Chapter 3 Southbound - The Black Knight (1)
"I am Roland, not Moya, the goddess of dark night."
After explaining his identity slightly, the double black woman who called herself Roland hung the unsheathed sword back to her waist again.
"The war begins, the Night Elf King's revenge on the Holy Alliance."
"Ah...yes, the Northern War has lasted for five years, and almost the entire ice crystal has been conquered by the Dark Night Empire. The White Rose Flag has been inserted into Angels. As long as you pass through the grass sea in Prague, you can rush your troops south." Xinda heard the wounded and sent back front line soldiers in the tavern, and that was already a month ago.
Yes, it has been five years.
I didn't expect that the battle with Laxis would make me sleep for so long.
Maybe the night elves have also begun to attack the Western Continent.
"What should I do if the three-year agreement is, Rafa... the three years you promised, the three years I promised..." Roland murmured to himself, as if he had completely fallen into his thoughts.
"That... although it was a bit abrupt and even rude request,... can you please help me?" Veriane hesitated for a while, and finally mustered up the courage to speak.
"..." Turning his gaze back to the girl who asked him for help, Roland noticed that the girl had silver and conspicuous silver hair and slightly pointed ears.
All of this proves that she is a night elf.
No... maybe it should be called a mixed race.
The common blue pupils in the Southern Continent will not appear on purely blooded night elves.
"help?"
"Yes... As you can see, I am a mixed race between night elves and humans. In order to protect me, my mother left the family, but even living in such a remote village, she still couldn't escape the persecution of humans.
The slave trader Pando planned to sell me to the evil mage as a sacrifice. My mother asked me to go to the north to find tribe members for my safety, saying that was my only way to live." Veriane carefully observed Roland's face, but did not see any emotion in her face.
Seeing that the mysterious double black woman solved Pando's mercenaries with her attack, Veriane also had the idea of letting her protect herself.
Although Sinda was kind, he alone could not guarantee his safety to arrive in Guriyev.
"North... are you going to the Ice Crystal Continent?" Hearing the girl mentioning the north, Roland naturally thought of the night elves that had captured almost the entire northern continent.
Indeed, if you find the night elves, you can still get shelter even if you are a mixed race.
This has been a tradition that has been passed down for five hundred years.
The Night Elf will accommodate all descendants of their blood.
"No, no...that's too far away, I just hope that you can bring me to Guriyev, and there is another expeditionary force in the southern continent."
The night elves also have expeditionary forces in the southern continent?
Roland was slightly stunned, and then remembered the magic messenger he saw at that time.
Sistaer once said that he wanted to divide his troops into two groups.
All the way Loude, all the way Guriyev.
Guriyev...
Trying to search for information about this country in your mind, remembering that you had seen relevant information in the geographical notes Farian gave.
The country with the largest port in the Southern Continent and the country with the longest coastline in the Southern Continent.
It has a non-frozen port that can directly connect to Port Byron in the East, Port Hor in the North, and Merrison in the West.
I'm afraid the night elves sent troops to this country just to transport supplies when another expeditionary force in the north officially rushed south to attack the Holy Alliance.
After all, the front line from the Eastern Continent to the Southern Continent is too long.
For some reason, five years have passed, and the Holy Alliance will allow the night elves who have declared war to occupy Guriyev, who is not far away from them, without providing rescue.
"Okay... I'm going north anyway, so I'll help you." Nodded, Roland agreed to the request of the girl she saw for the first time after she woke up.
"Thank you very much." Veriane excitedly grabbed Roland's hand after getting her approval; "Thank you so much..."
But her words stopped abruptly after touching Roland's cold palm, which was so cold that it was not as warm as it could be.
Good ice...
Veriane looked at the two black women in front of her with some anxiety.
It was so cold that it didn't have a trace of temperature that made people even doubt whether she was still alive.
How could it be... to throw away the ridiculous thoughts in your mind, Veriane knew that this unknown dark clan was his only support now.
"Are we going to set off now?" Without a trace, Roland retracted his hands tightly held by the girl full of gratitude, and locked his gaze on the man behind her.
In terms of appearance and temperament, this is a completely human being. Moreover, his clothes are not tacky, so he should be a nobleman.
In Anesia, the nobles belong to the privileged class. A southern noble would actually stand up to protect the mixed-race night elves, which was obviously a bit weird.
"I vowed to protect Veriane. Even if I didn't know her identity as a night elf hybrid at that time, but as a knight, I have made a vow, I must abide by it. Even if I will give my life for it." After Roland's gaze, Xinda knew what she was thinking. She didn't want to explain, but under the gaze with temptation and confusion, he had to respond.
