Chapter 127 Chapter 127 Wood Elf Companion. (Nutrient Solution 20,000...
Su Cheng walked towards the depths of the palace. The obsidian stretched out like an endless lake, and the front was immersed in thick shadows.
There was still absolute silence all around, with only her barely perceptible footsteps echoing.
After a few seconds, she saw the man again.
He stood in the shadow of the stone pillar, his posture elegant and casual, and then slowly turned his head to look at her.
There was almost no emotion in those cold and quiet black eyes.
Su Cheng took a deep breath. "Anyway, I want to thank you first. What's your name?"
She had already vaguely guessed some of the truth.
After all, not everyone can easily suppress the curse - if it breaks out, she will definitely be woken up by the pain, and she can't just sleep through it.
So that person must have done something.
But perhaps subconsciously wanting a more normal exchange rather than a completely grateful speech, she wanted to ask for a name.
The black-haired man didn't show any displeasure on his face. "...Alin."
"Well, thank you, Mr. Alleyn."
Su Cheng tried hard to look relaxed, even though a lot of questions had already popped up in his mind and he couldn't wait to ask them one by one.
Ailin shook his head slightly, as if to indicate that it was nothing.
"so--"
Su Cheng pointed to the crystal cabinets behind him. Because the distance was too far, the huge display cabinets seemed small at this moment.
"What is that?"
She said, glancing back.
Su Cheng knew the literal answer, but that was not all she wanted to ask.
"Those," Ailin said calmly, "were defeated by me. Oh, except for the last one. That one was a little special. I can't claim to have defeated him alone."
He spoke frankly, but did not intend to give more information to explain what was so special.
Su Cheng waited a few seconds for nothing to happen, unsure whether he should press the issue, "...Do you have a grudge against them? Or do you just want to prove yourself?"
"I once thanked them, because their existence brought magic power to this world—"
Ailin said slowly, "Later, I hated them for the same reason. But that wasn't why I fought them. I simply wanted to get what I wanted."
He stopped talking again.
Su Cheng: "For example, becoming who you are now?"
Aelin didn't answer.
Su Cheng realized that it might be difficult for him to ask what he didn't want to say, "Okay, that means 'yes', right?"
Instead of answering, he asked, "I thought you would want to know about them."
"Oh, the only one I'm interested in," Su Cheng thought of the familiar dragon bone. "I'll meet Him sooner or later. I'll figure it out myself. I don't want to get the answer from anyone else."
Ayling declined to comment.
"However," Su Cheng couldn't help but ask again, "Why do some ancient gods become false gods of the void, while some ancient gods are still... still gods, such as the God of Desire?"
Ailin glanced at her. "What do you think?"
Su Cheng had pondered this matter countless times. "I can think of many reasons. The most likely one is, well, He chose to be your ally, just like the God of Love chose to side with that person."
Ailin's lips curled up slightly, as if amused by her. "You don't need to be afraid to mention his name, especially in front of me. His power cannot enter here."
"Don't tell me," Su Cheng coughed dryly, "I don't even know the name of the God of Light."
Ailin didn't seem to want to tell her either.
Or maybe he didn't want to say the name, but it didn't seem like he was out of fear, more like disgust.
He murmured, "Regarding your previous question, it can indeed be understood in that way."
Su Cheng tilted his head. "So there's another reason? Just like you seem to favor those blessed by the ancient gods, are you planning to select some of them... to be promoted to gods in the future? The kind that will be loyal to you? Is there any connection between them?"
"You've indeed discovered many clues," he said, his eyes showing subtle approval. "Perhaps you can find the answers on your next journey."
Su Cheng: “?”
Su Cheng: "What do you mean?"
Ailin sighed softly, his eyes, as black as the night and as cold as glaciers, staring at her. "When I tell you the truth, this world will collapse—"
Su Cheng: “???”
"But I can see that you are about to get what you want, and we will meet again in the distant past—"
He smiled and said, "Although this is just my memory, after spending so much time with you, I can also realize that this is just a test."
test?
