Chapter 26 - Chapter 26: Chapter 25 Elf (2/2)

Byrne was astonished. Whenever he encountered something, he would always think it over repeatedly and subconsciously weigh the pros and cons, and he also felt that his father and Irene would do the same.

But there are those who simply don’t care about pros and cons or rationality at all, huh, they really do exist, like the drunkards and gamblers he had seen somewhere before.

Those people would kill for the most trivial impulses and unimaginable reasons.

But would the nobles of the upper class really act like this?

Deep down, he couldn’t imagine a war waged on whims, always feeling that the nobles of the upper class were more rational, wise, and clever, incapable of acting without logic.

After the lunch break ended, everyone continued searching for a while before declaring a halt to the search as night fell.

Byrne awoke groggily from his dreams, glanced at the family guard responsible for the vigilance, and hazily sensed a white figure in the nearby woods.

What’s that, a mysterious creature?

He was startled and instinctively stood up to wake the people around him but then realized that it wasn’t any mysterious creature at all; it was an elf.

An elf!

Although Byrne had seen illustrations and descriptions of elves in books, he had never actually seen one.

On the Ouden Continent, it’s difficult to encounter members of a foreign race in the Eastern regions, be it elves, dwarves, or orcs, as they mostly reside in the west of the continent.

He got up instinctively and walked slowly, looking towards the other with extreme curiosity and fascination.

It really was an elf!

She was staring back at the approaching human, her eyes filled with wariness.

The elven girl had a slender figure, her light green hair flowing like a waterfall, her unusually bright eyes revealing wisdom and mystery, her skin a pure, pale color.

Her facial features were delicate and soft, giving an eerily transcendent and strange sense of beauty with her indifferent expression.

So beautiful.

“Byrne!”

Suddenly, a loud shout came, jolting Byrne out of his reverie. The white figure not far in front of him had vanished in an instant.

“What are you doing!”

Lucius ran over with a severe look on his face, ready to fight at a moment’s notice, with the guards also very vigilant.

Byrne was dazed for a while, then shook his head and murmured, “Nothing, I just, I think I saw an elf.”

“An elf?”

Lucius frowned deeply and immediately organized everyone to huddle and start searching the area. After more than two hours, they hadn’t found any trace of an outsider; there simply was no such thing as an elf here.

“Did you see that white mysterious creature and mistake it for an elf?”

Lucius looked at his son, puzzled, and continued:

“Even though the large-scale slave trade was officially abolished decades ago, every other country in the west of the continent still allows the trade of foreign races in secret. The legendary elves are like walking gold, and due to the distance, the Eastern Four Kingdoms very rarely see elves.”

Byrne shook his head and said:

“I’m not mistaken, absolutely not, you know my Extraordinary trait.”

Lucius’s frown deepened as he fell into deep thought, while Byrne recalled the scene he had just witnessed.

His “Profound Memory” Extraordinary trait made that scene he had just seen incredibly clear and real, capable of being replayed in his mind at any time.

Even if he wanted to forget, it was simply impossible. Byrne couldn’t help but recall every detail of that figure in his mind meticulously.

Such a beautiful life.

That elven girl was like the most moving song of nature, the babbling brook flowing through the green mountains, full of tender breaths of life.

He suddenly felt afraid, knowing that he would never be able to forget that beautiful figure.

But would I ever have the chance to see her again?