by Fat Bread
They witnessed the history of human beings, seeing the race grow up and become strong. They didn’t speak, but they would never forget.
No matter how much time had passed, one hundred years or one thousand years, to the elves, a friend is always a friend, and the princess is forever the princess.
Chapter 348: Kingfisher
"Sorry... but... did you take me for someone else?" Yun Xi felt uneasy looking at the smiling elf.
From the surprised eyes of the elf's partners, he realized that it must be a rare thing to see an elf's smile.
The knight was dumbfounded, his body was just as stiff as if he had just been cursed by a Medusa.
As the elf's partner, this was the first time he saw the elf's smile. He had to admit that the elf's smile contained a charm that transcended the racial and sexual barrier, making his heart suddenly pound heavily.
"Kite, calm down!" The mage quickly noticed the knight's strange look and immediately summoned a water ball and threw it in his face, cooling down the knight's superheated head.
"Oh... oh... thanks, Williams." Kite touched his face that had just been washed by the water ball.
That was too dangerous! My sexual orientation had almost been twisted! The allure of the elf was really striking. No wonder that the Elf Race was indeed the favourite race of the world.
There is no way that ordinary people could stand such a temptation!
"Cough... I know what you are thinking... but don't forget, even in the Elf Race, Kingfisher is a prominent noble, don't even think anything stupid in your mind." Williams sighed looking at his knight friend.
Another person! Another person down!
He and Kite were also nobles. He was a descendant of a famous mage family, and Kite was a duke's son. They were childhood friends, but their identities were far inferior to Kingfisher's.
After all, "Kingfisher" was a long lived elf, and his name was also the name of this adventure team. He was a legendary hero who survived the catastrophe hundreds of years ago, who once fought shoulder to shoulder with Kite and Williams' ancestors.
Although they were teammates, they knew they were actually protected by the elf. For the sake of their families, Kingfisher took them walking around the world, teaching them the skill of fighting personally.
From the Western God's Domain to the Eastern God's Domain, they had travelled three years, and now they were a little famous adventure team.
The adventure team "Kingfisher" was undoubtedly the number one adventure team in the White Lotus Sword Domain, it was all due to the exalted elf.
Most adventure teams took a knight and mage as their cores, it was pretty rare to take an archer as the core of a team.
Kingfisher was such an exception. His archery was far beyond the imagination of mortals and he was the most promising elf who could enter the legend rank in a not too distant future. Kite and Williams had to admit that they were really lucky to be taught by such a strong elf.
"No, I'm not mistaken, little princess." The elf's long ears lightly shook and he looked at Yun Xi worriedly.
He witnessed how the past Killing Princess slaughtered Demons on battlefields. He hoped that this new inheritor wouldn't follow her on the same road.
The past Killing Princess lost everything in the war with the Demons.
Her father, mother, sisters, brothers, all relatives and the people of her country died in the war. It was said that when she came back to the ruins of her country, she shed tears of blood.
"I won't rest before I eliminate the last Demon! The only good Demon is a dead Demon! Let’s kill them all!"
When they were on the same battlefield, Kingfisher often heard these words from her.
Her mind had been twisted in the endless killing, and she also obtained the strongest power after that.
She had given up everything and never wanted to be a hero. She just killed, killed and killed, walking on the road called revenge, and finally...
"..."
At that time, Kingfisher was shocked by her strong power and felt upset because of her madness, but finally, he chose to follow in her footsteps, fighting to the end with the Demons.
In essence, the Elf Race was a peace-loving race. Unless it was absolutely necessary, most elves didn't even think of leaving the Garden of Elf. They preferred to study arts rather than learn sword skills and magic.
Although the elves' talent was much better than a human's, and their lives were dozens of times longer than a human's, they didn't like to practice their body and magic, which made them defenseless when facing the Demons' invasion.
When the Demons appeared and broke the Elf’s Guardian Circle, the biggest catastrophe in the elf's history started.
In that catastrophe, over one tenth of elves were killed and one of their most important Life Trees was robbed, which directly caused the birth of the dark elf race, the twisted life in the eyes of all elves.
Because he saw the catastrophe with his own eyes, Kingfisher finally threw away his harp and picked up his bow, went to the frontline and fought against the Demons with human beings.
It was the darkest period in elves history, but also a time of change. After their homeland was invaded, elves realized that even though they were protected by the Life Trees, they would still be killed if they were too weak.
Elves were the favourite of the world, and Demons were the destroyers of the world. When the Demons appeared, the elves paradise era was already doomed to be ended.
