Chapter 147 – Ember
Shortly after Marquis Alex entered the forest of elves, he realized that he was wrong.
He didn’t think it would be easy.
However, he did not know that he would go camping and go into such a deep forest.
Fortunately, there are not many monsters.
It was, at best, a goblin.
“An environment with many monsters is not a very good environment for elves to live in.”
James.
He was hired as a veteran elf hunter with the title of having succeeded in hunting elves three times.
I thought it was easy because of the ample power.
As he went deeper and deeper into the forest and the number of camps for a day or two increased, Marquis Alex, the magician, felt intuition that the hunt would not be easy.
On the third day after entering the woods, James stopped his men.
“Why?”
Marquis Alex asked, questioning James’ behavior.
“More than this is dangerous.”
“Danger?”
“If you go further, you will enter the range of the elven rangers’ scouting.”
“Isn’t it about catching those elves?”
Kyle asked frowning.
“Yes? Tell me what’s the big deal. It’s a mistake novice elf hunters often make.”
“What are you talking about? Does that sound come out even after looking at our troops?”
“Ugh. I know that the Nari people’s power is great. I’ve never gone on an elf hunt with such a great army.”
“Then why?”
“They never fight head-on. Even if you defeat them for a while, the elves will gradually increase and constantly flock to you. Can you handle the elves constantly flocking to this forest? And even elves have strong ones. If they even join….”
Elves live a long time.
It didn’t make sense that such an existence did not exist.
“……Then how do you catch elves in this place?”
“We are going to catch the young elf. Of course, even if they are young, they will be older than ushaha.”
“A young elf?”
“Don’t you know? Young and full-blooded guys’ guest performances….. There are guys who dare to do it even if adults tell them not to do it. It is no different for elves.”
“Could it be that you’re waiting here for those adolescent young elves who don’t know when they’ll come?”
“Yes. Of course, staying in one place for too long is also dangerous.”
“……”
Marquis Alex was not trustworthy, but decided to listen to what he had to say.
And it wasn’t long before James’ words were proven.
Within a day, the heads of two porter slaves were pierced by an arrow from an elf who did not know where they came from, and they died.
“Oh… In just one day… Good luck.”
“Is this… The work of those… Young elves? Aren’t you a Ranger?”
“If it were the elven rangers, it would have rained arrows.”
This… Is the talk of young elves who don’t know what’s scary.
Most of the elves caught are these young elves.
There were two elves secretly shooting arrows.
That joke? One or two of the porter slaves and soldiers who brought them died.
It was a fearless thing to do because I didn’t know that there were 7th circle wizards and sword masters.
Marquis Alex dug a trap using the slave as bait.
It was James’ idea.
Slave lives and elves.
It wasn’t even worth comparing.
Like that, he dug a trap and caught one of the two elves, but unfortunately missed one.
It was at the level of an Auror user, but the agility of the elves in the forest was unmatched.
I could have caught him if I followed him to the end….
James ended up missing it because he was drying his pole.
The existence of the elf ranger he said was at stake.
The captured elf was a beautiful elf with short brown hair.
“Oh… I think I know a little bit about why hyung wraps himself around like that… This beauty doesn’t fade….”
Kyle looked at the captured elf as if possessed.
“We need to get out of the forest quickly. Before the runaway elf brings the rangers. If you delay… You will have a hard time getting out.”
James urged.
“How about a hostage situation?”
“Hostages do not work for elves. Seeing what happened in the meantime….”
James said with a wry smile.
Kyle looked like he wished he had caught one more, but Marquis Alex soothed her Kyle and decided to retreat to Erfu once.
It was because he saw the elf who had run away and thought that dealing with the elf in the forest would be more difficult than he thought.
The forest is the domain of elves.
Marquis Alex is a wizard.
He knows better than anyone the advantages of his domain.
Like James said, if a powerful elf joined, I thought it would be difficult.
Marquis Alex made a forced march to get out of the forest quickly.
Even so, he was attacked by elven rangers at the edge of the forest.
Arrows rained down from all sides.
In that attack, only nine soldiers survived, and the slave porters were annihilated.
As a 7th circle mage, he and his disciples were there, so if he hadn’t been fooled, his soldiers would have been annihilated as well.
