5 years I spent in this place, I don't remember who I was before being reborn into this place, the only thing I brought with me from that place called earth is a plethora of information pertaining to what they called anime, novels, and such things

my identity lost, I can't remember my life from before anything personal was deleted I presume by whichever entity brought me here, or maybe it just happened that got reborn in this world, of the few things that accompanied me to this new life is wisdom; of which I have no idea how I got

would you look at that, a lost soul, that is who I am, I have no name, at first I was like any newborn dark elve, yes that is the race I was reborn into, from the scattered memories of mine, I believe I was once human but now I am another species altogether

as I was saying before, I was reborn as a dark elve, even with the memories and knowledge I had in my mind, I had no ego, just a newborn, and as I grew up, I developed it, the hard way, I learned from a young age not to sprout nonsense in front of my mother figure Tiara, and so I kept my knowledge to my self

you see the society of dark elves is entirely different from how humans are supposed to live, dark elves are matriarchal, females hold the power, and males are considered to be slaves, which is why I said I learned from a young age to keep my ideas to myself, dark elves are a cruel race, warmonger even before the banishment

our race lives in a multitude of tribes called a coven, we live underground in cave systems that span the whole continent, going deep in the crust of the planet, those are words from my previous world, I am not supposed to say them out loud, but in my mind, I am a king, not a slave,

before the banishment, dark elves used to live on the surface along with our cousins the wood elves, but due to our evil nature, and our never-ending thirst for conquest, an alliance was formed between the elven clans, the wood, snow, and sun elves, one lives in the woods, the other on top of mountains and the last one on the floating continent high up in the sky, they allied and pushed us back hard almost to extinction, but in the end, we survived, the once-great empire became a scattered under the land, that is the banishment

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the coven I am part of is under the matriarch Banza, and we number 150 with 100 females and 50 males, mostly due to the sacrifices made, the dark elves worship the Night Mother, an evil god that  was one of the main reasons behind the fall of the ancient Empire, the night mother had too many enemies and that led to our species situation,

every 3 months the matriarch holds a ceremony to the night mother Lilin, and she sacrifices a child under 20 harvest seasons, in earth terms, it would be 5 years, between each harvest is 3 months so 20 harvests are 5 years, I was lucky not to be chosen during these years and am still alive, the reason the sacrifice must be under 5 years is that after that we mature and could start mating, so we are not pure anymore, also only males are sacrificed

dark elves unlike our cousins, mature very fast but on the flip side we do not enjoy the long lives they have, at five I looked like a 12 years old human, and already pubic hair started growing on my private part, the life span of dark elves is around 200 years old, unlike our wood cousins who live up to 1'000 years, the snow elves at 800 years and the sun elves who can live up to 10'000 years, but of course unlike them, we mature faster and are more fertile

the dark elves have slender physic for the most part, but that doesn't mean we are not powerful, unfortunately, there hasn't been a warrior amongst our coven for a long time so there was no proof of that, in our coven males are farmers and slaves, we are not allowed to learn how to fight or train other than labor and the occasional sacrifice and of course mating partners, females, however, they are hunters, shadow assassins and magic wielders, they hold the most power, I mean all the power

I believe that is enough explanation for now, you already have an idea of the environment I lived in, and yes I am talking in the past tense, now I will talk more about me, I have no name, my mother never gave me one, calling me boy when her mood was sunshine and filth when she is in a bad mood, the most I can remember her giving me was beatings until the day she sold me to a female elve for a dagger and a pair of boots

on that day I was sold, I was to be used as a sexual tool by that female elve once she was back home, but that changed when our coven was attacked, the attacker was Arachne, the underground world was not the home of only the dark elves but also a multitude of other dark races and monsters, Arachnes are one of the other races, they are half-human, half-spider, with the top being humanoid In shape except for the bunch of spider beady eyes and spider jaws, as for the lower half it is like a spider

on that day they attacked my coven, they outnumbered us by a lot, and I knew when I saw them charging from the tunnel that this coven will most likely be extinguished, and so I used the only thing I believe can help me get out of this situation, I believe in my memories it called a cheat or golden finger