Adele's hatred for the Mejevars is engraved in her bones, and she believes that her half-elves share the same hatred as she does.

But that doesn't seem to be the case.

If what her childhood friend Lisa said is true, then it seems that many people in the dark valley have forgotten the hatred of the past, perhaps because the survival of this place is so difficult, and the old hatred has no meaning in the face of cruel reality.

After all, one can't eat hatred for food, except for those who really have nothing.

In short, after the shadow elves who took refuge showed some "goodwill", many half-elves felt that maybe they should be given another chance.

What stupidity!

From Lisa, a childhood friend, Adele learns that there are currently 3,500 people in the Dark Valley, which is the result of the difficult multiplication of the past twenty years, and only 500 more than when Adele left.

Half-elves are obviously not as difficult to breed as true elves, but they are still at a disadvantage compared to humans who are particularly capable of giving birth.

This scale has almost reached the limit of the population that this valley can support, and as the current mistress of the valley, Lisa must expand beyond the valley if she wants to expand her group, and she has indeed done so.

"In a small woodland near the Black Flame Pass, our people have built a small village of two hundred people, and it is they who first discovered the fleeing shadow elves, and most of those elves live there.

They exchanged some supplies from us for the village and named it 'New Mejewa'. ”

In the temple of Avalon in the valley, Lisa briefed Adele on the situation, and she said sarcastically:

"The elves who are not willing to be left alone are still trying to rebuild their families, and their ambition is to drive out the underground beasts and restore the city in the future, but I know that many of them are desperate.

These guys are completely relying on the prophecy of the Weaver Girl, but now that the Weaver Girl has been kidnapped and does not know whether she is alive or dead, there are already shadow elves who can't bear to start fleeing, and according to my scout's report, the village will be completely finished in a month or two at most.

But as I said earlier, some of those elves don't give up yet.

They came to my valley and bewitched the elders to send men to save their prophets from the dangerous dungeon of the goatmen, and even made promises they could not keep.

They said they were willing to hire us with the treasures of the Mejewa family, and many young people were tempted, including even a few elders.

I also know that the pesky elves see me and Merkel as thorns in their side who have always resisted them, and that they must be secretly plotting my assassination, just as our parents told us stories about the vicious elves.

While the Weaver Girl was still there, she was still able to suppress those guys who were ready to move.

But now that she's missing, it's hard to say if those bastards are going to do something dangerous in my valley.

You're here at the right time, Adele. ”

Lisa stepped forward and whispered to the Shadow Intelligence Officer:

"With the Elder and the Shadow Elves at the moment, Merkel and I can't get rid of these dangerous bastards jumping up and down in the open.

But you can!

I'll hire your vampires to get rid of the lost dogs in the night, and then I'll be back in power as the Mistress of Shadow Valley, and I'll talk to you about what your master behind you wants.

You see, Adele, it's useless to talk to you about this now, I came to power with the support of a few elders, and many young people are willing to follow me, but the old men are stubborn.

They have always been stubborn

I need your help, my friend no, my best friend, we have a more intimate experience than friends, we are born to stand together, no matter what fate has turned you into, you are my dearest handkerchief handkerchief. ”

"Lisa, you're bewitching me and making me your opponent's sword!"

Despite Lisa's sincerity, Adele's early experiences and what she had seen and heard in the service of Murphy had already transformed her, and the mistress of the valley in front of her could not hide from her.

Adele was a little disappointed, but she didn't choose to pretend not to know but directly provoked the situation in front of her, and she said sharply:

"I don't know what you've been through all these years, but there's no doubt that you've begun to succumb to the part of your vein that belongs to the Shadow Elves, you're using what the Shadow Elves do best against them, and you've even tried to turn a stranger into a weapon for you to attack others.

If Aunt Bernice saw this, she would be very disappointed. ”

"You also said you were a stranger! Adele. ”

Seeing that the negotiations broke down, Lisa simply stopped pretending.

She took a step back and scolded Adele:

"It's been more than twenty years since you've been here, and do you expect your sudden appearance on this night to make everyone accept you as you did when you were a child?

