Dark Elf Graveyard Past

Chapter 1 Undercurrent
Silent cumulus clouds suppress the Afalia Mountains.

At the headwind of the southeast corner of the mountain range, there is a small dark elf village. The residences built of black stones are scattered scattered on the gray-black ground.The distant sky is still dim, under the thick black clouds, there is a weak wind circling, revealing a chilling chill.

It was an early winter morning, and the village was as quiet as usual.

Sean walked out of the dilapidated stone house. He has short black hair, but the roots are silver. His figure is thin and tall, and he is wearing a clean old gray windbreaker. In this slightly cold air, he looks a little thin .

The movement in the distance aroused his vigilance.He looked towards the entrance of the village and saw four strangers who had entered the village on horseback.

The leader of the stranger is a beautiful human woman who looks very young.She was wearing a beige magician's robe, and the blue staff in her left hand was extremely gorgeous.

"We need a guide!" The human woman spoke the lingua franca. Her voice was not loud, but it was eerily clear, spreading to every corner of the village.

The originally silent village gradually began to respond. Scattered dark elves came out of their stone houses, forming a big circle that seemed to be invisible, surrounding the four strangers.

Sean stood at the outermost edge of the big circle, gently rubbed the equipment bag tied around his waist with his hands, and observed everything quietly.

In the big circle, a young dark elf woman walked out. This was Yi Lan, the most powerful person in the village. Her long silver hair was simply coiled behind her back, and her black skin was still steaming. It seemed that she had just finished training.

"Where do you want to go?" Yi Lan asked in Common Tongue, her voice was very magnetic.

Crash!A large bag of gold coins was thrown on the ground by the human woman, making a pleasant sound.People in the big circle began to whisper and exchange glances with each other.

"Take us into the dark elf cemetery. The bag on the ground is half of the advance payment." There was a trace of fatigue in the human woman's voice, and the three men standing behind her, two of them were tall men wearing heavy knight armor, They pulled out the swords in their hands, inserted them into the ground, and made a defensive posture.

"No, it's too dangerous. None of us can take you in there. You can find a guide elsewhere." Yi Lan declined the invitation for all the villagers.

Snapped!
A beautiful little bag was thrown at the human woman's feet. The mouth of the bag didn't seem to be sealed tightly, and two silver magic gemstones rolled out of it. The human woman stared at Yi Lan, and said with a slightly raised voice: "This little bag gift, is it My gift to the warrior."

The dark elf villagers in the big circle became excited when they saw the gems in the bag, and some villagers even started to gather together in twos and threes to chat quietly.

Yi Lan saw the gems on the ground and the reactions of the people in her village. She gently pulled out the dagger at her waist and said indifferently: "I said before, no one in our village can take you to the dark elf cemetery."

There was a faint seriousness in her voice, as if she was speaking to the villagers, or as if she was warning these strangers.

The voices in the big circle gradually became quieter. Men, women, and children all looked at Yilan in awe, because they knew that it was this young girl who was silently protecting the village.

But the silence didn't last long. A short man walked out of the big circle. He saluted Yilan and said, "Boss Yilan, all my family members have died in Neubela. I want to take this task. If I survive Then I can go back to Dark City."

Yi Lan looked at this short man, and after being silent for a while, she retracted the dagger to her waist. Her tone was a little low, and she said to the whole circle: "Anyone else, please stand up. If you want to die, I will die too." If you don’t stop it, the rest will follow the old rules.”

A few more men came out of the circle one after another. They stood in a row, but they didn't dare to stare at the two bags on the ground.

Sean also walked out of the circle. He put on old gray leather gloves as he walked. He stood at the very edge of the line. His height was not much worse than the adult men around him, but his main color was black. The hair is eye-catching.

The villagers in the big circle saw that Xiao En also wanted to take up this task, and made low voices of discussion.

The human woman waited for a while, and then signaled. Behind her, a man wearing a cloak and a hood walked out in response to the gesture. This man looked very agile, with sharp eyes, and he was constantly sizing up Sean and other candidates.

Sean was hurt by the man's gaze, but he endured it and continued to look into the distance.

The man in the cloak spoke, and it turned out to be pure dark elf language. He asked, "How many times have you all been to the dark elf cemetery?"

The candidates gave answers one after another, but they did not satisfy the man.

The man moved his gaze to Sean, hoping to get a satisfactory answer.

Sean pointed to his mouth, then squatted down, took out the carbon stick in his pocket and wrote on the ground in dark elf language: "Three years, nine times, up to 20 days."

Sean's special way of answering caught the man's attention. The man glanced at the writing on the ground and walked towards Sean.

A low threatening voice came from next to Sean: "Damn dumb, if you have the guts, you will take this mission."

The man ignored the threats from the candidate team, and continued to carefully observe the mute boy with sharp eyes.

Sean felt the man's eyes, and an inexplicable depression spread in his body, but he still stood quietly without any unnecessary movements.

