RISE OF EROS

The water elves wanted to act cleverly by rescuing their friend and running away without caring what happened to Andrew's group even though they were helping them.

It's not that they are ungrateful, but they are distrustful by nature. Unlike other elven communities, the water elves are small in numbers.

This is why, despite being the rulers of this country, they leave all matters of government and such to the humans. At first, this worked well, but over time the humans had become more numerous, and from there came greed.

Being the most numerous and the ones who control everything, why should they obey the water elves? That is the thinking of many humans in the country currently and they have even gone as far as kidnapping water elves like the group facing Andrew and his wives now was doing.
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The country of Rios is quite closed, similar to Catarea, so news from that country rarely goes out, so the information that Gaston had told was not accurate, since he visited this country more than two decades ago.

Even when they tried to save them, the elves did not trust humans, so they tried to take their captured friend and flee. Unfortunately, for them, Oliver was present and their plan was thwarted.

Although they were unable to carry out their plan, they decided not to participate in the battle. They stood by attentively, regaining their strength. Obviously, now that they knew of the existence of a master-level expert, they had no hope of escaping, but they would not go down without a fight either.

As the battle between Andrew's group and the red scorpion men intensified, gusts of wind and explosions increased with each punch and kick they gave.

A few minutes had passed and Andrew's group was beginning to take advantage. At first, they were evenly matched due to their outnumbering and Andrew's inexperience in combat, coupled with Aki's lack of direct combat skill, but Zany was the one who broke the balance.

Zany is the most promising Amazon of this generation in the Black Forest, not only because of her talent but because of her combat experience. In the Black Forest, although the Amazons are the rulers, this does not mean that there are no dangers.

They are always on alert and fighting with ferocious beasts, so you either get strong or you die. This rich experience of survival made Zany a strong fighter and it was she who dealt the first hard blows to the enemy.

The red scorpions were convinced that Andrew was the leader and the most powerful, so they focused on him, leaving Zany and Aki unattended. Zany took advantage of this opportunity and defeated several of her opponents.

By the time the red scorpions had realized that they had failed to identify the enemy, it was too late. Although the battle was not long, it was not short either.

About 30 minutes of battle defined the result. Now there were only about 6 members of the red scorpions left and they were no longer thinking about fighting, but about how to escape from the place.

Unfortunately for them, at that moment a powerful aura hit them, crushing them to the ground. Oliver had made his move since Andrew and the others already had their battle and he also noticed that the red scorpions were thinking of escaping and he did not want any accidents.

Although they had the advantage, the red scorpions only needed a chance to escape and with how tired Andrew and his wives were, it was not impossible to get it, so Oliver stepped forward.

The 6 members of the red scorpions immediately fell unconscious when Oliver appeared on the scene. Andrew did not demand his intervention, since the objective had been met.

The water elves were also surprised. They already knew of the existence of the master-level expert, but they had not seen him and when they saw that he was someone as young as Oliver, they were surprised.

You have to understand that master experts are the pinnacle of the expert class, so they are only below demigods and to get to that place is not an easy and short path.

So Oliver's young appearance surprised them. It is true that there are many techniques to look young and in fact the stronger you are, the slower you age, but still Oliver did not seem to be using any.

Water elves are very sensitive to aura and that is why they could tell. Oliver did nothing more than capture the members of the red scorpions and then stood behind Andrew demonstrating the hierarchy.

This was another aspect that surprised the water elves because normally people at Oliver's level, regardless of race, do not subordinate themselves to someone weaker and that was what was happening.

Andrew paid no attention to the elves' surprise and approached, relaxing his aura to show that he had no hostility towards them. While this moved the water elves, it did not make them lower their guard.

It was not the first time that humans tried to approach them with apparent good intentions, only to stab them in the back. Andrew, thanks to his Eros eyes, could notice this caution, but he did not pay attention to it.

