After the dwarves had all left, the Deep One took the Golden Staff Spear and returned to his temporary abode, intending to play with the Golden Staff Spear, which was exactly the same as the one Sulyvahn had used to curry favor with Gwyndolin, while enjoying his bloody feast.

Stroking the golden staff-spear, the man from the Church of the Deep couldn't help but burst into laughter, saying, "Sallyvan, Sallyvan! You didn't expect this, did you! Our Lord Eldridge has taken everything from you. This is what happens when you try to use Lord Eldridge! Hahahahahaha... What! What exactly... Ah~!! No~!!!"

But his good fortune didn't last long. Just as he was caressing the Golden Branch Staff-Spear, which was both a spear and a staff, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his palm. He glanced at his hand and saw that it had been corroded down to bone by something unknown! And it was continuing to corrode upwards, slowly eroding him completely!

"Damn dwarves, I curse you!! Damn dwarves~!!!!" At this moment, how could he not know that he had been tricked by the dwarven blacksmiths? So, as he died, he let out a terrifying curse!

As he uttered this curse, the dwarves had already begun to have Yonjira send the villagers back to Menelaus, the capital of Tartarus.

Little did they know that among these villagers was an elf, a female elf of extremely high status.

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As the sun set, Lu Ming and his group led nearly six thousand Yogsotus back to Slanlot Castle to join the defense against the elven army's attack and await an opportunity to counterattack.

"I think you're not here to fight, but to go on vacation." Tures said somewhat unhappily after seeing another chimera by Lu Ming's side.

“Hawkwood has been taken by your brother to train instructors. The plan is to train your Deucalion into a cavalry regiment with magical powers, similar to Yggdrasil, after the war. So stop complaining about why it was my wife, Alex Chimera, who brought the reinforcements.” Lu Ming slumped into a chair in the lounge, exhausted.

"You've tasted both Dark Elf and Elf, when are you going to get me one?" Sitting directly opposite Lu Ming, Tures said with a malicious smile.

"Aren't there quite a few female elves among the enemy forces? Why don't you, as the female general, go and capture one yourself? Why are you asking me?" Lu Ming looked at Tures with some curiosity and began to be wary.

“Look at those female elf officers, their muscles are bigger than the strongmen in our army, and they don’t have the delicate feeling of Catherine at all. So, could you lend me Catherine for one night? If you want, you can join in too!” Tures suddenly leaned closer to Lu Ming, blinking as he spoke.

Upon hearing this, Lu Ming immediately pushed away Toures's somewhat rugged face and said, "First of all, I don't have such a heavy taste. I would never be interested in a woman who is almost as muscular as a strongman, not good-looking, and taller than me! Secondly, Catherine is mine! Why should I let you play with my wife?!"

"That's outrageous! I'm not a man." Seeing that things were hopeless, Tures said angrily.

"You're more dangerous than a man, okay!" Lu Ming muttered to Tures, who was inexplicably looking for a new love interest, before asking, "Did you and Miss Haimir have a falling out?"

"No. I just wanted to try it out."

"..." Lu Ming glanced at Tures speechlessly, then sold out Kate, who was the sister of Catherine they were talking about, without hesitation.

“Catherine has two older sisters, one in Ampu and the other in Menelaus. If you want to try something new, you can ask them for help. But I must warn you, according to my daughter, Grand Duke Feram's future wife is an elf. I think she could very well be Catherine's sister!”

"..." Upon hearing this, Tures was taken aback at first, and then, like the other girls, asked with great gossip, "Did Grand Duke Ferram and Earl Winsland end up together?"

"They're together, and they have seven kids!" Lu Ming, who was being relentlessly pestered by Toures, blurted out the answer without thinking.

However, he hadn't expected that Earl Winsland was right outside the door, and upon hearing the truth he revealed, he immediately fainted from embarrassment. If Ramanlas hadn't happened to be passing by on his way to fetch water and caught him, Slanlot Castle might have witnessed the bizarre situation where the Commander-in-Chief accidentally tripped and fell, leaving himself mentally impaired!

While holding two glasses of water, Ramanlas used her two extra arms, which were due to her insectoid bloodline, to drag Winslant into the lounge.

"Oh my god!" Upon seeing this, Lu Ming and the other person rushed over and helped lift Winslant onto a chair.

Seeing that Earl Winsland had clearly fainted because of Lu Ming's words, Tures glanced at Lu Ming with some fear and asked, "If she doesn't end up with Grand Duke Ferram, will I be killed by him?"

"Probably!"

