Shut up, brave man! I don't want to atone for my sins to you!

Rachel hesitated for a moment whether to tell Mura what they had just experienced, but Charles spoke first:

"We were commissioned by the Archon to investigate the anomaly in Lentiheim, but the fog was too thick and we were not familiar with Lentiheim, so we got lost."

Ciel didn't say a word about what they had just experienced.

Laceel looked at Charles with some surprise, but wisely chose to keep silent for the time being.

Now she and Charles are on the same boat, and they will prosper and suffer together. Since Charles did not tell Mula the details, it proves that he must have some concerns.

During this critical period, we must unite to face the outside world!

Laceel doesn't want to become a fool who holds others back.

After hearing what Charles said, Mulla was not surprised at all. Instead, he said:

"The roads in Lentiheim are complicated to begin with, not to mention the thick fog. It's normal to get lost... Where are you going? I'll take you there."

Charles replied:

"We need to go find Madam Archon."

"Okay," M'La nodded, "Please follow me."

After saying that, he turned around and walked in a certain direction on his own.

Charles put away his holy sword for the time being and followed him. Lacie, who was holding his clothes, wanted to say something but hesitated. In the end, she had no choice but to go forward and retreat with him.

In this way, the three of them walked through the thick fog and headed towards where Fuwenna was.

There was silence all the way.

If Charles didn't ask anything, Mula would naturally not say anything.

The two men are like two cargo ships. Apart from faithfully completing their respective tasks, they don't care about anything else.

But Lacie's little sampan was almost dying of anxiety.

She looked at the lantern in Charles' hand, then at the identical lantern in Mla's hand, and felt that countless questions were rolling in her mind like waves, making her dizzy.

Finally she couldn't bear it anymore.

If Charles doesn't ask, she will ask!

So she quickly walked around to Mula, stopped him, and said with a serious expression:

"Just now, Charles and I encountered something strange in the thick fog..."

As she spoke, Lacier carefully observed Mura's expression:

"—We have stepped into another Lentiheim."

She noticed that Mula did not have a strong reaction after she said this.

He wasn't even confused, just a little surprised.

Does this mean that Mulla knows about the existence of another Lentiheim? Or does Mulla perhaps understand the hidden relationship between the fog, the bronze lantern and another Lentiheim?

Lacie couldn't wait to continue asking questions.

But at this moment, Mulla interrupted her:

"The Archon gave you the lantern. You shouldn't have seen those things... but you saw them."

Upon hearing this, Lacie smiled and said:

"Because the lantern was out some time ago."

Mla suddenly realized:

"I see. That makes sense. At night, when the lantern is not lit, you might see those things."

Lacele immediately realized that the captain of the guard seemed to have set foot in another Lentiheim more than once.

Maybe he would know some secrets that the two of them didn't know.

So Laciel pretended not to understand and asked humbly:

"From what you said? You must have also set foot in another Lentiheim?"

Then she immediately added:

"Of course, this is also part of the investigation. Perhaps your experience will be helpful in solving the anomalies in Lentiheim."

Mla probably really loved the land of Lentiheim. When Lacele said this, he immediately became open-minded:

"This thick fog suddenly appeared in the city half a month ago. After it appeared, we tried to disperse it. But it was useless. Whether it was magic or other methods, we were helpless against it."

"Because its essence seems not to be fog at all, but a kind of...'mass hallucination', or something like that."

"——These are the words of the Archon."

At this point, Mula sighed softly, with a hint of worry on his handsome face:

"Then, some elves began to see strange things in the fog."

"Another Archon, another of themselves, another Lentiheim... No one knows why this is happening, and no one knows what this means."

"Until we stumbled upon those lanterns."

As he spoke, he picked up the lantern in his hand and looked at the lantern in Charles' hand.

"Although we still don't know the principle, these lanterns can effectively disperse thick fog within a certain range."

"Of course," Mla added, "during this period, we have never stopped studying the nature of the fog."

"But the research has not yielded any results. Even the most knowledgeable and intelligent sages among us elves cannot understand the nature of this thick fog."

Suddenly, as if he remembered something, the captain of the Lentiheim guard showed an indescribable strange expression:

"Finally, when everyone was at a loss, the Archon announced a piece of news to us—"

"She called the fog a dream."

"She said... 'The thick fog is the mistress's dream.'"

[To be continued]

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14. The difference is

Mura told the hero and the witch that the fog that now covered the entire Lentiheim was actually a dream.

An exceptionally grand dream belonging to the mistress.

