Two ancient elves, accompanied by Lucas, who entered the council tower, to the surprise of the latter, found the whole council in it, except maybe Asia and her grandfather.
One of the members of the council, spilling tea past his mouth on his expensive robe, clearly demonstrated the degree of shock into which everyone sitting had fallen.
The other, jumping up from the round table with rage and surprise at the same time, turned to Lucas.
- Who is it?! Whom did you bring to us, fool?! This, this... Where is this from?!... That is, these!... Where are these people from?! stammering, a strong-looking man jabbed a trembling finger into Lucas's chest.
"These are the true ancestors, don't you see? They are like a picture gone.
— Idiot, what kind of ancestors? Those ancestors of yours are long dead.
- These are impostors! cried the old man, who had just spilled tea on his robes. "They want to take away our power and seize our people.
- Who are you, confess! shouted the youngest of them, grabbing his blade.
How did you get through the barrier? Lucas how many are there?
"It's… I don't know. I think only two, - the poor guy did not understand anything. Why is the council, the elite of its people reacting so inadequately, behaving like complete degenerates. After all, they dishonor themselves and him before the highest.
— Two! We need to grab them before they call for help!
- Yes, grab and interrogate!
We must kill them on the spot!
- What are you speaking about?! These are the true ancestors! cried Lucas, troubled by their words.
He could not understand why the council would not show their respect to such honored guests, and what they even thought, even for him almost devoid of magic, it was clear how strong these two were, just their aura made him shudder.
But, just the thought that true elves came to them, who, being the object of a real cult of reverence among the people, would take away their power in the blink of an eye, overshadowed the mind of the council with malice and hatred, mixed with envy.
They couldn't wait, because the two elders who came from a great hunt, or Asia who returned from Tai-Lon, definitely would not allow them to touch the guests with a finger, especially if they turned out to be true elves.
"We need to act now," flashed through their minds.
Nothing else could be expected from the people who had gathered in the council tower today to plot how to poison the two elders and subdue Asia by forcing her to mate with the men of their families.
The true elves who appeared in the middle of this conversation finally finished with at least some rays of adequacy in the heads of these egocentrics.
* * *
— Why don't they show us their respect? Leiko asked in surprise.
- I don't know, but they piss me off terribly, I don't even need to know their language in order to understand that they are all brainless creatures.
"Listen, they seem to offend our servant, although he is the most cultured of them all and the only one who greeted us properly.
- It's a pity that we can't attack them, I hope they run into themselves.
"Come on, what kind of idiots do you have to be to attack a stronger opponent yourself?" You look at them, they are weaklings, they play in their sandbox, using the magic of the second and third levels.
"You underestimate people, they can be so stupid that any wise man would shoot himself. In addition, it seems to me that that kid who ran away through the back door went to call for help, so that when they left, they could surround us and attack en masse.
"You're exaggerating brother," Leiko smiled sarcastically, "you just don't like half-breeds.
I don't like idiots, not half-bloods.
* * *
At this time, Asia moved out of the city of Tai-Lon towards the secret garden.
She was dressed in a luxurious green dress, chosen especially for the meeting with the king of the city-state.
The girl, smiling under her bird's beak mask that hid the upper part of her face, rushed home at full speed in a clearly high spirits.
This time, she finally managed to conclude an extremely lucrative trade deal between the city of Tai-Lon and the Secret Garden.
The only thing that perhaps embarrassed her was that not a single man at the meeting had ever looked at her face, constantly staring down somewhere. Little did she know that the most beautiful dress she wore to all the celebrations in her settlement was not only very luxurious, but also quite revealing.
Unlike people, the forest people inherited the elven attitude towards sex, they were more concerned not with the action itself, but with its fruits in the form of offspring, therefore even very open and sexy dresses demonstrated rather the dignity of a woman as a future mother and nurse. That is, the chest and hips were open not to excite, but to demonstrate how many children she can give birth to and feed.
Naturally, people from the city had their own views on luxurious forms, smooth skin, long silky hair and passionate lips, traditionally painted in poisonous green.
Asia was beautiful even by the standards of elves, and the makeup and dress of the girl only gave her generally innocent appearance, bright sexuality.
But for the moment, she decided not to think about such trifles and rejoice at a successfully completed deal.
The dogs she called for the journey were magical animals, reaching two and a half meters at the withers, fluffy and playful, they deftly ran along the hilly slopes, which were densely planted with vegetation.
No signs of trouble.