139 Seaside town
It's not the first time that Kester and Feida have come to the Changhai Beach, when they went to the "Cape Land Island" in the depths of the Long Sea with Lolita, so that Kester, who grew up in the inland area, saw the magnificence of the "Long Sea" for the first time. The sight of the endless sea is something that Kerst will remember for the rest of his life.
However, "Cape Island" is a famous tourist destination in San Jose, where the long sea is calm and beautiful, the sea is a continuous sandy beach, many nobles like to bring their families here for vacation, and the San Jose royal family also built a royal estate on "Cape Island".
Unlike the calm sea southeast of San Jose, the Changhai Sea near the town of Tokai is a different story. Here, the long sea seems to be an untamed beast, and the monstrous waves are surging and tumbling, crashing against the cliffs along the coast. A series of hundreds of miles of cliffs, is the eastern border of the San Jose Empire, most of the cliffs are hundreds of degrees high, strange rocks, steep like a cliff, the cliff top of the sea breeze is raging, ordinary people can almost completely no longer stand on this cliff, let alone enjoy the scenery of the Long Sea, this is San Jose's famous "Long Sea Cliff".
And only a few dozen miles from the coast, there is a small town, which is the destination of Feida and Kester this time, "Donghai Town". It was a small human town, with only two intersecting streets, about a few hundred permanent residents, and the center of the town was the town hall and the sheriff's house, and there was a grocery store, a small tavern, a blacksmith's shop, and dozens of houses.
Standing in the center of the town, Feida, Kerter and Rika felt a little tricky when they looked at this small town. Grandpa Kuta's message was a message that wasn't fully confirmed twenty years ago, and I don't know how to start now.
"Master Koster, why don't I go to the town hall first?" Rica pointed to the clock tower in the center of the town, and the wooden sign under the bell tower indicated that it was the town hall where the town's mayor and clerk were located.
"Okay, go and ask, Feida and I are waiting for you here. There was no better way to do it, and Rica agreed, who untied his weapon from his waist and ran to the town hall. Most of the houses in the town were dilapidated, not so much like the cities of the San Jose Empire, which was known for its affluence, but rather like the small villages of poor southern Madol and other countries in the northwest. The only grocery stores, taverns, and blacksmith shops were so crowded that people didn't know where they had gone, and the streets of the town were a bit depressed.
Rika soon returned, and the answer she received was not surprising, the town's clerk had only been transferred here about a few years ago, and he didn't know if a group of elves had been to Tokai Town twenty years ago. And the mayor of the town, a young baron, according to him, he has been mayor of the town for a shorter time, and he is not a native of the East China Sea at all, let alone ask anything.
Kester smiled, "Don't be discouraged, if you want to inquire about any news on this continent, I'm afraid there is no more efficient place than a tavern, come with me." With that, he pushed open the door of the town's tavern.
The furnishings in the tavern were a little dilapidated as in the town outside, and business was light, except for the three of them, only a few old people were drinking at the table in the corner. The bartender dozed off boredly at the bar. Koster stepped forward, knocked on the table, and flicked a gold coin over the bar, which spun around the bar and then fell to the bar with a "pong", and the bartender came to his senses.
"What would you like to come, my lord?" the sober bartender had not forgotten his duty.
"Get me some tequila, and ask me something. Kerst tapped his finger on the gold coin on the table and pushed it towards the bartender.
"Okay, my lord, whatever you want to ask, just ask!" the bartender was in a good mood.
However, the three of them were still too optimistic, and the well-informed bartender had no impression of the so-called group of elves from Kyoto City, in his words, he had been running this bar for many years, and if there was such a thing, he would definitely have heard of it, and if he didn't even know it, then the source of this news was not very credible.
Feida was a little frustrated, she could see that the bartender was telling the truth, and after a sigh, the three of them were about to leave the tavern, when an old man in the corner suddenly stood up, "Do you want to ask the elves from the Red Keep in the past twenty years?"
Soon after, the trio of Khor, Feida, and Rika stood on a small hill north of Tokai Town. The old man he met in the tavern told them something. Twenty years ago, there was indeed a group of elves who were escorted from the Red Fort, but in the middle, something happened, some elves took advantage of the lax guards and waited for the opportunity to escape, but I didn't expect the officer who led the team to be ruthless, and immediately issued a killing order, so, whether they escaped or not, this group of elves as many as thirty or forty people all died at the hands of the San Jose army.
