Chapter 317: The Decadence

**Thelma Zane’s POV** The elves' ambiguous attitude posed a significant obstacle to our mission. Three days passed without a word from the Elf King regarding the criminal wanderers who had infiltrated their forest. Faced with silence, my father made the decisive choice to send a small, elite team into the elf forest to investigate the situation discreetly. As expected, I was appointed to lead this search team, granting me the opportunity to remain in the Shadow Pack rather than returning to the Lycan pack. However, we couldn’t risk arousing suspicion, so our team would masquerade as a civilian scientific research group. The elves, while notoriously isolationist, were generally tolerant of non-threatening outsiders. It was imperative to keep our true mission a secret to avoid sparking a diplomatic incident. Privately, I couldn’t help but feel frustrated by the situation. The elves’ cautious stance toward werewolves contrasted sharply with their apparent indifference to the crim