Chapter 239 Witnessing the Birth of a New Elf, Alan, Born with Disabilities
"Your Majesty the Elf King, good day!"
Rongzhen imitated Alia, placed his right hand on his left chest, and leaned forward slightly to greet the Elf King.
Albert stood up and stepped down from the throne. "No need to be so polite, Miss Jenny. I'm sure you're aware of Arya's application. What do you think?"
Rong Zhen looked at the king, who was getting closer as they spoke, and took a step back to express his gratitude. "I'm very happy to have Arya accompany me. Thank you, Your Majesty, the Elf King, and thank you, Arya."
Albert stopped and lowered his eyes to focus on the top of the fuzzy brown hair.
Rongzhen felt a warm gaze above her head, but she still kept her head down and refused to look up.
Apart from a thank you, she said nothing more.
The Elf King suddenly fell silent.
The atmosphere was a bit strange for a while.
Alia looked around and decided to be the first to break the silence. "King, it's getting late. If you have no other instructions, why don't you let me take Jenny to rest?"
As they talked, the last rays of sunlight outside had already faded, and the soft fluorescent lights in the palace lit up one by one as they became more sensitive to light.
Those were light balls made of fluorite and fireflies, hung in various places in the Elf Palace. They could automatically keep the brightness in the palace constant, without the need to light candlesticks.
The set of crystal candlesticks that Rongzhen sold to them will probably only be treated as collectibles.
"I hope Miss Jenny has a good time." The Elf King ended this brief meeting with a very common social expression.
Rong Zhen bowed again and said, "Thank you for your hospitality."
After saying that, she couldn't wait to turn around and leave with Alia.
It's lonely up there, and it's not a good place for her to be at night.
After the two men left, the Elf King stood there for a long time, stroking the mask on his face. He didn't move until he noticed the palace official quietly appearing in the hall. He then asked him in a gloomy voice, "Aqir, are there any humans who like ugly, secretive members of the opposite sex?"
"King..." Archer realized something and felt worried.
Not to mention that they can't, even if the other party has a pure heart that knows how to appreciate truth, goodness and beauty, there is no future for elves and humans.
Besides, the king's appearance was only destroyed to protect them, but he did not lose a bit of his grace and demeanor. He was still a powerful being that could attract all living beings to look up to him and worship him.
Why should the king be so sad about this?
Archer is very pessimistic about interracial love because past cases have proven that it will not have any good results.
To prevent their king from taking the same path of no return, Aqir carefully considered and quickly offered a suggestion: "Have you forgotten? You have the ability to repair yourself. You can eliminate the effects of dragon breath burns by sleeping."
It just takes a bit longer.
By the time their king healed the injuries on his face and woke up, the human girl might have already turned to dust.
"I know, Archer." Albert sighed softly, as if he had made up his mind. "Don't worry, I will soon fall into a deep sleep. Until I wake up, the palace will continue to be in your charge."
Achilles was very surprised by the unexpected turn of events and was deeply impressed by their king's rationality and decisiveness.
The king sacrificed a lot for the elves.
Albert said it happened very quickly, and after arranging all his affairs, he fell into a deep sleep on the couch in the bedroom behind the throne.
Before falling asleep, he asked his servants to bring the newly received pair of crystal candlesticks, light them with precious white candles, and place them on both sides of his bed to accompany him into his dreams.
The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The Elf Palace, surrounded by fluorescent light, seemed to be breathing under the moonlight, rising and falling with the Elf Mother Tree that was tightly surrounded and protected by it. Along with those huge fruits, they all fell asleep in this quiet and beautiful night.
Rongzhen was a little unable to sleep. She was shocked by the scene she saw when she came down from the upper floor of the palace. She was still admiring it.
The light balls made of fluorite and fireflies are already magnificent, not to mention they are hung in the even more huge and fantastical giant wooden palace. Everywhere you look, you can see a hazy and dreamy color, which makes people wonder if they have accidentally entered the dream of a god.
This is so beautiful!
Rong Zhen leaned on the windowsill of the guest room with his face in his hand, admiring the beautiful picture of nature in front of him, while taking in the most eye-catching elf mother tree.
If the Elf Palace at night is illuminated by fluorescent balls, then the Elf Mother Tree does not need any external help and can illuminate the surroundings by its own light.
Not only does it shine itself, it also casts a halo of light on its 'children' that is flowing and hazy and transparent.
Rongzhen rubbed his eyes and leaned half of his body out, trying to see clearly.
It was indeed not her illusion. The huge fruits on the Elf Mother Tree became hazy under the halo of the tree, and she could vaguely see an elf baby curled up inside like a baby.
It’s not quite accurate to call it a larva, because elves don’t have a larvae state.
From the moment she entered the Elf Paradise, she discovered this situation: there were only adult elves, no young or old elves.
This question was answered the next day when Rongzhen was taken by Alia to visit the palace.
"When we elves are gestating on the mother tree, we have already passed through the juvenile stage, which is the most vulnerable to accidental death. As the encased hatching fruit matures and falls off, we become adult elves. When we are injured or age, we return to the mother tree and enter the next round of gestation, and this cycle repeats."
While answering Rongzhen's questions, Alia took her to the mother tree.
Rong Zhen didn't realize it when he looked down from the palace, but only after he was actually under the Elf Mother Tree did he fully realize how majestic and vibrant it was.
It is indeed the sacred tree that can give birth to the elves.
Rongzhen looked at it with awe for life, and suddenly saw one of the fruits on it move.
