Army Angel: The Dark Side

Royal Border

After walking for eight days, my party and I finally reached the territory of the Kingdom of Elves.

On a road that looks passable a train we walk.

As we walked, getting deeper into the territory of this Elves kingdom, we had passed through the various villages that had been abandoned.

However, we have not found any damage there, which means no looting or destruction has occurred. So most likely the Orcs have not arrived here.

According to Siena, the villages that we passed through were previously inhabited and it seems like the citizens were evacuated to the royal capital to avoid the invasion of the Orcs.

We did not find any residents in the village.

However, in exchange, we met three people who seemed to be part of the Elves kingdom army who were on duty for scouts.

They have a high stature with clothing that is covered in protective skin.

A bow with an arrow draped on the back while the sword is on the left side of the hip.

The three of them had blond hair and an older face than Siena and her friends.Of course their ears were pointed.

After talking and explaining things, they then moved away to discuss themselves.

Not long after, one of the Elves left and disappeared quickly.

The other two Elves came up to our entourage and said they agreed to take our entourage into the kingdom.

Guided by the two Elves we walked towards the center of the kingdom where this would take a full day by passing two fortresses.

During the trip they did not talk much. Except when I ask them they're not interested in talking at all. The silent atmosphere was with us.

It took us about three hours to reach the first fort. This fort has a height of 10 meters higher than the surrounding trees and there is a trench as wide as 8 meters in front of it with a depth of 40 meters down. The 3-meter-wide lift bridge serves as a link between the end of the trench and the fort.

As the first defense of the Elves kingdom the fortress looked sturdy with many warriors on it.

Guided by the two Elves, we passed through that gate without any problem.

As soon as I passed the fort, walking for about fifteen minutes, I began to see many troops standing on trees.

They had a different appearance to the Elves who were on top of the fortress.

The average Elves on top of the fortress wore gold-colored iron armor with bow weapons and a large sword.

While the Elves were above the trees and around these streets, they generally did not wear armor.

They wore leather protective clothing, carrying even relatively small medium-sized swords on the waist. Arrow arcs and draped arrows on the back.

It can be said that they are different units from those around the fort.

It's hard to understand what's going on.

Ever since I passed the Fort and met the Elves. They seemed not to take their eyes off me.

Maybe when you see a stranger you'll be interested in seeing him and that's what I think. However, the more I went inside, somehow their views slowly changed. Especially when we got to this Elves line.

I'm a little annoyed by these people's views. Moreover, I felt that their sight was as if it was insulting to my presence.

" Hey? Why do they look at me like that? "

Whisper to Siena who is in front.

Ugh.

I fully realized that it was my fault not to ask about something like this before.

But it is too late to regret it now. Forward or not at all. His choice was just to go forward and ignore their insulting gazes all of that.

With that I kept walking in silence ignoring the stares and loud left-right whispers heard in my ears still following the Elves in front of me.

Walking for 12 hours with one rest, now we arrive at a place that is like a vast expanse of grassland along the 400 meters that seemed to separate the forest.

" Look at that, Glen! It is our Royal Palace! "

I looked in the direction pointed by Siena and sure enough, I saw a top of the Palace.

It looked still a bit far away, but considering it was visible from this place it seemed like the palace was large in size or was on a plateau higher than here.

" Is our distance still far away? How long are we gonna be?"

I asked Siena.

" We should be here any minute. Not far away. "

We walked through the grassland and entered the forest again.

The trees here are taller and bigger than the trees before.

Maybe it was only 500m walking, until we arrived at the place we were headed.

A 40-meter-wide abyss was in front of us. Under this abyss was so dark and terrifying.

Having dropped a pebble into the ravine to measure into it, I did not get a sound echo response that made my feathers slightly shudder. How deep is this abyss?

One stone bridge three meters in diameter in the middle and two bridges of two meters in diameter on the right of the far left that stretches connecting this bridge with a large fortress at the end.

A large fortress that has a height of about 8-10 meters at the end of the bridge is seen standing firmly towering on display following the edge of the gorge with many areas that seem to have a very good angle to release children arrowheads.

Of course the geography of this place is very good as a fortress. It even seems that it will take a lot of casualties alone to be able to conquer the fortress at the end.

Led by the two Elves, we started walking over this dangerous bridge.

Neither Siena nor the other Elves, they were at all disturbed by the height of this bridge and walked leisurely. As for me, I walked with alarmed steps.

Not afraid of heights, just looking to the left and right side of this bridge is scary.

At the end of the bridge. After our two guide Elves signaled, the gate that had two large doors opened.

We walked in and were stared at by the people who were on top of the fort.

The gate closed when we passed it. However,

My vigilance increased very quickly. My right hand prepared to draw the sword while my body immediately moved in front of Siena's body.

My eyes are on what might happen.

" What is this?! "

Siena shouted to the two Elves who had previously guided us who were now turning and brandishing swords.