Lucian was really angry this time.
"I helped Wade block the arrow, but he still bullied me. He has no conscience." He thought.
Lucian lay in bed and sulked for a while. Because of his fatigue, he temporarily did not want to argue with Wade. He was thinking whether he should continue to pretend to be pitiful or let me go and get angry with Wade. As he was thinking, he fell asleep again.
Only after he fell asleep did Wade stand by his room again, looking through the window at the sleeping person inside.
Lucian's lips were slightly raised even in his dream. At that moment, he endured the pain and heat in his body and thought indifferently.
Lucian is such a heartless little scoundrel.
"Evan," he instructed his most capable subordinate, "while I am recovering in the Holy Pond, you are responsible for keeping an eye on him."
"As you command." Evan said loyally.
Before leaving, Wade looked back at Lucian's figure in the room again. He narrowed his eyes slightly and finally felt relieved.
At this time, another of his attendants and a doctor came from the end of the corridor and reported to him: "Your Majesty, I have consulted the information of the elves, and this medicine does have an effect on the soul..."
The doctor was also very nervous and puzzled: "And we did not detect any damage to Her Highness Sylvia's soul, you..."
"Find a way to continue treatment and maintenance." Wade said.
Although he had taken the antidote, Vader still had some poison left—he had almost transferred all the poison that Lucian was supposed to have endured. These past few days, he should have been recuperating in the holy pool of the elves' forbidden land. The spring of the holy pool was located next to the World Tree, and was also stained with the sacred aura of the God's blood. The water in the pool also temporarily relieved his injuries and was in contact with the deeper...
It was like the howling of a demon from within the soul.
At first, Vader was reluctant to go to the holy pond just to wait for the emperor to wake up. The doctors didn't understand why Vader still asked them if Sylvia's soul was damaged after she had woken up briefly.
This is really confusing. But now that Wadeken has gone to the Holy Pond to recuperate, this is indeed good news.
…
Lucian slept in bed for a while, and no one came to see him until the afternoon.
The person who came to see him was the doctor of the palace. The doctor clearly recognized Lucian's male identity, but under the intimidation of Wade, he treated him as the emperor with considerable professionalism. After checking his condition routinely, the doctor prescribed him a medicine. Lucian looked at the medicine and asked, "What is this medicine used for?"
"Your Majesty, it's to clear out the remaining poison." The doctor said respectfully.
Lucian could clearly see that this potion was used to soothe the soul, but since it didn't have any harm, he was too lazy to care about it.
He turned his head and met a servant dressed in black with his eyes downcast.
"Where's Wade?" Lucian asked.
"The master is busy today. He arranged for me to follow and serve you." The servant said politely, "But the master also said that your body is not fully recovered yet. He doesn't want you to go too far."
The attendant had eyes of different colors. The blue ones were his natural eye color, and the golden ones were from an abyss monster. In the original novel, this young man named Evan was a loyal subordinate of Vader, assassinating all those who questioned him for Vader and remained loyal to him until the last moment of the novel.
Now this powerful subordinate has been sent with a brand new mission—to monitor Lucian.
Lucian: …
Lucian has no opinion on this, but...
How could Wade be so confident in leaving him to a group of servants to look after him
"Sure." He said lazily, "I want to go out for a walk, get some fresh air, and see the scenery of the elves - that should be no problem, right?"
Evan followed him calmly.
What surprised him was that the "Emperor" seemed to be unfamiliar with the royal court of the elves.
The elves are a very exclusive tribe. They are pure, long-lived, and extremely beautiful. They live in seclusion in the forest, living a life of symbiosis with flowers, plants, and trees. This characteristic also makes them highly wary and xenophobic of other tribes. Lucian came here when he was a saint and has a deep understanding of this.
Similarly, the elves also have a weakness - that is, an extreme desire for "beauty". The elves love beautiful flowers and plants, natural scenery, and lovely animals, so they naturally have a good impression of beautiful creatures.
In other words, this is a xenophobic tribe that is obsessed with appearance.
When Lucian was the Son of God and was befriending the Elf Priest Beavis, he had enjoyed the benefits of his good looks. Even so, the stubborn and xenophobic elders of the Elf tribe were extremely dissatisfied with the entry of a human like him. And now Vader actually brought him in to live with him and healed his injuries for a long time...
When Lucian saw the daunted or frightened looks on the elven guards’ faces that appeared from time to time, he understood.
... This is of course inseparable from the threat of Vader's military strength.
The Elven King's Court was like a huge garden. Lucian walked among the fairy-like branches, intending to find a place to rest. At this moment, he saw several elders in the corridor in the distance, who seemed to be arguing angrily about something, and beside them was the Elven King.
