Adam and the girls who travelled to the forest of Elves where they saved Ellie once from the clutches of bandits. They were flying now as to reduce time needed. He was carrying them using telekinesis. Thanks to the flight, they could saw the Elven forest. But, it seems they were a little late as smoke and fire was everywhere lighting up the entire forest.
Landing near where they saw some people, they attracted the elves animosity. They do not know who attacked them and seeing someone intruding again, they couldn't hide their anger.
But their anger was dissipated as Ellie suddenly went forward. Seeing the familiar girl, all of the elves was murmuring amongst them.
Then, the king of elves, Ellie's father came walking slowly towards them. His clothes were all ragged and were in pieces probably due to the fight.
"Father!"
"Its been a while, Ellie. You too, little Xesteria and Adam...."
Hugging his daughter, he said to the trio.
"I guess you predicted they would attack here, right?"
Adam nodded.
"They did. And I don't know why, but they weren't here to kill or hurt anybody. Though they did destroy our home."
He said as he looked around the forest. Adam could understand. They were the kinds that lived inside the forest and on trees. If they were attacked, then their homes are no more.
"You have a explanation for this attack, right? Ah, don't worry. I know it's not just humans that attacked us. There was even beastkins as well even some elves. What we want to know is who are they, and why did they attack here?"
Adam began thinking as he heard the king.
'Their group have other races as well? Also, for an elf to attack their own kind... This group is such a pain to deal with..'
"Although we do not have the specific information about who they are or why they did this, I will explain everything I know."
Nodding his head, the king led Adam and the girls to a room.
'If they came here earlier, then that means, Malevier house is safe for now. But if my guess is correct, then they were attacking the other cities to buy time. But time for what? If I think their target is in the royal capital, then there's no need to attack the other cities. Besides that, I don't think humans have something that related to them in the country of elves. They also attacked brine. So overall, their aim was either royal capitals, or....'
He began thinking. Why would they buy time for...? What can they get from the royal capital? To make a commotion strong enough to call out the rulers of the kingdom....
'....the royal castle or something inside the royal castle! I should quickly ask all of them if they lost something from royal castle...'
During their walk, Adam telepathically asked the girls guarding the academy to go to royal capital and see Rastus to ask about it.
He also told Celeste to order a spirit to ask the royal family or brine the same question. As for the empire, Adriel and Ruby told him they will warn Ace of this.
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After they have been seated, Adam explained everything that's related to this incident, only hiding some information to the king and elders or the elven race.
"Truth Sanctuary? Why haven't we heard of such a group before?"
One of the elders asked.
"Because they have been hiding till now. I don't know why yet."
He said. Then suddenly Celeste reported.
"I have received a news right now. I had a doubt. So I asked my partner to do something. And it seems my doubts were correct."
He muttered and turned towards the King.
"King of Elves, Ludrocis. King of Grania officially invites you to a meeting. The subject is about the unknown terrorist group, Truth Sanctuary. The date is Three days from today. You don't have to worry about travelling. Ellie will explain the rest. The other participants are Ace Claus Desa Elrox Aragon, the emperor of Aragon and The Queen of Brine. In other words, all the kings and queens of this continent is about to meet up. You can reject if you want to. However, think about the future of your country before thinking about your prejudice against humans. Since we already made sure that this country is safe and I explained everything, then there is nothing more to do here. I'll be leaving. Aragon needs a little help. What about you two?"
Adam asked the girls.
"I'll stay behind. I'll come back with my father for the meeting."
Ellie said, already deciding what to do about the meeting even before her father could think of anything.
"I'll go back to the academy." Xesteria said.
Nodding his head, Adam opened a gate to the Academy and let Xesteria pass through it. Though the elves seem on alert after seeing the gate, he ignored them. Then, after opening another gate to Aragon, he left after saying 'see you later' to Ellie.
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"So, they were aiming for this?" Adam asked as he pointed at the thing that in his hand.
