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Chapter 11 : An Elven Boy
Part 1
We were greeted by Cecil as soon as we reached the deck
On her back were hanging two magic bags and I recognized both of them
One of them was the magic bag I had bought in the magic tool shop in Agatha City
And the other one, I saw it once in Restia’s room
Maybe she went back to our room to pack our things while checking the rooms on the upper levels
As we approached her, I turned my gaze to her right side, a boy with short blond hair, pale skin, beautiful face, and had a pair of long ears, was staring at me.
An elfen boy
I see. He must have been hiding in his room when the Trasks attacked the ship and didn’t know everyone has evacuated to the city
It was a good thing that I told Cecil to check the rooms on the upper levels
Or else he would be left alone inside the ship
I looked at the boy more closely
He was wearing a beautiful light green mixed with yellow tunic, a native Elven style, by seeing his very well made and expensive looking garb, I knew he wasn’t a commoner but a noble kid.
Under the beautiful tunic his body was trembling and I could see fear pictured in his beautiful green eyes, his small trembling lips was opened slightly as thought he wanted to say something to me, but nothing came out of his small lips.
Hmm strange kid…
Shouldn’t elf used to fight with monsters?
After all even though he is still a child, he is an elf and not human children
Not like human, elf and beastman who live in harsh environment where monsters are everywhere, must have taught their children on how to fight with monsters.
Fighting with monster should be part of their daily activity to gather foo and materials.
But why is he afraid just because the Trasks attacking the ship?
“Hello there, my name is Ariel Whitestar, what’s yours?” With a gentle smile, to make the kid a bit relaxed, I asked the boy as I stood in front of him.
And it seemed to have worked, the boy gave me a slight smile and started to introduce himself while giving a curtly bow towards me “H-Hi, I-I’m R-Rid Ai-Ainsworth.”
Ainsworth?
Isn’t that the name of an elven kingdom in Nature Continent?
I remember reading about it in the library back at the castle
It’s a small kingdom ine the northern part of the Nature Continent
“Pardon me if I’m wrong but, are you by any chance related to Ainsworth royal family?”
If he really is one of the member of Ainswald royal family than I can’t let something happen to him
Or else it will turn into an international incident
Moreover he boards Armored Turtle
That means he will be enrolling into Tyris Academy
Making it the more reason for me the more reason to protect him
If something happen to him while he is on the Academy transport ship, which supposed to protect and bring him safely to the Academy, than the Academy will be blamed for it.
And I as the chairman of the academy must take the responsibility for it
It will become a real hassle
I don’t want to increase my own work as a chairman even before arriving at the academy
The boy was a bit startled when I asked him that question, he then quickly waved both of his hand in front of himself as he replied hastily “Eh, ah eh. No... I em uhh…”
Did I ask something that shouldn’t be asked?
Before it turned awkward, I cut him off “Ah no it’s okay, you don’t have to answer my question if you don’t want to. I was only curious because your family name is Ainswald.”
“I’m sorry…” The boy lowered his head in apology
Can’t really blame him though
It’s natural to be cautious
Especially if he really was related to royal family
Sometimes, as a member of a royal family it’s not wise to reveal your identity to someone who you just met.
After all danger is always close to them
Assassination and kidnapping
The two most common dangers that always shadowing every royal family in any world
Whether it’s in my previous world or in this world
But still if he wants to hide his identity, shouldn’t he use a fake name or change his family name when he introduced himself?
Even though Ainsworth is a small kingdom in Nature Continent and rarely someone from human continent know about it, sooner or later if he keep introducing himself using his real name, eventually someone will find out about his identity.
Is this kid, is he a natural airhead?
Or is he just forgetting it because the fear?
Or is he just plain stupid?
Nah, I don’t think the last one count
He is an elf after all
A race that famous for their intelligence
The most possible one is the second option
He forgot to introduce himself using a different name because the fear, and maybe nervousness?
Well whatever
While my head was full with all those thought, Cecil’s voice calling out to me suddenly drifted away into my ears “Princess.”
I turned to where her voice coming from. It seemed while I was talking to Ainswald, she had moved to the edge of the ship and was staring at the river.
“Yes, what is it?”
“We have a problem.” She raised her right hand and pointed her index finger towards the river “Look at that, the big one has come too.”
A big one?
What is she talking about?
I curiously tilted my head as I walked to where she was standing and looked at the direction where her index finger pointed at.
