That's a fake elf

"You little bastard, you're looking for death!" Although the knight yelled fiercely, under Lorna's sword, the knight's sword in his hand was cut off without even taking three moves.

"Do you have the guts to scream again?" Lona became furious when she heard the word bastard.

"Just wait, this is not over yet!" Seeing the sword energy on Lorna's sword, the knight turned around and ran away.

"Lona, stop chasing me, be careful of an ambush."

"Humph."

Li Ang glanced at Lona who was sulking, shook his head helplessly, knelt down, touched the little girl's hair and said:

"What's your name and where is your home? I'll take you back."

"I...my name is Keli."

The little girl hugged Li Ang's neck suddenly, tears streaming down her face, while shaking her little head, she choked and said:

"I only know that I live in the forest. Big brother, if you send me home, my grandma will give you a lot of money and treasures."

"What specific characteristics does the forest have?" Li Ang asked.

"There are a lot of fruits, as well as tree towers covered with small lamp grasses and a big black talking cat." Kelly said hesitantly.

Li Ang twitched the corner of his mouth and shook his head helplessly.

The forest in Peliano is quite large, and there are quite a few night elves living there. From the few words Keli gave, it is impossible to tell which area she is an elf from.

"Brother, why don't you take her back to the Cat Tail Hotel first? Take her with you when you go to the Druid Temple. Maybe you will know her identity."

Lorna, who also saw that the little girl was probably not simple, spoke.

"we can only do this."

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Cat Tail Inn

"Meow!"

"Wow!"

As soon as she entered the hotel, Keli was startled by the tabby cat flying into the air under her feet.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I accidentally stepped on your tail."

Looking at the raccoon cat with a fierce look on his face and grinning at Keli, Li Ang quickly apologized and then used [Touch of Nature] to treat the cat.

"Meow meow meow meow." The civet cat still refused to give up and complained to Keli behind Li Ang, which immediately made Keli's eyes blurred with tears.

"As a gift of apology, I treat you to fish." Li Ang looked embarrassed and took out a pickled salted fish from the system space.

"Meow, meow, meow." The civet cat glared at Keli, then arrogantly picked up the salted fish.

"Feluto, you are cheating on food and drink again. How many times have I told you not to do this? This will have a negative impact on the hotel."

Diona appeared behind the civet cat, took away the salted fish from its mouth, and taught the civet cat a lesson with a look on her face that hated the iron.

"Meow meow meow!"

"It's wrong. I'll confiscate this salted fish."

"Hey hey hey."

The civet cat, who had taken away the salted fish, was lying on the ground with a look of despair on his face, which made Keli burst into laughter.

"Eh, Keli?" Diona looked at the dirty little girl behind Li Ang and said in disbelief.

"Diona, do you know her?" Li Ang pulled the hesitant Keli out from behind and said with a look of surprise.

"Of course, it should be said that there is no one in the tavern in Xiongyue City who doesn't know her." Diona scolded the kitten beside her who wanted to steal salted fish and said with a frown:

"Her grandmother is the lord of Silvermoon Forest and the material supplier to all the taverns in Peliano."

"The various raw materials used in our hotel's usual brewing are ordered from Silver Moon Forest."

"So you can see Keli often."

"By the way, she should be at the Twin Moon Tower in Silver Moon Forest. How did you bring her here?"

"It's a long story."

Li Ang glanced at Keli, who had already focused all his attention on the kitten, and told how he and Lona met Keli and rescued her from the knight.

"Recently, I heard from guests that there is a group of people who are crazy about abducting children. They especially like to target the children of nobles. Maybe the knight you met is one of them."

Diona frowned and said.

"What?" Li Ang's eyes widened and he said in disbelief:

"This is the capital of Pegliano, and they actually dare to kidnap and traffic children here, and they are targeting nobles."

"Aren't you afraid of being hunted by nobles?"

"What are those traffickers afraid of?"

Diona curled her lips and said:

"As far as I know, many children are trafficked on the black market in Pegliano every year."

