Frey sat among the flowers in the indoor garden as usual, centered on her body, and the flowers on the ground that had finished their flowering were faintly showing signs of blooming.

This is the effect of the inscription engraved on her.

Frey is an elf from the 'Endless Forest' south of the Fallosi border, and they are also known as the Dark Wood Elves because their power comes from an ancient black tree in the center of the forest.

The owner of this mansion, the Grand Duke from Falosi, has been friends with the Blackwood Elves for generations, so as the best guardian of the Blackwood Elves, she has always followed the only daughter of the Blackwood Elves as a guard.

Over the years, she has also contracted some of the bad things that Fallosis have, that is, she has a different obsession with songs and stage plays.

One thing she prefers to sing is singing rather than her master, the Flower of Fallosi, who is particularly attached to stage plays.

My favorite thing to do every day is to find a place where no one is and hum some of my favorite songs alone.

The mansion's built-in garden is the best place Frey has performed since she stayed in Nolan.

What Frey is humming today is the song she heard yesterday from the so-called 'Beauty and the Devil Fan Meeting'.

Recently, since the elf came to Nolan, the most heard was not the name of her master, the Flower of Falosi, but "Beauty and the Devil", a performance she had never heard of in so many years.

Frey admits that Beauty and the Devil was a wonderful performance, better than all the stage plays she'd seen in so much time with her master.

But it was because her owner began to behave very strangely after watching this performance, locking herself in her room every day without mentioning it, and when she went out, she dressed up and ran towards Nolan's lower town.

Only yesterday did she listen to her mother's invitation, put on a grand dress again, and went to the White Thorn Flower Theater.

It's all that demon......

Frey suspects that if this continues, the once dignified and elegant lady will disappear and be replaced by a rude swan.

But Frey can't deny that the music in Beauty and the Devil is beautiful, especially the 'let·it·go' song she listened to yesterday.

After listening to it just once, she memorized the melody and lyrics, and today she can play it again on the harp, but unfortunately, with the timbre of the harp, it is destined not to be as fast as the original song.

"Meow ......"

Halfway through Frey's song, a black cat appeared on her shoulder and yawned.

Mrs. Nishizawa, the hostess of this mansion, is allergic to cats, so felines are forbidden to appear in the mansion, but this black cat is not a cat in the true sense of the word, but a kind of 'protocrystal' with life.

The elves call it the Wood Spirit, and the black cat was born from the Black Wood guarded by Frey, and when every Dark Wood Guardian is doing something that interests it, it will appear next to the elf.

The song 'Let·It·Go' actually attracted the spirit of the great ancient wood?

Frey looked at the black cat crouching on her shoulder with some surprise.

For their clan, it is a great gift and recognition for the Spirit of the Ancient Wood to be able to appear by their side!

The excitement made the elf sing much louder, but her long ears heard a murmur that did not belong to the notes as she listened to the notes played by the harp.

Who... Step in here!

Maybe it's because Frey is learning magic mainly because she is 'hidden', and she doesn't like to show herself in front of strangers, let alone sing in front of strangers!

It's like someone holding her long ears in her mouth and licking them constantly, and the shame and shame that makes Frey tremble.

But what makes Frey paradoxical is that she still wants more people to hear her singing, which is why she comes to the garden every day instead of staying in her room and sings alone.

But now the shy elf girl stopped singing as soon as she heard the footsteps, and the inscription imprinted on her body flickered, and her figure disappeared from the flowers in an instant, and even the harp she held in her hand disappeared into the air.

But as if the black cat hadn't noticed anything, it continued to crouch on the grass and clean its paws.

Why... The Spirit of the Ancient Wood hasn't disappeared?

By the time the elven girl hidden in the shadows tried to hold the black cat, it was too late, and the demon had already stepped into this ancient territory.

"Could it be that this black cat sang Let·It·Go just now?"

Ciri followed the song all the way to the interior of the garden, and found no human figure, but saw the black cat licking its fur in the center of the garden.

Ciri, who usually likes to catch some small animals to eat in the wild, committed an 'occupational disease' at this time, and cautiously approached the black cat.

But it quickly sensed Ciri's approach, and before Ciri could make a move, it trotted all the way away from Ciri's range, and... Ran to Qiao Xiu's feet.

Qiao Xiu felt the fluctuation of magic power in this cat...

Curiosity made Qiao Xiu half-squat down, and reached out to touch the hair on the back of the cat, the texture of the hair was a bit like a liquid, but this was not the focus of Qiao Xiu's attention.

Isn't this a protocrystal?

Qiao Xiu, who had been dealing with all kinds of protocrystals for almost a month, immediately judged what the essence of this cat was...... A living protocrystal, and the number of inscriptions that can be engraved in it is terrifying!

At this moment, Qiao Xiu suddenly had a bold idea, but this idea had not been generated for long, and a cold aura hit Qiao Xiu's back.

The elven girl who had been hiding in the shadows would certainly not allow Qiao Xiu, a demon with a strong aura of death, to touch the spirit of the ancient wood that their clan had guarded in the era.

However, just as Frey pulled out her dagger and swung it at Qiao Xiu's back, a magic wand blocked her dagger.

The dagger did not touch the wand, but shattered a magical inscription built on the wand.

Frey jumped back in amazement, looking at which female caster had blocked her attack...

"I was going to catch that cat, forget it..."

Ciri waved the magic wand in her hand, and the pure white inscription surged on the magic wand, and after a beautiful performance of the sorceress, the sorceress rushed towards the elf with the staff strengthened by the inscription.

This is not the traditional way of fighting for magicians, and Frey has never seen such a reckless spellcaster.

Ciri's combat power has grown a lot better than the last time Qiao Xiu met her, mainly because her magic wand has been fully upgraded.

Frei didn't attack any further, because the spirit of the ancient wood in Qiao Xiu's hand had already dissipated without a trace, quietly leaving the garden, and there was no reason for her to continue the fight and disappear into the shadows again.

"Ran away? But I didn't expect that an assassin would really come to the door. ”

Ciri glanced around with his staff in his hand, but could no longer find the elf.

"That elf shouldn't belong to the Holy Sect."

Qiao Xiu recalled the touch he had just touched the black cat, the number of inscriptions that the protocrystalline with the appearance of a black cat could carry was probably more than that of the protocrystalline lizard... Maybe Qiao Xiu should catch that cat and use it as a server?