Uplifting Journey

Pointing to the tiankeng, which was used to demonstrate its power as a deterrent, the red dragon opened and closed its huge mouth exuding high temperature, and spoke the language of the elves in a strange tone: "My power, you have already seen it, if you want to "

Facing the words of the giant dragon carrying the breath of purgatory, Lacey interrupted unceremoniously: "The elves are never afraid of sacrifice! Evil dragon, you don't want to use violence to make us surrender!"

Looking at the elf who was waving a long knife as if about to charge, the red dragon was silent for a moment, then lowered his volume and said in a deep voice: "Elf, don't you know that it is very rude to interrupt others?"

Lacey paused slightly, and blinked with a subtle expression.

Seeing Lacey's reaction, the red dragon scratched its hard chin with its dragon claws, and continued with great interest: "And, evil? It seems that you sneaked up on me first for no reason, right? The first contact with intelligent life directly With swords facing each other, are you elves a race that likes to kill?"

Ivy and Lacey, who were already ready to fight to the death, looked at each other in astonishment—is there actually a giant dragon trying to reason with people in this world? Are they dreaming?

"Since you have chosen to fight and fight, then you must have the consciousness of being killed. I have heard about the stubborn temper of your elves, but..."

Leaving aside the question of right and wrong, the red dragon pondered for a while and said: "I heard that you also attach great importance to your promises and oaths, so now I will give you a chance to survive——

"Choose one of you to stay, and swear by your own mother tree to answer some questions for me—limited to the general knowledge that most elves know, then the other person can leave safely."

According to the knowledge of the habits of giant dragons, the elves who were ready to be killed or even trampled and played with were a little surprised.

——Although it’s a bit strange, but it’s just common sense that most elves know, it’s not a bad idea to change another chance. After a while, even if the dragon repents, the other person's chances of successfully escaping will be greatly improved.

Ai Weiwei loosened his hand slightly, and opened his mouth to speak as soon as his heart moved: "I"

However, before he could utter the second word, the back of his head went numb and his eyes went dark, completely losing consciousness.

It was Lacey who raised his hand and swung the long knife, and knocked him out with a powerful swing.

Watching the companions who have been together for a long time collapse to the ground in astonishment, Lacey sighed and took out a whistle from his back waist, and at the same time murmured in a low voice: "Ivy. In the past, you were always the first to do everything. But this time, don't grab it."

Following the sound of the whistle that ordinary elves could not hear, a huge purple-black cheetah slowly walked out from the gap in the woods, staring at the red dragon vigilantly with a little fear, and walked towards Lacey .

After her animal companion came to her side, Lacey threw Ivy on its back, skillfully fixed Ivy's hands, feet and body with her magic thin thread, then sighed and raised her hand to touch the cheetah's chin .

The huge purple-black cheetah stared at Lacey with rather humane eyes, then glanced at the red dragon, and left Ivy at a high speed in silence.

The red dragon watched this interesting scene of sacrificing for his companion. After Lacey, who watched his companion enter the forest, turned around, the red dragon smiled at him and said, "Admirable friendship, then, when your companion leaves me Before the perception range, you swear an oath."

It is a very solemn thing in elf culture to make an oath to the mother tree that gave birth to oneself, but now the situation forces everything to be simple. Fortunately, the content of the oath is not painful, and Lacey did not procrastinate, and completed the oath ceremony directly to the red dragon .

"Very good," the red dragon who had achieved a major goal got down on all fours and said to the elf in a relatively harmless and comfortable posture, "Then let's start to implement the content of the oath, you can say it in more detail A little bit to satisfy my curiosity, so that your companions can have more time to stay away, right?"

As for the elf Ivy who has gone away, Cheng Bin really has no intention of breaking his promise to hunt down—although the other party will definitely spread some of his information, and there is a high probability of attracting a team of crusaders.

However, in the memory of Red Dragon Casa, the power used by the elves to crusade against it is already the top group in the kingdom, and it is still a long time before Casa died, and the power of the elf kingdom is far from the peak of the future elemental tide When it is powerful, after all, even the territory is a circle behind the boss.

Cheng Bin, who thinks he can rub the Red Dragon Casa, who was in the strongest state before dying, on the floor and has a lot of killer skills, is still very confident.

