Chapter 25 Do you want to hurt her?
“Alright, I have introduced this product designer of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Now I invite the Lord City Lord to say a few words.”
Xu Yi moved back and Count Sean came up to the stage, causing the doubt and curiosity in everyone’s heart to become stronger.
Based on what Xu Yi said, this master that everyone was curious about was hired by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and worked as their whatever product designer, but how was this related to the Lord City Lord? Was there a need for him to say anything?”
Count Sean appeared in front of everyone and said in a clear voice with a faint smile, “Citizens of Banta City and friends from other cities, hello, I am Banta City’s City Lord Count Sean Samo. Seeing this many people come to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s product announcement, I am happy for chairman Xu because for his Frestech Chamber of Commerce to attract this many people, it means that the sales amount will reach an amount that will satisfy him and will earn the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a large amount. But it’s a pity that no matter how much money the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earns, it won’t give me a single copper coin. So I’m happy for chairman Xu and afraid that he won’t appreciate it.”
After saying this, Count Sean deliberately revealed a helpless appearance and gave a sigh.
The crowd under the stage broke out in laughter. They thought that even though Count Sean was normally aloof, he really was quite charming and humorous.
“Alright, let’s get back to the topic. I want to ask everyone a question. There are many people under the stage, so other than humans, are there friends from other races?” Count Sean asked.
The crowd was stunned. They looked around and found that there were only humans here.
Count Sean took back the hand he had placed on his forehead and said with a sigh, “It’s a true pity, there doesn’t seem to be any. Everyone, several thousand years ago, other than us humans, there were also elves, dwarves, beastmen, halfings, and even dragons that lived together on the continent. After several thousand years, now there only seem to be humans left on the continent. Other than some dwarves that we meet occasionally, it is very rare for us to see other races. Although this means that we humans are now the rulers of the continent, I still feel that this situation is quite pitiful. There were many different races that used to live on the continent, but if there are only humans left, it really feels a bit lonely.”
The people under the stage couldn’t help feeling a bit strange.
What was with the Lord City Lord today? Why did he suddenly speak of this in front of all these people?
Although it had been several thousand years since the race wars and humans didn’t have much hatred with the other races, the other races chose to disappear from the human world, so this can’t be blamed on humans.
Then again, how was this related to what Xu Yi just said?
In the crowd, Rhine’s eyes quickly fell onto the masked person and his heart began beating a bit faster.
According to Xu Yi’s introduction and what the Lord City Lord said, this masked person’s identity would really shock everyone.
“I won’t say as much as chairman Xu, I just want to ask everyone here a question. If there was someone from another race that appeared in front of you, how would you treat them?”
After saying this, Count Sean actually moved to the side to everyone’s surprise.
Xu Yi came forward again and looked at the stage who were moved by Count Sean’s words. He took a deep breath and said in a loud voice, “Now I’m honoured to introduce to everyone our Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s product designer, young miss Agnes Artitan Vayne Sarcland!”
After saying this, Xu Yi turned around and raised his hand at the masked person behind him.
In front of everyone’s surprised, curious, and doubtful gazes, the masked person slowly came to Xu Yi’s side. After pausing for a bit, a slender and crystalline white hand came out of the cloak. It was slowly raised as it pulled back the hood covering her face bit by bit.
A face that was incomparably beautiful and natural with a trace of mysteriousness to it appeared in front of everyone.
But everyone’s gaze couldn’t help moving away from her beautiful face and falling onto the long and slender ears on the side of her head.
“Elf!”
Cold breaths could be heard coming from under the stage.
Since the race wars several thousand years ago and humans took over the Sines Continent, the living spaces for other races had been gradually squeezed out by humans.
With this, other than some races that had disappeared without a trace, of the races that still existed on the Sines Continent, it was the elves that used to rule the continent that were the most rarely seen.
At first after the race wars, one could still see the elven race on the Sines Continent, but as time passed and in the most recent several hundred years, it was very hard to see the appearance of an elf.
If it wasn’t for several hundred years ago when people had witnessed elves, meaning that the elves still existed on the continent, many people would have thought that the elves had silently faded away like the halflings.
Elves were rare to see. Other than elves not trusting humans and not being willing to appear in front of humans, because elves were very good at hiding themselves, as long as they weren’t willing to show themselves, it would be very hard to find them. For most humans, elves were a legendary existence and they had never personally seen them before.