Collapse?
Su Cheng felt his left eye starting to feel hot, and the skin around the corner of his eye seemed to be burning. Enchanting golden patterns overflowed from his flesh, constantly flashing with brilliance.
……Fake.
A strong and clear understanding suddenly emerged in my mind.
She remembered.
Memories forcibly blocked by some force, those disappeared images and fragments, the out-of-control magic circle in the palace, and the screaming wizards.
Trial of Divine Grace.
The world before my eyes suddenly froze, and then, like a shattered mirror, it shattered into millions of pieces.
Endless darkness swept over.
Su Cheng: “!”
She took a deep breath and sat up from the ground.
The hot wind of midsummer blew in my face, mixed with the fresh scent of grass and trees, and flower petals fluttered past my eyes.
This is a lush and verdant forest. All you see are large areas of interlaced dark green, like emerald green dyed by the sun. The overlapping branches and leaves form an impenetrable dome.
She stood up and soon smelled the sweet and sour scent of berries. The grass under her feet was as soft as a velvet carpet, and dots of purple-red wildflowers tore down from the hillside.
This mountain forest is quite vast, and the towering ancient trees are extremely thick and sturdy, requiring at least three people to hug them. The moss and vines on the bark are wrapped around like silk ribbons.
Because of his eyesight far exceeding that of ordinary people, Su Cheng could see the houses high up in the treetops just by looking up.
Silver-green vines are woven into spiral staircases, connecting one exquisite building after another.
Transparent crystals are used to make up the roof and walls, wind chime-like flowers are hung under the eaves, and various magical plants grown in soil are placed on the windowsills.
She saw some light figures jumping on the steps and busying between doors and windows. Those figures had long pointed ears.
——Higher nature elves.
Considering the environment here, they should be wood elves, also known as forest elves.
The most obvious physical feature of this race is their ears, which are two to three times longer than those of humans, and the tops of their auricles are very pointed.
Other races may also have pointed ears, but they are often not as long.
In addition, the high elves have a higher average appearance, and an average-looking elf would be considered a real beauty among humans.
Because of their long lifespan and superior physical constitution, even relatively lazy elves can easily achieve success in magic or fighting spirit.
Therefore, their average combat effectiveness is also high.
Su Cheng observed for a while and confirmed that they were elves and that this was not an illusion.
She did not try to hide her whereabouts, and the elves had good eyesight, so someone soon discovered her.
Several elves who looked like young men whistled, asking others to pass on the message, then jumped down from the treetops nimbly and walked over with a wary look on their faces.
They frowned at her, their expressions repulsive and a little confused.
It seems that I can't understand why she is here.
“…Human?”
"No, this breath..."
"Some kind of hybrid..."
They spoke rapidly in Elvish.
"Hey, good day?"
The elves all looked over.
Su Cheng already knows a lot of Elvish words, but he never speaks it normally, so there is a big gap between his reading ability and speaking level.
She spoke Elvish awkwardly, "Excuse me, I'm here because of a magical accident. I'd like to know the current year, month, and day."
"You're lying!" an elf screamed. "This is the edge of the Favier Forest, already within the protection of the barrier. Even if you accidentally entered the Shadow Forest, you shouldn't be here!"
At this moment, another elf leaped down from the tree, hurriedly pulled several of his companions to his side, and whispered, "The Holy Vault's barrier has been affected..."
They spoke in low voices, but Su Cheng could hear it clearly.
The Great Shadow Forest is located on the southwestern border of the empire, bordering the northern part of the Principality of Anser on the other side. This place is the gathering place of wood elves.
There are many tribes of wood elves, scattered throughout the northern and southern continents, but the largest number of them are definitely in the Shadow Forest.
Because their royal court, called the Holy Vault of Pharthaea in Elvish, is located in the center of the forest, surrounded by many protective barriers.
There are also many confusing magics here that can hinder the detection of various long-range spells.
