[Comprehensive] The Great Devil

At noon, the dark dense forest was so gloomy that it seemed that there was not a ray of sunlight leaking through it.

Legolas looked around carefully. Any tree or shrub here was taller than him. The humus that had been deposited for thousands of years was damp and soft under his feet, and the air was filled with a strange and sticky smell. , and since he unknowingly stepped across the river separating the north and south of the forest, this feeling has become more intense.

Legolas escaped the guards and came here on purpose this time.

It's been less than six times since he was born. He is a very, very young elf, and he can only be regarded as a child for humans.But elves are born a precocious race. He started to remember things very early, and showed a very unique talent bestowed by his parents: he is lighter, faster, and faster.He has five senses that are more sensitive than ordinary wood elves and a natural affinity for the forest, which makes him like a fish in water when shuttling between trees.

Although he still took some effort to get rid of the guards who never left him, he ran here alone, trying to find the answer to the secret.

When he was younger, he knew that Ada (Elvish: Father) had imprisoned another Elf in a place south of the Woods.He has not been accompanied by his mother since he was a child, but he clearly remembers that such a woman once appeared, she used to stare at him with a pair of blue eyes, her arms were warm and intimate, and her fingers lightly passed over him cheek...he couldn't believe what his father had told him, that his mother had left him when he was very young.

leave?But if his mother really left her, where could he go?

He has seen how much other elves' fathers and mothers love his blood, and every time he sees it, he will be envious and disappointed.It's not that his father doesn't love him, it's just... Thranduil is the king of the Mirkwood, and he will never be able to devote all his energy and time to his children like an ordinary wood elf.From childhood to adulthood, although his father also showed enough concern for him, if it is really counted, the amount of time the father and son spend together is not even as good as his guard.

Legolas originally didn't want to come here through the dense forest, until he heard the conversation between the guardian in the distance and Ada a few days ago——

"The power of that Avari is hard to stop..."

"Even my companions dare not take a step closer to the giant tree, the darkness suffocates them..."

"The prince's mother... the poisonous nightshade is overgrown in the dense forest... the river water is beginning to be polluted..."

what did he say? ……Mother?

His mother... didn't she leave them long ago?

Legolas was a very clever elf, and he immediately recalled the silent and complicated look in his father's eyes when he talked about his mother.Thranduil never told his partner's name, and only said something softly when he took the trouble to ask——

"Your mother...she's different from us."

Legolas had never been able to understand this sentence: different?What is the difference between elf and elf?He guessed that his blue eyes came from his mother, because Ada's eyes were a deep, ethereal gray and he had only inherited his beautiful blond hair.

He hid in the room alone and thought about it all night, and finally decided to throw off the guards and sneak out to see the so-called Avari, the distinctive elf they talked about.

Once across the river, Legolas was struck by the desolation.

He had never seen the forest so sickly: the tall trees that had flourished in the past were now gradually withering, the fallen leaves piled up and rotted, and the bare branches pointed like swords at the gray sky.There is a white flocculent substance floating in the air, and when it falls on the skin, it will cause a secret sting.What made him feel even more uncomfortable was that as he went south, more and more white spider silks were wrapped around the trees, almost covering the sky at a glance, as if there were some terrible monsters hidden deep in the forest.

Legolas began to feel afraid and flinched, but as long as he thought of that word, which had a unique meaning to elves, he still mustered up his courage and walked slowly into the depths of the barren forest step by step.

So dead, so stagnant, so eerie.Not even a bird song.

It's hard to imagine, that elf actually lives here?This place where it is difficult for elves to stay for a second?

Legolas bit his lip and moved forward step by step, the weird feeling became stronger the deeper he went.His pace became slower and slower, lighter and lighter, until he suddenly heard the sound of sharp swords colliding, as well as a miserable sound that didn't sound like an elf at all.

He froze for a moment, then ran towards the place where the sound came from, skillfully avoided the sharp wooden branches, climbed up one of the hidden trees, and then carefully looked into the distance——

He immediately recognized that the elf who was fighting the giant spiders was the guardian of the kingdom. He was dressed in wine-red clothes, and was very light and sensitive when moving around. With strength and beauty.It's a pity that the more he looked at it, the more Legolas felt that something was wrong—the quiver behind them was empty, and they could only fight with the long sword and dagger in their hands.Although the melee ability of the elves was acceptable, as more and more spiders were alarmed, they consumed more and more energy, and their movements gradually slowed down, and even began to show signs of damage.