Fortunately, the pursuit stopped after leaving the elven forest.
Even so, there was one elf who couldn’t let go of the lingering feelings and glared at them with eyes full of resentment.
It was one of the two elves that missed it.
In the bloody eyes of the elf, I could feel the anger and sadness of having lost a friend through a single mistake.
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“Do you think that elf will come?”
Kyle asked.
When Marquis Alex asked Kyle, as they left the forest, the eyes of an elf filled with resentment came to mind.
“Didn’t you see that elf’s eyes? I know those eyes well. She won’t give up Eventually, it will appear before us. As planned, we will share one elf each.”
“What if he still doesn’t come….”
In Kyle’s words, she was regretful that she had only caught one elf.
“If you don’t come… I’ll hand over the elves to you as soon as the experiment is over.”
“As expected, Marquis, the distribution is huge. If so, I’m relieved. I’m finally getting a taste of the elves. How much the people who have it care for it… It was unsightly. I don’t know if I will become that kind of personhaha.”
Marquis Alex remembered the arrows raining down from the forest.
Kyle couldn’t beat her anger and ran to see her, but she ran away like a ghost.
I couldn’t even track it down because I saw too many tricks to waste time.
It was a series of frustrating situations where the shield only blocked arrows.
It was as James said.
It was different from the younger elves.
I thought I knew why the success rate of hunting elves was so low.
Still, the hunt could be called a success.
A few soldiers died, but it was cheap because they caught the elves in the end.
“Maybe we’ll have to get out of town?”
“If there was such a thing as a head, it would be.”
“I wish I could bring more friends….”
“Then it couldn’t be any better. I’m thinking of letting the elves know what kind of wizard a prepared wizard is just by being defeated.”
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While resting at the inn, he grasped the movements of the elf hunters.
I didn’t do it, and Luna and Ayla have been wandering around diligently to collect information.
Their faces as they gathered information grew darker by the day.
Marquis and Earl.
High-ranking people came.
When I asked why the hunters were wearing uniform clothes, it was the knights and privates of the Crow family.
The Kraugas were from an aristocratic family that now even drops flying birds.
The second son of that family, Earl Kyle, is a sword master.
And Marquis Alex, a 7th Circle mage, and his disciples.
Both of them were single-winner titles received with the ability to have no lands.
The information coming in one by one wasn’t very good news, so it was worth casting a shadow on their faces.
The two of them, who had been roaming around outside as an information collection car, brought a green short-haired girl into the house.
A pair of familiar earrings were visible on the girl’s ear to hide her pointy ears.
She seemed to be an elf too.
“Luna-sama!! Ayla!! Why are humans here?!”
As soon as the girl entered the guest room, she looked at me and showed her anger.
That look was somehow familiar.
It was similar to Ayla’s appearance when she first met me.
Elves seemed more hot-tempered than I thought.
Now that I see it, this side is normal, and Luna and Priscilla were a bit different?
“Amber…This person is not human.”
Despite the girl’s questioning, Luna responded calmly.
“That, like that….”
Embarrassed by Luna’s explanation, the short green haired girl named Amber stares at me with those green eyes.
What can you tell by looking at it….
Then it comes close to me and smells it.
To me, too, her fresh scent tickled her nostrils.
I felt a warm gaze from somewhere.
Ayla was staring at me with ax eyes.
Unbeknownst to me, my face seemed to have loosened up.
“Kuhm.”
At Ayla’s gaze, I unknowingly cleared my throat.
“Wow, it definitely smells good unlike humans…….Sir, I’m sorry….”
The girl who was looking at me like that lowers her head with her face blushing.
My smell is different from other humans?
It wasn’t true the first time.
It’s human….
Of course, the truth was not spoken out.
Fortunately, I didn’t have that much pride as a human being.
Even if they called me an orc, I was willing to put up with it.
If you listen to Luna’s words, she brought something that was wandering around the mansion where the elves were being held by herself.
“He tried to go in alone… Huh….”
There was another elf like Ayla.
Unknowingly, I looked at Ayla.
After receiving my gaze, Ayla blushes.
“Why why?”
One such reckless green short-haired elf girl joined our elf rescue party.
