789 All of You are More Like Demons
The one falling from the sky wasn’t an angel, but a beautiful elf instead.
Just as all of the captured elves were plunged deep into despair and Sally and Blour had done everything they could, a gorgeous figure descended from above, stomping the high and mighty Cobil into the ground.
She was an exquisitely beautiful elf in a white dress with a small golden crescent moon insignia on her forehead. Her entire body was enshrouded in faint golden light, and she was like an ethereal holy goddess descending from the heavens.
It was such a breathtakingly beautiful elf who had stomped Cobil’s face into the ground.
Cobil was an eighth-tier wood-type magic caster who had easily subdued Blour and all of the other elves, yet half of his face had been buried in the dirt, and he was unable to move so much as a single inch.
Could she be here to save us? In the eyes of all of the captured elves, they felt as if they were witnessing a miracle, and they could barely believe their eyes as a hint of hope welled up in their hearts again.
“Your Highness!”
Blour’s eyes lit up with elation even as he was being hung upside down from a tree. At the same time, his entire body completely relaxed. With her here, everything would be fine.
“Princess Irina!”
Sally’s eyes were also sparkling as she looked at the elf descending from above, and her teary face lit up with a smile. Within the entire Wind Forest, she was the only one they could trust and rely on, and she had now appeared to save them.
The one who had descended from the sky was none other than Irina, who had just returned from Rodu. The teleportation formation in the elven embassy situated in Rodu required a vast amount of energy from spirit stones to be activated each time, so it was very rarely used. However, someone of Irina’s status was obviously granted usage rights by default.
“Your Highness!”
All of the black-robed elves’ hearts jolted with shock upon seeing the new arrival before they hurriedly extended respectful bows toward Irina. All of them lowered their bows and hung their heads with tense expressions on their faces.
Not long ago, the princess had emerged from seclusion and killed Elder Schubert on the spot for his slavery of other elves. As a result, the elven queen had issued a new order to abolish slavery, and gave all of the enslaved elves a chance to leave the Wind Forest should they so please.
However, after that, Princess Irina was locked away in detention, while the elven queen also went into seclusion, thus paying no heed to matters within the elven race. Thus, all of the major families only released some elderly and frail slaves as a show of compliance, but they didn’t actually act according to this order.
Furthermore, in the period leading up to winter, there would be more and more elves transported back to the Wind Forest to replenish the ones that had been released as well as to supply more cannon fodder that could be sent to protect the borders.
All of the major families who benefited from slavery were extremely prominent and powerful within the elven race. Thus, even with the example set by Schubert’s death, all of them still fell back to their old ways.
However, that didn’t mean that everyone dared to truly disregard Irina. After all, she had dared to kill Schubert in the presence of the elven queen. She was both powerful enough and decisive enough to kill anyone that she wanted, and no major family wanted to make her their enemy.
Thus, they decided to have this new batch of enslaved elves transported to the Wind Forest while Irina was away celebrating the king’s birthday in the Roth Empire. According to their plan, she should still have been at Rodu at this very moment, and they were horrified to see her appear here.
“Your Highness?”
All of the bound elves faltered slightly before legends surrounding Princess Irina suddenly surfaced in their minds. If there was anyone in the Wind Forest who harbored any sympathy for them, then it had to be this kind princess.
A few years ago, she and Alex had roamed the continent, destroying countless orc and demon mercenary squads who made their living by capturing wandering elves. Even the few such mercenary squads that remained hurriedly disbanded in fear of being hunted down by Princess Irina.
Those years were the safest for all of the elves wandering the Norland Continent. No one had to worry about demons and orcs suddenly appearing to capture them.
Even though not every wandering elf had been saved by Princess Irina before, all of them were extremely thankful for everything she had done. She was like their savior, rescuing them from an infernal hell.
However, good things were never meant to last. Three years ago, Princess Irina suddenly disappeared, and all of the demons and orcs sprang into action again, capturing wandering elves with reckless abandon.
All of the elves who dared to resist were killed, and some of the more beautiful elves were even taken to Rodu or the Demon Islands, and sold to prominent families as sex slaves. However, most of them were transported back to the Wind Forest and reduced to lowly slaves.
This was a never-ending disaster. Aside from a small portion of powerful elves who could escape this horrible fate, almost all of the elves wandering the Norland Continent became victims of this cruel practice. Chaos City became the final haven for free elves, but elves had begun disappearing from Chaos City as well as of late.
The wandering elves were powerless to resist this horrific disaster, so they could only pin their hopes on Princess Irina. It was just that during her three-year seclusion, she seemed to have been completely wiped off the face of the continent, and all of the wandering elves were eventually cast into despair.
But now, Princess Irina had appeared once again, and she had just stomped the elf who had attacked them into the ground like a cockroach.
All of the despairing elves were filled with hope once again. If there was anyone in this world who could save them from the Wind Forest, then it was Princess Irina!
“All elves were born equal; what is this nonsense about a hierarchy?” Irina cast her gaze at all of the elves around her before looking down at Cobil with a cold expression as she demanded, “Her Majesty abolished slavery a month ago; how dare you continue to engage in such heinous practices behind her back?”
“Your Highness… We… We’re only doing as we were told. Order Diff told us to do this!” Cobil’s horrified face was half-buried in the dirt as he gave a reply with difficulty.
Even Elder Schubert had been slain by Irina without a second thought, so it wouldn’t be a surprise at all if she were to kill him here. He had only enjoyed half of the lengthy lifespan that elves were endowed with, and he didn’t want to die yet.
“Alright, I’ll be going after him next.” Irina nodded with a cold expression before raising her right foot and stomping it down again. Cobil’s head was completely crushed into the soil amid a thickening crunch, and his body spasmed momentarily before falling completely still.
“Back when I was traveling the continent, I had thought that the elves of the Wind Forest were my brethren, so at the very least, they wouldn’t be as shameless and heinous as the orcs and demons.” Irina lifted her foot from Cobil’s head as she looked around at the horrified black-robed elves. “However, I soon found out that I was wrong. Compared to them, all of you are more like demons.”