It was the first time for Legolas to witness the battle between the guardians and the spiders. He had heard about the pollution in the south of the dense forest, and knew that there were more and more monsters due to the spread of darkness, and even began to try to invade the wood elves. territory.Although the Elf King sends many guards every year to strangle and deter these disgusting things that are about to move, this is far less than their reproduction speed——

Seeing a huge spider insert its sharp toes into the back of a guardian, then inject venom mercilessly, and eat him with other companions, Legolas widened his eyes in shock, and tightly covered his mouth, eye sockets Gradually reddened.

The birth of an elf is very difficult, with few offspring, each of which is very precious, and it takes a long time to grow up. It takes more effort to cultivate an excellent guardian than to surround a human king.They are all excellent hunters who can stand alone in battle, but when facing hundreds of poisonous black spiders, they are outnumbered and there is no way to retreat. They can only fight to the death, silently. perish.

Why... why is the forest like this?

Legolas watched the guards die one by one without blinking, and the rest could only form a group, with their faces covered in blood. He raised his sword resolutely with his last strength, and decided to fight with a grim expression. to the last moment.

The spiders are gradually approaching, and the fragrance emanating from these elves in front of them makes them completely unable to restrain their hunger and greed. After tasting their delicious flesh and blood, they can't bear it anymore, and they wriggle and slender spider legs are about to pounce on them— —

Just then, Legolas heard a voice.

He turned his head in surprise, and stared intently into the dark depths of the forest where the sound came from—

A familiar, slender figure gradually appeared in the field of vision.

When Legolas saw the face of the visitor clearly, he immediately froze, his eyes widened, and he couldn't speak a word.

It was a female elf, although she looked different from all the elves he had ever seen—long white hair, a pale face, a pair of deep blue eyes, wearing the most common tights, and holding a sword in her right hand. The long sword, which was still stained with blood, looked like it had been picked up from the side of the dead elf.She turned and fiddled with the long sword carelessly, and slowly paced from the withered black branches, but the nearly rotten branches made no sound.

She is as light as a feather, but she seems to have the gravity of the underworld, so that all the spiders couldn't help but take a step back when they noticed her, and collectively fell silent——

However, what puzzled Legolas was that the moment the female elf appeared, all the guards did not relax their vigilance, but became even more nervous.

The visitor seemed to regard this terrifying dense forest as his back garden. He walked slowly and gracefully, stepping on the branches, and then stood still on the sharp branches, raised his eyebrows, and looked down at the tragic battlefield. Her voice is hoarse and long, in the depths of the dark forest where the wind is still still, but it spreads to every corner nearby——

"It's too noisy." She said, her tone was always casual, and she even sounded a little lazy when she was about to wake up in the afternoon. "You will never learn to be quiet, quiet... Do you understand?"

The leader of the guard tightened his chin, and he was silent for a long while, unexpectedly, at the dangerous moment surrounded by spiders, he slightly bowed his head to the female elf, performed a big gift between elves, and whispered, "...Sorry, Sierra Wild Valley."

Sierra... Araragu?Is she the Avari elf?

Legolas stared at her without blinking, but found that the other party suddenly looked up to this side. He took a breath, even though he knew that the other party could not see him, he shrank his head subconsciously, and then heard the woman The elf smiled softly, unable to detect any emotion——

"I'm talking about...not you."

The leader of the guards froze for a moment. He seemed to understand something, and his eyes lit up immediately.

Sensing the coming of the dangerous breath, the spiders huddled together in fear, but they were really unwilling to give up these rare delicacies. They struggled and hesitated for a long time between instincts, and finally decided to bully the few with more, and eat them first. ——

Some rushed towards the female elf on the branch, and some continued to attack the besieged defenders.

"That's right..." the female elf murmured with a half-smile, "Hunter, never back down."

When Legolas saw her lightly leap from the branch, slashing into countless spiders like lightning, he was so frightened that he stopped breathing——

There are too many, densely packed, even well-trained guards can't survive such a mass attack, but Legolas obviously doesn't know one thing: the female elf in front of him, Not a guardian of the rules.