Chapter 33 - The Witch's Cloak

At dawn, walking through the bustling streets of Menelaus, a city still teeming with people despite being in wartime, the seventeenth princess of the elves, protected by two elven spies, made her way through the noisy crowd to the secluded dwelling of an ancient undead hidden in the heart of the city.

This undead was one of the earliest undead to appear in Puru, and he may be several hundred years old, but few people know him or the extent of his power. However, this princess of the elves must find him and ask him for help in dealing with the evil forces known in the Deep.

Upon arriving at the place where the undead lived in seclusion, the elven princess knocked on the door of his residence. Soon, the elven princess and the two guards heard footsteps coming from inside the house.

Because they didn't know what kind of person this immortal being was, the three of them couldn't help but imagine what the immortal being looked like when they heard the footsteps. Was it a burly man, a handsome young man with delicate features, or a beautiful woman...?

With a "whoosh," the door to the room was pushed open from the inside. But the person who came out to open the door was not a strong man, a handsome guy, or a beautiful woman, but a sleepy-eyed boy of about eleven or twelve years old, wearing pajamas and barely able to open his eyes.

"Who are you?" The boy rubbed his eyes, finally managing to open one eye, and looked at the three princesses, asking somewhat groggily.

"We are from the Grand Duke's Palace, here to find Gariz Meholt." The elven princess, assuming this young man was the child, grandson, or even descendant of the undead she was searching for, told him her purpose, hoping the child would summon the undead they sought. But unexpectedly...

"You're looking for me? That's strange. What do I have to do with the Grand Duke's mansion? I haven't done anything wrong." The young man asked with some doubt after hearing that she was from the Grand Duke's mansion.

Upon discovering that the young man before her was the immortal she was searching for, the elven princess outwardly remained calm, but inwardly she screamed: 'Mother Queen, you've tricked me!!'

"Come in." Perhaps feeling it was impolite to leave the three elf princesses standing outside the door, Galiz invited the elf princess and the other two elves into his house to avoid being watched by others.

Upon entering the house, the elven princess immediately realized she hadn't made a mistake, for she saw all sorts of weapons and armor, as well as skull specimens of clearly terrifying magical beasts. If Galiz, this undead, weren't powerful enough, these things wouldn't be here!

You should know that not everything can be bought with money!

After washing her face slightly, Galiz gave three bottles of hot drinks to the Elf Princess and the other two elves, then sat down directly opposite them and said with a smile, "I didn't know what elves liked, so I just prepared some Tartarus specialty drinks. I hope you like them."

Upon hearing this, even the elven princess, who wasn't particularly keen on drinking, had no choice but to take a small sip to show her respect for Galiz. They were no longer in the Aifa Empire; they were now in the Kingdom of Miracaiser, and naturally had to abide by the local rules. Otherwise, if they accidentally offended someone they couldn't afford to offend, wouldn't all three elves be in trouble?

Fortunately, the drinks in Tartarus weren't bad, so there wasn't anything unbearable about it.

She took a small sip, placed the delicate little cup on the table, and then the elven princess said, "Tartaros is currently at war with one of the three armies of the Aifa Empire. What are your thoughts on this?"

"I don't have any particular opinion, I just think the army of the Aifa Empire is nothing but a bunch of useless trash!" Galiz said with a slight smile.

Upon hearing this, the fairy princess and the other two fairies all froze.

"So what is your opinion on the Church of the Deep?" The elven princess asked, barely suppressing her anger.

"To be honest, I don't know much about the Church of the Deep, nor do I know the abilities of this so-called Lord of Cinder, Eldridge, so I don't know how to evaluate it." Galiz paused slightly when the elven princess asked him about the Church of the Deep. After some careful consideration, he replied.

Upon hearing this, the elven princess was somewhat dejected. She had originally thought that the undead her mother had sent her to find was someone capable of dealing with Eldridge, but it turned out to be just someone who didn't understand the Deep.

But at that moment, Galiz suddenly asked the fairy princess a question, startling the fairy princess and the other two fairies.

"Does the Grand Duke know that you are the elves of the Aifa Empire?"

With a clang, the elf princess's two guards immediately drew their swords, ready to kill them to silence them. But at that moment, the door to the house was suddenly opened, and more than a dozen hunters in black rushed in, quickly subduing the elf princess's guards.

"I've heard you're elves from the Grand Duke's mansion. But I wonder what you do there?" A richly dressed young man, who looked two years older than Galiz, entered the house under the protection of several knights. He looked at the elven princess with a faint smile.

