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Chapter 16

In recent years, Carpenter City has always gathered a lot of adventurers and mercenaries, the reason is that it is not far from Belem City.In addition to its mysterious destruction, there are also rumors of seeing ghost cities from time to time.

But the biggest reason is because of the remains of the ancient temple revealed in the huge pothole.After sacrificing a large number of adventurers and mercenaries, they finally had more accurate information.

It was a dark temple.

Although the temple has long been abandoned, its protective system is intact and still faithfully guarding the temple.Especially those guardian puppets that look like they are alive, with the current magic technology, it is impossible to be so precise and perfect.

The ruins of ancient temples full of danger and mystery are so attractive to adventurers and mercenaries.

Where there are adventurers and mercenaries, there must be a Maple Forest Bar.

Maple Grove Bar is a chain bar specially set up for adventurers and mercenaries, providing various information resources and intermediary services.For information, bars have always been a good place to inquire about information. As for intermediary services, this is an open secret.The Maple Grove Bar is also the intermediary station of the Shadow Guild, specializing in assassination services.

The owner of Maple Grove in Carpenter City is an obese woman about 40 years old. At first glance, she may feel ugly, but if you look closely at her features, you can find that she is actually a beauty if she is thinner.

"Boss, bring me a beer!"

"Ah, old Binns, it's you." The boss greeted him and poured a large glass of beer to him. "Why haven't you seen anyone lately? Are you doing something 'good' again?" After speaking, he laughed loudly Get up, causing everyone around to boo.

Old Binns is 52 years old this year. As a thief, it is not easy for a human being to live to this age.Old Binns likes to drink in the maple forest, and he likes to brag when he drinks. Today he talks about what achievements he had in the Thieves Guild, and tomorrow he tells which king's underwear he stole, etc., etc., no one will Seriously, after all, who would believe what such a bad old man said.

Everyone's laughter made old Binns blush, and he said with a snort, "I'm really going to do something good." After speaking, he mysteriously took out a black stone from his pocket, "What is this, you know ?"

I thought it was some kind of treasure, but it turned out to be a dark stone.Suddenly, there was booing in the bar.

"Hey, don't underestimate him, this is something from the ruins of the dark temple in the city of Belem!"

"Who would believe it? Up to now, except for a few masters of the Black Flame Mercenary Group who have escaped by chance, everyone who went in has died. Just you? Forget it~ Everyone thinks it's okay~"

Since the appearance of the ruins, adventurers and mercenaries have gone on and on, and I don’t know how many people went in. As a result, they couldn’t even enter the gate, and almost all died in the hands of the powerful guardian golem.

"Don't believe me, I'm lucky, belch, lucky~" Old Bins was already flushed from drinking, hiccupped, showed off the stone and put it in his pocket, and continued to drink triumphantly, and neither did the others. Going to see him again is just a joke.

But this scene caught the attention of a person in the corner.

"Hi..." Hiccupping and humming an out-of-tune song, Old Binns was walking crookedly in an alley.

"You old Binns?"

"Hi...you, who are you..." Old Binns squinted his eyes, leaning over to look at the dim light on the main road from the entrance of the alley.

"I want to see your rock." The haughty and indifferent voice made old Binns shudder.

"Wh, what kind of stone... I, I don't know..." Old Binns stepped back slowly, tripping himself to the ground nervously.

"What are you afraid of? Give me the stone you just brought out in the bar." He approached Old Binns, knelt down in front of him, took out a dagger with a cold light, and lightly placed it on Old Binns's chest neck.

Now, Old Binns finally saw clearly, with pure black hair, pale skin, and blood-red eyes. "Fallen, fallen elves!"

"Hush—" The fallen elf put his left index finger on his lips, and made a silent movement. "Please call us dark elves."

Old Binns was fully awake, covered in cold sweat, looking at the dagger on his neck in horror.

"Hand over the things, if you don't want to taste the poison on this dagger. Oh, sorry, my hand slipped."

Old Binns tightly covered his mouth with his right hand, not daring to cry out.The clothes with a slit and the cold dagger made him tremble all over in fright.But in order to survive, Old Binns exerted all his strength and tremblingly took out the black stone.

He snatched the stones one by one, but the dark elf didn't take back the dagger. "Tell me, how did you enter the temple, and how did you escape."

