Under the Night
This is a giant oak tree that is over 70 meters tall. If converted into a building, it would be equivalent to a skyscraper that is nearly 20 stories high.
It is considered the best location in Padesto City, where the Silver Moon Elf residential area is located. The four-story treehouse on this big tree is located at the middle of the tree. Some of the treehouses are exposed from the bushes and can enjoy the sunshine, while most of the treehouses are hidden in the dense branches and leaves.
These treehouses, made of wooden planks, are full of the elves' pursuit of beauty.
Below the treehouse is a rather long spiral staircase. Two Half-Elf guards stand on either side of the bottom of the staircase, and there are also two Half-Elf guards at the top of the staircase.
The remaining Half-Elf guards lived on the first to third floors of the treehouse, while the top floor was the living area for the Mine Owner Seagonis and his family.
If you were to sneak into this treehouse from below, you would need to overcome at least several checkpoints to reach the area where the Mine Owner Seagonis is located.
Vice Captain Tennyson's assassination plan was extremely audacious. He led five Dark Moon Elf Warrior and, taking advantage of the dark night, rode griffins directly to the top of the oak tree. Several members of the Assassin Squad were lowered down by ropes.
The wind was quite strong, and the rope was swinging wildly in the air. Vice Captain Tennyson held onto the rope with one hand and kept looking down.
Once he confirmed that the tree beneath him was the target treehouse, he released the rope when he was still ten meters away from the tree and pounced into the dense canopy.
The remaining Dark Moon Elf Warrior also rushed towards the giant tree at the same time.
The griffins in the night sky flapped their wings and quickly ascended into the sky. They did not need to support Vice Captain Tennyson's retreat, so they could return to the western suburbs of Padesto City at this time. After all, it was very dangerous to hover over Padesto City at night.
The dense canopy of trees was like a giant, natural soft bed. Dark Moon Elf Warrior, clad in tight leather armor, rushed towards the dense foliage. The moment they touched the branches, they stretched out their bodies, placed their hands on the thicker branches, and slipped into the dense foliage.
On the third-floor terrace of the treehouse, two Half-Elf guards heard the sound of some branches breaking and assumed that the wind was too strong at night and had broken a branch of the big tree.
Their gaze swept across the treetops, but they didn't notice anything unusual.
Meanwhile, Vice Captain Tennyson was already crouching on a horizontal branch, looking down at the treehouse hidden in the canopy.
Several Dark Moon Elf concealed themselves in the darkness and slowly approached Captain Tennyson's location.
Once the team members were all present, Vice Captain Tennyson -Vice Captain Tennyson walked down the trunk of the tree to the roof of the treehouse. There were several parasols and a row of lounge chairs on the terrace. He easily stepped over the wooden railing and stood silently outside a bedroom.
Through the gap in the curtains, one could clearly see two Half-Elf children and an adult elf woman lying on the wooden bed inside the room.
Hidden in the darkness, Vice Captain Tennyson stepped back and walked to the window of another room. There, he saw a lit room where a male elf was embracing an elven woman on a large bed behind sheer curtains.
Vice Captain Tennyson pried open the wooden bed with a dagger, and two Dark Moon Elf Warrior propped up the window. Vice Captain Tennyson then silently slipped into the room.
Under the bright lights, Vice Captain Tennyson's body appeared translucent; only by standing in the shadows could he conceal himself.
The other three Dark Moon Elf followed Vice Captain Tennyson into the room.
Four Dark Moon Elf stealthily approached the large bed from both sides. Vice Captain Tennyson circled around to the head of the bed. He even unfolded the portrait in his hand under the lamplight, then gently lifted the curtain and carefully checked the appearance of the Mine Owner Seagonis. After confirming that the person lying on the bed was indeed the Mine Owner Seagonis, he suddenly lifted his chin with one hand and slit his throat with a knife.
Blood gushed from the wound, and at that moment, the Mine Owner Seagonis suddenly awoke from his sleep. He opened his eyes and saw Vice Captain Tennyson wiping a bloodstained dagger with a curtain. He felt a sharp pain in his neck, and a warm liquid was flowing from his body.
He tried to struggle and shout, but his hands and feet were firmly controlled, leaving him only able to stare helplessly at the masked elf crouching at the head of the bed...
When Vice Captain Tennyson saw that the Mine Owner Seagonis had woken up, he covered his face with the parchment portrait he was holding.
In the dim light, the Half-Elf woman, dressed in a light gauze nightgown, curled up, trying to close her eyes tightly as she trembled, tears streaming down her face.
Vice Captain Tennyson remained silent, waiting until the Mine Owner Seagonis's body completely went limp, his heart stopped beating, and his hands and feet turned icy cold before standing up and quietly leading three Dark Moon Elf Warrior to the outdoor terrace.
He leaped off the balcony railing and disappeared into the vast night.
Since leaving the Nikoba Mountain Range, Agalia has developed a drinking habit, and he can hardly fall asleep without a little alcohol every night.
