Chapter 076 Is this the territory of the dark elves?
What's going on?
Is everything before my eyes real or fake, a dream or an illusion?
Could it be that, just like before, when playing and singing the elves' poems, an illusion of traveling through time and space appeared?
But, that's not right!
The illusion only appeared when the elven poetry was infused with magic. He had just cast a low-level purification spell, so there was no reason to activate the triggering conditions.
Wait, magic?
Even the most basic purification technique was still magic, not to mention the sudden explosion of the ball of light. It didn't seem like the terrifying power that a mere magic apprentice like him could unleash.
Shu Li always remembered that the "people" in the illusion could see him. He found two dark elves with a gloomy aura coming down from the tree. They carefully covered their small bodies with branches, tried to hold their breath, and were as quiet as a quail.
He didn't dare to act rashly before figuring out the situation.
I just fought against the terrifying dark elves a few days ago, and I am still scared. Now two more dark elves have appeared. The level of terror crisis has increased exponentially. Once I expose myself, my life will definitely be in danger.
Shu Li clenched the magic wand in one hand and covered his mouth with the other.
Two dark elves stood in front of the tree trunk, looking up to count the gray-green fruits hanging from the branches.
"...Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen...fifteen. Fifteen new fruits have grown this year." One of the dark elves with tied hair curled his lips and said, "Fifty years from now, a new batch of cubs will be born."
"The mother tree is bearing fruit at an increasingly faster rate. Twenty cubs were born just half a month ago." Another short-haired dark elf frowned.
"Haha." The dark elf with the tied hair chuckled. "If a race doesn't even have young, then extinction isn't far away."
The short-haired dark elf raised an eyebrow: "Are you talking about the white elf?"
"What else?" the dark elf with the tressed hair said sarcastically, "I heard they haven't had any newborn cubs in five hundred years. How pitiful!"
"It's indeed pitiful." The short-haired dark elf snorted gloomily, "Even more hateful!"
The dark elf with tied hair turned around and said slowly, "Don't worry, sooner or later, we will return. The Fairy Forest and the Elf Kingdom will be ours."
"I've had enough of this barren land." The short-haired dark elf followed him. "By the way, have you heard from Roald recently?"
"Roald? That bastard who's fallen enough to hang out with pirates?" the dark elf with the tied-haired hair said disdainfully. "It's been ages since I've heard from him. What's going on? Do you have something to talk to him about?"
The short-haired dark elf said, "Half a year ago, I asked him to help find a certain kind of arsenopyrite for refining potions, but he hasn't delivered it yet."
The dark elf with bound hair shook his head. "I'm afraid your money is gone forever. It would be faster to go to the underground auction house yourself than to ask him for help."
"Why?" the short-haired dark elf wondered. "I met Roald when I went to the underground auction house. He told me that he was the auction house's upper echelon and could easily get any rare item, and at a very reasonable price, several times cheaper than at the auction house."
The dark elf with tied hair turned his head to look at the short-haired dark elf. "Efit, are you really a dark elf?"
The short-haired dark elf called Efit said unhappily, "Of course I'm a dark elf!"
The dark elf with tied hair spread his hands. "Then why are you so naive? Even if you've just reached adulthood, you should know that Roald has a long and shabby history."
"I know he was kidnapped by pirates when he was a child..." Efit whispered, "but he and I are of the same race."
"He hates the Dark Elves!" the dark elf with the tied hair said in a deep voice, "You should be thankful that you didn't get tricked into joining him when you met him. Otherwise, you would have been sold out by him and still be counting his money."
Efit was silent.
The dark elf with the tied hair patted his shoulder and softened his tone slightly: "Efit, remember, any dark elf who didn't grow up in Vanaku is not a true dark elf."
Efit lowered his head: "Yes, I remember."
The two dark elves talked as they walked, and soon disappeared.
Only when he could no longer hear any talking did Shu Li dare to stick his head out from behind the leaves, lower his hand that was covering his mouth, and take a few deep breaths.
At this moment, a huge storm was brewing in his heart.
When he first appeared on this strange giant tree, he thought he had entered the time and space fantasy again. When the two dark elves mentioned the name "Roald" in their conversation, he was shocked.
Roald is the dark elf who invaded the Fairy Forest with the Necromancer and the pirates.
In other words, the place where he is is not an illusion, but reality.
Vanaku is the territory of the dark elves, which is a million miles away from the Elf Kingdom. The strange giant tree he is squatting on is the mother tree that gave birth to the dark elves!
Ten thousand years ago, a group of elves contaminated by darkness betrayed the elven race, cut off branches of the mother tree, fled to Vanaku, and took root here.
Since then, there have been more dark elves on the continent.
The current Dark Elf King is the "bad guy" that the Mother Tree often mentioned to Shu Li.
He used the power of darkness to pollute the branches of the mother tree and planted them in the center of Vanaku. Dark elf cubs were produced in an endless stream, while the trunk of the mother tree of white elves gradually withered and had not produced any new elf cubs in five hundred years.
Looking at the giant tree covered with gray-green fruits, Shu Li couldn't understand how he could "teleport" to the territory of the dark elves just by performing a purification spell?
He didn't think he was so gifted that he could travel through space with just a low-level magic.
What now?
Shu Li sat on a thick branch, feeling anxious.
How should he return to the Elf Kingdom and the Crystal Castle?
There are many dangers here, and there are evil dark elves everywhere. He dare not move at all.
Even if he found a way to escape from Wanaku, he didn't know how to get back to the Fairy Forest.
The journey is too long.
Just when Shu Li was getting extremely anxious, a familiar ethereal voice sounded in his mind.
"Little Sperian... hurry... while there are no dark elves nearby... cast another purification spell on me..."