"I, I really, don't know! I just followed the mercenary group, and then I went in without knowing what happened. It was dark inside. I took a stone and ran, and I passed out while running. Die, wake up and be outside! Really, I swear! I swear to the Goddess of Light!" Old Binns choked out a long list of words in one breath, gasping for breath.

The dark elf curled his lips and muttered to himself, "It's really luck?" Then he hid in the darkness and left the alley, leaving behind the already terrified old Bins.

Alive, survived.He survived!

Old Binns had a very unreal feeling that he had saved his life from the dark elf.

Get out of here, I'm getting out of here!

Determined to pay attention, old Binns got up from the ground in a precarious manner and ran away.

In the morning, there were not many people in the hotel, and it was still very quiet.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk..."

"Your Excellency Rex, are you up?" Rosal got up very early, and he cooked a delicious breakfast for His Royal Highness.

The elves and dragons are the darlings of the Creator God, with almost endless life and powerful power, but because of this, their reproduction is very difficult. From the beginning of the world to the present, even the most glorious moment of the elves , their number does not exceed the number of people in an ordinary human city, and the dragon race is even less, let alone the present that has gone through several battles between light and dark.

After the period of great darkness, the gods moved into the realm of the gods and were not allowed to directly interfere with the affairs of the upper world.But the belief that had been formed before the departure of the gods has not been cut off. Through the highest priest of the temple, the will of the gods is conveyed to the creatures on the ground.However, after the gods left, the light clan and the dark clan were out of control, and conflicts broke out suddenly, and the gods seemed to acquiesce to this kind of struggle, not only did not stop them, but issued a series of oracles that intensified the fight. A war of light and darkness broke out, sweeping the entire Andinia.At this point, there is no harmony between light and darkness.Until more than 6000 years ago, the death of the highest priest of the Church of Light made the Goddess of Light extremely angry. Finally, it triggered a war of gods that lasted for nearly a thousand years. The domain of the dark gods was closed, and the god of darkness was sealed under the temple of the Goddess of Light in Flandia.

The tragedy of this war surpassed the war of light and darkness in any period. It involved both the secluded elves and the neutral dragons, causing these two races to lose many outstanding clansmen and suffered a heavy blow. .

Rothel was a very old elf, though his youthful handsome appearance did not tell it at all.No one in the elves knows his real age, only that he is older than any elves in the elves now, so he has even higher prestige in the elves than the elves king.

He watched the two princes of the elves grow up, and he cared more about these two princes than the elf king.This time, as soon as the news of Rex reached Falaine, Roser immediately asked the Elf King to come out to look for it.

Now that they have arrived at Carpenter City, which is so close to Falan, they can take the prince back as long as they get rid of those who are in the way~

Thinking of this, Rossel couldn't stop laughing.

"What's the matter?" The door opened, but it wasn't Rex.

Rosell's face instantly collapsed.

Seeing such a black face, Lacey smiled. "Come in, Rael is going to make breakfast, come back later."

"You actually asked His Excellency Rex to cook you breakfast!" Rossell roared.

"I don't know how to cook." Lacey raised her eyebrows and glanced at him, "Come in quickly."

"Humph!"

Rossel was very angry, very angry since last night.Why can this person live in the same room as His Royal Highness the Prince!

"Sit whatever you want." Lacey obviously just got up from the bed, the bed was not made, and she kept yawning. "I'm going to wash up first." After finishing speaking, he entered the bathroom.

With a dark face, he put the breakfast on the coffee table.No matter how angry Rossel was, he sat down on the sofa.How should I put it, this is the room of His Royal Highness, isn't it?Although there is a nasty guy here.

Not long after he sat down, there was the sound of the door opening.

"Rother?" Rex saw the elf sitting on the sofa as soon as he entered the door, "Why are you here?"

"Your Highness!" Roser was very happy, "I made you breakfast."

Rex was a little helpless, "Didn't I say that you don't have to do these things? You are the oldest elf in the clan. It is understandable that you needed to take care of me before, but I am no longer the young elf at that time. Now it's outside again."

"No matter what time you are, you are His Royal Highness, and it is only natural for me to do anything for you." Roser said seriously.

Sighing secretly, Rex also sat down.Seeing that there was already breakfast on the coffee table, I added fresh-keeping measures to the ones I made myself in the storage ring, but did not take them out.

