Compared with Chris's delay in regaining his freedom, his cousin James' life seems much more comfortable.
Today, he is walking with his wife, children, and Amelia in a hilly area full of trees. Their destination is the Whispering Forest, where the elves have lived since ancient times.
Amelia will be celebrating her tenth birthday soon, and it’s time to receive training as a warrior within the clan.
When the elves are ten years old, they bid farewell to childhood and undergo training in order to welcome the coming-of-age ceremony at the age of twelve.
Because in the tradition of the elves, all tribesmen will receive the blessing of the Blood Moon Altar and officially become a warrior when they reach the age of twelve. The origin of this tradition is the death and injury of adult warriors in the war between the elves and the Vulcan Cult.
It was so tragic that in order to sustain the war, all children over the age of twelve went to the battlefield.
Although the war between elves and humans has been eliminated, the tradition has been preserved.
In order to remember history, and to let the people always remember that if they forget to fight, they will perish.
Among the people traveling with me were middle-aged people with paralyzed faces.
As James' personal bodyguard and concubine, Jessica did not come with her because she had just given birth to a daughter.
Calculating the time, I should have been conceived in the wilderness.
James's twin sons will be four years old in the spring. The descendants of the Einske family at this age will also start to prepare plans for martial arts training. After all, every big family with a long heritage has hidden hidden agendas behind its glamorous appearance.
Known hard work and dedication.
The eldest son is called Midialo and has green hair.
He inherited more of his wife's bloodline and had slightly pointed ears. He was a model of forced elven bloodline.
Therefore, Raphael, the head of the Ainske family, decided to let the elves teach Midialo, and stayed in the elven territory until he was twelve years old, held a coming-of-age ceremony, and then returned to Edin City.
Midialo, to put it bluntly, is an Elf clan with the surname Ainske.
He is the bridge that maintains the alliance between the Einske family and the elves.
In the future, after the death of the human demigods, if the Ainske family needs the elves to participate in the war, then Midialo will appear in the elves' army; and the elves will also obtain from the Ainske family through him.
More benefits.
This is his innate mission, a mission that he will never let go of throughout his life.
The younger son is called Antonio, has bright red hair, and is a standard Ainske.
He will accompany his brother in the Whispering Forest for two or three years, and then be brought back to Edin City by the icy-faced middle-aged man who teaches him martial arts.
As for why he was allowed to travel, it was because he was too young and the absence of his parents and elder brother would affect his growth and mentality.
Yes, James is going to travel far away.
His grandfather Raphael finally let him fly - to find opportunities to break through the shackles and become a strong man.
This is also the reason why he cannot teach his son himself.
After settling down with his wife and children, he will travel through the Whispering Forest to the Sunshine South further south.
There are giants, dragons, and all kinds of powerful beasts there. There are also countless moments where he is wandering between life and death, giving him the opportunity to break through his shackles and become a strong man.
In the past, it was no more than a dream for humans to travel through the Whispering Forest.
Unless all the elves are dead.
But after the Einske family and the elves formed an alliance, James wanted to travel through it without any effort.
When we reached the border of the elven territory, there were almost no people on the road.
The caravans that travel all year round don't seem to set off in early winter, which saves James and his party a lot of trouble.
In the territory controlled by Einske, James, as the heir, was so recognizable that everyone who saw him would greet him with courtesy.
Before entering the Whispering Forest, the road became either uphill or downhill, with a constant back and forth cycle. This made the two little boys sitting in the carriage very bored. They were at an active age.
The red-haired one was in her mother's arms, and the green-haired one was in her father's lap. They kept playing and joking with each other, occasionally pulling their mother's hair, and occasionally pulling their father's beard.
This is their last childhood.
Perhaps because he wanted to say goodbye, James also sat in the carriage, without a cynical look on his face.
Amelia is also in the carriage.
She sat next to her sister Anastasia, their little bodies close to each other.
Having lost her mother when she was young, she relied heavily on her much older sister, just like she relied on her mother.
And since she was born, Anastasia has never left her, even if she got married thousands of miles away, she would not forget to take her with her.
Compared with the first time Chris saw her, she has grown a lot taller now, and is already over 1.4 meters tall.