It was normal for them to be alert, after what they had experienced. "Hello, I'm Andrew, these are my wives, Aki and Zany, and this is Oliver," Andrew introduced himself, trying to lower the water elves' guard.

Although still suspicious, one of them, the one who seemed to be the leader, stepped forward and introduced himself, "Lucas." Only he introduced himself and he seemed to have no intention of introducing his friends, which could be taken as a lack of respect, but Andrew did not care.

However, Oliver was not so soft. He immediately furrowed his eyebrows in annoyance, as he couldn't allow them to be humiliated like that, but Andrew stopped him before he could say anything, "Oliver, it's okay. They're just cautious. Understand, they just had a bad time."

Listening to Andrew, Oliver relaxed and the water elves who were tense seeing how Oliver behaved, managed to relax a little. Seeing the state of caution they were in, Andrew decided to express goodwill trying to relax them, and said, "Let's free your partner first."

"Mr. Oliver told us that the cage has an explosive formation, so we can't open it," Lucas said and Andrew was surprised. He turned to look at Oliver as if asking if that was true to which Oliver only responded by nodding.

Understanding the situation, Andrew stroked his non-existent beard and said as if talking to himself, "Well, we'll have to have these guys tell us how to open it," but at that moment Oliver said, "That's not necessary, I can open it."

Certainly, the explosive formation on the cages was complex and dangerous, but for an expert of Oliver's level, it was child's play. He walked up to the cage that imprisoned the unconscious water elf and placing his hand on one of the bars of the door, he removed it.

The moment he ripped off the metal door, a muffled explosion was heard, which made the water elves tense up, as they thought it had exploded, but in reality, the sound corresponded to the formation breaking.

Oliver had used his aura to invade the runes of the formation on the cage and destroyed it, so that was why a bang was heard, but it did not explode. Still, the bang woke up the young elf girl inside.

Seeing Oliver as soon as she woke up, the water elf was on guard, but then she felt a strong pain throughout her body and fell to the ground. Oliver approached her and picked her up even though she refused.

"Calm down girl, we are freeing you. Look, there are your friends," Oliver said softly, pointing to Lucas' group. When the girl looked where Oliver was pointing, she saw her friends and that relieved her, but she was still cautious.

The problem was that she didn't have the strength to resist. Oliver carried the water elf to where Lucas was and handed her over. Lucas was shocked because he couldn't believe that they would hand over his friend to him, without making demands.

That is the level of distrust that the water elves have with humans. They never thought that Andrew's group saved them without expecting something in return and although they weren't wrong, Andrew didn't plan to ask for anything, he just wanted to establish relationships.

Lucas looked at Andrew and his companions, as he handed the newly freed elf over to his companions to heal. Water elves are specialists in water healing techniques, so it wasn't strange.

Still, Andrew and the others had never seen techniques like these and were surprised to see them. As they watched the elves use their healing abilities, Lucas snapped them out of their amazement by asking, "So, what do you want?"

Andrew looked at him with a frown and answered with a question, "I don't understand, what do you mean by that?" Now it was Lucas' turn to furrow his eyebrows, but he still answered, "You want something for helping us, right?"

"Well, I'd be lying to you if I said I didn't want something for helping you, but what I want isn't something material," Andrew replied, but his answer tensed Lucas and his companions and noticing his poor choice of words, Andrew quickly corrected him, "Friendship, Friendship."

Seeing that the water elves had calmed down a bit, Andrew explained, "I was just passing through, but in the future I plan to come to the River Country to do business and I think it's a good idea to have some acquaintances, that's all."

Lucas and the other elves wrinkled their brows as if they saw a fool. They immediately thought that they could just accept and never appear in front of Andrew again, so they were confused.

Obviously, Andrew understood their thoughts and said, "I don't mind being thought of as a fool. I value friendship very much, but I am also someone who disdains betrayal. You can accept me as a friend and then ignore me, I won't persecute you for that, but you won't receive my help ever again either."