After wasting 1 and half hours on learning to ride the horse I again checked the time remaining.
'Hey system , tell me the time remaining for that quest thing.'
「
Quest 'Survive The Night' [D]
Time Remaining - 05:58:37
」
'6 hours huh , what can I do to stall him 6 hours? Wait , is it even possible to dot that? Stalling for few minutes is easy but hours is different thing. There's another option of telling him the truth but... however naive he be he's a loyal servant first. So that's out of question too , hah in the end I'll have to give up on the quest.'
I was sitting in the horse while Lare walked in his heavy armour , sometimes Lare increased the speed of horse to make for the time he taught me how to get on. When he asked me where to go I just pointed in a random direction , which brought us to this forest.
It was still night and couple of minutes ago when I left the village a message appeared in the air.
「 Quest conditions were failed to meet 」
「 Quest 'Survive The Night' [D] will be marked as failed 」
「 A new Main Quest will be created 」
「
Main Quest
Objective : Acquire an Attribute [A]
Rewards : +Affinity with Elf ,
+Affinity with the Attribute
Duration : --
」
I was kind of disappointed as I failed to do the daily mission right after I died protecting my family. As I was riding on the horse I let a sigh out and thought ,
'Hah , aren't I supposed to the main protagonist, where's my plot armour? Anyways the 'A' in this quest is the rank I guess , surviving the night was D-rank adn I still failed. Just how difficult is obtaining an attribute?'
"Hey Zafrix are you sure this is the way to your home?"
'Sh*t , this was one of my fears when I decided to choose a random direction. If this path leads to no village then I'm f*cked.'
"Is something wrong with this path? I travelled through this forest before reaching that village , you might not know about this forest because it's far away from your camp."
"Oh I didn't mean to sound like that , actually I know about this forest. Who doesn't know about War Forest? On the other side of forest live those lowly human beings , of course there's a wall built to separate the factions but sometimes curious human's invade this forest in order kidnap elves."
"Kidnap elves? What do they get from that? And why are humans and elves divided?"
"Zafrix , where were you born? You don't even know about the War Forest , also how did you not know that humans and elves enemies?"
He looked at my pitiful face and let out a sigh.
"Hah let me tell you."
"Sorry , I really didn't know about the history. I can barely speak properly."
'Lare my saviour , please believe in my lies and give me some valuable information.'
"Oh I'm so sorry , that was quite rude of me to say."
'Lare , are you god?'
"So let's start with why we've divided into human faction and elf faction."
'Faction sounds cool.'
"For many centuries elves were slaves for humans , they were r*ped , abused and killed without any reason. If you were a women and lived all alone in a house , they would just knock the door down and di whatever they wanted. Their was no freedom , no hope and no light left in Elf's lives , that was until Son Celdius appeared."
"Son Celdius? Is he some kind of hero in this story?"
"As you guessed he is the hero of this story , even though females elves were r*ped there child would be either a human or elf. But Sir Celdius was born as a half-elf , because of being born as a half-elf he obtained some kind of powers and freed us from the slavery."
'Is he talking about magic?'
"With his bright light he enlightened us and taught us how to live as an elf. At that time the Human Emperor was... what was his name again? Ah , his name was Jol Hanstel. That b*stard didn't learn hos lesson and tried to assassinate Sir Celdius many times , but with Celdius's powers Hanstel didn't even land a scratch on him."
"Is that how our factions were made?"
"No no , this is just the first half of story. Unlike Hanstel his son Jol Rian was an intelligent man , he knew what humans did was wrong and elves deserved justice hence he personally apologized to all the elves. And on the top of that he executed all the r*pist , slave traders , etc. to show that he welcomed elves in his Kingdom."
'This Rian dude sounds cool , why can't I be like him? Instead of worrying about my V-Card I should pay attention and get stronger. But oh well , in the end I'm a degenerate.'
"After saving everyone Sir Celdius was known to be the Elf Monarch , at the age of 27 he was already the leader of all the elves and had the power unattainable by humans. After thinking about Emperor's offer Elf Monarch finally joined hands with Emperor to build a nation where Human and Elf could co-exist. Everything was perfectly set by Elf Monarch , he made big academy to teach all sorts of things , everybody was given a role and because of this the Euman Kingdom was prosperous as ever."
Lare continued ,
"This all happened like 4 or more centuries from now , at the age of 168 Celdius died leaving behind his well taught heirs to maintain this peace. The peace was maintained for one whole century and then the prophecy was bestowed on us , out of nowhere the blue sky brightened and emitted golden light. Atleast that's what the old Elf's say , the prophecy was pretty long but I'll make it short for you. It said that a half-elf will soon come and enlighten us."
"Apparently that Half-Elf is Master Vel , one of the reason we know that he is the prophecy one was because of his golden eyes. This golden eyes carry the same light as Elf Monarch , everybody thought that the prophecy one was going to be from Son family. But it wasn't from the Elf Monarch's family luckily the current monarch didn't thought of Master Vel as a threat and kept him by his side."
"So Humans and Elves were divided because of that prophecy? The Emperor and Monarch wanted to be on the top so they just decided to separate to factions in order to lessen the probability of a half-elf coming into this world will be low. Indeed a good way to way to keep yourself in power."
"What!? What are you even saying? Nothing like that happened , the reason why the peace was disturbed was because of the foolish humans resuming their inappropriate behaviour. Those f*cking humans I'll definitely be the one to kill all of them."
'I didn't know that Lare could make that kind of face , he really must hate humans.'
"Umm , do you have some bad blood with humans?"
"Those scums kidnapped my mother and sister when I was asleep , I'll make their race go extinct and bring my family back to this land."
'I guess telling him that I was a human before is out of window now , hearing his story he feels like some kind of protagonist of revenge novel.'
"I-I see that was rude of me to ask that kind of question , I hope you'll find your mother and sister."
"Yeah , I hope so too."
I didn't believe what Lare said about human suddenly changing their behaviour , of course these kidnappers that kidnapped him family must be real. But my explanation Stull fits better.
'Well knowing how naive Lare is he's probably just believed what his superior told him. If this kind of thing gets out then the citizens will doubt their own leaders.'
"Now that I think about it what you said also makes sense , if they did what you said then Emperor and Monarch are quite intelligent."
'He is better off being a fighter , let's not talk to him about politics.'
Like the history of this world on the way to my 'home' we talked about a lot of stuff , apparently no one knows about magic and mana. And after hearing about Elf Monarch Celdius I came to the conclusion that he was able to use magic.
I also concluded that only half-elf's were able to use mana , cause the only person I've seen using magic was me and Vel. And the only thing common between Vel and me is that both of us were half-elfs.
'Hahaha , with my magic I can be the most powerful man in this world. My dream of having a harem is not far away.'
But I couldn't just do it alone being the most powerful man was going take a lot of time , first was to find a master to train myself then I needed someone who knows more about this world. Luckily I had one by my side and I knew how to get him on my side.
"Hey Lare."
"Yes , has your butt started hurting? You don't need to ashamed of that , just tell me and we can take a break."
"No no , it's about that. What if I tell you that you can bring back your mother and sister with my help?"