According to Cecil's description, the so-called Lost Lands are places where some dark elves who have betrayed the Eternal Night Empire and renounced their faith and race are exiled.

The Dark Elves who live in the Lost Lands are a group despised by all Dark Elves.

"That's right!"

David was going to ask Raines later, maybe to get more information about the Dark Elves from the missionary.

Right now, he kept chatting with Cecil, and learned from the other party how powerful the Eternal Night Empire was, and also knew that the black ship that Cecil was piloting earlier used an energy called "dark energy" as an energy source.

"Dark energy?"

"Dark energy is the greatest technology in the history of the Dark Elves!"

Although Cecil didn't say it very clearly and thoroughly, David still roughly understood that this kind of energy called dark energy is the energy obtained by the dark elves using special technology to transform various energies, including arcane.

The purpose, of course, is to facilitate one's own use.

The use of this energy has touched all aspects of the Eternal Night Empire, in addition to ships and cars, which is why the two dark elves are not surprised to see the car transformed by the Autobots, but they feel that the appearance is more special. In the Empire of the Eternal Night, something like this is often seen.

David unconsciously touched his chin, and a strange feeling rose in his heart: according to the brother and sister, the civilization level of the Eternal Night Empire is far greater than that of these human countries in the eastern part of the Brennia continent, why has it never moved towards the east?

"We dark elves are a peace-loving race, and we will not start wars casually."

「……」

Seeing Cecil's peaceful remarks, and Enid's female dark elf nodding solemnly in agreement, David decided not to pursue the subject any further.

He began to ask the siblings about the purpose of their trip!

When it comes to archaeology, the siblings immediately become much more energetic, especially Cecil, who has always maintained his personal image and even speaks in a steady tone and polite words.

"I've been interested in history since I was a child, and after years of study, I became an archaeologist, exploring historical records that have been lost for various reasons."

According to Cecil, he became a scholar as an adult, and then painstakingly studied various historical texts, memorizing almost all the historical materials recorded in the Eternal Night Empire.

As a result of this, he was surprised to discover that many historical accounts were conflicting, and that there were many faults, and even all kinds of errors.

This is a normal thing for historical records, but Cecil suddenly felt that as the best historian of the Eternal Night Empire, he had a responsibility to improve and restore these historical materials.

So Cecil embarked on the path of archaeology, and so far he has done a good job, digging up a lot of "lost" and "lost" historical information, some of which leads him to the East, where he may be able to dig up more information.

"So, I'm here with Enid."

"This is where you started? Don't you just want to come to the East?"

"Yes, at the northern tip of the eastern part of the continent, there are peaks that reach to the sky." Cecil bluntly stated his destination, which was the peak to the north: "The clues I have found over the years have revealed a part of the history of the Dark Elves before the establishment of the Eternal Night Empire."

According to Cecil, the entire continent of Brennia was ruled by the Dark Elves a long, long time ago, and there was nothing human doing at that time.

But later, fierce conflicts broke out within the dark elves, and humans took advantage of the rise of the situation, so some of the dark elves retreated to the west of the continent and established the Eternal Night Empire.

The other dark elves also scattered to various places, and the information he found showed that some of the powerful dark elves "traitors" had retreated to the northeastern part of the continent near the mountain peaks.

「……」

For some reason, David suddenly thought of the two that he had discovered

Altar, could it be that the dark elves left behind?

As she continued to talk to Cecil, Enid began to join in the conversation as she became more familiar, but David couldn't get anything more from the siblings.

As for whether there are dark elves in the northern peak, the brother and sister are not very sure.

The two of them just followed the clues to find them, as for the human ...... There are not many records of humans on the Dark Elves' side, but they are described as backward, barbaric and infighting-loving races, taking advantage of the Dark Elves' civil strife to occupy the eastern part of the continent.

「……」

These were not the original words of the brother and sister, but the information that David carefully condensed and sorted out, and even then he noticed that the faces of the two dark elves were rather strange, probably because he felt that the dark elves' evaluation of humans was too embarrassing to say in front of a human.

After chatting for a while, seeing that it was almost noon, David invited the two dark elves to the dining room to eat together.