As for why the people of Donghai Town didn't know about the existence of these elves, it was because these elves had all turned into corpses before they had even entered Donghai Town. The old man, who was still a middle-aged man at the time, was working in the fields outside the town, and was captured by the army to collect his body, and all the elves were buried on a barren hill outside the city. At that time, the old man had never seen elves, a strange creature that was different from humans, so he remembered it quite well.
Following the old man's instructions, the three of Koster, Feida and Rika came to a small mound that was once a barren hill and is now covered with plants. Having made up her mind, Feida prayed on the hill for a while, and then looked at Kester, "Let's begin." ”
The three of them worked together, and soon dug up a large number of elven bones according to the old man's instructions, in human customs, buried corpses cannot be disturbed, and in the elven tradition, it is believed that the dead elves will turn into elves and return to Nosilio, so Feida did not care too much. It's a pity that too much time has passed, and the corpse under the soil is only a pair of dry bones, which is impossible to identify at all, which makes Feida a little difficult to accept.
"Miss Feida, it doesn't matter, in fact, I have a way. Rika on the side suddenly appeared, which surprised both Kerst and Feida.
Feida's method is very simple, separating the elves according to male and female (Note 1), the difference between the skeletons of male and female elves is quite obvious, so that half of the male elf bones are excluded, and among the remaining female elf bones, it is very, very lucky that Rika has only found one female elf who has given birth. "Master Koster, Miss Feida, this is another story, and I will tell you later. Rika explained why she knew this, but Feida's mind was completely on the skeleton in front of her.
"If Kuta's clues are correct, Feida, this could be your mother. Kerst comforted him, only to find that Feida had already burst into tears. Squatting down to sort out the bones in front of him, Feida moved cautiously, for fear of disturbing the peace of the bones.
The clothes had long since been turned into powders over time, and only a few fragments remained glued to the skeleton, after all, too much time had passed. On the sternum of the bone, there was a huge scratch, and Feida gently wiped the scratch with her hand, "This is the mark of the sword, it should be this knife, which killed him." Pity this elf girl, how young she is. Kerst sighed, but Felda interrupted her, "More than that, Caster, you can see the mark on her wrist, deep into the bone, which shows that this elf's hand has been locked for a long time, and she is completely someone else's slave until death." The more he talked, the more angry he became, he kicked the weeds at his feet fiercely, and he was very angry.
Elven slaves have always been prevalent in the mainland, and it is not until recent years that the slave hunting team has been slightly restrained under the personal strangulation of the elven elves, and the matter of this victim may not happen again.
"Mistress Koster, Miss Feida, what do you think this is?" said Rika crouched down suddenly, pointing to the grass that Feyda had just kicked off, where a roll of parchment was lying quietly, stained with some stains. (Note 2)
The two of them followed Rika's instructions and saw the parchment roll as well, and Feida reached out to pick it up and wiped the stains on the parchment, but found that it could not be erased. Kster stopped her movements, "Don't wipe it, it's blood." It was supposed to be the elf's belongings, stained with her blood as it was killed. ”
Feida sighed again, although twenty years have passed, this grief may not die in a short time. Trembling and opening the cowhide rope tied to the parchment roll, Feida slowly unfolded the parchment roll in his hand, and before he could think of it, another slightly smaller piece of parchment fell down in a swaying manner.
Koster's eyes were quick, he grabbed it, unfolded it, and exclaimed "Ahhh
Hearing Caster's exclamation, Feida hurriedly looked over, and with the same exclamation of "ah", Rika looked at the two of them puzzled, "What's the matter, the people on here, do you know?"
The dropped parchment is a "elf photo", which is an elven magic application, which uses the power of magic to keep the image on a specially crafted parchment, just like a real person, which can be kept for hundreds of years.
However, what really surprised was not the photo itself, but the person in it. There are three people in the photo, two female elves, one with green hair and one with purple hair, and an unusually handsome elven man, coincidentally, these three people, Kester and Feida know two of them, the green-haired elf is called "Anna", and the male elf is called "Fizio".
"Oh my God!" exclaimed both Kerst and Feyda, could this elf be a friend of Anna and Fizio?, and the two hurriedly looked down at the other parchment scroll in Feida's hand.
Note 1: The San Jose royal family and other mainland nobles' preference for elves has transcended gender, and in addition to a large number of elven females, many handsome elven males have also become the target of slave catchers. This phenomenon did not gradually decrease until the anger of the elven elders descended on the nobles of various countries. Therefore, the bones of the three people saw were male and female.
Note 2: The parchment paper used to be written in various countries on the mainland has been processed by a special process, which is one of the few technologies preserved from the era of the Magic Empire. Processed parchment paper can last for many years without being damaged and will not be eroded by wind and rain.