If this trend continues, maybe in a few years she will become a beautiful girl with a slender figure.
The biased God has given endless grace to the elves, and both men and women are very beautiful.
"It's so boring, father, shall we go horse riding?"
It was Antonio who spoke.
Before he could even finish his words, the twin brother immediately clapped his hands and echoed, "Okay, okay, go ride a horse! Go ride a horse!"
"Okay, let's go horse riding."
At this time, their father will not refuse any request.
The cool breeze blowing up the hair, the greenery passing through the eyes, and the chirping of birds passing by the ears diluted the adults' sorrow of separation.
James and his party rode three horses on the hills. The two children were held in their arms, shouting and squealing with excitement. Their innocence brought smiles to the faces of the adults.
We will enter the Whispering Forest immediately. Teams with elves present will not be attacked.
What's more, they are not soft persimmons that can be pinched by everyone.
As for the very huge luxury carriage that was left far behind, there was a middle-aged man with a frozen face as the driver. I guess no one was stupid enough to rob a strong man.
There was a trace of thought hidden on James's smiling face.
Not only for farewell, but also for the news that Raphael told him.
The archbishop of Vulcan, another archbishop of the Einske family, has an extremely talented descendant. He is only twenty-five years old but is already half a strong man.
Everyone feels that he will become a strong man before he is thirty years old.
This kind of news originally had no impact on the Einske family.
It's nothing more than one more strong man. It's not like the Einske family doesn't have descendants who will become strong men. They won't be able to influence the overall situation in the future war between the two families. For example, except for Raphael and Lange, no one
I know that James is already half a strong man at the age of twenty-three!
Except for Avril Lavigne back then, James is the most talented person in the entire Ainske family!
The reason why I didn’t make any announcement was just that I learned the lesson from Avril Lavigne’s bad show back then.
And James has never been allowed to try to break through the shackles and become a strong man because Raphael wanted him to lay a solid foundation so that it would be easier to awaken to his true name in the future.
However, when the news came back from Xiaozuo about another archbishop family, Raphael felt that it was urgent for James to pursue the path of becoming a strong man.
The hostile family has already made the descendants of the 25-year-old half-step strong man begin to try to break through the shackles!
Because they want to promote him as the "Son of the God of Fire" after he becomes a strong man!
Just like when Raphael had started to package the extremely talented Avril as the "saint" of the Vulcan Cult, the purpose was to win the support of the believers and to break away from the Holy Empire to dominate the south after the fall of the human demigods.
In other words, after the enemy family killed the hope of the Einske family, they actually copied the "hope" in the same way!
Raphael could no longer bear this.
He also immediately made the decision to let James travel far away to find a way to break through the shackles.
Indeed, in the history of the Vulcan Cult, there has never been a person who became a strong person before the age of thirty; but there is also no strong person who awakened his true name in his early thirties!
The reason why the strong are strong comes from the power of their true names.
Raphael felt that since James was already thirty years old and could not defeat the rival family due to his age advantage in becoming a strong man, he should create a historical moment when the minimum age for awakening his true name was achieved!
Let all the families and believers in the south know who the "Son of the God of Fire" is in everyone's expectation!
The galloping horse stopped in front of a forest. This was the Whispering Forest, and the patrolling elves had come out to greet it.
Their eldest princess had only been married for a few years, but her appearance had not yet been forgotten.
However, they were signaled to stop. The two little boys could not stop for a moment, chasing a beautiful butterfly, their faces full of novelty and joy.
Their mother did not want the arrival of strangers to disturb their innocent and brilliant childlike fun.
Anyway, it will take some time for the carriage of the frozen-faced middle-aged man to arrive. He cannot successfully enter the Whispering Forest alone.
James stood aside, his eyes chasing his son's figure, but his eyes were thinking about the distance.
Heading to the Sunshine South, can I come back?
he asked himself in silence.
A burst of fragrance hit him, and his hand was held by a crystal-clear jade hand.
It was the hand of his wife Anastasia.
Her considerate smile is like the spring breeze, causing all the flowers in the world to bloom; under her long eyelashes, her loving green eyes are like the green buds returning to the earth in spring, blooming with hope for the recovery of all things.
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He also smiled, his face filled with happiness and his eyebrows raised in the sunshine.