The Dean Has Arrived

It has been three days since Xiwei and the others arrived and temporarily lived in Arclight Tribe.

In addition to the time it took to depart from Adric College, the current time of the [Ancient Forest Sea Mutation Investigation] mission is almost 96 hours or more, and the remaining time for the mission limit is less than 72 hours.

But Xiwei still has no clue as to the reason for the forest crystallization.

At present, the crystalline forest area of ​​the ancient forest accounts for about one-fifth of the total area. Many forest elves have even been forced to relocate and leave their homes for hundreds of years.

"In short, integrate the elements we have now."

Xiwei and the others are now in a small tree house on the branches of the moon.This is also the residence of the current elder of Arclight Tribe.

Elves do not have the same class concept as humans, and even the home of the great elder is no different from ordinary elves.

The house is grown through the guidance of natural magic, including beds, tables and chairs, etc., which grow directly from the floor.Except for some hand-woven handicrafts, there are almost no furnishings. Even the sheets are made of palm-sized leaves. Only the quilt is a hand-woven blanket produced by humans.

Although the furnishings are very simple, the elves are the creatures closest to nature after all. The small tree houses are full of natural aesthetics. It is no wonder that many nobles are proud of the art of elves in their homes-fact Above, this is also the most traded thing between elves and human chambers of commerce who are unwilling to overly harm nature.

"Although you said so, didn't you actually find no clues..."

Frei sighed. The knight commander from the Pure White Vatican searched for two days to no avail, and even the church heresy trial group's large-scale detection of heresy magic was used, but it was still nothing.

"There is absolutely no evil wave in all the crystallized areas...not to mention the abyss demon or vampire, even if there is no monster that only carries a little dark magic. This time it is really impossible to start."

Not to mention Frey, even Winter was a bit discouraged.

Because of crystallization, the ecosystem that had been stable for countless years in the forest was completely disrupted, and many of the crystalline lord-level monsters in their own delineated areas had to fight each other to divide new territories.This kind of battle made the entire Gengu Linhai jump.Up to now, there have been nearly three unlucky elven tribes, and nearly a hundred people have been affected by the battles of those monsters, and have suffered damages of various sizes. Even the Moon Tree, which is regarded as a holy tree, has been destroyed. Two trees.

For this reason, the current elders of the forest elves can only come forward.Running in the forest.Fully maintain the spirits and safety of the elves.Elder Winter, as the endorsement of the original elves, plus the longest time he has known Xiwei and them, can he stay here and be responsible for communicating with Xiwei and them.While looking for the cause of the change, by the way, protect the safety of Arclight Tribe.

"Crystalization is still spreading, and new crystallization points are constantly appearing...If this continues, if it doesn't work, our elves can only leave here. We will move to other forests."

Compared to the first time I saw it, Winter looks a lot more haggard, his eye sockets are a little sunken, and his faint dark circles also show his presence on his white face, in his smooth and shiny long green hair. There was even a trace of dazzling silver.

"No, there is still a clue. Although it may not be of much use."

Sylvie took a piece of parchment paper, drew a quill pen from the ink bottle on the side of the table, and stroked the nib at the mouth of the bottle—except for the blankets, these were the only artifacts in this room.Even the ink is said to be replaced with the juice of a plant fruit-and then the outline of the ancient forest was drawn on the parchment.

"First of all, when looking down from a high altitude, it is obvious that all the crystallization areas are happening around one point. Of course we have already seen that point, and there is no special discovery."

He drew a non-standard circle on the upper left of the outline, and then wrote a note at the center of the circle.Just look at the map.The center of the circle was actually quite close to Arclight Tribe.

"Then the effect of crystallization will only take effect on plants. Except for the forest elves, there is no crystallization of any other animals in the crystallization area. In addition, Miss Frey and I spent a long time in the crystallization forest area. Time, even exceeded the "safe time" you gave before. But no crystallization effect occurred, so I think. The crystallization should only affect the plants."

Sevi took a look at Winter and realized that he hadn't expressed any discomfort before continuing.

After all, the forest elf was originally a product born on the moon tree, maybe because of this, the effect of crystallization will judge the forest elf as a plant...

"The third and final point. The crystallization itself is not formed in forest areas."

After Sivie finished speaking, both Frey and Winter's eyes showed curiosity.If the first two points can still be noticed through three days of observation, then the third point is completely puzzled.

Sivi also has no bad habit of hanging people's appetites. He showed Winter an apologetic expression: "Sorry Winter, I secretly did an experiment on the forest when you were not paying attention."