Facing the ferocious giant dragon twice as tall as himself lying on his stomach alone, and the heat from the opponent's breath, Lacey felt a lot of pressure in his heart-although he had never seen a large dragon with a size comparable to an adult dragon in the past. Creatures, but compared to those he had seen in the past, the inexplicable sense of coercion brought by the young dragon in front of him was unparalleled.

——However, the irritable and irritable characteristics of the red dragon can't be seen in this young dragon at all. Is this really the red dragon who likes to burn everything with flames?

"Well, where do we start?" The lazy red dragon stared at Lacey after pondering for a while and asked, "Your name is Lacey, right? Let me first introduce the general state of your elf kingdom."

The wonderful experience of chatting with the dragon made Lacey, whose sense of crisis gradually subsided, feel a little subtle. He rolled his eyes, and began to try his best to describe the power of the elf kingdom with his not-so-good eloquence, trying to make the dragon in front of him feel a little bit different. scruples.

Because of respect for the oath, Lacey will not use wrong information to deceive the oath recipient, but there is nothing wrong with picking more good places, isn't it?

The various confidential information of the kingdom's military strength and military equipment is not something that ordinary elves can see, so Lacey jumped over these places like a dragonfly in the water, and the red dragon didn't say anything. class information.

Between Lacey's words and his intermittent inquiries, Cheng Bin gradually sorted out a lot of information that the red dragon Casa, who was so confused to death, didn't know at all.

The population of the Elven Kingdom is estimated to be less than the total population of a first-tier city around the twentieth century in the inner world, but this plane is not that big.

The main rights within the kingdom are divided by several forces——

The priest of the World Tree sect who is responsible for the unified cultivation and education of elf larvae;

The court of elves that governs all administrative affairs;

The military in charge of military and police force building;

As well as the Mage Association, which has recently become independent from the priest faction and has begun to grow, but its positioning is still not very obvious.

Other miscellaneous small forces such as the ranger union and the warrior training camp are each attached to several major forces to operate. Of course, there are also some different factions within the major forces, but Lacey is not very clear about these things. It is clear that he probably will not say it.

As for the reconnaissance organization that the two-person scout team of Lacey and Ivy currently belong to, although the members are all top-notch elite generalists in the kingdom, in terms of status, it should be a semi-official and semi-civilian organization jointly established by the military and the Mage Association.

Moreover, it was an organization temporarily established for the phenomenon of overlapping planes, and it might be annexed or abolished someday.

This organization, which dispatches scouts everywhere to explore, and establishes channels to collect information among the people, was established because some ancient records of the elves mentioned the overlapping phenomenon of planes similar to the present one, and believed that this represents the world that carries all planes. A symptom of some change in the tree that needs to be addressed.

After all, it is said in ancient books that the battle of annihilation, which was closely related to the phenomenon of overlapping planes, once brought the highly developed ancient elf civilization back to its original form, and its remnants can still be seen far away from the ice and snow mountains. The upper class is not vigilant.

However, most of the elves who have lived in peace for a long time still have no real feeling for such rumors.

After listening to the overview of these elf kingdoms, the red dragon thought deeply——

The world view, or the deciphering of the world structure is also a very important research work. If the ancient elf civilization is really extremely developed, then the saying "the world tree that carries all the planes" handed down by them has some meaning in the research. Reference value.

The detailed information in this regard is estimated to be known only to the top elf priests in the World Tree Sect.

After understanding the basic situation, Red Dragon changed the subject and began to discuss with Lacey the basic composition of everything in the world - elements.

When talking about elements and spells, Lacey became vigilant again: "Magic knowledge is the precious wealth of our elves, it is impossible for me to tell you!"

"Don't be so sensitive," the red dragon smiled slightly, but the smile on its ferocious head that did not conform to the aesthetics of the elves made Lacey more vigilant, "It has been said in the oath, you just need to tell me that most of you civilians are Common sense is enough, and"

After a pause, the red dragon said leisurely: "Do you think that the knowledge inherited by our dragon clan is not as good as the magic of your elves? I am just curious about the perspectives of elements of different races."

Lacey was at a loss for words—it is true that although the red dragon is not a dragon species that likes to use magic, it can still use all the magic knowledge of the dragon clan instinctively by inheriting memory. The current elf civilization is far younger than the dragon clan in the plane. The elemental cognition of ordinary elves is indeed of little use to giant dragons.

——Plan pass.

