Chapter 129 The Demon Race is Also a Double-Edged Sword; Darkness Pervades Before My Eyes
Shu Xin felt an eerie calm. After a moment of silence, she couldn't help but ask, "Why do you hunt snow elephants? To eat them? Didn't you say there are plenty of fish in the underground lake? Have you already eaten all the fish in the underground lake?"
Xi lowered her eyes, a little embarrassed: "No, there are still quite a few fish in the underground lake. It's because after the harvest month, everyone had nothing to do, and the tunnel collapsed several times due to fighting. They took the opportunity to dig holes everywhere. I felt that it was definitely not good to let them fight and dig like this, so I took them to the snowfield to hunt."
Stealing a glance at Shu Xin's face, Xi added in a soft voice, "I disliked their constant fighting, so this time when I took them hunting, I made them only allowed to capture prey alive. If anyone killed the prey, I would freeze them on the snowfield for ten days or so. So all the prey we caught are still alive... The snow elephants are alive too, none of them died, really."
Shu Xin rarely experienced this feeling of darkness spreading before her eyes.
If she had known the demons would be so idle as to fight, she would definitely have dragged them over to work! She had considered asking the demons to help with the farming, but considering that the demons were fighting monsters from the outer continent throughout the harvest month, Shu Xin thought she should let them rest. In addition, Xi had been sent to the underground city by her, and she thought that with Xi around, the demons shouldn't cause any trouble, so Shu Xin didn't bring it up.
When Shu Xin saw Xi today, she was thinking of mentioning this matter to him. The demons have been resting for more than half a month, they should have had enough rest by now. She had even thought about the work she wanted to assign to Xi—
The underground city's planting area should be put to good use. Although there is only one crop, Delicious Mushroom, the land can be cultivated in advance, and the supporting irrigation canals should also be arranged.
The fish and algae in the underground lake should not be harvested for consumption indiscriminately; we should consider how to cultivate them.
Moonlight moss and blue feather moss can also be planted in underground tunnels and residential areas to serve as lighting and decoration;
The demons' above-ground dwellings also need to be planned. It's impossible for all demons to prefer living in underground caves; some will definitely prefer living on the surface. Therefore, the construction of demon settlements needs to be put on the agenda. What building materials to use and how to acquire them are key issues that need to be discussed.
Finally, Shu Xin also observed that during the Harvest Month, when the demons fought against the monsters from the outer continent, they fought separately and there were occasional blunders where friendly forces were accidentally injured. Therefore, it was necessary to train the demons to cooperate with each other.
It would be even better if the demons could fight alongside the flower fairies. After all, according to the information provided by the Tree of Life, in addition to the Great Horned Deer that appeared before and the Feathered People that appeared during this Harvest Month, there will also be Treants, Giant Eagles, and Unicorns coming to aid the Riverside Elves. These races all have relatively powerful strength, and the demons alone may not be able to hold them off.
This harvest month ended with a frenzied attack by the armored monsters. In other words, in history, humans' probing and attacks on the river elves lasted for a full month. Next, it should be the rescue by friendly forces. So, the next harvest month will probably be dominated by undead beasts.
The only saving grace was that Shu Xin had specifically confirmed with the Tree of Life that, so far, the only territory that would encounter an attack by extraterrestrial magical beasts of this scale was the Land of Sin.
According to the Tree of Life, the Land of Sin is not only located on the border of the Kingdom of Garnar now, but before the kingdom was established, this land was located on the edge of the River Elves' territory. It can be said that almost all the early conflicts took place on this land, so the past obsessions that formed during the Harvest Month in the Land of Sin are particularly deep and numerous.
Of course, this is also related to the excessively high concentration of magic in the Land of Sin. To be honest, Shu Xin even suspected that the king might have been secretly pushing things along. Although the high amount of magic tax collected by Peng Peng An would not be delivered to the capital until the end of the year, no matter how much the king neglected state affairs, he should have noticed the huge changes in the Land of Sin, right?
Now Shu Xin is not so afraid of the king anymore. She has come to understand the true nature of the Tree of Life and has personally experienced the care and protection the Tree of Life has given to the river elves. Shu Xin feels that even if the king wants to kill her, the Tree of Life can save her life. No matter how powerful the king is, he can't be stronger than the Tree of Life with the fragment of a god.
Shu Xin felt that the Tree of Life was still very weak. Even though the Tree of Life in the Land of Sin had become lush and verdant, its aura remained ethereal and powerless during the communication process. Shu Xin also knew that the vibrant giant tree was not the Tree of Life's true form. The problem was that Shu Xin did not know how to effectively help the Tree of Life. She had asked the Tree of Life, and its reply was that it was severely damaged and unable to repair itself—which was quite obvious!
With a sigh, Shu Xin took the Snow Clan's invitation from Xi's hand, feeling its cool touch.
