A slender tall woman thanked me and introduced herself as violet. “Thank-you for saving our princess”, referring to the hooded figure abducted by goblins. But I doubt I was of much help to the elves. There were more than 20 warriors around me, all of them started removing their silhouettes’. But something was weird as all warriors were women, then suddenly another beauty approached the lady named violet, and inquired “what about lily”. That voice however was not of a female but a male, it made me realize that all these light skinned elf bastards had feminine beauty regardless of gender. As I was listening to them while all had clear skin and perfect face only their voice served as a connotation of their sex. But my doubt about them needing my help was still not clear after I had thinned the goblin horde they suddenly jumped and easily disposed all left goblins; in reality they did not need my help at all. So why, wait seeing their teamwork it was clear they were very capable warriors.
“Warrior come over here” lady violet summoned me near the princess who I had assumed to be a man. She was still wearing her hood so it was hard to make her face but unlike everyone in the light elf troupe, her chest was plenty while all other elves where flat regardless of gender.
“I doubt you needed my help in the first place, you did really tight work” I praised their coordination.
“don’t be like that, you jumped headstrong against this vicious horde, please accept our heartfelt gratitude” violet replied
“Yeah! Good humans are hard to come by”
“Thank you brave human”
The elves started to thank me; it was almost unbearable. Then lady violet inquired “what brings you in roan forest?”
Time to make up a story to keep up apparencies, that’s my first thought, I pulled out the blue card and answered “I was born in ruined roan village, so just visiting”
“Sorry for your loss” something bad must have happened to the village for her to say that Afterall it was called the ruined village on my blue card.
“Please rest at our village the time being” violet suggested.
I was then escorted to a part of forest with very high tress, the space was not cleared on the ground instead there were platforms running on the thick bars of these long trees, the elves resided on the trees. That’s what that was. The village which was situated along the bark of the trees supported by wooden platforms was bustling with many elves’ elders and children. Suddenly I was greeted with a harsh voice of somewhat older looking elf. “Who have you bought on our sacred home violet”
“I greet the chief”
After hearing that the it was clear he was the leader and I had to get on his good side. He was sizing me up. He had green eyes and a clean face, however there was a vertical scar on his left eye. His gaze intimidated me to no end. Then lady violet began explaining him the situation of how I came to be in her care. I walked to the princess, who removed her hood finally, I was shocked looking at her, she was the most different elf of all, she had light pink hair, her white skin was shaded tinge of pink all over, compared to other elves she had shorter and more triangular ears.
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“I hope you are alright”
She turned away refusing to answer, but appeared somewhat sad. Or maybe it’s the royal sass, she is princess after all. As I was trying to converse with the damsel, I saw violet and the chief gazing at me; it felt like they were smiling.
“Arc” lady violet called me by that name, guess at this point I should just accept that name instead of mine, would make my life much easier. I started walking towards lady violet and she introduced me to the chief ‘wort’
“You did a great service helping our princess, humans normally aren’t that merciful” he said it a rather rough voice followed by a ‘tch’.
Guess humans aren’t that good to elves here. I bowed to the chief and said “I simply was hunting goblins sir”
“Please allow us to reward you, don’t refuse arc, it would reflect poorly on our values” he requested
Guess it wouldn’t hurt but asking to much might get me in trouble, “then please give me a new sword, mine is battered, thank-you elf chief”
“That is too low a reward, but I won’t refuse, please dine with us today.” The chief requested
There was no reason to deny. I bowed and left but I heard lady violet whispering while leaving, “He might free us of her.” What was she talking about, are they going to use me for something while try to make out sense of violet’s words I sat on a bench and realize many elves leaving a room, looking up it was a library. I decided to venture in to lean more about the world. There were not many people there, the library itself didn’t have many books, I picked one by one to scout for information.
There was certain information I learned while thinking and reading in the library firstly I was in the kingdom of tyranica, and daph was closest residency. The kingdom was home to many intelligent species and in the last twenty years all species in the world focus their efforts on clearing roots of demons; labyrinths; monster making factories. They were called adventurers and made their living through labyrinths for if they fail it might break and spill all monsters on the world. They were also where one could find origins of goblins. And roan village was also a victim of demon spill wave, due to not clearing labyrinth regularly, one of the first victims.
“Are you a scholar”
I was greeted by lady violet, seeing her made me realize the amount of time passed in this place, the sun was almost setting.
“No just curious about elf writings, but there was nothing new here” I only read fundamentals of these world and cannot act surprised and rouse her suspicion anymore.
“Arc, your sword is ready, you may leave tomorrow but please dine with us today”
I agreed to that and went ahead to have dinner with my elf acquaintances. Lady violet told me all books were human written and elf don’t make such things. So, playing it off as known knowledge played off. I decided to join the long table and greeted the chief.
“ARC, I hope you like your new weapon.” He handed me an iron sword and I scanned it.
[>Iron alloy sword]
[Grade b, condition a]
Leagues better than my stupid starter bonus. It was a good sword. Then the chief inquired about various things, but he was also believing everything like it didn’t matter. I started eating the stew before me and then everyone smiled and followed. “Arc, you saved the princess, a sword is not a worthy reward for that,” you don’t need to think a lot about it wort, it was all in good faith “so we will give you princess herself” “yes” wort’s suddenly woke me up and made me throw up but before I could protest, I found the world losing its light, my eyes closing and BANG! I was flat on the table.