I became the master of the alien world

Chapter 500 On the Road (2)

They wanted to refute, but they couldn't.

And Alma didn't seem to notice the expressions of the two of them. She seemed to be talking to herself or confiding her inner anguish to them. She was still talking to herself.

"You must have heard of the battle in the Neo Plains more than forty years ago.

I also participated at that time.

That was really terrifying. In fact, as a scout, I had already detected the movements and strength of your human army. However, when I reported those things to the elders, they didn’t believe me. They naively believed that the human army was still like an ambush.

It was extremely fragile during the Demonic War.

They were so naive that they thought that relying on the high elf hunters and our jungle rangers would be enough to cope with the siege of one hundred thousand heavy infantry and fifty thousand heavy knights. They actually decided to step into the trap.

It’s so ridiculous, so ridiculous.” At this point, two lines of tears flowed down from Alma’s eyes involuntarily.

"Those bastard elders, apart from thinking about how to maintain their status in the tribe every day, what else do they know? Apart from sending countless tribesmen to the battlefield like cannon fodder, they know nothing.

To say that the elves are the race favored by God and that we possess supreme magic and superb martial arts are all bastard words.

In terms of martial arts, humans at that time were no longer inferior to us. During the Demon-Conquering War, the Knights of the South Sky of Paladin Cleleus had already proved all this.

As for magic, humans are indeed inferior to us wood elves in terms of magical power, but they have incomparable magical talent and creativity. During that period, all kinds of high-level fusion magic were almost all produced by human magicians.

150,000 compatriots, a total of 150,000 people, were all wiped out in those few days." "I'm sorry..." At this time, Ellie said softly, in fact, there was something Elma didn't know.

That is, the one who provoked the war between humans and elves was a member of their dragon clan - the Black Flame Dragon Elder Horus.

"There is no need for you to apologize, the elves are completely convinced of their defeat.

In fact, after that battle, several of my companions and I narrowly escaped.

When I returned to the magic forest, I suddenly felt the same way. Maybe it is difficult for the elves to survive now.

To be honest, I really didn’t know why I thought that way, that my race would become extinct.” Alma’s expression gradually dimmed as she spoke, “But I still made up my mind to leave the Enchanted Forest.

Even if the danger is great, I have to leave. Returning to the Magic Forest is a dead end.

I want to try to live somewhere else." After hearing this, Edward couldn't help but interjected: "So you chose a human society that is hostile to you?" "Absolutely." Alma smiled bitterly again, "Say

To be honest, the human world is really dangerous.

And it's very complicated, and everyone is competing against each other.

I have been betrayed countless times by people I thought I could trust, and I almost became a slave many times.

But it must be considered lucky, I escaped in the end every time.

Later, I was chased all the way to Kent by a group of slave traders. By then I was badly bruised and hadn't eaten anything for several days.

And just when I was about to despair, I met Father Fernandez.

At that time, he saw who I was, but he finally took me in.

To be honest, he is the only human being I trust.

I watched with my own eyes as he bought me directly from the slave trader with a lot of platinum coins, and then let me go when he returned.

To me, he is like my parents, so I have always stayed with my father and supported myself by relying on his "craftsmanship" that I use from time to time." "It's really strange why I am today.

So many words." At this time, Alma's tears could no longer be held back, and they burst out of her eyes like broken pearls.

Maybe she had been holding these words in her heart for a long time, and finally found someone to vent them out to. The three of them were speechless for a long time... After a long time, the three of them walked to a room, and there was a shabby sign on the door beam.

It was written vaguely with words such as appraising jewelry, and most of the words were no longer legible.

However, Edward knew in his heart that his rogue guild could only be considered a gray profession, so they were generally relatively covert, and would usually find some cover to cover it up symbolically.

"This is it.

Just wait." Alma said, walking to the door, and then knocked on the door five times.

It's probably their contact code.

But the strange thing is that after a long time, he still didn't come to open the door for her.

"It's strange, there's no one here today.

It's impossible!" Alma said to herself strangely, and then she knocked on the door just like before, but she was still silent in response.

"What's wrong?" Although Edward thought Alma was playing some trick at first, but after a closer look it didn't look like it, so he asked a little strangely.

"I don't know why no one opened the door.

There are usually people here all the time.

That's weird." At this time, Ellie felt uneasy.

She quietly pulled the corner of Edward's clothes and whispered: "Edward, I don't feel right.

I seem to have asked about the bloody question from inside that house." Ellie's words made Edward frown. Ellie would never lie in front of him. In addition, she had recovered the dragon consciousness, so her innate perception was

A hundred times stronger than him.

Both hearing and smell are hundreds of times stronger than those of ordinary humans.

At this moment, Alma was still knocking on the code in vain to try to get the people inside to open the door.

Edward went up and patted her shoulder, asking her to step aside, then raised his right fist and slammed it on the door.

There was only a "boom" sound, and the entire door immediately fell to the ground.

"Edward, how could you..." Before Alma could blame Edward for his recklessness, she was immediately stunned by the scene in the room.

There were four or five people scattered about in the small room in the front. You could tell without looking that they must be the people who were waiting for customers in the front.

But judging from their pale faces, they must have been dead for a long time.

"Why, why is this happening!" Alma became nervous at this time. She ran up in panic and shook everyone, but how could a dead person answer her words.

While Alma was panicking and trying to find a living person to ask questions about, Edward was casually looking at the corpses and thinking about something.

Suddenly, his expression changed, and he pulled Alma over and asked, "Where is your old man? Go and see where he is." Edward's shout immediately made Alma wake up, and the three of them

He quickly ran all the way to the second floor of the house.