In the middle of the river, among the army of Trasks that were heading to the port were two heads, giant heads of two Trasks that which I guessed were their boss, and they were also heading toward the port with… maybe I should call an angry face? Though I didn’t know what they were angry about.
Even though their entire bodies were submerge in the water, but sizing from their heads that were on the surface, I estimated their bodies were as big as the giant monsters I fought for my emperor rank test in Gabalas Mountain.
“Haa… What a pain.” That the only comment that came out of my mouth when I saw them.
“What should we do now?”
“Don’t ask something obvious thing like that.”
She should have realized if those two giant Trasks arrived at the port,
Disaster will befall on the port.
No, not only the port area
This entire city maybe destroyed
Probably in the adventurer guild, to defeat one giant monster like that is classified at AA rank mission.
Even with the knights and adventurers on this port combined, they will be barely able to defeat one of them.
And with many casualties as the price
Now there are two of them…
Plus with thousands of other small Trasks…
This city will be doomed for sure
Haaa…
What a pain…
The only way to reduce the damage and casualty is to finished those two giants Traks before they reach the port
“Cecil held this for a bit.” I handed the enchanted bow on my hand to Cecil, and she took it with her empty left hand.
She observed the bow closely, admiring it as she commented “The enchanted sword and now enchanted bow. You really have amazing weapons princess, where did you get them from?”
“Heh, if you were forced to clean up high level dungeon by yourself, you will end up monopolizing all amazing equipments and other treasures from the treasure room behind the dungeon boss room. Youcan try it if you want to. Oh and …” I materialized
Cecil shivered in fear as I said that last word
I chuckled at her reaction.
Not only Cecil
But I also have seen a few other knights at the castle have the same reaction when Instructor Grant announced THE OLD HAG will train them that day.
It’s like sentencing death penalty for them
Some of them run while screaming and the other fainted while standing
It was funny seeing the usual stoic knights like that
Well… that’s only fun when it’s not me who get trained by her
Enough teasing her
I should finish my job
I turned my gaze towards the giant Trasks and started calculating the distance, the direction of the wind blowing, the best angle, etc, that could affect my aim.
I didn’t really have to do all these calculation if the distance between me and my target was about 250m to 300m. My strength was enough for me to ignore all obstacles like wind and g-force, and I would always get a headshot if I were to aim correctly.
But beyond that range, I needed to do all those calculation to get the best result possible.
And the distance between me and those two giant Trasks were approximately 2500m, an impossible distance for a normal or even enchanted bow to reach, but with
After calculating all of them inside my head, I raised
This time because it was a giant Trask, I put a bit more of my spirit energy. I wanted to pierce their thick skull, probably 5 times thicker than normal Trask, and end it in one shoot.
But before I could release the arrow, someone yelled at me “NO! DON’T KILL THEM!” and I felt a pair of small hands grabbing onto my arms causing me to stop.
It was Rid. He was staring at me with teary eyes.
What the hell’s wrong with this kid!
Is he a monster lover or what!?
Don’t tell me this is the reason why he hide inside the ship
He can’t bear seeing the Trasks being beaten and killed
That’s the only reason I can think off why an elf who used to fight with monsters act like that
“Hey what’s wrong with you? That’s dangerous you know.”
He quickly shook his head and replied ”It will be much more disastrous if you kill them!”
I raised an eye brow as I asked him “Eh? What did you mean by that?”
“Well…”
Part 2
A teenage boy around the age of 16 years old was sitting on a chair next to a bed.
He was a typical beautiful boy from elven race with long blond hair that reached to his back, a pair of blue eyes, long ears and was wearing light green tunic.
He was looking at the small boy lying on top of the bed with worried look on his ace.
That small boy was Rid. His entire body was shivering, no, he wasn’t because he was sick or something along those line, but because of fear.
“Are you okay Rid?” Asked the teenage boy who sat near the bed, there was a hint of anxiety in his voice.
“Uuh… Cid.” I opened my eyes and saw Cid was staring at me with worried look on his face.
Cid Rome
He is my guardian or what people in human race usually called personal attendant
Though I can’t really agree with them
For us elf, Guardian cannot be replaced nor will they ever be relinquished of their position forever.
