Kapitel 19: How dare that thing disrespect me?
After Leeora left with the Human girl, Erlos went to Draven's study to inform him of their departure. "Sire, Elder Leeora and the human girl have left."
Draven simply nodded, but a frown inevitably made its way onto his face. For some odd reason, he was displeased about something.
Erlos, who could never fail to notice any change in his master, asked, "Is there something that is troubling you, sire?"
As if he found the perfect way to vent his frustration, Draven looked at Erlos. "Go to my armory and clean all the weapons inside. Every blade should shine enough to reflect your face like a mirror."
"What?" Erlos exclaimed in shock but realized he acted somewhat rude., "I-I mean, sire, why so suddenly? There have been no armed conflicts for as long as I remember, and there is never a need for you to use them. Sword? Psh, you can wipe out enemies with a flick of a finger."
The pair of red eyes glared at him. "You dare question me?"
The young elf immediately bowed as he dared not mess with the Devil King when his mood was more foul than normal. He was sure something must have happened to upset this heartless man.
"I do not dare, Sire. I will head out immediately as soon as I finish arranging these books."
Draven did not comment and looked at the honeycomb-patterned shelf where each hexagon hole had a scroll kept inside it. One of the scrolls flew towards him and unrolled on its own, laying open on his desk.
His pointed ears twitching in curiosity, Erlos went closer to the table to peek. "The map of the continent, sire?"
Draven did not answer him as he observed the entire map. His gaze was stuck at a particular kingdom in the west—the Kingdom of Valor.
It's been a long time since he had last stepped foot in a human kingdom after Agartha was founded. Multiple decades, close to a century, had passed since he visited the western part of the continent. Compared to the empire and the three largest kingdoms back then, the Kingdom of Valor was nothing, just an ordinary small kingdom with not much strength, and at that time, there were tens of ordinary kingdoms like it.
Based on the map, he found the location of that particular mountain where he picked up that human girl. He tried to recall if he had been in that place before or if he had any relationship with this ordinary kingdom, but there was a discrepancy with his memories.
Draven could not recall if he had anything to do with this kingdom, except for the fact this kingdom was part of the alliance headed by the empire against the supernatural beings, which was created to prohibit the practice of magic and sorcery.
"What happened, sire?" Erlos asked when he saw Draven deep in thought.
"It's time to upgrade this map of the continent," Draven said.
Erlos looked at the particular part of the continent and said, "Sire, I have seen so many maps before but this part of the land across this mountain range, those maps show it as barren land. Yours is the only map that shows there are the kingdoms beyond these mountains and that there remains an unexplored part of the continent. Why so?"
"Because they cannot see what I can see," Draven answered and looked at the other part of the continent that Erlos pointed towards.
"Have you visited these kingdoms before—this Megaris… and this Thevailes?"
Draven nodded.
"Do they also hate supernatural beings?"
"Humans fear what they do not understand, and that fear gradually turns to hate," Draven answered and started working on the map.
"Is that why you did not like that human girl and wished to throw her out? Because she fears you?" Erlos commented, only to get another killer gaze from his master.
"Do I need to throw you into the armory by using my means?"
Draven moved his hand as if he planned to use his powers, but the next moment, Erlos disappeared from his sight. He ran away using his fastest speed, trying to gain distance from the study before his master literally threw him. He had been abused enough for years to know how his master kept true to his words even if they sounded like jokes.
Draven resumed his work, and took a clean scroll, wanting to draw a new map which would be later filled in now that he decided to idly walk around the continent. He loved to teleport anywhere with his powers, observing how civilizations flourish, discovering ruins and finding hidden places from all parts of the continent. His penchant for travel was how he found out this hidden place that was a perfect hidden sanctuary for those who wish to be reclusive and built a kingdom of their own.
The Kingdom of Agartha was in fact a deep and hidden valley surrounded on all sides by the mountain ranges so tall, that their peaks were covered in snow all year round. It was as if the valley was situated in the deepest part of the continent, and that was why he named it Agartha, the place situated at the core of the world.
Due to the terrain, it was a place that was impossible to find by human means. Even for the young supernatural beings and those wanderers outside who were unfamiliar with the land, they would find it impossible to reach this kingdom. It could be said that those humans who accidentally stumbled into this kingdom were an extremely lucky bunch of people, surviving through the harsh journey of traversing those rough mountain terrain. Acknowledging how much hardship they had to go through to reach Agartha, the magical races showed pity for their plight and allowed them to stay in the outermost territory of the kingdom.
After putting aside the incomplete map, he found his mind wandering towards that female creature with emerald green eyes. Only then did he realize why he felt bothered by her leaving.
That human left with Leeora as if she's escaping from a predator, not even hesitating to take up that offer when it was him who saved her and brought her back to his palace to be healed.
Yet she refused to take his hand? She easily followed Leeora when she said they were leaving. Not like she knew Leeora for long. Was she looking down on him?
"How dare that thing disrespect me?"
Gritting his teeth, he clenched the ink pen in his hand and ended up breaking its body, which resulted in creating an unwanted ink spot splashing on the map he put on the side.
