"Brother!" Chen Rui turned and saw Alice and Michelle approaching. Alice was even leading White Wind by the reins. The surrounding elves hurriedly moved aside, staring in surprise at the unfamiliar "elf" girl who could command White Wind.
"Brother!" Michelle ran excitedly up to Chen Rui. "Alice and I won first place in the riding finals! Look, these are the prizes we got!"
With White Wind's strength, taking first place was only to be expected. Chen Rui laughed heartily and gave Michelle and Alice a thumbs-up. "You two are amazing!"
Alice and Michelle smugly high-fived. Chen Rui looked at the ingratiating unicorn and tossed it a spirit fruit. On the not-so-spacious spectator stairs, White Wind performed a difficult leap, caught the fruit, and happily began crunching away.
Chen Rui then introduced Michelle to Lola. Lola could clearly sense that the elf girl's feelings for Chen Rui were purely those of a younger sister toward her brother. Since she was a "sister-in-law" rather than a "sister," the "sister-in-law's" attitude naturally became exceptionally warm.
By now, more and more people had gathered at the archery grounds. Many elves had heard that the Magic Archer Legion's top archer was competing against a half-elf, and what shocked everyone was that neither of the first two matches had produced a winner!
At the same time, the tangled relationship between the half-elf, Altani, and Pang Luo had been dug up and swiftly spread around. Nearly everyone present now knew of the oath Altani had sworn in the name of the Moonlight Goddess.
Chen Rui spotted the figure of Elf Empress Liv in the VIP seats. Beside Empress Liv, he unexpectedly discovered a familiar woman who was not an elf—the current Empress of the Blue Radiance Empire, Lambis.
The Blue Radiance Empire and the Silvermoon Fairy Capital