Surrounded by a large group of elves, we made our way through the forest at a very slow pace. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Brother"

Liu Xiao hadn't spoken for a long time.

Ever since she re-attached herself to me in the Great Cave, this girl has been tight-lipped ever since.

"Huh?"

"Tired"

"Well, I know, that's ...... I'll carry you."

"Hmm"

Liu Xiao was not polite at all.

But the girl was wearing a pair of jeans, so she didn't have any scruples.

Compared to when I first came to my house, it seems to be a little heavier.

This is a good thing, at least it shows that Liu Xiao lives with me here and is not hungry.

When I first hugged Liu Xiao, her light weight made me worried.

Now it's finally a little bit closer to the average middle school student.

On my back, Liu Xiao's breathing gradually became calmer, as if he was about to fall asleep.

Oh yes, that's when I realized that time is a contradiction.

When we left the human world, it was already midnight.

Then it should be noon in the elven world at that time, and when we came, there was a dazzling sun like noon.

But now that the sun was setting in the west, the forest was completely dark.

In other words, in the human world, even the early hours of the morning have passed, and it is already close to dawn.

Then it's strange that Liu Xiao is not tired.

'Remember, little ghost'

Ellie spoke softly to my heart.

'From now on, don't telepathically say a word to me'

"No, don't telepathize with me until you leave the world of reflections, understand?"

'Hmm'

'Wow! Don't use telepathy'

Oh, so from now on, I mean right away.

"Well, I know."

I suddenly said this, and several elves around me immediately stared at me.

No, you have to fool around.

"Ellie, Liu Xiao is sleepy"

"Well, I see"

Ellie turned around and gave me a 'little ghost is clever' look.

Liu Xiao pinched my arm, as if to protest against me using her as a shield.

The only thing I don't understand is why Ellie chose to walk from the forest instead of taking convenient transportation.

Just to walk with these executors for a while, talk and laugh?

Probably not.

"Lady Elliehana, we'll escort you here."

"Sister"

The elf with the long pink hair gave Ellie a hug.

Linda shook her hand gently at Ellie.

"Well, you guys go back, it's all right here"

With that, Ellie glanced at me.

"Imp, come here"

I squeezed from the back to the front of the crowd.

On the ground was another circular stone platform, carved with intricate and incomprehensible incantations, and countless dense rings shaped like gears overlapping each other.

"We're going up, everybody can come to us at any time"

Ellie waved to the elves, then took my and Liu Xiao's hands.

Poof——!

The flames in front of us had dissipated, and we had already appeared on another stone platform.

Just like when Mespier took me back to the Sunrise Valley, it was a wide circular stone platform.

The dazzling red light made it impossible for me to open my eyes.

The flames should be gone, right?

Wait a minute...... This is......

Mountains on the left and right meet here, and a narrow, fast-flowing river flows out of the Dawn Mountains and into the plains beyond.

Yes, this is a mountain gorge.

It's like a notch cut by a huge broadsword.

The cliffs on both sides are almost vertical.

A gorge about several hundred meters wide is formed here.

Above the canyon, on top of countless suspended stone bridges, a crimson city!

No, no, it should be said that there are many buildings, large and small, combined into one city.

On both sides of the mountain, all the leaves are red leaves.

The buildings that make up the stone castle are all made of red rock like iron ore.

The sun tilted towards the horizon sprinkled its afterglow on the city, reflecting the light on the white-flowered cliffs on both sides.

The vertical cliffs on both sides were dyed bright red.

"Red Cliff City"

Elle introduced me with a home-like tone.

Wait, I was stunned by this hanging crimson stone city just now, and I didn't react.

The sun is setting in the west, on the left-hand side, that is, the city, on the north side of the Dawn Mountains?

Not in the hinterland of elven territory?

"Clams, of course not"

Elle wouldn't let me telepathize, but she could still hear what I was thinking in my soul.

"In the heart of the Dawn Mountains is the Sunrise Valley, where most of the elves live"

"The people who live in Chiya City are just the Chiba family"

"This city exists here, which is why the giants of the north dare not invade it"

Just the Akaba family?

"And what about Mespil?"

Ellie held out her left hand and pointed in the direction the sun was setting.

"To the west, the westernmost part of the Dawn Mountains, the royal city of El Gunda"

Full of shock.

