The Death List Novel - Chapter 382
Chapter 382 Anterior Route
More than a thousand elven migration teams, including women and children, accounted for 80% of the total number of people who were able to fight. This showed the elven race’s terrifying war mobilization potential. Unfortunately, their ability to reproduce was too weak. Otherwise, even after experiencing many wars during the Great Elf Civilization, humans would not be able to replace the elves and become the new rulers of the Ferren Continent.
The core of the migration team was the upper echelons of the two large migration tribes, gathering the vast majority of elven mages, priests, and druids. There were also a few large horned deer caravans with a small number of backup weapons and arrows on them. The rest were food reserves.
The horses of the Moon Fairy Tribe were too precious, but there were countless large horned deer in the forest. This kind of animal has a docile temperament, and its feet are not inferior to horses. Other than being unsuitable for mounting, it has no problem pulling carts and carrying things. As for the caravan, it was even simpler. The elves didn’t lack craftsmanship. Everyone could build a tree house from scratch. Of course, the small caravan wasn’t a problem.
Qin Lun had originally wanted to join the patrol squad on the outskirts. Although he had inspired the descendants of the royal family to attend the elders’ meeting, he was still a hunter, not a weak mage or priest. There was no reason for him to be protected in the squad.
However, Grand Elder Edeline took the initiative to keep him here. There weren’t many patrol teams on the outskirts, and there weren’t many without him. Staying by Grand Elder’s side was even more important.
Why were the Moon Fairy tribal elders willing to acknowledge his royal descendant status? Could it really be because of his bloodline and inheritance? Of course not. Qin Lun’s greatest contribution to the migration team was not his identity as a descendant of the royal family, but his role as a guide.
Because of their bad relationship with the Kingdom of Jondas, the Jondar Elves had not stepped out of the forest for a long time. Even Grand Elder Edeline, who had a lot of experience, couldn’t understand the situation of the human world. He didn’t know how far the humans outside the forest had developed.
The Moon Fairy allowed the Sun Fairy Envoy to follow them, not only to leave a path for the clansmen, but also to use the human mercenaries of the Sun Fairy Envoy. Of course, compared to the Sun Fairy Envoy, Qin Lun was more trustworthy. After all, he was the descendant of the Moon Fairy’s own royal family.
“Ferrari, Great Elder has called us over.” Elistine, who was chatting with Qin Lun, reached out to catch a small kingfisher flying over from behind. After listening carefully for a while, he turned around and said.
In fact, Qin Lun could vaguely understand the little kingfisher’s beautiful bird language without her having to say anything else. After the Fairy tale merged with the Moonlight Recruitment ability, he already had the ability to communicate with animals spiritually. However, he hadn’t lived in the forest for a long time, so he couldn’t comprehend beast language as accurately and quickly as Elistine.
After passing through the camp for a while, Qin Lun and Elistine arrived in front of a large tent and bent down into it. This tent was much larger than the surrounding tents, and it had a lot of space inside. It was a place for the decision-making level of the migration team to discuss matters.
At this time, there were a few luminous crystal lamps arranged around the tent. In the middle of the lamps was a huge piece of beast hide, and several people were sitting around it. It was Grand Elder Edeline who was dressed plainly and held the dove-headed staff. On her left was a white-haired old elf mage. This was High Priest Menon of the Moon Shadow Tribe, another month after the migration.
Beneath Menon was a blonde elf of the Swordbrow Eagle order. Qin Lun recognized this elf. When he first saw Kelly, he was standing in the middle of the Lost Rookies. Originally, he thought that this was one of the rookies who had been lost, but he didn’t expect that he was Prince Milleras of the Sun Fairy Diplomatic Corps.
Compared to the two elven princes that Qin Lun had met, Milleras and Corus were both outstanding elves of the younger generation. However, compared to Kris, Milleras was much more reserved. Only by paying attention to him for a long time would he be able to discover the occasional sharp glint in the eyes of the blonde elves.
This was a sharp sword hidden in a sheath! Qin Lun smiled gently and shifted his gaze away from Milleras. He looked at a human woman beside the Elf Prince. This woman had a beauty no inferior to that of an elf. She always had a sweet smile on her face, which gave people a gentle and warm feeling.
From Elistine’s words, Qin Lun had already learned that this was Robin, the mercenary group leader hired by the Japanese Fairy Envoy. This mercenary group was similar in nature to the storyline mercenary group possessed by the fortress guild. It had the role of a guide and a guard. In essence, it was the Lost Newcomers Guild.
Qin Lun did not see Kelly present, but it was only natural to think about it. Forget about that female Tyrannosaurus rex being the treasure of the Town Guild. She was neither willing nor suitable for such a public appearance. Otherwise, she would not be the leader of the Lost Rookies Guild for this beautiful Robin.
Apart from these few people, the few elves sitting on the right were mostly elders and priests of the two-month elven tribe. Among them were high-level rangers and druids who were responsible for leading the guards. Qin Lun saw Nicole at the back of the tent.
