There was silence around the destroyed altar. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Together, Cherus and Greywind Nanoha walked to the bloodied night elf male lying on the edge of the altar.

"The blood from the wound is still slowly flowing out, and the temperature of the body has not dropped too much, and it looks like he has just died. ”

After crouching beside the corpse and probing the temperature of the Night Elf's neck with the back of her hand, Nanoha, who had been a killer for a while, said, beside her, Cheruth leaned down and carefully examined the wound on the corpse of the Night Elf.

“...... It feels like it's caused by wind magic. ”

"Well, it should be," said Grey Wind, who was standing behind Cheruth, looking at the place on this side of the altar where there were obvious signs of battle, "The place of the battle should be right next to here, and the way the ground is blown up is indeed very similar to the effect of wind magic." ”

Chelus was silent as she looked at the open space beside the altar where Grey Wind pointed out that there were traces of battle.

There are so many problems, it is clear that the night elf and the night elf around the altar did not die at the same time, but came to the altar later and did not know who killed them, and judging from the murderer's methods, it is likely that the person who killed the night elf and the person who attacked and destroyed the altar were not the same person...... There were two prisoners, and how did they have any connection with each other, and why did the night elf come here alone after the altar was destroyed by a silent attack?

Cheruth pressed her temples, and at this time, she was really envious of the protagonists in the online texts that she had seen when she was on Earth in her previous life. Look at people, you only need to meet the adventure bubble beauty every day and think about how to upgrade and fight monsters, become more hanging, and live a simple and exciting life...... Why does she, a real traverser, have to play all this brainstorming all day long? Isn't the way she travels the right way?

At this moment, Gray Wind's ears suddenly twitched, and he looked vigilantly at the forest on the side of the altar.

"Xiaobai, someone is coming. ”

Cheruth turned around, and the pale cyan wind magic was condensed in her hand, but soon, the condensed magic dissipated again.

"Uh, are the night elves who came with us to the altar to support us?"

"Well, it's them, I remember that Miss Commander seemed to be called Luroth. ”

After being reminded by Nanoha, Cherus waited for the Night Elves to enter the clearing, and then raised her hand to greet each other.

"Captain Luroth...... We're late. ”

Luros and the Night Elves looked at the altar in shock, the corpses of their compatriots were all over the place, except that this time there were not so many blood stains and battle marks on everyone's bodies, and the sealing crystals on the altar platform had not been preserved but had been destroyed, it was almost exactly the same as the scene around the altar they had arrived at before.

And in this ruined and miserable area, what shocked them the most were the three Cheruth who were on the altar at the moment, and the dead night elf male lying next to the three of them.

“...... Ran, Lord Lannard!"

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After arranging guards near the two altars and people to retrieve the remains of their compatriots, Luluth and Daniart embarked on the road back to the village with the body of Lannard, a seventh-order powerhouse of the Night Elf Clan, along with Cerus.

Compared to when they came, everyone was nervous and worried because they wanted to support the altar as quickly as possible, but when they returned to the village, the atmosphere in the team was extremely dull and embarrassing.

The unexpected fact that another altar was destroyed, and the sacrifice of many of the Night Elves' clan and the powerful Lannard of the clan's prestige, were one of the main reasons for the dull atmosphere, but on the other hand, in this awkward atmosphere, the Night Elves' rejection of Cheruth and them could also be faintly felt.

The three people who should have broken through in advance to support the west altar did not appear near the west altar at all, and the miserable body of the strong man Lannard, who was supposed to be the first to reach the altar and drive away and pursue the enemy, was found in another destroyed altar, and these three people happened to be present.

Although everyone knows very well that Cheruth and they are the people trusted by the Great Elders, and Gettajelis and Eve can almost be regarded as their own people, they have no reason or motive to murder the Night Elves at all, and this kind of thing is a bit coincidental no matter how you look at it, and the meaning of deliberately blaming the evil is full of it...... But the problem is that not everything in this world can be solved by rational thinking.