Seeing Lacey's involuntary nod, the red dragon blinked his pupils nonchalantly—as a fake giant dragon, he failed to pass on any ghost knowledge.

At this time, Lacey subconsciously came up with a new understanding of the torrent of fire elements that was brainless before the red dragon—the other party probably didn't bother to use anything because of the nature of the red dragon and its absolute power. Element Skills.

However, the elements in nature are turned into magical power that can be controlled by life. This process is always accompanied by various risks. This young red dragon has a body that is strong enough to fly at supersonic speed, and it can also accumulate and save energy in its body. Controlling the unbelievably large-scale magical power itself represents another kind of ultra-high technology.

In his mind, Lacey didn't know how many settings he had made up for the inheritance of the dragon clan, so he began to explain to the curious red dragon frankly, the common sense of elements that those young elves would learn under the guidance of priests.

Bits and pieces of knowledge Red Dragon has learned a lot, and the background world view is very interesting——

The plane is a part of the world tree, and everything filled in the plane is composed of simple elements. The elements circulate and flow in the world tree as a whole like some kind of nutrient. Affected by this big cycle, the corresponding parts of the world tree There are certain differences in the characteristics of the planes and their elements.

Just like the nutrient veins passing through a certain branch on an ordinary tree, the elemental energy falling from the sky in the current plane will soak the entire plane and then flow out from the depths of the earth. According to the records of ancient elf civilization, it is possible to observe in many planes The torrent of elements that we have arrived generally flows from the "upper realm" of the crown of the world tree to the "abyss area" of the root of the world tree.

As for the source of the elements at the highest point in the upper world, and the flow of elements at the bottom of the abyss, the elves don't even have any related legends, and the plane where the elves are currently located is roughly a branch at the top of the world tree superior.

In addition to this background world view, Red Dragon also learned some common sense of elements that local life is accustomed to.

For example, how to extract the magic power directly controlled by the spirit of life from the natural elements outside.

The Red Dragon used to rely on innate elemental sensing and computer-like precision thinking to force calculations and exert influence-this is equivalent to a super upgraded version of the process of elf larvae driving natural elements to form weak magic power by feeling.

Uh, to put it bluntly, the red dragon's behavior of using the characteristics of the dragon body to restrain the fire element is probably the same as forcibly using addition to perform power calculations. It is already too strong to be able to really do this.

The elves can conduct a race-specific magical enlightenment ceremony through the knowledge accumulated through long-term exploration. Generally, elf larvae will undergo this ceremony after they have experienced a complete education and grown up from body to mind.

Because this kind of magical enlightenment ceremony requires the elves to have a sound and stable mind, and if it is used improperly, it may also cause mental damage.

The elves who have experienced magic enlightenment will obtain the original magic power with personal characteristics, and their magic breath can be used to distinguish different individuals like fingerprints on the earth.

Moreover, elves can also directly influence and control similar elements in the outside world through their own original magic power, and can expand the scale of the original magic power by fusing external elements. The higher the efficiency.

A group specializing in the study of the characteristics of external elements and looking for the common laws of magic and elements, gradually formed the current Elven Mage Association.

As for the excavation and application of the personal characteristics of the original magic power, Ivy guided the use of the elemental power of plants in the environment to cooperate with spells to shoot thousands of arrows of light. Lacey used thin wires as a medium for kinetic energy interference. These are all manifestations of personal magic power.

There is a potential correlation between the temperament of creatures and different types of elemental magic power. The irritable red dragon and the fire element are an example. The interplay between magic and the temperament of creatures is very obvious.

Just like most elves whose magic power is closely related to plants, they have a peaceful personality and tend to be quiet by nature.

As for the magic power of other races. According to Lacey, legendary species such as giant dragons theoretically have the most suitable original magic power when they are born.

However, such things as the original magic power are closely related to the soul, and it is normal for Cheng Bin, who replaced Kasa's consciousness and magically changed the soul, to lose this aspect.

After talking about these retreat topics that cannot be actually verified now, Lacey, who has never been a teacher, seems to be addicted to education under the serious inquiries of the Red Dragon. He happily showed the Red Dragon some elemental property experiments that can be carried out anywhere.

Some very basic experiments, most of which are used to popularize science to young elves - the most advanced ones are roughly equivalent to the level of electrolyzing water to produce hydrogen and oxygen in middle school laboratories on earth.

But for Red Dragon, this is already a great help.