The two of them looked at each other for a moment before moving their gazes away. If Qin Lun still had a flaw, then the only flaw was his original identity as a mercenary. Once the Lost Newcomer Group found out that he was a member of the mercenary group, their identity as an apostle would be exposed.
Qin Lun had already informed Elistine in advance that she and Elder Edeline should not reveal to others that she and Nicole had been hired by King Testament. Someone asked, only saying that it was an elven mercenary from the Moon Fairy Tribe.
Elder Elistine and Elder Edeline only thought that this was because Qin Lun and the others were worried about being hired by the Fairy Court, which would arouse the suspicions of the other Moon Fairies. In fact, it was just that Qin Lun and the Fairy were afraid that the Lost Newcomers would expose their identity as apostles.
After Qin Lun and Elistine entered the tent, they saw Grand Elder Edeline greeting them with a smile and asking them to sit on her right head. This position was already quite high, second only to the Moon Shadow Tribe’s High Priest and the Sun Elf Prince, who were first and second on the left.
Seeing Qin Lun and Elistine sitting in their seats, Robin, who was attacked by the Sun Elf Prince, frowned slightly and relaxed again.
Actually, Qin Lun and Nicole did not know that the two of them had already entered the line of sight of the Lost Party. The Lost Party had paid a lot of price for snatching the main plot of the Sun Fairy Envoy, so they naturally didn’t want to be shared with the other apostle teams in the early stages of the journey.
Nicole didn’t have any secrets about her identity. Her possession of Emma was too conspicuous. Many elves in the Demon Cup Royal Court knew about this person. The lost apostle could confirm her apostle identity with just a little inquiry.
However, Qin Lun’s identity was hard to find out. As an inconspicuous member of the elven caravan, ordinary elves didn’t even know of his existence. Only Elistine knew when he entered the city. As for Qin Lun’s identity as a descendant of the royal family, it was a sensitive topic in the Demon Cup Royal Court. Whether it was King Testament, Prince Corus, or the Moon Fairy Tribe Elders, they would not reveal it on their own initiative, and the Lost Rookies would not be able to find out about it.
Robin initially had some doubts about this so-called elven mercenary, but now that he had a close relationship with Elistine and was sitting beside Grand Elder Edeline, the doubts in his heart began to dissipate.
Although the shattered starry sky could give the apostles possession of the dead storyline, it could not give them a high storyline status. The higher the status of the storyline characters, the greater the impact on world history. Even if such a person had just died, the starry sky still did not have the ability to arrange for an apostle to possess the corpse. The position of an apostle in the storyline could only be determined by his own later efforts.
After the Lost Party entered this world, they had hoped to take advantage of the elven identity of a certain party member to obtain some benefits.
For example, the female apostle who used the Beast King Hunting Bow had a pure Moon Night Fairy bloodline. Unfortunately, she was unable to get close to Prince Milleras. On the contrary, as a human, Kelly made the Sun Fairy Prince respectful and afraid. She was eaten to death, causing Robin to feel both irony and laughter.
Since they couldn’t rely on their elven bloodline to gain the trust of the storyline characters, the fortress team entered the Demon Cup Royal Court even later than they lost. Robin didn’t think that Qin Lun would be able to make a great contribution to the Moon Fairy Tribe in such a short few days, thus obtaining his current status.
The only possibility was that this elven mercenary was originally an important figure of the Moon Fairy Tribe and had indeed just barged back from the outside.
“Filar, this place is already on the edge of the forest. We are going to enter the golden plains tomorrow. You are more familiar with the situation outside. Where do you think humans will attack us?” After Qin Lun and Elistine sat down, Grand Elder Edeline took out a crude map and asked with a smile.
The map in Adrian’s hand was a map of her adventures when she was young. However, two to three hundred years had passed since the Great Mage’s adventures when he was young. This map had long since changed, and most of the landmarks on it were inaccurate.
When the fortress team rescued Nicole, they spent a large sum of money to purchase a projection map that covered a hundred miles around Elbard. Qin Lun used this map to help her modify most of the map symbols, which could be considered as a real guide.
However, the journey from Jondal to Anke Forest was close to five hundred kilometers, and the map still needed to be refurbished at a later stage. Fortunately, the fortress team had followed the royal guards of the Demon Cup Royal Court for nearly two days ahead of them, so they could send Qin Lun information on the road condition at any time.
Although they were so far away that they were unable to communicate with each other on the guild channel, Jondahl had sent an envoy to Anke with Prince Kris. Stark and the others could still order one or two elven knights to deliver map information.
In fact, when the Cup Embassy left, Qin Lun saw Prince Kris secretly stuffing Elistine with a magic signal to use in times of great danger.
Even though King Testament had ordered the royal guards not to help the Moon Fairy migration team, if Kris turned around recklessly, the royal guards would probably only be able to act as reinforcements. They could not watch helplessly as the Elf Prince died.
“If we follow the route we agreed on, then this place will be the most likely place to be attacked!” Hearing Edeline’s question, Qin Lun’s eyes lit up and he pointed at a certain spot on the map without hesitation.