Lua, who was leading the way in front, said nothing. Waterfall's silver hair spilled like silk on her back, a pair of pointed ears were exposed, and the silver hair swayed slightly with her steps. Although the slender and wonderful figure is beautiful, it does not have the slightest smell of fireworks, like a natural scenery with the surroundings. Especially when she is so deliberately unpretentious, people can only subconsciously stay on the viewing and can't go further.

Asa watched her back from behind. In fact, he was a little embarrassed by Lua's eagerness towards him at the beginning of the battle yesterday, and the two of them were dependent on each other on the way from the Whispering Forest to Calondo's escape from the necromancer, which was probably the most unforgettable experience in her life for a simple woman. But when Gru and his conversation came down, Asa remembered the disbelief, disappointment, and anger in her eyes. She has not spoken to Asa since.

The two of them walked forward silently. Along the way, many elves saluted Lua very respectfully, and at the same time looked at Asa with somewhat strange eyes. Although they knew that he was a friend of Cedros and a benefactor of the elves who had escorted the relics, there were many things about this man that were really difficult for them to accept. If it weren't for the two elders and Cedros personally confirming his identity, it would have been the weapon he had used that exuded a strange aura. The elves would have decided that he was either a Necronomicon agent or a spy for Negan.

Led by Lua, the two of them came to the very center of the Tulaone forest, under a huge ancient war tree.

It is no longer possible to calculate the size of the tree by how many people hug it. Because the first person who sees this tree will never think that it is a tree, but only that he has seen a huge castle or a hill with countless branches and leaves, and absolutely no one will want to hug a mountain.

The ancient tree is very thick and large. But it's not too high. At least not enough to be seen outside the hundreds of miles of Tulareone forest, and when you enter the forest, your view is usually obscured by nearby trees, and you don't usually see this miraculous plant. But when one stands under this tree and looks up, one cannot see the sky at all, except for the occasional sunlight from the branches and leaves that shade the sky. Only then can you find yourself like an ant next to an elephant.

A staircase of countless small branches stretched from the base of the ancient tree to the top of the tree, and Lua led Asa towards it.

Although they hadn't reached the top of the tree yet, it was quite high above the ground, and there were just the two of them on the stairs. Lua, who was walking in front, suddenly asked, "Why are you maintaining that black elf?"

Asa was stunned and scratched his head. He sighed and said, "Because it seems that only I can protect her." ”

Lua didn't speak, didn't even look back, and continued to walk upward. After a while, the two of them came to a tree house at the top of the tree.

In the treehouse, the meeting of the elven elders was just over, and some of the elven elders nodded to Asa, while others looked at him with strange eyes. Lua and the other elders left, leaving only Elder Lloyd and Asa in the treehouse.

"You may be seated. Elder Lloyd gestured to a spot in front of the window. In fact, this is not so much a tree house as a tree hole in the trunk of an ancient tree. He looked at the back of Lua, who was leaving, from the window, and smiled at Asa and said, "It seems that Elder Lua is still angry with you." ”

Asa shrugged his shoulders and smiled wryly.

Elder Lloyd looked at him with interest. "But yesterday you did take a bit of a surprise," he said. I always thought that you and Mr. Cedros must have a good understanding. ”

Asa smiled wryly and said, "I didn't react at the time. And I'm really not very good at fiddling with these scheming. ”

"But you understand later, why did you still make that choice?" Elder Lloyd asked as he looked at him as he continued, a look on his face that seemed to be a smile but not a smile.

After thinking about it, Asa still smiled bitterly: "I don't know either." ”

The cardinal and his party were only taken away with their limbs and crippled, and they couldn't even speak, like a heap of Shilika of a mountain of meat, and the other thieves were all thrown here and left for the elves.

"I really want to thank you this time. Thank you for bringing Mr. Cedelos here. You know, the way the cardinal looked at the leaves of the World Tree really scared me, and if it weren't for you, those people really don't know what would have happened. Lua ran up to Asa and didn't show her surprise until this time. "What are you doing all these days? Didn't you tell you to come and see me when you had time. ”

"I'm busy with something else......" Asa looked at the elven girl a little embarrassed. In front of the elves, the elders who commanded Ruoding were like a little child seeing a big brother who had not seen him for many years.

Elder Lloyd looked at the bound thieves, many of these murderers were still trembling in a desperate situation, after all, there were very few people who were as fierce as Helika, and the elven elder sighed, waved his hand to the elves and said, "They all surrendered. And I swore in the name of Marfa that I would let them out of here safely. Let them all go. ”

The thieves looked at the elven elder as if they were looking at a savior descending from heaven, and the greatest miracles could not now match the mouth of the elven old man.

Although the elves were extremely reluctant to let these people go, the oath made by their elders in the name of Marfa could not be violated. In desperation, they had no choice but to let the thieves go.

Looking at the backs of the thieves, Elder Lloyd suddenly sighed at Cedros and said, "It is inevitable that these people will not tell outsiders about today's events after they go out, and the inside story of the Tulaone Forest will be revealed to some extent. Actually, I really don't want to let them go, but I can't break my oath...... What a nuisance......"

