You think you're worthy of saving the world?

However, in modern times, only about 100,000 elves remain, living in the Kingdom of the Sacred Tree.

Stella couldn't help but interrupt Professor Yuri's history lesson: "...So what does this ancient history have to do with our search for the elves who were tricked into becoming slaves in the casino?"

Yuri leaned closer and said mysteriously, "What I'm about to tell you is top secret. It must not be revealed, or we'll all die."

"Is it that serious?" The silver-haired witch looked incredulous.

Yuri's expression turned serious: "This involves the ancient history of the elves, and their 'original sin.'"

Stella swallowed hard and nodded gently, "Oh...oh, I understand. I'm ready, go ahead."

"Do you know why the elves, who clearly dislike excessive contact with other races, still made a special trip from Albion to the continent of Diamat?" Yuri asked.

Stella thought for a moment: "Isn't it because there are just too many of them, so many that the island can't hold them all?"

"How could it not fit? It could fit even 100,000 demonic pigs."

Yuri shook his head: "The elves claimed that the reason for the migration was that they had discovered the sacred land of Elysium on the continent, which later became the Kingdom of the Sacred Tree."

But that's not the case. The elves concealed their history, and the truth is actually—

"What's the truth?" The silver-haired witch swallowed hard.

"Elves are a race that only eats berries."

Yuri explained, "Just like koalas can only eat eucalyptus leaves, elves can only eat berries and can't eat anything else."

Long before the Second Age, they had eaten the berry trees on the island of Albion to extinction.

Therefore, the elves had no choice but to abandon their birth island and migrate to this continent—after all, without berries, the elves would become extinct.

Stella: "..."

It took her a while to come to her senses: "Then what you just mentioned, 'the original sin of the elves'?"

Yuri said, "It is their great sin of eating the berry trees on Albion Island to extinction."

To atone for the sins committed by their ancestors, the elves who settled on the continent of Diamat gradually transformed into environmentally obsessed individuals.

"Wait, wait a minute!" Stella suddenly remembered something. "What about the oath the elves made? What about their oath never to eat meat?"

Yuri sneered, "That's just a persona created by the elven high priests to establish the image of elven beings as righteous environmentalists. They don't eat meat anyway."

"........."

After listening to Yuri's account of the elves' dark history, Stella couldn't help but feel somewhat disillusioned:

Tch... So they weren't the noble and perfect beings described in the legends after all.

Just then, she suddenly thought of something.

"Yuri, the elven high priest you mentioned, could it be...?"

Yuri nodded: "One of the oldest and most powerful demigods in the world, the youngest daughter of the Goddess of the Night."

She once cultivated a variety of berry trees on the continent of Diamat that could produce an endless supply of fruit, and was therefore revered by the elves as the "Sacred Tree."

"Huh... is that why it's called the 'Sacred Tree'?!"

Stella suddenly felt very tired; her beautiful fantasy about elves had been shattered by someone in a single day.

"At the end of the Second Age, she bestowed divine laws upon mankind and helped them establish what later became the Church of Heaven."

Yuri's expression was calm, revealing no emotion whatsoever.

"As the most powerful prophet in the world, she is the highest advisor of the Papal Court and the teacher and assistant of the Elf Queens throughout the ages."

At the same time, the "sacred tree" is also an oracle that spreads prophecies of salvation—

They were the elves who chose the child of prophecy and bestowed upon him the name and surname "Euphoris Falción."

105 Holy Sons

"So, the Sacred Tree is your mother? Were you raised by elves?"

Stella asked in surprise.

According to the witch's social relationships, the person who raises a child is the mother.

If the "Sacred Tree" is Euryphus's mother, then she is my enemy!

Stella secretly thought, "I am Euryphus's mother!"

Yuri shook her head, clearly not wanting to continue the topic: "No, I wasn't raised by an elf, and I haven't seen her for many years..."

Instead of this, let's get down to business and finish tonight's tasks.

Yuri's clue was actually quite simple: to investigate the circulation of berries in the Xiacheng District over the past month at the farmers' market.

