he slowly collapsed.

"Woo, woo...... Woo-ah-ah! Because the blow was too great, and the woman couldn't believe what had happened in this short period of time, her spirit almost collapsed, and sadness rose from the bottom of her heart like a river and a sea, constantly impacting her body and mind, and a tingling pain erupted from her body, and tears finally couldn't help but flow.

The woman hugged the master's head and cried bitterly, the short blade was still inserted into the master's body, the blood had stopped, but it was permanently flowing in the woman's memory.

In the early hours of the next morning, the woman, who had recovered from her grief, chose to cremate the master's body, and thick black smoke rose into the bright night sky, as if the teacher's soul had also risen in it.

"Whoa!" The woman looked at the burning flames blankly, watched the master's body being swallowed by the flames little by little, and recalled in her mind the bits and pieces of her training with the master.

"Master...... Whether it's the Queen or the Senate, I'm not interested in these political things at all! The woman muttered in her mind, this belated answer was very different from the choice of the Dark Elf Assassin.

Perhaps the woman also understood at this moment that the Queen of Submission or the Senate would only become their tools, and after witnessing such a tragic scene of the master, she felt that there were more meaningful things to understand.

The woman was running in the night sky, with the bright moon behind her, and his figure was like an elf dancing in the dark, perfectly blending with the darkness, and at this moment, her instinct as an assassin finally awakened.

"I just want to understand the world more deeply and why such a tragedy happened! I will incarnate as the 'shadow' of this world to observe the world! ”