Somewhere inside this vast underground world.

Winya got up from the bed and stretched her stiff body, her blond hair scattered behind her to look particularly attractive.

After stretching her body, she put on the cloth clothes placed on the stone chair, and the rough cloth clothes did not affect the beauty of the female elf in the slightest. Dressing up, Winya smiled a little distressedly.

The rough cloth made her feel uncomfortable, but it would be rude not to wear it.

After washing her face, she walked over to the stone chair and sat down. On the stone table was the food brought by the elder, and Winya took a piece of bread in her hand and brought it to her lips to eat in small bites.

The bread didn't taste very good, but she had some hunger in her stomach and could only eat it silently. After finishing a loaf of bread, Winya took a few sips of water from a stone cup to moisten her somewhat dry throat.

Winya had been living in this place for three years, and during that time she had been a little bored and bored at first, but when the elder brought some books, her life here was not so boring.

But she was glad that if it weren't for Tut, she would still be suffering in that place, being wantonly violated by the other goblins.

Thinking of that bad memory, Winya's expression became extremely aggrieved. What happened at that time made her very scared to this day......

While she sleeps, she occasionally has a few strange dreams.

In dreams, when she is grabbed by terrible monsters and ready to be devoured in her mouth, there will always be a warrior in armor who rides a war horse to defeat those monsters one by one and save her.

This warrior constantly guards himself in the midst of endless dangers, and he can defeat the monsters that come to him, no matter how terrible they are.

'Can you show me your face?' the words were said countless times in the dream, but the warrior turned his back to himself as if he hadn't heard it.

Looking at his cold and firm back, there was always a reluctant emotion in her heart.

‘...... That!' Winya summoned up the courage to shout at the warrior's back.

This time, for some unknown reason, the warrior seemed to hear the cry of the female elf behind him. I saw him slowly turn around and face the female elf who was shouting to him.

When she saw the warrior's face, Winya seemed to see something surprised, and she covered her mouth with her left hand, and she didn't know what to say.

The warrior wears a helmet made of unknown metal on his head, and his face is covered in a cold metal shield. No one could see the warrior's face now......

Tick -

This is the sound of water droplets dripping on the ground.

Tears welled up in the corners of the warrior's eyes as she watched the warrior's face be covered in a somewhat cold metal helmet, just as she was about to touch the warrior's face with her hand.

Woke up from a dream......

In this dream, Winya was terrified when she faced the monsters, but she felt relieved when the warrior came to protect her.

But what was the face of that warrior under his helmet?

When Winya thought back to Tut, the thought in her heart seemed to skip a beat. If the face in that helmet were Tut...... Thinking of this, a suspicious flush appeared on Winya's face.

“...... I'd better keep a diary. ”

Restraining her cranky thoughts, Winya took out a small book from the shelf, picked up the quill on the stone table, and prepared to write down the previous events.

During these three years, she kept a diary every day, recording what happened every day or what interesting stories she came up with.

"If only Tut were here...... Maybe he can tell me a story. Winya said with a smile as she took the quill pen and wrote in her diary.

............

A verdant forest, somewhere at the foot of a mountain.

Bang!

Instinctively, I dodged the flaming meteor that Elder Tap was coming at me, and the flaming meteor exploded violently where I had been standing.

"Tsk!"

I ran as fast as I could, dodging the flaming meteors controlled by Elder Tapu one after another.

One by one, the flaming meteors exploded, and the temperature of the explosion made my brow furrow.

"Waterspout!" I chanted a quick incantation.

The water formed by the magic of the water element immediately churned, and in the next second, the waterspout formed by the high-speed rotation of the water flow struck at Tapu.

Looking at the impending waterspout, Tapu slightly hooked the corners of his mouth.

I saw him stretch out his left hand, and a fiery blue flame suddenly burst out in his palm, and in an instant, a blazing blue wall of fire appeared in front of him.

The water and the flames collided violently, and in a moment, the waterspout I cast was instantly evaporated by the wall of fire.

Just as the waterspout slammed into the wall of fire, several arrows of flame had formed floating around Tap's side.

"Damn!!"

When I saw those flaming arrows, I pulled out the rusty sword on my back with a solemn face.

"Go ahead. ”

Tap smiled when he saw me armed with my weapon ready to deal with the impending threat, and the flaming arrows beside him shot at me at lightning speed.