AUTORENGEDANKEN 
Mynovel20
Mynovel20 The names of two kingdoms “Megaris and Thevailes” mentioned here are from my first novel “witch’s daughter and the devil’s son”. Both books are connected and characters might cross over in both books.
Kapitel 20: The Female, King Brought To His Bed
Dear readers, this novel will contain a magical world of supernaturals which would be different from the human world. Do check the reference Images of every newly introduce thing in the comment section.
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Leeora and the human girl reached the Forest of the Elves as soon as they travelled past the palace walls. On the way, the elf elder didn't try to talk to her and merely let her curiously look around her surroundings.
The human girl did not even hide her emotions at the majestic sight she was seeing—luscious trees with leaves a vibrant green and trunks strong and tall, colourful bunch of mushrooms and flowers randomly blooming about, and small animals like squirrels peering, birds singing and rabbits innocently hopping about.
She observed each and every one of them carefully, amazed by the lively atmosphere of the forest. For as long as she could remember, she had lived within that dead mountain, where all she could see were dead trees with white barks and rotten logs. The only other inhabitants of such a barren place were vultures, crows and insects.
Soon, her mouth was left gaping open upon the sight of the largest trees she had ever seen. Their trunks were so wide, it might need at least twenty adults to wrap their arms around its body to hug the entire trunk. On each of those trees were what seemed to be houses, and interconnecting each house were hanging bridges created of vines and tree branches.
As she continued to ride Lusca the Stag, she could see children with pointed ears running and playing with other animals in the forest. She heard laughter and music and the most beautiful people with pointed ears bustling about, merrily talking to each other. Though they looked over when they noticed her passing, they were not glaring at her or shooting looks of disgust towards her. They were curious, mostly wary since there was an outsider.
Leeora smiled, seeing her reaction. "Welcome to Ronan, one of the cities of Agartha and the home of the Wood Elf Clan. It is a place which you will also call your home starting from now."
The elves observed this outsider. If she were an adult woman, the Wood Elf Clan might have openly shown disgust and hostility towards her, but based on her appearance, the outsider might be only about fourteen or fifteen years in terms of human age. She was but an infant for elves whose lifespans were as long as a thousand years.
Her injured appearance made her look pale and frail, and her thin body looked starved. Not to mention, she looked pitiful because of her bandages and clothes, and this caused many of the adult elves to feel sorry for her. The fact that Leeora, their clan leader, was also escorting her also lessened their ill feelings towards this human guest.
"Is that her? The female Erlos is talking about?"
"The woman the King brought to his bed?"
"I don't think so?"
Thanks to Erlos' antics, gossip had spread among the palace servants that their king had brought a woman to his bed. Some of these servants also lived in Ronan, and they shared the gossip to their family and friends.
This made many of these elves to be curious about this controversial human female, wondering what was so special about her. To their disappointment, all they saw was one wounded young girl who looked so nervous she was almost hugging the neck of the stag she was riding. These triggered maternal instincts in many of the hearts of the female elves.
The physique of elves was taller than humans, and this young girl who was already small for her age seemed even smaller to their eyes.
'A female visited their king's bed? This little one? That Erlos deserves a beating!"
Since Leeora was their clan leader, no one openly asked her reasons for bringing a human to their city. Leeora didn't introduce her to anyone for now as she knew nothing about this girl. She didn't even know her name. The girl hadn't spoken yet, and it made the elf wonder if she was mute.
Soon enough, they seemed to have reached the most central part of the city where the largest trees were found. It was also the part of Ronan that had the most elves and other races. After passing through what seemed like a plaza, Leeora pointed towards one large tree with vines hanging. The trees here were so large, that their trunks could support two shelters, one at the bottom and another nearer the crown of the tree.
"That will be your new home." The elder pointed to the largest and most majestic tree shelter that was connected to her new house by a hanging bridge., "That one is where I live. You can come to me anytime by crossing that bridge."
The human girl simply stared at it, but it was hard to understand her simply by looking at her expression. Leeora was contemplating over how to make her talk, or even say her name. If she had problems speaking, it made her wonder if the human girl could write.
"Shall we go to your home?" Leeora asked, hoping to hear her answer, but the girl simply looked at her.
"Do you want to ask something?" Leeora asked as her last attempt to make her talk.
The girl moved her gaze towards the house, then looked at the ground, and then again looked at Leeora. The elf elder knew what this human was asking but she was trying her luck on making her talk.
'It seems like she's truly mute.'
At first, Leeora wasn't sure. After all, it was possible she simply refused to talk because she was surrounded by strangers. However, after repeated attempts yesterday and today, the human girl was yet to even let out a word.
'A pity, but don't worry little one. People here will treat you like family.'
Fortunately, the human girl was not deaf and could clearly understand what she was talking about. However, Leeora was still hoping that the girl could talk. Perhaps she should give her a few more days to build trust with her. For the meantime, she would treat her as a mute.
'I wonder if I shall give her a temporary name since we don't know what she's called.'
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