Seeing this, the fairy princess knew she was doomed. Left with no other choice, she resorted to making up lies to save her life.

“My name is Rist Cahill, and I am the Grand Duke’s fiancée.”

Hearing the elven princess's suggestive words, the noble youth couldn't help but smile slightly and said, "So it's my dear Rist. How come I didn't know you had come to Menelaus? And you even secretly came to this Master Hunter's house behind my back, your fiancé's back?"

Cahill is a common surname among the elves of Miracath, so the elven princess intended to use this false surname to deceive the noble youth. Little did she know, the noble youth before her was none other than Grand Duke Tartarus!

Now, the fairy princess was completely at a loss for words. Even if she wanted to make up a lie, she didn't know how to do it properly.

"Waaah..."

But the elven princess did not expect that the Grand Guild Master Feram would suddenly walk over, put one arm around her, hold her head with the other, and kiss her.

"Miss! Miss! Ah~..." Upon seeing their princess being attacked by Grand Duke Feram, the two elven guards immediately fought back fiercely, forcing the black-clad hunters to insert daggers into their limbs to render them unable to resist.

Upon seeing this, the elven princess, who had finally managed to escape from Grand Duke Feram's clutches, was startled and almost burst into tears.

However, none of the people present tried to comfort the frightened princess. Among them, Feram, who already regarded the elf princess as his own, said to two of his female knights, "Take the lady back to the Grand Duke's mansion!"

"Yes, Your Grace!" Upon hearing the Duke of Feram's order, the two female knights immediately went to the elven princess and said to her, "Madam, please come with us back to the Duke's mansion."

"Understood." As if resigned to her fate, the elven princess obediently followed the two female knights away. As a princess with no fighting ability whatsoever, the only thing she could do now was to obediently please Grand Duke Feram; otherwise, the charge of espionage alone would be enough to make her suffer.

After the elven princess was taken back to the Grand Duke's mansion by the two female knights, Grand Duke Feram ordered the hunters to take the two elven guards back to the (hunters') headquarters for interrogation.

Yes, Menelaus, like Agamemnon, has a portal that leads directly to the Hunters' Headquarters.

The reason he handed these two elven spies over to the hunters was that he wanted the hunters to extract everything from their minds and then brainwash them to turn them into true guards, his elven wife's guards.

Of course, he knew the elven princess's identity. However, he didn't know her purpose in coming to Menelaus to find Gariz Meholt. Therefore, he planned to summon Gariz to the Grand Duke's mansion so that the elven princess could reveal the truth to him and Gariz.

So after the hunters took away the two elves who were groaning incessantly from their injuries, Grand Duke Feram immediately returned to his palace and took Gariz Meholt with him.

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Sitting in the Grand Duke's mansion, even though the servants treated her as the Grand Duke's wife, the elven princess still felt somewhat reserved and afraid. Grand Duke Feram was the Grand Duke of Tartarus, the monarch of a duchy, and one of the highest-ranking nobles in the Kingdom of Miracaissa. It was absolutely impossible for such a person to be someone who would be unable to resist beautiful women!

The nobility are greedy and ruthless; this is an ironclad rule that applies to every country.

The practice of killing one's wife to gain a generalship or one's husband to gain an official position is very common in the Aifa Empire, and it is not uncommon in the Kingdom of Miracaissa as well. Therefore, the elven princess does not feel that she can be safe with Grand Duke Feram. In fact, it may be more dangerous and terrifying than other places!

Even if you want to escape, you need to have the ability!

The seventeenth princess, raised as a gift for a political marriage, had absolutely no fighting ability. She couldn't even fight her way out of the Grand Duke's mansion, let alone defeat a slightly larger dog. So, aside from trying to sneak away, there was nothing she could do.

However, even when she went to the toilet, a female knight would stand next to her and watch her, making escape impossible.

Just as the elven princess was at her wits' end about escaping, a female knight suddenly entered the room where she was and said to her, "Madam, the Grand Duke requests your presence in his study. He says he has some matters to discuss with you."

Upon hearing this, the elven princess's heart skipped a beat, fearing that Grand Duke Feram might harm her. However, when she arrived at the destination, she discovered that Grand Duke Feram had no intention of harming her at all. Even the immortal she was looking for, Galiz, was there, clearly intending for her to reveal her true identity to avoid any unnecessary torture.

With a slight sigh, the elf princess sat down on one of the three small sofas in the study, ready to confess.

My name is...