I admit I'm taking advantage of you, but you have to understand that I have good intentions towards you, Adele, or I wouldn't have to let you into the valley, let alone tell you all this information that shouldn't be known to outsiders.

I'm giving you a chance to re-accept you.

You also know the rules of this valley, you can only be a part of this place after shedding blood for a common goal, and I want you to be one of us again and not appear before me as a vampire master, reading your master's will.

Damn it!

I haven't even met him!

Why should I listen to His call or even obey Him?

Adele, do you think what you want me to do is what a leader should do? I'm using you, but aren't you using your childhood connections to coerce me?

Open your eyes and see, we're all not young anymore!

We're no longer kids who pull hooks to make promises on everything, let's be realistic! If you want to get something, you have to give first.

Help me really take power, Adele.

I will give you and your host a satisfactory answer. ”

This question and answer made the Shadow Intelligence Officer a little helpless, she looked at Lisa with her arms in front of her, and after a few seconds of silence, Adele said:

"You're afraid of me."

"Huh?"

Lisa made a sound from her nostrils, she sneered, and said:

"Why should I be afraid of you? I'm not as strong as you vampire, but this is the Valley of the Shadows, Adele, and you know how fierce our people are in the face of their enemies.

The blood of the gladiators of the Eternal Rift runs in our veins, and it is your mother who has taught us not to fear power! We will always remember Ms. Mona's teachings, but you seem to have forgotten them all.

You chose to be a dog for a vampire."

"You're just scared of me!"

Adele was not affected at all, and she scolded:

"You're afraid I'll go back to the valley and get back what belongs to me, Lisa! You know better than anyone that your current position belongs to me.

You don't even dare let me come into contact with the elders!

Because you know that once they see Mona's daughter return to the valley with outside powers, once I ask to inherit my mother's place, they may hesitate, but they will eventually oust you from the throne of the chief.

It's not that they're cold-blooded, it's that you're not good at this business at all, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to deal with the elders for so many years, and I guess your husband Merkel doesn't support you being hostile to the elders, otherwise you wouldn't have come to me to beg for a 'stranger'.

Lisa!

You must be desperate to try to hire us to do things for you, and I guess it's not the elders who really hook up with the shadow elves, it's you!

It's you who get entangled with them, trying to take advantage of them like me, but the Shadow Elves won't be fooled, and those born out of the pool of intrigue know who to choose to keep the situation going when they're down.

Don't pretend.

The one who really needs help right now is you, not me.

You'd better be honest with me! ”

The Shadow Intelligence Officer looked at Lisa's increasingly pale face in front of her, and knowing that she had taken the initiative, she took a step back, leaning against her mother's sarcophagus and looking at her childhood friend.

After giving Lisa, who was still very young and impulsive, a little bit of dismount and giving her time to calm down, Adele spoke again:

"If you need help, be honest and make it clear.

As I told you, Uncle Bella and Aunt Bernice are still alive, serving with me the Doge of Translasia, and Master Murphy wants to use the terrain of the Dark Valley to form a front line against the Plague.

I'll not hide it from you, I have already made plans and instructions to the warriors of Transancia on the way here, they are fierce warriors that you cannot imagine in the most terrible nightmares, and your valley will not protect you.

Once I give the order, they will use the craziest methods to break you down and get the victory he wants for Governor Murphy.

I'm not threatening you.

Well, I'm just threatening you!

Lisa, Mistress of the Dark Valley, I have not come here to hear you about the little conspiracy you are going on, my poor best friend, and being in this valley has obviously greatly limited your potential, and has made you like a frog in a well not see the true firmament.

But my host was generous.

All he wants is the valley itself, and if you move out, you'll get a new home in a forest ten times richer than here, and if you want to live in a human city, you'll get the status of a resident of the Crimson Keep.

No one there will discriminate against you because you are of mixed race.

In fact, if my mother were still alive, if she had seen the current Crimson Keep with her own eyes, she would have no hesitation to abandon this valley and take everyone through the filthy swamp to get there.