Of the over five thousand people gathered in the market square, there wasn’t a single person here that had ever seen an elf before!
Now that there was an elf that suddenly appeared in front of them, everyone was stunned.
After everyone’s eyes were gathered on Agnes’ long ears for a while, they slowly moved onto Agnes’ face.
After seeing Agnes’ face, everyone couldn’t help gasping in shock.
The girls of the elf tribe were rumoured to be beautiful. This elven girl whose name they didn’t know looked to be around the same as a twenty year old human girl, with incomparably fine features and almost perfect facial proportions, which were matched with a pair of deep blue large eyes. It made people unwilling to turn away.
Everyone couldn’t help comparing her to Still in their hearts. They found in shock that although this elven girl’s appearance wasn’t similar to Still’s at all, it still was shocking. Moreover, it was different from Still’s sunny aura and she had a naturally fresh and mysterious aura to her.
Although the styles were different, it still dazzled people.
“Xu…..Chairman Xu…...She…...Is she real?” A reporter under the stage pointed at Agnes with some difficulty as he asked Xu Yi this.
“What real or fake?” Xu Yi asked back in a strange voice, “Could it be that you think that I had someone dress up as an elf to fool you?”
“This…...I’m not doubting you, only…...Only elves have never been willing to contact humans and rarely appear in front of them, so how……” The reporter looked at Agnes’ fine features before stuttering out, “How could they reveal themselves in front of all these people?”
That was the question in everyone’s hearts.
According to the rumours of elven personality, to reveal their true appearance in front of thousands of humans, this was something that elves would never do.
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and looked around before raising his voice, “Friends, this world never stops changing. We humans have never stopped changing, so it isn’t strange for the elves to change either. Young miss Agnes is an example of the elves changing. Not only is she our Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s specially invited product designer, she is also the ambassador of the elven race sent to contact us humans, representing their willingness to contact humans. Right now, I want to ask everyone, after seeing Agnes, do any of you have thoughts about hurting her?”
“Ha?” Everyone under the stage called out in shock and the reporter from before couldn’t help asking, “Chairman Xu, what kind of damn question is this? Such a beautiful and mysterious elven young miss, how could we possibly think of hurting her? We’re in a rush to protect her!”
“That’s right! It’s this hard for an elf to appear in front of us and we don’t even have time to be happy, how could we think of hurting her? What a joke!”
“That’s right! Even if she wasn’t an elf, just based on the fact that she’s this beautiful, I wish to propose to her! How could I want to hurt her!”
“Chairman Xu, you must be confused from being in the sun too long. Anyone that would want to hurt this beautiful and cute elven girl is definitely a freak.”
“Right, right. This is simply looking down on people, chairman Xu, please take back this question!”
…...
Seeing the crowd surge under the stage, Xu Yi smiled at Agnes and said, “How about it, Agnes, are you still afraid?”
Agnes helplessly looked at the noisy crowd under the stage and only after a while did she ask Xu Yi, “Chairman Xu, they…...Is what they said true?”
Xu Yi gave a shrug, “Most of it is true, but I can’t guarantee if everything is true. After all, the heart is a complicated thing and I can’t guarantee that everyone will do what they say.”
“Then…..You mean that there are some people who want to hurt me?”
“Perhaps.” Xu Yi said with a faint smile, “But Agnes, we can’t just look at the bad side of a problem. Even if there are people who want to hurt you, compared to them, there are more people who like you. Look at the over five thousand people down there, I dare to guarantee that at least five thousand of them wholeheartedly like you. So you don’t need to worry that much, seize this chance and properly introduce yourself.”
Agnes gave a soft nod. Her eyes looked over everyone’s passionate faces under the stage and she took a deep breath before raising her voice.
“Hel…..Hello everyone, I am Agnes. Just like you can see, I am a normal elven girl and I come from the Night Song Tribe……”
Chapter 26 Agnes’ statement
“Sir chairman, can’t you think of a way?” Ankhto who had taken over for Heinz as the household magic machine workshop manager pointed at the empty space in front of the factory and said with a bitter look, “These fellows have completely blocked our factory’s entrance every day. Our workshop can’t even get our materials without them investigating it first, it’s greatly slowing down on production speed.”
