I became a vampire princess and then a dragon girl?

"Hmm...there's not enough space. Tina, can you please move back a little?"

"it is good!"

As she spoke, Istina began to step back step by step, but suddenly she tripped and fell to the ground.

"what!"

Hearing Istina's exclamation from the other side, Eve hurriedly asked.

"What's wrong? Any accident?"

"Ah, nothing, I just tripped accidentally."

As she spoke, Istina was trying to see what had tripped her, and then she saw an extremely horrifying scene - an elf was sitting in a pit in a half-lying position, and she was tripped by the arm on the edge of the pit.

"what--!!!"

Suddenly, a subconscious scream resounded throughout the top of the hill.

"Tina, are you okay?"

Hearing the scream, Eve immediately jumped over the half-erected tent and came to Istina's side. At this moment, the "corpse" in the pit gave Istina the final blow.

"Hmm...it's so noisy...is someone here?"

"……ah--!!!"

After a brief pause, the piercing scream resounded over the hill once again.

There was no way. Although the person in front of her was not a ghost, he also revealed a sense of resurrection of the dead, which once again hit Istina's weakness.

"Eh?"

However, the culprit who caused all these events, our corpse himself, is still in a daze.

"Okay, Tina is just an elf, don't be afraid."

"But, but, isn't she already dead?"

Upon hearing this, the elf in the pit finally realized what had happened and made a small correction.

"Um, Miss? I'm only about to die, but I'm still alive."

"Eh?"

Hearing her say this, Istina's body suddenly froze in place as if the pause button had been pressed.

She seems to have accidentally caused trouble again...

"I'm sorry, Tina is a little afraid of ghosts and other things. Please wait a moment while I explain it to her."

"Um, sorry, I accidentally scared her just now."

She nodded to the elf somewhat embarrassedly, then Eve pulled Istina aside and explained in a low voice, while the elf also began to dust himself off.

"Tina, that person just now was an elf nearing the end of her life. She's not a ghost. She simply chose not to return to the World Tree but to reach her destination in her favorite place, returning to nature."

"Is that so... Does that mean she's going to die soon?"

"Well, her vitality is already very weak, like a candle in the wind, it could go out at any moment."

On this continent, lifespan is mainly related to strength and race. In terms of race, it goes without saying that the elves have two pillars: one is that the whole clan has a long lifespan, and the other is that the higher the purity of the bloodline, the longer the lifespan. In terms of strength, it is relatively uniform: the stronger a person is, the longer his lifespan will be.

However, the tragedy is that the theoretical lifespan limit of humans can barely reach the lower limit of elves, but the human race is large in number and reproduces quickly, and the gap in the number of people between the two races has reached the level of several digits.

In terms of combat effectiveness, the two races have one using human waves and the other using elite soldiers. It is hard to say which side has the greater advantage in a real fight. After all, the human wave is sometimes quite outrageous. People are not machines. Even if they keep using swords, they will get tired. Of course, the Mother of Elves must be removed here, otherwise the human wave tactics will directly turn into a game of unparalleled skill.

Eve remembered that the Empire's garrison seemed to have millions of troops, always waiting for an opportunity to attack the Source of the Fall. However, they did not dare to act rashly due to Elizabeth's prestige. She hoped that there would never be a day when the army would actually march out.

Back to the elves, once they sense that their lives are about to come to an end, some of them will choose to merge with the World Tree, return to their origin, be born from the fruit of the World Tree, and eventually become part of the World Tree.

Another part of the elves would choose to sleep quietly in the place they like and become a part of nature, and the one they met now was the latter.

§ 82 Encounter

"Then, brave hero, are we leaving now? After all, this is the last place she chose."

After listening to Eve's explanation, Istina asked hesitantly.

"That's not necessary. The elves' view on life and death is different from that of humans. They take death very lightly, and we've already started talking about it there."

As Eve spoke, she raised her chin in the direction of the elf. Looking over, she saw that Melchis had already started chatting with the elf, and they seemed to be having a very good time.

"Forehead……"

Istina was speechless. While she was still debating whether to leave, her travel companion had already started chatting with the other person about what to do...

"Anyway, we can just stay here normally, but she might ask Shizu to hold a traditional elf ceremony for her."

After finally deciding how to get along with each other, Eve took Istina back to the elf and introduced herself.

"Hello, my name is Eve, this is Istina, and this is Melchis. We are currently traveling in the territory of the elves."

"Ah, hello everyone, I'm Celie, an ordinary elf. Are you all here to see the Forest of Birds?"

"Well, I heard in a nearby village that you can watch the flocks of birds here, so I thought I'd come over to take a look. I didn't expect to disturb you."

"Ah, no, nothing."

Hearing Eve's apologetic words, Xili quickly waved her hand.

"This is indeed a nice place, otherwise I wouldn't have chosen to spend my last days here. I didn't expect to meet a white elf at the end. It seems I'm quite lucky."

As she spoke, Siri looked at Melchis beside her.

"But why would she be traveling with Miss Eve and the others? Clearly, elves don't appear very often, right?"

"Well, this is a bit bizarre."

Eve's expression was a little subtle when she heard the other party mention this matter.

"Originally, I met her by accident and brought her back to the elves. But a day later, they asked me to take care of her for a while and bring her back after the festival, so we started traveling together."

Eve waved her hand without saying anything more on this matter and then asked.