"What experiment?" Winter frowned, and did not directly say whether to forgive or not, but directly inquired. It seems that there is no meaning of falsehood and guilt at all. If Xiwei's experiment is harmful to the forest, he might directly Turn your face.

The uprightness of the elves is vividly reflected on this point.

"I dug out a piece of crystallized forest with crystals and the ground."

Now that it has been said, Xiwei did not intend to conceal it, and said generously: "A big pit with a diameter of about 20 meters and a deepest of nearly 10 meters was dug."

The expression on Winter's face eased a bit. If it is only this level, after filling the hole, natural magic can completely adjust the ecological balance of that forest area.

"But this kind of thing is useless? The elder ordered people to try to destroy the upper layer of crystals, but then the crystals grew back faster, and even caused damage to the elves who went to destroy the crystals. ."

He explained to Xiwei.

Sylvie wrote and painted on the parchment while continuing to say: "I have confirmed what you said with Silver and the others. But do you know what happened after I dug a hole? "

Winter and Frey glanced at each other, and both saw confusion in each other's eyes.

So they shook their heads together.

"The crystallization blocked the pit. But instead of filling the entire pit, it just covered the pit with a layer like a lid."

Xiwei explained indifferently.

He stopped writing and rubbed his chin with his left hand, as if thinking about something, then he continued: "If crystallization is the result of someone deliberately doing it, then from this point of view his motivation is not It is to destroy the forest area-otherwise he doesn't need to care about the area that I hollowed out. Just cover other forest areas. This is the third point I said, "The crystallization itself is not aimed at the forest area." form'."

"...In this way, I always find it even stranger. If there is really Mr. Adric who is behind the scenes, what is his purpose?"

The wrinkles on Winter's forehead increased a little, which made him look a little older.

"If the crystal is used as a spellcasting material. Cover all the places where the line rune must be drawn with crystal... Is it a magic circle?"

It is different from the forest elves who only advocate self-casting.As a member of the church, Frey, who had received various magical educations and had seen many evil cults with his own eyes, immediately thought of other places.

"I thought so at the beginning..."

Sylvie smiled bitterly and picked up the masterpiece she had painted for a long time, so that Frey and Winter could see it.

On parchment.The circle that Xiwei had transformed was densely packed with many dots.It's like using a shotgun pointing at the bull's-eye and firing more than a dozen shots. Although you can barely see that the main body is a circle, because the craters are densely distributed and they are all randomly distributed, you can't see even the slightest regularity.

"I can't find any existence that can be regarded as magicweave or rune in these points... Whether it is Luna rune, Holmrad Old French, Erich Divine Word, or human beings so far A dragon language spell that can be completely deciphered. I can't find a right number, which is a pattern of casting conditions."

Xi Wei shrugged and explained to Frey.

So the Holy Silver Sword Fairy of Pure White Church could only sigh and fell back on her chair.

At this time, an elf knocked on the door.

In fact, the door was not closed, and the other party did this only because he was afraid to disturb Xiwei and the others who were discussing inside. From the perspective of understanding human etiquette, that should also be the endorsement of the elves.

"Be out of company." Winter stood up, owed Xiwei and the others, and walked towards the door.

Then I heard a whisper of Elvish from the door.It seems that the other party does not want Xiwei to know the content of their conversation.

Because the elves do not lie, they often suffer from the initial communication with humans.It was not until the rise of the elf endorsement position that they recovered a little initiative.At the same time, since that time, ordinary elves no longer communicate with humans or even other creatures. All external communication is taken care of by elves who have learned foreign languages.

Until today, hundreds of years later.Except for elves, no other race can speak Elvish.

Even the languages ​​of the forest elves, prairie elves, and drow, who are elves, are very different-you can refer to Mandarin and Cantonese for details...

There is just one thing they didn't expect.

Because of the system, Xiwei, who has LV5 linguistics, can actually understand Elvish.It's just that he never showed it, and he didn't intend to show it.If he really wants to say it, he can even say it smoother than many baby elves...

It is precisely because of this that those elves who have become accustomed to others not understanding their words will talk about all kinds of things in front of them without any restraint, so that Xiwei can inquire about many elven tribes.

"Elder, the child you brought back from the change zone is not from our tribe."

Under the power of the uncle of the system, Xiwei listened unscrupulously to the conversation at the door.

"We suspect that he is a natural primitive believer."

The kid Sivita who was brought back from the mutation zone that the person said was also aware of.This has to be discussed from the first time Xiwei and the others went to the crystallization forest three days ago.

——Three days ago——

"Is this the disaster-stricken area..."

