50. Squinty-eyed characters are troublesome
As Ludwig finished speaking, Louis the Ninety-Ninth, bloodied and battered, finally crawled halfway out of the deformed escort vehicle.
At that moment, he had no time to dwell on the various torments inflicted by this group of elves; all he could think of as he finally managed to escape the wreckage was one thing: cling to the thigh!
“El, elf lady! Are you here to save…”
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“Save you a hammer, didn’t I tell you to avoid troublesome methods? Just tell me what’s going on in simple terms!”
Before Louis the Ninety-Ninth could even feel happy, his face was stomped on by Ludwig’s boot. Humiliation aside, it was impossible to get angry because… because this white-haired elf was the one who had previously ordered him to “find talent,” a powerful ally! Rumor had it that this elf had an even “greater backing,” and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that he secretly ruled the Great Yng Empire. It was not the kind of child’s play that Queen Louise the Fourth engaged in, which was why Louis the Ninety-Ninth felt so confident.
Even if it was just a chance encounter, Louis the Ninety-Ninth sensed a glimmer of hope! As long as he found a powerful ally, no matter what that queen said, whether it was the queen or Pruliss, they would have to pay the price for their schemes against him!
“Lord Elf! I’m being targeted!”
Louis the Ninety-Ninth hurriedly got up, mixing snot and tears with blood, and cried out with a painted face, “Didn’t I come to ‘find someone’ for you? Who knew that a few of that queen’s lackeys would be so blind, not only ruining what I was doing in Pruliss but even trying to drag me back!”
“Oh? Is that so?”
Ludwig nodded perfunctorily while moving to the side, starting to remove the black military uniforms of several other elves who had fainted from the earlier incident and had yet to wake up.
Though the scene was indeed bizarre, at that moment, Louis the Ninety-Ninth dared not entertain any extraneous thoughts and immediately began to plead.
“Lord Elf, you must speak to your master about this, and treat it properly…”
“Don’t look for me, okay~”
“Huh?”
“I already said, right? I just came over to say hello because I saw someone familiar. Now that I’ve asked what I needed to, you can consider escaping under these circumstances, but how you escape is too troublesome for me to care about.”
After removing the outer coats and inner shirts of the two elves, Ludwig raised his hand and sent them one by one… into the unknown void, before turning around with two sets of clothes while yawning.
“What do you mean by this!? I’m in a particularly…”
“Your life or death is none of my business; I even find it troublesome to think about, human.”
With just a glance, Louis the Ninety-Ninth felt as if he had been frozen in place, so frightened that he didn’t dare to continue speaking.
“And by the way, don’t look for me in the future, because I’ve already quit my job in the Great Yng Empire.”
Finally, under Louis the Ninety-Ninth’s astonished gaze, Ludwig lazily shrugged and said, “By the way, in no more than five minutes, someone will come here to investigate. If you want to run, I think it’s better for you to hurry up and escape now~”
In a flurry of panic, rather than continuing to cling to this elf who clearly didn’t care about him, Louis the Ninety-Ninth chose to flee in a hurry. After all this, Ludwig merely yawned in boredom, watching the figure of Louis the Ninety-Ninth disappear.
For all that she had done, the nearby green elf—Wind Fairy Magnus could no longer hold back and shouted out!
“So, what are you doing!? The master didn’t send us here to cause trouble!”
“Sigh… Why are you so stupid? I’m just using the least troublesome method to fulfill the maid order your master gave me.” As she spoke, Ludwig tossed one of the elf uniforms to Magnus.
“Strip down and put this on.”
At this point, even Magnus understood Ludwig’s intention: the two of them, dressed so strangely, couldn’t disguise themselves for long in the tightly searched Pruliss Kingdom. The quickest way to gather information and blend into that self-disciplined fairy’s domain was naturally to disguise themselves as “one of their own.”
After all, they were both elves, and this little convenience wouldn’t expose them. Although she was reluctant to wear these elf clothes, Magnus had no choice but to endure.
As she changed, Magnus also took a fresh look at this “elf maid” beside her. Although she was an elf, most of her was the master’s fairy, while Ludwig was a genuine white-haired elf. Despite being part of the elf clan, her earlier actions had been… utterly decisive.
“Where… where did you send those elves just now?”
“Who knows? It was too troublesome, so I just sent them off to the afterlife…”
“!”
“Just kidding, I sent them to your master. Ah~ like a trash can, it’s really convenient.”
This must be Ludwig joking, but… Magnus found nothing funny about it at all. On the contrary… she even shivered a little, starting to regret her decision to volunteer to accompany this sprite to sabotage her master’s enemies.
“Well, you should tell me by now, wandering around the territory of Pruliss with me and then asking me to do this kind of thing, what exactly is…”
“It’s to solve things without trouble, little girl. Sigh… are all you fairies’ heads made of mush? Do you even know anything about Icarus?”
At that moment, while Magnus was feeling annoyed, Ludwig had already changed her clothes, tied up her hair, and put on the hat of the Pruliss Kingdom’s army. In the night, it was impossible to distinguish her identity without getting close.
“I’m just testing the range of Magnus’s ‘power.’ Changing into this outfit is just to make it easier to find her, you know. After all, with that fairy’s personality, she would definitely cowardly hide in her ‘fortress.’ As long as I have this royal guard uniform, blending in will be simple~ Thanks to that human from earlier.”
“After that, I’ll be relying on your power, little fairy. If I remember correctly… you can disguise yourself using wind magic, right? To be honest, I’m quite interested in that…”
“!”
Fear… that’s all Magnus could feel at this moment!
The sprite in front of her seemed lazy and troublesome, but in reality… it was so dangerous! Was it really okay for her master to hire her!?
“Well, I’m not really interested in the magic you all are so used to, and… smear some on me.”
Just as Magnus was too scared to move, Ludwig slapped a puddle of mud onto her face, making Magnus scream in shock!
“Just get a little dirty, and then… when someone comes later, don’t say the wrong thing.”
As she spoke, Ludwig yawned and looked toward the distant flickering flames.
“This is our chance to go directly to the Pruliss royal city and find the insightful fairy. Don’t blow our cover~ After all… the last thing I want is trouble…”
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