Alia also saw it and said in surprise, "Oh, a new elf is coming. Let's get out of here quickly. Officer Archer will be here soon. He's a stubborn old fogey."
Rongzhen thought she didn't want to deal with the officer Aqir, so she took the opportunity to leave with her.
But just as she turned around and prepared to leave, the hatching fruit that showed signs of ripening and falling began to shake violently, and then before they could leave, it fell to the ground with a plop and cracked.
"Ah, it's too late, run!" Arya screamed without looking back and pulled Rong Zhen back to the palace like the wind.
An angry roar came from not far behind him: "Alia—what did you do again? Why did the hatching fruit mature prematurely?!"
Rong Zhen subconsciously looked back, but only had time to see a male elf rushing out from the palace on the other side, and a patch of white flowers emerging from the cracked and softened hatching fruit under the elf mother tree.
Uh, I should have thought of it earlier. A newborn elf crawling out of a hatching fruit can't be wearing clothes.
No wonder Alia quickly pulled her away as soon as she saw the hatching fruit fall.
Don’t look at what is indecent. Don’t look at what is indecent.
Rong Zhen muttered to herself as she looked away. She didn't see the face of the newborn elf, nor did she notice his gaze directed in the direction they left.
The next moment, this curious and doubtful pure gaze was blocked by Archer's changed expression.
He quickly calmed down his anger, looked at the little guy in front of him amiably and said, "Welcome, new student. What's your name?"
Elves are born with names that rarely change, so they can tell who the newborn elf is reincarnated from by the name.
Even though the elves will lose all their memories after returning to the mother tree and being reborn, becoming blank elves who only know the elven heritage and common sense, the elves are happy to find old friends by name and renew their interactions with them.
"Alan, my name is Alan." The young newborn elf withdrew his gaze and continued to curl up in the warm and safe hatching fruit, refusing to get up.
Officer Archer understood and quickly ordered his men to bring him a robe and put it on him.
But what puzzled him was: "Alan? There's no such name in the elf record book, right?"
As an officer, he remembered all the elves' names, and he didn't remember any one named Allen.
Could it be the new soul of the mother tree?
Archer was still wondering when the male elf who was dressing Alan suddenly exclaimed.
"Officer, please come and take a look. He, he doesn't have elf ears!"
As the male elf's voice rose in shock, the elves who had heard the news and rushed to greet the new member gathered around them at a faster pace.
Archer was the closest and was the first to see what the male elf described.
The newborn elf named Allen was not only not in the record book, but also did not have the pointed ears that symbolized the elf's racial identity. The place where the ears should be was covered by long snow-white hair, and when he lifted his hair, only a wrinkled ear hole could be seen.
All the elves who saw it were stunned.
Later it was discovered that in addition to this defect, there were more serious problems.
Not only did Alan have no ears, he was also much shorter than them, estimated to be only about one meter tall, with thin and weak limbs and a skinny body. He didn't look like an elf, but more like those weak humans in the outside world.
But he also had a face that looked as if it had been kissed by a forest goddess, fair, delicate, exquisite and beautiful.
Apart from elves, which other race can look like this?
Besides, they saw with their own eyes that he was born from a hatching fruit that fell from the mother tree, so there was no way his race was replaced by someone.
There is only one possibility.
Alan, Alan was not conceived well and was born prematurely and became disabled.
He is not a weak human being, but a disabled elf who was born prematurely!
"Ah, why is this happening? Is this the reason why his name is not in the record book? Since the mother tree does not recognize him, why did it give birth to him and make him suffer?" Archer found it hard to accept this fact. His head was spinning and he couldn't figure out what caused it.
In the end, he could only let the other elves take care of Alan first, and he ran back to the upper level of the palace to look up information and documents about the elves.
When Rong Zhen heard about this from Alia, Officer Archer had not yet come out of the Elf Library. It was obvious that the matter was very tricky and he had not yet found the problem.
After what happened, Rongzhen and the others couldn't stay here any longer.
Fortunately, after a day and a night, several people have already witnessed the magical beauty of the Elf Paradise and the Palace, and have long been satisfied. They do not feel regretful about leaving now.
So in the afternoon, Rongzhen said goodbye to the elf.
Officer Archer had no time to care about them. He only asked Alia and Abel to escort them out, and he himself did not show up.
Alia apologized sheepishly as she rode Bambi to send them off: "The king is sleeping to recover from his injuries, and Aqir is busy investigating that matter, so they couldn't come to see the guests off."
This is extremely rude to an elf, but there is nothing we can do about it.
Rong Zhen understood and said, "It's okay. It's nice to have a good friend like you to see me off. By the way, Aqir won't blame you for that, right?"
After all, they were the only two under the Elf Mother Tree at that time.
Rongzhen is just an ordinary human girl, and no matter what, she can't influence the elves. But it's different for Alia. The officer seemed to have a bad impression of her, and now this kind of thing happened.
"Don't worry, I'm just an ordinary elf. At most, my ideas and hobbies are different from theirs. How could I have the ability to influence the gestation of the mother tree? If I had this ability, I would have pulled Achill down long ago and become the king's official myself." Alia is self-aware and not worried about her situation at all.
Ah, so she has such ambition.
Rongzhen smiled with relief.
On a windowsill in the palace, a newborn elf who saw her smile asked his companion, "Who is she?"
The elf who was in charge of guiding him glanced at him from afar and replied, "It's Miss Jenny, the guest invited by the king this time. Her farm is located between our forest and the lakeside town."
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