Cedros smiled knowingly. He said, "Rest assured, these people are all manymen. A wicked man is his own hell. I see that as soon as they get out of the forest, they get sick, and it's a big disease. I don't have a chance to tell anyone about what happened here today. He paused slightly, smiled, and said, "Actually, the group of people in the church also expected that they would definitely have this strange disease, so they didn't care about them, in fact, if they told everything about today, it would not have no effect on Celeste." A cardinal and a paladin led four Templars and ten Templars to the scene, but finally walked away. This was a big blow to the morale of the coalition forces of the Church that were about to start fighting. ”

"It's just a matter of bothering you and your new subordinates. Cedros looked at Asa and made a covert gesture of pulling his thumb over his neck.

Asa sighed and nodded in understanding. Lua's eyes wandered between him and the two old men. Seems to understand something.

The elves around who heard the words of the Elder and Cedros did not understand what the metaphors meant. Although these elves are all over 100 years old, age and sleek sophistication are usually not the same thing, no matter how long they survive in a simple environment, especially if they still hold simple beliefs, they cannot mature in the world.

"Boss...... These two have a ...... relationship with you," Hilton walked over. Cautiously pointing at Cedros and Gru, he asked Asa. Although he could also see some clues, he was still not sure. And the almost terrifying combat power displayed by these two people seemed to him to be no longer in the category of 'human'.

"It's my employer......" Asa said briefly, and now was not the time to talk to them in detail.

"Wait, come here. Gru suddenly gestured to Jessica.

Jessica immediately walked over obediently. In front of Gru, she completely lost her usual unruly wildness, as if she had suddenly changed from a female leopard to a kitten, or the kind of kitten whose claws had been cut off.

Gru's eyes swept over her and said coldly, "You go to die"

Almost all of them were flustered. The phrase itself isn't terribly strange, it's usually a declarative rant before the final blow in a fight. But when it comes to being an imperative language, it feels weird.

As Gru's voice fell. The black elf's whole body immediately began to tremble. Those dark eyes were all filled with despair and fear, and there was not even a little resistance to the **, like a rabbit in front of a beast.

"Hurry up, do you want me to do it?" Gru frowned. Looking impatiently at the black elves.

Jessica was still trembling, and her delicate face was strangely twisted by the twisting of her muscles, but she didn't die as Gru had intended. Beads of sweat appeared on her face, and a flame of survival ** ignited from those black eyes. Her slender fingers spasmed at the two daggers at her waist.

"It is worthy of being a black elf who can escape from the family and escape to the ground alone, and it seems that his courage is not small. It's probably the biggest I've seen so far. I don't know if your people should be proud of you or angry with you. Instead of getting angry, Gru looked at Jessica and smiled. His smile was beautiful, like a knife, but with a soft edge. On his resolute and hard face, there was an indescribable charm that complemented each other. His eyes were also pitch black, but they were a deep sea, and the fire in Jessica's eyes was extinguished by the concentration of this black sea, so that there were no ashes left.

In fact, everyone can see that the current Gru is not much stronger than the black elves. But this smile and momentum have already crushed all of Jessica's fighting spirit.

Just now, the elves were still standing far away, and they didn't hear Jessica's identity, but now they heard it and immediately started to commotion. For the elves, these races, which share the same bloodline but live underground and worship darkness, are almost synonymous with evil and enemy. The two sides fought each other a lot in battles with Negan, and there were once black elves who came to the ground to hunt elves for living sacrifices to the gods they worshipped.

"She's a black elf?"

"I could have sensed a strange smell on her. ”

"Where's her ears?"

"It's like she's cut off, these wicked creatures really do everything, don't you see her eyes and hair are also disguised?"

Asa hurriedly stepped forward and blocked the front of the black elf. "Wait, what's going on?"

"Don't you understand, she's a black elf, so she has to die. Gru said lightly.

"I knew she was, but what does it matter? She is...... Be...... O my companion. Asa scrambled the vocabulary and said.

"It is because she is your companion that I want her to die. This is the Tulaone Forest, don't you understand?"

Asa frowned and thought about it, nodded and shook his head: "But ......"

"The Black Elves are lascivious, evil, selfish and cruel, and are the least trustworthy and companions in the world. Lua pulled Raasa's arm and lowered her voice. "The spell you used just now, as well as the weapon, have already disgusted many of your compatriots. If you have a companion of the Black Elves, they will never agree with you. ”

Cedros and Elder Lloyd were silent at this time, quietly watching from the sidelines.

Asa suddenly realized. He looked at Jessica, and Jessica was looking at him at this time. Although there was a lot of despair and fear in the eyes of the killer, looking at him, the only person who could save him, did not have the slightest intention of begging for mercy. This is not the look that a woman should have, cold and stubborn, like a beast in a desperate situation, without any hope of salvation from the sky.

This strange look made Asa feel a strange vibration in the depths of his heart, although it was small, but it spread to the whole thought. He sighed, but still stood in front of Gru and said, "No, she is my companion." ”

"Companion?" Gru laughed again. He looked at Assa, who for the first time felt as completely irresistible in his eyes as his words. "You him? So you're going to defend her like this. ”

Lua looked at Asa in astonishment, as in disbelief at the sight of him suddenly transforming into an undead.

"I'll tell you. For female black elves, there is no difference between copulation and eating with the boys they see, and it is not new to kill the subject immediately after copulation. You're just one of her dozens of men. Gru's voice was neither loud nor small, unassuming or deliberately suppressed, not enough for all the elves to hear, but at least a lot of it. He looked at Asa with a strange, somewhat sharp smile in his eyes, as if he was ready to watch a rare show. This expression appeared on him, and it seemed very strange. "Knowing this, do you still want to protect her? She is now your person, as long as you say a word, I can spare her. ”