Chapter 32: Uninformed Elves - 32
After a while, Queen Penny managed to calm down and accept what she was seeing. After all, she had seen some crazy things recently and was getting used to it. Unfortunately, not all the elves were able to accept what they were seeing.
As Zhou Fan and the rest were walking back to the palace, they saw many limp bodies. They were not dead, but simply passed out with fear. It could be concluded that they had seen the beasts earlier.
When they made it back to the palace, the elders had the same reaction to the beasts as Penny. At first, they almost passed out, but once they thought about yesterday's events, they quickly accepted it.
Zhou Fan went inside and made conversations with the elves. After a while, they realized Zhou Fan truly had no intentions of taking them over. Soon, all earlier tensions were resolved. Zhou Fan even admitted that he had over reacted earlier. Soon, the elves started asking him questions.
"How did you get down here?" The eldest elf from earlier asked.
"We went through the tunnels. I'm not sure why, but the snakes don't attack me or them." Zhou Fan said while pointing at the beasts.
"WHAT!" The group of elves collectively exclaimed.
"In that case, is it possible for you to bring us out of here?" One of the elves excitedly questioned.
"I could, but it would be far too troublesome. Not to mention, you all have no place up there. Although much time has passed, the grudge between our races still exists. Why else would you have prepared for an attack the moment I came here." Zhou Fan said.
At first, he had believed that the queen was just naturally wary of him due to the prophecy, however, after reading the books in the library, he came to the conclusion that she instinctually disliked him. After all, the elves alongside the other races ruled over humans like slavemasters for thousands of years. There was naturally some hatred when they were dethroned.
Of course, Zhou Fan didn't exactly hold a grudge against them. It had been thousands of years. And although he believed that few or even no humans knew of the past war, nothing can remain a secret forever.
The elves shut up when hearing that. To his surprise, the majority had confused looks on their faces. It was as if they had no idea about the grudge he was talking about.
Seeing that, Zhou Fan looked at Penny for an explanation.
She had a troubled look on her face as she started to talk.
"Well, most elves nowadays don't know about the cause of our demise. In fact, most of the people don't even know what a human is. The only reason everyone in this room does is because they were educated. However, they were only taught that there was a war and not what or who caused it." She explained.
"In fact, the war is the shame of the elves. To some it is shameful that we lost, to others, the cause is shameful. Either way, it is only passed down to some by their parents. But after all this time, the hatred has mostly disappeared." She continued.
Hearing that, Zhou Fan was enlightened.
"Well I understand, but other humans may not. In the end, I am only one member of the human race." Zhou Fan said. "However, at some point, I can consider freeing the elf race, but my current residence doesn't exactly have the capacity for 129 people."
"How about one," Queen Penny spoke up.
Zhou Fan looked at her with an inquiring gaze, wondering where she was going.
"One of us could go up and live with you. We could learn about the current world and understand the human race." She explained.
"I guess you could theoretically do it, but I assume you all have close to zero interaction skills with people you don't know."
Hearing his words, the elves nodded their heads.
"We'll have to do it at some point. At that time, wouldn't it be better to have a guide?" Queen Penny said.
"I suppose I could do that, but which of you will come?" Zhou Fan asked.
After hearing him, the elves started to talk among each other. Zhou Fan on the other hand started to think.
'It's been a while, the weekend should be ending and I need to get back so I can work' Zhou Fan thought. Even though he wanted to continue to explore the tunnels further, Zhou Fan had a job. In fact, Zhou Fan had almost considered quitting. However, he still needed money.
'Even as a cultivator, I am restricted by human needs.' He thought.
"Okay," Queen Penny said. " We have decided on three candidates. Me, Mark, or Yipeng."
Yipeng was the name of the oldest elf who had mocked the angry elf from earlier. Without hesitation, he chose Yipeng.
Firstly, Mark had a family to take care of. Zhou Fan had found that out as they were walking to the elf village. As for Penny, not only was she the queen and needed to rule over her people, but she also seemed like a needy person.
Also, Yipeng looked quiet and calm. Zhou Fan predicted that he could essentially leave him to his own thing and he would make plenty of friends.
"Okay then, good luck Yipeng." The elf queen said.
After they all wished him good luck, Zhou Fan mentioned that he needed to head back to the surface. After declining their invitation to eat, Zhou Fan left with the beasts and Yipeng following him. He had declined their invitation due to the fact that they were vegetarians. It wasn't because they refused to eat meat, but because the animals would quickly go extinct if they tried to feed 129 people meat everyday.
It was different for the beasts because there were only 5 of them and they ate moderately.
They all quickly made it back to the tunnel he had first come through. Although Yipeng had some fear, he was willing to go when the snakes created a path. Before long, they made it back to the beasts cave. Zhou Fan bid farewell as he and Yipeng flew up to the surface. Of course, Zhou Fan was dragging Yipeng along, who was almost fainting from fright.
When they made it back, Zhou Fan grabbed a hat and handed it to Yipeng. He would need it to hide his ears after all.