"I am not sure. But, after they attacked as you predicted, they lured me outside the royal castle and was forced to fight with someone weaker than me. But when we heard your doubt, I defeated them and went inside the castle to see someone trying to get inside the royal treasury. Even I couldn't sense their presence until I was near them. But before I can catch them, all of them disappeared sudden with a blue light."
Ace explained.
'So my guesses were correct. There is someone with space elemental teleportation ability among them. Could it be... A group of otherworlders or reincarnated people? If so, them it is going to be a little tough....'
"Are you sure that they were here for this?"
In his hand was a Gem. It looked like a pure Ruby. But it wasn't a normal gem. It was full of magic power. And concentrated one at that.
"This was the only thing I can think of. Others are just Money, Artifacts, and the like."
"They could've been trying to get one of the artifacts you know?"
Ace laughed at that and said,
"May be so. But, the artifacts inside are not that useful. Only this one though, I think is useful. It's my intuition. But I don't know what is its use. Its been passed down from our ancestors to till my time. We've never even talked about it for one time."
He shrugged as he said. Adam used his Omniscient eyes on the gem and was amazed at the information he got.
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'This thing is related to the core of the world? Then, his intuition is true... They may be trying to do something with the core of the world. I guess I will ask Beta about it.'
"I have some information about it. But, we will talk about it during the meeting. Just to be sure that no one is attacked during this time, I will personally escort each of you, using Gate. I'll have to travel to brine once. But it doesn't seem that much of a problem. In three days, we will see again. Ruby will be returning with me. Adriel should come back later with Ace."
He said and left with Ruby. After returning to Malevier house, he brought Bella together with him to the academy and explained everything to the girls. They wanted to accompany him, but he said not now and only allowed Celeste and Bella to go with him.
Thanks to Celeste ordering the spirit, the Queen of Brine already knew about Adam's arrival. So, they flew on Bella's back as she transformed back into her true form.
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With her speed, they reached Brine sooner than they thought. Adam wore a mask to hide his face in front of the officials of Brine. After transforming back into her human form, Bella, together with Adam and Celeste flew towards the castle. The places around the castle were attacked as well like Grania, And Aragon.
Infront of the castle, a beautiful woman wearing silky Luxurious clothes accompanied by guards as well as some nobles were waiting. In front of the woman, a light elemental spirit was lurking around.
Sensing Celeste's presence, the spirit transformed from its light like figure to human figure and kneeled on the ground. Seeing the now humanized spirit, all of those from the brine was shocked. For a spirit to lower herself like that was unheard of.
Only the Queen of Brine seems to have knowledge about why she is kneeling. Thus, as respect, she bowed slightly. The nobles and guards were taken aback by the actions. But before they could be rash, The Queen of Brine, said,
"Welcome to Brine, Queen of Spirits, Lady Celeste."
Even if she was a queen, she has to pay respects to the Spirit Queen who should be higher in status than herself. Though she was slightly apprehensive about the presence of two others with Celeste, as she have heard that two more guests would be accompanying the spirit queen, she didn't act differently against them.
'Hm.. she's the queen of Brine? She seems... awfully young for a queen? May be she's a new queen? No. She's a Magic King. That means, she is not a human?'
Adam thought.
"There's no need for any needless pleasantries. We are here to ask about the attack that happened a little while ago."
Celeste Said. The queen smiled at this and said,
"Well, then, let me guide you to a room."
"Yes. But only you and two of your most trusted aides are allowed to participate in this talk."
She warned. The queen nodded her head and led them to the room. After taking their seat, Celeste asked,
"Then let me ask this outright. Did you lose something similar to this from your castle?"
She asked as she showed the Ruby crystal for the Queen to see. She seemed surprised by this. But she nodded her head and said,
"We did lost something similar. But a blue one. That doesn't seem to be so valuable, so I don't know why they were aiming for it."
Knowing what they wanted to know, Adam nodded to Celeste. Then in his voice, Adam said,
"Queen of Brine. The King of Grania officially invites you to a meeting. Details are in this letter. We will come here to take you on the date."
After saying so, he with the two girls, left without saying another word. The queen seemed baffled by the sudden change of atmosphere. But there was nothing she could do against them. So she sighed and began reading the letter....