The sun quickly moved away from the earth, and the sky turned from orange red to faint blue. Although the sky in the distance was still bright, for the plain where the group of people lived, night had come.

Different from the gloomy and gloomy wilderness of the human country at night, the wilderness of Silval is full of lights like lanterns, full of mystery and romance.

This is a scene unique to Silviar.

The thing that shines like a lantern is a plant called "Night Light Stem". It is dormant during the day, and at night, a flower stalk with a faint yellow light rises from the main trunk, attracting insects in the dark to spread pollen.

Planting luminous stems on both sides of the road can make them act as street lights at night and prevent night travelers from getting lost.

Under normal circumstances, the competitiveness of luminous stems is not as good as other plants, so only elves who are good at natural magic can plant luminous stems in such a large area. Natural magic can change the soil composition and strengthen the vitality of plants, so that luminous stems can thrive grow.

"Ugh."

Looking away from the luminous lamp stem beside her, Fia, who was sitting on the stake, sighed long, the jumping flames reflected the preoccupied expression on the indifferent face of the elf princess.

"What's wrong, Your Highness?"

Anastasia, who was sitting across from Fia, raised her head and asked, holding the mithril sword in her arms.Anastasia is still dressed in the green cloak, but it is different from wearing a hood to hide the sharp ears when she was in the human country. Since entering Silval, Anastasia's expression is much more relaxed, and she is not particularly nervous. Feel.

"...It's nothing."

Fia sighed again.

Anastasia raised her eyebrows, unable to help but feel amused.

"You sighed and said something, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem to be a problem. Since Renee came out of the carriage in the afternoon, you have been preoccupied. Did Renee say anything to you?"

"...It's not a particularly important thing." Continuing the chat might expose Renee, Fia glanced at Liti and Milu who were leaning against her sleepily - Liti was leaning on her, Milu Leaning on Liti, she chose to change the subject, "Anastasia, what kind of person is our mother?"

I will return to the palace soon, and I have to understand my mother's character first.

"This one……"

As if referring to the unbearable past, the smile on Anastasia's expression gradually disappeared, and bitterness appeared instead.

"That's your mother, Your Highness. If you mention my matter in front of other nobles, Your Majesty will be unhappy."

"Tsk."

Seeing that Fia had something to say, Anastasia quickly continued what she had just said.

"Veranika Alexia Uthil is the cousin of the current elf king Yeledo Alexia Florence, and also the current elf queen. Although she is over 400 years old, her appearance is She's still as young as a human woman in her 30s. It's just because of some past events that Queen Veronica doesn't like to talk to people, and she's in poor health. Every time she attends important occasions, she looks pale. The most important thing is... The most important thing is that the relationship with you is delicate..."

"Because I have the blood of the Elf King in my body?"

Fia had heard that the elf queen was the elf king's cousin, so when Anastasia said it, she was not surprised at all.

According to the version she heard from Liti, due to the long life span and slow aging rate, the ethics of the elves are much more chaotic than that of humans. There are often granddaughters marrying grandfathers, and sons marrying mothers. In contrast, sisters This is one of the reasons why Liti thinks she can attract the attention of the eldest princess.

Feeling that continuing to answer would insult the royal family, Anastasia bit her lips lightly, looking very hesitant.

"Renee isn't here, Anastasia just say it."

Renee was sleeping in the carriage to serve as the second half of the night watch.

"Okay... okay. Queen Veronica used to be an optimistic, cheerful and kind imperial princess, but since she married Her Majesty, Queen Veronica has become depressed and her personality has become violent, especially towards you, Your Highness. , almost indifferent. The subordinate once heard Earl Aiwen say that when Queen Veronica was pregnant with you, His Majesty sent someone to guard Queen Veronica 24 hours a day. This was not to protect Victoria. Queen Ravnica, but to protect you in Queen Veranika's belly."

"Because Queen Veronica has tried every means to prevent you from being born since she knew she was pregnant with you, and even snatched you away from the maid who delivered you when you first came into the world, and wanted to throw you out of the window. Queen Veronica will treat you badly and stay by the bedside all the time, the consequences will be disastrous."

In short, my mother hates me very much. Not only does she ignore me when she grows up, but she also wants to kill herself in the cradle.

While Fia was thinking, Anastasia continued talking.

"In order for you to grow up smoothly, His Majesty handed you over to other childless princesses to raise you after you were born. Except for the second princess, third princess and No.17 princess, the other princesses have more or less raised you. "

"The second princess and the third princess should be the mothers of the second prince and Liti respectively?"

"Yes."

"Then what happened to Princess No.17?"

Although the Elf King has seventeen wives, he only has three heirs including himself, the second prince, and Liti. Why there is an extra No. 17 princess, Fia doesn't understand.

Anastasia put the mithril sword aside, turned slightly sideways, and explained in a rather ladylike posture.