It will also confuse outsiders who accidentally or deliberately break in, making them never find the real way to enter the royal court.
"What if it's an accomplice..."
"But they have already..."
The wood elves were still whispering, occasionally casting wary glances at her.
But Su Cheng was eager to figure out the current time, so she disappeared from the spot and teleported to the treetops.
She stood outside a small room with an open window and saw some books arranged on the shelves inside.
In addition to magic tomes, there are also some adventure and love stories written by human authors, all of which are novels.
The elves here don't stay at home for decades. They also go to the surrounding human villages, towns and cities to play, and there are also some multi-racial towns around the forest.
Su Cheng glanced at a few familiar book titles, which were best-sellers in the past two years, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
I'm finally back.
——So what does the next journey that the Dark God mentioned refer to?
Does it mean a reunion in the real world? Or something else?
She thought about the previous conversation and couldn't help but be shocked. Even though it was just a memory, that guy could actually distinguish between truth and falsehood?
How to do it?
Or rather—
Did the Him in reality project His power into it?
"What's going on?!"
"Space Mage——"
When Su Cheng returned to the grass again, the elves looked at her as if they were facing a great enemy, and several of them drew their weapons.
They might not be able to defeat her, but their eyesight was not bad and they could distinguish high-speed movement and teleportation magic.
Su Cheng: "Everyone, if I wanted to leave, I would have left long ago. If I wanted to do something bad, I would have done it by now. I'm still here because I want to ask you a few questions."
The elves all looked terrible, but they also realized that what she said was true, so they suppressed the questions that were about to come out of their mouths and just looked at her warily.
"First of all," Su Cheng still remembered some of the relevant plot, although only vaguely, "I have a wood elf companion."
She pulled out her mercenary diary.
"We belong to the same mercenary group. A few months ago, he came here to visit relatives and friends. He originally wanted to go to the imperial capital with us, but it seems that he had something to deal with, so he sent a message for us to leave first."
She observed the elves' expressions and asked, "Do you know of such a person?"
The elves looked at each other.
Their race has a long lifespan and is not keen on having children. For a 500-year-old elf to have three or four children is already considered a lot.
Many elves who cannot find their loved ones may simply choose not to have children.
Some elves choose not to have children even if they find a soulmate they are compatible with.
This results in the elves' gathering places having a large number of residents, but there may not be new members for many years, so everyone basically knows each other.
Even if you're not familiar with them, you know their names.
The elves stared at the mercenary diary in her hand and muttered a few words.
"You go first," someone asked, "What's the name of your elf companion?"
"Qing Ling. Belongs to the Silver Leaf Clan."
The elves showed a look of sudden realization, then started talking rapidly in a jumble of words, and even started gesticulating with their hands.
Su Cheng: “?”
Su Cheng was forced to face a high-speed listening test full of accents. He had a splitting headache for a while, but finally understood a few sentences.
The gist of it is that the person is now inside the royal court, but they don't know what happened because ordinary elves cannot enter and leave the Holy Dome at will.
They were talking at once and accidentally mentioned a word.
The pronunciation of that word is a bit difficult to pronounce.
But it sounds incredibly familiar.
"Wait!" Su Cheng interrupted them, "You mean tree blood crystal? Is that it?"
The elves looked at her in surprise, as if they had not expected her focus to be here.
One of them couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Do you know what that is?"
Su Cheng observed their expressions carefully.
——That was definitely not an expression of "You know our secret, which is very dangerous. We are thinking of silencing you."
I was simply surprised that she knew an obscure word or a rare mineral, and discovered that she was more knowledgeable than I thought.
Su Cheng: "I read in a book that it seems to be an ancient mineral vein with many uses, but I thought it disappeared more than a thousand years ago?"
An elf raised his chin. "That was in the land of men, in our territory, under the light of the sacred tree—"
When she said this, her expression changed again, as if she remembered that something was wrong with the sacred tree.
