"...You mean, all elves are born from the fruit of the Elf Tree, and the Elf Tree produces a seed every thousand years, and your Elf Queen consumes this seed to give birth to an Elf princess or Elf prince through natural childbirth?"

After hearing Lola's story, Xu Milu couldn't fall asleep at all.

"The elven princess or elven prince was born from the elven tree, so the elves born from the elven tree will naturally support the next queen. And then you threw away a seed that only bears fruit once every thousand years?"

"Aaaaaaah! I know how serious this crime is. I could very well be expelled from the Royal Guard because of this. No, I might become the second unlucky soul, after the evil elf Osset, to be banished from the elven race by the Queen's order—"

Laura completely lost her forced composure, collapsing onto the petal-covered bed and frantically scratching her head.

"Oh God, oh God, oh God! My God, I can already foresee the miserable life ahead. My epitaph will likely bear the inscription of this humiliating experience—'The sinner who lost the Elf Tree Seed,' which all elves under a hundred years old will see—God, Goddess of Nature, I would rather drown in Mother River than die such a humiliating death—"

Xu Milu hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped.

She really didn't expect that Lola, this unreliable guy, actually had a pretty high status among the elves.

So who was the idiot who let some unlucky guy keep such a precious thing?

"But such precious seeds should logically be kept by the elves, so how come they're with you?"

Xu Milu suddenly remembered something and asked.

"Well..."

Lola gave an awkward smile: "The current Elf Queen hasn't decided whether to consume the Elf Tree seed to give birth to the next heir, so three hundred years ago, this seed was kept in rotation by me and three other members of the royal guard—"

"And then you lost it."

Xu Milu gasped, fully realizing the seriousness of the situation.

Unlike humans who can give birth naturally, elves are born from the fruit of the Elf Tree, while the Elf royal family comes from the tree species that originated from the Elf Tree. This gives the royal family a natural bloodline advantage over the elves.

Lola's loss of this Elvenwood seed means that the Elven Queen will be unable to give birth to an heir for the next seven hundred years.

Although elves are a long-lived race, Xu Milu felt that it was somewhat unrealistic that no successor had been born for seven hundred years.

—Like a certain royal family, an heir may not necessarily ascend the throne, but there must be one.

"It's alright. Your queen probably hasn't decided when to give birth to an heir yet, which means you still have plenty of time to look for one."

Xu Milu didn't know what else to say, so she patted Lola's shoulder to comfort her.

Her response was Lola's embarrassed, guilty smile:

"Actually, the Queen plans to take the Elven Wood during the second full moon of next year, so I need to send the seeds back to the Elven race before the next great tide rises—to be precise, I only have less than seven sunrises and sunsets left."

Less than seven days?

Xu Milu only felt a toothache, but fortunately, the friendship between the two awakened her rare tendency to meddle in other people's business:

When did you discover that the Elfwood Seed was missing?

"It seems like it was in the Dark Forest, those stupid big-mouthed flowers, they chewed my hair like hay! Ugh! No, no, it should be in the Red Sand Canyon, when I encountered a once-in-a-century sandstorm, all my belongings were swept away by the sand—no, no, no, I must have lost them while searching for the 'Earth Core Mushroom.' That day I bumped into a group of bird-faced anacondas incubating their chicks, oh my god, they weren't elegant at all, they chased me all the way to the orc territory, can you believe it? Later I even encountered a forest fire that hadn't been seen in four hundred years... Hmm, it seems, it's possible, I lost them at sea. When I was searching for the ruins of Pearl City by ship, the large ship encountered a storm stirred up by a giant sea monster, and the ship capsized once—"

As Lola recalled the events, she counted on her fingers, only to see Xu Milu subtly move further away from her.

"??? Milu, why are you so far away from me?"

"...I'm afraid that if lightning strikes me, I'll be afraid that a star will fall and hit my head."

Xu Milu never believed that anyone could be so unlucky as to survive unscathed, but today she has witnessed it for real.

Sandstorms, forest fires, swarms of bird-faced anacondas, orc territory, gigantic monsters, massive storms...

These are things that ordinary people would never encounter, but this unlucky elf stumbled upon them—to the point that everyone traveling with Lola would have to shout "bad luck!" three times.

When you're this unlucky, you can basically use them as weapons.

"Since this seed is so precious, shouldn't there be some unique method for finding it? What about the magic of your elven race?"

Xu Milu reminded her, "There can't be absolutely no way, right?"

“There is a very special connection between elves and the seeds of the Elf Tree, which is why I was able to track them all the way to Orok Island. I heard that an extremely precious emerald has appeared on the black market, and the people on the black market plan to auction it off for a good price during this flower parade. I guess that must be the Elf Tree seed I am looking for!”

Lola suddenly perked up, her eyes shining as she said:

"As long as I retrieve the seed before the Queen and the other guardians, no one will know about the foolish thing I did!"

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