Martin's originally good mood was completely ruined by the arrogant attitude of these elves.
After much thought, he felt that the first elf was relatively reliable, even though it only had the strength of a sky wizard.
However, Martin didn't care too much. After all, he had the system and these problems were easy to solve.
While thinking about it, Martin took out the stone statue of the elf with sky power again.
As soon as the elf in the stone statue "appeared", it seemed to be ready to say something, but when it saw that the person in front of it was Martin, it fell silent.
Seeing this, Martin couldn't help but say, "Hey, hey, hey, can you at least show some reaction? You pretend to be silent when you see me. If you keep doing this, I'll throw you into the cesspool."
At this moment, a voice came from the elf statue: "My name is Nina, not Hello."
Martin was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then continued to ask: "Can we communicate normally?"
Nina fell silent again, and Martin took it as her agreement. He then said bluntly, "How about we make a deal? As long as you are loyal to me, I can give you what you want."
Nina's voice rang out from the stone statue, decisively responding, "No, I have already sworn an oath to the Ancient Tree of Elven Life to serve the Elven Empire for the rest of my life."
Martin pressed the issue: "Are you bound by a contract?"
Nina thought for a moment and responded, "That's not the case. However, this oath is deeply engraved in my heart and is far more firm than a contract."
Hearing this, Martin fell silent for a moment, secretly complaining in his heart, "Are they really that stubborn? It's been a thousand years and they're still the same? Is there any tutorial for this? I really want to show it to the instructors in Loyalty Valley."
Putting aside those chaotic thoughts for the moment, he continued to say to Nina, "Then let's try something different. You help me translate the ancient elven language, and as long as you declare your allegiance to me but don't sign the contract, I will help you break the petrification. How about that?"
Nina was silent for a moment, then spoke, "Can you please not declare your allegiance? I can help you translate more."
Martin, of course, refused to agree and stated directly: "Either sign the contract but don't declare allegiance, or declare allegiance but don't sign the contract. You choose."
After a brief thought, Nina said directly, "Then I'll sign the contract."
Upon hearing this, Martin shook his head helplessly and consumed 50,000 energy points to help Nina break free from the petrification.
He then handed over an extremely demanding contract. The general terms of the contract were: Nina would repay Martin White 100,000 points, her daily salary would be one point, and she would have to work a full ten hours a day, translating a certain amount of ancient elven texts, ensuring the translations were accurate and free of distortion or deception.
In addition, the contract also stipulates that she has no right to ask for leave, is not allowed to harm humans in the castle, and has the right to imprison anyone who has ill intentions towards her.
After reviewing the contents of the contract, he nodded with satisfaction and motioned for Nina to sign.
Nina looked at the human words on the contract, read them over and over again, and then looked at Martin in disbelief.
In Nina's eyes, this "slave" whom she originally thought was lowly was really great. According to this calculation, she could pay off her debts in just about 28 years, and there were no other additional clauses in the contract. It was really conscientious.
After this operation, Nina's loyalty to Martin actually increased, which surprised him.
After seeing Nina sign her name, Martin immediately put the contract away and then planned to take her to the library to translate the ancient elven text that had been written on the Lake Light Gate of Hestia.
Soon, Martin and his group of four arrived at the library.
At this moment, the bald scholar was busy sorting books. When he saw Martin, he hurried over, bowed respectfully, and said in a low voice, "My Lord, the translation of the ancient elven language is still in progress. It is estimated that it will take about half a month to complete."
Martin nodded slightly, his eyes swept over him, and he walked straight into the library, saying as he walked, "Take out all the ancient elven text materials you have collected and give them to Nina to translate."
At this time, the bald scholar noticed that there was a girl dressed in ancient elf costume following Martin, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
Fortunately, Eric reminded him in time, and he came to his senses and hurried to the bookshelf to get the sorted ancient elven text materials.
Martin then left the library with Eric, Lucas, and Nina.
Before leaving, Martin turned to the bald scholar and said, "You should carry out research in other directions. You don't need to worry about the ancient elven writing."
After saying this, he took everyone away, leaving only the bald scholar standing there blankly.
On the way to the study, maids or knights passed by Martin from time to time, and they would stop and salute Martin respectfully.
In this way, the group arrived at the study smoothly.
After entering the study, Martin closed the door and everyone took their seats.
Martin looked at Nina and motioned her to decipher the words on the light gate of the secret realm of Lake Hestia.
Nina stared at the words for a while, her expression changed slightly, and she looked as if she didn't want to say anything.
But thinking of the contract she had signed with Martin, she had no choice but to translate the text with a bitter face. The general meaning was: "By constantly sacrificing all the creatures in this secret realm, the Elf Prince Hestia will be able to enrich the divinity in the secret realm, ignite the divine fire, and thus achieve the status of demigod, protecting the Elf Empire for eternity."
After Nina finished translating, her face looked ashen.
Seeing her condition, Martin ordered the maid beside him to take her downstairs to rest.
Nina looked dazed and left with the maid like a zombie.
After the two men left, Martin was furious. He slammed his hammer on the table and cursed loudly, "What a sinister elven royal family! This is clearly a trap. Anyone who enters will be sacrificed."
"You've enriched others' divinity for nothing. While I'm not sure why the elves sealed that secret realm, I suspect it's not a good thing."
Martin turned around and discussed with Eric for a long time. They both agreed that they must tamper with this secret realm and never let the elven prince achieve the status of demigod.
However, they had never entered the secret realm and knew nothing about the situation inside, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of implementing the plan.
At this moment, the maid who had led the way came running over in a panic and said anxiously, "Master, this is bad! That elf girl just committed suicide. You should go and take a look!"
Upon hearing this, Martin immediately used his knightly powers and rushed to Nina's guest room without saying a word.
At this moment, the guest room was in chaos. Several maids were frantically trying to cover the blood that kept spurting out of Nina's throat. Seeing this, Martin hurried forward and asked the maids to move aside.
He quickly took out a bottle of SS-level life potion, pried open Nina's mouth, and poured the potion in.
The life potion exerted a powerful effect, like a warm current, constantly moistening Nina's throat, and the broken wound gradually healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
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