Dust of History Chapter 22: It’s none of my business

Asa doesn't believe in heaven or hell.

When he was seven or eight years old and began to be obsessed with the magical world spoken by old adventurers, he thought that the heaven and **** that he often heard from other people were of the same nature, and they were all novel worlds that he could experience and explore. So when the old pastor in the village was preaching, he inquired with pure curiosity.

At the beginning, the old pastor was naturally very happy to see a child so interested in theology, but he asked a series of questions with the attitude of exploring the habits of animals, which made the old pastor unable to answer. Why do gods only eat and not shit? Why do gods and goddesses stay in the sky for so long but don’t give birth to many little gods? Was it just like the pigs at the entrance of the village that they were cast off by the adults next to them when they were eunuchs?

He has never seen evidence of the existence of these two places, and no one has gone to heaven and **** like the old adventurer went to the vast world outside, and then came back to explain it to him in detail. So when he woke up, his first realization was that he was not dead yet.

He pressed his stomach himself, and it was intact. The muscles are still tightly supporting the skin, and the internal organs are still where they should be, and they can't be normal anymore. He even felt that his body had never been so energetic.

Is it a dream? But the feeling of being hit by that red-robed man, spurting blood and falling into the spring water has no suspicion of hallucinations, and it has a smooth connection with all the previous memories, without the slightest feeling of being confused and hazy in sleep.

Asa got up from the ground. This is a strange place, it seems to be a tree hole, and it seems to be a house. Twisted branches and vines come together to form the surrounding walls, and where appropriate the branches grow around themselves to form windows and doors. Vines stretch out from the walls on both sides, entangled and suspended in the air, like a bed, and several strangely growing trees seem to be used as tables and stools.

This should be the residence of the elves. Asa knew this kind of strange house, and he often heard a lot about the elves from the dwarves when he was in his hometown.

The elves live in remote forests. Although they look similar to humans, they cannot be attributed to the low-level concept of 'subhumans' like those orcs. They have their own unique culture and way of life just like dwarves. Race.

It seems that the two races of dwarves and elves still have some kind of blood relationship. The dwarves despise this same race, and usually use elves as a metaphor when ridiculing and mocking others. Judging from their mouths, elves seem to be conventional and self-righteous idiots, lifeless wooden lumps without emotion.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the wooden house, and two elves walked in.

These are two elves, a male and a female, the male has black hair and the female has silver hair. At least from the outside, they don't look like wood bumps at all. From a human point of view, the two of them are very handsome and delicate. They are tall, with long ears protruding from their shoulder-length hair, which makes them even more masculine. Elegant temperament. It's hard to imagine them being closely related to the stocky dwarves.

The male elf said to Asa in a gentle and steady voice: "Hello, human. First of all, let me introduce myself. I am the most noble and pure elder of the elf clan on this continent. I am Kelan as you call me." .”

Like dwarves, they can't judge age by their appearance. Asa had seen a dwarf who was younger than himself but had a big beard. Since this elf who looked like a young man was an elder in the clan, he might be hundreds of years old.

Elder Crane pointed to the elf girl beside him: "Her name is Luya." Asa suddenly realized that she was the elf girl he saw lying naked in the spring. Now she was looking at herself with a slightly emotional look that an elf shouldn't have.

Sitting down on the wooden bench, Elder Kelan looked at Asa with unwavering calm eyes and said, "You are the first human being to enter the interior of this forest in the past five hundred years. We never welcome lowly people." Human beings, but after all we saw that you helped us deal with that servant of darkness regardless of the danger of your life. And for some other reasons, we brought you to this place that you humans were not allowed to set foot in."

Asa listened calmly as he continued, it was a good misunderstanding.

"Unfortunately, although it was the servant of darkness, it was indeed you who broke a very important ceremony of ours, and let the servant of darkness take away a leaf of the world tree."

That is indeed the leaf of the world tree. Fortunately, only one was taken away, which means there are at least two more, so there is a chance. Asa remained calm, now he could see that it was not something that he could take away just by begging, so it was better not to reveal the intention of coming, and to clarify the situation before talking. He probed: "How many leaves are left on the world tree?"

The elf girl Lua turned her head away. Although there was no expression on her face, this action had already expressed sufficient contempt and disdain. Elder Crane's demeanor and tone did not fluctuate at all, and he still said gently and calmly: "There is no World Tree. The leaves of the World Tree are not real leaves, they are the fetishes left by Mafa, the **** of all things."

That tree was planted by a man named Fama, and it is a very powerful leaf. Asa recalled Kris's expert translator, grinned, and imaginatively punched her in the face.

