Chapter 825 I“ll Kill Anyone That Dares to Touch You
After erging from the Sette Family’s territory, Elliot walked along the path with a heavy heart. A deer-drawn carriage had already been prepared by his servants, but he wanted to walk while he contemplated so matters.
At this mont, a voice suddenly sounded behind him. “Please wait, Family Leader Elliot.”
A hint of surprise flashed through Elliot’s eyes, but he still stopped in his tracks as he put away his dejected expression. He forced a smile onto his face as he turned around to find Vincent making his way toward him. “Hello, Family Leader Vincent. I didn’t get a chance to greet you during the eting; what a coincidence that we’ve bumped into each other here.”
“It’s not a coincidence; I ca here to seek you out, Family Leader Elliot,” Vincent replied with a shake of his head.
“Oh? What business do you have with , Family Leader Vincent?” Elliot asked with a surprised expression.
Due to the marriage agreent between Sally and Blour, the relationship between the Brewster Family and the Baibilly Family had beco a little awkward.
Elliot was unable to dissuade the elders of the family from establishing this marriage agreent for the sake of the Brewster Family.
However, not long after that, Helena suggested to the queen to make Sally one of the candidates to beco the elven princess, and she was also the likeliest candidate to fill the role among all of the chosen ones.
As such, the Brewster Family’s status imdiately enjoyed a teoric rise, making it a family that was comparable to the Baibilly Family. If Sally were to beco the elven princess or even the elven queen soday, then the status of the Brewster Family would continue to rise, centing them as the number one family of the elven race.
Sally had already run away from ho as she vehently opposed this arranged marriage, and the Brewster Family still had yet to track her down.
Due to the fact that she’d beco the likeliest candidate to beco the elven princess, the elders were no longer forcing her to marry Blour. Instead, they simply wanted to find her and get her to return to the family.
Elliot was naturally very loving and protective toward his only daughter, so he naturally couldn’t bear to see her marry soone she didn’t love. As such, he had wanted to revoke this marriage agreent long ago, but doing so would inevitably create bad blood between the two families, so he didn’t know how to raise the issue with the Baibilly Family.
Even during the eting earlier, he had been intentionally avoiding Vincent, but who would’ve thought that Vincent would co to him?
Just as Elliot was contemplating how to bring up the matter, Vincent glanced around at their surroundings before taking a step toward him, and then asking in a low voice, “Among the two elves that ambushed the rcenary squad outside the Wind Forest, one of them was Young Mistress Sally, right?”
“Wha...” A stunned look appeared on Elliot’s face, but he quickly recomposed himself before giving a dry chuckle. “Surely you jest, Family Leader Vincent. My daughter has gone to visit her aunt outside the forest recently. Besides, she’s always been quite an obedient girl, so there’s no way she’d do sothing like that.”
“This is one of the arrows that we found at the scene; I’m sure you’ll be quite familiar with it, Family Leader Elliot,” Vincent said as he pulled a section of an arrow out of his sleeve before offering it to Elliot. There was an elegant “Li” character engraved on the black tal arrowhead[1].
Elliot looked at the arrow in Vincent’s hand, and his expression abruptly changed drastically. This morning, he had received an arrow with the sa character engraved onto its head. He had commissioned a craftsman to craft this batch of custom-made arrows for Sally, and all of them had the sa character engraved on them. They were also a unique batch of arrows in the Wind Forest.
All of a sudden, a ball of red flas erupted from Vincent’s palm, and the arrowhead was lted into a tiny puddle of molten tal that dripped onto the ground amid a faint sizzling sound.
Elliot was quite taken aback by this developnt. He had thought that Vincent would use the arrow to blackmail him into supporting Sally’s marriage with Blour, or perhaps extort him for even more than that, but who would’ve thought that Vincent would destroy the arrow right in front of his eyes? A hesitant look appeared on Elliot’s face as he asked, “What are your intentions, Family Leader Vincent?”
Vincent waved a hand toward a deer-drawn carriage parked beside them, and he wore a grim look on his face as he said, “Please co with , Family Leader Vincent. There are so matters that I must speak with you about in private.”
Elliot hesitated montarily, but still nodded and got onto the carriage in the end.
Half an hour later, within a quiet and closed-off room, Elliot stared at Vincent with an incredulous look as he exclaid, “You’re telling that Sally is in Chaos City, and that the two elves who ambushed the rcenary squad two days ago were none other than her and Blour?”
“That’s right. I’ve received reliable information from Yngwie over at Chaos City that Blour and Young Mistress Sally had taken these elves to Chaos City. There, they were granted residence by the city lord’s castle, and an announcent was made, stating that these elves would be protected by the city.” Vincent wore a complex expression as he said, “I only wanted Blour to go out and see the world, but I didn’t think that he’d get into so much trouble. Now, our two families are basically in the sa boat. If Borg were to hear about this, both of our families would most likely be destroyed.”
“You sent him out to see the world? You must’ve known that Sally was in Chaos City well in advance, right, Family Leader Vincent?” A wry smile appeared on Elliot’s face.
An apologetic look appeared in Vincent’s eyes as he replied, “Rest assured, Family Leader Elliot. I won’t force a marriage between Blour and Young Mistress Sally, but this news will spread sooner or later. Even though they were never seen with the rescued elves, nor did they reveal their identities to those elves, there’s always an avenue through which news like this can escape.”
Elliot took a mont to compose himself before asking, “What do you suggest?”
A dark expression appeared on Vincent’s face as he said, “That Borg is an extrely ambitious man who’s aiming to overthrow Her Majesty and replace her as the monarch of the elven race. If he really does beco the elven king, and then decide to turn on us, then both our families will be in dire straits. If he really is already more powerful than Alex, then no one will be able to stop him from disabling Irina. When that ti cos, whether Her Majesty and Mistress Helena can control the situation will determine the state of the elven race. As such, we should...”
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“I really am ok, Princess; it’s just a little bump, and you already treated it for . Let go and cook for you. The sun is so bright today, and the Tree of Life is also really happy... Let’s... Let’s not go the starry sky cave...”
Within a spacious cave, Firis’ face was quite pale as she carefully tugged on the hem of Irina’s clothes with a beseeching look on her face.
“No one can touch you as long as I’m still alive.” Irina looked at the deathly pale Firis, and thought back to when she’d returned to her cave two days ago. Back then, Firis had been lying in a pool of her own blood, and if she’d returned any later than she did, Firis would’ve died from excessive blood loss. That was not so small bump; it was a lethal hole in her chest.
“Firis, you belong to , and I’ll kill anyone who dares to touch you.”
Irina pinched Firis’ cheek in a playful manner before exiting the cave with purpose and killing intent radiating from her body.
[1] The na Sally in Chinese is spelled Sha Li, the “Li” character is essentially the second half of her na, an initial of sorts.
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