The Goddess Of War

Chapter 185 - The Elves

Part 4: The Journey

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The orange sky looks very clean without even a speck of clouds decorating it.

It was not just the clouds that disappeared from the twilight scene. The location, which is usually covered by a thousand miles of wilderness, now looks barren to lose the tree altogether.

The big earthquake, which was followed by a typhoon that occurred for 3 days and 2 nights, has toppled all the trees in the former wilderness area.

In the middle of the barren land that had been cleared by the sweep of the storm, there appeared the figure of a woman sitting curled up by hugging her knees.

Already for 3 days and 2 nights he was there, without eating, without drinking, not even moving a billion from his seat.

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The air in the morning was a little cool and refreshing, after in recent weeks, the air on the banks of the river was very hot and uncomfortable.

A natural disaster that occurred in the territory of the Fire Clan Elves who had exterminated the wilderness that had become their residence, was, making the clean, cool air that is always with them completely disappear instantly.

Peral, one of the two warlords of the Fire Clan, who was on guard with his 3 trusted Elf warriors, was, finally invited the three subordinates to return to their respective tents after being satisfied to breathe fresh air that they first felt after weeks.

When Peral arrived in front of his tent, he stopped his footsteps and turned to the small tent right next to his.

Peral finally decided to go to the tent, to check on the prisoner who was there with Sylph, one of his trusted subordinates.

As soon as he arrived inside the tent, Peral went straight to the edge of the wooden bed, where the body of a young woman lay there.

Already for 5 weeks more the young woman slept soundly without ever waking up even moving a little from her original sleeping position.

Peral then examined the wooden bracelet that was coiled around each of the woman's wrists and legs, to check for Mana energy shackling magic, to ascertain whether the magic still has good properties to neutralize the magic energy of its users.

Although Peral knew that the creature did not appear to be a fighter, from sensing the Mana energy it did not possess, he still shackled the creature just in case.

The woman herself, was a creature that Peral found in the middle of the barren land, the former territory of the Fire Clan was located.

Seeing her figure that was very similar to a nation of hunters who came out of the gate in a war zone, Peral finally took the woman as a prisoner.

Initially, Peral mistook the woman as an invader who emerged from behind the gate and wiped out his entire clan. However, after the magician from his clan examined the woman, he turned out to be just an ordinary being without having any Mana energy on his body.

Further tests were finally carried out. The clan leader asked the healer to check on the condition of his body, yet the woman looked very kind and healthy.

The healer of the Fire Clan Elf who had examined the condition of her body carefully, also found no external injuries or internal injuries experienced by the woman.

“No scars from the fight. He was just asleep.”

Said the best healer in the Fire Clan back then.

"But where did you find him, Peral?" tanya Legalos, the veteran warlord of the Fire Clan, who was the senior commander of Peral's father's force.

Peral later recounted his encounter with the woman.

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Peral, who had just returned home from a patrol at the border of her clan territory and the Wind Clan, was shocked to find her clan's residence had disappeared just like that.

The territory of the Fire Clan that was previously a vast wilderness, suddenly turned into a barren field without a single tree on its plains.

At the time, Peral recognized the woman's features as a hunter-gatherer creature that usually came out of the gate, when a region was inside a war zone.

As Peral approached and was about to check on the woman's condition, she suddenly collapsed, unconscious.

Peral and his followers eventually took the woman with them to be taken prisoner, while looking for Elves from his clan who were still alive and displaced elsewhere.

After walking for hundreds of miles, Peral finally found the site of his clan's refuge, which took place and built a makeshift camp on the banks of a large river.

After reuniting with his clan members, Peral finally learned the cause of the disappearance of the vast forest in their residential area.

Not because he entered a war zone as he expected.

As it turned out, the territory of the Fire Clan disappeared due to an earthquake and a large storm that drowned and took away all the trees that were in the plains of their region.

Fortunately, the entire clan member survived and managed to escape leaving the affected region such a disaster.

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“Did he not open his eyes at all?” peral asked Sylph, who was assigned to guard the prisoner.

“As usual, he never even moved his body in the slightest from the position when you put it on the bed the other day, Mr. Peral.”

Peral took a long breath. The male elf was actually very curious, wanting to find out the woman's origin and interrogate her.

Peral finally turned around and went to Sylph's wine storage cabinet and took the wooden jug from there, then brought it to the wooden chair that still had a faint scent of tree sap.

Not just that chair. All the furniture that was inside the tent was entirely still had a faint scent of sap.

All the furniture in the tent is still made in a hurry a few weeks ago, because they have just lost their homes and contents after a natural disaster.

Peral drank the red wine directly from the pitcher, and emptied more than half of its contents in one gulp.

“Peral Master, may I ask?” sylph said in a soft voice.

“Tell me."

“Later, I heard rumors of a prophecy written in the scrolls of the elders. Could this creature be the messenger written in the prophecy?”

Peral immediately shook her head, as soon as Sylph finished her sentence.

“The forecast of the elders is never wrong. And the natural disaster was not a sign that came before the messengers came,” Peral let out a long sigh, before continuing, “You should not dwell too much on the rumors that have deviated from the prophecy.”

Sylph lowered her head, as she felt embarrassed by what she had just asked.

To dispel her embarrassment, the female Elf then stood up from her seat, then walked over to the creature that seemed to be sound asleep on the wooden bed.

Sylph took a neatly folded piece of cloth on a small table beside the bed, then dipped it into the wooden bucket located on the table as well.

“Mr Peral, I want to clean her body now,” said Sylph, who indirectly asked Peral to leave the tent.

Peral nodded, then left with a wooden jug with him out of the tent.

After Peral came out, Sylph began to clean the woman's body, starting from her face and neck.

He looked at that beautiful and graceful face with great admiration. Sylph was sure, no Elf had a face as beautiful and graceful as the creature.

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