"Are you a local?" The man squatted down and asked with a puzzled tone, because he noticed that Sean's hair color was different. The other candidates all had silver hair, but Sean only had hair at the root. silver.

Sean nodded, still silent.

The man suddenly grabbed Xiao En's hand, checked the scars and calluses on it, and asked softly, "You're actually a mechanic?"

Sean avoided the man's sharp eyes. After he nodded, he shook his head again, making a whining sound.

"Who did you learn from?" The man released more hostility, and he wiped the handwriting on the ground while speaking.

Sean gritted his teeth and shook his head.

Seeing that Xiao En didn't answer, the man put away his hostility.He put down Sean's hand, and asked softly, especially in Common Tongue, "What's your name? How far can it take us?"

Sean pursed his lips lightly. After a moment of silence, he wrote on the ground in common language: "Sean. Disguise. Do your best."

The man's eyes lit up. He looked at the concise and immature handwriting on the ground while thinking, and continued to look at Xiao En for a long time before getting up and nodding to the human woman behind.

He said to Yilan in dark elf language: "We chose Sean to be our guide. I will take good care of him. It's his preparation time for a magic spell, and we'll wait for him here."

As soon as the man's words came out, there was a sound of cursing from the candidate team, and loud discussions from the circle of villagers.

The man packed up two bags of rewards from the ground and handed them back to Sean. While wiping the handwriting on the ground with his feet, he said in a volume that only Sean could hear clearly: "Sean, my name is Shar. You go Give the deposit to your leader."

Sean heard Shar's instructions clearly, and nodded vigorously. Holding the heavy gold coins and precious stones in his hand, he quickly walked towards Yilan. The villagers around him looked at Sean with strange eyes and made noisy discussions. .

Sean handed the two bags of deposit to Yi Lan, but the other party did not accept it. Yi Lan stared at Sean and asked softly, "Is it to heal your mother's eyes?"

Holding two bags of deposits, Sean nodded vigorously, and he responded with a whimper, full of hope and joy.

Yilan suddenly looked up at the sky, so that Xiao En couldn't look at her face, she said lightly: "I understand, leave the rest to me. I will take good care of your mother and brother. You don't have to Say goodbye to them as usual and they will be waiting for you when you come back."

Yi Lan took the two bags of gold coins from Sean, and the villagers and unselected candidates also stopped discussing and cursing.

Xiao En bowed his head and bowed deeply to Yi Lan. After he took a few steps back, he bowed deeply to Yi Lan again, and then firmly greeted the four strangers, or in other words, his future friends. The employer goes.

This is how the journey begins.

At the request of his employer, Sean took the team to Dark City in three days.Along the way, he also gradually became familiar with the team he led.

The leader of the team is a human woman named Gloria. Sean secretly observed the staff she never left, and felt that she should be a high-level magician and the direction of elemental specialization.

The man who chose Sean as his guide was called Shar, a necromancer. Like Sean, he was also a hybrid of human and dark elves.

The relationship between Shar and Gloria is very close, and what surprised Sean even more is that his investigative methods are also very superb. He and Sean are responsible for scouting and wandering in front of the entire team to guide everyone's direction.

Sean observed that, counting himself, there were 11 people in the entire team.But this big team is obviously made up of two teams.

One of the small teams seemed to be a mercenary group, led by a pair of paladin brothers, and under them were only two ghost swordsmen who seemed to be of average strength.

The other small team has a relatively complete configuration, with necromancers leading the way, and the others, centered on the mage Gloria, with ghost swordsmen and fighters on both sides of her, and paladins and female gunmen. After a while, they completely obeyed Gloria's command.

But during the itinerary, the command of the team as a whole was done by the pair of brothers paladins.To be more precise, it was the elder of the two brothers who commanded the team.

Sean observed that the elder brother of the paladin brothers was called Dan, and everyone in the team called him Dan Knight. He had messy brown curly hair and a thick beard.

Dan Knight immediately asked Sean to draw a simple map of the tomb of the dark elves. Although Sean couldn't speak, he was very talented. He communicated with Dan Knight with pen and paper, and the original simple map was made. Very fine.

Dan Knight's younger brother is called Pete. He is always wearing gray heavy armor. He is very strong and taciturn. He usually follows behind his brother Dan Knight.What impresses Sean the most is that Pete always wears a knight's helmet that covers his entire head, and Sean never saw him take it off even when he was resting in the camp.

According to Sean's observation and analysis, he found that Pete only obeyed Dan Knight's orders, because once Sean saw that Pete did not respond to Gloria's orders at all.

In the first few days after joining the team, Shar and Sean also had a lot of communication.Because he was no longer in the village, Sean told Shar some basic information about himself.

Shar brought Sean the parchment and charcoal provided by the team, and Sean briefly talked to Shar about the situation at home.

Sean's mother is an ordinary human being and a mechanic who has successfully changed jobs.Her hometown is in a small town on the east side of the west coast. She was an orphan since she was a child, and when she grew up a little, she began to study hard with foreigners and wanted to become a mechanic, but when she was young, she was always just a mechanic. apprentice.

