"Just drop your blood on centre of this disk." Marlene said to Claude
Claude stood up and looked at the disk, it looks really beautiful with beautiful patterns drawn on it surface.
"There's no need for your knife, I have needle with me." Claude pull out the small rag bag that he carry along with him all the time.
"If I were you I wouldn't have done that stop right there and drop your little rag bag on the ground and don't try to pull any tricks on me."
"Just do what you were told to do."
Marlene was staying cautious about Claude action they have no idea what he's hiding in his little bag, she doesn't want to take any risk.
Claude got scared by her threatening voice he doesn't want to offend her or ignore her warning as he knows she can easily kill him any given moment here.
Claude slowly extend his right hand towards the knife, Marlene tighten her grip around the knife ready to attack if Claude does anything out of action that he isn't allowed to do Dave and everyone else stayed alert.
Claude and slightly cut his finger on knife edge, cut mark become visible and blood started coming out of cut mark and drop of blood fall into golden disk centre.
Just as blood drop in the centre of disk it light up with golden hue and blood droplet got absorb by the disk it disappeared like it was never there and golden patterns on the disk start to change.
Everyone looked at the golden disk in Marlene hand waiting for the results even though they knew Claude is human.
Soon golden light faded and replaced with words on disk, seeing those words Marlene got shocked she couldn't believe her eyes as if its illusion made by this dark elf boy.
Her eyes were wide open in shock," Impossible.... Impossible this is impossible there's no way results would appear like this."
"Drop your blood again on disk this." Marlene said with frustration and shock.
Claude dropped he's blood again on the centre of golden disk and same results came out that Marlene couldn't accept it.
Marlene thought there might be some fault with this magic disk so she checked her on and few around their race and it was working completely fine.
Just like this Marlene checked Claude race 5 times and all this time same results came out.
That Claude is 100% human.
Marlene just keep staring at the disk surface were 100% human is written.
So, this boy in front of her isn't dark elf or hybrid between human and dark elf but pure human just like her and everyone else here.
Marlene never seen such bullshit in her life before she couldn't believe what just happened she's ready to kill any given moment but it would create huge problem for her future plans as this settlement leader is father of Jake.
"Now, it has been proven that Claude is pure human and not the dark elf, you should stop bothering him and apologize to Claude and Max for abusing them." Village chief Luther said to Marlene while looking straight into her eyes.
Even if she's stronger than them he still can't allow her to blently walked around settlement when she almost killed two people.
Marlene lower her head in shame and frustration, she never been disrespected like this before infront of everyone and that also weakling like this people.
Marlene looked at Claude with bit killing intent in her eyes but it quickly disappeared just as it appeared and no-one noticed this, Marlene walked away from crowd area to towards the forest without saying anything to anyone.
Her pride wouldn't allow her to apologize to country bumpkin like this.
As she's arrived at edge of settlement she saw one of her companion the lady mage, she was standing there waiting for her.
"Hey, Marlene I have set up the invisible barrier around here in case that dark elf that you caught tries to escape from here."
"No-one can see this barrier or feel it, I quickly set up and it sturdy as hell no-one can break this unless they're 2 times stronger than you." Mage looked really proud of herself as she complete the task without even being told.
They have great understanding of battle tactics after spending so much time together.
"Ave leave me alone for sometime, I don't want to talk to anyone." Marlene said this without any expression on her face.
Even though there were lots of questions in Ave mind but she didn't dare ask Marlene now seeing her cold and expressionless face.
Just as Marlene disappeared from eye sight, she saw silhouette in settlement that running towards her soon out line became clear and it was Dave that running towards her.
"Hey, Dave what happened there that both you and Marlene acting like this."
Dave was following Marlene footsteps in snow that's how he run into Ave.
"I don't have time to explain this to you, you have to talk to Marlene first." Dave said.
"If you are going after her then you should stop Dave, she told me leave her alone and it would same goes for you and everyone else."
"Why don't you tell what just happened that both you and her acting like this." Ave asked with serious tone.
"Long story short the boy Marlene thought was dark elf turn out to be pure human and this villagers want her to apologize to two man who she attacked and almost killed them." Dave said while letting our sigh.
"This going to be little bit hard, it always hard to deal with people Instead of just killing them." Ave said while looking at settlement not far away from her.
"Jack found he's sister and father and he's father was the one who told Marlene to apologize."
"Dave you know that Marlene doesn't apologize to no-one and she doesn't like that either, while we still need Jake in our team he's important asset that we can't loose."
"Yeah, that's big headache. We have change Jake's father mind about us and Marlene."
"Let's first set up magic formation barrier for this settlement that can last for few years here this way we can have some good will towards us." Dave said while looking at the forest.
Back to the settlement Claude as regain he's consciousness start to look for Max and then he find out what really happened and after he and Brian walked towards the medic hut where Max and Rose both lying on the bed.
Grandma Mary was already besides Max she saw Claude coming with Brian.
"Are you okay kid?"
"Does it still hurts." Grandma Mary asked with concern in her voice.
"I'm completely fine now no need to worry about me thanks to Rose."
Claude turned to Rose who is awake just lying because of exhaustion emptying all her mana.
"Thank you Rose for saving my life." Claude said that with lowering he's head by showing he's gratitude.
Rose just nodded her and ignored him after that waiting for recovering her mana meet his lost brother that finally come back.
It was afternoon when suddenly giant yellow dome cover the settlement and all of the people knows that this magic barrier to protect them from snow and cold.
The thing is they didn't had any magic crystal left to set up the magic barrier that only means it was done by new guest who arrived at settlement today.
Dave and Ave arrived at Village square along with their two companions.
Dave look at the Luther, "I guess we have lot to talk about."
Luther nodded his head, "Yeah, we do."
Dave extend his hands towards Luther for handshack,"I'm Dave the archer and scout of this team."
Dave is 5.10 feet tall guy with light blue eyes and hair and wearing chest plate and lether clothes.
"I'm Luther current leader of this settlement."
"Let me introduce you to all my team members."
"As you already know Jake is one of our team members he's our mage and we this one here is also our mage Ave. We have two mage in our team." Dave said while pointing out Ave who's besides her.
Ave is 5.5 feet tall with white hair and green eyes, she's wearing normal magic robe that most mage wear.
Ave pick her robe and bend inclined little bit to show courtesy and Luther bow he's head.
"Father, she's also my teacher. She tought me how to use magic better." Jake said excited.
Ave is woman in her mid 30s, while Dave is in his early 20s.
One man dress in completely black outfit even he's head was covered with hood said,"I'm Sean and assassin."
Sean didn't extend his hand for handshack or talked in polite way he speaks with normal tone without rudeness in it.
"Father, Sean doesn't talk much he always like this even with us." Jake explain it to he's father in case he might find Sean rude for not greeting properly.
Then the last man walked in front of him wearing full body armour with great sword on his back and giant shield as big as him in his left hand man was atleast 6.9 feet tall and bulky man with brown hair.
"Hello sir, my name is Carl." Carl said with wide open smile on his face, he grabbed Luther hand start shacking it.