"I wanted to see how you would solve this, but you were surprisingly cunning!"
"Way to go!"
The voice continuously echoed around them. The Arb elves were as surprised as the rest.
But they seemed surprised for something else. It was as if they recognized the loud voice somehow, especially the chieftain. He felt that the voice was too familiar.
While the voice echoed initially, it then became unidirectional.
They were able to easily tell the direction from which the voice came and thus, almost immediately turned their heads towards the south – the direction opposite to the one the dwarves took to exit.
Since it was a forest and there were abundant tall trees, sunlight failed to easily reach every part of it. Because of that, the interior of the forest still succumbed to darkness for quite some time.
And precisely due to that, the person's face couldn't be seen easily. Yes, it was only seen when he approached all of them.
But that was different for Shin. He had already used his skill to find out the one coming towards him.
'Ding'
[ You have used the skill All-Seeing Eyes ]
Right after using that, he recognized the person.
He too was feeling the voice to be somewhat familiar but now he was sure about the person.
"Haha, so it's you…", Shin laughed out slowly.
Seeing Shin laugh, the elves and others were less tense. Terran and Aella, who had assumed an attacking stance of a wolf earlier, were now relaxed.
Soon enough, the person's face was in sight of everyone.
"L-lord!?", the Arb Elves were shocked to see Elvion walking towards them.
Aella could feel chills just by looking at the elf that was approaching them. She had yet to know who he was.
The goblins and the wolves had a different reaction though. They were surprised and perplexed at his sight. But Elvion's identity was limited to only a few members.
This meant that only the leader earlier joined the wolf pack, and the goblin mages knew who Elvion was. Others were just surprised by the intimidating aura that was around him.
'Just look at him come in a style…'
'I'm pretty sure that he always kept his aura hidden, but right now, he doesn't care.', Shin smirked.
"That was splendidly done.", Elvion said while approaching Shin.
"Well, that was the least I could do.", Shin just replied naturally.
"But what is this about? I never knew that you were watching us!", Shin asked with a little sarcasm.
"Oh come on…"
"You clearly knew that I was watching you, otherwise, why would you use your Fire form?", Elvion asked.
'He is right…'
'I knew about this…'
'But, I did not know who it was.'
Yes, right before Shin entered the Flame Wolf Emperor state, a system notification popped up.
'Ding'
[ You are being watched by a Celestial ]
That was all the text said. Shin instinctively knew that the being was watching Shin see his wits and strength.
If the being were to decide that Shin was a pushover, then it would waste no time to kill him and those around him – of course, that would mean that they would get the support of the Dwarven kingdom saying that they saved the dwarves from being killed.
That was why, Shin became the Flame Wolf Emperor – not because Aella was insulted, it was because of the Celestial that was watching. He was partially angry at the celestial that watched him.
'You guys again…'
'You can watch this as a T.V. show, but would never bother to help us…'
'Just where does your arrogance come from, you bastards?'
"Well Whatever, you tell me, how did you happen to be here?", Shin asked.
"Ah, I had something important to discuss with you.", the elf celestial said.
"Something important?", this picked Shin's interest.
If there was something that a Celestial would deem to be important, then it would be a case of at most importance – was what Shin had deducted after thinking for a few seconds.
Thus, without wasting any time, he decided to discuss the matter.
Both of them went towards the pond nearby and started talking about the matter.
Meanwhile, the elves who witnessed Shin and Elvion talk had totally different types of comments to spare.
"Did…"
"Did you guys just see what happened?"
"Y-yes."
"Master Shin and Lord were speaking to each other as if they were friends…"
"Yes, like equals, right?"
The elves whispered among themselves.
The same was with the goblin mages. The young goblins were confused as to why they were so surprised. The same was the case with other Shadow Wolves.
And after the goblin mages and the leader of Shadow Wolves explained them, they finally understood how big of a matter this was.
Kaily, Alira, and Aella too had doubts but after listening to Terran's explanation, knew what was going on.
''Keke, I can't believe that master knew the Elf Celestial…''
''The third strongest Celestial in existence, becoming his friend is indeed a big matter.'', Terran commented.
Well, this was no surprise since the tattoos on the dwarves' bodies showed that Shin's Flame Wolf Emperor form was already as strong as an average Celestial.
No wonder they were scared. They had their king, a celestial too, so they could dominate others. However, there was another being with the power of a celestial before them, they had to be scared.
Since, in a battle between celestials, both the celestials will be gravely injured or one of them will be killed.
Either way, nothing good comes out of it. Well, if the dwarven king were to fight with Shin, then the entire kingdom will be affected – this is a bigger disadvantage. So the dwarves readily agreed – they weren't fools after all.
Shin and Elvion chatted for a long time about something important which Elvion had mentioned.
They were given privacy since it was not a matter into which mere individuals who had little power could get into.
"I see…"
"So, if I'm right, you need me to help you with that?", Shin asked.
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