That's where my overly idealistic mother wanted to see all her life, and now, this chance to be the real leader is in your hands!

A good leader should not divide his people, but lead them to a place where they can settle down, and I have brought you everything you need to establish your majesty among your people, and all you have to do is nod. ”

Adele stretched out her hand and stroked her mother's sarcophagus, and she whispered:

"I'll give you one last chance, Lisa, my childhood friend, and you'd better make a reasonable choice before things get to the worst.

I'm going to see the elders now.

I am sure to convince the old people who escaped from the Eternal Rift with my mother, and I will come up with a lot of evidence to convince them to agree to the move, all I need now is the nod from you and the young people under your command.

But don't worry."

Mrs. Vampire stepped forward and put her hand on Lisa's beautiful cheek.

She stroked Lisa's cheeks and her oddly colored hair as she had done when she was a child.

She looked at Lisa's eyes with a hint of resistance and fear, and her fingers forcefully touched her forehead against her own.

She whispered:

"I will not take your throne as leader, my poor childhood friend who has been bound by power, and you will remain the mistress of the Shadow Valley for as long as you will. But I don't think this title is any more prestigious than the official 'Baron of the Vale' in Transnesia.

You're learning from the part of your vein that belongs to the Shadow Elves, and you're unlocking your potential in this area.

This is good.

But when you learn, you have to learn it well, Lisa.

The Shadow Elves never offer loyalty to the weak Mother of Lordship, and there is many, much more to learn from becoming the true head of a family.

But don't be afraid, I'll teach you.

It's like when you were a kid, I'm willing to teach you everything you don't know.

I'm going to rescue the missing Weaver now.

If the Shadow Elves are eager to rebuild their family, then my master will generously give them a chance, and Transcia will not refuse the Shadow Elves to join, provided they are willing to obey the rules of the land. ”

In the face of Adele's strong "persuasion", Lisa initially wanted to refute, but the more she listened, the more silent she became, and she couldn't find a reason to confront the person in front of her.

Obviously, compared with Adele's experience and growth in the outside world for more than 30 years, Lisa's growth, which has been trapped in the dark valley, is too immature, and she is almost crushed by Adele the whole time.

Until finally, when Adele let go of her hand, Lisa said in a tired and regretful voice:

"When you left, I thought I could get rid of your shadow, it's like we played games together when we were kids, I tried hard to be the king of children every time, but even if you were so silent, the children of the valley were still willing to listen to you.

I thought it was because of Ms. Mona's aura, I thought you were just stained with the light of a good birth.

But only now did I realize that this was not the case.

You are better suited to be our leader than Lady Mona, Adele, a position that may have been born to be yours, and if you are willing to return, I will give up the position of leader. ”

"No, take it, Lisa, there's no need to feel guilty, you earned it for yourself."

Adele reached out and hugged her tired friend, not caring about the jealousy and slight resentment hidden in Lisa's words, she patted Lisa on the back and said:

"You need to continue to lead our people, and I will make all that my mother has left behind truly glorious, but not because of power.

I will assist you in becoming a true half-elf leader, and let your influence spread throughout Transasia and the Dark Mountains, and I only want you to be on my side when I need it.

I will be your shadow, and the rewards I desire will not be given by you.

You're right.

We are born to stand together. ”

Adele let go of Lisa and gave her a childish thumb up.

Lisa, who was originally sad, burst out laughing when she saw this action, she glanced at Adele helplessly, and also stretched out her little finger to hook with her, as if the little girls made a certain agreement.

"You and I have worked together to persuade the elders to take the old and infirm women and children to live in Transesia, so that they may live in the security they have always wanted, while you and the young people who aspire to make a career stay in the valley.

Face the Black Plague with us! ”

Adele Says:

"You don't need the support of the elders to be strong, you can share in the power I bring, this will be your first gift to the governor of Transnesia, I believe that after seeing the power of the warriors with your own eyes, you will willingly offer loyalty to my master."

"Is that really just your master? Adele. ”

Lisa whispered:

"How do I feel that you have mixed feelings for him, are you still alone?"

