OVERLORD- CH-74. Memory of the Mask

"Sir, please allow me to take you to the reserved room." The female manager said respectfully, bowing.

"No need. If you have the room number, I can go there by myself. When that person's carriage arrives, don't forget to come up and call me. I'll go downstairs to pick her up." Aya confirmed the room number, then turned and walked upstairs.

This was his second time coming here, to the upscale restaurant in Kelmais City. The last time she came here, it was with the Moon Shadow Team, and they had coincidentally found the kidnapped Angelina next door.

This time, it was to meet Miss Angelina's mother.

It was noon now, time for lunch. In the morning, she had met Jasmine at a tavern called "Forest" and had a conversation with her.

"I originally wanted to invite Jasmine to have dinner with me, but she politely declined."

It seemed that the elf girl was still very resistant to him, so the conversation in the morning did not go smoothly. After returning the clothes, Jasmine seemed in a hurry to leave, as if she was afraid that Aya would eat her.

In desperation, Aya had to put on a slightly tough attitude to keep her and talked about some matters that Aya cared about very much.

Jasmine is an elf. Aya discovered this when she first met her. After meeting her several more times and carefully confirming her smell and magical properties, Aya confirmed that she was more than just an elf.

She was not only an elf but also a High Elf.

There are elves in this world, which Aya could confirm after meeting Jasmine, but how many elves are there? Are they widespread or rare? Do they have their own communities or countries? What is their racial and political status in this world? Are there many elves like Jasmine wandering in human countries? How long is the lifespan of elves? Do half-elves exist? What about night elves?

There was also information about Jasmine herself: why she was in this country, and her background.

Aya was very interested in these things and hoped to get relevant information from Jasmine. However, after questioning her for the whole morning, she did not get any useful details.

"I knew that there was a fairy kingdom and that she had escaped from it. Besides that—"

"Mr. Levi, please don't tell anyone that I'm a High Elf. It's okay if I'm just an elf, but if the Silian Theocracy knew that I'm a High Elf, I would definitely be hunted down. The Sunlight Scripture, no, even the more terrifying one is likely to hunt me down!"

Was the Silian Theocracy so terrible that the arrogant High Elves would kneel and beg for mercy? Why did they hate the High Elves so much? What was the Sunlight Scripture? What was the scarier one?

Elves are typically associated with arrogance, especially High Elves, who look down on other species. This was the setting in the game YGGDRASIL, or in most Western fantasy works.

In this world, within the Elven Kingdom, elves were proud, but in human society, those elves who lived in hiding or as slaves had a different situation.

For Jasmine, more than a decade of slavery had worn away all her pride. At the young age of 73, she had to live in a foreign land, struggling for survival and abandoning all dignity and pride.

"I don't know how you knew that, but please, please don't tell anyone." From the moment she talked about the 'High Elves', Jasmine's mental state became very unstable, and she almost cried by the end. Her miserable appearance made Aya unable to bear questioning her further.

Because Aya was only interested in these topics at the moment, he had no intention of using magic such as charm to force information out of her.

Finally, after making an agreement with Jasmine, or more accurately threatening her not to tell anyone what happened today, Aya let her go.

The threat was just a superficial one. Aya was not worried at all that she would leak information or escape. After all, there was a shadow demon lurking in Jasmine's shadow, monitoring and controlling her every move.

Jasmine was now a very important source of intelligence. Aya had a hunch that he could extract a lot of useful things from this elf girl.

There was no rush for now. She would try to use ordinary means first. If necessary, she could just use [Charm] or memory magic to get it done.

"By the way, Operan hasn't arrived yet. No, I came a little early." Aya rang the bell on the table.

The walls of the restaurant were made of special materials that had very good sound insulation effects. This bell was actually a magic prop. Once it was shaken, the supporting device over there would react. It was a very convenient magic prop, but it had an effective distance of less than 50 meters.

"Hello, would you like more tea?" Not long after, someone came in with a porcelain teapot. As expected of a high-end restaurant, the response was very quick.

"I'll just order first. Do you accept payment in advance?"

"The menu for this room was reserved in advance yesterday. Do you need the food to be served in advance?" The waitress asked.

"Is that so? No need. Just give me a refill of tea. I'll serve the food when the other party arrives."

"Okay." After filling the teapot on the dining table and refilling Aya's cup with tea, the waitress asked if there was any other service needed, then politely left.

"Let's find something to do before Operan arrives." Aya muttered to himself and took something out of his inventory.

One was the white skull mask torn off the face of the mad thief Hans — this was a strange magical item with a strong demonic aura, which should be related to the parasitic demon.

If Aya use reverse search intelligence magic on this thing, she should be able to find something.

Aya took out a piece of parchment with the magic of [Retrospective Search] attached to it, injected a little magic power into it, and then let go of his hand. The parchment flew up, and the flames quickly burned it. The intelligence magic attached to it was activated, and a light blue light flashed on the skull mask.

The same blue light appeared in Aya's left eye, reflecting the mask's past information one by one.

[Retrospective Search] was an intelligence magic with very strict usage restrictions. It could search for hidden information about items, such as the previous owner. However, the older the information, the more vague it would be, and it was very easy to be countered.

What she cared about most now was how the mad thief Hans got it and the information about the demon arm.

"Huh?" Aya made a surprised sound and saw a blurry image — an image of a skinny and dark figure fleeing in the forest.

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