The Tale of Hero Alice’s Social Death

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It wasn't surprising for Gunst to think that Alice was an elf. After all, Forest Crystal was a taboo unique to the elves. It was also unrealistic to think that a race as isolated as the elves would teach their taboos to other races.

Although the elves had started to change their isolationist behavior since the battle between the Hero and the Demon King outside the Elven Forest, these changes only started to occur two months ago. Even if the elves had started to take greater initiative in conducting diplomacy with the various human kingdoms and welcoming human technology into elven society, there was no way the elves had already opened up to a point where they were willing to share their taboos with others.

It might be a different story if the other party in question was someone important such as the Hero or human royalty, but for everyone else? Hoping that the elves would share their taboos with them was nothing but a fantasy.

Not to mention, every person had different talents. This meant that the taboos they could learn were also different. Take Catherine and Gunst, for example. As the royal guard captain of their respective kingdoms, they were required to have superb talent in melee combat. Hence, the taboos they learned and developed were mainly focused on cultivating their magic swordsmanship to the extremes.

As for taboos developed by the elves, they had a very strong elven flavor. Although it was theoretically possible for other races to learn elven taboos, the difficulty would be several times higher than normal.

For these reasons, Gunst naturally assumed that Alice was an elf. Moreover, although Alice's sun hat had covered more than half of her face, Gunst could still see her delicate mouth and chin. The beauty of these features was in line with the elves' good looks.

"Unfortunately, you've guessed wrongly. You wouldn't have had such an assumption if you paid attention to my ears," Alice said as she turned her head slightly to show Gunst her normal human ears. She still had a relatively favorable impression of Gunst because of the upright-sounding words he said previously, so she didn't ignore Gunst's conjecture.

"I guessed wrongly? No matter."

Gunst frowned, finding it confusing as to how a human had managed to learn one of the elves' taboos. However, he didn't dwell on the matter for long as he focused his attention back on the Forest Crystal trapping him. Although Forest Crystal wasn't a well-known taboo, he still knew about it since it was his job as the Rhine Kingdom's royal guard captain to analyze all possible threats that could be used against the kingdom. This naturally included the taboos of other countries and races.

The Forest Crystal could not only create a crystalline hexahedron to trap its target, but it also possessed mana-sealing properties. In the short time he talked to Alice, Gunst could already feel the flow of mana in him growing sluggish. Right now, his mana felt like mud trying to pass through a pipe that was…

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