Chapter 492
The Seven Houses of Darklight
"What’s going on?" Leguna asked alertly, but he wasn’t worried for his own safety.
In such a dark environnt, he was confident he could escape even if he was heavily surrounded. He had been in the business of infiltration and assassination for years and the only ti he was captured was when he faced off against Saron.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t escape that ti either. He simply didn’t want to. So, there was no need for him to worry for his own safety at all. But he was still worried for Eirinn. While she was a high-order priestess, she was completely clueless when it ca to combat. She couldn’t even take out a common farr, to say nothing of those sneaky dark elves.
Linq whispered, "Our household, House Elvin, has always had a bad relationship with House Andalir. The two houses have a blood feud with one another. Recently, we heard that House Andalir had set a few ambushes in anticipation of us in the Dusk Zone."
"Can’t you get mbers of your household to receive us? Eirinn’s the daughter of the matriarch, right? She should have that treatnt at least."
"No! A party has been sent out to collect kobold slaves, and most of the rest have been sent to fight for domination of a mithril mine. There is no longer anyone the house can send to aid us."
"So how many days do we have to wait here?" Leguna didn’t dare to take any risks for Eirinn’s sake.
"In human terms, we’d need around a month’s ti. The value of the mithril mine is too high and our house has to obtain it no matter what. It should take a month before the house can send soone else out to us."
Leguna looked Linq square in the eye and furrowed his brow. While he could afford to take a month here, Innilis probably couldn’t.
Before he left lindor, he had done so research on the assassin’s dagger. According to his and Gahrona’s knowledge on poison, they concluded that it was incredibly dangerous. Even though Linq’s solution managed to suppress it for the mont, it was hard to say how long it could last. Leguna and Eirinn had to get it as soon as possible before the toxin got activated again.
One month was obviously too long a wait.
Leguna asked, "How many n do they have?"
"I’m not too sure. But since they assud it would only be Miss Eirinn and , I believe they only sent an elite or two. Numbers don’t an much in a fight of elites."
"Is that household... the one that hard Innie?"
"That woman was masked, so even I can’t be sure which household she was from. However, it’s highly likely that she’s one of Andalir."
Leguna pondered for a mont and nodded. "Great! Let’s go then!"
"Aren’t you worried for Miss Eirinn?!" Linq said with surprise.
"I’ll take care of her, don’t worry about it," he said expressionlessly. He shot Eirinn a glance and she nodded obediently.
"I’m not afraid with you around." Nervous as she was, she didn’t feel any fear.
Leguna didn’t say anything else and got Linq to show the way. The three of them then stepped into the whirling portal.
"The laws of the planes limit the number of people that can pass through each day. That’s why we aren’t able to show up on the base plane en masse," Linq explained as he rubbed his temples.
Jumping planes was a nauseating experience. It was the perfect mont for the Andalir to launch a surprise attack then, but as the portal was built with the aid of all seven houses, anyone who tried to cause trouble would be doing so to the detrint of the seven houses and be regarded as their common enemy imdiately.
On the way, Linq gave them an introduction of their destination -- Darklight. It was a large city inhabited by dark elves in the Dusk Zone. Quite a number of large dark elf houses resided there.
Darklight didn’t have a central governing body. The elves in the know were aware that control of the city was split into seven sectors by the seven great houses. The smaller households could only barely scrape by with the scraps of the great houses. Even then, they were doing much better than houses that reigned more distant cities on their own.
That was why many elves flocked to the city. It also ensured that Darklight would have a constant flow of new blood. The newcors would always stare greedily at the castles of the seven great houses and dream that they would one day be able to own one such castle. House Elvin was one of the seven great houses of Darklight.
Leguna looked at Eirinn and Linq, who was rubbing her heads, and felt a little confused. Before they made the jump, Linq had told him they would feel so nausea, but Leguna didn’t experience anything like that.
Have I gotten used to jumping through the shadow realm with Shadow Blink? That was the only explanation he could co up with for his apparent immunity to the side effects.
Leguna looked around cautiously. When he was certain they had reappeared at the connection point on the other side, he relaxed his guard and observed the Dusk Zone.
It looked like they were in an endlessly deep cavern. There was no sky inside and most of the terrain was ford of rock and earth. Plants commonly seen on the base plain were hardly seen, replaced mostly by so algae and other plants that could thrive in low light. There were so other weird things Leguna wasn’t sure whether were rock or plant.
Unlike the completely dark cavern, the Dusk Zone had so light. The source of the light was the countless glowrock art pieces and glow crystals, which were all over the place. Even so of the algae lit up the ground they were on.
However, it wasn’t enough to illuminate the nearly fully dark plane. Strictly speaking, the intensity of light was comparable to a cloudy evening’s. Normal humans would definitely be practically blind in that light.
"Drink this!" Leguna took out so potions from his dinsional pocket. He was once more impressed at how thoughtful Annelotte was for packing those in. Though she had never gone to the Dusk Zone before, she managed to prepare the necessities they required based on her knowledge alone.
The potion Leguna held out could help increase the night vision abilities of the user. Annelotte’s enhanced concoction’s effects could last up to a week.
After consuming the potion, Eirinn got quite used to the dark environnt. She looked around wondrously at the foreign sight. After all, it was her hotown in a sense and she was curious and excited to see it for the first ti.
Leguna and Linq patiently waited for her to have her eye’s fill. She only realized a few minutes later that she was delaying the journey. Laughing awkwardly, she dashed back to Leguna’s side.
Linq was a little stunned at the sight of her. As a dark elf, he had seen many a beauty, many of whom who looked more or less as beautiful as Eirinn.
But sohow, she gave off a completely different impression. She wasn’t as proud as the female dark elves. As dark elf society was matriarchal, they often stood proud in front of their male counterparts.
This half-elf, however, was different. She didn’t possess that arrogance in the slightest and didn’t tease and seduce like the other elves did. She only acted as her own pure self and showed all her feelings on her face. Linq was surprised to see her looking at him with a friendly gaze. Eirinn wasn’t even familiar with him. Why would a dark elf smile to soone whom they didn’t know was useful or not?
All of a sudden, he felt his heart skip a beat. It was the first ti he felt sothing like that.
Leguna stroked Eirinn’s head lovingly and turned to Linq. "Let’s continue. We wouldn’t want to make the sods wait."
"Huh? Okay..."
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"Milady Angelista, are you sure we don’t need to hide?" a young dark elf male asked. He held an enchanted longsword and his light tal armor glowed slightly. Most would think it a luxury for even high-order warriors, but that kind of equipnt was the bottom of the barrel for dark elves. It was too bad, since his owner wasn’t that rich.
"Idiot Cydek! Don’t lump together with you lowly males!" the dark elf warrior’s owner, Angelista, spat. She looked really seductive and sensual. Most would admit that she was a head-turner.
Angelista knocked on the ground with her staff and proudly proclaid, "Don’t forget who your owner is! Even though I don’t have the goddess’ favor, Ross, I hope you can understand that the power of magic is irreplaceable!"
"I will take it to heart, Milady," the elf male hurriedly said with a nod.
"Good. Cydek..." Angelista flew into the sky and waved her dainty foot around. "Since you’re so obedient, I wouldn’t mind letting you kiss my shoe."
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