The catastrophe was stopped by the united army of elves, humans and dragons. They sealed the channel the Demons used to descend into this world, but everyone knew it was just a temporary solution. The war hadn't been finished and the Demons may come back at any time.
After hundreds of years, there barely were humans who still remembered the terrible Demons, but to the long lived elves, it was still like a calamity that happened yesterday.
They finally couldn't take back the Life Tree which had been robbed and stained. It became the belongings of the newborn Dark Elf Race and was carried into the underground world together with them. The Elf Race forever lost one of the twelve Life Trees.
Chapter 349: The Legendary Hero
To elves, the Life Trees were the origin of the entire race. It was unacceptable and unforgivable to lose any of them.
Even if they would spend a thousand years or even ten thousand years, they swore to take the Life Tree back! Even if they would use "A hundred thousand years" to purify the contaminated Life Tree, they would never hesitate to do it.
Twelve was a perfect number, it stood for the rule of the circulation of nature.
And eleven was a misshapen number that was laughing at the elves' mathematics aesthetic feeling.
It would never be allowed to have only eleven Life Trees in the eyes of the elves. They were really being provoked.
Their hands which only made delicate arts in the past started to make one strong weapon after another.
They cultivated special plants that could increase their strengths, and wore the flowers that stood for their lives, then left the quiet elf forest one by one, stepping onto the battlefield.
Many of them died in the war with Demons, and the elves who could come back all became the most excellent warriors.
Elf Sword Dancer, Phantom Archer, Forest Hunter, Mirage Knight... a lot of new careers were born in the originally peaceful Elf Race, the talent that had been forgotten by them a long time ago was activated again.
Kingfisher was one of the strong elves who walked out of the elf forest and fought shoulder to shoulder with humans. He had almost experienced all the battles together with the strongest force of mankind, greatsword maids.
From a rookie who would shiver and vomit on the battle to a veteran who wouldn't even wipe away the Demon's blood that was sputtered on his face, he finally became an excellent warrior, and a ruthless archer.
Once he drew open his green elf bow, the god weapon "Scindapsus" made of his life flower, he could kill any
enemy from ten kilometers away. His arrow was so strong that could smash a mountain giant's heart accurately.
His career was called "Demon Slayer", which was very rare even amongst all special careers. Every attack from him could cause a critical hit to Demons, which was a career that never appeared before.
As long as he went to the battlefield, he would become a killer whose arrows never missed. Although the Demons he had killed weren’t as much as the Killing Princess had killed, it was also an amazing number that could full up a few gullies.
Undoubtedly, apart from his hatred towards Demons just like all the other elves, he was deeply influenced by the Killing Princess’ battle style.
When the war with the Demons was over, he didn't put down his bow and return to the elf forest, but kept travelling around one god's domain after another. Sometimes, he would join an adventure team, and at other times, he preferred to form a team himself and helped newbies to grow up.
Everything he did was for the unfinished war, the Demons who may come back hundreds of years later or thousands of years later.
Although humans didn't understand his idea, they didn’t understand why he wanted to prepare for a war that may come after thousands of years. After all, humans had short lives, most people's grandsons' grandsons wouldn't be likely to see the return of the Demons.
However, as long as humans could keep developing hero ranked bloodlines and inherit these excellent bloodlines from generation to generation, his behavior would be meaningful. He knew someday, the young humans he helped and developed today would become towering trees, supporting their race in the future.
Human beings could only consider a future that wasn't longer than a hundred years, and elves would consider what would happen after a thousand years. How could their thinking be at the same level!
Who knows what surprises I would meet on my long journey?
Didn't I just see the inheritor of the person I always longed for on the street of this remote sword domain?
Thank you, great Life Trees. This must be the so-called "fate".
At this moment, this girl wasn't the Killing Princess he was familiar with, but they wore the same uniform, which made him feel as if he just went back to that old time.
"Well... do you want to have a drink? My treat." Kingfisher smiled and stretched out his hand to Yun Xi.
He suddenly remembered that this was the first time he positively invited someone in his long life.
Hundreds of years, he had a lot of teammates in adventure, but he was always the one who was being invited.
It was really a strange feeling to invite someone proactively.
"Are we being treated differently?" Kite still remembered when Kingfisher agreed to let him join his adventure team, this big news caused a sensation in his family.
"Don't doubt, there is always discrimination amongst different people." Williams pressed down his hood, hiding his jealous look in the shadows.
