But Jarles and Dave walked into Hull's "Wally the Hero" tavern, having only arrived in Hull three days earlier. The last passage opened by the Elven King Saurendor Desman www.biquge.info sent them to the Stone City of St. Lucas, located in the westernmost part of the continent of Himo, a place rich in ore. An ore called "Dark Crystal" is produced there every day and shipped to various parts of the country, but Jareth has heard that it is the raw material for the "Soul Stone", an enchanting tool unique to St. Lucas.

It took them twelve days to get from Stone City in the far west to Hull in the far east. But Jareth kept in mind the last words the Elven King had said to her—protect the magic stone and ask for help from an elf named Randolph Serrim. But she was still suspicious of the Elven King's request for her to kill Regulus, she had already wronged him once, he had finally come back to life, how could he go and kill him again?

"No......" thought to herself, "shouldn't that fellow go back to Vasilian? he doesn't have the sword with him, and his breath is different...... Is it just a mistake?"

"Hey, what's wrong with you? What are you doing here, don't we have to ask about that Randolph Serim residence?"

"I didn't ...... It's nothing, it's just a mistake, it can't be so coincidental!"

But Yalath and Dave walked to the bar, and the tavern owner looked at the two of them in strange costumes, and said with some annoyance, "I guess you're not here to drink!"

Kyales pulled out two gold coins, slid them through the smooth table in front of the tavernkeeper, and said, "Give us both some of your specialties!"

"Okay, wait a minute!" the tavern keeper was in good spirits when he heard that there was business, and his tone was very different, after all, the most expensive wine he had here was only the price of a silver coin, and two gold coins were enough to drink with him for a whole day.

While waiting for the wine to be served, Dave asked Kryales, "Will that Randolph really help us?" ”

"Along the way, we have heard a lot of folk rumors, that the prestige of the man named Randolph among the people seems to be good, and that he must have his superiority if he can become a high-ranking person in the kingdom of men. People say that he does not discriminate against humans, but on the contrary is friendly to them. ”

"But we are now only afraid that we are already considered to be the murderer of the Elven King, who knows if Randolph has received a message from their elven companions!" Dave whispered, "What if we are caught or even killed by him as soon as we see him?"

"His Excellency the Elven King has given me something, saying that he will know it when he shows it to Randolph. ”

"What, is the Randolph you're talking about the warrior Lord Randolph Serim?" the tavern keeper brought two glasses of bright red wine and handed them to the two, "This is our specialty 'Blood Rose', please use it slowly!"

"Boss, what kind of man is this Lord Randolph Serim?" said Jareth, who took the glass, asked the boss, and took a sip of wine, the choking sensation almost causing her snot to flow from her eyes. She swallowed her saliva and patted her chest lightly to ease herself.

"Lord Randolph is a great man!" said the tavernkeeper, "and he is the only one of the four great warriors of St. Lucas who is truly admired by all people, and the others are mostly oblivious to us civilians, and rarely appear in the eyes of everyone. Lord Randolph had only been reused six years earlier, but he had been living in St. Lucas for many years before that. Before he became a Warrior, he was an enchanter in Elton City. Elton City was the birthplace of a centuries-old war of resistance more than 1,500 years ago due to the extinction of humanity, and he was easily reviled as an elf in that place. He endured it alone, day after day, year after year, sparing no effort to make the advanced magic of the elves accessible to all ordinary humans. He taught people a lot of elven knowledge, and promoted the mining of black crystals and the production of new soul stones throughout the country, which facilitated people's lives and drove the economy. Six years ago, he didn't know why he was promoted by His Majesty the King and became a warrior, but he still cared about the masses and established a society to learn elven culture and impart magical knowledge, and now the scale of the society is growing, and more and more people know about elves, and everyone is beginning to realize that the high elves are not our real enemies, and that we only lack communication in the past, and disputes will break out, and those evil dark elves lurking in the abyss of Zeller are our enemies. ”

"Not an enemy?" Dave smiled, and raised his head to take a long sip of wine, which was too strong for Koales, but Dave drank it as if nothing had happened, "You're just going to give them gifts when they come!"

"What do you mean?" the tavernkeeper frowned.

"Don't listen to his nonsense, he's joking!" said Jareth, glaring at Dave.