"With luck, they can still return to their parents, but most of them are still missing."

"Is there no one cracking down on the black market?" Li Ang frowned and smelled.

Diona walked back to the counter, stood on a stone bench and mixed a glass of juice for Kelly, then gritted her teeth and said:

"How to attack? Many slave traders in the black market are protected by big nobles."

"Every time His Royal Highness organizes an army to launch an encirclement and suppression campaign, these slave traders can get the news in advance, flee the scene, and erase the evidence related to themselves."

"Huh, let me say, these big nobles who don't pay taxes and often harm their children should all be put to death, so that everyone can live a good life."

Hearing this, Li Ang suddenly understood why his grandfather was so eager to take back military and political power.

After thousands of years, Peliano seems to be a strong country on the surface, but in fact it has been riddled with holes by those wealthy nobles.

If he had not carried out drastic institutional reforms like the emperor of the Sasha Empire and purged a group of already decadent nobles, Pegliano would have been led into the bottomless abyss by these nobles sooner or later.

"Diona, please arrange a room for Keli first, and the money will be deducted from me." Li Ang said looking at Keli who was eating fruit salad.

"No, I want to share a room with big brother." Keli jumped off the chair, hugged Li Ang's arm, and said pitifully.

"Lona?" Li Ang looked at his sister helplessly.

"I will share a room with my big brother!" Keli looked at Li Ang with tears in her eyes.

Lorna shrugged, showing a helpless expression.

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In the underground water of Xiongyue City, the knight whose weapon was cut off by Lona before showed a murloc badge with teeth and claws to the old-looking black-clothed gatekeeper, then took a faint green soul lamp and walked towards in the dark.

The fluorescent green light, like fireflies, escaped from the soul lamp and illuminated a road paved in the water.

In the darkness, there were constant cries and wailings from children, accompanied by bursts of creepy chewing and roaring sounds.

Along the way, the knight was sweating profusely, feeling that he might become food in the mouths of those monsters at any time.

After a long time, after crossing the water filled with monsters, a simple temple appeared in front of them.

As soon as the knight saw the temple, he immediately knelt on the ground and began to recite hymns with a pious look on his face.

Soon, a giant with an octopus head leaned out of the pool and roared at the knight:

"What about the sacrifice?"

"Taken away by two elves." The knight couldn't help but swallowed as he looked at the altar behind the monster, which used human bones as firewood and was burning with green flames.

"Trash!" The giant pointed his finger at the knight and let out a roar that did not sound like a human voice. The soul lamp was immediately extinguished.

The monster hiding in the pool immediately pounced on the knight, and a oozing sound of chewing sounded in the darkness.

"Sir, please give me another chance. I will take her back. I will never let you or my father down." The knight reached out to the giant and let out a desperate cry.

Unfortunately, the giant was unmoved at all.

Half a minute later, the monster climbed onto the altar and added new firewood to it.

In the green flames, the images of Leon and Lona slowly appeared in it.

"Harley!"

"Lord Son of God." A green-haired druid wearing a white wolf skin and holding an ancient oak staff walked out of the temple, knelt on one knee and looked at the giant with a pious expression.

"You must capture that sacrifice for me no matter what!" the giant said in a deep voice.

"Yes." The green-haired Druid glanced at Li Ang in the flames, with a trace of astonishment flashing in his eyes.

"Is there a problem?" The octopus tentacles on the giant's neck trembled, and he whispered strangely.

"No, no..." The green-haired Druid quickly shook his head when he saw the restless monsters.

"In order for you to successfully complete your mission, I will give you the power of Father God." The giant stretched out his hand, and countless octopus-like monsters rushed towards the altar.

"Thank you, sir!" Hearing this, the green-haired Druid was so ecstatic that his head felt like pounding garlic.

As the flames of the altar were ignited by the bones, the power of chaos suddenly poured into the body of the green-haired druid, causing his body to undergo rapid changes.

Strange tentacles began to grow on the druid's cheeks.