The Dean Has Arrived Chapter 305: At this time, we need Conan…
Three days have passed since Xiwei and the others arrived and temporarily lived in Arclight Tribe.
In addition to the time it took to depart from Adric College, there is currently more than ninety-six hours from the release time of the [Ancient Forest Sea Mutation Investigation] mission, and the remaining time for the mission limit is less than 72 hours.
However, Xiwei still has no clue as to the cause of the forest crystallization.
At present, the crystalline forest area of the ancient forest accounts for about one-fifth of the total area. Many forest elves have even been forced to relocate and leave their homes for hundreds of years.
"In short, integrate the elements we have now."
Xiwei and they are now in a small tree house on the branches of the moon. This is also the residence of the current great elder of Arclight Tribe.
Elves do not have the same class concept as humans, and even the homes of the great elders are no different from ordinary elves.
The house is grown through the guidance of natural magic, including beds, tables and chairs, etc., which grow directly from the floor. Except for some hand-woven crafts, there are almost no furnishings. Even the sheets are made of palm-sized leaves. Only the quilt is a hand-woven blanket produced by humans.
Although the furnishings are very simple, the elves are the creatures closest to nature after all. The small tree houses are full of natural aesthetics. It is no wonder that many nobles are proud of their home furnishings made by elves. ——In fact, this is also the most traded thing between elves and human chambers of commerce who are unwilling to overly harm nature.
"Although you said so, didn't you actually find any clues..."
Frei sighed. This knight commander from the Pure White Holy See had no results after two days of searching, and even the large-scale heresy detection magic of the church heresy trial team was used, but it is still a pity. Is nothing.
"There is absolutely no evil wave in all the crystallized areas...not to mention the abyss demon or vampire, even if there is no monster with only a little dark magic power. This time it is really impossible to start."
Not to mention Frey, even Winter is a bit discouraged.
Because of crystallization, the ecological circle in the forest that had been stable for countless years was completely disrupted. Many of the crystalline lord-level monsters on their own delineated areas had to fight each other to divide new territories. This kind of battle caused the entire Gengu Linhai to jump around. Up to now, there have been nearly three unlucky elven tribes, and nearly a hundred people have been affected by the battles of those monsters, and have suffered damages of various sizes. Even the Moon Tree, which is regarded as a holy tree, has been destroyed. Two trees.
For this reason, the current elders of the forest elves can only come forward. Running in the forest. Fully maintain the spirits and safety of the elves. Elder Winter, as the endorsement of the original elves, plus the longest time acquaintance with Xiwei and others, can stay here and be responsible for communicating with Xiwei and them. While looking for the cause of the change, protect the safety of Arclight Tribe by the way.
"Crystalization is still spreading, and new crystallization points are constantly appearing...If this continues, if it doesn't work, our elves can only leave here. We will move to other forests."
Compared with the first time I saw it, Winter looks a lot more haggard, with sunken eye sockets, and the faint dark circles on his white face show his sense of existence. In his smooth and shiny face There was even a hint of dazzling silver in the long green hair.
"No, there is still a clue. Although it may not be of much use."
Syvey took a piece of parchment paper, drew a quill pen from the ink bottle on the side of the table, and stroked the nib at the mouth of the bottle—except for the blanket, these are the only artifacts in this room. Even the ink is said to be replaced with the juice of a plant fruit-and then the outline of the ancient forest was drawn on the parchment paper.
"First of all, when looking down from a high altitude, it is obvious that all the crystallization areas are happening around a point. Of course we have already seen that point, and there is no special discovery."
He drew a non-standard circle on the upper left of the outline, and then wrote a note at the center of the circle. Just look at it from the map. The center of the circle is actually quite close to Arclight Tribe.
"Then the effect of crystallization will only take effect on plants. Except for the forest elves, there is no crystallization of any other animals in the crystallization area. In addition, Miss Frey and I are staying in the crystallization forest area. It took a long time, even exceeded the "safe time" you gave before. But the crystallization effect did not occur, so I think. The crystallization should only affect the plants."
Syvey took a look at Winter and realized that he didn't express any discomfort before continuing.
After all, the forest elves were originally born on the moon tree, maybe because of this, the effect of crystallization will judge the forest elves as plants...
"The third and final point. The crystal itself is not formed in the forest area."
Sive finished speaking, both Frey and Winter's eyes showed curiosity. If they were able to detect the first two points through three days of observation, then the third point would completely puzzle them.
Syvey also has no bad habit of hanging people's appetites. He showed an apologetic expression to Winter: "Sorry Winter, I secretly did an experiment on the forest when you were not paying attention."
