Chapter 11 Beacon Smoke
Above the elves' warship, the elves wearing armor looked at the newly arrived uninvited guest with some confusion. Dinaser went to the ship alone (the elves had long recognized who the ship belonged to and speculated about the other party's purpose), but when they came back, they brought back another stranger.
"Dinaser, who is this?" asked an elf soldier. The elf soldier's armor was painted with patterns, but his shape was no different from that of an ordinary soldier. From this, it can be seen that he should be a subordinate officer.
"This is Ashu Rufate," Dinaser explained. "Ahu Rufate..." He wanted to introduce the situation of the elf named Ashu Rufate, but found that he had nothing to say. "Our fellow countrymen."
The elf officer looked at the guy named Ashu Rufate in confusion. However, the other party was wearing a gray travel cloak made by humans. It was impossible to see the details of the other party's body through this coat. Without Dineser's introduction, he might have ordered the other party to take off the cloak and see if the other party was really an elf. But now if he gave such an order, it seemed a bit too much and did not conform to the etiquette of the elf.
"I am Ashu Rufate." Ashu Rufate greeted the other party in the elves. "I have been traveling on human land for a long time. But in this turbulent era, I feel that I need to come back and do my best."
"Master, something went wrong, this tone is wrong!" Carrie explained to him in his mind. "The language of the elf is very detailed, and the treble and bass are all fixed rules, expressing different meanings. You just..."
However, it seems that the Elf Officer did not realize the minor grammatical error of Ashu Rufate. He nodded. "I am Villino, the son of Gos, the captain of the 'String of the Moon' warship and the captain of the Marine Corps, and the warrior of Prince Berland. May glory always accompany him."
His eyes were on Ashrufate's cloak. As mentioned earlier, this cloak is a human product. By the standards of an elf, this cloak is really dirty and crude, but from a practical point of view, this cloak can indeed play a role in sheltering from wind and rain, and is strong and durable.
"I want to borrow your ship back to Usuan." Ashu Rufate was careful this time to avoid any linguistic mistakes he made. To be honest, over the past period of time, he unexpectedly discovered that his talent in language and music was actually quite outstanding - of course, Carrie thought this was entirely because of her good teaching.
"We welcome every compatriot." Verinno answered while carefully pondering the identity of Ashu Rufate. An elf who travels to human land? This is a rare thing in itself, let alone the way Ashu Rufate speaks. Ashu Rufate does not mention his own bloodline and his position when introducing himself. Usually, an elf will choose such a arrogant and brief self-introduction only when he is very sure that he is far nobler than the other party. From this point of view, Ashu Rufate should be from a noble family, and may even come from a famous family.
"Master, have you noticed their self-introduction method?" Carrie reminded in her mind. "First introduce her name, then introduce her father to show her bloodline, and finally introduce her position and monarch and bless her. Both elves introduce themselves in this way, and it seems that this is the general way they introduce themselves. The way you just now is very inappropriate."
"What should I say?" Ashu Rufate asked in his mind. "I am not a real elves, where can I find my bloodline and position?"
"I suggest that you, even if you make nonsense, you must make one." Carrie said. "Otherwise, you may soon be exposed."
"I feel OK. They don't seem to be suspicious of me because my self-introduction is unconventional."
"They must have become suspicious, but they are just 'little suspicion' at the moment, so they dare not take action directly due to etiquette." Carrie said. "Didn't you notice that their eyes looked at you were a little confused?"
"As long as they don't take action, it's okay." Ashu Rufate replied. "Anyway, I'm just a passerby... I don't want to pretend to be very similar, I just want to get away with it."
At this time, Verino, the captain, took Ashu Rufat to the interior of the cabin. There was a small empty room here. This was a real "little empty room" with only a small bed inside, and the remaining space could not even contain a chair.
"Ashu Rufate, you can rest in this room before our voyage is over," said Verino.
"Captain, I'll ask for advice, where are we going now?" Ashurufat asked. "I want to return to Usuan as soon as possible."
"I accept the orders of Prince Berland to patrol the sea to avoid our city from invasion by enemies." The captain's voice was a little apology. "We will bypass the cape this afternoon and we will not start our official return tomorrow."
“Pointe?”
"Well, Avelon Cape." Villino replied. "There is a new small city there...we must strengthen the defense of this line. Human dragons will easily fly here."
Human dragon? Ashrufat immediately remembered the combat dragon owned by the Tulan army. It seemed that the elves seemed to be very wary of the dragon... Of course, it was nothing strange. The elves themselves also had many dragons. So when it comes to fighting against such giant beasts flying in the air, the elves must have enough experience.
