"Freedom?"
The elf pacing across the open ground looked at Lin Yu. After laboriously forcing out those two words, he stepped forward and examined Lin Yu.
"You... you're... a 'Seeker of Truth'?!"
The light in the elf's eyes grew brighter and brighter. Staring at the identification badge hanging before Lin Yu's chest, he exclaimed delightedly, "So... there really is a chance for 'freedom'!"
Lin Yu realized what was happening.
Sure enough, the prisoners here could recognize the identification badge on his chest, and knew that it represented a chance to obtain "temporary freedom."
"Moreover, he didn't recognize me right away. He only realized it after I reminded him. That's probably because these elves have been locked in their cells for so many years that, as the starting area of the Trial's 'safe zone,' they may truly have had no chance to come into contact with anyone else who came here for the Trial..."
"If they were from other areas, where they were often let out and could communicate with their fellow race members or other prisoners in the same area, they could probably recognize this badge of mine at a glance."
While they were talking, the elf had completely recovered from his numb state. Since the two of them were very close, Lin Yu's Mental Power perception had already covered him.
Lin Yu could sense that the elf's originally silent spirit, as lifeless as a dead man's, and his soul, only slightly more active than a tree's, had been completely reactivated by Lin Yu's approach, his words, and the identification badge hanging from him.
Although his mind was probably still not very clear, the elf had begun thinking again.
Thinking of countermeasures, thinking of how to obtain this hard-won chance at freedom!
After the delight...
The emotion surging from his