Everyone who has the power with blue and white energy like this boy is not a random person. What Jiyo knew after he lived in this hut for so many years, he often met many elves who wanted to cross to the West Continent via the Barewoods Forest that stretched across the borders of the East Continent and they said, the power of the Dragon bloodline was always a different color from the others.
If the Folix and Abyss are usually magenta or black, on the contrary, the Dragons who have always been considered noble and are the right hand of the God of Light and Moon have a bright color. And Jiyo couldn't lie to himself when he saw the dazzling power of this Flinch boy, Jiyo felt a different aura.
"That happened a long time ago. What does Lord Dragon need that for?"
The bonfire in front of him sent sparks the size of a speck of dust soaring into the night sky. The little boy sat on the lump of wood where Jiyo was about to make another chair. He took a sip of his corn soup and then looked at Jing Lung.
"The Folixes broke through our Shield of Light. Yesterday, the human village was attacked by them and what's worse, they targeted a human baby from one of the village houses. You know we don't want to scare the humans with Folix, right?"
It's no wonder that Dragons also have more compassion for humans—the weakest people in the land of Newtra. As possessors of the brightest light and natural affinity with the Gods, they must have had so many responsibilities that Jiyo couldn't even think of.
Instead of being responsible for returning to his family far away in the Celena Forest, it was better for him to hide in this border of nowhere. Leaving day after day for all the elves to forget that he is an old elf who once walked into the Folix Hole.
"Then what does that have to do with me going into the Folix Hole?"
Jing Lung's thin and slender face with sharp pointed eyes made her look very charming. Especially with silver hair and layered clothes with a shiny silver belt. Behind the belt, the scabbard dangled down.
"I know you never want to deal with Folix again. That incident caused you to be exiled here and considered a descendant of the Abyss. Naturally, no elves could defeat the Abyss, especially when the Folix burned a part of the Bluelit forest on the border. But because of that, I just wanted to save you and be able to make a good reputation for you."
"Oh, you little brat can negotiate with my weakness? Very good, an important point of a weak old man. You made great use of it," Jiyo replied as she took another sip of his soup. Sometimes he didn't lie that he wanted so badly to return to the Lune Temple. Sip a flavored drink or visit the turkey and meat taverns. He missed the smell of crowds and, above all, his own home.
The feelings that he had been throwing away all of a sudden suddenly reappeared.
"I'm serious. We have to enter the Folix Hole to get those magenta crystals."
Jiyo almost choked on the hot sauce. He immediately lifted his face and looked at the boy in amazement. "Wow, you have big guts too, little brat. Uh, how did you come up with such a reckless idea? You think getting into the Folix Hole is like going on a trip to the Petals beach?"
Jing Lung's face did not change. Now, compared to a child, Jiyo felt that Jing Lung was even more mature than himself.
"I know it's a ridiculous idea, so we didn't tell Grandpa Trixon that."
"You mean, Your Majesty?"
"Yes. But Han Zhong's concern for the humans makes me have to do it, even more, the Dark War in ten years will be related to this." The explanation was more than a child's. It seemed that Jiyo had to take another perspective from a child of Jing Lung's age.
If in the Celena Woodlands the elves' children were only able to write and search for herbs around the legal forest, then the descendants of the dragons or the people who worked around the Dragon Palace were at least fifteen years old of the elves. They can calculate risks and plan for disasters. It was amazing for the size of the old man living in the Bluelit forest hut outside to know about this.
"I know about the dark war. When I was held captive in the Folix Hole, they were worried about a human baby that might be born by the power of the Dark Lord."
"Do you know? What did they say?" Jing Lung asked excitedly again.
The conversation two years ago, when Jiyo was still in a dark prison in a dungeon that smelled damp and hot like hell was still vividly remembered. The hooded shadows and the Folix flying on their own feet, milled about like ghosts.
"They said the human baby could be their new strength to attack the Dragon Palace in the war of darkness later. The choice was between them not wanting to take it and letting it become a traitor to the humans protected by the Dragons, or taking the baby from the human village. Both have big risks. But in the end, I don't know what their plans are."
"Finally they took the baby and destroyed our shield with a strange crystal. Have you ever seen such a crystal?"
Jiyo's brow furrowed, trying to remember whatever he saw in Folix prison that time. "Sorry, but I… don't remember having a single crystal in the hands of the Folix. What are your plans?"
Jing Lung sighed. "We had to build a new Shield of Light because it was destroyed by the crystal. And to build a new shield needed the strength we could have when we—the Flinch—were seventeen. Waiting that long made Han Zhong worry that the Folix might come again shortly. Therefore, the only way to beat time is to destroy the crystal. And we assume, all Folix keep those crystal supplies in their holes. And what excites us, even more, is…" Jing Lung came closer and parted his lips, "we know that the crystal is very similar to the Lunar Crystal."
Jiyo's eyes widen. He automatically looked up at the treetops that a Folix was riding from a distance. They did keep a close eye on Jing Lung. But Jiyo was no longer afraid of them catching him again. Because he knew, a Folix always had a reason to catch someone. While now, they had no reason to arrest Jiyo who had been two years away from any distress related to Folix.
"That's a very reckless plan, boy, I'll tell you."
"I know, you don't have to tell me any more, sir. The point is, we now have to figure out how to get you out of that hole. Do you have some kind of map or… clues to help us get out of there later?"
Map.
Instruction.
What kind of ridiculous stuff is that? Jiyo never believed that he would face something like this again. But hearing that terrible plan made Jiyo succumb to his pity.
"Of course, the way to get out of there is only one way."
"What?" Jing Lung's eyes lit up, impatient to hear the answer.
"Lunar Crystals, you idiot."
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