"That was when the MONOCULUS first appeared...... "Old Adrian Sr. said slowly, "my ancestor was none other than Hespers Oudemel who discovered the existence of magic 1,800 years ago. The divination crystal that I hold has also been passed down from generation to generation from him...... Under his propaganda and guidance, magic spread rapidly like a fire, and this originally extremely unfamiliar thing sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, flourishing at an unimaginable speed, and a large number of excellent magicians also emerged...... However, although magic has greatly improved people's lives, so that humans no longer have to starve, no longer have to fear beasts, and even stand on the top of this continent, it has not completely brought good life to human life as he expected...... Magic brings strength and ambition, and those blinded by this power begin to provoke wars, hurt each other, plunder like a frenzy, and wars between city-states have never stopped since some time...... This is not what my ancestors wanted to see. The constant displacement and loss of family members in front of him made him feel like a knife and filled with grief and anger...... He wanted to stop it, but he knew it wasn't something he could change on his own...... He began to blame himself day and night, regretting discovering magic and leading others to use it, and finally, exhausted, he told his children on his deathbed that if he could not change all this, he must stay away from the war, from everything that went against his original purpose...... And his children followed his last wish and chose to live a secluded life in seclusion. ”

"It's no wonder that there are very few records of him in the history books, and there is absolutely no trace of his descendants......" Allen said.

"Valley of Origin is the only place to be. Almost the entire continent of Hep is at war, and only there is the last peace...... Located on the Glenn Crown Plateau, it was the source of the River of Origin, and downstream of it was the only neutral city-state of the time, Nikko City...... Since then, Udmer's descendants have lived there in seclusion under the pseudonym Hojberg. "It was there that I became acquainted with the Guardian Four and Frost...... Their families were killed in the fighting, and they fled there in desperation. Originally, they wanted revenge, but slowly, they all let go of the hatred in their hearts. At first, I thought it was because of the abundance of blue agate in the Origin River, but later I found out that it was because of the unique constitution of Alvaona that was slowly dissolving the hatred in their hearts...... Strange to say, though, I haven't dreamed for a long time, and I started dreaming a lot after meeting them...... There was a time when I dreamed of a one-eyed monster covered in pitch black every night, which woke me up from my dreams more than once and made me feel deeply uneasy...... After asking about the Divination Geodes, I confirmed that it wouldn't be long before something terrible would happen on this continent......"

"I see...... You've seen it in your dreams before the Eye appeared. ”

"That's right, this monster in my dream makes me deeply anxious...... Although I had not heard of where it had appeared, I could clearly see that it was frantically destroying everything in front of me, and I never stopped for a moment...... More and more people fell in front of him, and the world seemed to be about to be destroyed...... said old Adrian, "and what I didn't expect was that I would die at its hands......"

"What do you mean?" asked Allen, "but you ......?"

"Yes, I do look like I'm standing here in good shape...... "Old Adrian said, grabbing Allen's wrist and placing his hand on his chest.

"This ......," Alan was shocked......

No heartbeat......

"The reason why I have survived until now is that I have all relied on the help of the elves......," said old Adrian, letting go of his hand, "I was thrilled to hear that the people had given up the struggle and united again, and I walked out of the Valley of Origins, wanting to contribute the last of my strength to the fight against the Magic Eye, and also to take the place of the ancestors to see the long-lost unity of the people...... But unexpectedly, MONOCULUS just waved his tail casually and seriously injured me...... The wounds it causes do not heal, and the medical magic is useless. I was ready for death, but as I was dying, a spirit appeared in front of me......"

Old Adrian stopped abruptly and stared at the ceiling as if he were seriously recalling something......

"That was the first time I had ever seen an elf ......in my life," said old Adrian after a moment, "and I will never forget how she appeared before me...... Her light was so dazzling, she slowly came out of a lily and stopped beside me, just touching my forehead with her hand and removing all the pain in my body...... Although I knew from her expression that even an elf would not be able to pull me back from the brink of death with such a serious injury, at that moment, I still felt surrounded by happiness because ......"

Old Adrian stopped abruptly at this point.

"Yuna ......," Old Adrian said softly after a moment of silence, "I can't mistake her face...... Even if she appeared to me as an elf, I would never be mistaken...... That's exactly what she looked like when she died......"

Alan guessed a few points when he heard this...... This lily fairy was incarnated after the death of old Adrian's wife......

"She was about to leave, but when she heard me call out her name, she suddenly turned her head and stared at me for a long time, and then said, 'Sure enough, this man met you before I live,'......" said old Adrian, "She put her hand on my forehead again, only this time she closed her eyes and looked with me at the fond memories that Yuna and I had had...... 'Love is deeper than the sea, and your fate should not end so hastily,' and she said to me when I came to my senses again...... Then I saw that she took something out of her chest and put it inside me, and then she was gone......"

At this point, old Adrian was already in tears.

"I watched as the wounds on my body that had begun to rot slowly healed and the pain disappeared without a trace...... Only then did I know that I had been saved...... "said Odrian Sr.," "and since then I have been running around trying to find her and say thank you to her...... But it was a long time before I learned from the other elves that she had given me what she had given me what she had survived on...... Her most precious elven root ......"

When Alan heard this, he suddenly felt as if his heart had been touched by something......

"Originally, this was the least likely thing for them to hand over...... Even if they are bound by magic and ordered by the caster, they will not hand it over," said old Adrian...... "for the elven roots are like our lives to them, and once they are handed over, everything will come with them...... Gone ...... smoke"