"Aren't you afraid of dragons flying over in other places?" Ashu Rufate asked casually. He didn't understand the other party's logic very well - for a dragon, it's easy to flap its wings and go around in a small circle. But he regrets it when he says it.
"The city is an exception, it is a newly built city, so there is no normal magic defense." Fortunately, the respectable captain seemed to be distracted from thinking about other things and did not notice the lack of common sense in Ashrufate's words. "As for other places, human dragons have absolutely no chance to invade. The magic constructed by the mages have no loopholes."
After the captain left, Ashu Rufate felt a little scared.
"Master, fortunately we didn't force ourselves to ride the zombie dragon." Carrie said secretly in her mind. "Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't even know how to die."
If the Divine Martial Elf has a special magic to restrain the dragon, then the Dark Elf must have it. What's worse is that Ash Rufate doesn't know the scope of the magic. He rode the zombie dragon and felt it was safe at high altitude so he flew at full speed, and he might unknowingly get into the trap.
"The wind direction has changed!" The elves screamed from the deck. "The lookout is ready to go up the mast."
Because the door was not closed, Ashu Rufate saw an elf sailor wearing a short jacket walking past the door. This was the first time he saw the true body shape of an elf.
Many people think that the elf's body is slim and thin, but this is likely to be a misjudgment or prejudice. At least the body of the sailor seen by Ashu Rufate does not belong to this type. The sailor's body may be slim, but it is by no means a morbid slender and weak, but it is very flexible and strong, full of strength. His limbs looked elegant and powerful, and his fingers were clever and beautiful. Ashu Rufate clearly saw that the elf sailor easily climbed onto the mast with a circle of ropes on his back, and his movements were quick and sensitive.
"Ashu Rufate?" Captain Vilino saw Ashu Rufate walk out of the room. Although he was still wearing a cloak, he did not wear a hood. At least when Vilino saw Ashu Rufate's face, he did not show any obvious surprise.
Sure enough, Ashu Rufate was thinking in his stomach. Although the elves were generally beautiful, their appearance similar to Ashu Rufate would not attract special attention.
In fact, this is also easy to understand, because there are also various faces among humans, and elves must have their own appearances. In fact, there are not many people with beautiful faces like Dynaser (of course, they are generally considered too sissy among humans).
"Captain Verino, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing, just take a regular look." Verino replied casually. At this time, Asu Ruffat discovered a light gray line in front of the ship - which means that there is land ahead. "We're at the cape and we can see the city before dark."
Verino issued several more orders loudly.
Ashu Rufate has seen that the elves on this ship are divided into two types. One is sailors. They are all wearing short jackets on the upper body and knee-length pants on the lower body. They are dressed simply and neatly, obviously for the convenience of working on the ship. The other is soldiers, each of whom is wearing armor, holding spears and carrying bows and arrows on their waists. However, all the soldiers are not wearing helmets. Ashu Rufate thinks this is because they are not ready to fight.
The armor of the elves is shiny and has a very delicate and unique shape. Their breastplate is similar to the plate armor of a knight, but it is not made into a complete piece like a human, but is embedded with several larger metal plates. The corners are very focused on smoothness, and due to a special craftsmanship, it is particularly shiny. However, the elves do not seem to care about arm armor. Their arms only use mail on their arms, but this mail is small and dense, and is as shiny as the breastplate.
The lower body of the elf soldier does not wear leggings, knee pads, shin armor like a knight, but wears long and wide skirt armor. The skirt armor is decorated with small metal pieces in the form of fish scales, spreading from both sides to protect both sides of the legs. On the one hand, such armor can play a good protective role, but on the other hand, it does not affect the soldiers' movements. From the perspective of defense, this skirt armor may not be as comprehensive as the full body armor of a human knight, but it can undoubtedly make the elves' movements much more flexible than when a knight walks.
The spears in their hands are also different from those of humans. The blades of the elves' spears are particularly long, which makes their spears work directly on the one hand, and on the other hand, they are also good at cutting. Judging from the various actions of the elves' soldiers when holding the spears, Ashu Rufate can be considered that these soldiers are well-trained and very good at using weapons. However, the most distinctive thing is their bows and arrows - each of these Marines carries bows and arrows. Although it is famous for the elves' long-range attacks, seeing a unit with spears as a weapon carries bows and arrows at the same time makes Ashu Rufate secretly strange.
"There is a situation!" A voice came from above, interrupting Ashrufate's observation. It was the sailor in charge of looking, who shouted from a high place. "Captain! There is a situation on the coast! I saw the rolling smoke!"
"Thick smoke? Impossible... there will be no thick smoke...unless..." Verinor thought for a moment, and his face immediately changed. "Helper, change direction! Approach the coast! Quickly, adjust the wind direction! All soldiers, line up and prepare for battle!"
Chapter completed!