"Sweetheart, you must keep this crescent in your mouth, hidden beneath your tongue, understand? No matter what happens, no matter how much pain you suffer, don't cry out and expose it." A woman of the Elf Race named Beauty stood in a panic on the Wenhu River, which ran across the outer ring of the Sakas Empire, gently stroking the child on a small green leaf, who was still learning to babble.
"Ah~ Hug~ Hug~" The infant understood none of this. He only wanted his mother to hold him.
Beauty, the elf woman, planted a firm kiss on the infant's forehead, then hid the moon-white crescent beneath his tongue and forcefully pushed the green leaf in her hands away. She watched helplessly as the infant sat crying on the leaf, drifting into the distance. Only after he disappeared from sight did she grit her teeth and dash upstream. She had to buy her child time. No matter what, the Fated Key absolutely could not fall into the hands of the longevity-cursed species. Yet one question remained in her heart: why did the longevity-cursed species know that the Great Elven King City had two members of the elf king species, one in the light and one in the shadows? Aside from the Ancient Priest within the Elven King City, no elf knew of her existence. So, had the Ancient Priest, respected and beloved by the entire Elf Race, betrayed them?
"Zagumei, are you after that everlasting lifespan too? Don't we elves already live long enough?" Murmuring, Beauty, the elf woman, quickened her pace and kept sprinting. Mere minutes after she left, three members of the longevity-cursed species with lotus petals on their brows approached and carefully examined the footprints on the ground. "She stopped by the river for over a minute.