Later, Xiao En's mother witnessed the city in the sky that suddenly appeared in the distant sky, so she decided to leave her hometown and go out to work hard, hoping to improve herself.

Xiao En's mother's decision was very lucky. During the adventure, she not only successfully changed her job, but also met his father, an assassin of the dark elves.At the beginning, they were just the most common adventure partners, but after experiencing many things, they recognized each other.

Later, in an adventure, Sean's mother injured her eyes in order to protect Sean's father, and she lost her sight completely half a year later. They used the money they earned from that adventure to return to his father's hometown of Neubela, where , They got married and became each other's closest life partners. Since then, Sean's mother took care of their small family, and later gave birth to Sean and Sean's younger brother.

But the dull days didn't last long. Sean told Shar that his father had died in the great plague in Neubela two years ago. He, his mother and younger brother escaped from the city, and he was there During the plague, he completely became dumb.

When Sean wrote this, he opened his mouth to let Shar see his shrunken tongue. After seeing it, Shar sighed softly, as if he was a little moved by the experience of the Sean family.

Sean ran out of a piece of parchment, so he replaced it and continued writing.

After escaping from Neubera, they lived in a small village established by the survivors.The village is full of survivors. Under the leadership of the female assassin Yi Lan, they do some basic means of survival.

Sean told Shar that her mother was very strict. Since his father died, her mother did not relax because of his dumbness. Instead, she honed him more strictly and taught him to read and write.

But life is so cruel. In nearly two years, although Sean was able to master basic machinery and explosives operations, and even accidentally learned the camouflage technique that only a mechanic after a job change could master, he couldn't Cast any spell without ever becoming a mechanic.

But he was not discouraged, and continued to work hard, using camouflage to enter dangerous places like the tombs of the dark elves on weekdays, obtain precious alchemy materials, and then exchange gold coins with the village.

Sean specifically mentioned to Shar that they were rejected by most of the dark elves in the village because of their mixed blood status, but under Yilan's suppression, they were not treated unfairly, so Sean accepted the mission this time. The motivation is to hope to earn enough money to heal their mother's eyes and even their own tongue, and then take them back to the West Coast.

During Sean's truthfulness and frankness, Shar also revealed some information to Sean. He told Sean that when they went deep into the dark elves' cemetery, they didn't intend to rob the tomb, but just sent a sealed metal cup to him. Just enter the cemetery, and Sean's job is to guide the direction and protect himself, and he doesn't need to participate in too many battles.

Shar only said so much to Sean, and then he handed three exquisite purple bottles to Sean, and he said: "Sean, you and your mother are very lucky. Here are three bottles of mental stimulation elixir , they will increase your reaction speed, hoping to help you in times of danger."

Sean looked at the gloomy eyes of Shar looking at the sky, and seemed to understand something, he nodded and put away the medicine.

After that conversation, they soon arrived in Dark City.Dan Knight, as the commander of the entire team, led the group to replenish basic supplies in the commercial area of ​​the city.

Sean felt that the whole team was very vigilant, as if some enemy was secretly watching them.

After that, they pretended to be businessmen and set off from Dark City, pretending to go to the remote areas of the Dark Elf territory to do some high-risk transactions.They walked very carefully at first, choosing the usual merchant route. They traveled day and night, and even crossed the dangerous wasteland in great circles, but they were still followed by a small group of people.

Under Sean's guidance, they traveled non-stop day and night. This high-intensity trip made everyone feel exhausted.

Along the way, at Gloria's request, they could only avoid fighting the enemies who were following them. They used expensive elf biscuits and magic scrolls to restore energy to rush day and night, hoping to get rid of their followers. But to their surprise, two well-equipped teams joined up with the scouts in front and followed them.

Sean didn't know the purpose of the team following them. They were small in number, but they showed strong hostility in a skillful way. This feeling made the whole team extremely depressed.They were firmly bitten by this team, and they were still unable to get rid of them.

The enemy has obviously undergone professional tracking training, and the few obstacles left by Sean and the necromancer Schar to confuse the trackers have no effect at all. Even at night, when the dark elves have an advantage, Schar was almost used by them detected by a special method.

For this reason, Knight Dan once again proposed to Gloria the idea of ​​ambushing the enemy. After discussing for a long time with Shar and his subordinate Paladin named Burton, Gloria finally agreed.

After six days of tracking and luring, Shar, with Sean's familiarity with the surrounding terrain, entered the primeval forest three days before the cemetery.

Shar used various methods and finally led the enemy scouts behind them into the well-arranged ambush circle.

The two ghost swordsman scouts in the enemy team who have not changed their profession are very smart, but they only removed the first layer of traps on the road that must be passed through the forest, and did not find the traps under the traps, which made the original trackers, became prey.

After the ghost swordsman left, Shar explained to Sean the principle of setting up such a trap. Sean listened carefully to the techniques and tried to write down every word Shaer said. He understood that this was his growth.

(End of this chapter)