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"What the hell is happening here?" Looking at the scene in front of him, Nikol asked awkwardly.

Lydia, Alva, and Emily also looked conflicted. They didn\'t expect something like this to happen.

In front of them, the whole elven kingdom was crying. Soldiers, kids and all the normal women were crying begging Nikol not to leave them. Tisha who knew he wasn\'t going for a long time wasn\'t any different. If there was any difference between her and other elves, it is the moment her tears or snot fell on the earth, flowers started to bloom from there creating a bed of beautiful flowers below her feet.

"Zenda, didn\'t you explain to them why I\'m leaving?" Conflicted by this, Nikol couldn\'t help but ask. He didn\'t want them to be too dramatic about this because he was only going to go and pick up humans.

"I did, but I think it will be better if you explain, actually your words have more or equal influence compared to our queen than mine in this kingdom now,"

Zenda didn\'t even feel bad about someone stealing her spotlight since it was Nikol. She couldn\'t be any happier about this as she wanted Nikol to become their leader someday. She knew openly expressing this might sound like treason but looking at their queen bootlicking Nikol, she knew someday Nikol will be their leader.

*Sigh

"Listen, everyone, stop crying," He shouted expecting everyone to listen and pay attention to him.

Just like that everyone went silent as they didn\'t want to miss what he is going to say.

"Why are you girls crying now? I\'m just going to pick up the remaining humans and come back here, don\'t worry I will be ok, I will soon see every one of you and do something nice to you so don\'t cry, be strong and get ready for our war,"

When his voice reached the end of the line of girls, they quickly began to wipe away their tears in order not to disappoint Nikol. Tisha, unlike the other girls, was still crying and attempting to accompany Nikol, but Zenda, as expected, refused it and dragged her back.

"See you soon, girls," Not only Nikol but others also greeted their newly made friends and got ready to leave only to be disturbed by Treiya, who came running toward them.

"Nikol, Nikol," She kept shouting Nikol\'s name trying to stop him from leaving. Her breath also had run out because of how fast she ran to stop them.

"Treiya, what happened?" Looking at her with a sceptical look, Lydia questioned. She didn\'t want any extra trouble while going back so she was determined to refuse whatever request Treiya had.

"Please take me with you, I want to meet other dark elves who were in my group, they must be waiting for me to come back,"

Her voice had a requesting tone. Nikol didn\'t want to refuse it but he had one question in his mind.

"Hmm~ will they make trouble for us if we kill cursed ones?"

Treiya looked a little conflicted by his question. She knew some of them had attachments with cursed elves, but at the same time, she had no intention of protecting cursed elves. Her only responsibility was to support Ressha and protect the dark elves who haven\'t gone into the dark side.

"Some of them might feel bad, but I will personally discipline them if they try to do something funny, so please,"

Even Lydia who was initially determined to reject her request couldn\'t help but change her mind seeing those desperate eyes of Treiya.

"Fine, you can come with us, but take responsibility,"

After a long meeting with everyone and getting disturbed by Treiya, finally they left the elven kingdom under the shouts of everyone telling them to come back.

"All of them are overreacting, we are just going for a few days," Nikol muttered to which every girl in the group laughed.

"Why?" Confused, he questioned.

"You don\'t understand Nikol, once we start to depend on you, even if we can\'t see you for a single day, it feels like we are missing something, you\'re that important to everyone," Lydia was the one to explain things to him.

Nikol could understand their words to some extent as he knew the feeling of depending on someone but now being the hope of more than thousands of girls, he couldn\'t be weak and complain. He had to move forward no matter what the circumstance is.

Everyone in the group followed Treiya while happily talking with each other, but they didn\'t forget to keep their senses sharpened to identify monsters and similar threats.

"A sound?" Lydia\'s ears twitched as soon as she heard something inside the forest.

"It\'s coming from that direction, a sound of women screaming," Nikol with his ears were easily able to capture the sound rather quickly compared to others.

"That direction is-" Treiya suddenly went stiff, her whole body started to feel cold and she couldn\'t help but wonder what was happening.