Su Cheng gradually became certain that they were most likely unaware of the connection between that crystal and the false god of the void.
Not surprising.
These elves don't look very calm. If they are teenagers, they are probably less than 500 years old. It is normal that they don't know what happened one or two thousand years ago.
If their elders knew, they might not be willing to tell them.
Su Cheng: "Thank you, everyone!"
She remembered the direction they pointed, which was probably the core area of the Wood Elf Royal Court.
Amid the shouting of a group of elves, Su Cheng was teleported away directly.
Because this was a completely unfamiliar space with a narrow field of vision, she released her mental power and performed a short-distance teleportation.
The next second, she appeared on the treetops more than a hundred meters away, surrounded by columns wrapped in vines. Two elf children were sitting at the door, staring at her blankly.
Su Cheng cast his magic again.
Every movement was like passing through layers of green curtains. The scenery in the forest kept changing in the halo, and countless vines, flowers and fruits swayed by.
Then she saw the palace standing among the giant banyan trees, the roots of the trees coiled like dragons and snakes, and the new green branches and leaves half-covered the window frames of the palace.
And a huge square paved with silver-green jade, surrounded by several circles of stone corridors, with green vines winding in the corridors.
In the middle of the square is a beautiful green tree - it is not small, but not as majestic as imagined, and the trunk is only as big as two people can hug it.
Su Cheng was stunned for a moment.
Because from a distance, the shape of the tree looks like a curled up sleeping person.
The base of the trunk bends upward with a gentle arc, like a torso lying on its side with its knees bent. The lush leaves in the crown are gathered into a semi-arc, and the main branches are slightly tilted, and when the branches are stretched out, they look like drooping arms.
The more slender branches and leaves are like fingers brushing the ground, undulating slightly with the hot summer breeze.
The bark is a rich, deep dark brown that seems to gleam in the morning sun, and its surface is covered with fine spiral lines.
There was a glow flowing in the lines, like the blood vessels inside the tree trunk shining under the skin.
The side branches growing on both sides of the trunk are particularly regular, and each branch has slender heart-shaped leaves and some fresh light green flowers.
The tree's roots penetrated deeply into the square, and most of it was submerged by bricks and stones, but one could feel a certain magical force flowing.
As Su Cheng watched, he couldn't help but move closer.
"you!"
One after another, figures fell from the sky and surrounded her.
Those elves were armed with sharp weapons and full of fighting spirit. They looked like the guardians of this place, but their faces were filled with shock and anger.
“Who are you?!”
"I," Su Cheng took out his mercenary diary, "I came to find my teammates——"
She paused, and suddenly discovered that there was a diamond-shaped crystal behind the tree, embedded between the thick and twisted roots.
The crystal is about two meters high, with a hazy platinum glow all over, and its surface is covered with shimmering runes.
There is a person sleeping in that crystal.
Su Cheng took a breath of cold air.
She just saw many elves, all of whom were born with beautiful appearance.
She has also seen various gods, all of whom have extraordinary looks.
However, the person in front of her still amazed her.
The elf sleeping in the crystal was sitting peacefully, with its dark brown curly hair hanging down behind its waist, and occasionally some hair was suspended in the air with the pulsation of energy.
His skin was as white as delicate jade soaked in moonlight, his facial features were deep and delicate, and even with his eyes closed, one could still see the soft curve of his eyes.
Even when he was sleeping quietly, there seemed to be a gentle smile on his face.
He was also wearing an ordinary set of leather armor. The leather straps and metal hooks outlined his broad shoulders, long legs, and slender and flexible figure.
Su Cheng couldn't help but take a few more glances.
His temperament is very unique, like the gentle breeze in spring and the distant mountains shrouded in mist, which makes people's mood improve.
Soon she discovered that this crystal was a little strange. Its magic did not come from the structure itself, but was more like some kind of transmission device.
——It is extracting the magic power of the people inside and transferring it to the tree.
Su Cheng narrowed his eyes, "...and rescue him by the way."
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