Lannard is a strong man from the Moon Knights, and he has always served as the chief combat instructor in the Moon Knights before his death, and most of the elite warriors of the Night Elves who came out to support Luros and the others this time are also from the Moon Knights, which means that they have been trained under Lannard can be said to be the same relationship as a teacher and student.

Now, the teacher died at the hands of an unknown murderer, the prisoner has no clue, and the only ones who are most suspicious are the three of them, even if rational analysis tells them that the three of them are very likely not to be murderers, but this kind of negative feelings derived from witnessing the death of the teacher makes it impossible for them to be companions as unscrupulous as before.

Cheruth was well aware of this, and apart from acting as a representative to recount the facts and insist that they had nothing to do with Leonard's death, the Wolf Maidens did not make any unnecessary explanations, and even prevented Danyat, who believed them, from interceding with Luruth and the others on their behalf.

She was still too naïve, she thought that even if the appearance of the Hand of Death was a trap, they would be able to escape with their whole body, but she didn't expect that the other party's trap would not appear in a fighting way at all...... It's really careless, she has always been proud of being smart, when did she become full of fighting to solve problems.

So far, the best way is to use the most honest and effective way to wash away the suspicions and estrangements of the night elves about them, there are only the last three left in the sealing altar, and the pressure on the night elf elders on the other side of the sealing place will definitely become more and more huge, and the good sealing mage does not know when it will be completed by completing the altar seal, and if she fights with the night elves in the nest again at this critical moment, it will really not be able to see the odds at all.

Knowing this in her heart, Cheruth took the initiative to go to the elders to explain everything and clarify herself in person after returning to the village, and her frank attitude finally made Luluth and the other night elves feel a little better, and agreed that there were only two people when Cheruth and Nanoha went, while Grey Wind and Gertajelis, Eve, who were now staying in the village, and just wait in the accommodation arranged for them by the night elves.

Gray Wind naturally had objections to such an arrangement, but under the persuasion of Cheruth's "Only Sister Gray Wind who can get in touch with me at any time can I rest assured that you can follow everyone", Sister Wolf finally agreed, but in her heart, Sister Wolf was also a little depressed - at the beginning, she asked Sister Heluo to establish a summoning contract for them because she wanted to be closer to Xiaobai, but now this has become one of the standard reasons for Xiaobai to act separately from herself at a critical juncture......

In this way, all the way back to the village in an atmosphere of sadness and embarrassment, Danyat, Greywind Gettajelis, and Eve left the group and returned to the residence of Cheruth and the others to explain the cause and effect to Sekaria and Shanoff, while Cheruth and Nanoha, together with Luluth, who was carrying Lannard's body, walked towards the Elder's stone house amid the sad exclamations of the night elves who noticed them.

After meeting with Grand Elder Sumario, explain the matter clearly, and this matter should be over...... That's what Chelus had thought.

However, it still echoes the old saying: plans can never change as fast.

Long before they returned to the village, Grand Elder Sumario, who had been rotated back to rest by another night elf powerhouse who was proficient in sealing, guessed through the strange movement coming from the sealing place that another altar had been poisoned by an attacker, and before Chelus and the others returned to the village, Sumario had already left for the sealing place. Therefore, in fact, the two elders who received Cherus, Nanoha, and Luluth in the stone house were the remaining two elders who were in charge of staying in the village just in case.

Among the three night elf elf elders, the great elder Sumario has the most trust in Cheruth, and also has the most qualifications and right to speak, and now that Sumario is not there, although the other two elders are actually quite friendly to Cheruth, but due to the importance of the matter, this time the night elf clan not only almost destroyed two altars in a row, but also lost Lannard, a strong law in the clan, plus through the testimony of Cheruth, it is very likely that there is more than one law-level attacker, so much bad news makes the two elders quite anxious and undecided。

Of course, there is another thing that the two elders did not tell Cheruth about them, and that is that now, the fact that they had secretly suspected that there was an attacker in the clan was almost certain. Before the two of them returned, the two of them had gone to see the badly wounded Afarya for themselves, and according to Afary, the two altars that had been attacked today were almost the longest gap in the network of patrol routes they had carried out in terms of the timing of the attack.

