Chapter 383 382. The Elf's Choice
Amid the chirping of birds, Salian slowly opened his eyes.
The sound was made by his sister's blue parrot, but Salian was not unhappy about being woken up. After all, it was already noon.
Most of his tree house was demolished by the runaway giant trees during the turmoil. Now he has a bed to sleep in thanks to his sister.
only……
When he pushed open the door, his sister's crying suddenly rang out in the hut:
"Xiaoji! It's all my fault. I handed you over to that useless old man and ended up like this..."
Ellawen hugged the scout with the crooked mushroom cap tightly, crying and glancing at him all the time.
Salian himself couldn't understand why the cat was fine before returning to his sister's house, but suddenly became stupid as soon as he entered the door.
The younger sister insisted that it was because the mushroom cap was crooked, and the happiest person in the room at that moment was probably Feifei, the parrot who was standing on Ellawen's head and singing proudly.
But to be fair, he does have to take responsibility for this.
"Alright, alright," Salian sighed helplessly. "Once I'm done with my work today, I'll take Xiaoji to see some of my druid friends. They should be able to find a solution."
"That's more like it..." Ellawen finally returned to normal.
After Salian left, Ellawen also went out to catch fish for the Earth Bear Ding Ding and the Shadow Swamp Python Bubble. Only Feifei and the sitting Puji were left in the room.
Feifei first landed by the window to confirm that Ellaven had indeed gone far away.
Then it circled in the house, accompanied by high-pitched bird calls, swooped down, and used its deadly dragon claws on Puji without hesitation!
Snap——
Feifei, who was knocked to the ground by a tentacle, began to think about his bird life.
…
In the meeting hall of the Elf Palace, around the long table that had once received the human delegation, gathered almost all the important figures of the Elves who had a say.
Even an elder who had stepped down from all his positions due to aging was specially invited back. Only the ranger commander in charge of the Scarecrow Abyss was not present.
The most eye-catching people in the hall are undoubtedly the two from the Ranger Corps.
The adjutant of the ranger unit was wrapped like a dumpling. After Ilos knocked him down, he did not linger in the fight. The adjutant saved his life thanks to the timely treatment of the druid and mage in the team.
Another focal character, Eco, is even more eye-catching, with white mycelium interwoven between his skin and flesh. What's even more exaggerated is that a round Puji sits on his head, yet he appears to be calm and composed.
In fact, Eko's injuries were far more serious than his adjutant's, but at this moment he was moving as usual, which made him vaguely realize that it was probably the effect of these strange mycelium on his body.
"Echo," the old elf with gray hair and less than ten years to live spoke first. He was the only one in the entire council chamber who had the seniority to speak bluntly. "Do you really have to attend this meeting with a familiar?"
The other elves have been trying to avoid this embarrassing scene since they entered the door.
"This guy saved my life, but he insisted on staying up there, and there was nothing I could do!"
As he spoke, he grabbed Puji with both hands as if to take it off, but Puji responded by wrapping its tentacles around his head, as if it would not let go until it tore it apart.
It wasn't until Echo let go that it resumed its original position of clamping his head between its short legs.
Seeing this, everyone was speechless. They couldn't let Eco tear the life-saving mushroom apart with their bare hands, right?
But the old elf was still a little worried: "Eko, you look like this... are you really okay?"
This time, before Echo could speak, Galadriel spoke up for him. "Don't worry. According to the information I've received, symbiosis with mycelium has been occurring in human city-states for quite some time. This is a new type of symbiosis developed by Puji, which significantly enhances the host's resilience. The cost is only a change in appearance and a slight loss of mana."
Galadriel did not mention the matter of Master Puji controlling Puji. After all, Echo had no use for Puji's combat power, so there was no point in talking about it.
"The human side... then why is there one in the Shenmu Dungeon?"
"It's probably because of the dimensional rift that appeared during the turmoil in the human purple crystal underground city that it came through."
Galadriel hoped that others wouldn't harbor any resentment towards Echo because of the mycelial symbiosis. Echo, on the other hand, felt that a certain degree of caution was warranted. "To be on the safe side, I will primarily be responsible for the border defense of the Forest Patrol from now on, and will no longer be heavily involved in the affairs of the Royal City."
The elves then discussed many things, including finding the missing Iros and the artifact, rebuilding Isildolin, and the new city planning must be able to cope with the giant trees running rampant again.
When the discussion extended to foreign policy, the vast majority of elves believed that the current state of the race was not suitable for getting involved in continental conflicts.
Only Salian had different ideas. He was deeply impressed by the worlds swallowed by fog that he saw in the abyss space.
He also felt that the elves should try to go out, but he did not agree with the teacher's radical approach.
However, as a leader of the younger generation, although Salian was able to attend the meeting, he did not have enough say, and his proposals were quickly drowned out by the voices of other elves.
However, the elves would not just close the door and ignore everything. They still considered the current situation on the continent.
The scale of the elven civil strife was so large that even if the borders were blocked, it would be impossible to completely prevent the news from spreading.
The demons will naturally increase their pressure on humans as they have fewer concerns.
To this end, the meeting finally decided to provide material assistance to humans, including food and magic potions, and to extend the same support to the dwarves.
With dwarves putting pressure on the demons at the border of the empire, it shouldn't be a problem for humans to hold on.
As for the human heroes, the demons must be much more anxious than the elves. In this case, humans and demons can only deal with it themselves.
The elves began to rebuild their homes and gradually got used to the Puji that could now be seen everywhere. After all, they were scavengers, and a surge in their numbers after a disaster was normal.
No one thought these chubby pussies were harmful. Didn’t you see that the former captain of the royal guard, Eko, always walked around with one on his head?
Occasionally, elves discover that the fungal mat is decomposing the elf corpses, and everyone is very calm about it.
In their view, being decomposed by trees or fungal mats is essentially a way of returning to nature.
However, the entire elf tribe was still shrouded in a faint sadness. Whenever they dismantled the badly damaged tree houses, looking at the familiar objects, they could not help but think of the acquaintances who had passed away or disappeared in the turmoil, and they could not help feeling sad.
Beside the ruins of the potion shop, a female wizard was cleaning up the wreckage while quietly wiping away tears.
She could never forgive herself. On the day when the giant tree rioted, why did she forget to save little Ruier, who had the least ability to protect himself?
Now little Rui'er is nominally "missing", but everyone knows that either her body is too mutilated to be identified, or her body was dragged away by monsters in the chaos.
"Poor little thing...it's all my fault for forgetting you..."
The female mage had no idea that at this moment, deep in the warmth of the dungeon, her beloved little Riel was clinging to a large mushroom, trembling as he stared at the terrifying lizardman with ten-centimeter-long claws before him...
(End of this chapter)
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