Lan thought for a moment and felt that the reason given by Ellie was reasonable, so he agreed after thinking for a moment.

After Ellie left, he began to worry about the issue of the accompanying personnel. There were only four "people trusted by both parties": himself, Mossack, Geralt, and Ciri.

Mossack had gone back a long time ago, and even if Ciri was here, she couldn't be brought along, so Geralt was the only one left.

However, my personal relationship with Geralt is not close enough to ask him to participate in such occasions. How should I tell him?

The next day, late at night.

“This is the first time I’ve received such a commission.”

White Wolf sighed: "This may be the easiest money I have ever made."

Lann glanced at Geralt. "If I don't pay you, will you come?"

Geralt thought about it and replied: "Yes, but I won't be on your side, nor on Esna's side."

Lan rolled his eyes. It seemed that he was just a third-party witness to watch the fun. He thought for a while and suddenly said, "No, how can you say it's the first commission? Didn't you help King Bruger negotiate an agreement with the tree spirit before?"

Geralt replied: "I mean the commission to be a guard. And I have failed in this commission from King Brugger."

Lann comforted him, "To some extent, your goal has been achieved. Didn't you accept this commission in order to ease the relationship between the tree spirits and humans?"

Geralt nodded. "It's not a pity. Anyway, I've already received the deposit."

The two rode on the road for a while late at night, and White Wolf rarely took the initiative to bring up a topic.

"I never asked... How is Freixenet? What is Esna going to do with him?"

After drinking the Water of Brokilon, Geralt remained in a coma until he left the forest. He did not have time to say goodbye to Freixenet and no one knew what happened to Baron Verden afterwards.

But Geralt was thoughtful and he expected that since Lann didn't bring it up, it must not be bad news.

Lan En thought about it and said tactfully: "It should be what you think. Those who understand will understand."

White Wolf frowned and thought for a while. He really regarded Freixenet as a friend.

"That's troublesome. Freixenet doesn't know anything and might suffer a loss."

Lan En was stunned: "No way, my subjects have similar situations. They don't even want to come back after staying in there, how can there be trouble?"

Geralt sighed and said, "It would be fine if he was just an ordinary civilian. I'm worried that if he showed his so-called aristocratic style and gentlemanly manners to the tree spirits, it would only bring about the tree spirits' knives. The relationship between the tree spirits and them is very practical and emotionless. Any unnecessary behavior other than 'that kind of thing' may cause misunderstandings from the tree spirits and lead to conflicts."

"Ah, this is really 'practical'." Lann sighed, and suddenly asked with a smirk, "Is this your experience? It seems that you also had a good memory in Brokilon before?"

White Wolf was silent.

Just then, Lann and Geralt arrived at the edge of Brokilon.

The battlefield here had long been cleared, and all valuables had been taken away by the soldiers.

The remaining bodies had long since disappeared, having been taken by some beast. Only the large pool of blood on the ground had not yet completely disappeared, revealing that this place had once been a battlefield.

Aisna and the other three had arrived a long time ago. There were two "chairs" and a "table" growing out of the ground in the field, and on them were several "lamps" made of leaves and branches. If you look closely, you will find that the light source inside is actually fireflies.

Hearing the sound of horse hooves, the attention of the four tree spirits was drawn over.

Lann dismounted and greeted, "Long time no see, Ms. Esna."

Then he greeted Ellie, Brian, and Dunka in turn.

After the few people who could barely be considered familiar with each other greeted each other, Esna, who saw that Lann only brought Geralt, waved her hand and led Brian and Dunka into the woods, leaving only Ellie with them.

Esna asked, "Where's Mossak? I wanted to talk to him."

Lan suppressed his curiosity and sat calmly on the chair that grew out of magic. He took out two documents he had drafted from his backpack and explained:

"Uncle Mossak has taken the princess back first. Her Majesty the Queen can't wait any longer. If you have anything to say, please tell me and I will pass it on to him for you."

Aisna shook her head: "Forget it, it's not an important matter."

Lann handed over two documents and introduced them, "This is the peace agreement I drafted, in duplicate. It mainly contains the obligations and rights of the residents of Brokilon. Some specific details still need to be negotiated. If you have any demands, we can discuss them tonight."

Esna took the two documents and examined them carefully by the light of fireflies and the moon.

Lann tried to observe her attitude towards this from her face, but found that the Dryad Queen's aura had returned to what it was before Geralt broke her defense: cold, arrogant, powerful, and elusive.

This was the queen's attitude that had been formed over hundreds of years, and it was not something that Lann, a young man who had been a noble for only one year, could understand.

After a long time, Aisna withdrew her gaze, and finally there was a hint of emotion in her eyes.

Aisna said with a puzzled look, "I thought Cirilla was the child of the ancient bloodline I had been waiting for, but I didn't expect you to be the one."

"But I can't join the tree spirit clan." Lan En joked, "Let's discuss the specific details."

Naturally, both sides will have no objection to the basic principle of non-aggression, which is the basis of all cooperation.

Lan was more interested in resource and technology exchange. He thought the archery of the tree spirits was very interesting and wanted to try to get Ace to come over for cooperation and exchange.

As a result, Lann was told that the formation of this archery skill, in addition to special training techniques and racial talents, is also closely related to the living environment and lifestyle of the tree spirits. Humans practice archery for fighting, while tree spirits practice archery for survival.

In other words, if a tree spirit were to live in a city, even with the same training methods, her archery skills would not be better than anyone in the forest.

As for the exchange of resources, it would be a lie to say that Lann did not covet the rich timber and minerals of Brokilon, which were coveted by all four nations. But he was not stupid enough to say such a thing out loud. If he had let out a hint of this, Esna would probably have turned hostile. He could only think of a way to do it slowly in the future.

After the first time, there will be more in-depth and comprehensive second, third, fourth and fifth times...

Therefore, for this resource exchange, Lann focused on the "quota" for the tree spirits to heal. As for the world-famous healing magic of the tree spirits, Aisna's reply was that it could be used to heal humans, but they had to be humans recognized by them.