Quite a long time ago,
Legatia, who was only 200 years old, had learned that there had been considerable conflict within Elven society over the Elf race before her birth.
Though now, High Elves and Dark Elves live harmoniously together as elves, it wasn’t always this way. Before she was born, High Elves held all the power in Elven society and openly mistreated Dark Elves.
With frequent people's trials and lynchings of Dark Elves, they often ended up living in places like underground cities.
The Dark Elves, frustrated with their treatment, resorted to armed struggle, creating a society full of hate and bloodshed that couldn't be defended by either side.
But there was someone who unified Elven society and restructured the system. That person was the Consul Safira.
The current First Apostle of [Greed], Gaizerus, was the one who played a key role in this.
Safira, along with [Greed]’s Constellation, Gaizerus, overthrew the dictatorial Archilla and promoted a peace story where both Elven races, the High Elves and Dark Elves, could coexist under separate but equal rule.
‘Why were the Elves not ruled by a single king from the very beginning, but by two consuls?’
The story of these two Elves is known in such detail that no elf could be unaware of it.
Of course, Legatia, who had been busy during her classes, didn’t remember everything perfectly. But at least, she knew that the story she was seeing now was that of Gaizerus and Safira.
[Did you get beaten again?]
[It wasn’t just beating today.]
After being kidnapped to the underground city, the two Elven children grew closer very quickly.
They were the only ones they could open up to in a harsh world of Dark Elves.
It was only natural that their relationship would progress.
"Why?"
As they tried to move forward to the next part of the story by crossing the door in the underground city wall, the boy who was with Legatia spoke.
"Why?"
His gaze was on the young Safira, as though she was bothering him.
"I thought it was the first time I’d seen her... but for some reason, just seeing her makes me feel nostalgic."
"......."
Legatia hesitated.
Should she tell him that he might be Gaizerus?
There were no mirrors in [The Archive], so he must have never seen his own face.
It would be hard for him to think that the boy he was watching desperately fighting the leader of Baraklava was the same as him.
But she didn’t want to tell him that he looked exactly like that boy.
‘.......’
Legatia glanced at Safira.
She didn’t like it.
Seeing him distracted by another girl.
Although they hadn’t spent much time together, she had known ‘him’ longer than she had known ‘this version’ of him. Why...
‘I met him first.’
The two of them moved on to the next space in an awkward silence.
In the next space, they saw the boy Russ and the girl Safira, who had grown quite a bit.
[Give up now. You’re being arrested for terrorizing the Senate and kidnapping young sprouts.]
As the regular Elf army arrived in the peaceful underground city, the battle began.
Bang! Bang!
Baraklava, composed of the most skilled Dark Elves, easily held off the regular army.
[Long time no see.]
[Archilla....... ]
When the military leader of the Elves, the dictator Archilla, arrived, the situation turned around.
A Dark Elf-Human hybrid from Baraklava.
[Shadow Elf?]
With overwhelming skill, she massacred the Baraklava members, including the leader, and descended deep into the underground.
She was searching for the new disciple of the leader, who could become a variable in her plan to stand at the top of both Elven races.
Then, the Dark Elf old woman blocked her path.
[Oh! Granny! Long time no see!]
[Hello, you rotten old hag.]
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The first leader of Baraklava blocked her.
[Didn’t I tell you not to be a nuisance? ...It’s time.]
After a drawn-out battle, Archilla managed to eliminate the old woman, but it had taken so long that she had no choice but to return.
[Old hag, wake up! Wake up!]
After Archilla left, the boy and girl, who had just escaped the seal, saw the old woman’s corpse and fell into sadness.
Though they had met under less than ideal circumstances, the bond they had built up over time was not light.
After finding the other members of the group, they discovered the gruesome remains of their comrades who had been slaughtered by Archilla.
Among the bodies, they found the leader, who was barely alive with one arm missing and torn apart. They urgently took her out and tended to her.
A day later, the leader opened her eyes, and the boy and girl were able to hear the full story of what had happened.
The family that led the Elven Senate was the Atrie family.
The former head of the family had fallen in love with a Dark Elf man and had a child.
