Somewhere far away from the Arora world, at a place filled with lush green trees and mountains different kinds of animals were roaming in the surroundings and birds were chirping happily showing the beauty of the nature.
Many elves can be seen walking all around from time to time, but none of the animals attacked on them.
This place is 'Moon Forest', the capital of the 'Elvenshine' the kingdom of the elves.
Moon Forest is located at the centre of the Elvenshine and is one of the safest places in the world.
In the middle of the moon forest stood a giant tree which is thousands of meters high. This is the tree of life, the divine tree of the elves.
Elves and dryads are always at odds with each other because elves have the tree of Life, and dryads have the world tree with them.
But this is the story of another time as currently an elf with long golden hair sits under the majestic tree of life, creating a captivating scene of harmony between nature and her ethereal presence.
Her golden locks cascade down like a shimmering waterfall, framing her face and reflecting the warm glow of the sunlight filtering through the tree's lush foliage.
She was looking at the sky with her amber coloured eyes seemingly lost in her own thoughts. She was wearing flowing garments, woven from delicate and organic fabrics, perhaps in shades of earthy greens or ethereal blues, adorned with intricate patterns reminiscent of leaves, branches, or blooming flowers.
She is Eilistraea, also known as the Moonlit Empress. The queen of the elves and one of the forbidden physique holders.
As she was looking into the sky she felt something and stopped looking at the sky.
Just as she stopped looking at the sky a female elf appeared before her in the kneeling position.
Unlike Eilistraea, the hairs of this elf were silver In colour and in terms of beauty, she was a step behind her.
But she was a step behind only when compared to Eilistraea, otherwise even when compared to other elves she can be considered a perfect beauty.
"Did you find anything Lireth?" Eilistraea asked in a soft voice while looking at the kneeling female in front of her.
"I am sorry your majesty, but even after using all of our connections, I wasn't able to find anything" Lireth, the kneeling elf said while lowering her head.
"Hmm, that bastard Baphomet sure is cunning, looks like he doesn't want other people to know he is sending some of his essence into lower worlds, which is why you were not able to gather any information regarding this even after all this time," Eilistraea said with a pondering look on her face.
"I am not sure, but I think he is just trying to influence people of the lower worlds so that their core will evolve into demon core after they use the tower of ascension" Lireth spoke in a hesitant voice after hearing Eilistraea.
"I can also think this much smart a*s, but I want to know why he wants to influence people of the lower world," Eilistraea said while rolling her eyes completely destroying her graceful image.
Meanwhile, Lireth just lowered her head once again without any surprise on her face. It was clear she is used to her queen speaking like this.
"I also sent a wisp of my essence in one of the lower worlds where Baphomet sent his wisp, but since my nature energy doesn't have a corrosive effect like his demonic energy that can even corrode barriers between the worlds, I wasn't able to properly control it while crossing the world barriers and lost connection with it," Eilistraea said while shaking her head.
'I wonder what happened to that wisp. But before I lost connection with that wisp, it was successfully able to cross the world and even took over a dungeon. Once someone defeats that wisp its essence will return to me once again' Eilistraea thought and chuckled.
"Well, it will return to me if someone defeats that wisp, but considering it is my wisp I am afraid no one will be able to defeat it in that dungeon" Eilistraea said and looked at Lireth once again.
"What about the other matter did you find anything?"
"I wasn't able to find anything significant, but according to the information I received Malphasar is currently missing. From what I know he is sent somewhere by Baphomet, and no one other than Baphomet and his other four commanders knows what he is currently doing" Lireth replied after hearing Eilistraea.
"What the hell that fu*ker is trying to do? Should I just barge into his palace and ask him directly" Eilistraea spoke while narrowing her eyes.
Lireth who heard what her queen said started to sweat buckets, she knew her queen have some screw looses and she might really barge there.
"Forget about it, you can leave. Inform me immediately if you find anything new" Eilistraea said to Lireth while waving her hand.
Lireth sighed in relief seeing Eilistraea drop the idea of directly barging into the country of demons. She gave one last bow to Eilistraea before disappearing from the place.
"What a cute little girl," Eilistraea said while chuckling after Lireth left from there.
Even though Lireth is hundreds of years old, for Eilistraea who is thousands of years old she is still a little girl who was born recently.
"It is clear Baphomet is trying to expand his army by influencing people of the lower worlds to evolve their cores into demon cores. But what is the reason for him to expand his army" Eilistraea muttered while looking at the clear sky.
Just as she was thinking, she felt something and her eyes opened wide because of the shock.
She immediately stood up and waited for some time.
After a few seconds, some white motes of light came out from the void and appeared before her.
"The essence I sent to the lower world came back," Eilistraea said while feeling stunned. She extended her hand and touched the motes of white light.
Just as she touched the motes of white light, they were absorbed by her and she received some of the memories from that essence.
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