After stepping on the ground composed of crystals, Xiwei's first thought was,'This thing may be sold at a good price among the nobles if it is made into a handicraft and brought back.'

Unlike when I looked down in the sky, this kind of crystallized forest looks surprisingly good from close up.

Whether it is towering trees or low shrubs, all vegetation has become translucent crystals.Sunlight pours down after countless scattering and refraction of the canopy crystals. Unlike those dark forest areas, it is not only exceptionally bright, but because of the prism effect, rainbow-like light spots can even be seen in many places.

If it weren't for this threat to the natural ecology, this place would definitely be called a superb view!

Tio seemed to like the look here.As soon as I came, I ran around. In addition to being a little softer when I was with Xiwei, the unchanging expression on the small face looked soothed a lot. The red cheeks gave the girl something unique to her age. Lively.

"Whether it is a bird or an insect, there is no more creature here."

Winter looked around the terrifying crystalline forest in silence.The complexion doesn't look good.

"These crystals don't seem to be taken away." Xiwei snapped off a crystalline leaf.I saw the translucent leaf quickly melted away in his hands like ice cubes: "It's a pity."

"After the monsters crystallized here, there should have been a large migration."

Frei gestured something on the ground: "There are many traces of large creatures moving here."

"Little animals can't leave marks on such hard things."

Sevi shrugged unceasingly, and then shouted at Tio, who was only a little back, "Tio, don't run too far. This is also a dangerous zone!"

"Sivi!" Sivi had just finished speaking, and Tiona rang out in a panicked voice: "Here!"

Sivi left Frey and Winter immediately, and hurried towards where Tio was without thinking about it.

"Tio!"

But the strange thing was that Tio stood there with good grace.

The girl squatted on the ground, holding a fainted child about her age in her arms.

Although the child looked like a little girl, it was seen from his pointy ears and long green hair tied into a ponytail with fine vines.It should be an elf.

"It's a young elf, I don't know which tribe came out of it."

Winter, who came later, looked at the child in Tio's arms and said.

"What's wrong with him? Could it be the symptoms caused by staying here too long?"

Frey, who arrived almost at the same time as Winter, also looked at the baby elf curiously.

"Anyway, it's better to take him out of here first."

Sevi reached out to Tio and took the unconscious elf.

And their first exploration of the mutation zone ended hastily.

After being guarded by Arclight Tribe, the elf regained consciousness within a day.It's just that he doesn't know if it is because of the change, he doesn't seem to have any memories before.And the reason why he fainted, according to Winter after asking the caregiver, was because he was too hungry...

In any case, the elf healed quickly.And don't know why, he seems to like staying with Tio very much.

Although the two little guys don't understand the language, they still play together very well. This situation is hard to see in Tio.

Siwei reminded herself that elves are genderless several times, and then she suppressed the loneliness of the foolish father who watched her baby daughter have a boyfriend and won’t stick to herself...

In addition.Xiwei also secretly observed the elf for a long time, and after confirming that the other party was not a suspicious guy, he was relieved to let Tio play with him.After all, from the observation results, although the opponent's magic power is a little strange.But the young elf named Yi Ke is at most a veteran elementary magician-level magic level, and it does not seem to have much combat experience.If it really fought, it would definitely not be Tio's opponent.

"No wonder he always thinks his magic power is very strange, is it a natural primitive..."

Until today, hearing the endorsement dialogue between Winter and the strange elves, Xiwei has solved a question in his heart.

Just like human beings are divided into wizards’ associations and pure white churches, there is no monolithic inside the elves.Even if you put aside the prairie elves who took the moon tree species out of the forest and the drow who directly turned their backs on the quiet moon, in the forest elves, in addition to the true believers of the quiet moon, there is a religious organization similar to the mad believers, the "Moon God Quiet Court', the church of devout believers'Natural Primitives' and some loose and unorganized pan-believers...

Among them, the original religion of nature not only believes in the quiet month, but also regards the whole nature as one, and lists it as a god that exists on the same basis as the quiet month.

Unlike ordinary forest elves, they have spent their entire lives protecting nature and doing their best to prevent it from being harmed even at all.They don't use anything processed by humans, and all the objects on their bodies are made directly from things in nature.On the contrary, they hate human beings who are indifferent to nature. Out of every ten forest elves injuring humans, at least eight are their actions.

As the power gained by believing in nature, they can communicate with the animals and plants in nature better than ordinary elves, and even after obtaining some unknown permission, they can transform into animals with various characteristics... …

Yes, among humans, these crazy guys have another name.

Druid.(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (m) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)