"Can you tell me the cause and effect of this incident?" At this point, Asa also wants to understand everything clearly.

Elder Crane fell silent. Gujing Bubo's face was still so gentle, he silently looked at Asa with undisguised eyes. That wasn't a scruple due to a powerful relationship, but a hesitation, just like the noble Sir contemplating whether to show his family tree to a monkey. Fortunately, he finally spoke up.

"Our family of elves has been living in this forest since ancient times. It is the origin of all elves on the mainland and is the messenger of the guardian light. For tens of thousands of years, we have guarded the place of the **** of all things, Mafa, together with the entire forest. The two gods left behind are the three leaves of the world tree and the sun well. According to the oracle handed down by us, on the southwestern edge of the remote continent, there is an evil thing left there when the gods created the world. When the world When chaos begins, it will be unsealed, and everything will perish. Only the combination of the divine power of the Sunwell and the life force of the leaf of the world tree can destroy that evil thing.”

"Although we have never been in contact with the outside world, other elves outside have been reporting the situation to us. We know that the whole world has begun to be chaotic. Originally, we elves, orcs and nature live in harmony The situation has been completely out of balance. It's all because of you humans, you have forgotten your belief in God and the awe of nature, and even came to build cities near this sacred forest. You have also destroyed the original stable life of the orcs. Now those The remaining beasts are about to go crazy with the whole world. The most important thing is that some human beings have been completely attracted by the darkness, and a dark force of death has formed around that evil thing."

"We took advantage of the golden annular eclipse that only occurs once in this century in the forest. At that time, the original constant power of the Sunwell will readjust and fluctuate, and we will send the most talented people in the clan to accept this power , to be used with the leaves of the world tree to fight against the darkness in the future. Unfortunately, at that time, the Sunwell lost its power to protect the forest. We don’t know why the servant of the darkness also knew about this. He took advantage of this opportunity to disrupt our ceremony."

"You also know the final result. The servant of darkness took away a leaf of the world tree. Just when our ceremony was about to be completed, you were seriously injured and fell into the sun well. The power in the well was fully automatic. It flows into your dying body, and since the water is filled with the life breath of the leaves of the World Tree, that power transforms and heals your injuries.”

"That power should have flowed into my body." The girl Luya said in that angry and regretful tone that her pearls were fed to pigs.

If I didn't fall in, or the red-robed man pulled you out, he would probably deal with you just as he did with that fat pig magistrate. Asa stared at her. Thinking of her standing naked in the well, she suddenly found it difficult to imagine how such a beautiful thing could turn into an ugly mummy.

"Although the ceremony has been destroyed, it is not completely irreversible. The power of the Sunwell should not be exhausted, but stay in your body. That kind of sacred power can be compared with your dirty human body. It is unusable, and only we can integrate with the noble blood that has inherited the power of the gods. We must find a way to take out this power, and then fuse with the remaining two leaves of the world tree, which is already our weapon against darkness The only hope."

Elder Crane's attitude and tone were so calm and steady from the beginning to the end, but it seemed that it was just the presumptuous elegance that the dwarves said gave him a kind of politeness regardless of the object. He made no secret of his contempt for Asa's human identity. "Until then you must stay here. Fighting against darkness and death is also your duty as a person who was given life by the sun. And as a humble human being, you should feel honored to be able to participate in this divine plan."

Asa still remained calm, but in his imagination he made a hand gesture commonly used by street hooligans to this elf who thought he was superior to him~IndoMTL.com~ Do you think you are amazing?

This imposing statement did not have any impact on the original thinking structure in his mind. It seems to be just listening to a story of a bard.

He never thought that he would have anything to do with things like light and dark world peace, which was too far away from his actual life. Just like those miners in their hometown who are addicted to bad wine and prostitutes, when they hear others talking about national affairs, morality and culture, they don’t even care about whether what you say is true or not. The only thing you can feel is the speaker’s self-esteem Wait a minute, spit on you, it's none of my business.

But it seems that it is really not easy to handle. Since it is a fetish, it will definitely not be given to a human being who is considered humble by them. Only by slowly figuring out the situation and then making a long-term plan, Asa asked: "Then how long will it take you to take that power out of my body?" It would be a bit troublesome if you just kicked him out immediately after two or three strokes.

"I don't know, we still have to slowly find a way from the ancient books. We have never encountered such a thing." Elder Kelan stood up, signaling the end of the conversation. "Although the lifespan of human beings is very short, don't worry, we will find out a way as soon as possible before you die of old age."

Asa shook her head and slowly replied: "I'm not worried at all."