If it weren't for the fact that Afaria and the others accidentally sped up and arrived nearly ten minutes earlier than expected when they were on their way to the Western Altar, then I am afraid they would not have encountered the attacker, the man in black, and had a chance to drag the other party and release the sentry arrow.

It was only fifteen minutes and there was no time for the nearest patrol to be accurately grasped by the attackers, you must know that the patrol route of the scout team in the valley forest every day during this time was re-planned, and if there were no people within the night elf clan to leak these plans, the other party would theoretically not be able to get stuck for two good times in a row.

Although this inner ghost should have nothing to do with Cheruth and the others who did not participate in the formulation of the Night Elf patrol network in this way, after all, there was such a thing, and the Night Elf Clan, who had been attacked by this kind of stuffy sneak attack one after another, was now a rumor from top to bottom, and the two junior elders did not wait for Grand Elder Sumario to come back and agree, and it was indeed impossible to easily make the decision to let Ruth and the others go out of their conservative opinion.

Eventually, Cherus and Nanoha accepted the Elder's suggestion not to go back to join the Greywind and stay overnight in the middle of the Night Elf Village...... Well, what doesn't sound good is actually house arrest with hidden surveillance.

Although Cheruth and the others did not have any motives in their normal considerations, the suspicion that they suddenly disappeared in the middle of the support of the Western Altar and then appeared in front of the body of Leonard on another altar was indeed a bit difficult to justify. After all, the Hand of Death had only appeared twice before the eyes of Cheruth and the others, but had never been witnessed by any of the Night Elves, or living Night Elves. Even though Chyruth said they were chasing the killer who had been sniping the sealing altar with life-based magic, they didn't have any convincing evidence.

Walking out of the Elder's stone house, Cheruth sighed softly as she followed the night elves leading the way to the village's temporary shelter.

She really behaved badly this time...... Although she was happy after three years of peaceful daily life, it seemed that it was time for her to find the tension and decisive intuition that she had been full of crisis consciousness three years ago.

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At night, an alien dwelling on the edge of the night elf village.

After dinner, Sekaria stood alone by the window of the corridor outside the room, quietly watching the last quarter moon in the sky outside the window.

Although the name of this place is Moon Valley, in fact, it is only after the night elves chose this place as a family residence, in order to commemorate the most god-level powerhouse in their mythological era, Lord Luna gave the valley such a name, in fact, the moon here, purely from the perspective of night view, there is no obvious feeling that it is more beautiful than other places.

However, at this moment, Sekaria did not have the leisure to judge the moon in the Moon Valley as unworthy of its name, and she was deeply immersed in the dark troubles that had been bothering her for these days.

Himself, as a partner of Cheruth, is too weak.

If, if he could be stronger, if he could at least have the ability to protect himself and fight in close encounters like Sister Gertajielis, as a pure magician, he would have been able to follow the Celestial Ones all the time. For something like today, if I had been there, I might have been able to remind Cerus in time that she wouldn't make such a mistake......

The moment she realized that she had such thoughts, Sekaria lowered her head, and her beautiful face showed a very depressed and self-deprecating expression.

It's ridiculous...... That's right, she's really ridiculous, this kind of thinking has no basis at all, is she, is she flaunting that she is smarter than Grey Wind and Nanoha, is she flaunting how wise and intelligent she is and how witty she is in the world...... Sekaria, what a ridiculous and arrogant "princess......

...... But why, knowing that this idea is so ridiculous and arrogant, she just can't help but think so.

She's ...... She was really unwilling, and when she watched Gray Wind contact Cheruth who was temporarily living in the village through the contract, and then conveyed Cheruth's comfort to everyone in that reassuring and calm tone, she was really unwilling.

Ugly jealousy?

She doesn't know, she doesn't care, ugly is ugly, she's just...... Even if it's a little bit, I want to help my favorite people directly.