She glanced down at it. Although it was called an invitation, it looked like a long strip of ice, about one finger long and two fingers wide. The uneven, fine snowflake patterns on its surface were either naturally formed or carved. Despite the slightly higher temperature in the Land of Sin, this ice invitation not only did not melt, but also steadily emitted wisps of cold air.
Inside the ice block, a ball of slightly blue magical light was flowing gently. When Shu Xin took the invitation in her hand, the magical light flickered slightly, and a thought was transmitted from within the invitation.
The message conveyed by the thought was very simple, just as Xi said: the Snow Clan wanted to invite the lord of the Land of Sin to the Twin Moon Snowfield to discuss the hunting of the snow elephants.
Although the emotion carried by this thought was very calm, the other party did not hide their displeasure. Thinking that the invitation said "the snow elephant was hunted down", but Xi said "captured alive", Shu Xin held the invitation and looked at the well-behaved blond boy: "Take me to the dungeon first."
"Is this what you meant by 'still alive'?" Shu Xin asked expressionlessly.
In the underground lake of the planting area, large and small blue ice blocks are piled up in a striking contrast. Through the pale blue ice surface, various snowfield animals can be clearly seen frozen inside, and all of them appear to be seriously injured. The largest ice block, located at the bottom, is the base of this ice mountain, with almost half of it submerged in the lake. However, through the exposed portion, one can still clearly see a huge, mammoth covered in wounds inside.
"Is this what you meant by still alive?" Shu Xin repeated.
This just means it's not completely dead yet, okay?!
Xi didn't dare to say a word, standing to the side with her head down, pretending to be a block of wood.
On her way there, Shu Xin had already seen several underground tunnels that had collapsed due to the violent fighting between the demons. She also saw the dark holes that the demons had dug in all directions through the gaps in the collapses.
The shape of each hole was completely random, and these holes should all be hiding demons. However, they were all very quiet and silent, and even the fluctuations of magic power were reduced to a minimum. If it weren't for the faint light emitted by the flower fairy reflected in the eyes of a few of them, Shu Xin might not have been able to find them.
One of the large holes was filled with water, which even overflowed. The water, stained a deep blue by the toxins, flowed a large area in the underground tunnel. Shu Xin, who was originally walking on the ground, had to fly up. The deep blue water reflected the flower fairy's long hair and wings that emitted a soft light. If you ignored the various claw marks and footprints trampled on the bottom of the water, it was truly a mesmerizing beauty.
As for the planting area, it was even more severely affected. The ice blocks that had frozen the snowfield animals were dumped into the underground lake, and the overflowing lake water completely submerged the ground of the planting area. The moss fields that Shu Xin had planted neatly a month before the harvest were all overturned and half of the moss had been soaked to death. The sparsely planted delicious mushrooms were still stubbornly alive, but the mushroom caps, which should have been snow-white, were now covered with spots of scorched yellow and blackish-blue, as if they had mutated.
The bottom of the shelf that was originally placed next to the stove was also flooded. It can only be said that the wood of the Tree of Life is waterproof enough, so it looks to be in good condition. The stove was built high to begin with, so it was all fine.
Shu Xin noticed that the firestone in the stove was still warm and realized something. She looked at Xi next to her and said, "Lilia and Ananna are still cooking for you? They couldn't possibly not have noticed what you did."
Lilia, in particular, is a very clever flower fairy. Unless her senses are clouded, she would never fail to notice anything unusual. And if she does notice anything amiss, she will definitely report it immediately.
Xi lowered her head even further: "Just some illusion magic..."
Shu Xin was almost laughing in exasperation: "You guys are pretty smart! Lilia and Ananna won't come back until the dungeon is restored to its original state! Now give me the coordinates of where you found the snow elephant, and I'll move it there first. Oh, and tell your people to be mentally prepared. When we return from the Snow Clan, I'm going to draw a magic-blocking circle in the dungeon! As for whether the magic-blocking runes will appear on you, that depends on your performance!"
Upon learning that the Snow Clan had sent an invitation to the Land of Sin because their snow elephants had been hunted down by the Demon Clan, Pengpengan was very uneasy: "Your Highness, perhaps you shouldn't go! Or you could invite the Snow Clan to our Land of Sin!"
Nono was also a little nervous. After asking around and confirming that the snow elephant was still alive, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's good that the snow elephant is still alive, Your Highness. The snow elephant is different from other magical beasts on the snow plains. Just like the Tree of Life is not an ordinary magical plant to us, the snow elephant is not an ordinary magical animal to the Snow Clan. However, I'm not quite sure why the snow elephant is so important to the Snow Clan. The Snow Clan merchant who traded with me exchanged a leaf from the Tree of Life for a seed of bitter wheat. She said she wanted to show it to the snow elephant of her tribe and hoped that the snow elephant would like it."
Thinking of the snow elephant covered in wounds inside the ice, Shu Xin felt a faint pain between her brows. It seemed that the demon race, like magic, was a double-edged sword!
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Author's note: I've been working hard to write over two thousand words today, and I'm almost done! Victory is in sight! Then my alarm went off, and I woke up.
I'm fine.
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