"By the way, can I let me go back to Saodou first? I'm worried about my mother..." The crisis ended, and Veriane remembered that her poor mother was still in the village.
I don't know which hateful slave trader Pando would do anything too much to her.
Veriane is now desperate to know if her mother is safe.
"Villian, we should leave immediately. Pando escaped and only went to find the evil mage. He would definitely bring more people to hunt you down. Returning to Saodor is not a wise decision, and even... he may have been waiting for you somewhere." Seeing that Viillian wanted to return to the village, Cinda hurriedly persuaded him. He knew that this double black woman who claimed to be Roland had good martial arts skills, but if she had many enemies, no matter how powerful she was, she would not be able to defeat a huge gap in number.
"It's okay, I'll go back with you." Roland gently sootheed the girl who seemed a little anxious, and Roland asked Veriane to lead the way.
"It's really okay, I'll go back now..." After hearing Xinda's words, Veriaen remembered that Pando was the subordinate of the evil mage. If he had called the terrible mage...
"Don't worry, I promise to send you safely to Guriev." Roland couldn't say why he agreed to the girl's request so easily.
Maybe... it's because of Moya.
Thinking of his friend who had completely transformed into another spiritual body, Roland felt sad for no reason.
Poor Sistale, he once gave up his glorious identity so persistently and resolutely, but in the end he was unable to stay with his lover forever.
In order to protect her hard-earned relationship, Moya resisted the summons from the gods again and again, but in the end...
In the silent black forest, three people walked silently. When they were silent, the forest that had originally grown lushly turned into scorched earth.
The trees of the sky were all destroyed in an instant, which surprised Veriane and Cinda, who had been scared enough.
Who is this person...
The Silence Forest, reborn after the fire, seemed to have existed only because of her.
Xinda stared deeply at Roland walking in front of him.
He originally thought she was the goddess of dark night, but when he thought about it carefully, Panduo's words made sense.
If it were the real Goddess of the Night, how could the Night Elf King go crazy and fight for years?
Roland...
In addition to the Goddess of Dark Night, there are other pure bloodlines in this world?
"Ah...the village!!" Following the mountain path, Villian and his party were rushing towards the village of Saodor not far away. As soon as they turned over the small hills that separated the black forest and the village, they saw that the village had already turned into a sea of fire.
"Mother!!" Thinking of his mother who was still in the village, Veriane accelerated.
"No... this is not true." Blocked outside the village by the blazing fire, Veriane could only helplessly watch her home in her life for more than ten years fall into flames.
"I'll go in and take a look."
Under the stunning gaze of Veriane and Cinda, Roland stepped out and walked into the burning flames.
Following Veriane's instructions, Roland came to the small cabin located in the corner of the village.
A middle-aged woman who had already died was lying in the room that had been burned and exhausted. The dagger that passed by her chest was her fatal injury.
And what she held tightly in her hand was a statue of a goddess carved from black wood.
The familiar face made Roland sigh low.
Facing Veriane's eyes with wings, Roland returned from the fire.
"This is the relic of your mother." Handing the Statue of the Night to Veriane, Roland saw naked despair in the girl's eyes.
"Mother..." He fell to the ground and Veriane cried loudly. Although he had already become enlightened at the moment of escape, he did not expect death to come so quickly.
"Let's go, Villian. We have to rush to Guriev as soon as possible, this is your mother's last wish."
"No, I want to take revenge!!" Pushing away the hands that Sinda stretched out, Veriane raised her face full of tears, and the burning hatred in her eyes made Roland frown.
"Revenge? Don't be stupid. You can't fight against the evil mage at all. He has the support of a great nobleman and a father as a lich. If you don't want Mrs. Annaly who has passed away, leave this country that has been completely corrupted by the undead as soon as possible." Xinda pulled Veriane up from the ground, but no matter how he persuaded her, it would not dispel the resentment in her eyes.
"Your mother has returned to the cycle of life, and the last hope before death is your peace. If you really think about her, you should leave here. Revenge is not easy. If you really want to take revenge on the enemy who took your mother's life, you must let yourself live first. The dead cannot take revenge."
Roland's words softened Viriane a little, but she still insisted on revenge.
"Go to the north, as long as you find your relatives, it is not difficult to take revenge. The rumors about the night elves' immortality are not just used to coax children." They would not say anything comforting, but Roland and Cinda agreed. She also did not want Veriaen to take revenge on the slave trader Pando or the evil mage behind him now.
Chapter completed!