The peace of the Forest of Wind was broken, smoke was everywhere, and the demons and orcs left a desolate landscape after crossing the border, as if foreshadowing the end of the elves.
Some elves tried to escape from the Forest of Wind, but the world outside the forest was even more chaotic. The entire Norland continent had been plunged into endless war. A racial war swept the entire continent, and no race could stay out of it.
Just when the elves were in despair, the Elf Queen and High Priest Helena appeared like saviors. The Elf Queen had strong strength and military talent. She took the lead in every battle, leading the improvised Elf Guards to forcefully Blocked the coalition of orcs and demons from the elves' holy land, and was recognized by the Tree of Life.
At that time, the Elf Queen was the goddess in the eyes of all elves, and was enthusiastically pursued by all the elves.
In addition to the powerful starry sky magic, High Priest Helena's greatest contribution is to raise the hearts of all elves again when they were panicking, inspiring more elves to become warriors in order to protect the Wind Forest, and take Use your bow and arrows and magic wand to drive the intruders away.
Joshua also became a warrior and fought to protect the Wind Forest.
He has killed orcs and demons, and has also been injured in the battle, but he clings to each other for warmth in desperate situations, and fights listening to the queen's orders. It seems that he can always see hope and victory ahead.
This protracted racial war came to an end a hundred years ago. After the elves paid an extremely heavy price, they also left most of the invading demons and orcs in the Forest of Wind forever.
On that day, Lady Helena signed a peace agreement with other races in the City of Chaos. The elves legally owned all the sovereignty of the Wind Forest. When the news came back to the Wind Forest, the elves were excited and celebrated for half a month. .
It seemed that the carefree and free life could return to the Forest of Winds. At least that was what Joshua thought at the time. Many elves who fought bloody battles also thought so.
Then High Priest Helena returned to the Forest of Winds and began to reward the elves for their contributions in the race war, giving them money and territory.
All this seemed understandable, and what they had done in the war deserved this and even better.
But Joshua felt that all this was a bit different. There were no gold coins or official positions in the elves back then. Everyone was equal, there was no territory, and all places could be traveled freely.
So after thinking for three days, he refused the reward of a territory from High Priest Helena. Like many elves, he chose to leave the Wind Forest and began to travel the continent. Every place he left had experienced wars and there were places where his comrades died and were buried. .
In the Nolan Continent at that time, the racial war had just ended, and all races were cultivating and recuperating. Except for the territories of demons and orcs, other places were basically unimpeded and not dangerous. Therefore, the elves who were wandering outside gradually forgot about the war and started a new life. Life.
Joshua's heart knot gradually unraveled during the journey. He met many people and made friends with some elves who also traveled abroad. Sometimes he would travel with them and live a leisurely and comfortable life.
However, such days were broken more than twenty years ago. Some demon and orc gangs appeared inexplicably on the Nolan Continent specifically to target the wandering elves. The lone elves were caught and thrown into the Locked in a low iron cage in a dark cellar, the dark ages seemed to be coming again, causing waves of panic among the elves.
An elf returned to the Wind Forest for help, but was left in the forest and was no longer allowed to leave.
The elves no longer have the right to leave the forest freely, and several major families have divided the entire elves equally.
More and more elves disappeared inexplicably, and then the major families in the Wind Forest had more and more elven slaves. They were branded with magic marks and were not allowed to leave the territory.
Joshua discovered this twenty years ago. At that time, he went to see a friend, but the friend's house was left in a mess. He found a line of writing under the stone. The couple was killed by demons and orcs. Captured.
Later, he met an elf who had just escaped from the forest. He said that he had seen that couple in a big elf family, but one of the male elf's legs had been broken and he had become a slave at the lowest level.
This incident had a huge impact on Joshua's mind. After the racial war, the biggest threat to the elves was not other races, but the newly promoted nobles in the forest.
The nobles among the elves are ridiculous and sad existences.
He didn't understand how those guys could bear to do such a thing to the elves who had fought side by side and sacrificed almost everything to protect the Wind Forest.
But what can he do? If you voluntarily return to the Forest of Wind, you will also lose your freedom, and these elves, who have been labeled as wanderers and abandoned people, have no right to speak.
Therefore, the traveling elves continue to wander like frightened birds, enjoying the freedom that they don't know when it will end. Uncompromising is the last hold on freedom.
More and more elves are disappearing. Demons and orcs are chasing elves all over the continent. The number of mercenary groups is increasing, and their arrogance is extremely high.
This situation lasted until six years ago. In that year, Princess Irina ran away from home in the Wind Forest and began to travel across the continent. Then a mercenary group targeted her.
As a result, he was destroyed by the group.
And this is just the beginning.
One by one, the mercenary groups were destroyed under the magic wand of the Elf Princess. The roles of cat and mouse were reversed at this moment. Those once arrogant mercenary groups began to flee across the continent, just to avoid being found by the princess who admired the group's destruction.
For the elves who travel abroad, Princess Irina is like Her Majesty the Queen who emerged from the dark ages. She appears as a savior, destroys the evil mercenary group, rescues the imprisoned elves, and obtains The traveling elves love him enthusiastically.
Under Princess Irina's blow and intimidation, half of the mercenary group was wiped out, and the rest were disbanded and dormant, not daring to attack the elves again, and freedom returned.
The first time Joshua met Princess Irina was five years ago. He was seriously injured in a battle with demons while trying to help an elf couple.
At the moment of despair, Princess Irina and the man with the heavy sword came and wiped out all the demons with a wave of their hands.
It's just that the couple had died at the hands of the devil in order to protect their daughter, leaving only an elf who was less than one year old.
Irina treated his injuries, then handed the child over to him and asked him to help raise the child. She named the child Anna.
Princess Irina returned to the Wind Forest three years ago, and no news has been heard since. Those dormant mercenary groups reappeared and continued to capture wandering elves, and life became difficult again.
Joshua took Anna to many places and depended on each other. He worked hard to teach her to become a free and kind spirit. She was his only sustenance and hope. For her, he would give everything to protect her, including his life.
"Grandpa...Grandpa..." Joshua, whose soul was about to dissipate, suddenly heard sad calls ringing in his ears.
"Ann...Na..." Joshua struggled to open his eyes, slowly raised his right hand and placed it on Anna's face, shook his head and said, "Don't cry."