Faced with several speeding elemental arrows, I didn't dare to take the rusty sword lightly.

Every time I swung my sword, one of the flaming arrows was cut off by the blade, even as I kept slashing the flaming arrows. A flaming arrow suddenly and strangely changed its trajectory in the air, and it shot straight at my right leg in the next second.

"Cut!"

Seeing this cold scene, I subconsciously understood that this was one of Elder Tap's masterpieces.

I leapt sideways to dodge the arrow as best I could, but I was still a step too late.

The arrows of the flaming arrows easily sliced through the skin on my right leg, and the wound that should have been bleeding was scorched black by the blazing flames.

"Thunder and lightning!!"

I endured the pain in my legs, and the thunder element continued to gather in my hands.

In an instant, a rough dazzling blue lightning flashed towards Elder Tapu, and Tapu didn't care when he saw the dazzling thunder light.

"Hey, it's your turn, Joel!" Tapu shouted to the shaman standing behind him.

Just as the lightning was about to slash at Tap, countless vines formed a wooden shield to easily block the lightning.

The lightning struck the wooden shield formed by the vines, and suddenly turned into countless tiny electric sparks.

The wooden shield formed by the vines blocked the lightning and dispersed in the next second, and the elder standing in front of me was no longer Tapu at this time.

"Come on, Tut. ”

Joel waved to me with his left hand, motioning for me to continue attacking.

Looking at Elder Joel standing in front of me with a steady face, I swallowed nervously.

Ignoring the injured right leg, I clutched the rusty sword in my right hand and carefully observed Elder Joel's next move.

(Tsk!Spell!!)

I held the Rusty Sword and made a ready dash in Elder Joel's direction, the tip of the Rusty Sword aimed at Elder Joel as if I was going to charge towards Joel in the next second.

"I'm going to !!"

As soon as I said this, I rushed towards Elder Joel as fast as I could. The rusty sword in his hand slashed towards Elder Joel's body......

"Oh, your swordsmanship is quite interesting, it looks like you have a good master. "Facing the impending blade, Joel said with some emotion when he saw my swordsmanship.

"But... Your sword is obviously not enough!"

Joel held his staff and flicked off the rusty sword.

"Humph!"

I decisively pulled out the other steel sword on my back and used the rusty sword to perform a cross slash, unexpectedly slashing at Elder Joel's chest.

Looking at the cross-slashed double swords, Joel's face did not show any panic, and he smiled appreciatively at the face of the upcoming double swords.

"Not bad!"

............

"Huh?!"

Winya, who was still writing a diary with a quill just now, suddenly felt a strong heartbeat coming from the back of her hand, and her expression was obviously a little nervous.

Seeing that the mark on the back of her right hand continued to glow at this time, Winya suddenly felt uneasy.

"Tut ......"

Winya put down the quill in her hand and muttered with some concern.

Just as Winya was worried about Tut, the magical barrier on the door was opened.

Black Frame walked in, and when he saw the female elf sitting quietly on the stone chair, he smiled reassuringly.

"Pretty energetic. Little girl, I'll bring you the food. Black Frame walked over to Winya with a plate of food and said.

"Thank you. ”

Winya whispered thanks and put away the journal on the stone table.

"You're welcome. Hearing the female elf's thanks, the black frame responded politely.

"But you really eat very little at every meal......"

Black Frame looked at the other plate of food on the stone table and said that he had brought this plate of food in the morning.

"That's because I have a smaller appetite. Winya whispered with her head down.

"Anyway, I think it's better for you to eat more. After all, when you are full, your spirit will improve. ”

The black frame said thoughtfully to the female elf in front of him.

"yes, I see. Winya nodded silently.

"Okay, I'll go first. ”

The black frame placed the plate in his hand on the stone table, and held the other plate in his hand. When he had done this, he turned to leave.

"That's... Please wait a minute!" Winya summoned up the courage to call out to the black-framed back.

"What's wrong?" the black frame stopped, subconsciously turning around and asking.

"Excuse me...... Tut, is he okay now?" asked Winya the question she wanted to ask.

"Tut, he's still training and studying. The black frame whispered to the questioning female elf.

"Why does he keep training?" asked Winya, a little puzzled.

Hearing the female elf's rhetorical question, Hei Frame habitually touched his chin with his left hand.

"To be strong, for you......"

Black Frame finished his sentence and walked out of the room, and the magic barrier closed again the moment he walked out of the door.