“That’s right, chairman, our magic machine workshop has also been greatly affected. If this keeps going, not mentioning the Falcao Chamber of Commerce and Amrit Chamber of Commerce’s orders, it might even affect the agricultural department’s agricultural magic machine order.” Camby on the side also had a pained look on his face, “I really don’t understand, just what are you humans thinking? Isn’t it just an elf, do all these people need to surround us every day?”
“You don’t understand, this is called chasing a star.” Xu Yi gave a helpless sigh. He looked at the sea of people in front of the factory and also felt a bit of a headache coming on.
Since Agnes revealed herself at the product announcement, it created a raging tide. Countless people surged the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, just to get a single glance of Agnes.
At the beginning, the news only spread in Banta City, so only Banta City’s people came.
But after a few days, the newspapers of the surrounding cities published this explosive news. Not only did countless people come from the nearby Saltan City and Karma City, even quite a few people from the further Canberra City and Norton City came.
Even in the further Cramer City and the kingdom’s capital Anvilmar City, quite a few people had rushed over.
Now on the land outside the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were over ten thousand people waiting there!
All these people surrounded the factory, so naturally it affected the production of the factory quite a bit. It filled Ankhto and Camby who were in charge of the factory with complaints.
Xu Yi also thought at first that these fellows were just here for fun. After a while, they would naturally scatter.
But who would have thought that after an entire week, not only did the crowd outside decrease, rather it gradually became larger.
Seeing these frantic people outside, Xu Yi could only give a bitter smile.
Although he had experienced how terrifying those fans on earth were when they were chasing stars, he still felt a strong headache when he had to deal with this kind of matter.
To these people, Agnes’ effect was even stronger than the emperors in the entertainment business on fans.
After all, now that there were only humans, elves were existences of legend. Now that a real elf had appeared, the shock it brought couldn’t be compared to.
After seriously considering it, Xu Yi felt that he couldn’t ignore this matter any longer or it would just become worse.
“Agnes, come out.” Xu Yi suddenly called out.
The space to the left of Xu Yi distorted and Agnes appeared.
Even though he had seen Agnes several times when she followed Xu Yi around, seeing Agnes’ fine face appearing in front of him again, Ankhto couldn’t help taking a few more looks. His eyes were filled with curiosity and praise.
Seeing his reaction, Camby couldn’t help asking, “Hey, Ankhto, why do you humans have such a large reaction to seeing elves? Is it because Agnes is beautiful?”
Ankhto was revealed by Camby, so his face turned a bit red as he explained, “It isn’t because of just beauty…...Of course young miss Agnes is very beautiful, not lacking even when compared to young miss Still. But it’s mainly because I’m curious. There’s no choice since this is my first time seeing an elf. I think most of the people outside the factory are the same as me, just purely curious.”
“Then according to what you said, the reason why you don’t react when seeing us dwarves is because we’re normally seen, so you aren’t curious at all?” Camby asked.
“Un…..Pretty much.” Ankhto said in a thoughtful voice, “Actually I was a bit surprised when I came here at first to see all these dwarves, but I wasn’t really curious. After all, although there are few dwarves, there are many places they can be seen. For example, in Banta City, including Master Lanus, one can see several dwarves normally. We become used to them after seeing them, so of course we wouldn’t be curious.”
“That’s right.” Xu Yi followed up. He turned to Agnes and said, “Look, Agnes, we humans have such a large reaction when you elves appear, it is because you appear just too little. If we can see you each day, we’ll quickly get used to you and won’t be that curious anymore, so we can treat you normally.”
Agnes looked at the people outside the factory and nodded, “Un, it should be this way.”
“So you’ll go out with me now and let those fellows gradually get used to your existence.” Xu Yi pulled Agnes in and said a few soft words before leaving the office with her.
When they came to the office doors, the crowd outside the factory exploded with cheers.
“Look, it’s chairman Xu! Chairman Xu is out!”
“Ah, look, who is behind chairman Xu? It’s young miss Agnes!”
“God! I finally got to see young miss Agnes! She is this dazzling! When I see her, I feel like fainting in happiness!”
“Oh, great miss elf, let me kiss your jade feet! I’m willing to be your slave for life!”
“Scram! You look like a pig and you think you’re worthy of being the noble young miss Agnes’ slave? It should be me who takes that role!”
…...
Seeing Agnes appear, the crowd that was rather restrained was like oil dropped into cold water and it exploded.
It was like the dense crowd exploded from a dam and charged at Xu Yi and Agnes like a wave. They instantly surrounded the factory like a fence and flattened the dirt around it.
