Chapter 191 - Tool For a Quest (2/2)
Evelyn slowly nodded.
Last night, she couldn’t fall asleep, so she had some snacks on the balcony outside of her bedroom.
She was enjoying fruit wine and some delicious cake when she sensed the frightening congregation of magic elements in the distance.
She turned around only to see an enormous blue fireball falling somewhere from the city wall.
The deafening explosion almost made her choke on the cake. She patted her chest a long time before she finally managed to swallow the cake.
Even so, her face was still red due to shortness of breath.
After that, she saw the tsunami of fire. Her nightdress was fluttering in the hot wind even though she was three kilometers away.
It was not hard to imagine how powerful the attack was.
“I don’t know who your enemy was, Mr. Roland, but I’m sure that they must be very regretful right now.” Roland smiled. “I think so too. So, what exactly are you trying to say, Princess?” He found the princess too talkative.
The princess glared at Roland and said helplessly, “Actually, I heard about you before, Mr. Roland!”
Roland was rather puzzled.
“Young Bard is my cousin!” Evelyn smiled. “He talked to me about you a while back when he visited me.”
Oh, that explains a lot. My ident.i.ty has been dug out after only one out. The royal family is truly good at intelligence gathering. “Speaking of Bard, I’m planning to visit him in the capital,” said Roland with a smile.
It was truly his plan to ask Bard in the capital about long-distance teleportation spells.
However, it never occurred to him that Bard was related to the royal family. But it did make sense on second thought. Bard was from a grand n.o.ble family in the capital. It was not unusual that his family was related to the royal family by marriage.
“He told me that you’re capable of Language Proficiency,” Evelyn said in admiration. “He said that you picked up the spell by yourself!”
Roland nodded. “But it’s not perfect yet.”
“You’re too modest, sir.” Evelyn stood up and fetched a book from the shelf behind her. “I was wondering if you could translate something for me.”
She opened the book and turned to a page that had a golden leaf as a bookmark.
Among the page of Hollevin words were a few sentences written in Elvish.
“This has been bothering me,” Evelyn said sincerely. “They’re ancient elvish scriptures copied from elsewhere. Only three people in Hollevin understand them, but I’m too insignificant to ask for their help. However, if I can’t understand these sentences, I can’t understand the following content. Who does ‘she’ refer to in the book?”
Just that? Roland cast Free Communication on himself and the princess.
“You can cast your spell on other people?” The princess’s beautiful eyes stopped briefly on Roland’s face, before she lowered her head and read the elvish scriptures. “She was the queen of a dynasty, the first demiG.o.d of the elves. She had been a rogue, a general, and the strongest summoner. Her name was Cocoyala, the most beloved daughter of the world tree!”
The sentences were short, but Roland sensed a long history behind the words.
The princess closed her eyes and then slowly opened them. “So, she was the queen of the elves. No wonder she did so many awesome things as a woman. Is it true that the elves once governed the world? Does her tomb exist too? Ah, how I wish I could see it.”However, Roland’s attention had been distracted by the system notifications.
Quest: ‘Listen to the princess’s worries’ completed.
“You’ve received 244 EXP points.”
Evelyn’s fondness has been increased by ten points.
Huh? It was the first time that an NPC’s fondness was mentioned in the quest notifications. Was this NPC very important?
While he was still surprised, a new notification popped up.
New quest detected: Origin of the Elven Queen (Main Quest). Roland’s eyes bulged. This quest was a gold one, and it was suffixed with “Main Quest.”
He had never known how to pick up the main quest after it was interrupted. Little did he expect that he would resume it here.