Chapter 739 - Darkness Falls (VI) (1/2)

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Nell Bailey opened her eyes and gazed into the darkness that appeared as though daytime for her. She was beset by hunger and cold because she hadn’t eaten for days. As the second daughter of the third family in Carlesodar City, she wasn’t unfamiliar with this feeling. The Dark Elves were a race full of betrayal and conspiracies, where every family member craved to step on others’ shoulders and corpses in order to climb their way to the supreme throne—the number one family title and the position as the matriarch. These were the goals of the Dark Elves.

However, Nell wasn’t one of them because she was a ‘defective product’.

In history, Dark Elves escaped from the cruel Creation War and headed into the underground world. They broke off all their relations with nature, but their pride disallowed themselves to toy with soil and rocks like the Dwarves. They inherited keen magical senses from their distant relatives on the surface and still used the powers. However, this also brought them unimaginable situations.

The dark energy flowing in the deep underground merged with the Dark Elves over a long period of time, which caused their skin to lose the fair Elves appearance and be tainted by dark colors. However, none of this was important to them because it wasn’t only their skin that was tainted, but also their hearts and souls.

Using the strength of dark energy, the Dark Elves developed their unique magic civilization, which was evil, sinister, yet powerful. They were the closest users of dark energy and its most humble servants. Almost every family had powerful Mages as backing and only the females with the most powerful magical powers and keen dark energy stood a chance to become the matriarch, and they would then lead their family to the peak of glory. It was due to this that almost every female Dark Elves was a natural spell casters who grasped the energy of darkness and death.

Almost.

Because not every female Dark Elves possessed such talents.

Nell was one of them, unfortunately. She was evaluated to be without magical talents when she was born and she couldn’t sense the flow of dark energy. Not only that, but her skin also wasn’t as pitch-black as the other Dark Elves. On the contrary, her skin was pure white and this color had given her endless pains, where almost every Dark Elves ridiculed and mocked her. If it wasn’t for her mother and matriarch treating her as a curious plaything, perhaps she would have been offered as a sacrifice on the day she was born.

But she survived until now.

Due to this reason, she trained insanely. She didn’t possess magical powers, but she still had a pair of hands to work her way through. Shortly after, she rose above others and became the most outstanding warrior in her family. If it wasn’t for the fact that there were no precedents in the history of the Dark Elves, Nell was confident that she would replace that foolish male and become the first female martial arts chief.

But she was also aware that it was impossible.

In the society of the Dark Elves, magic was everything. Sword-brandishing warriors would never be respected and only the lowly male Dark Elves would take on this duty. They were merely the blades and shields to the females and mothers in eliminating threats. On the other hand, a female Dark Elf like Nell who had the blood of nobility flowing in her wouldn’t degrade herself to join the ranks of the lowly slaves even if darkness abandoned her.