Xu Yi knit his brows and raised a hand. His magic energy surged and a dirt wall that was half a meter tall and as thick as a person appeared twenty meters away from them, blocking everyone from coming over.
Waving his hand, two small hurricanes appeared and slowed down the momentum of the crowd.
With the earth wall and the intense wind, it calmed down the excited crowd. From the front of the crowd, the people charging gradually slowed down before they stopped in front of the earth wall.
Seeing everyone calm down, Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief.
It was a good thing he used two hurricanes to slow down the crowd, otherwise in this situation, it was very easy for people to get trampled.
If this commotion took even a single life, not only would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce receive infamy, baseless accusations could be thrown at Agnes because of this.
With Agnes still not fully trusting humans, just based on this, it could ruin everything that elder Illusia worked hard for.
Xu Yi waved his hand and used magic to create several earth walls of different heights before walking to the highest earth wall with Agnes.
“Friends, I know that you all want to see young miss Agnes. Now that she is here, she has some things to say to everyone. I ask everyone to be quiet and listen to her.”
As soon as Xu Yi’s voice fell, the noisy crowd instantly became silent. Everyone’s gaze gathered, falling onto Agnes beside Xu Yi.
“Wild fans really are terrifying.” Xu Yi could only secretly give a sigh. He looked at Agnes and took a step back, leaving the highest position to her.
Although Agnes had appeared in front of other humans at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce during this time by Xu Yi’s request, so she was a bit used to seeing humans and wasn’t as unsettled, in front of such a large crowd with all these eyes gazing at her, she was still a bit nervous.
She looked back at Xu Yi and seeing him give her a nod with a faint smile, Agnes’ nervousness faded a bit. She turned back to face the crowd and after taking a few deep breaths with the method Xu YI taught her, she raised her voice to say, “Hel…..Hello everyone. I…..I’m very grateful that everyone is here to see me and I’m happy that we elves are this approved and accepted by humans. When I left my tribe to come here, I was worried about whether I could adapt to living with humans. But chairman Xu told me that humans had good hospitality and that I shouldn’t worry.”
“Based on what I see now, chairman Xu was right. Humans are indeed not what we imagined. They are not all deceitful and sly people not worthy of trust, there are many good and kind people like you all. But we elves are a race that like quiet and you are just too welcoming, so I really can’t get used to this.”
“Moreover if you all gather in front of the factory like this every day, it will affect our work. As a member of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I do not wish to see the company affected because of me. So I hope that everyone can calm down a bit. Can you all not surround the factory like this in the future?”
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. They never thought that Agnes’ rare appearance would be to raise this kind of request.
“But young miss Agnes, we’re here to see you. If not here, where else can we see you?” A person asked in a loud voice.
“That’s right, we are all loyal supporters of young miss Agnes. Everyone just wants to see you, we don’t have any other requests. Could it be that even this isn’t allowed?”
“You can’t say it like this, right? Didn’t you hear young miss Agnes, we are affecting the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s work and also affecting her.”
“Could it be that chairman Xu is causing trouble for young miss Agnes? How could that be? Chairman Xu, although I admire you, how could you treat young miss Agnes like this! No, I don’t agree!”
…...
Agnes didn’t think that her words would create this kind of reaction and she couldn’t help looking at Xu Yi for help.
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “Agnes, you don’t need to think about me or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Just say what you really want to say based on your true thoughts.”
Agnes was a bit hesitant, “But…...According to what chairman Xu has taught me about humans, if I say what I’m really thinking, they might not be happy. Is this alright?”
Xu Yi’s smile became a bit strange, “Relax, you can just say what you want, I promise nothing will happen. Do you remember how you were the first time you met me? But from what I can see, your ways right now can’t compare to your ways from before.”
“Really?” Agnes thought about it and decided to believe in Xu Yi. She turned around and met everyone’s gazes. After pausing for a bit, her eyes went from warm with a bit of nervousness to a bit cold and her voice turned a bit cold.
“To be honest with you all, I’m not happy that you’re surrounding this factory to see me because it makes me feel like I am a monster. Being stared at by everyone’s curious gazes, I don’t like it at all. If it remains like this, I will choose to leave this place and return to my tribe. I’ll tell the elder that you humans still can’t live normally with us elves. From now on, we elves will never appear in front of you humans ever again!”