Chapter 17 - Your place

After leaving the central hall following her father's or tribe leader's commands, Elmyra went to the tribe's hot spring, took a shower to clean herself, and immediately went to sleep. It might even be her last sleep if things took a worse turn. However, she is determined to survive and get the blood crystal no matter what, even though all the tribe members have to die eventually, they will die fighting against the Fae folks, trying to take down most of them.

At midnight as predicted by the tribe leader the barrier was opened using the key that the Fae Folks gave them. Elmyra and her group of elves was all ready.

"OK, let's go," stated Elmyra her voice with slight tension.

All nine dark-elven males nodded silently as all of them jumped into the Eastern area through the barrier gap.

The bow unit of Elmyra were all strong warriors and extremely dangerous, especially on long-distance combat. Though they are well trained on close combat as well to leave no room of an obvious advantage for their enemy.

They jumped from one tree to another running to the tribe area of the cursed tribe at full speed without a single sound of the wind or a tree's rustle. Eventually, as they closed in on the eastern tribe's area they could hear the sounds of the raging fire, they weren't quite there yet but the exceptional hearing of the dark elves could allow them to discern noises from extremely far, normally they would only hear the sounds of insects and birds in the forest while running through it and hear the sounds of humans most likely after nearing their living area.

However for Elmyra what was the most disturbing was that there was no sign of any human noises as they were getting closer and closer but simply the sounds of raging fire growing louder.

After they reached close enough, they're senses were proven correct there was indeed an extremely large fire. At least what they could tell from the distance, standing on top of a large tree that the entire open area was on fire, it was most likely the tribes living area.

Not that any Dark elves ever entered the Eastern area to know the details of it.

"Why is they're entire living area on fire? But at least Zhao should be alive." thought aloud Elmyra.

"Don't tell me that madman burned his entire tribe alive?" interjected another Male dark elf named Malrith.

She thought for a while and ordered, "Let's get closer."

She thought with slight glee in her heart, 'heh, was that trash Valtar actually able to take Zhao to the afterlife along with himself? that would just be so nice for once.'

As they were nearing the border of the fire, they could indeed see nothing inside of the fire or if anyone living was even there, it's impossible to survive in such heat. In fact as creatures of darkness, such bright fire was actually hurting they're eyes and they could not keep looking at it.

As Elmyra turned her eyes on another direction since they were hurting, she saw a disturbing detail of a human shadow being cast from above, but the shape of it was not easily discernable, she immediately looked up and saw a very handsome boy sitting in top a tree branch looking at the fire with an almost content smile and not giving any attention to them.

Elmyra instantly shouted to the other elves signaling them to surround him. Despite that Valtar did not seem to pay any attention to them. She felt apprehensive of the situation, how could she not detect someone so close to them, was she too focused on the burning fire.

The other elves understanding her signal did another check on the surrounding area thoroughly. They silently reported to Elmyra's ear that there was indeed no one else.

On one hand, she should have been glad that the dangerous one was likely dead, and it was the human boy named Valtar who was alive, but she wasn't having that great of a feeling about it, the human looked nothing like before, like he had gone through a full transformation of the body and almost felt like a new person, if not for the fact she observed this guy's face very closely on the hunting day, she would've mistaken him for someone else, he became much more good looking, his presence much sharper.

Then there is the fact of how relaxed this guy seems despite being surrounded.

The entire situation screamed of something wrong.

––––––

Valtar felt through his senses the situation despite not looking at the elves directly because suddenly his mind was preoccupied with something else, looking at the fire, he was reminded of a memory, the last time he got together with his friends. It wasn't any special occasion, but suddenly everyone wanted to meet up after a long time on a winter night, sitting in front of a fire, since there were fewer and fewer chances for the good bunch of friends to get together as they grew up.

Valtar thinking of his old friends, a genuine smile crept up on him unknowingly.

His thoughts were interrupted by an angry shout, "Hey? Get your ass down here and tell me what happened?"

A wave of displeasure washed over him as his thoughts were interrupted.

He turned his head to the voice with a visible look of anger, yet when his eyes fell on the overwhelmingly beautiful elven archer his anger immediately vanished just like it came. 

As he opened his eyes wide and took in the sight of her two perfectly rounded balloons in skin-tight clothing and her curvaceous body.

He was overflowing with lust as he licked his lips slightly looking at that beautiful body, then he thought to himself, 'Nah who gives a damn about those idiots, Let me eat this delicious beauty first.'

His mind even drifted to the moments when the beautiful elf kissed him forcefully.

He shook himself out of his fantasies as he thought, 'This is so classic, ditching your friends for the chick.'

"Hey? Did you not hear what I said? Or do you want me to activate the damn poison? trust me you won't survive that no matter how strong you've gotten…" Elmyra snickered.

The poison had long been destroyed since the system's version 1 unlock.

But he still came down with an apologetic smile towards the pretty elf,

"Sorry, I almost forgot about that, please calm down, my lady."

The male dark elf named Malrith noticed this low life was looking at their leader with a deep and lustful gaze and he was totally enraged but he held himself back from killing this guy.

However, seeing this still so nonchalant after coming down and the bastard calling Princess Elmyra 'my lady', he just couldn't hold his anger anymore.

"YOU GODDAMN LOWLIFE, LOWER YOUR GAZE AND KNEEL IN FRONT OF OUR LADY"

"and KNOW YOUR PLACE."

For a moment there was silence as these words slowly sank into Valtar's mind, something within him almost rumbled, his pleasant smile almost cracked for a moment, his body shook in rage but he was able to control himself fortunately.

On the other hand, the Elf named Malrith saw his body shake slightly as he let out a small smile, thinking the damn human must have finally felt scared of him and understood his place, just because completed his job doesn't make him any more valuable to to lady Elmyra.

Valtar then proceeded to give a curt nod to Malrith as he decided internally.

'So you have a thing for her? Good, I'll keep you alive and let you watch on 8k, how I rock your princess's insides to the ninth heaven, right in front of your eyes while you can do about it.'

Elmyra was watching this transpire slight amusement, like two men competing for her attention. Of course, she noticed that the human was looking at her body with intense lust but she did not pay it any mind, It was normal actually.

Her father taught her about humans that they are very emotional creatures, so they are often led and controlled by their inner emotions rather than logic and objectiveness.

The reason she put the poison inside of the human by kissing him is also for this reason, the human would be subconsciously driven by lust thinking about the reward and scared at the ramifications of failing. Essentially forcing him to complete his task and not trying anything funny.

And it was the first time she was touched by any men, she only felt disgusted that her first kiss was with a human. But her duty was more important than her personal feelings.

Not to mention the human, even her own team members desired for her since they were the same age and Elmyra was extremely beautiful she knew that very well, it wasn't arrogance, it was simply a fact that everyone in her tribe knew, after all she was the most beautiful women in the elven tribe. Also the only child of the Tribe leader.

Thankfully dark elves were creatures of darkness so they can hide or disregard their emotions quite easily thus not influenced by it that much. Only her team member Malrith would show subtle emotions for her. Yet she did not care, there were more important things for her to do than to waste her time in carnal pleasure.

As Valtar looked at Elmyra again, bowed slightly, this time with a more calm and controlled expression,

"Lady Elmyra, Shall I tell you everything that happened here?"

"Go on, do not hide anything," she stated.