Although his family was an old aristocratic family with a history of thousands of years, it was just one of the inconspicuous families set up by Kingfisher's past partners.
If it wasn't because Kingfisher was always willing to help the families of his past partners, they had no chance to become his teammates.
He was a mysterious elf archer, the hero in the war with Demons, moreover, he looked handsome and was warm and mild in personality, the number of the princes and princesses whose hearts had been captivated by him could even form an army.
When they were chosen by Kingfisher to be his partners, countless people looked at them with envy and cursed them to die quickly.
Chapter 350: The Figure of the Past
"Me... Me?" Yun Xi looked at the mysterious elf in confusion.
Till now, he still didn't know the elf's name. They were still strangers who just passed by each other on the streets.
Why? Is it because he is a very enthusiastic elf?
But the elves he knew were never so effusive.
Even dark elves who were much more exalted than ordinary human beings. They were rarely friendly to humans.
As the only dark elf he had seen, Black Moon was very arrogant, indifferent, which deeply touched his heart, making him want her like a flying moth wanted to dart into the fire.
And because of her, he knew that elves bodies weren't cold at all, but very soft and comfortable.
Anyway, he didn't think that he would have anything to do with elves apart from Black Moon.
"Yes, you look like an old friend... no, a teacher of mine." Although Kingfisher's age was older than the Killing Princess, he still thought that she was his teacher in his heart.
Her strong power and her sad life all touched his heart deeply, which made him finally become the "Demon Slayer".
Without the Killing Princess, he wouldn’t be the hero "Kingfisher" and obtained his god weapon "Scindapsus".
To elves, they didn't mind what humans thought of the Killing Princess, they only knew she was the heroine who once saved the entire elven race.
Because when the Demons broke into the Garden of Elf, she suddenly appeared and killed half of the Demons, so only one tenth of elves were killed and the Demons only took away one Life Tree. If it wasn't for her, it would’ve become an even greater catastrophe.
Even though she wasn't really doing it for saving the elves, she just wanted to kill as many Demons as she could, however, her behavior indeed saved the elf race and they recorded it on the tablet of the elf race.
At that time, Kingfisher witnessed the Killing Princess' battle and finally realized their fault. The entire elf race was just swallowing the bitter fruit of not practicing their battle skills hard. So he went out of the forest together with his partners and fought against the Demons together with human beings and dragons.
"I... look like your friend..." Yun Xi couldn't help but pulled in by his face, trying to see if he was dreaming. Looking at his behavior, Kingfisher smiled.
"No!" Kite covered his eyes painfully.
No, I can't keep watching! Why is the elf's smile so tempting!
"No, you can't go to that 'realm'! Go back, Kite!" Williams quickly comforted his friend, Kite, the future duke.
Elf is a life being that humans should never be in love with. The people who liked elves let themselves hit rock bottom.
This was what was recorded on a page of the book of Williams' family. The numerous names on a page recorded the painful lessons his ancestors learned.
Nine members of Williams' family joined Kingfisher's team since he started to develop newbies from the families of his old friends, and all of the nine people suffered from an illness.
After being taught by Kingfisher, the nine Williamses all became the most excellent hero ranked mages in their eras. Some of them even almost touched the edge of the legend rank. Unfortunately, none of them had children.
Because none of them got married during their lives.
About the reason... the record of his family didn't say anything, only leaving a few equivocal hints. But after that, every excellent member of his family was ordered to have children as soon as possible.
Williams didn't understand the reason for this strange rule of his family in the past. Till he was chosen by Kingfisher and joined his team, he finally understood what his nine ancestors experienced and how depressed they were when they had to return to their family.
Oh, it's too grueling to take an adventure with such an elf!
Look, as a muscle hunk, Kite's mind had almost gone wrong, it wasn't difficult to imagine what a problem his ancestors had faced.
Humans should not fall in love with elves!
Damn it! Why? I just look at his smile, and my heart is almost being melted! A sound was crying in Williams' heart.
Why isn't he smiling at me!
As a muscle idiot, something was awakened in Kite’s heart just now. But Williams' heart had been captured a long time ago,
He knew he couldn't and there wouldn't be any result, his heart stil
l being captured by the elf's charm. My ancestors, I understand! We should never think about love and only contribute ourselves completely into studying magics!
"Sorry, I'm glad that you wanted to invite me, but I've something on cooking, so I really should leave now." Yun Xi felt that something was wrong just now.
When the elf smiled, the knight suddenly stared at him ferociously, and the mage suddenly gazed at him like a sinister viper.