When The king saw a stranger walking into his throne room, he immediately became alarmed. Not a soul who did not belong to a gnome had set foot in this gnome hideout yet. Once the boy was introduced, gnomes began to narrate everything from the very beginning of the encounter with the young royalty. The king of gnomes listened very carefully. When the gnomes stopped speaking, the king went silent for a moment and no one was able to make out what was crossing through his mind by looking at his stone-cold face.
Finally, Aldrich said, “I have a mission given to me by my Father. I have to prove my worth by slaying the ice-breathing dragon. I have no clue what to do or how to handle this. Before I set out on this menacing adventure, the King told me that in order to be able to defeat the dragon I have to find the power lying within me. But I've never shown any signs of magic flowing through my veins.” Then, to everyone's surprise, the king of the Mountain kingdom smiled and said, “Son, you are stronger than you think. The extraordinary woman that you call your great-great-grandmother, whom I had the pleasure of calling my friend, had the blood of elves pulsing through her veins and so do you. No other generation after
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