Another Elven scout

For now, Elle would whittle away at the enemy forces. And, as she was still getting a handle on her abilities, she decided to use a different method than goblin bait this time.

Thanks to her Lore of Forests, she received a bonus to attack strength and movement speed while in a land type she knew, such as a forest. While this had formerly been a city, it was far more forest than urban as an environment.

Elle would also try out her tracking skills. If the elves were being cautious, an amateur such as her wouldn’t be able to track them. But many of the younger, more arrogant elves made no such attempts. After leaving her Domain and climbing up into the tree branches above, Elle began her investigation.

After a few minutes, she found a broken branch that was still leaking sap, likely broken recently when an elf bumped into it. The direction the branch had been **** in indicated the target’s direction, and Elle went that way with an eye for more clues.

Here and there she’d see places where moss had been stepped on, or where branches had been parted, and she was able to tail her target.

Eventually, she heard rustling ahead of her and slowed down.

A blonde elf with her hair in a bun was slowly making her way forward, eyes focused on the ground for goblins. She wore similar leather armor and a hood to the elves Elle had encountered already, but was a bit taller at a little over six feet.

‘Quest complete: Track an Elf. 900 Class XP gained.’

Taking out her own bow, Elle nocked an arrow and pulled back on the string. Once again using her Status Effect ability, this time she enchanted her arrow with a sleep effect. Then, she let fly, her arrow catching her target in the shoulder.

The elf turned and growled, drawing her own bow.

But in the time it took her to draw it, Elle fired off another shot, this one taking the elf in the bicep. She winced as she lost feeling in her arm, and felt her eyelids growing heavy.

Tossing her bow aside, the elf drew a knife and charged at Elle, only to take a shot to the thigh. This made her fall over as she lost feeling in that leg, and she would have started to fall from the giant branch she stood on had Elle not fired an arrow into her hood to hold her in place.

The elf felt her body growing sluggish and weak, and her eyes were so heavy.

She saw the blue-skinned Devil approaching her, and assumed this had to be a nightmare as she fell asleep.

‘Repeatable quest complete: Capture an Elf. 1,600 Race XP gained.’