Shu Li froze, staring at the branch he was standing on in disbelief.
"...Little Sperian... did you hear me?"
Shu Li came back to his senses and responded uncertainly in his mind.
[Mother tree?]
'It's me, it's me!'
[Where are you? ]
"The one you're stepping on... is me!"
[You mean... the tree that gave birth to the dark elves is also you?]
"That's right... didn't I tell you before? The bad guys cut off my branches... and planted them in the dark land... and polluted me..."
[But you didn’t tell me that the branch is also you!]
Shu Li was disheveled in the wind.
I never expected that the mother tree of the Elven Kingdom and the branches of Vanaku were one and the same "consciousness".
[Did you bring me here?]
Shu Li asked angrily.
"Little Sperian...please listen to my explanation...wuwu...I don't want to...but only you can help me...wuwuwu..."
[No! How can you be so sure that I can help you?]
"...Let me explain..."
[Okay, I'm all ears.]
Shu Li found a leaf to cover herself.
He must not be careless in the enemy camp. If he is discovered, no one can save him.
Even the Elf King couldn't save him.
It's such a long distance away!
However, the mother tree was indeed an ancient sacred tree with great magical powers, and it actually "stole" him from the Elf Kingdom to Vanaku.
"...It's a long story...Ten thousand years ago...someone chopped off my branches..."
[Long story short! Let’s get to the point.]
"Hmm...Okay...Okay..."
Shu Li listened quietly, his mind filled with ethereal voices echoing. After a while, he finally understood.
Ten thousand years ago, the mother tree was cut into branches by the current dark elf king Ang Orakiri, taken to Vanaku, and planted in the most filthy land.
At first, the branches showed no signs of taking root or sprouting.
Ang Orakiri used the forbidden object left to him by the God of Darkness and integrated it into the branches. The branches were contaminated by darkness and finally accepted the filthy land, took root in a foreign land, and grew into a complete tree.
However, unlike the main trunk, the tree that grew from the branches is completely different.
The branches are black-purple, the leaves are dark green, and the fruits are gray-green, exactly the same as the evil tree growing in the abyss of hell.
Not only that, the branched root system is unusually developed.
After growing for tens of thousands of years, it actually grew from the ground of Vanaku, across half the continent, to the Elf Kingdom, and touched the trunk of the mother tree.
The roots of the main trunk of the mother tree are entangled by branched roots and are seriously polluted. Even a powerful Elf King cannot purify it.
Because the roots are so tightly entangled and connected together, they cannot be distinguished from each other and cannot be cut off.
As time goes by, the vitality of the mother tree's trunk is gradually swallowed up by the branches.
Slowly, the main trunk of the mother tree turned into a bare, ugly tree, while the branches flourished and bore abundant fruits, and dark elf cubs were born one after another.
On the other hand, the white elves have had no new cubs for five hundred years.
As for the mother tree's consciousness, it was contaminated by darkness and severely traumatized, becoming a little... mentally retarded.
Well, mentally retarded is how Shu Li views it. The mother tree firmly refuses to admit that there is something wrong with its consciousness.
It is trying to save itself and firmly believes that as long as it purifies the branches, all problems will be solved.
"Little Sperian... Only you can help me..."
After learning the truth, Shu Li felt very sympathetic towards the mother tree and was worried about it, but he really could do nothing!
How did you get me here?
The most urgent thing is to find a way to return to the Elf Kingdom.
"The root system... the branched root system is a spatial tunnel... through it... one can teleport directly..."
Shu Li heard a hint of pride in the ethereal voice.
He really wanted to complain, but in order to get the mother tree to reveal more information, he had no choice but to ask patiently.
[Since you have a space tunnel, why don't you teleport the elves over here to purify the branches?]
The magic god-level elves have mastered the art of purification. If you are careful not to confront the dark elves head-on, there is a chance to purify the branches. The powerful ones can even steal the branches back to the elven kingdom.
"...They can't... They can't enter the space tunnel... Only you can... Little Sperian... You are unique..."
Shu Li was surprised, recalling the several times he had entered strange illusions and was discovered by the "people" in the illusions.
He once asked the Elf King if he had any memory of seeing him.
The Elf King's answer was no.
This dispelled Shu Li's doubts.
However, today's situation forced him to believe that he had the ability to travel through time and space.
Perhaps, it was not a coincidence that he traveled from his original world to another world.
Shu Li's mind was in a mess, almost into a paste.
[How can I return to the Elf Kingdom?]
If he really has the ability to travel through time and space, there must be a triggering condition, right?
"Little Sperian... don't rush to leave... help me purify some first... let's do it quietly... with luck... we can even steal a fruit back..."
[——Are you daydreaming?]
Stealing fruit?
It’s a pity that it could come up with this idea!
Let’s take a look at who he is first?
A tiny, tiny elf who only knows basic magic!
"Okay... This isn't the first time we've done this..."
What does "This isn't the first time we've done this" mean?
Shu Li frowned.
He was certain and convinced that this was the first time he was tricked by the Mother Tree into the territory of the Dark Elves. He hadn't taken any action yet, so where did the "it's not the first time" come from?
"...Oh...I was wrong...This is our first time...but it will definitely work..."
The mother tree's voice sounded a little guilty, and when Shu Li asked again, it was unwilling to reveal a single word.
As expected, he was contaminated by darkness, his memory was confused, and his consciousness was flawed, right?
Shu Li clenched his magic wand, hesitant.
If he did not agree to the mother tree's request, he was afraid that it would be unwilling to send him back to the Elf Kingdom.
However, casting the purification spell requires reciting a spell.
Chanting spells requires making sounds, and making sounds will attract the attention of the dark elves.
This is a matter of personal safety and must be considered carefully.
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