However, the Dark Elf man was murdered due to inter-racial conflict, and for the head of the family, that child was extremely precious.
But as a noble High Elf family, the mixed blood was unacceptable. Moreover, due to the family's many enemies, the child's position was very dangerous.
The head of the family decided to send the child to Darkhood to grow up.
The child would have to awaken her powers as a hybrid and hide her Dark Elf heritage completely.
The head of the family had previously made connections with Baraklava’s first leader, whom she entrusted the child to.
The mixed Elf child, Arcilla Atrie, grew rapidly under the leader’s guidance, displaying overwhelming talent.
To the members of Baraklava, who had been fighting for the complete liberation of Dark Elves, she seemed like the savior from a legend.
She had the blood of both High Elves and Dark Elves, and with her seemingly unbelievable talent, she grew at an astonishing pace. She was their hope.
But as soon as Arcilla grew old enough to completely hide her heritage, she returned to help the family. That was when things started to go wrong.
Upon returning to the family, the original head mysteriously died, and she became the new head.
She had been like a comrade to them, and when she rose to a position of significant power within the Senate, the members of Baraklava thought that the treatment of the Dark Elves would improve.
But even after Arcilla rose to the core of the Senate and became the sole consul, nothing changed for their treatment.
Arcilla contacted them, saying the opposition was too strong for her to act, and she asked for their help.
Despite losing trust, the group decided to trust her one last time.
This led to the kidnapping of the successor of the other consul, Primera.
This was the reason the boy and girl were kidnapped to the underground city.
[Why did Arcilla turn out like this?]
[...I don’t know. Whether it was to become the only Elf king or a god, I have no idea what her goal is. ...After she took you two to the underground, she cut off all communications with us. It must mean she no longer has anything to do with us.]
The Dark Elf boy, Russ, who had gone outside to gather supplies for the leader, noticed the commotion outside.
[The White Ones have blocked the entrance!]
[Dammit! Are they trying to starve us all to death?]
"That’s right. Arcilla closed the entrance to the underground city."
The boy, watching the story in the illusion, nodded.
"Only those who passed the persistent tests by Arcilla’s subordinates were able to pass through the blocked entrance and go outside. This is all to find me."
To get outside, the boy would immediately be caught by the Elves on the surface and killed by Arcilla.
Though finally freed from Baraklava, they could not go outside.
In the end, the boy and girl began searching for a way to escape the underground city.
As food became scarce after the blockade, the Dark Elves in the underground grew more ferocious.
One day, the girl, unknowingly stepping outside the building to grab fallen bread, was spotted.
[It’s a White!]
[How dare a White come here!]
The Dark Elves, whose hatred for the Elves on the surface had been building up, turned into a violent mob.
The Dark Elves, who were blind with rage, charged toward the girl.
[Stop!]
The boy stepped forward to block the girl.
[What the hell is this guy!]
"No!"
Legatia was horrified, watching the scene unfold in the story.
It didn’t seem possible for the boy, standing before the Dark Elves, to stop the madness.
At that moment,
The space above where they were looking split open.
"Are you following us all the way here!?"
--- - - - --!!
Through the crack in the high sky, the monster from [The Archive] let out a roar and dove down.
"We have to move to the next space quickly!"
Legatia hurriedly grabbed the ring to move to the next story.
"......"
The boy just stood there, stunned.
"Hey! It’s dangerous! Hurry...!"
She quickly turned back and grabbed the boy’s wrist.
She tried to pull him away, but he didn’t move.
"I remember..."
"Not now!"
He was still speaking so calmly.
But Legatia couldn’t just leave him.
"Not here! Let’s move on first...!"
Boom!
A blinding light exploded from the boy.
The bright light covered the entire world.
[I am Gaizerus!]
"I am Gaizerus."
The boy from the story, who had knocked out and subdued all the Dark Elves charging toward the girl, resonated with the boy standing beside her.
[I am your master!]
The moment the boy, eyes closed, reached out toward the monster, the monster melted and flowed into him.
"The fifth day when the two moons overlap."
When the boy opened his eyes, his gaze was completely different than before.