Chapter 575 - v3c345p1 (1/2)
v3c345p1
The Abyss(3)
Brendel reacted as soon as the elf maiden squatted down with her head in her arms. He immediately looked back at ‘Orthylss’ and asked, “She is Orthylss, and you?”
“She just likes pranking, I’m the real Orthylss.” The elf consort replied contentiously.
The elf maiden was brought to tears. She felt so aggrieved that she only wanted to cry out, When did I ever like pranks, and how did I even lose my name? But she did not dare to utter a single word and could only hold her head and shed tears in silence.
“Then who is she?”
“She’s…uh…Sonya.”
Brendel actually already had the answer in mind.
He had long suspected the elf consort because she tended to speak on equal terms with important people like Flame King Gretel, the Great Sage Farnezain, and even Eleranta, which was very unusual for a knight of the Queen of the Winds. Not only so, would the Blade Knight Orthylss master the legacy of the Nine Luminaries Sword Art of the Wind? Afraid not.
It was just that Brendel could not believe that this legendary character was someone who spent countless nights with him, teaching and supporting him to the best of her ability, someone who even occasionally threw childish tantrums. Orthylss felt more like the girl next door rather than the cold hero of the legend.
This answer really shocked him.
He kept a calm composure and pretended to be suspicious, Sonya? Isn’t that the ‘Wind Whisperer’? If I remember correctly, Lady Sonya has rare long black hair, and wouldn’t be so young.
‘Orthylss’ glared at him viciously with her indigo eyes.
Brendel pretended he didn’t see that.”And I thought you sacrificed your own life in the grey swamp! I didn’t think about this earlier, but how did you know what happened in the last battle with the Darkness Dragon?”
“That’s because I told her!” She replied viciously.
“You told her?”
“You…” The elf consort finally realized that she slipped, but this was a habit that she wasn’t able to correct even after thousands of years.
“I don’t want to see you again today, Brendel! p.i.s.s off, and get away from me as far as possible!”
The elf consort threw down this sentence and disappeared in front of him. She looked genuinely angry. Brendel sighed. The answer was exactly what he thought. ‘Orthylss’ was ‘Sanorso’.
Sanorso was the sage of the Wind Elves, one of the four Holy Cathedrals in the battle of the Holy War–The Wind Empress.
Maynild watched all of this up till the elf consort disappeared after scolding Brendel viciously. She was stunned for a moment and then calmly asked, “Did I do something wrong?”
Since most of the communication between Brendel and the Wind Empress Sanorso was done through telepathy, Maynild was not sure of what happened. Brendel shrugged, “It’s none of your concern, Lord Maynild.”
It is just that someone got angry from embarra.s.sment.
……
The real Orthylss in history sat obediently, looking at Brendel with tears in her eyes.
Brendel helplessly rea.s.sured her for a moment. The Wind Empress actually made her cry even though she was the most glorious elite soul in the battle of the Holy War. What a dreadful personality she has.
Only then did he turn back to Maynild to explain about the Ring of the Sealed Soul– without mentioning the part about the Wind Empress, of course. After all, since Maynild had already seen the previous scene, hiding the entire story would only arouse more suspicion, so he decidedly told the true story mixed in with lies here and there. It was mainly just that the ident.i.ty of the wind spirit was too sensitive, and Brendel doesn’t fancy being chased down and murdered.
“So this is the legacy of the Wind Elves?” Maynild appeared calm after listening and did not bother to pursue the issue of her ident.i.ty. “But why did it stray into the human world.”
“The legacy of the Mist Elves to be exact.” Brendel replied, ”After the Silver Fire was extinguished, the present-day Wind Elves are no longer the same clan as those saints in the battle. The divergence of the holy seal was not without reason.”
Maynild’s eyelashes flickered.
“Say, it’s impossible for a person to wear two rings right?” She asked again.
“Mainly because there is no point in wearing two rings, after all, just one legacy contains an infinite amount of knowledge that most people might not fully understand even after a lifetime. Having more Rings of the Holy Seal is not better and being too greedy will only warrant danger.” Brendel replied using the original words from the Wind Empress.
“So you won’t want it anymore.” Maynild asked, “Can I have this ring?”
Brendel stared at her blankly for a moment– he actually meant to give this to Freya. However, after thinking about it, although Orthylss was a Knight of the Blade, her teacher Sonya was a renowned archer of the Mist Elves, and it seemed that she also used a bow which was not necessarily suitable for a future war G.o.ddess.
But Maynild did not seem to be an archer either.
“You want it?”
“No,” Maynild shook her head, and didn’t conceal the truth from him, “it’s not for me. Rather, it’s for Her Highness.”
“Her Highness?” Does Princess Gryphine even use a bow? There did not seem to be much need to give it to her. But Brendel realized immediately that Maynild was indeed thinking of Her Highness – as Princess Gryphine was sure to give the ring to her brother in the hopes that the inheritance of the Wind Elf would change the cowardly character of that little prince.