Guardian has a lot of meaning to us thanthe normal personal attendant in human continent
Even before I was born, Cid had been chosen as my guardian by my parents
You can say that he is like my second parent
Well from human perspective he may look like a normal teenage boy whose age is only at most 16 to 17 years old
But we are elf not human
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We have longer life span than them and also have different growth rate
That’s why even though Cid looks like that his age is actually already 56 years old
It’s been two years since we left Ainswald Kingdom
Not like I want to leave
But I was forced to leave
Because of an unfortunate incident caused by someone else
But I was the one who got blamed for it…
Thankfully my grandfather knew that I was innocent
But even so, without any proof he couldn’t do anything to help me
Moreover someone must take the blame to ease the people anger
And that someone was obviously me
At the very least the punishment I received wasn’t that heavy
Exiled from Ainsworth Kingdom
That was my punishment
For human who have short life span that punishment maybe
I was exiled from Ainsworth Kingdom for 20 years
A short amount of time for us elf who lived for hundreds of years
Afterward I can return
And I have decided to spent that 20 years to improve myself by enrolling into a school
Right now along with Cid and using the ship provided by the school, I’m on my way heading towards the most prestigious academy in human continent
Tyris Academy
I was actually intending to enroll into the academy in Nature Continent
But were stopped by my parents and Cid
They said the other elf children would be avoiding or even bullied me if I attend the academy in Nature Continent
Sooner or later those children would heard the news about that incident
And many people, or rather elf who wouldn’t want him near them
That was why my father told me to study in the school at Human continent
In there I would be safe and could study and spent my school days in peace
For me it didn’t really matter where it was as long as I could study and improve myself
I don’t want something like that incident to repeat again because of my foolishness and ignorance
I want to change myself
Cid put his right hand on my forehead as thought to confirm if I had caught a cold or not “Have you found what’s causing you like this?”
The warmth from his hand felt really comfortable and relaxing, I closed my eyes for a while enjoying the warmth on my forehead, after a few second I opened my eyes and slightly shook my head as I replied “I am sorry… their anger, is too strong… I’m too scared… I can’t concentrate at all…”
All of this began when I was eating my breakfast in the dinning room inside the ship this morning
In the middle of breakfast I felt something wasn’t right
At first it was only uneasy feeling
But as the ship went on, that feeling was also getting stronger and stronger
And it turned into fear
Actually this wasn’t the first time I felt something like this
Since I could remember, this kind of felling had happened a few times
And when that happened something really bad would occur
It wasn’t a premonition, omen or something along that lines
It was my Gift
As what its name implied, this gift which gave me the ability to feel any disturbance in nature
Well it was something like an alarm for danger
Usually If I concentrated and felt the nature, I would be able to tell what the cause of the disturbance
But this time the fear overwhelmed my mind
Making it difficult for me to concentrate
Cid gently patted my head and smiled “It’s okay, don’t worry about it. The captain told me that we will stop in a city called Tuan shortly. I will go look for some information in adventurer guild as soon as we arrived. You wait here and get some more rest. We may need your help later.”
“…Okay.” I replied with a slight nod.
With a very soft voice that almost like whisper, Cid started to chant and his hand that was patting my head before, started to give a soft green glow.
I felt so relaxed and my mind felt lighter. I got sleepier as Cid continued his chant and after a few second later I lost my consciousness.
I didn’t know how long I slept, but I was awoken by a sudden terror that crept into my mind.
I could hear the scream of people, roar of monsters, and sound of battle coming from outside the ship
The fear I felt caused my entire body to tremble like crazy
I couldn’t move a finger
The only thing I could do rignt now was to pray and wait for Cid to come back
I closed my eyes again and tried to move my body as I prayed
For I didn’t know how long it was, maybe ten or fifteen minutes, but I couldn’t hear the sound of battle anymore, no, I vividly heard it, probably the battle was still going on but quite a distance away from the ship.
My body that was still trembling was tensed up, a thought crossed my mind telling me that that the battle on the ship had ended
Who win the battle?
Was it the people on the ship? Or was it the monsters?
I hoped it wasn’t the later one
I needed to confirm it and escaped this place if there was a chance
Even though I was safe protected inside the ship , my Gift
Screaming telling me something dangerous was heading towards this place
When I kept waiting before, I got used to the fear and managed to move my body
Slowly getting myself up from the bed. I then walked towards the door
But when I was only a few steps to the door, it suddenly swung inside opened which almost made me jumped out of my skin in surprise
When I looked at the one who had opened the door, I found a girl with red hair and was wearing maid outfit standing on the entrance, she was looking at me with a kind smile on plastered on her beautiful face.