"We're planning to camp here for one night. Would Miss Celie like to come with us?"

"Yes, with pleasure."

"Okay, let's start setting up the tent."

In this way, despite some minor setbacks, the tent was set up on the top of the mountain. In order to prevent anything from attracting the bird monsters not far away, Eve also cast a layer of camouflage magic on the top of the mountain, so that the experience of being attacked by the bird monsters in formation and dropped bombs would only happen once.

When setting up the tent, Xili also came to help for a while. To be honest, if Eve hadn't said that the other party was about to die, at least Istina would not be able to see that there was anything wrong with his body.

After setting up the tent, a few people sat casually on the top of the mountain and watched the flock of birds in the distance with their eyes.

"By the way, Miss Celie, do you know why there are so many bird-like monsters gathered there? There are so many different kinds of birds living together, but they're not fighting each other."

After watching for a while, Istina asked curiously.

"Hmm... I'm not entirely sure, but the number of birds living here has been increasing little by little. At first, only the blue-black birds were common."

As she spoke, Xili gently used the farsighted magic to lock onto a bird with blue-black metallic feathers.

"Later, other bird species began to appear in greater numbers, and many birds with particularly striking feathers began to settle here."

The screen flashed, and this time a group of large birds with colorful feathers appeared, including blue and yellow, rainbow gradients, and other various colors. These birds are also more gregarious, often dozens of birds of the same color gather together and move around, and their nests are very close to each other, basically located on the same tree.

"It is because of the increase in the number of these birds that this place has the nickname of the Forest of Birds."

"It's probably to protect against predators."

Eve also interrupted when she heard this.

"After all, the birds that live in groups here are not carnivorous, so living in groups can protect themselves well."

Eve was not just talking nonsense. While Tina and the others were chatting, she had already taken a quick look at the flock of birds in the distance. She noticed that none of the birds there mainly fed on meat. Most of them were holding various nuts, fruits, etc. in their mouths.

Considering the bird flock attack they had encountered before, it was not difficult to deduce this.

"Is that so? But what do all these birds eat on a daily basis? The food in the Forest of Birds alone is definitely not enough."

"what!"

Hearing this, Xili clapped her hands lightly.

"Speaking of which, there's an area not far from the Forest of Birds that has some regional specialty fruits and stuff, but there are a lot of monsters there so we won't go there."

"Well, it seems that over there is the granary for these birds. It can be said that the emergence of the Forest of Birds has met the requirements of time, place and people at the same time."

After saying that, Eve stood up.

"Miss Celie, is there anything you'd like to eat tonight? I'm going to start preparing lunch."

"Well... I'll just follow the host's wishes. Miss Eve, just follow your habits."

After a moment's thought, Celie replied.

"Eve! Cooking? I want to come too!"

When Melchis heard Eve say that she was going to cook, she jumped up and was about to run over to join in.

"no!"

"no way!"

But as expected, she was greeted with two loud shouts. Istina was the first to arrive and grabbed Melchis's collar and pulled her to the spot.

"Shizu, just wait patiently. Leave the cooking to Eve."

"Oh…"

Seeing the two people's rejection, Melchis could only sigh helplessly and continued to look at the flock of birds in the distance. Although from the fact that she would glance at Eve from time to time, it seemed that her mind was probably no longer on the flock of birds.

"Ms. Istina, is there any problem with Ms. Melchis's cooking?"

Seeing the two of them looking like they were facing a great enemy, Xili asked in a low voice with some curiosity.

"Alas... It's not just a problem anymore..."

In the past few days, Eve and Istina have tried to teach Melchis how to cook step by step, but the strange thing is that as long as they take their eyes off her for even a short moment, Melchis's dishes will develop in a strange direction.

Melchis, who is a perfect genius who can learn anything easily, fails miserably in cooking.

When they reviewed the situation afterwards, they couldn't even figure out what went wrong. How could a bunch of ordinary ingredients become a weapon of mass destruction? So Melchis has now been completely expelled from the kitchen by the two of them.

After all, they don't want to experience the elves' medical insurance system firsthand.

§ 83 Ye Di

"Alas... It's not just a problem anymore..."

Shaking her head helplessly, Istina began to explain to Celie everything that had happened in the past few days since Melchis came into contact with cooking.

"Um... no wonder you guys reacted so strongly..."

"Yeah, she can do whatever she likes in other things, but please let me go when it comes to cooking."

"Haha, it's not easy for you either. In this case, I recommend you find something else to distract her. Otherwise, she might become obsessed with cooking and want to try it when you're not paying attention."

After a light laugh, Xili gave Istina some advice from the perspective of an elder.

After all, rebellious psychology is something very mysterious. The more you don't want the other person to do something, the more likely they are to do it.

At present, Melchis's enthusiasm for cooking is only short-lived, but who knows what will happen in the long run.

"Well, I'll give it a try. It's mainly because Shizu is such a genius. So far, she's completely mastered everything except cooking."

Istina also had a headache when mentioning this. After all, Melchis was too talented and had never encountered any difficulties in anything other than cooking.

Maybe this is why she is a little obsessed with cooking.

"In that case, should we teach her something that's easy to learn but difficult to master? Like music?"

As she spoke, Sili picked up a leaf and put it between her lips and began to play. The melodious music echoed on the top of the small mountain. Istina couldn't help but sway her body to the beat. The music naturally attracted Melchis who was standing beside her.