"Princess No.17 is His Majesty's most recent wife. It happened about two months ago, when we left the Elf Kingdom and went to the Holy Kingdom of Milkandis. Before we left, Your Majesty announced that we would marry No.17." It’s just that the war is not over yet, so the wedding was postponed until the end of the war. Princess No.17 was born in a commoner family, and it was impossible to become an imperial princess, but she was lucky because of her affinity with the sacred tree. To be married to His Majesty's wife."

Although Anastasia did not explain why she would be married as a princess if she had a good affinity with the Holy Tree, but Fia could imagine the reason. Being able to react with the sacred tree directly shakes the supremacy of the royal family. It is the best solution to marry her as a wife and absorb her as a member of the royal family.

Having said that, the Elven King is just too indiscreet.

Fia couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Give me to other princesses to be raised, isn't the Elf King afraid that I will be killed by them secretly? For example, he thinks that my existence will hinder the future of their heirs. Is there such harmony within the royal family?"

"It's not harmonious... But the thirteen concubines have almost the same attitude towards you, and no one hurt you. Your majesty announced your status as the crown prince when you were born, and explained that until you inherit the throne, the royal family will not New members will be born. If you have three long and two short, the princess who raised you and the family behind you will sit together. This means that during your growth stage, the remaining thirteen princesses will not have offspring. At the same time, the princesses also shoulder the responsibility of protecting you. responsibility."

"In addition, when the concubines are raising you, your majesty will often visit you. Correspondingly, the number of times your majesty will meet with the concubine will also increase. Which concubine will raise you, and which concubine's salary will be unimaginable. system, every concubine loves you very much."

Chapter 5 Sending Beacons

"That's it."

The Elf King doesn't sound as bad as it used to be.

"But the elf king doesn't seem to like these princesses very much."

"They are all your mothers. If the concubines hear your highness using 'these' as references, they will definitely be sad. Because they have been together for a long time, the concubines have already developed feelings for you."

Anastasia smiled wryly.

"The stepmother is better than the real mother."

Fei Ya couldn't help complaining, as long as they spend enough time together, even a plush toy would be reluctant to throw it away.

"However, His Majesty the Elf King really doesn't like princesses other than queens. His Majesty only loves Queen Veronica, and the rest of the princesses are all products of political marriages."

These women are so pitiful, Fia couldn't help sighing in her heart, if she sat on the position of the elf king, she would definitely not have anything to do with political marriages, and love can only be born by staying with someone she likes.

Fia pouted.

"Then what is the Elf King's attitude towards me?"

"Just like a normal dad."

Anastasia answered without hesitation.

"Always pay attention to you, but don't spoil yourself too much. If you do something wrong in His Majesty's opinion, His Majesty will first ask you why. If your reason can convince His Majesty, His Majesty will not ask you any more, except for some specific things. Your Majesty, I have never seen His Majesty use his fatherhood to suppress you, he is a man with both rationality and wisdom."

Seeing Anastasia's decisive appearance, Anastasia should not be praising the Elf King on purpose.

"Specific things? Like?"

"Uh..." Anastasia lowered her eyes, her usual serious expression showed shame, "On... on the matters of subordinates. If the only conflict between you and His Majesty is the attitude towards subordinates... When you brought your subordinate back from the land of exile, you and your majesty had a dispute and had a cold war for several years. That was the first time your majesty saw you saying that you should obey his will because you are his daughter. "

This is troubled by past emotional entanglements. Fia sighed softly. Before the current emperor Veronica married the Elven King, she and Anastasia's father were not only husband and wife, but at least they were also lovers. Anastasia the daughter.

According to the descriptions of the people around, the Elf King snatched Veranika away from Anastasia's father, which caused Queen Veranika to be unhappy, and at the same time hated herself as a child with the blood of the Elf King.

Veronica's reaction made the Elf King feel inferior and touched his man's dignity, as if saying that the Elf King was not as good as Anastasia's father, that's why the Elf King was sensitive and irritable on the issue of Anastasia, Fei Ya could well imagine why.

"Ha, I see. Let's stop here, it's not Anastasia's fault, it's just my father being stubborn."

"Your Highness, you can't say that about your father."

Anastasia corrected Fia with a slight frown like a sister.

Fia waved her hands again and again.

"Forcibly snatching a married woman as his wife, and at the same time exiling the other's husband and daughter together. No matter what the reason is, this matter is his fault. I am only evaluating objectively."

If I remembered the matter with the Elf King, I might not complain like this, but to me now, the Elf King is like an outsider.

"But your character is also shaped by Queen Veronica, and your majesty's anger is also reasonable. If Queen Veronica treats you better, you can experience the childhood that a normal elf should have, but the fact that she I never cared about you, because of this, you give the impression of indifference to outsiders, and you project the attitude of Queen Veronica towards you onto yourself."

