Hearing a voice coming from the height of his waist, Xu Yi lowered his head in surprise and saw an adorable human girl looking up at him, her face full of curiosity.
"This..." Xu Yi's eyes widened. He instantly realized that this was not a human girl, but...
"A gnome! My god, an actual gnome!"
Xu Yi froze for a moment, then crouched to meet the girl's eyes and examined her carefully, confirming that he had not been mistaken.
At first glance, this creature looked much like a human girl, but there were considerable differences in the details. The most obvious was her pair of pointed ears, which resembled an elf's but were a size smaller.
Combined with her slightly stockier build and her conspicuously large, bright eyes, she matched the descriptions of gnomes in the historical records perfectly.
That was right. She was a gnome!
But hadn't gnomes vanished from the entire continent long ago?
According to various historical records, all traces of gnomes had disappeared from the Sains Continent more than two thousand years ago.
Over those two thousand years, elves had still shown themselves occasionally. There were even elven tribes like the Moon Shadow Tribe that frequently interacted with humans.
But throughout those two thousand years, not the slightest trace of the gnomes had surfaced-not even a rumor.
The final conclusion in every historical record, and the judgment of everyone else, was that gnomes had vanished entirely from this continent.
Perhaps they really had traveled to another continent deep in the Endless Sea, as the legends claimed, but it was considered certain that no gnomes remained on the Sains Continent.
And yet, a living, breathing gnome now stood right in front of Xu Yi!
Xu Yi stared at the adorable female gnome before him and could not