The witch's first reaction was too good.

No matter what the thick fog is, at least Mula mentioned the mistress, right?

This proved that they were no longer in the fake Lentiheim, but had returned to the real world.

It's really cause for celebration.

Lacele thought with far from happiness.

She then asked Mulla a question:

"The dream of the mistress? What kind of existence is the mistress of your elves? She can actually dream?"

Originally, she wanted to ask what the mistress was, but after thinking about it, she felt that this sounded a bit like ruining the party and was somewhat disrespectful to the elves' beliefs, so she quickly changed her words.

Mula didn't notice Rachel's disrespect, so she quickly replied:

"The Matron... is the being that gave birth to the entire Lentiheim. To us elves, she is not a god, but she is better than a god."

When Lacey heard this, she thought to herself, "Why are you just leaving it here? It's the same as if you didn't say anything."

She remembered the Archon lady saying something similar.

but……

The witch narrowed her eyes, stared at the face of the elf in front of her, and asked in a serious tone:

"I don't want such an ambiguous concept, Mr. Mula. You should know that our trip here is to help you elves solve the anomaly in Lentiheim, so I want a more specific answer--"

"What on earth is your elf's mistress?"

She no longer cared about respecting Mula's beliefs.

That’s enough of the Riddler. If you keep trying to be a Riddler, I’ll take your mother away!

Although in a sense, she was right to think so. After all, the task that Fuwenna gave them was to kill the mistress of the elves.

But Mla was obviously not aware of such secrets. He just showed an embarrassed expression to Laciel.

"I..." He paused and shook his head, "I'm sorry, Miss Witch, it's actually hard for me to explain clearly what...what our mistress is."

Rachel was quite surprised to notice that Mulla used the word "thing" to describe their mistress.

This is a bit disloyal.

Since he said that the mistress is roughly equivalent to the god of the elves, then as a believer, why would he use the disrespectful word "thing" to refer to his own god?

Maybe there is only one reason——

The Mura in front of him, and even some of the elves he represents, do not have pure faith in their mistress.

Lacey raised her eyebrows, feeling that things were gradually becoming interesting.

The Mistress gave birth to the entire Lentiheim and can be regarded as the creator god of Lentiheim. However, some elves in Lentiheim are not loyal to Her and even don’t know what She is?

Is this reasonable?

You must know that if loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal.

Noticing something unusual, Lacie of course followed the clues and asked further questions, but this time before she could open her mouth, Ciel spoke first:

"Then can you tell us what the mistress did? In other words, did she give any instructions or orders to you elves?"

Lacee was of course a little unhappy that her words were blocked in her mouth, but she was a magnanimous person and didn't bother with Charles.

After all, the most important thing now is to find out information about the mistress.

She looked at M'la.

After a brief silence, Mula whispered:

"The mistress gave birth to the entire Lentiheim - the two guests. This statement has never been an exaggeration, but an objective description."

The elf suddenly raised the lantern in his hand high.

The light from the lantern suddenly became much stronger, and then a large area of ​​fog was dispelled, and the streets and houses hidden behind the fog quickly appeared.

"The mistress gave us magical seeds," he said. "We planted them and took good care of them. It didn't take long for the sprouts to break through the soil..."

Mula turned around and stared at the street disappearing in the fog with his green eyes, his gaze rising all the way up - just like the witch and the hero, he could not see through the thick fog, but even so, he still knew that something would stand there almost forever.

"Tree." He suddenly uttered a word.

Then the spirit whispered:

"Legend has it that the first elf was born in the arms of the mistress. When she grew up, the mistress gave her a seed and told her to plant it."

"Thus, a tree was born, and you know its name."

"——Lentiheim."

Mura turned her head again and gave the witch and the hero a complicated expression that they could hardly understand.

"That tree is the one under our feet. It also belongs to our elf city-state."

Lacey was stunned.

She recalled the scene she had witnessed when she had just met Lentiheim.

A tree, a giant tree that seemed to penetrate the entire world and break through the barrier between the sky and the earth, stood there. She stood under the tree and looked up, but it seemed that she could only see a high wall that stretched infinitely in all directions, which could be called the Wall of Sighs.

The city-state of the elves was built on this giant tree, but the name Lentiheim never belonged to the city-state of the elves. Instead, it belonged to this tree. The name of this tree was Lentiheim.

So, both the Archon Lady and Mura told them that the Matron gave birth to the entire Lentiheim.

It turned out to be the case.

Rachel thought.