"I don't want to talk about it, it's not that I don't want to tell you."

Adele sighed, and she looked back at her mother's sarcophagus, remembering the damn bewitchment of Lady Water that night, and the conversation she had with Lady Water that night was the same conversation she had with Lisa now.

One woman is crushed in front of another.

So after a few seconds of silence, she said:

"I don't know the answer."

——

"Lisa is working with the Shadow Elves? Damn it! ”

In the player's camp, Ranger Captain Merkel, who had just won the game in archery, was standing in front of Lady Bernice with the Hammer Guard on his back, and he did not despise Lady Bernice for being an undead.

Instead, he maintained his childhood respect and told his dead mother-in-law about his wife's current predicament.

This respect and candor comes partly from his current relationship with Lady Bernice, and partly from his "childhood shadows", who she trained him to whip as a child.

This is the "tradition" of the Shadow Valley, every half-elf in this valley is actually as contradictory as Adele, they resist everything about the Shadow Elves, but after they are truly independent, they need to draw something from the Shadow Elf system to form their own tradition.

For example, the Shadow Elves often use whips to "infuse wisdom" into their apprentices.

"My daughter has not been a wise person since she was a child, she will only be played by the shadow elves, how can she become a miscellaneous person who can betray her people for power? Ah, maybe it's all my fault, if I could have been there for her while she was growing up."

Lady Bernice blamed herself.

But the indifference of the undead made her self-reproach like a declaration of some kind of sin, and she was obviously dissatisfied with her daughter's current situation, which worried Merkel a little.

He tried to explain to his wife, but before he could speak, he saw Lady Bernice get up.

"Take me back, I'm going to teach her a good lesson!"

The Knight of Hades scolded:

"Before she foolishly angers Adele, I must bring her back on track, the half-elves of the Shadow Valley can never walk with the shadow elves! This is a betrayal of our sacrifice. ”

She walked out of the tent with a rare rage from the undead, but before Lady Bernice could leave, she saw the huge wings of blood spread out in the night, the same wings that Adele had returned to, and then landed in the camp a moment later.

Baroness Shadow let go of her hand, and Lisa, who was pale from high-speed flight in her arms, stood a little limp, and when she looked up, she saw the knight of Hades striding towards her in front of her.

"Mom?"

"Smack"

The call was answered by a resounding slap that made the hostess of the Valley of the Shadows cover her face with a terrible expression of "Mommy loves me again", and seeing that Lady Bernice was going to fight again, Adele reached out and grabbed her wrist.

She said:

"Lisa has made a mistake, but I've pulled her back on track. Aunt Bernice, who has recognized her mistake and brought us important news.

The will of the Doge will take root in the Dark Valley, but we must first complete a pre-task. ”

"What are you going to do?"

Bernice asked rhetorically, and Adele shrugged her shoulders, and in the jingle of the core orb mission, she said to the knight of Hades:

"Let's save a shadow elf's lifeweaver first, in the goatman's territory. It should be dangerous there, and as the high-end force of the Pioneer Regiment, I ask you to lead the warriors in their mission, and I will return to the valley to negotiate with the elders about sending emissaries to Transasia. ”

"Okay, I'll get ready and go."

Bernice didn't refuse.

She took over the command with the crisp and neat style that the knights of Hades deserve, and the players around her were already eager to get up after receiving the task of "saving the lifeweaver", noisily calling friends to prepare to "fight monsters and level up".

This scene saw Merkel's eyes strange, if he remembered correctly, just now his mother-in-law also emphasized that the Dark Valley could not walk with the shadow elves.

Hey, mother-in-law!

What are you going to do?

Hey, your daughter and son-in-law will be slapped when they interact with the shadow elves, and it's no problem for you to save the big shots of the shadow elves yourself, right?

How can you have such a double standard! Is this what death has taught you? This death is not serious, is it?

"What are you looking at?"

Lady Bernice glared at her son-in-law and scolded:

"Pack up your things and set off with me, my daughter has been deceived by you, and you have to shoulder the responsibility!"

(End of chapter)