"Lord Randolph was the one who brokered the 'agreement' more than a thousand years ago, and if it weren't for him, the battle would have continued, and both sides would have been in dire straits!"

"He's been through that war! How old does he have to be!" Dave asked.

"We don't know much about the exact amount, but he is said to be at least 1,600 years old, but he looks about the same as a human just over thirty years old!"

"Do you know where this Lord Randolph lives, in the castle?" asked Jareth, pulling out another gold coin.

The boss saw the gold coin's eyes lit up, and thought that he had made a lot of money today, and said politely: "Lord Randolph lives in the underground palace in the west of the city, and the underground palace is said to cover the entire underground of Hull, it is an underground city, and only those who have passed his approval can enter the underground city to live, but I have always dreamed of being able to go there to open a tavern! The quality of the people below is much higher than that above! There is only a one-story mansion above the underground palace, which is where he usually receives guests." ”

But after thanking their boss, Jares and Dave set off for the west of Hull. Dave drank his cup of "Blood Rose" in one gulp before leaving, but Yalais took a sip and never moved, and she didn't know how Dave endured the feeling of burning his throat. Along the way, she felt that the magic stone she had hidden under the bracer kept beating, just like her restless heart beating at the moment. Now that Audon is after them, Chloe is hunting them, and the High Elves are waiting to seek revenge on them, they are already enemies on three sides, and if this Randolph is really their enemy, they are embattled.

The Elven King set a spell on the magic stone, making it the owner of the magic stone Koyales, saying that no one but her could obtain it, and they did an experiment for this. Kyales told Dave to take the stone from her, and when the thought of taking the stone came to Dave's mind, he couldn't get even a step close to the stone, as if his whole body was resisting his actions, until he ruled out the idea, and then he could get close to Kyales. But Yalath remembered that the Elven King had said that this magic had a time limit, and she didn't know how long the effect would last, and she couldn't always rely on the power of this magic to protect the magic stone. Despite possessing powerful magic stones, she didn't know how to use them at all, and she didn't know how to mobilize those magical powers. Dave had been urging her to learn how to harness the power of the Magic Stone, saying that this was the only way to compete with Chloe. She didn't want to learn that power, she thought that those powers were evil, this stone was evil, she even wanted to destroy this thing right away, so that Chloe would never get it, but even the black light that erased everything couldn't help it, what way could she destroy the magic stone?

They soon found Randolph Serim's residence, where they were warmly received by two humans dressed in elven attire at the door. But Yalath noticed that the elven robes worn by the two men were clearly imitations of humans, and they did not have any magical power that elven products should have, except for their physical similarity.

"You're here to visit Lord Randolph, aren't you? The elven armor you're wearing looks like that, it's like a real elven craft!" said the man on the left, looking at the emerald glass armor worn by Kyales.

"She's a real elven craft!" Dave said with his thumb on the tip of his nose, a little arrogant.

"Don't be kidding, how can elven artifacts be so easy to see now! We ordinary people can only look at Lord Randolph's body, and if we don't become his important subordinates, we can't get the elven robes he made himself, which is necessary to enter the underground city...... Don't talk about that, Lord Randolph doesn't happen to be out today, I'll go and help you report it, what do you two call you?" asked the man on the right.

But Ales looked down and pondered for a moment, then looked up and said to him, "You said that the two humans who came from Eriton had instructions from the Elven King Saurendor Desman, and that they had given it to him. But Yalais pulled out the green cube that the elven king had given her before he died.

The man was confused, but he did so. Soon Randolph Serrim himself came out to greet the two of them. From a distance, she saw a tall, silver-haired figure in a red robe trotting toward them. As he approached, Koreth realized that the tavernkeeper was right, that Randolph did not appear to be more than thirty years old, but that the age of an elf should not be measured by the human mind.

Randolph came to them, and when he saw the armor that Koyales was wearing and the long stick behind him, he lost color and said, "Yi...... Isabella?!" After he saw Kyales's face clearly, he calmly covered it up: "I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person, I thought ......"

"The armor I'm wearing belongs to Isabella Desman, and it's understandable that you'll be surprised. ”

"What?!is this ......"

"Let's go inside!"