Chapter 1731: Max Voidwalker!
Max stared at him with cold eyes.
The secluded area was quiet, and the faint silver light flowing across the crystal walls made his expression look even colder. He did not trust this elf. He did not trust his calm tone, his noble posture, or the way he seemed to know far more than he should.
But the name Caelira had already been spoken, and now that his mother’s past was being placed before him piece by piece, Max could not walk away.
"Go on," Max said calmly.
The golden-haired prince nodded slightly.
"It is like this," he said. "There are currently three factions within the elf race that control almost everything. My faction remains neutral most of the time, and we rarely interfere unless the balance of the race itself is threatened. Then there is the second faction, the most aggressive of the three. Their methods are ruthless, their ambitions are extreme, and they believe the elf race should never bow to the will of any other race or compromise its purity for any reason."
His voice became a little lower.
"That faction should be the one that attacked your home, Max Voidwalker, and took away your parents."
Max’s eyes narrowed instantly.
A chill ran down his spine.
It was not because of fear.
It was because the golden-haired prince had spoken his true name.
Max Voidwalker.
He had made sure not to reveal that name casually, and in Starfall Haven, he had not told this elven prince anything about his real identity. Yet this elf had said it as if he had already known. That single detail made Max’s heart sink slightly, while the killing intent he had just suppressed began stirring again in the depths of his chest.
"How do you know that name?" Max asked, his voice dangerously soft.
The golden-haired prince did not avoid his gaze. "Because once I connected you to Caelira, your identity was no longer difficult to guess. The restricted records did not reveal everything, but they did mention the name of the human man she married and the family name connected to the child she gave birth to."
Max’s fingers clenched slowly.
The prince continued before Max could interrupt further.
"The third faction," he said, "is where your mother was once the leader."
Max’s body trembled slightly.
For a moment, the rage in his eyes was disturbed by shock.
His mother had once been the leader of an elven faction.
No.
Not merely a faction.
He knew that his mother was once an elf and she chose to give up her bloodline and her elf identity for some reason but to think she was a leader of an elf faction was shocking even to Max.
The golden-haired prince’s next words made his mind go still.
"Caelira was once called Divine Queen Caelira," the prince said calmly. "Her faction was the strongest of the three factions, and in a way, she was the true leader of the elf race, recognized by all elves, respected by every major bloodline, and feared even by the most ambitious elders of the second faction."
Max did not speak.
He simply stared at the golden-haired prince.
A part of him wanted to reject those words immediately. His mother, the gentle woman he remembered, the woman who had lived peacefully with his father, the woman who had smiled at him in a quiet home far away from the center of power, had once been the Divine Queen of the elf race.
It sounded absurd. It sounded impossible. Yet the way the prince spoke did not feel like a lie, and that made the revelation even harder to bear.
The golden-haired prince continued, "But something strange happened one day. No one knows the full truth, or perhaps those who know have sealed it away too deeply, but according to the records, Divine Queen Caelira suddenly gave up her royal bloodline and abandoned her identity as an elf. After that, she disappeared."
Max’s breathing became heavier.
The silver-haired elven woman standing nearby lowered her gaze, clearly aware that this was no ordinary secret. Even for her, who served beside the prince, some of these details seemed shocking.
"A few years after she gave up her bloodline and her identity," the golden-haired prince continued, "the elf race received news that she had married a human and was living peacefully on a remote planet far away from the territories ruled by the elves. To many elves, that news was impossible to accept. The queen who was supposed to lead the elven race, the woman whose bloodline represented the highest purity of our royal inheritance, had chosen to live like a mortal beside a human in a distant world."
He paused for a moment before adding, "It was shocking to all elves."
Max’s face remained cold, but his heart was no longer calm.
Images from his childhood flashed through his mind. A quiet home. His mother’s voice. His father’s presence. His sister’s playful side. The warmth of ordinary days that he had once taken for granted.
He had never imagined that behind that peaceful life was a past like this, a past filled with royal bloodlines, factions, forbidden decisions, and an entire race that had once viewed his mother as their queen.
The golden-haired prince’s expression became more solemn.
"At first, even though some of the higher-ups of the second faction were displeased, they did not act. Your mother had already given up her royal bloodline and identity as an elf, and even though her decision was considered disgraceful by many of them, they still chose to respect it on the surface. Perhaps they feared the remnants of her old faction. Perhaps they feared the consequences of touching her. Perhaps they simply believed she no longer mattered."
His eyes sharpened slightly.
"But everything changed when a piece of news leaked."
Max looked at him.
The prince said slowly, "The news said that you, Max Voidwalker, had somehow inherited the Divine Bloodline, a variant born from your mother’s former royal bloodline."
Max’s pupils contracted slightly.
The golden-haired prince continued, "Your mother once possessed the Heavenly Luminance Royal Bloodline, which was already one of the highest bloodlines among the elves. But what awakened in you was different. It was called the Heavenly Luminance Divine Bloodline. It was considered a grade above the royal bloodline your mother once held when she was the Elven Queen."
The secluded area became unbearably silent.
Even the silver-haired elven woman looked shaken.
