Chapter 195 Envoy 3 (1/2)
Amelia looked over at Mars and was a little surprised at his transformation and thought for a moment before she slightly bowed her head
”now I see why you don't like being called a human, sorry”
”well what can I say? Dragons are proud creatures after all”
Amelia gave a meek nod
”...I'm sorry about pointing my blade at you”
”it's fine”
”but---”
”I said it's fine, okay?”
”....okay”
”just don't do it again”
”....okay”
Mars gave a sigh, he was a little frustrated about how meek Amelia was being, suddenly an arrow landed at their feet, Mars looked up at the walls and slightly narrowed his eyes and soon spotted the elver that had fired the arrow, like Amelia he had tanned skin and ruby red eyes
”wait here Mars, I'll go explain your an envoy from Green river”
”sure... but if he fires another arrow I might get annoyed and fire something back”
”I got it”
Amelia began running towards the walls afraid that the elvers on the walls would fire more arrows at Mars and he would retaliate, Mars stood in the same spot for sometime before he sat himself down and waited for Amelia to return, after waiting for about 5 minutes Amelia returned accompanied by a group of armed elvers, Mars got on his feet and waited for them to get closer which they soon did, then one of them spoke
”you must be Mars, I'm here to take you to the elders”
Mars slowly shook his head before he spoke without looking at the elver
”my deal is with Amelia not you, the same terms might not follow if I have to make a new deal with you”
”...fine Amelia show Mars to the elders”
”yes sir”
Mars and Amelia walked towards the walls leaving the group of elvers behind
”...why did you do that Mars?”
”because I wanted to, bedsides I have seen eyes like his way too many times”
”...what kind of eyes did he make?”
”the kind that only care about me because of the people that stand behind me, I really hate being looked down upon especially when I'm here to help”
”...I see, well then I'll show you to the elders”
Mars followed after Amelia past the gates of Black woods and into the city, Mars looked around at the buildings and was not so impressed with what he saw, the buildings were mostly wooden huts which made the sky trees of Green river seem like a distant dream, besides the streets were filled with refugees from the plains around the Black woods that had fled here when Ule took over the plains but to Mars' surprise the refugees were cared for by everyone and he frequently saw elvers helping out the refugees with both food and shelter, this put a warm smile on Mars' face, at least the elvers were better at this than the humans
”we'll be there soon”
”okay”
Mars put his focus back on Amelia that lead the way and started to ignore the elvers around him as he formulated a plan for the upcoming talks, soon they arrived in the center of the city were a big wooden building stood
”this is the building of the elder council”
Mars gave a nod
”let's head inside then”
Amelia lead the way inside the building and after talking with some other elvers inside the building she lead the way further inside the building and soon both of them arrived in front of a closed reinforced door which Amelia pushed open before she walked into the room and bent down on one knee and spoke to the elders that sat in chairs around a table in the middle of the room
”elders I, Amelia bring Mars the leader of Green rivers military and military technological development as a envoy”
the elders stopped talking and looked over past Amelia at Mars, Mars gave a confident smile and walked into the room and decided to strike first
”as Amelia said I'm Mars leader of Green river's military and military technological development, but I also have another identity I am the living god of energy”
Amelia looked slightly confused, clearly she didn't know what a living god was but the about 20 elders all hardened their faces as they looked at Mars for a few long moments before one of them spoke up
”we didn't know that a living god was living in Green river”
Mars gave a smile and raised two fingers
”not one, two”
the elder stood up from her seat, the other elders also looked stunned
”two!?”
”yes and both are willing to help you reconquer your land, now what do you say?”
The talks with the elders of Black woods went way better than Amelia had expected, after Mars said he was a so called 'living god' the elders practically kneeled over and began kissing his feet, Amelia was of course confused by this but she knew it was not her place to ask questions so she just half knelt forgotten by the elders that were busy fawning over Mars for about an hour until Mars had reached an initial agreement with the elders, then one of them rudely asked ”what, are you still here Amelia?” to which she could only lower her head further, until Mars walked over and clapped her on the shoulder
”come on Amelia let's go”
”eh..? yes”
Amelia got on her feet and without complaining over her numb legs she walked after Mars leaving the elders behind that exchanged thoughtful looks
”so Amelia what do you think I should do now?”
”....about what?”
”what do you think I should start with?”
Amelia thought for a moment before she answered
”rescue our people that is being held hostage”
”....hmm... sure I could and probably should start with that, do you have knowledge on where they are being held?”
”yes because I was made a messenger I was told all that we know about the whole situation”
”I see, well then let's head back to Green river to pick up Victoria...”
”are we going back to Green river?”
”yes just for a bit”
”okay I'll go call my hawk”
”no need, I know a shortcut”
Back at Green river a portal opened on top of Mars' sky tree, Amelia walked out of the portal and looked around dumbfounded before she muttered
”....it really is Green river”
Mars stepped out of the portal behind her and gave a smile before he asked