Chapter 464 The duke’s visit (5)
All throughout the night, they kept talking about the forging process that they had seen.
Veronica happily talked with her parents about this.
With the way that they talked to each other, it was almost as if they had forgotten about the fact that Veronica had lied to them.
The apple really didn't fall far from the tree.
This ducal family was very similar to each other.
Once they found something that they were interested in, they completely lost control of themselves.
That was demonstrated even better by what the duke asked me at breakfast the next morning.
"Can we go see the elven village?"
As soon as I heard this, the spoon in my hand dropped onto the table.
I looked at the duke as if I was trying to figure out if he was being serious or not, but the duke just looked at me with a smile on his face like the question that he had asked wasn't a big deal.
However, this was the elven village!
This was a village that didn't allow human visitors and he was asking to be shown the elven village.
This wasn't something that could be done easily even if I had built a relationship with that village.
So I had to think about it…
In the end, I just decided that I would bring them there and see if the elves would be willing to allow them in. If not, then we would just head back since it wasn't my fault that the duke couldn't enter the village.
Now it was all about whether the duke would agree to this or not.
To my surprise, the duke was perfectly fine with this since he understood that this wasn't something that I could control.
I had expected a much more different result since he was a noble, but it didn't seem like he cared too much about that.
But then there was another surprise thrown at me.
The duke didn't just want to go alone, he wanted to bring the duchess along as well. It was as if they were going on a fun trip together instead of going to a dangerous place.
Then when Veronica wanted to join in, they brought her along as well.
This ducal family…they really were just like each other.
There was no hesitation from any of them in going to this dangerous place just because they found it interesting…
Since we were heading to the elven village, naturally there would be an escort required just in case anything happened.
So Moon and Cecilia were called to come along with us while Rose and Haley were left behind in the town.
Haley had been to the elven village before to discuss the trade deals with them, but since there was no need for her to go this time, she chose to stay.
As for Rose…I wouldn't let her go there with this group since it was dangerous.
If It was just the two of us, then it would be fine.
But she was too busy to ever do that.
After gathering everyone, we headed off into the forest.
In front of us were a bunch of elves that followed Moon while behind us were a bunch of knights that were led by Cecilia.
If the elves didn't already know us, they might have thought that we were coming on an expedition to suppress them.
So it was a good thing that they did know us.
But to our surprise, there weren't any elves that were patrolling in the forest when we arrived.
Normally, we would have been greeted by some elves before we even entered the forest.
When Moon saw this, she couldn't help slightly knitting her brows, but she didn't say anything in the end.
When we reached the pond that would lead us to the elven village and still no one came to greet us, that was when Moon finally decided that there was something wrong.
She raised a hand to stop us before waving at me to come over.
After I came out of the carriage and came over, she leaned in and said, "There's something wrong."
I was surprised to hear this, but I slowly gave a nod since I figured that something was wrong when we didn't meet any elves at all.
After a pause, Moon said, "Let me go and see what's wrong. If I don't come back in ten minutes, you should leave this place."
I was once again surprised to hear this, but I slowly gave another nod.
Moon didn't say anything else as she revealed a serious look and turned to the pond.
Then raising her hand, there was a portal that appeared.
When the ones in the carriage saw this portal, they thought that it was time to go, so they were about to come out. But before they could, I raised my hand to stop them and shook my head to show that it wasn't the time for that.
The duke and his family were surprised, but they went back into the carriage after seeing this.
Moon went right up to the portal and took one last look at us.
With a determined look, she gave a nod before walking through the portal.
We didn't do anything but wait after that.
Around eight minutes passed and we were starting to get worried, but there was still no response from the portal.
As nine minutes passed, we were thinking about leaving…
Right as it was about to reach ten minutes, the portal finally reacted and there were two figures that came out.
One of them was Moon and the other was the green haired elder who was her grandmother.
When she came out, she had a troubled look on her face as she looked at us.
She walked over to where I was with Moon beside her and looked right at me before shaking her head and giving a sigh.
I couldn't help being confused when I saw this.
"You shouldn't have come here, it's a bad time right now." The green haired elder suddenly said this.
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