"What experiment?" Winter frowned, and did not directly say whether to forgive or not, but directly inquired. It seems that there is no meaning of falsehood and guilt at all. If the experiment done by Xiwei is harmful to the forest, maybe He will turn his face directly.
The uprightness of the elves is vividly manifested at this point.
"I dug out a piece of crystallized forest with crystals and the ground."
Since I have already said it, Xiwei did not intend to conceal it, and said generously: "A big pit with a diameter of about 20 meters and a deepest of nearly 10 meters has been dug."
The expression on Winter's face has been slightly relaxed. If it is only this level, after filling the pit, natural magic can completely adjust the ecological balance of that forest area.
"But this kind of thing is useless, right? The elder ordered people to try to destroy the upper layer of crystals, but then the crystals grew back faster, and even faced the elves who went to destroy the crystals. Hurt."
He explained to Xi Wei.
Sivy wrote and drew on the parchment, while continuing to say: "I have confirmed what you said with Silver and the others. But you know it happened after I dug a hole. What?"
Winter and Frey glanced at each other, and both saw confusion in each other's eyes.
So they shook their heads together.
"The crystallization blocked the pit. But instead of filling the entire pit, it just covered the pit with a layer like a lid."
Xiwei explained indifferently.
He stopped writing and rubbed his chin with his left hand, as if thinking about something, and then he continued: "If you think of crystallization as the result of someone deliberately doing it, then from this point of view he His motive is not to destroy the forest area-otherwise he doesn’t need to care about the area that I hollowed out. Just cover other forest areas. This is the third point I said, "The crystallization itself is not aimed at Formed in the forest area'."
"...In this way, I always find it even more strange. If there is really what Mr. Adric is behind the scenes, what is his purpose?"
The wrinkles on Winter's forehead have increased a little, which makes him look a little older.
"If the crystal is used as a spellcasting material. Cover all the places where the line rune must be drawn with crystals... Is it a magic circle?"
Different from the forest elves who only advocate self-casting. As a member of the church, Frey, who had received various magical educations and had seen many evil cult rituals with her own eyes, immediately thought of other places.
"I thought so at the beginning..."
Sylvie smiled bitterly and picked up the masterpiece she had painted for a long time, so that Frey and Winter could see it.
On parchment paper. The circle that Xiwei had transformed was densely packed with many dots. It's like using a shotgun pointing at the bullseye and firing more than a dozen shots. Although you can barely see that the main body is a circle, because the craters are densely distributed and they are all randomly distributed, you can't see even the slightest regularity.
"I can’t find anything that can be considered as magicweave or rune in these spots... Whether it’s Luna runes, Holmrad’s ancient French, Erich’s words, or humans So far I have not been able to fully interpret the dragon language spell. I can't find the correct number, which is the imprint of the casting conditions."
Sevi shrugged and explained to Frey.
So the Holy Silver Sword Fairy of Pure White Church could only sigh and fell back on her chair.
At this time, an elf knocked on the door.
Actually, the door is not closed, and the other party did this only because they were afraid to disturb the Xiwei who was discussing inside. From the point of view of understanding human etiquette, that should also be the endorsement of the elves.
"Leave a company." Winter stood up, owed Xiwei and the others, and walked towards the door.
Then I heard a whisper of Elvish from the door. It seems that the other party does not want Xiwei to know the content of their conversation.
Because the elves don't lie, they often suffer from the initial communication with humans. It was not until the rise of the elf endorsement position that they recovered a little bit of initiative. At the same time, since that time, ordinary elves no longer communicate with humans or even other creatures. All external communication is taken care of by elves who have learned foreign languages.
Until today, hundreds of years later. Except for elves, no other race can speak Elvish.
Even the languages of the forest elves, prairie elves, and drow, who are elves, are very different-you can refer to Mandarin and Cantonese for details...
It's just that they didn't expect it.
Because of the system, Xiwei who has LV5 linguistics can actually understand Elvish. It's just that he hasn't shown it, and he didn't intend to show it. If he really wants to say it, he can even say it smoother than many baby elves...
It is precisely because of this that those elves who have become accustomed to others not understanding their words will talk about various things in front of them without restraint, so that Xiwei can inquire about a lot of elves' gossip.
"Elder, the child you brought back from the change zone is not from our tribe."
Under the power of the uncle of the system, Xiwei listened unscrupulously to the conversation at the door.
"We suspect that he is a natural primitive believer."
Sivita also knows the kid brought back from the mutation zone that the visitor said. This has to be discussed from the first time Xiwei and the others went to the crystallization forest three days ago.
——Three days ago——
"Is this the area affected by the mutation..."
