in the name of the queen

Chapter 166 The tree-turned-elf and the spirit-turned-tree

Of course the tree can be burned.

but not now.

Even if you burn an ordinary valley full of trees, you have to put in place a fire isolation zone to prevent the fire from spreading and triggering a large-scale wildfire, not to mention that these trees are not ordinary trees.

No one knows whether these dryads will do anything extreme when they are dying.

Must be well prepared.

Under Roland's persuasion, Sif strangled the devil named Impulse in the sea of ​​consciousness.

It was already late at night when we returned to the Governor's Mansion.

Shiv was tired and fell asleep after taking a bath.

Roland also fell asleep in his bedroom.

"The number of tree elves is increasing. As their numbers increase, the number of elves once exceeded 500 million, gaining the upper hand in the competition with the earth spirits."

"Originally we got along very well. Later, some elves cooperated with the ancient tree of wisdom to give birth to offspring, and the branch of tree elves was born. The physique of the tree elves is close to that of the ancient tree. There is no need to be pregnant. As long as the fetus is stored in the ancient tree, the offspring can be conceived."

"The number of tree elves is getting larger and larger, and their evolution speed is getting faster and faster."

"Treeyad?"

The quantifier billion is really inconsistent with the elves.

Roland basically looks like this every time he sees her.

It seems that Elf Sif knows a lot.

"In addition to the common pine, cypress, and fir, ginkgo was also the main species at that time. In addition, there were special large trees that could grow to thousands of meters and even produce wisdom."

When holding his chin, he didn't realize that this was Sif's common posture, and he always liked to cross his legs when listening.

She tried hard to control her emotions and said quietly: "The powerful reproductive ability of the tree elves has allowed them to transform from a minority in the tribe to an absolute majority."

"Correct."

Elf Sif took a deep breath, her eyes gradually became painful, and the next memory was obviously not a good one.

After a moment of silence, the elf Sif sighed softly and said faintly: "The environment in the third era was suitable. Gymnosperms were very prosperous and it was common to grow to several hundred meters."

Considering the convenient breeding method of tree elves, it is not surprising that the number exceeds 100 million.

"Sif, I saw the golden ginkgo tree demon."

"When there were only one million tree elves, they said that we were all elves and should live in peace; when the number of tree elves approached that of the blood elves, they began to compete for the right to speak, saying that nature is the destination of elves; when the number of tree elves exceeded One hundred million later, they told us to shut up.”

In the sea of ​​flowers, natural ancient trees, the elf Sif sat quietly, as if sleeping.

Roland was a little surprised. With such a convenient breeding method, the elves should have a large number of people.

Without waiting for Sif to ask questions, Roland explained in detail what happened in the valley.

"Five billion?"

As we all know, the number of elves is sparse, and even at its peak, it did not exceed 100 million.

Roland looked surprised.

Instead of sleeping, he was looking for an expert in Third Age botany.

Although he was a little regretful, Roland didn't think much about it.

Including the previously discovered Coriander and Bleeding Greens.

"I don't know, but I have a lot of time." Roland found a place to sit down opposite the elf Sif, his eyes full of anticipation.

Although she was only conscious, he still regarded her as an independent living being who was both a teacher and a friend.

"They say red blood is vile and barbaric, like those vulgar savages. Green blood is the noblest. They even object to the name of blood and call the damn green juice holy fluid."

“Do you know how almost all ginkgo species, including golden ginkgo, became extinct?”

Fortunately, the elf Sif was the one who experienced it, so this history will not be forgotten.

"You mean the golden ginkgo that became extinct in the Third Age?"

After all, the elves have a long lifespan and a low mortality rate. As long as the fertility rate increases slightly, it will be great.

"These intelligent plants are called ancient trees. The elves and the ancient trees are friends and depend on each other. There are two candidates for our god-making movement, namely the Elf King Aslan and the World Tree Hill. This shows that we dependencies between them.”

Roland was even more curious. The elven classics obtained through the inheritance profession never recorded the tree elves who once occupied a dominant position. There must be unknown secrets in them.

Elf Sif stood up and carefully pressed the hem of her skirt, her lifeless eyes suddenly lit up.

Elf Sif lowered her head slightly, remained silent for a long time, and said slowly:

"The growth of ancient trees requires nutrients, and evolution requires rare materials. The elves provide materials for the ancient trees, and the ancient trees protect the elves and fight side by side with us."

The wide skirt covered her lower body, as if to prevent anyone from seeing her beautiful legs and feet.