Elves are a race that needs to consume berries to survive, so as long as slave traders continue to treat them as valuable commodities and "offer them" to them, they must purchase large quantities of berries for the elves, even if they are unwilling.

After that, Yuri and Stella visited every fruit vendor in the market.

With Yuri's strong social skills and a little bribery, he successfully gained access to the fruit vendors' sales lists for the past month.

Yuri and Stella worked until after midnight, checking and comparing each address one by one, and finally identified a very suspicious address.

This customer, known as the "Blackjack Club," has recently purchased over 500 kilograms of berries from various fruit vendors at the farmers' market over the past month.

Stella frowned in confusion as she looked at the name.

"Is this... a casino?"

The suspected hideout of slave traders, Blackjack Club, is a casino, though not the one where the elves lost all their money.

However, considering that the elves had lost everything in the casino and thus became slaves, it's understandable that the person who took them over was also involved with other elves.

The slave trade, casinos, brothels, illicit drugs... these businesses have been closely intertwined since ancient times, so it's not surprising.

Yuri breathed a sigh of relief: "Mission accomplished, we can go back and report now."

"Give this address to the Holy Tree Kingdom's embassy and let them handle it... What's wrong, Stella?"

He noticed that his witch seemed a little down.

Don't you feel really annoyed?

"what do you mean?"

Stella crossed her arms and said, "We've been busy all night running errands for those arrogant elves, and all we get in return is some paltry reward. I doubt they'll even say a word of gratitude."

"You mean... we should ignore our employer's demands and rescue the elven slaves?" Yuri countered.

Stella paused for a moment: "Uh, I didn't say I wanted to go that far, but... it just doesn't feel right to go back like this."

Yuri stroked his chin for a moment, then chuckled and said, "Let's go then."

"what do you mean?"

"It's too early to go back tonight."

Yuri had a feeling that tonight's mission was hiding some unspeakable secret.

He was still bothered by the fact that he only got an S rating in the exploration of the Witch's Night Singularity.

He thought to himself, "I'll meddle in other people's business tonight, though."

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"There are two options for infiltration."

At 11:30 p.m., the master and servant appeared in the alley across the street from the Blackjack Club to discuss their next plan.

Stella complained that she was hungry, so Yuri bought her a hot dog, which she is now happily eating.

"The first way is to enter through the casino's back door or ventilation duct... Could I have a bite?"

"No."

"Although there is also the option of using drainage pipes in addition to ventilation pipes, I think even if I were willing, you probably wouldn't be."

First, we used topographical surveying magic to create a 3D map of the casino, identifying rooms or warehouses where elven slaves might be hidden. Once identified, we entered directly through the ventilation ducts.

“What about the second one?” Stella raised an eyebrow.

"The second method is from the front..."

"The second one is the best."

Miss Witch didn't even want to listen to Yuri's plan before excitedly licking off the sauce that covered her lips and cracking her knuckles.

"Let's charge in from the front. Okay~ Want to see who takes down more people?"

Why would you have such a dangerous idea?

Yuri looked at Stella with disdain, as if she were a terrorist: "When I said 'from the front,' I meant to enter through the main entrance disguised as a guest."

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It is often said that the upper and lower parts of the Papal City are two completely different worlds, and this is indeed the case.

The upper town falls into a solemn slumber after nightfall, while the lower town presents a completely different scene.

This bar street, located in the southwest corner of the downtown area, is also a microcosm of many people's extravagant and decadent lifestyles.

Even though it was almost midnight, the people on this street showed no signs of quieting down.

The raucous noise from the roadside assaulted my eardrums, as if it were a celebration of the end times by doomsday believers.

On the street in front of the Blackjack Club, a young couple stood side by side.

The man looked to be about fourteen or fifteen years old.

With his tall, slender figure, delicate features, and outstanding temperament, his long black hair was neatly combed back, making him look more mature than his age.

The woman was a beautiful girl of sixteen or seventeen.

She wore heavy makeup, her shoulder-length silver hair was styled into a bob, and she wore a figure-hugging short dress over a high-end fur coat. Underneath the bodycon dress were a pair of sexy red stockings.

The two were Yuri and Stella, disguised as guests.