The mine he runs was not founded by him; he took it over from his father.
When his father started the mine, he told him that this business couldn't last forever, and that he should get out as soon as there were any bad signs.
Agalia always remembered his father's words, but once he lived in such a comfort zone for too long, he no longer wanted to be an adventurer who lived a life of hardship, nor did he want to return to the Elf Continent to be exploited by the Silver Moon Elf Elves, so he continued to run his business in this way.
Four years ago, Lord Alvis fell, but the incident did not affect the Mine Owners on the plateau, which gave him a sense of relief.
When the Silver Pegasus Legion rushed into the Pagisto Plateau, arriving and departing in haste, it gave him a renewed sense of hope.
When the Highland Slavers launched their retaliatory attack on the Half-Elf, the Mine Owner Agalia didn't pay much attention, since the matter wouldn't involve Mine Owners anyway.
But what happened next was incomprehensible to him. A guy named Boss Roy rose rapidly on the Pagisto Plateau, not only driving the Highland Slavers back to the Gazan Ancestral Land, but also beginning to reclaim all the mines on the plateau.
By the time he tried to slip away, it was clearly too late...
Unable to fall asleep in bed, I got up and went to the closet. I poured myself a glass of rum, then added some sweet Orange Wine before drinking it all in one gulp.
Stepping onto the terrace, the night wind was strong, making him shiver all over, and goosebumps rose from every pore...
It was a bit cold, so Agalia turned around to go to her room to get a warm coat.
But when I turned around, I saw a human boy sitting calmly on a recliner by the door, with a faint light shining on his head.
Agalia glanced at Roy and immediately stopped in her tracks.
Then suddenly, a phantom image of an Elf Ranger holding a bow and arrow appeared behind him.
A faint light shone from the ankle of the Mine Owner Agalia, and his feather-light body suddenly leaped backward, vaulting over the railing seven or eight meters away before plummeting straight down the tree.
The thin pajamas completely woke him up. The Mine Owner Agalia hugged his shoulders and brought his legs together, pushing his fall to its maximum speed.
Just as Agalia's head was about to hit the ground, his body curled up completely, and the instant his feet touched the ground, his body rolled forward several meters.
This is the edge of the Silver Moon Elf residential area, right next to the Central Avenue of Padesto City. There are no pedestrians on the street at midnight, but you can still see the dim, cold-toned streetlights among the flowers. The Mine Owner Agalia collapsed into a grove of trees.
Just to the left of the Mine Owner Agalia, a figure rushed out of a bush. In the darkness, he was like a Black Mist that was not very clear. Only the dagger in his hand turned into a streak of light and stabbed towards Agalia's back.
Agalia curled up into a ball again, avoiding the Dark Moon Elf Warrior's backstab, and then quickly lunged into a thicket of thorny bushes, escaping the ambush.
The Dark Moon Elves, hiding in other bushes, immediately gave chase to the place where Agalia had disappeared.
Roy was surprised to find that the Mine Owner Agalia was actually an Elf Ranger. It was clear that his most proficient weapon was the Elf Longbow, and he jumped off the terrace more than 30 meters high without even blinking.
Moreover, his posture perfectly cushioned the force of the fall, allowing him to leap into the bushes like a fawn.
Roy stood on the terrace and peered down, but his view was obscured by the dense bushes, and he couldn't see the Mine Owner Agalia at all.
Six Dark Moon Elf assassins, hidden in the shadows, quickly surrounded the spot where Agalia had disappeared, and vanished into the darkness in the blink of an eye.
Vice Captain Tennyson led five Dark Moon Elf assassins away from the huge treehouse. They retreated along the Forest Path towards the southwest corner of the Silver Moon Elf residential area, preparing to rendezvous with the Second Assassin Squad led by Boss Roy.
After Forest Path for a while, I saw a faint light flash in the southwest corner.
Vice Captain Tennyson quickly changed direction and accelerated westward toward the light, flanking it. The Dark Moon Elves behind him also sped up, running in a wide-spread pattern, like an invisible hand quietly reaching out toward Agalia.
Just over 800 meters away, Agalia emerged from the Rose Thorns Thicket, looking disheveled. He was only wearing a thin nightgown, and had plunged into the Rose Thorns Thicket to escape his pursuers. When he finally emerged, his body was covered in countless tiny cuts from the sharp thorns, and his thin nightgown was riddled with holes from the branches.
Agalia felt a burning pain all over his body, and the cold wind made him shiver.
He didn't know how many pursuers were behind him, and he ran forward without stopping for a moment. However, he dared not shout loudly, because his identity, which was hidden from the light of day, would attract the patrols and guards of the Silver Moon Elf Elves, and who knew what kind of trouble it would cause.
He fled toward the treehouse of the Mine Owner Seagonis Mine Owner Seagonis, hoping that the elven guards he had brought with him could help him deal with his pursuers...