"Don't use the word 'disposal'." Ashurufa said, "You don't know, this word will make people feel heartbroken."

"Hmph." Kay snorted coldly with his nose.

"You don't have to be sad about your blood relationship," said Ash Rufate. "It is a foolish thing to judge ability and good and evil based on bloodline."

"You are a prince. If you don't have blood and origins, you will be no different from others." Kay's voice sounded like sarcasm.

"Do you think I'm not worthy of being a general?" said Ashu Rufate.

"It was just a coincidence." Kay replied disdainfully. She turned her head, but Ashu Rufate took this opportunity to lean on her, grabbed her shoulder with her hands, and pulled her body back.

"Although you have no noble blood, you have something else." Ashu Rufate stared at her. "Things are much more important than blood. Your courage, and your...beauty."

"Nonsense!" Kay's hand waved violently, but Ashu Rufate grabbed her wrist. He noticed that Kay was slapping it.

"I didn't lie just now." Ashu Rufate's hand slowly relaxed. He noticed that Kay was not struggling. "Your eyes... are like gems, full of mystery, unconsciously preventing me from moving my eyes away."

“…”

"When I first saw you, I thought unconsciously... How could this guy named Kai look so rebellious? He doesn't look like a Yasuul at all. Now I understand."

Kay seemed to want to speak, but Ashu Rufate didn't give her a chance to speak.

"I believe that before you meet your father, you must be full of fear and fear all day long. This is how the Trujis start their lives. Only the dream of revenge and full of anger support them to survive. Your relatives cannot protect you. On the contrary, the first one who hurts you is them. They sent you into the temple of the God of Blood Hands. You are very proud. How could you not be proud? What are you left besides pride? You are also very powerful. How could you not be strong? Neither Yasu nor Duruchi look down on the weak. They can inherit the bloodline of Duruchi, but are recognized by the Yasu tribe. Only by relying on strength and courage. You are still very fierce. Of course you will be very fierce. You can no longer go back. Only by fighting with Duruchi can you prove yourself to the Yasu."

"Whenever the battle is over, although you cheer with the soldiers, there is no joy in your eyes. When you cross the battlefield with pain, you must prevent your tattoo from being seen by others... No matter what you do, you cannot get recognition from others... The song you played that day was so sad and lost, that is your true heart."

"If you can, don't have to maintain this mask in front of me. In my eyes, there is no Yasuor and Duruchi, only a girl who likes to play." He said softly.

He leaned forward and gently lifted Kay's chin with his hands. The elf girl's eyes were filled with tears at some point.

"I only have one hope, that is, there will be less despair in the song." He leaned forward gently, slowly pressed his lips on Kay's lips. The dark green eyes full of tears looked like two dazzling gems in a clear stream.

...

"The situation is much better than expected." Carrie said happily in her mind as Ashu Rufate walked towards the city wall. "Although it was a step too late, we finally solved a major hidden danger within us."

"Yes, it's a pity that it's a little late." Ashu Rufate replied.

"But, although it's a bit regrettable, it's not a bad thing. Now, it's no longer particularly difficult to achieve our goals."

He came to the city wall. When attacking the city, Ashrufat tried to use the highly developed magic communications of the elves. It turned out to be very effective. When his army arrived, the defenders of Gray Star Port thought he was still moving towards the mining area, so they were completely unprepared. A small team of shadow warriors disguised as Truqi and opened the city gate for the main force. This made the city wall still remained quite intact after the battle, rather than the devastated appearance that the city wall must have appeared after normal city offensive and defensive battles.

"Well, although it was to interrogate the prisoners, I didn't expect to get that kind of news." Ashu Rufat looked at the desolate gray field. All the necessary items of life in the city were input from the outside, and the surroundings were barren land. "Carrie, how much time has it been since we set out?"

"It has been more than ten months since the day I set out. Although there have been countless twists and turns in the middle, I finally got the answer I want, and it is the best one. Master, I just contacted the clone in the Dark Castle."

"Contact? You can get in the castle..."

"Well, essentially, it is magic communication. But because the transmission speed is very slow, we can only conduct very limited communication. Mimilu's situation is very good. Master, according to my judgment, it will be no problem to persist for another four or five months. In other words, we are not far from our final goal."

"Finally confirm, master." Although Ashrufate's eyes were looking at the wilderness, there was actually a map in front of him. In fact, using a map to describe this pattern is not suitable, because it is not a map, but rather a painting. It is an exquisite picture drawn by a painter who stood at a very high altitude and attributed everything within his field of vision to his pen. On this picture, the rushing river is like thin filaments.

"Our target is here, an ancient portal that was abandoned," Carrie said, as a display, a little lighted up on the map. "There is a chip we need on this portal."

"Um."

"And the portal opened by the Dark Elves is here." Somewhere on the map lights up again, and the distance between the two is not very far - it doesn't look very far on this map. But if an ordinary traveler walks, it should take a day or two. "From the distance between the two sides, the portal opened by the Dark Elves this time is not the one we are going to."

"Well, the only problem is, what the captive said... maybe..." Ash Rufate said.

"We didn't come from one channel. Multiple prisoners gave the same answer... and this is not a high-level secret to them. Master, I think its reliability is as high as 95%."

"Well, basically it's right. So, there's more than one portal here?"

"The desolation on this continent does not seem to be caused by natural factors, but by some human factors that I cannot judge," said Carrie. "According to the data I have obtained, there are many abandoned portals here, with a number of about fifteen. These portals are not abandoned because of damage, but by the creator for some special reason. I believe that a considerable number of them can still function normally... In fact, there are quite a lot of them, for example, just around the city, about a day or so, there is a portal on the top of a small hillside here."

"Then there should be chips on this portal?"

"Yes, but that is a solidified chip that can only be used for portal control and has no meaning to us. Among these portals, only the one we are looking for is a programmable chip, which has the value of recycling. Wouldn't you want to use these portals?"

"It should be very useful to have portals that can travel between two places in an instant, right?"

"I strongly recommend that you do not make this choice because you cannot judge the damage to these portals. If you try to open and use them, it is very likely to connect to a void... If so, you will be sucked into the void."

"What if I fall into the void?"

"Strictly speaking, it won't die. But the body's functions will stop soon. If no one rescues you, you will have to float in the void forever. As for your specific feelings... it is probably equivalent to being locked in a dark coffin and enjoying eternal silence. I'm sure you won't like this result."

Ashu Rufate stopped talking.

"Anyway, based on the current situation, I suggest you don't need to kill Gales anymore because he has a limited threat to you." Carrie said. After today's incident, it is already completely certain that Kay cannot be the "monitor" appointed by the Emerald Queen. In other words, the only one left is Gales.

"Yeah." Ashu Rufate replied in agreement.

"The question now is, how are you going to end this?" Carrie asked.

"I think...what do you have any suggestions?"

"Well, my advice is to make the most of the army you have. Considering that if we act alone, we will likely be attacked by the Dark Elves scattered soldiers, it is better to dispatch the entire army. Then find a time to leave the army secretly, and you can arrive at our destination safely when your subordinates attract the attention of the Dark Elves. After getting our chips, teleport back immediately."

"... Then, what about the army? If the general suddenly disappeared when he encountered an enemy attack..." Ashu Rufate did not continue. Any guy with some common sense knew what this situation meant. And because the Expeditionary Force was alone, the result at that time... was probably not even a place to retreat.

"Master, you have done enough for them. Without your efforts, the Shenwu Elf would not have organized this expedition at all, and would not have achieved such great results at the moment. To be honest, even if the expeditionary army is immediately wiped out, for the elves, this deal can be considered a big profit."
Chapter completed!