After breakfast, three people came out of the room and came to the hall.

"Lacey~ this way~" Lu Mo immediately greeted those people when he saw them, but realized that his voice seemed too loud, so he looked at the people around him embarrassedly, and sat back with a blushing face.

"Where's Ed?" Lacey asked Lumer, seeing no one.

"He came back very late last night and is still sleeping... Ah, here we come."

"Morning." Ed came over and sat down next to Lumer, "Didn't Rhea come?"

"It's rare to come here once." Lacey nodded, "Let him stay there for a while, I've already told him to meet at the gate of the city at noon."

"Okay." Ed called the waiter, ordered some breakfast, and took out a black stone while eating. "I got it from a drunkard last night. Do you know where he got it? The Dark Temple! That's right, it's the Dark Temple you were thinking of."

"Can someone come out alive?" Lu Mo asked.

"I didn't believe it at first. However, although that guy is drunk, what he said may be true." Ed quickly finished his breakfast, "It's pure luck. He went in out of nowhere and took a stone. Then it came out out of nowhere. It's as simple as that." Threatening his life, what he said should not be false.

Such an explanation may seem unreliable at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, what is it if it is not luck?No matter what is special about that alcoholic, it can only be said that he was lucky to be able to walk through the Dark Temple in such a safe and sound way. The God of Darkness is not a benevolent god.

"Does this Elf have any comments?" Ed raised his eyebrows and looked over.He hates white elves.

"It's fine for you to decide." Anyway, as long as I can follow His Royal Highness, I will find an opportunity to treat him to Farlane.

"That's how it is. Let's go to resupply first. At noon, we will gather at the gate of the city."

This time the trial was very dangerous, so Lacey put on the equipment that Rex gave him, the water ripples on the staff, and the ripples on the robe.Fortunately, their appearance is not as well-known as their names, even a little plain, and it has not attracted much attention.Rex didn't put on any special equipment, the ones he usually used, but he carried an emerald green bow on his back.

"What is this? I haven't seen you use it before." Lacey looked at the bow curiously.

Elves are born archers, you fool.

"This is a magic bow, which can penetrate the protective barrier of a magician." Rex took the bow from behind and handed it to Lacey, "Have you heard of the magic-breaking star?"

"Well, I've heard it, and it's called the nemesis of magicians." Lacey touched the emerald green bow, and the smooth lines made him admire, "Could it be this one?"

No matter how you look at it, it can't be this one, it really is a fool!

"No, this is an imitation." Rex said with a smile, "During the battle of the gods, the Demon-Breaking Star showed its power. Its owner, the Dark Elf King Lancelot, once used the Demon-Breaking Star to fight against the light. When fighting against the dark sides, they shot and killed countless magicians of the light camp. The dwarf craftsmen at that time imitated the magic star and created this brilliance. Great weapon of strength."

"So that's how it is." Returning the bow to Rex, Lacey touched his chin, "Well, we have the weapon, let's go buy some armor, Rael, how about your armor, you must be very handsome!"

Rael smiled helplessly, "I'm a mage now."

"It's okay, it's okay~ I'll be a warrior now~"

"Yes, yes..." Everything centered on Lacey, as long as he was happy, he could do anything!Rael silently clenched his fists in his heart.

"What the hell do you think of Your Excellency Rex!" Rosal, who was following behind, was furious and couldn't bear it anymore. Even if he violated the order of His Royal Highness, he would still get angry!

"It's none of your business. I heard that you are quite old, so why are you so impatient." Lacey said flatly, "You're still an elf. I'm not ashamed to see everyone looking at you."

"You!" What other people think is none of my business!Rossel jumped up and down angrily, but didn't dare to really do anything.

Glancing at Rothel, Rex didn't say anything, but the look in his eyes already made Rothel at a loss. "Yes, I'm sorry..." He silently lowered his head and followed behind, glancing at the two people talking in front from time to time, feeling very unhappy.

In Falan, apart from His Royal Highness, he is the only one who has the best relationship with Rex. Rex's magic and martial arts are all taught by him, but now he is not as good as a human who doesn't know where he came from?

Roser smiled wryly. He just hoped that Rex could stay in Falaine well. It's fine if he doesn't want to be the Elf King. In the future, the eldest prince will succeed, so he can just be on the sidelines to assist.Just, why, was bound by such a human being?