After a while, Queen Penny managed to calm down and accept what she was seeing. After all, she had seen some crazy things recently and was getting used to it. Unfortunately, not all the elves were able to accept what they were seeing.
As Zhou Fan and the rest were walking back to the palace, they saw many limp bodies. They were not dead, but simply passed out with fear. It could be concluded that they had seen the beasts earlier.
When they made it back to the palace, the elders had the same reaction to the beasts as Penny. At first, they almost passed out, but once they thought about yesterday's events, they quickly accepted it.
Zhou Fan went inside and made conversations with the elves. After a while, they realized Zhou Fan truly had no intentions of taking them over. Soon, all earlier tensions were resolved. Zhou Fan even admitted that he had over reacted earlier. Soon, the elves started asking him questions.
"How did you get down here?" The eldest elf from earlier asked.
"We went through the tunnels. I'm not sure why, but the snakes don't attack me or them." Zhou Fan said while pointing at the beasts.
"WHAT!" The group of elves collectively exclaimed.
"In that case, is it possible for you to bring us out of here?" One of the elves excitedly questioned.
"I could, but it would be far too troublesome. Not to mention, you all have no place up there. Although much time has passed, the grudge between our races still exists. Why else would you have prepared for an attack the moment I came here." Zhou Fan said.
At first, he had believed that the queen was just naturally wary of him due to the prophecy, however, after reading the books in the library, he came to the conclusion that she instinctually disliked him. After all, the elves alongside the other races ruled over humans like slavemasters for thousands of years. There was naturally some hatred when they were dethroned.
Of course, Zhou Fan didn't exactly hold a grudge against them. It had been thousands of years. And although he believed that few or even no humans knew of the past war, nothing can remain a secret forever.
The elves shut up when hearing that. To his surprise, the majority had confused looks on their faces. It was as if they had no idea about the grudge he was talking about.
Seeing that, Zhou Fan looked at Penny for an explanation.
She had a troubled look on her face as she started to talk.
"Well, most elves nowadays don't know about the cause of our demise. In fact, most of the people don't even know what a human is. The only reason everyone in this room does is because they were educated. However, they were only taught that there was a war and not what or who caused it." She explained.
"In fact, the war is the shame of the elves. To some it is shameful that we lost, to others, the cause is shameful. Either way, it is only passed down to some by their parents. But after all this time, the hatred has mostly disappeared." She continued.
Hearing that, Zhou Fan was enlightened.
"Well I understand, but other humans may not. In the end, I am only one member of the human race." Zhou Fan said. "However, at some point, I can consider freeing the elf race, but my current residence doesn't exactly have the capacity for 129 people."
"How about one," Queen Penny spoke up.
Zhou Fan looked at her with an inquiring gaze, wondering where she was going.
"One of us could go up and live with you. We could learn about the current world and understand the human race." She explained.
"I guess you could theoretically do it, but I assume you all have close to zero interaction skills with people you don't know."
Hearing his words, the elves nodded their heads.
"We'll have to do it at some point. At that time, wouldn't it be better to have a guide?" Queen Penny said.
"I suppose I could do that, but which of you will come?" Zhou Fan asked.
After hearing him, the elves started to talk among each other. Zhou Fan on the other hand started to think.
'It's been a while, the weekend should be ending and I need to get back so I can work' Zhou Fan thought. Even though he wanted to continue to explore the tunnels further, Zhou Fan had a job. In fact, Zhou Fan had almost considered quitting. However, he still needed money.
'Even as a cultivator, I am restricted by human needs.' He thought.
"Okay," Queen Penny said. " We have decided on three candidates. Me, Mark, or Yipeng."
Yipeng was the name of the oldest elf who had mocked the angry elf from earlier. Without hesitation, he chose Yipeng.
Firstly, Mark had a family to take care of. Zhou Fan had found that out as they were walking to the elf village. As for Penny, not only was she the queen and needed to rule over her people, but she also seemed like a needy person.
Also, Yipeng looked quiet and calm. Zhou Fan predicted that he could essentially leave him to his own thing and he would make plenty of friends.
"Okay then, good luck Yipeng." The elf queen said.
After they all wished him good luck, Zhou Fan mentioned that he needed to head back to the surface. After declining their invitation to eat, Zhou Fan left with the beasts and Yipeng following him. He had declined their invitation due to the fact that they were vegetarians. It wasn't because they refused to eat meat, but because the animals would quickly go extinct if they tried to feed 129 people meat everyday.
It was different for the beasts because there were only 5 of them and they ate moderately.
They all quickly made it back to the tunnel he had first come through. Although Yipeng had some fear, he was willing to go when the snakes created a path. Before long, they made it back to the beasts cave. Zhou Fan bid farewell as he and Yipeng flew up to the surface. Of course, Zhou Fan was dragging Yipeng along, who was almost fainting from fright.
When they made it back, Zhou Fan grabbed a hat and handed it to Yipeng. He would need it to hide his ears after all.