Lucian:
Lucian concentrated on taking a closer look, but Beavis's voice came to his ears: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Human Race."
It turns out that Beavis, the priest of the elves, is also there.
Beavis silently looked in the direction of the Elf King, covering his eyes with his long eyelashes. Finally, he said to Lucian: "Your Majesty, are you feeling better?"
Lucian nodded.
"That's good." Beavis showed some satisfaction on his pale face.
"What a coincidence, Lord Beavis." Evan said.
"What a coincidence! I originally came here to visit Her Highness Sylvia." Beavis said gently, "I feel ashamed that you were poisoned by the dark elves. I heard from the human doctor that your soul was damaged. If you don't mind, I would like to take a look at you."
Lucian had no reason to refuse Beavis. He followed Beavis through the flowers and willows and arrived at Beavis's residence. Beavis's residence was at the top of the royal court, with a terrace, and he could see the stars in the sky at night and the sun during the day.
Evan was guarding outside the terrace where the two were.
Beavis used magic to check Lucian's body, and then asked his servant to prepare medicine for him. At this moment, an armored elven warrior walked into the room angrily.
"Beavis!" the soldier asked, "Are you really going to do anything? That's your brother, he..."
"He betrayed the light elves, so he should be punished. That's the rule, Blaise." Beavis said indifferently.
"You know very well that as long as you open your mouth, the Elf King will definitely..."
"I am a priest. I will do the execution myself."
All the voices froze at that moment. Finally, the warrior gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, you are a priest, you are indeed a priest!"
The warrior left, leaving only Lucian and Beavis in the room. Beavis lowered his eyes, his expression unchanged, and continued to work. Finally, he suddenly asked: "Silvia, do you know the historical struggle between the light elves and the dark elves?"
Lucian shook his head.
Beavis stood up. His slender white fingers touched the blanket by the window. At this moment, he looked more like a bookish scholar, and not the priest above. He said calmly: "In fact, in the beginning, the so-called light and dark elves were just changes in appearance."
The elves regard the light elves with blond hair and green eyes, close to the light element, and more peaceful nature as pure, and regard the dark elves with black hair and green eyes, close to the water element, and more irritable nature as dark. The likes and dislikes of the sacred tree also contributed to this change. The sacred tree favors the prayers of the light elves with blond hair and green eyes, but it does not always respond to the prayers of the dark elves.
A slight difference is enough to cause the two sides to completely fall apart.
Long-term cognition turned into stereotypes, and two ethnic groups gradually formed between the light elves and the dark elves. Eventually, conflicts broke out and a life-and-death slaughter began.
Light elves are the majority in number, living in the Elf King's Court in the forest around the lake. Dark elves formed a tribe in the forest near the mountains. Five hundred years after the war, the light elves and dark elves finally became two groups that hated each other. And the dark elves, while finally establishing a harmonious society, became as cruel and bloodthirsty as the rumors said because of the survival attribute of the "society" where the strong prey on the weak.
Although they are not reproductively isolated from the light elves.
"... However, although the offspring of the two dark elves are still dark elves, the offspring of the light elves are very unlikely to be dark elves. This change may appear at birth, or it may undergo another change in the process of adolescence to adulthood." Beavis said softly, "We call this phenomenon 'degeneration' - the 'degenerate' light elves will be strictly supervised by the elders of the elves to prevent them from doing irreparable evil because of the 'degenerate' nature of the dark elves."
Lucian: “…”
"Every word they say will be analyzed, and every move they make will be controlled. Elves with less knowledge believe that 'corruption' will be contagious, and take their families and friends away from them. Few elves who are controlled can endure such a long life. They either die of depression or directly escape from the Elf King's Court, go deep into the forest, and become one of the dark elves near the spider's nest. This is the end of every fallen light elf." said Beavis.
"Do you want to play chess, Beavis?" Lucian asked, "You should have discovered my identity, right?"
He looked at Beavis, who was as quiet and gentle as ever, and the chessboard that Beavis had placed on the table. Beavis said gently, "It was confirmed when you arrived at the elves' homeland. It's a pity..."
He smiled and said: "I don't know now, besides you, who else I told the story to."
The two picked up the chess pieces. Beavis asked Lucian where he came from, and the story between him and Wade. He didn't care about the so-called evil things Lucian did, and just focused on playing chess with him.
"The elf who will be executed tomorrow is my younger brother." Beavis said, "During the half-year war, he transformed into a dark elf and leaked the fighter's information to other dark elves. So, he is not my biological brother."
He put down a chess piece. "When I picked him up, I knew that he was the child of a light elf and a dark elf. When he grows up, he will become a dark elf."