Roland did not interrupt the elf Sif's words, but just put his hands on his chin and assumed the same listening posture as Sif.

"However, tree elves are evil after all. Plants are plants and animals are animals. Even if plants are intelligent, they are completely different from flesh and blood life. The birth of tree elves has confused the boundaries."

Elf Sif's eyes flashed with pain, and she sighed softly:
"No matter how many benefits it can bring, confusing borders is not a good thing. But the tree elves are our compatriots, and the ancient trees are our brothers and sisters. They already exist, so what else can be done?"

"When the number of tree elves exceeds 500 million, the blood elves have no right to speak."

Seeing Elf Sif's chest heaving with emotion, Roland was speechless.

There is nothing new under the sun. This kind of thing has happened so many times in history that it is difficult for Roland to make waves in his emotions.

Elf Sif's mood gradually eased.

After all, she has experienced triple death, neither life nor undead, only consciousness.

This was an event from the past who knows how many years ago. All those involved have died, and there is no point in thinking about it anymore.

She sighed quietly and continued to talk about the past.

After the tree elves gained the upper hand, they quickly seized the right to speak.

They are forbidden to eat plants because plants are their parents.

Roland was speechless.

Elves are nature's darlings. Although they do not reject meat, eggs, and milk, their diet is light and mainly vegetarian.

"If you are not allowed to be vegetarian, how can you allow elves to eat meat? Five hundred million elves are not a small number. Even if the animals and plants are prosperous in the Third Age, it will not be enough."

"No, animals can't eat it either."

Roland was very happy, "You can't eat plants, and you can't eat animals. Do you eat mushrooms all day long?"

"Yes, after the tree elves took over, for almost three hundred years, our legal food was all kinds of mushrooms."

Roland opened his mouth, but suddenly couldn't speak.

He found that in extreme aspects, humans and stubborn elves were still incomparable.

"How can just eating mushrooms be enough? I don't believe these tree elves don't want to eat."

"They really don't eat. They dare to be so crazy. Of course they have a trump card. The tree elves purified from ancient trees have evolved chloroplasts. They can obtain energy through photosynthesis like plants."

Roland: "." After a long time, he slowly asked: "Photosynthesis supports the elves. Is this scientific? I mean, is the energy enough?"

"Of course it's not enough. So these idiots choose to stand still like plants with very little movement. Only when they find out that we maliciously obtain extra food will they angrily uproot the trees and chase us."

"You can't understand the suffocating oppression. In the dense forests of the Third Age, every tree is their eyes. As long as our people get food, even a bird egg, they will be punished as heretics. Tree torture.”

Roland didn't ask what tree punishment was. It didn't sound like a good term.

He didn't know how to comfort the elf Sif.

This memory is indeed too painful.

He couldn't even tell whether the tree had turned into an elf or the elf had turned into a tree.

But this is a bit extreme.

Elf Sif bit her lip and said: "Tree torture is to tie my compatriots to pillars, and then sow tree seeds that can grow wildly inside the body. As the tree seeds take root and sprout, the tortured person is sucked into a mummy, a hideous punishment. The tree will grow vigorously. At most, there are hundreds of thousands of trees of punishment near the royal city alone."

Roland's face changed slightly.

It is indeed a shocking and cruel method.

Just as the natural enemies of humans are humans, the natural enemies of elves are also elves.

This topic was really heavy, and Roland felt a little suffocated, so he had to ask casually: "The tree elves are acting in such a perverse manner, didn't the earth spirits take the opportunity to attack?"

"No, because they are also in civil strife."

A hint of disdain appeared on Elf Sif's lips, "Their reasons for civil strife are more absurd than ours. You must know that the earth spirits are divided into two branches: the hairy earth spirits and the hairless earth spirits, but they are all descendants of the Titans. In fact, It’s a family.”

"They named each other with the insulting epithets 'Naked Ape' and 'Yehu' and started a brutal civil war."

The elf Sif said softly: "The civil war between the tree elves and the blood elves is somewhat understandable, but the civil war between the hairy earth spirits and the hairless earth spirits is completely incomprehensible to me."

"It's not surprising, there are not enough resources."

Roland said calmly: "According to the classic records, with climate change, the once dense forests are gradually turning into savannas, and there is less and less food. This is not only the reason for the fight between the naked ape and Yehu, but also the reason for the fight between the tree elves and the blood elves. source of conflict."

"Due to the decrease in resources, it is impossible for everyone to maintain the original standard of living. The tree elves have chosen to move closer to plants, and they are naturally worried that they will be used as food by you after losing the ability to move. The naked ape and the yahu are directly competing for living space and resources."

