6 The Beginning of an Emperor’s Path (1/2)

Elves stared at Elrond with eyes full of doubts curiosity, they were unable to find what was going on inside of this kid's mind, although they knew that Elrond lost both his parents in the fight with bandits, they didn't know how could Elrond trust a human so easily, if this happened in human society they would just scold that the kid is behaving out of his age but this was not the state in elven community, their kids must grow faster than human kids both psychologically and physically because the rule of the wild was unrelenting and they wanted their children to know about the reality.

Even Don was surprised to witness Elrond give his loyalty to him, the boy before him had a conviction in his voice, the sadness in the eyes of the boy was replaced with something else.

Everyone was puzzled about Elrond but in his heart, there was nothing but ambition and a determination.

Arwen and Amaryll were still analyzing the situation,

”It seems like you have to prove yourself more than just saving their life, Don these elves look like hard to convince” Knight sent a telepathic message to Don.

”Yes I've expected that even though they were pushed to this far, they are still elves, the pride in their heart is so strong, but we need them much as they need us, if we trained them effectively as archers they will be a deadly force to be reckoned with”

No one spoke as time passed but Elrond walked forwards and stood beside Don while Arwen had a difficult expression on his face, eventually, Don broke the stillness,

”One year, I will give you a one-year time before you swear your allegiance to me meanwhile I will make my move to unite other races and build a better place for all,” Don stated firmly, a certain spirit in his voice as he declared.

After he said, the elves stared at him with eyes wide open, no one could speak such a thing like it's an easy thing to do, there were so many races with their survival at stake and some of them even started going extinct so finding them and uniting them was not an easy thing, not easy at all.

Seeing Elrond, Arwen tried hard to come to a decision even though the things the youth said were unrealistic, could there be at least a chance for that to happen?. He was fighting with himself but no matter what, he wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for Don, that Arwen knew obviously,

After taking a few moments to think, Arwen exhaled a long breath and came to a decision and he knew that this was going to alter his life.

”I can't speak for others, I don't know why you decided to rescue us, but you saved me and my sister's life and honor. Without you, she would have faced the fate that worse than death, that's a debt I can't repay even with my life”

Arwen came forward limping and faced Don with his chin up, Don met his gaze but didn't respond and just stood there.

”I Arwen son of Cameron swear my allegiance to you from this day onwards till death” as he went to kneel in front of Don but Don stopped him from doing so,

”I accept your allegiance but you don't have to kneel to show your loyalty” At first Arwen was slightly shocked to hear this but eventually Arwen nodded in agreement.

Don did that because he doesn't like it when his friends and companions kneel in front of him and also he didn't want Arwen to kneel because he knew about the proud nature of elves.

Amaryll didn't know why her brother swore his loyalty to the human but she knew that her brother would always do the right thing so ultimately she decided to follow her brother.

”I trust my brother's decision but I won't swear my allegiance but I will follow my brother with you but you better don't have any ulterior motives” she expressed while staring at Don. Arwen felt a little awkward but he didn't show it on his face.

Knight was amused to see this elf woman threatening Don but he respected her bravery and the choice of following her brother.

Don didn't respond but nodded in consent and flicked his fist while a light began to gleam in his ring, but this time a red color potion appeared instead of the torture bug that he used on the bandit leader.

”Arwen take this potion, it will heal your injuries” the portion flew through the air and landed in Arwen's hands.

Arwen pondered at the portion in his hands for a moment,

”Don't hesitate Arwen, I expect you in your best form” Arwen was still not convinced but he knew that he had no other choice so he took the red portion and drank it in one gulp.