Chapter 33: War Is Coming - 33
Zhou Fan and Yipeng didn't do much since it was already night time. Zhou Fan went inside to cultivate while Yipeng chose to stare at the stars. He had heard stories and seen drawings but he was the only elf in 3500 years to actually look at the stars.
The night passed quickly and Zhou Fan even managed to break into the 3rd level of core formation. Although a small difference, there was a huge change in his power level.
When Zhou Fan went outside, he noticed that Yipeng was passed out on the ground. Zhou Fan let him sleep since he probably spent all night looking at the stars. He didn't waste any time as he left to go to the library for work. On his way there, he noticed that the streets were relatively empty. Even though he felt it was weird, Zhou Fan didn't stop as he continued to walk to work.
Zhou Fan quickly made it to the doors, however when he tried to open them, they wouldn't budge. He then peered through the door but couldn't see any lit lamps. It was only then that Zhou Fan noticed the piece of paper stuck on the door.
'Library closed due to recent events.'
When Zhou Fan read this, he was utterly confused. 'Did something happen while I was down in the caves?' Zhou Fan thought.
Zhou Fan looked behind him and saw a random person walking on the street. It was an old lady who needed a cane to get around.
"Excuse me ma'am. What's going on around here? Why is the library closed?" Zhou Fan asked.
"You don't know? Have you been living under a rock? The truth empire and the boundless empire have declared a state of war and the closest kingdom is the wishan kingdom. The truth empires troops are on their way here. They'll be here in 7 days. Naturally, our empire, the boundless empires troops are on their way. They'll be here in 4 days. Half the town has fled and 90% will probably leave before a week has passed. Not me though. I've been here since I was born. I'll be dam*ed if I leave just because a bunch of whacked-out out hippies decide to attack us." She said.
Zhou Fan almost couldn't hold back his laugh. The truth empire has been known as a hippie-like place since 100 years ago. Although there are few hippies, it's a common insult used by people of the boundless empire.
However, very quickly Zhou Fan became solemn. Such a war is enough to kill millions. Also, there hasn't been a war between top 10 kingdoms in 200 years. Not to mention that both kingdoms are in the top 5. This news was enough to shake the world!
"What?! I know the tensions have been high but it shouldn't have caused a war. Did anything happen." Zhou Fan asked.
"Have you seriously been living under a rock?" She said, confused.
"Technically yes." Zhou Fan said. He was a mile underground after all. There was surely one rock that he was under.
"Weirdo. Anyway, the 3rd princess was killed while she was visiting the truth kingdom." She stated.
!?!?
Zhou Fan was dumbfounded when he heard that. No wonder a war is happening. Everyone knew that the emperor doted on the 3rd princess the most. There's no doubt, this is an all out war!
After asking the old lady a couple more questions, Zhou Fan went back to the courtyard. When he arrived, he saw that Yipeng was awake. However, he was just sitting there.
Zhou Fan realized that there was nothing to do in his courtyard. Not even eat. After all, he didn't store any food here. Also, Yipeng didn't dare go out on his own.
After saying hello, Zhou Fan told him about the war happening. After hearing all the details, Yipeng was also surprised. He was also confused.
"Why would the truth empire kill the princess? They should know that it would cause an all out war. It's likely that both sides would suffer devastating losses regardless of who wins or loses." Yipeng asked.
Zhou Fan had also thought of that earlier. He also felt it didn't make any sense.
"Perhaps the truth empire didn't kill her. Maybe someone was trying to start a war?" Zhou Fan sounded out then continued. "Either way, the war is happening. Peace talks were never an option."
Putting the war to the back of his mind, Zhou Fan left the courtyard with Yipeng. He checked out his mailbox while leaving and saw some coins along with a note from Lu Chen.
It read, 'This is 3 months pay. Sorry you didn't get to work long before this happened. Most of the higher ups, including me, are evacuating. Take this money and save yourself.'
Zhou Fan nodded after reading the letter and decided to buy food and clothes. Along with the around 50 silver Lu Chen sent and the god from his discovery, Zhou Fan had plenty of money to spend.
They went out to the busiest part of the city which now had no more than 10 people in view not counting the vendors. Zhou Fan walked up to one of the shops and spent 15 silver on savable food. Because of the war, everything was much cheaper and Zhou Fan bought 6 months of food.
Although 15 silver may seem low, most people only made that in 6 months.
After food shopping, they went to the clothes store and bought some clothes for each of them. Zhou Fan also bought Yipeng some hats and toboggans.
Afterwards, they walked around while Zhou Fan introduced the city. They ended up at a park where a few old men Yipeng's age were playing a game called chess. Yipeng walked up to them and became friends in no time. They taught him and Zhou Fan how to play. Although Yipeng was interested in the game, Zhou Fan got bored since no one could beat him after 3 games.
SInce Yipeng was having fun, Zhou Fan left him there and went home. He decided to spend the next few days cultivating.
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