"Wait!" Grand Duke Feram suddenly called out to the elven princess, then had the female knight close and lock the study door. He then said to the elven princess, "I know who you are, Rist. Now you should tell me what your purpose is in seeking out Master Hunter Mihot."

"..." Not understanding Grand Duke Feram's purpose in saying this, the elven princess obediently complied. So, after thinking for a moment, she spoke, "The reason I came to see Master Hunter Meholt is because my mother said he could help us fight against the Church of the Deep. My mother sent me, along with one of my older sisters and one of my younger sisters, to Tartarus, Erebus, and Ampu to find three places that could help our nation fight against the Church of the Deep and help my mother expel or kill Eldridge!"

"So, the person you're looking for is Master Hunter Mihot?"

Upon hearing Grand Duke Feram's question, the elven princess nodded and then continued, "Galiz Meholt, the undead powerhouse of Tartarus; Lu Ming, the conqueror knight of Erebus; and Elcardo Durric, the desert mage of Amp—these are the people we three elven sisters are looking for. My mother said that finding just two of them would be enough to deal with Eldridge."

"Honestly, I don't know what you're thinking. Why do you think Eldridge is so easy to deal with? Even Lu Ming, that mad magician who manipulates forbidden arts, can't say that he, along with anyone else, can defeat Eldridge, the Saint of the Deep, the Lord of Cinder of the Church of the Deep!" Grand Duke Feram said, somewhat speechlessly, looking at the elven princess's expression of utter ignorance.

"'The demon wolf of Farron, the sand viper of Ampu, and the spider of Izaris—when you hold two of these three in your hands, the Deep is no longer a threat.' That's what my mother told me; I know nothing else!"

"The Spider of Izaris? Gariz Meholt, you're from Izaris?" Upon hearing the elven princess mention Izaris, Grand Duke Feram frowned, looked at Gariz, and simultaneously pulled a notebook from his desk drawer. He quickly found some information about Izaris in the notebook.

At that moment, Galiz suddenly raised a hand and shouted to Grand Duke Feram, "Grand Duke, there's no need to look! I am an Izarisian, but I left Izaris before the chaos spread."

Upon hearing this, Grand Duke Feram didn't waste any words. He immediately put away the notebook, turned his gaze to Galiz, and smiled, "If Lu Ming knew of your existence, I think he would be very happy. However, what do the elves want with you? Wasn't sorcery only created after the Chaos Eruption by the witch's daughter, Klara, and then taught to Zaraman of the Great Swamp?"

"Indeed, I do not know Miss Krana's spells, but I think the elves are looking for me because of that thing!"

"what?"

"A robe that the witch discarded before the chaos erupted!"

Chapter Thirty-Four - The Mountain Giant and the Dragon-Slaying Bow

"This is a weapon forged using blueprints brought back by the hunters ahead. It is said to be both a weapon and a staff, just like your Blue Flame Sword."

Three days after Liu Ming returned to Slanlot Castle with his troops, Earl Winsland found Liu Ming with a long spear that looked like a staff.

Taking the spear, Liu Ming examined the golden staff-spear carefully, frowning slightly before saying, "This is the Golden Branch Staff Spear, a weapon that Sulyvahn imitated Gwyndolin's Darkmoon Staff. It's a spear, but due to its special construction, it can also be used as a catalyst to cast spells. However, how did those hunters obtain the forging blueprints for the Golden Branch Staff Spear?"

"Those hunters are dwarves, so they disguise themselves as blacksmiths in some small villages along the border to deceive the elves. As a result, they are often forced by the elves to repair weapons and armor. Just two days ago, they were suddenly ordered by General Roas Svlokoski, the commander-in-chief of the elven army that is currently confronting them, to forge a batch of weapons for their soldiers. And these weapons are the 'Golden Branch Staff Spears' you mentioned."

Hearing Earl Winsland's explanation, Liu Ming frowned, thinking for a moment before saying, "The problem is, the Golden Branch Spear is a long spear, which is basically useless except for cavalry and infantry phalanxes. When the battle becomes a long and drawn-out fight, long weapons like spears are far less useful than short weapons like swords! Moreover, like us Miracaisar, the number of elven mages is not large. Even if everyone used the Golden Branch Spear, how many elves could actually cast spells with it?"

“Indeed, if there aren’t enough mages, even if we forge more staff-like weapons like the Golden Branch Staff Spear, it’s just a waste of resources.” Winsland nodded slightly, agreeing with what Lu Ming said. But she quickly thought of a pure magic-based force in the Aifa Empire.

"They're preparing weapons for the Church of the Deep!" "They're preparing weapons for the Church of the Deep!"

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