Rise of the Legendary Emperor

Chapter 2: Once proud elves

Arwen was nearly beaten to death by the bandit leader yet he couldn't close his eyes and embrace death.

He still remembered the stories his grandfather told him about the golden days of elves, but now they had become mere creatures and playthings to be sold in the slave markets. The village of Arwen belongs to the Elven subrace called white elves, formerly known as the elves and there were Dark elves who are blessed with more magical capacity than elves.

One of the reasons that elves became like this was the internal fight between these two races. Dark elves always viewed elves as lesser beings. This conflict between them led to a civil war among the two races and with the help of humans, Dark elves won the war, and elves started to grow weaker and weaker.

Arwen and his sister Amaryll were born in outer lands, the place where they had to hide within the the forests unless they want to taste slavery.

And until now they did just that but everything turned to a nightmare when a group of bandits started to attack his tribe. Even though the elves had less magic capacity than the Dark elves, they were blessed with extraordinary skills in long-range combat like archery and agile bodies.

Normally they would spot anyone who enters their territory and attacks them with deadly arrows coated with natural poisons yet somehow these bandits entered without anyone noticing and the elves immediately lost their advantage of long-range combat.

When the battle started, Arwen and Amaryll kept fighting with the bandits in the hope of buying some time for the elven children to escape, but they could not keep fighting with bandits who are trained in close combat battle. The bandits didn't even have to use magic to defeat them although Arwen's tribe had more than a hundred elves including children, all it took was twenty bandits to beat them.

Arwen knew this was their end of freedom. The best-case scenario for Arwen was that he and his sister will be killed and the worst case he would be killed and his sister would be sold as a slave, this is why he kept fighting with all his fiber in his body.

Seeing Arwen struggle to put up a fight, the bandit leader laughed. He was toying with Arwen like a cat would toy with the mouse. While Arwen was fighting or more like taking a beating from the bandit leader, other bandits rounded up his sister as well as most of his tribesmen and tied them up so they wouldn't try to escape.

Because of the elves' proud nature, some noble humans took pleasure in making them their slaves, and there was a huge demand for female elves since the elven women are very attractive. In this world, When a female elf gets caught in the human hands, only hell awaits for her; everyone knows this and of course, it includes Arwen. He was more concerned about his sister Amaryll who is extraordinarily beautiful even among the elven race.

Amaryll watched her brother take a beating in a small hope to win the unwinnable fight as tears ran through her cheeks like water coming out of a fountain. She was in her brother's care for twenty-four years and not a single day that she would have imagined this situation. She knew that it's almost impossible to gain their former elven glory as all she wanted is a peaceful life with her brother and tribe.

Watching the bandit leader beats her brother the sadness and hopelessness turned fury and anger as she shouted, her eyes were blood red in anger, her body was trembling

"Leave my brother alone you animal!!!".The bandit leader stopped in the surprise of her shout and looked at her menacingly.

"Look at this brothers, this little soon to be slave wants to save her precious brother".

All the bandits around the leader laughed like this is the biggest joke they have ever heard.

"Oh my little slave you are not in a position to order me after we sell you and your friends and family here to the slave market you are the one will be ordered around"

Amaryll's heart skipped a beat when she heard this and although she knew what's going to happen, hearing it made it worse.

"And don't think I don't know that you two are fighting with me, oh more like taking a beating from me in the hope to buy some time for those little elven brats to escape into the woods "there was an evil smile appearing on his face while saying this, he enjoyed their pain.

Amaryll was struggling to get back to reality as she heard the bandit leader.

"Wha what are you saying?!!"

"I am saying that your elven brats going to be captured as I sent my best men after them the moment you two came to fight"

The bandit leader said calmly.

"You animal, bastard I'm going to kill you!" Amaryll jumped at the leader to bite him since her hands were already tied to her back. Arwen also stood with all his might to attack him because of the fury he felt.

One of the bandits stopped Amaryll and pulled her from her hair then slapped her hard that made Amaryll fall to the ground as her face hit the ground."Bastard!" Arwen could not hold his anger when he saw the bandit slapping Amaryll.

The rosy red face of Amaryll turned red due to the force of the slap as five-finger marks were already starting to become visible on her cheek.

"Boss enough playing around, let's get these slaves to the market and let's get paid,"

"Alright, let me finish this beauty's brother," the bandit leader said while walking towards Arwen.

Arwen swung his fist towards the face of the bandit leader but the bandit leader easily caught Arwen's fist before reaching his face.

"Let's break those arms shall we" as he said, the bandit leader punched Arwen's gut with the force enough to make Arwen fall onto the ground, the bandit leader went to step on Arwen's elbow and break it like a twig.

Since Arwen already took a beating and on the verge of death, he could not even struggle, Amaryll, on the other hand, kept crying and shouting her brother's name as other elves were looking at this scene with a mix of anger, sadness, and hopelessness.

However the moment the Bandit leader made his move to break Arwen's arms, suddenly a person started to walk towards the bandits from the dark shadows. The bandits were startled as the person was not one of their comrades but a handsome young man in a black robe with killing intent radiating from his eyes.

"Who who are you?" one of the bandits asked.

"I am the one who is going to send you all to hell"

The young man in the black robe said with an expressionless face.