After asking in advance if the dark elves had any taboos about eating, the difficult task of cooking was handed over to Jonah.

Jonah was an excellent chef, and when he arrived in Winter, he learned and adapted to the tastes of the people in Winterwinter to create new dishes.

Luckily, the dark elves have no taboos about their diet, and the siblings have expressed their desire to try the special food of the human world.

At the dinner table, in addition to David, the lord of Wintertown, Laura, an archaeologist, was also there, chatting with Cecil about archaeological things.

"After lunch, I'll show you around Winter Town." Because of the common topic, Laura immediately expressed her willingness to be the guide of the brother and sister, and took the two of them to visit Winter Town together.

Of course, Laura also secretly glanced at David, as if to say, "Look at how I can help you get more information!". c

By the time lunch was over and Laura was leading the pair of dark elves out for a stroll, Edwin Van Cleef appeared in front of David just in time.

Back in the office, David, who drank tea and ate the fruit sent by Helen as a dessert, asked about the black ship.

"My lord, there are indeed some weapons on the black ship, but they are more self-defense weapons that you carry with you, and there are not many of them."

"Cold or hot?"

"It looks like a cold weapon, my lord."

Van Cleef didn't use those weapons in order to avoid startling the snakes, so he didn't know if there was anything special about these normal-looking swords.

"How did Rains arrange that?"

"I've been recruiting some new people lately, and one of them, Welcox, has approached the missionary."

"Oh!"

David had thought about forming a professional intelligence unit, which had actually taken shape and had recently begun to operate under the command of Van Cleef.

It's just that the name has not been officially decided, and David has thought of a few names in his spare time, such as MI9, the Hammer Bureau, the Wolf's Lair, etc., and he always feels that it is not in his liking, and it is estimated that in the end it will be very traditional to install the signboard of the Winter Intelligence Bureau.

"Do you think I should set up an observation guard on the other side of the Winter River?" Previously, his attention had been focused on the east and south, and the expanse of the Winter River gave him the illusion that there would be no threat popping up from this direction.

But the appearance of the Dark Elf siblings was a wake-up call, and he paid a little too little attention in this direction.

"Yes, sir!" Van Cleef also felt that Wintertown's defenses to the west were too weak, and it could have been said that there were no "hostile forces" in this direction, but the reality was that anyone, any force, could emerge from this side.

After all, they hadn't even scouted what was on the other side of the Winter River right now.

"The Navy has to get up and running, too."

David likes to do things the same way, and after doing one thing and then dealing with another, but the reality is that when you want to do things the same way, more things will pop up

to distract you.

Especially as a lord, he must start learning and getting used to multitasking, otherwise he will not be able to become a competent ruler.

After Van Cleef left, David went to find James Norrington first.

The former Royal Navy Commodore has not been messing around since he came to Winter Town, quietly waiting for David's "recruitment", but using all the time he can use to enrich himself.

Ever since he came to Winter and seen all kinds of strange things, he knew that he had to learn a lot of new things if he wanted to establish himself in Winter Town.

Elizabeth and Will gave him similar advice: to become a significant member of Wintertown, you have to learn a lot of new things, and it's not enough to rely on your past skills!

So Norrington learned all sorts of new things, in addition to learning the Brennian lingua franca (there were no language tools at the time).

Like Fodin, Norrington not only read books, but also began to learn about video games, movies, television, animation, etc., so that his tactical theory would not be outdated, and at the same time, he would have a more intuitive understanding of advanced weapons.

So when David finds the Commodore Royal again, he is no longer a Commodore from the Age of Sail, but a former Commodore from a video game addiction......

Fortunately, Norrington has not forgotten his original intention, he is addicted to these things in order to be able to gain a foothold in Winter Town, so when David came to him, Norrington took the shortest time to put his personal image in order, change into clean and tidy clothes and prepare for the test from the lord.

"Test? What test?"

"Aren't you going to test my professional abilities, sir?"

"You're a naval commander in the whole of Winter Town, and you don't even have a fisherman who can fish besides you, is there anyone else else besides you and me?"

「……」