Usually when someone was in this kind of situation, I meant the one where a child was alone in a ship with a battle was going on outside, a dangerous situation where the child could die if he made a wrong step, not the romantic one where you were alone with a beautiful girl in a small room in a ship, then I would be very happy to find someone was still in this ship.
But when I saw that girl was holding a long sword with fresh red liquid of blood staining it, and even though in my mind I knew that those blood were most likely from monsters she had killed, I involuntarily took a few steps back.
With a gentle voice the girl asked “What are you doing here alone? Everyone had evacuated you know.”
I wanted to answered her question but no voice came out of my mouth, so I just kept staring at the girl.
Seeing me not responding to her question, the girl then continued “Well that doesn’t matter right now. We have to leave this ship right now before it gets more rowdy.”
She then slightly turned around and signaled me with a gesture to follow her “Let’s go.” And then she walked away.
There was no point for me to keep staying here, so I quickly followed the red haired girl from behind.
When we reached the deck, the girl halted her steps turning to face me and said “Let’s wait for the princess here.”
Ah so she wasn’t alone
Eh? But wait, Princess?
Did she just said princess???
What the hell a princess doing in a dangerous place like this???
I stared at the red haired girl with questioning gaze as I slightly tilted my head
But the girl only gave me a wink as her repliy
Now it made me really curious
Well I could find out the answer later, but right now I needed to know who or what had attacked the ship
When I turned to look around me, I was frantically used both of my hands to prevent me from throwing up. What I saw was horrifying sight of pools of red bloods, limbs, internal organs, and dead bodies of both monsters and humans.
It were Trasks!
The monster who had attacked the ship were Trasks!
An absurd thing had happened!
To think that Trask, one of a kind monster that was famous for being a peace loving creature to attack human settlement
This must be what my Gift
There must be a reason for this to happen
But what?
My
When my head was full with those thought, on the edge of my vision where the entrance to the ship was, I saw a small figure was coming out from inside the.
I remembered that the red haired girl mentioned something like wating for the princess here
Was that the princess she mentioned?
I turned my head to look at the figure and was frozen in place staring at the small figure that was approaching us
A beautiful young girl around my age was staring back at me, she was wearing a strange white armor with a short skirt which were also strangely perfectly suited for her.
I was almost mistook her for an elf when I saw her beauty
Her beauty wasn’t normal
Even among the elfven race it was almost impossible to find someone so beautiful like her
Maybe only the elven goddess, the most beautiful elf and also the ruler of Nature Continent who had the same beauty as her
Ehem!
Someone must have misunderstand something here
Well, she also had a beautiful appearance like an elf, but no, that wasn’t what I meant by beauty
What I mentioned as beauty here was the aura around the girl
The glowing nature aura that was surrounding the girl
The proof that she was loved by nature
By just looking at her calmed my heart and the fear I felt before was also slowly dissipated, making me felt a lot better
The girl than introduce herself as Ariel Whitestar and asked my mane
Of course I also introduce myself as Rid Ainsworth
But the problem was I forgot to use my fake name!
I was told by my arents to not my real name and used Ted Narr as my name till my exile time was up
It was to prevent me from being bullied or shunned because of that incident
And also for just in case if any malicious intent was aimed at me
Aww… Cid would be really mad at me…
The red haired girl from before suddenly interrupted us and told Ariel to look at the river where she pointed at
I was also curious, so I followed Ariel and looked at the direction where the red haired girl was pointed at
Immediately after I saw the two giant Trasks my
In that moment I understood why the Trasks was attacking this city
They were in rage
In rage because someone had stole their eggs
The eggs of the next generation queen and king of the Trask
They only wanted to take back their eggs whatever the cost
Even if they must sacrifice themselves to do it
For their survival
Because only queen Trask was the only one able to produce eggs
It seemed they attacked this city because their eggs were here
They followed the trace of their eggs nature energy
Which also meant the people who took their eggs were also in this city
I snapped out of my mind when I saw Ariel was aiming an intense blue light of arrow at one of the giant Trasks
I knew by looking at the arrow intense sprit energy that if it hit then the giant Trask would be a history
So I rushed to her side and grabbed her left hand that was holding the bow to stop her
“Hey what’s wrong with you? That’s dangerous you know.”
“Well…”
So I told her the reason why the Trasks attacked the city