"What Is it? Answer, what\'s in that direction?" Alva who felt curious and conflicted about this situation, questioned Treiya aggressively while shaking her body.

"That direction is my village, our remaining dark elves are there," As soon as they heard those words, Nikol quickly took and asked everyone to take their weapons.

"Treiya, stand up and help them, why are you acting like a coward? Follow us," Lydia shouted as they started to advance through the bushes and trees without making too much noise.

They quickly reached the place where Treiya showed as a village but, in others\' eyes, it was just a cave.

A cave surrounded by a lot of wooden structures but right now, the entrance of that cave is surrounded by some monsters which looked like wolves.

"Looks like a monster attack, we can deal with those wolves as long as we don\'t make silly mistakes, everyone gets ready for a fight," Under Lydia\'s orders, everyone charged the pack of wolves who had horns on their heads.

They had black colour fur which looked darker than coal and sharp teeth which could easily penetrate human skin.

Nikol and Lydia\'s group took them by surprise. Even though wolves had great hearing and smell perception, because of how hungry and invested they were in their prey inside the cave, they made a small but deadly mistake of not keeping their senses sharp.

*Zing

"One wolf down, seven more to go, don\'t let them call their pack, kill everyone," Alva shouted as she had experience in hunting these types of monsters.

Treiya was looking at everything happening on the battlefield with her eyes widened. She had many questions in her mind.

"Why would they support me? I\'m just a coward until now I\'m alive because of how protective Ressha was and the basic training I got from my teacher,"

She didn\'t even know what to do. While all of this was happening, suddenly, a wolf noticed Treiya who was standing still without even doing anything.

It was the ideal prey for the wolf so it started running in her direction and tried to jump and tear her throat to kill its prey.

*Grrrrrr

Growling with anger, it jumped with its mouth open. Treiya was too late to notice it as soon as she saw it, her whole body freezes unable to move.

"Nooo! I\'m scared, Noooo," She felt like crying on the spot. Despite being skilled enough to even fight with five elves at the same time, her confidence was zero and her cowardly behaviour didn\'t allow her skills to shine.

Treiya felt a wet feeling along her legs only to realise she peed herself in fear. She closed her eyes expecting a huge pain from the wolf\'s attack but to her surprise, it never came.

"What are you doing, Treiya? Get up and fight," She opened her eyes to see the wolf biting on Nikol\'s hand.

He stood there just like a fairy in front of Treiya but the monster had already bitten Nikol\'s hand causing him to bleed. Even though it must be painful, Nikol never showed anything on his face as he grabbed the mouth of the monster and broke it with a visible sound.

He lifted its upper jaw and pushed down its lower jaw creating a painful scene for anyone who was looking at it. In the end, when he heard its bones cracking, Nikol let it go.

The body of the dead wolf fell on the floor lifeless while Nikol\'s hand kept bleeding.

"Nikol!"

Dealing the finishing blow to the last monster wolf remaining, everyone quickly gathered around him with pale faces. They freaked out seeing his blood but noticing that Nikol is fine and nothing changed, they quickly calmed down.

"Emily, quickly bring those herbs and wet clothes," Lydia ordered while quickly getting close to Nikol and taking his hand.

"No need, look here," Before Emily could leave, Nikol quickly showed his hand and suddenly the bite mark started to vanish like it wasn\'t there in the first place.

"It\'s-"

"No way,"

Everyone couldn\'t believe their eyes except Alva, Emily and Lydia who already knew about his skill but never saw it with their naked eyes.

"It really healed, this is a miracle," Lydia took his hand and observed it further but she couldn\'t even notice a scar remaining on his skin.

"Well, let\'s go and see what happened to those dark elves," Nikol didn\'t want to make a big scene out of it but, he quickly looked at Treiya before leaving.

"Go and clean yourself, and when you\'re done, I want to talk with you,"

He left those words with her before going into the cave. She was lucky that others didn\'t notice, she was the reason Nikol got injured. If they did even her being the last \'good\' dark elf won\'t save her from getting killed by them brutally.