He only saw her dodging into the spider's nest, overcoming thorns and thorns all the way, with stumps and broken legs flying out, screaming tragically one after another, and he could only occasionally see the silver light of the sword flashing through the gaps—she was alone. Cleave a bloody road alone like a sharp blade, break up all the spiders rushing up, cut off the head or toes with one sword, never have any extra tricks, kill with one blow, neat and cold, always rely on instinct to act The black spider kept backing away in fear, not daring to take another step.

Legolas had never seen such a flexible and swift move, she seemed to be integrated into this battle, so light that even the wind did not disturb her, and she didn't even show a trace of exhaustion, as if she had absorbed the power from the killing. With a steady stream of strength, she maintained a relaxed and cheerful smile, using everything around her: dead wood, fallen leaves, and spider silk.These things that have caused a lot of trouble to the guardians are now just weapons she can use. She jumps and moves between the branches lightly, causing all the spiders chasing her to crash into each other due to the inertia of the dive. Stepping on their backs, dodging sharply on their sharp, hairy toes, fighting, hunting—

She turned a tragic war into a dance that is as pleasing to the eye, with both fashionable strength and elegant posture, people can't take their eyes off for a moment.

Almost the moment she intervened in the battle, the situation had changed.

She killed half of the spiders by herself, with a sword, and successfully deterred all the living dark creatures, causing them to keep backing away in fear, not daring to make threatening hisses.

Standing in the middle of the messy corpses, she raised her head slowly, her hair and clothes were as clean as ever, and there was even a smile on her face, looking at the group of spiders, she spoke softly——

"continue?"

The spider hesitated for a long time, looked around at the tragic corpses of its companions, and finally chose to retreat temporarily. Immediately, the dense spider swarm shrank back to the area where they were supposed to be like a tide, and the forest returned to silence.

The leader of the guards took a deep breath. Looking at all this, he finally realized where the sense of disobedience he had had before: With her skill and strength, she could instantly dismantle the prisoner who imprisoned her a few years ago. The people were killed completely without attracting any attention, and they left gracefully—what kind of guardians are they?They could never trap her!

If she didn't stay there willingly, who could stop her from leaving?No one - including their king.

He immediately bowed deeply to the female elf, with fear hidden in his voice, "...Thank you for your selfless help, Sera Araki, I will definitely—"

brush--

Without any warning, the female elf who was lazily leaning on the tree suddenly raised her head, raised her hand almost without hesitation, a flash of sword light flashed, and immediately nailed to death a sneaky spider not far away On the branches behind, it was so fast that it was too late to even scream.

The guards were all taken aback.

"It seems...you missed one." Sera glanced over there with a half-smile—of course, she wasn't referring to the spider.

The leader didn't say anything, saluted her again, and then left here quietly and respectfully with his companion's body.

Legolas focused on observing the battlefield over there, and he didn't even notice that there was a spider that hadn't left quietly approaching him behind him.Even when it wriggled its mouthparts and was about to plunge into his body, he still didn't notice it——

Until a sharp sword came through the air, grazed the top of his head, brought up a few strands of hair, and cut off the attacker in an instant!

Legolas turned around, his eyes widening in horror, only to realize that he had almost turned into a crispy elf biscuit.Fortunately, the big tree where he was lurking was in a remote location, and his back was facing the guards. They never found him hiding here, except for the female elf——

Legolas was trembling all over, his heart palpitations and fear slowly spread to every corner of his body, he was so frightened that he was about to cry, but in the end he held back his tears forcefully, immersed in his own emotions, even someone jumped on him lightly. I didn't even notice the branches next to me——

Until a voice that sounded like a smile but not a smile——

"Is this scene good, little intruder?"

Legolas froze all over, and the tears swirling in his eyes were suppressed in an instant.

After a long time, he finally turned around slowly, carefully raised his head, and looked towards the other party——

The white-haired Avari stood with arms folded less than ten meters away from him, looking down at him condescendingly.

She has blue eyes like a clear sky.

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Luye: My mother's reaction when she saw her son didn't seem right... Is it really me that her sword is pointing at? ...I suspect I'm not real...Lost, sad...TT