The house was not too big, and it only took a minute or two to walk from the front door to the second floor, but in just a few minutes, they had already seen more than a dozen corpses lying on the ground.

The ominous premonition became more and more obvious in the minds of the three people, and everything settled after Alma opened a door on the second floor.

In a small room, an old man was slumped on his chair. His throat was pierced with a small sharp instrument. It looked like he should have died from a short weapon such as a dagger like the others.

It can be seen from the surprised look on the old man's face that the opponent should have appeared in front of the old man unexpectedly, and then took action at the moment before he shouted, basically severing his throat with an arrow.

And in the wall on the side, someone used a lot of force to open a big hole.

The bookshelf that was originally covering it was completely in pieces, and all kinds of books were scattered on the ground.

"Dad! Dad! What's wrong with you!" Seeing this situation, Alma collapsed completely.

She rushed forward like crazy, crying bitterly and shaking Fernandez's body desperately, tears falling from her eyes from time to time.

"Now things are in big trouble." At this moment, this idea came to Edward and Ellie's minds almost at the same time...

Ignoring Alma who was still sad, Edward and Ellie hurriedly ran into the secret room through the broken entrance in the wall.

Even a blind man could tell that what was in the secret room was definitely not anything ordinary.

The room that was originally relatively empty now also looks messy.

Edward discovered an inconspicuous hole in a corner of the wall. It seemed that it was caused by forcible destruction from the outside, causing the explosion of the preset trap in the dark compartment.

Edward frowned at this moment, and then reached out to pull away some of the broken fragments.

A silver-white metallic luster was exposed underneath, and it looked like a platinum coin that had melted under high heat.

After searching more carefully, he easily found the appearance of more coins deeper.

However, both gold coins and platinum coins have been changed beyond recognition, and the power of the traps can be imagined.

However, Edward still refused to give up and continued to search for something in the originally small place.

"it's useless.

The explosion trap placed inside is enough to destroy everything in that secret compartment." At this time, Alma's voice came from behind the two of them, but her voice still sounded a little choked, after all, she was the one who died.

her savior, or her only relative.

However, Edward didn't seem to pay attention to Alma's words. He was still searching there carefully.

It wasn't until the last piece of metal, which was made up of several pieces of platinum coins and gold coins, was thrown out of it that Edward straightened up in frustration and made a very disappointed expression towards Ellie behind him.

"Can the secret compartment of the Rogue Guild be opened like this? There's no way that guy can get anything." Alma also came forward at this time, but she was mainly gathering various metal pieces together in her hands.

Although it has melted, gold is still gold and will not depreciate due to this.

Edward shook his head at this realistic elf who didn't look like an elf at all, and then said quietly: "Although I don't know who the person who attacked your union is, there is one thing I am sure of.

He has already got what he wants." After hearing Edward's words, Alma couldn't help but frown.

Although she had never seen the trap in the secret compartment, Fernandez once mentioned to her the power inside.

Therefore, she said with some doubt: "How is it possible? Even the magic mithril cannot withstand the power of the explosion of the trap inside.

And what is that person's purpose? Could it be..." "That's right.

His purpose is the necklace you stole from Ellie.

No, to be precise, it's the gem on the necklace." Now that he knew that the thing was gone, Edward was not as anxious as before.

He casually put it on the table next to him, and then said seriously, "Since you have been involved in this matter, it doesn't matter if I tell you that thing." At this point, Edward paused and looked at it.

After glancing at Alma who was holding her breath waiting for him to continue, he smiled bitterly and said: "You must be wondering why I am so sure that the thing was not destroyed by the trap but taken away.

I can tell you now, that thing will never be destroyed by an ordinary trap.

Even the dragon king's dragon breath can't even think of hurting it at all.

That thing is the Elemental Heart, one of the sacred objects of the Dragon Clan. Of course, it has another name among us humans - the Philosopher's Gem." Edward's words seemed to be like a bolt from the blue, echoing in Alma's mind.

From the moment it appeared, countless people were obsessed with it and became crazy about it.

This gem first appeared on the battlefield of Gravel Canyon in the Demon-Conquering War.

On the defense line of the coalition that was almost about to collapse, relying on the power brought by the gems, the few magicians were able to severely damage the invading demon army again and again.

This gem was eventually lost due to the dragon civil war.

But what Elma didn't expect was that this gem had actually seen the light of day again, and it had been in her hands for a while not long ago.

Thinking of this, Alma regretted so much that she almost chopped off her right hand.

"You, are you telling the truth..." Although there was some confusion in her mind, Alma still asked habitually. After all, a treasure that had been lost for hundreds of years reappeared. This is a sensational thing.

intelligence.

Looking at Alma's appearance, Edward couldn't help but smile bitterly.

It seems that this girl should indeed be reincarnated as a human being, and the simplicity of the elves has nothing to do with her.

But he also replied: "What good will it do me to lie to you now? It might be better if that thing didn't appear... Sigh." At this point, Edward's thoughts couldn't help but return to that day, when he

The moment when I finally broke up with my most trusted partner.

Alma had completely believed Edward's words at this time. After all, he was the first mercenary of the Mercenary Kingdom and the youngest great wizard.

Based on these names alone, Alma believed that they had no reason to deceive her about someone who was not very related to her.

However, from the emotion revealed in Edward's last words, she vaguely felt that finding the gem might not be that simple. Maybe the disappearance of the great wizard who once partnered with Edward was related to the gem.

(End of chapter)