Elf Sif's eyes widened and she looked at Roland in disbelief, her chest rising and falling sharply in shock.

Seeing her shocked expression, Roland asked in surprise, "No one has thought in this direction for so many years?"

Elf Sif was silent. After a long time, she slowly said: "Creativity and innovative thinking are not the specialties of our race. The ancient books of the sages never wrote that the same race would kill each other due to lack of resources."

That's because the living conditions of the ancestors of the elves were so good!

This kind of thing has been recorded countless times in human history.

It can only be said that the abundant supplies of the Third Age protected the elves and earth spirits very well.

No wonder they were completely defeated in front of the Divine Punishment Legion, with no power to resist.

On the contrary, the Magic Empire, whose strength on paper was not as good as theirs, defeated the God's Punishment Legion miserably and retained the Fire.

After all, the Magic Empire is an excellent representative of the human race.

Creativity and courage are the immortal hymns of humankind surpassing previous intelligent races.

Of course, he would never say this.

Although he didn't say it, Elf Sif had vaguely seen the expression in Roland's eyes.

She didn't refute it, after all, it was the truth.

Her voice was a little low as she finished telling the last period of history before the elves were destroyed.

As the tree elves continued to oppress the blood elves, the blood elves completely exploded.

They choose magic to fight, extreme to extreme, cruelty to cruelty.

They infused blood into tall plants that had not yet unlocked their intelligence, creating vicious trees that flowed with blood and fed on ancient trees.

These trees are called dryads.

It turns out that this is how the tree demon came.

Ginkgo, who has the longest lifespan and the most primitive conditions in all aspects, was selected by the blood elves to become the revenge tree demon.

The blood elves sacrificed their flesh and blood and entrusted their souls to these tall trees, giving the ginkgo wisdom and becoming a sharp blade of resistance.

In the forest, the ferocious tree demons crazily eat the ancient trees that are unable to move despite their wisdom, using the tree spirits as nutrients.

Hearing this scene, the corners of Roland's mouth twitched slightly.

Thinking of the image of the only forest standing up and eating each other, he didn't know what to say.

Although the blood elves are determined to fight, there are too many tree elves, and the blood elves are at a disadvantage in the war.

Seeing that the elves were about to be destroyed at the hands of foreigners, the Elf King Aslan sacrificed himself and turned into a sea of ​​seven flowers to protect his people.

"The sea of ​​flowers is not a flower, let alone a sea, but a pool of blood formed by the blood of the people."

"Every clan member who dies in battle will strengthen the power of Huahai. With the support of Huahai, we won, but the cost is unimaginable."

This tragic war ended with a tragic victory for the blood elves.

After this orthodoxy battle, the population of blood elves dropped to less than two million.

In order to avoid recurrence of the disaster, all records about the tree elves were destroyed, and topics related to the tree elves became absolutely taboo.

This is also the reason why there are no records of tree elves in Roland's inheritance.

There was another sequelae of this war. All the ancient trees died, and the World Tree was burned clean by the endless flames caused by the furious blood elves.

The elves lost their barrier.

Fortunately, the earth spirits were also killed until rivers of blood flowed, and Wuxia invaded.

While the elves were recuperating, the barbarians they looked down upon invaded the rich land in the center of the continent and snatched the living space.

In order to survive, the blood elves and dryads fought and retreated, retreating to the original birthplace of the elves.

As the seven seas of flowers gradually dried up and fell, the elves were unable to recover.

When the final day of return arrives, the Legion of God’s Punishment arrives as scheduled.

Elf Sif laughed self-deprecatingly: "The Legion of Divine Punishment has arrived according to our standards for a pseudo-god-level powerhouse. This is not divine punishment, but a massacre."

"The unsatisfactory God's Punishment Legion has directed its wrath towards other races. The barbarians who have invaded our homeland and the earth spirits who are recovering are also targeted by the God's Punishment Legion."

"We came from the forest and perished in the wasteland. This is the entire history of the Third Age."

After saying this, Elf Sif seemed to have exhausted all her strength, slowly leaned down and fell asleep quietly next to the sea of ​​flowers.

Before falling asleep, she subconsciously retracted her feet and covered them with her skirt.

Roland did not disturb her and just left silently.

This narration consumed the remaining energy of the elf Sif. She had just engraved all the memories into Roland's mind through a special spell, and then fell asleep.

Have a good rest.

I will definitely wake you up.

(End of this chapter)