After stepping on the ground composed of crystals, Xiwei’s first thought was, ‘this thing is made into a handicraft and brought back, maybe it can be sold at a good price among the nobles. ’
Different from looking down in the sky, this kind of crystallized forest looks surprisingly good when viewed up close.
Whether it is tall trees or low shrubs, all vegetation has become translucent crystals. Sunlight pours down after countless scattering and refraction of the canopy crystals. Unlike those dark forest areas, it is not only exceptionally bright, but also because of the prism effect, rainbow-like light spots can even be seen in many places.
If it weren't for this threat to the natural ecology, this place would definitely be called a superb view!
Tio seems to like the look here. As soon as I came, I ran around. In addition to being a little softer when I was with Xiwei, the unchanging expression on her little face looked soothed a lot. The red cheeks gave the girl something unique to her age. Lively.
"Whether it is a bird or an insect, there is no more creature here."
Winter looked around the silent and terrible crystalline forest. The complexion doesn't look good.
"It seems that these crystals can't be taken away." Xiwei snapped off a crystalline leaf. I saw that translucent leaf quickly melted away in his hands like ice cubes: "It's a pity."
"After the monsters crystallized here, there should have been a large migration."
What Frey gestured on the ground: "There are many traces of the movement of large creatures."
"Little animals can't leave marks on such hard things, right."
Syvey shrugged unceasingly, and then shouted at Tio, who was only a little back, "Tio, don't run too far. This is also a dangerous zone!"
"Syvey!" Just after Syvey finished speaking, Tio's voice rang with a little panic: "Here!"
Syvey left Frey and Winter immediately, and hurried towards where Tio was without thinking about it.
"Tio!"
But the strange thing is that Tio stood there with good grace.
The girl squatted on the ground, holding a fainted child about her age in her arms.
Although the child looks like a little girl, he can see from his pointy ears and long green hair tied into a ponytail with fine vines. It should be an elf.
"It's a young elf, I don't know which tribe came out of it."
Winter, who came afterwards, looked at the child in Tio's arms and said.
"What happened to him? Could it be the symptoms caused by staying here too long?"
Frey, who arrived at almost the same time as Winter, also looked at the baby elf curiously.
"Anyway, it's better to take him out of here first."
Sevi reached out to Tio and took the unconscious elf.
And their first exploration of the mutation zone ended hastily.
The elves woke up in less than a day after being watched by the Arclight Tribe. It’s just that he doesn’t know if it’s because of the change. He doesn’t seem to have any memories before. And the reason why he fainted, according to Winter asked the caregiver afterwards, it was only because he was too hungry...
Anyway, the elf healed quickly. And don't know why, he seems to enjoy staying with Tio very much.
Although the two little guys don't understand the language, they still play together in a very good relationship. This situation is hard to see in Tio.
Syvey reminded herself several times in her heart that elves are genderless, and then she suppressed the loneliness of the foolish father who watched her baby daughter have a boyfriend and won’t stick to herself...
Besides. Sevi also secretly observed the little elf for a long time, and after confirming that the other party was not a suspicious guy, he was relieved to let Tio play with him. After all, from the observation results, although the opponent's magic power is a bit strange. But the young elf named Yi Ke is at most a veteran elementary magician-level magic level, and it does not seem to have much combat experience. If it really fought, it would definitely not be Tio's opponent.
"No wonder he always thinks his magic power is very strange, is it a natural primitive..."
Until today, hearing the endorsement dialogue between Winter and the strange elves, Xiwei has solved a question in his heart.
Just like human beings are divided into wizards’ associations and pure white churches, there is no monolithic inside the elves. Even if you put aside the prairie elves who took the moon tree species out of the forest and the drow who directly abandoned the Tranquil Moon~IndoMTL.com~ In the forest elves, in addition to the followers of the Tranquil Moon, there are religions similar to fanatics. Organize the "Moon God Jingting", the church of devout believers "Natural Primitive Church", and some loose and unorganized pan-believers...
Among them, the original religion of nature not only believes in the quiet month, but also regards the whole nature as one, and lists it as a **** that exists on the same basis as the quiet month.
Unlike ordinary forest elves, they spend their entire lives protecting nature and do their best to prevent it from being harmed even at all. They will not use anything processed by humans, and all the objects on their bodies are directly made from things in nature. On the contrary, they hate human beings who are indifferent to nature. Out of every ten forest elves injuring humans, at least eight are their actions.
As the power gained by believing in nature, they can communicate with the animals and plants in nature better than ordinary elves, and even after obtaining some unknown permission, they can transform into possessing various characteristics Animals...
Yes, among humans, these crazy guys have another name.
Druid. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (m) to vote for recommended votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)