"For My ......"

Remembering what Black Frame had just said, Winya muttered to herself.

Tut ...... Are you okay now?

............

A verdant forest, somewhere at the foot of a mountain.

The trees and the ground have been severely damaged by external forces, and scorched trees, sunken ground, frozen rocks, and cracked earth appear all together here.

In a very sunken ground lay a bruised young goblin, who had passed out as he lay in the sunken ground.

He had wounds from sharp objects, bruises from blunt objects, burns from flames, and a little electric current beating on his body if you looked closely.

Not far from the young goblin, several old goblins formed a circle around the young goblin.

"He's been so much better this time around, he's been able to hold on for so long when we're all attacking. ”

Recalling the previous battle, Dill looked at Tut, who had fallen to the ground unconscious, and nodded approvingly.

"He's a black-framed apprentice, and the way he fights is brilliant in my opinion. Well, what a tough boy. ”

Thinking of Tut's previous posture when he fought with his sword, Tapu said with a smile.

"I agree with what you said, this kid's swordsmanship always surprises me. ”

Joel echoed Tap's words in a rare way, and Tut's swordsmanship in battle was an eye-opener for him.

"However, his speed at which he converts elemental magic needs to be improved, and it seems to me that he needs to train in this area. He can also be faster when he transforms elemental mana. ”

Kesa singled out Tut's shortcomings in this actual battle.

"The defense also needs to be improved, and he has been defending with a sword, and the evil on his body is easy to be discovered by the enemy. ”

Even Mead, who was usually reticent, spoke out about Tut's shortcomings in battle.

"Yes, he still needs to study hard in these areas. After hearing the comments of Kesa and Meade, Dill agreed.

"When he can outdo us, his test will be completed......"

Looking at me lying in the sunken ground, Qiong Lang sighed and said. To be honest, he admired this kid a little, thinking that he didn't seem to have half the level of this kid back then, right?

"Okay, we're going to take him back to the city. But before that, you have to help him treat it first. Dill said blandly to several of his old friends.

"Intermediate treatment!!"

In front of everyone, Dilshi performed healing magic, and a cloud of blue magic instantly covered me as I fell into the sunken ground.

"Hey, look at this kid's sword. Wipp walked up to the crowd with the rusty sword that Tut had been sent flying in battle.

"Oh, his weapon?" Hearing Weipu's shout, several old men stepped forward to observe.

In Weip's hands were two swords. One steel sword forged from steel had been shattered from the previous battle, while the other, slightly rusted black sword, was not damaged at all, rather scratched.

"That's what he used to fight us?" said Kesa in surprise at the sight of the slightly rusty black sword.

"Awesome. Tapp complimented Tut very briefly.

"After all, it's just an inferior weapon. Joel pouted his hands and said unconcernedly.

"No... You're wrong, look at it. ”

Hearing Joel's words, Wipp laughed a little mockingly.

I saw that he continued to inject his own gold element magic into this slightly rusty black sword, and in an instant, the magic power glowing with golden light completely enveloped the body of the rusty sword.

Click-click!

The rust on the sword kept falling, and in a moment, the rust on the sword completely fell off.

A black sword engraved with an unknown rune appeared in front of everyone, and the black sword without rust looked much smoother overall.

"This kid has found a treasure. Willp said to the crowd with a smug face.

――――

(It hurts!!)

That's how I feel right now.

Even though the healing magic is constantly recovering from my injuries, the pain from the wounds always keeps my mind tense.

Thinking back to the previous battles with these elders, I gasped for breath and felt palpitations.

Tut!!!

As the magic continued to repair my body, the pain in my body became more intense as the nerves transmitted.

Just when I was in a trance, the tiny symbol on the little finger in my right hand emitted a faint pale golden light.

A warm stream of heat seemed to be constantly swimming all over my body, and in an instant the pain in my body seemed to lessen a lot, and the speed of recovery from my injuries became much faster.

In that pale golden light, I seemed to see Winya's worried face.

............

The Underworld, inside the residence of the Black-framed Elder.

Winya was lying on the bed at this time, looking at the glowing mark on the back of her hand, and her expression became complicated.

"What a fool!" she said with some pissiness.

Winya kissed the back of her right hand gently, only to see the white light on the back of her hand turn golden.

"Good night, Tut. ”

............

"Hmm. ”

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