"That's an 'if'. Queen Veronica did not do what a mother should do, but the 'effect' here is the 'cause' planted by her father before. This matter is over, it is still early, I want to experiment with magic while no one is around."

Fiya wasn't speaking for Queen Veronica, she didn't have the idea of ​​putting a hot face on a cold ass.

If Queen Veranika ignores herself, then she will ignore Veranika like the elf princess.In the final analysis, both the Elf King and Veronica are "outsiders" to themselves, and they are only fulfilling her obligations for the Elf Princess. If the relationship between the two parties is poor from the beginning, then this obligation does not exist.

After finishing the words, Fia lowered her head and patted Liti who was leaning on her body and breathing quietly.

"Litty, it's time to sleep in the car."

"Mm...it's already night?"

Liti rubbed her eyes.

"Ah."

"Good~"

"Wait, Mi Lu is still leaning on you."

Fiya wrapped her arms around Mi Lu, and pinched Mi Lu's ears—to be precise, the white wings that replaced the ears. The astral beast's wings always feel extremely warm and delicate to the touch, making it hard to put it down.

"Mi Lu, wake up."

Unlike Liti's bleary-eyed appearance, Mi Lu opened her blood-colored vertical pupils like a cat that couldn't sleep soundly, and tilted her head to look at Fia.

"what happened?"

"Let's sleep in the carriage with Liti."

"Where's the master?"

"I'll be outside for a while."

"Then I'll wait for the master."

The cat's eyes stared at Fiya's face, and Mi Lu insisted stubbornly.

Liti stood up and took Milu's arm. Since she had just woken up from sleep, Liti's movements seemed powerless.

"Don't disturb my sister."

"If you don't go, you don't go."

"...Then I'll stay outside for a while too."

Saying that, Liti sat next to Anastasia on the opposite side of the bonfire. She didn't forget to yawn a lot on the way, but it seemed that she was too sleepy. Liti soon lay on her side on Anastasia's lap and fell asleep. , and the long purple hair fell on the grass.

Really enviable.

Fia cursed to herself.

She also wanted to sleep on Anastasia's lap.

Of course, after thinking about it, Fiya didn't forget the business. She got up from the stake and walked to a position about ten meters away from the campfire.

Although rather subtle things happened not long ago, we must not forget the important things we should do.

As for the subtle matter, of course it was Renee's inquiry in the afternoon.At that time, I told Renee that I actually lost my memory based on the idea of ​​"telling a lie requires countless lies to get it back. It is better to clarify the matter early to avoid the situation from expanding." Ni contemptuously prepared, and felt that even if Renee said "it's too bad", she had to apologize.

However, Renee showed an incomprehensible attitude, and said something like "Lord Irene Slate will arrange everything" with a look of incomparable admiration. Even if Fia wanted to explain, Renee did not give Fei a Taking the opportunity to explain to Ya, he said something like "I was prepared for a long time ago", which made people puzzled.

Even if she continued to ask, Renee only said that she didn't know, but Lord Irene Sletter knew, and she would be able to find out when she went back to Master Irene Sletter. It was like a defense of iron and steel.

For this, Fiya has no good countermeasures except to ignore it, everything is inexplicable, and the only way to know is to go back and see the daughter of the former duke named Irene Sletter.

"What is your Highness trying to do?"

Anastasia first put a cushion on the stake, let Liti rest on the cushion, and then got up and walked towards Fia.

Fia, who had just drawn out the magic sword Levatin, turned around.

"I want to try Enchanting Blade and Teleportation Beacon, as well as Magic Weapon Forging."

"Teleportation beacon? Is it the teleportation magic obtained from the treasure house of the Witch Hall?"

"Well, that's it."

Looking full of embarrassment, Anastasia said tactfully.

"Teleportation magic...Your Highness, it's better not to expect too much. Teleportation magic is a magic developed by dark descendants, and no one knows its principle. As for the enchanting blade, I can give you some pointers."

As Fia said, the teleportation beacon was something she got from the treasure house of the Witch's Hall—it was an item, not magic.

On the night before leaving Bourne City, Elaine took Fia to the treasure house of the Witch Hall and asked Fia to pick out the things she was interested in.Although Elaine only said "as a farewell gift", Fia could feel that Elaine wanted to return one of the two favors she owed by letting herself choose the treasure.

Fiya originally felt that it didn't matter if the favor was not repaid, so she carefully selected it very generously, and finally chose this teleportation beacon related to teleportation magic.

In a nutshell, this is a mother-child prop, similar in appearance to a reduced version of the Witch's Heart Core, an opaque dark blue double cone.The upper and lower pyramids of the ore can be rotated horizontally, while the lower pyramid is divided into many small pieces, which is quite like a Rubik's cube.

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