The Magic Empire for 20,000 years

Chapter 114 [Psionic Power], a Power from Beyond the World

"Something happened to my sister?"

This was the first thought that popped into Prince Elf's mind.

But immediately, the legendary warrior suppressed the idea:

Although King Elion of Man went back to his floating city to sleep that night and was not nearby, there were still three novice legends in the entire elven delegation.

Princess Leah herself is one of them.

Normally, no one should have the ability to abduct her silently, right?

There wasn't even a trace of a battle here!
"Sister Lia, she must have gone out for a drive?"

"Yes, she does seem to have something on her mind lately."

Prince Elf yawned, then plopped down on the soft bed, his mind a jumble of thoughts:

I really don't know what Leah is thinking.
During your visit to Eldoron for over a month, why haven't you offered any assistance and instead damaged the bilateral relationship between humans and elves?
Ironically, this impulsive and eccentric older sister is the crown prince favored by Father, the king I will protect with my life in the future...

I'm clearly the better one...

In that brief instant, a dark and terrifying thought arose in Prince Elf's mind:

Aside from him and Leah, the king's other children were all too young and incompetent...

If my sister doesn't come back tonight...

Isn't he the future King of the Sun Elves?

Almost the instant the terrible thought crossed his mind, Prince Elf broke out in a cold sweat and quickly banished it from his mind.

"Wait another hour. If my sister still hasn't returned, then go find her."

……

The silvery-white moon hung high in the night sky, casting a silvery glow over the peaceful town south of Eldoron.

Moonlight filtered through the trees, casting dappled shadows on the ground and concealing a hidden cave.

"Let's crawl in from here."

The wild elf boy, with Lia behind him, disappeared into a cave.

At this moment, they are walking in a narrow underground passage.

The road ahead was winding and secluded, with moss on both sides of the rock face emitting a faint glow.

The Underground World!

The races living on the surface world use a beautifully evocative term to describe this dangerous and mysterious underground world—

【The Darklands】.

Draconic monsters, rock sprites, petrified lizards, and the "drow elves" that will appear later... This is the home of many underground monsters, a mysterious place fraught with danger.

"Your fellow wild elves, captured by the green dragon lord Emerald, are imprisoned underground, are you?"

Leah vaguely sensed that she was heading south, indeed towards the Emerald Mountains.

"What imprisonment?"

The wild elf boy suddenly showed a surprised expression:

"Did I say that my compatriots were imprisoned?"

It really is what you just said... I think so... Strange, my memory seems a bit jumbled... Is it because it's too late and I'm too sleepy...?

Leah was a little confused:

"Is not it?"

The handsome wild elf boy walking ahead smiled and shook his head:

"No, Your Highness, you must have misheard."

"I and all the wild elves in the village went to a paradise, a paradise where everyone lived happily together."

“There, everyone is happy, no one is in pain, no one is selfish, and everyone is happy to share everything they have.”

"Our minds and spirits are all united, without distinction. We are in the presence of the great God."

"I think even the elven kingdom of Avando, the legendary paradise where elves' souls return after death, is no more than this."

"Therefore, I would like to invite Your Highness to come along as well..."

The mention of the Elven Kingdom brought a sudden shift in Lia's mind, as a Sun Elf who revered gods and placed religion above all else.
"Wait a minute, what are you saying?"

How could there possibly be anywhere in this mortal world that could compare to the divine kingdom of Avangard?
This is blasphemy!

At this moment, Lia finally noticed something was amiss.

Something's not right with me today... What exactly is wrong?
What did I do that was unusual?

A wild elf came to me. As an elf princess, it's only natural for me to help, right?
It's late at night, and it's perfectly normal for me not to disturb other people's sleep, right?

Leah felt dizzy and her thoughts were quite disordered, making it difficult for her to make sense of things.

"Wait, could I have been affected by some kind of mind control magic?"

As a novice legendary spellcaster, Leah had undergone specialized training to address the psychological manipulation she had suffered from!
Without any thought process, almost instinctively, Leah immediately used the "silent spell casting" technique to release [Detection Magic].

Without any chanting, an invisible detection wave enveloped Leah's entire body.

Under her detection, any mortal magic will reveal its traces, including those that distort the mind!
no.

Leah sensed that she only had the permanent protective and buffing magic that she had previously cast on herself.

There is no mind-bending "bewitching" magic, and no external magic exists.

"As expected, I was being too suspicious..."

"I was not subjected to any mind control magic; all my actions were based on my own will..."

“That’s right, the boy in front of us looks like just a wild elf commoner who doesn’t know magic…”

"To corrupt my mind, at least another legendary spellcaster would need to intervene; no wild elf could do that..."

In a dazed state, Leah's thoughts wandered.

Seeing that Leah's tense expression relaxed again, the wild elf boy smiled softly, walked a little further, and asked again in a hollow, ethereal voice:
"By the way, Your Highness, I have a question."

"Although we savage wild elves, like you noble sun elves, worship the elven gods, and legends about the gods circulate within our tribe."

"But you Sun Elves are the closest of all elven races to the gods of Sidrian (the elven gods)."

“Therefore, I have some questions about God that I would like to ask you, Your Highness.”

Princess Lia, who was always proud of her Sun Elf identity, couldn't help but feel a little pleased to receive praise from another elven.
Okay. Go ahead and ask.

……

High in the sky, in the floating city of Eldoron.

Elian suddenly opened his eyes while lying on the bed.

After leaving a mark on Leah in search of the Mind Flayer, Elion has been devoting a portion of his energy to continuously sensing the movement of that mark.

Elion knew very well that the Mind Flayer's fleet had returned directly from that apocalyptic war 20,000 years later, and was from an advanced civilization in a distant land.

Their ability to weave terrifying plots is certainly far beyond the imagination of mortal races of this era!

Now that Leah has captured a Mind Flayer, even if she is currently safe and sound, she cannot rule out the risk of being targeted by Mind Flayers!

"The trace of my soul that I left behind seems to be fluctuating slightly."

"Did something happen to Leah?"

Elian quickly took out the mirror and wiped it across the dark surface, creating ripples that spread across the surface like water.

Even the monarch of Eldoron looked quite serious at this moment.

His anxiety stemmed from another fact he knew about mind flayers—

The extraordinary powers used by those monsters from distant lands are completely different from the divine magic and arcane magic of the current era's vast universe.

It was a transcendent system originating from a distant land, which only gradually appeared in the vast universe many centuries later.

Its name is——

[Psionic Power]! (Psychic Power)
The current era's [detection magic] can only detect "magic" in the narrow sense, and cannot detect traces of "psychic energy"!

……

dong dong dong.

A knock came at the door of the inn where the elven delegation was staying, in the luxurious room of their leader, Seymour.

"Who is it? Looking for someone so late?"

Seymour Moon Whisper lay on the bed, beckoning towards the door with her finger.

The illusory "mage's hand" turned the doorknob.

The figure of the person behind the door came into his view.

"Your Highness Seymour, something may have happened to my sister, Leah!"

Outside the door stood Prince Elf, looking flustered.
"She went missing an hour ago!"

(End of this chapter)