This is ————Dawn Mountains!?

It's bigger than I ever imagined.

Originally, I thought that the Dawn Mountains were a group of elves living on a mountain, erecting some ordinary buildings.

But now all that I see and hear is subverting my perception.

It's a whole kingdom.

Now I finally came up with this concept.

Then he raised his head to look at this Red Cliff City, and felt his heart pounding.

A towering, cylindrical main hall stands in the very center of the city, with a wide gate below, battlements and watchtowers above.

On the left and right sides is a slightly lower cylindrical building, on which are placed huge trebuchets-like machinery.

An elegant, oval-shaped building leans to the left, connecting the cliff.

Another church-like spire building leans to the right.

Dozens of small, hut-like buildings are piled up around the main buildings.

Form a stone castle that can be inhabited by hundreds of people.

And all these buildings are built on suspension bridges.

These suspension bridges are incomparably dense, densely packed from high to low, stretching and continuing in all directions.

It made it possible to lay the building and even form a flat avenue.

The circular platform on which we are standing is also built on top of the suspension bridge.

"It's a ...... Fortress?"

"Well, yes, Elgonda in the west, Chiya City in the north, and Baimu City in the south are the three fortresses of the Dawn Mountains."

"Now, Liu Xiao?"

I shook Liu Xiao's head and woke the girl from her sleep.

"Look at this"

"Uh-huh......"

Liu Xiao's hazy voice had a taste of amazement in it.

I put Liu Xiao down slowly.

The girl looked at the Red Cliff City in front of her in surprise.

"Come, I'll take you to where you live"

"Hmmm......"

Get off the platform and walk along one suspension bridge to another.

It was as if the wind would blow us off the bridge and into the rushing river below.

Although the city is large, there seem to be very few elves living here.

Occasionally, we would meet one or two elves who looked at us with curious eyes.

They would talk to Ellie in Elfish language as if they were greeting her.

"Well, this is it"

We stopped in front of a cylindrical stone building.

It spans two stone bridges, like building blocks stacked on top of each other.

There are some windows open on it, and it looks like it's about two or three floors, like a small villa.

Ellie pushed open the wooden door, and a fresh scent wafted from the room.

Walking in, the round room is spacious and bright inside.

A round table is placed in the center, there is a nice red carpet on the floor, and a few ordinary chairs are placed around it.

Next to the surrounding walls are rows of bookshelves filled with books of all sizes.

The innermost is a staircase leading up to the upper floor.

"...... here?"

"My Room"

Ay?

Her Royal Highness's room?

It's a little more spacious than my room, but it's far from the princess's room I imagined.

There are no wide dressers, no comfortable beds and ornate gauze tents.

"My bed is on the top floor"

Elle seemed to hear what I was thinking again.

"Ellie, is there any contact between the two of you?"

Liu Xiao asked, this smart girl probably already discovered the conversation between me and Ai Li in the military forest.

"Telepathy between the Medium and the Elves"

"......"

Liu Xiao blinked, then yawned.

"Liu Xiao and I go to the top, little ghost, you are on the second floor"

“ok”

As soon as Elle finished speaking, the sun seemed to match Elle's words and disappeared from the horizon.

All of a sudden, the sky darkened.

"Light Charm"

I turned on the magic in my palm and illuminated the stairs upstairs.

"Little ghost, are you getting more and more clever?"

"Elle is, like I think you know everything"

"Hmph, it's only in the magical environment of the Dawn Mountains, at such a close distance, that this level can be reached."

Passing by the second floor, I glanced into the room.

In the corner against the wall there was an ordinary bed with plain gray sheets on top and a white blanket on top.

The rest were all bookcases, volume by volume, not only on the bookcase, but also on the floor.

I didn't see it, it turned out that Elle was still a bookworm.

Send Ellie and Liu Xiao to the third floor first.

The décor of this room has changed completely.

How to say it, full of girlish style.

Whether it is curtains, beds, gauze tents, dressers, ornate carpets, they all have the style of a princess.

As soon as Liu Xiao came up, he walked directly to the side of the bed and fell on the bed.

"Brother, good night"

"Well, good night"

Back on the second floor, I felt a chill.

It's really full of the feeling of being alone in another world......

However, the smell of this room full of books is somewhat similar to that of the human world.

It calmed me down and made me feel a little at ease.