When Moon came back to the group, they were surprised to find that she was alone.
The warriors that had been woken up in particular couldn't help asking her where Apollo went.
Moon just said, "He had some business to take care of, so he left first."
No matter how they questioned her, she wouldn't say anything else.
So they had no choice but to drop this subject.
But I could see that there was something that had changed about Moon. It seemed that something had happened between her and Apollo when they went to talk alone.
I had an idea of what it could be, but I didn't know how Moon knew…
I was thinking about going over to comfort her, but she then quickly went off with the rest of the elves to take care of the cleaning up process, so I didn't get a chance in the end.
When we had finished cleaning up the demon cave, the sun had already risen.
It was a tiring night, but we had made sure that there wasn't a single thing left in the cave that could cause a problem.
The only thing left to do was to bring the demons back to the elven village and then take care of the magic draining array.
However, even though everything seemed like it was over…there wasn't a notification that the quest was over. This made me worried that there was something else that would pop up during this time that I would have to deal with…
Even if the demon commander was caught, there was still the reason why they had been sent here in the first place.
That cause hadn't been taken care of yet, so it certainly wasn't over.
But I didn't know just when it would come…
For now, we brought the demons back to the elven village and during that time, I didn't dare let my guard down.
When we arrived, the elves and the elders immediately came out to greet us.
They quickly checked the condition of all the elves, making sure that there weren't any lasting effects on them.
Only after making sure that everyone was alright did the elders summon Moon to the main building with them. They didn't let any of us go with them, but we understood that it was an internal matter of their elven village.
We were shown back to the same house as before and we were allowed to "relax", but it was clear by the elves standing outside that they were keeping us under house arrest.
A few members of our group got uncomfortable seeing this, but there wasn't anything that could be done. So we just patiently waited for the elves to call us.
Half an hour later, the call came.
However, they wouldn't let all of us go.
It was only me, Cecilia, and Haley that were allowed to go to see the elders.
The others wanted to protest, but I stopped them in the end.
We needed to play along so that we could accomplish our goals, not to mention that it was a tense moment right now.
It was better not to stir any waves.
When we came into the hall, it was no longer as relaxed as before.
All of the elders sat there with tense looks on their faces while Moon sat there with a calm look.
However, based on the crumple of her skirt…I could tell that it had been quite tense between them.
Once we were seated, the green haired elder said, "It seems that we've involved you in quite the serious matter."
The words seemed relaxed and calm, but there was a deeper meaning behind it.
Both Cecilia and Haley slightly knitted their brows when they heard this, but I raised my hands for them to calm down.
I just calmly looked at the green haired elder and said, "We were quite surprised by this sudden situation as well."
The green haired elder slightly knitted her brows when she heard this.
She looked at the other elders and they all shook their heads in response.
No one said anything as they all looked at us, almost as if they were scrutinizing us.
After a long period of silence, the green haired elder finally gave a sigh and simply said, "We apologize for this."
I gave a simple nod in response.
After everything that had happened, there had been something strange that changed with me.
Since I had been observing during that fight, I had been able to watch the fight carefully.
Because of this, I had developed the ability to detect magic power.
It was faint at first and I hadn't understood it at first, but then I noticed what was different.
When the elves had cast spells, I had noticed that there was something off about the space about me. It was almost as if there was something extra in the air.
Because of this, I had noticed that there was something extra right now.
It seemed that the elders had done something extra here. They had cast some kind of spell here and based on their reactions, it should have been a spell that detected whether one was lying or not.
My answer just now definitely wasn't a lie.
While I did know that there were demons, there was no doubt that I had been surprised by all of this. Especially the quest that had suddenly appeared.
So the reaction that they got from their spell was that I had been telling the truth.
Seeing that they couldn't find any proof that I was lying, they had no reason for them to doubt that I was working with the demons anymore. Not to mention, they wouldn't want that to be the case since facing the humans and the demons at the same time…would be bad for them.
After confirming this, the green haired elder went onto the next topic.
"How do you know how to use the Storage Rings of our elven race?"
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