Chapter 693 Ready
In No. 17 Greenshade Town, on the northern outskirts of Tivian, Dorothy sat on the sofa in her home, flipping through the biography she had just bought from Beverly not long ago with an earnest look on her face, reading about the secrets of the world's past.
Compared to the previous book "City of Mountain Hearth", which had a more detailed exploration and archaeological experience, the content described in the book "A Record of the Investigation of the Voodoo Forest" that she was reading now was much vaguer. I don't know if it was the translator's problem, but a lot of the content was full of unclear semantics and vague content, and there was a lot of vague content that was completely incomprehensible. Dorothy could only barely make out the written content from it with great difficulty.
In this ton of traditional records, when the Empire's colonial forces were conquering and developing the Nanwu region, they discovered a large number of ancient alien civilizations from the First Era. These relics were centered in the vast Voodoo Forest in the heart of Nanwu, and there were relics on a large area of Nanwu land. In a series of archaeological excavations by the Empire, they confirmed that the relics here belonged to the "elves", a race that once flourished in the First Era.
These elves love nature and are close to forests. They like to build bases and cities in places full of vitality. The gods they worship are translated as "Mother Earth", "Holy Tree Mother Goddess", "Ocean Goddess"... Among them, "Holy Tree Mother Goddess" is the most common name for the elves. They regard the towering and huge ancient trees as the symbol of the goddess on earth, and worship them.
The elves organized and established their faith in gods by worshipping ancient trees. Among these worshipped ancient trees, the largest one is located in the center of a vast forest named Voodoo Forest in the Third Age. Legend has it that this huge oak tree is so tall that it reaches the sky, and its shade blocks out the sun. It can be seen from the border of the extremely distant South Wu land. This giant tree is called the "World Tree" and is believed to be the incarnation of the elf goddess in the mortal world. The capital of the elven civilization is built on the world tree and on its edge. This is the center of the entire elven civilization.
According to the legend, the World Tree is the capital of the elven civilization, and the elves' other cities are also built around giant ancient trees. Although these ancient trees are not as magnificent as the World Tree, they are also huge enough. The elves' cities are built around these giant ancient trees, all over the land of Nanwu, and even extend to places outside Nanwu. The author of the legend speculates that those other giant ancient trees may be the offspring of the World Tree, spread and multiplied by its seeds.
'The elven civilization developed around the World Tree? That's interesting... It seems that there were many different kinds of alien civilizations active in the First Era. At first, I saw a harpy, then a dwarf merman, and now there are elves... The First Era was an era when all kinds of intelligent species flourished. I don't know why we can't see any of them now. Even if it was because of the war, they wouldn't be extinct to this extent.
'Also, regarding the elves' apparent belief in worship, the so-called Holy Tree Mother Goddess they believe in feels like a 'cup' god. Moreover, this ancient tree worship is very similar to the remaining belief in the Goddess of Plenty on Summer Tree Island. There is also a huge ancient tree on Summer Tree Island. Their name for the Goddess of Plenty seems to include the concept of Mother Earth. Could it be that the Goddess of Plenty and the Holy Tree Mother Goddess of the elves are the same god?
'Also, speaking of huge ancient trees, there is also a large ancient tree in the Holy Land of the Virgin Mary in the Ivglachel Valley, where the Redemption Cathedral is located. Could these ancient trees be descendants of the Elven World Tree of the First Age? Ancient tree totems seem to be a feature of the early days of this world. Compared to the current flesh and blood worship, the early days were more inclined to natural worship...
'The area of Nanwu is now in the hands of the Afterbirth Cult, and is mainly controlled by the Filthy Order. In a sense, the area controlled by the 'Cup' now overlaps with that of the first century.'
Looking at the biography in her hand, Dorothy thought and analyzed in her heart. After reading the biography in its entirety, she extracted the spirituality from it, and finally obtained the spirituality of 4 "cups" and 2 "revelation". It also seemed that because of the slight mention of the title of Mother Earth, Dorothy also gained a little bit of "stone", just like the last time in Xia Shu.
The fourth biography that Dorothy read was very similar to the previous investigation record in terms of the paper used and the handwriting. It seemed that both the original author and the translation were the same, but this biography did not have a cover or title. After Dorothy casually flipped through it, she found that this was a supplement to the previous "Investigation Record".
This manuscript seems to have supplemented the content, continuing to record the archaeological content of the Nanwu Elf civilization, but this time the imperial archaeological team was divided into two groups. One group continued to expand the scope of investigation from the hinterland of Nanwu, the center of the Elf civilization, which is the location of the World Tree in the Elf records. The other group went to the edge of the Nanwu Maoton Forest on the edge of the Elf civilization, close to the vast grasslands of Dongwu. The reason they went there was because they found countless abandoned transport vehicles and sunken ships on the Elf roads and canals.
The number of these transportation tools filled with various decayed materials was astonishingly large, and almost all of them were moving in one direction. Therefore, the imperial archaeological team at that time believed that there might be a large city of the elven civilization in that direction, so they decided to send a team to explore that side. This manuscript was officially written by that archaeological team.
However, when the archaeological team arrived at their destination, what they found was not the remains of a large-scale elven city, but a tragic battlefield. They discovered some abnormally destroyed elven city ruins and significant war fortifications.
According to the analysis of the Imperial Archaeological Team, the ruins of these elven settlements were almost all destroyed by war. In the first era, the elves seemed to have fought a fierce war with some enemy here. The huge amount of materials transported on the roads and canals were actually military supplies and logistics, so they were so huge. The Imperial Archaeological Team analyzed the remaining elven defense lines and found that the enemies the elves were defending against almost all came from the Dongwu grassland. In the broken defense lines, they found many giant claw marks, which seemed to be left by some huge beasts.
In some cities and defense lines that were obviously captured, the Empire's archaeological team also found numerous totem-style murals. These murals depicted various monsters killing and devouring elves. These monsters had the characteristics of half human and half beast. Some were half human and half lion, some were half human and half tiger, some were half human and half wolf or half human and half crocodile... These beast people seemed to be the targets of the elves' war. They engraved the murals on the noble palaces of the elven cities, as if they were hoping that these people would declare their victory in the future.
For a period of time afterwards, this imperial archaeological team wanted to continue their in-depth exploration, but what they didn't expect was that just when they wanted to continue to explore the elves' enemies in the grassland, the imperial officials who arrived later ordered them to ban their exploration activities, and their previous archaeological materials were transferred to the team of clergy from the Church of the Goddess of Fertility who came with the imperial officials.
The Imperial archaeological team that wrote this biography heard that a team from the Church of the Goddess of Fertility would continue their exploration of the area, and they had to return immediately. This phenomenon made the author of this biography very dissatisfied, and Dorothy could see him venting his emotions between the words.
"War... Like the dwarves, are the elves also engaged in some kind of war? Unlike the dwarves who are facing an unknown enemy from underground, the elves' enemies come from the grasslands, and from the looks of it, they also appear to exist in the form of wild beasts..."
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