Inside the Royal Palace of the Oly Elf Kingdom.
The Elf King sat idly on his throne.
He listened with narrowed eyes to his subordinate's report.
"So, Fenrir is dead?"
"Yes."
Durux pondered for a moment.
"I didn't expect Fenrir to be such a waste. To be so easily eliminated by Shadow Garden... If Shadow Garden dares to enter my territory, I will surely exterminate all of them."
Durux said.
Durux is the Fourth Seat of The Order and also the King of the Oly Elf Kingdom.
Unlike the other Round Table Knight hidden in the shadows, he is an elf by birth.
His elven identity allowed him to live for many years without suspicion.
He did not wish to live hidden in the dark.
So he directly usurped the throne.
Originally, Alpha's family was the royal family, but he slaughtered them all five hundred years ago.
Only a young, ignorant little girl remained.
To ensure the continued appearance of Demon Possession, Durux left the little girl alive.
He raised her to adulthood, deliberately misled her, and encouraged her to have many children.
Now Alpha's family is quite extensive.
Thus, there are also enough Demon Possessed individuals.
Durux was like a breeder.
He deliberately encouraged the descendants of heroes to procreate vigorously.
Shadow Garden rarely operated in the Oly Elf Kingdom.
They only occasionally rescued some Demon Possessed individuals.
This led Durux to believe that Shadow Garden feared him.
At this moment, inside the Elf Royal Palace, an elven ranger ran quickly.
"Your Majesty, I have important news to report!"
"Speak!"
"Last night, those fellows from Shadow Garden attacked eight of our strongholds. No one survived in those eight strongholds, and all the Demon Possessed individuals were taken away."
The elven ranger reported respectfully.
However, the next second, Durux appeared before her and directly crushed her head.
"Shadow Garden, you are truly audacious! If Fenrir cannot destroy you, then I shall exterminate you!"
"Issue a proclamation, a nationwide manhunt for Shadow Garden! Dispatch the Hunter Corps to track down Shadow Garden's whereabouts."
Durux issued The Order.
The Hunter Corps.
It was a unit of beastmen slaves.
Beastmen possess extremely keen senses of smell.
In the Oly Elf Kingdom, beastmen had no human rights and could only be slaves.
Durux sent people to specially capture beastmen and train a Hunter Corps.
A mixed team of a large number of first-tier Children of Diabolos and beastmen.
Known as the Hunter Corps.
It was his overt special forces unit as the Elf King.
"Additionally, deliberately leak intelligence that there are a large number of Demon Possessed individuals in Bulu Katu City."
"Your Majesty, Bulu Katu indeed has a very important base of ours. Why not arrange a fake location?"
"What do you know? You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a child."
"Your Majesty is wise."
...Bulu Katu City is located on the edge of the Oly Elf Kingdom, relatively close to human nations.
And the city where Sino was located was named Bulu Katu.
On the other side, Beta successfully attacked eight of The Order's bases as planned, rescuing over fifty Demon Possessed individuals.
Beta took them to Shadow Garden's temporary base.
Meanwhile, the Hunter Corps, tracking the path Beta and her group took, followed closely behind.
At night, Sino, from the rooftop of the Mitsugoshi Company, overlooked the entire city of Bulu Katu.
"The air in the Elf Kingdom is much better than in the Midgar Royal Capital. Is it really because of planting more trees?"
"Master, why does planting more trees make the air fresher?"
Gamma brought two drinks and sat down next to Sino.
Sino took the drink.
"Because trees perform photosynthesis with the sun, absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen."
"And humans breathe, requiring oxygen from the air."
"The richer the oxygen, the fresher the air feels."
"Thank you for your instruction, Master!" Gamma replied respectfully.
Gamma put down the drink, went behind Sino, and acted as a human pillow.
She gently grasped Sino's shoulders and pulled him back.
"Gamma, what do you think, should I just go and kill that Durux fellow? It seems quite troublesome for you all to keep running around dealing with things."
"That person is Durux. Even if he is killed, new people will appear. The Holy Church is the foundation of The Order's existence; without destroying it, The Order will never be eliminated."
"Then should I just destroy all the churches? Would that make things easier for you all?"
"But that would sacrifice many innocent members of the Holy Church; they were merely deceived by the Diabolos Cult." Gamma said.
"Gamma, do you think my ideas are very extreme?"
"No, I can tell that you think this way for our sake. You don't actually care about the common people or what happens to The Order, but you only care about us."
Gamma's words completely negated Shadow Garden's ideals.
When they joined Shadow Garden, they all heard Shadow Garden's ideals: Shadow Garden existed to save the descendants of heroes, overthrow the evil Diabolos Cult, and prevent them from resurrecting diabolos.
To prevent The Order from causing another catastrophe after resurrecting diabolos.
In other words, Shadow was always deceiving everyone; destroying The Order was not his goal.
"Gamma saw through me. Sometimes being too smart isn't a good thing, is it?"
Sino looked up into Gamma's eyes.
Gamma also looked into Sino's eyes.
The two stared at each other for a long time.
"Intelligence is the only value I can demonstrate. I will never pretend to be foolish in front of you."
"What kind of person does Gamma think I am?"
"An unpretentious and lecherous person!"
"And what else?"
"Nothing else."
"Is that all I am in your eyes? I think I should spank you hard."
"Although you are very lecherous, I like it very much. I like everything about you. When you saved me, perhaps I was only very grateful to you, but you immediately saw that I, who was not good at fighting, was very intelligent. You taught me knowledge I didn't know, transforming me from a useless person into the current president of the Mitsugoshi Company.
You bestowed upon me the value of existence. You understand me better than I understand myself! From that moment, I gradually fell in love with you."
The Mitsugoshi Company is the tallest building in Bulu Katu. Elves are not good at building houses, so the Mitsugoshi Company's building is the tallest. In other places, people on the Mitsugoshi Company's rooftop cannot be seen.
Under the moonlight, Gamma looked at Sino with expectant eyes.
Gamma liked the lecherous Sino because that way she could feel that she was being loved.
Under the moonlight, the two clapped for love.
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