Uplifting Journey

At this moment, the elf in the form of a red dragon is wandering freely in the elf king city under the leadership of the guide Lacey.

"This royal city of the elves is far from the city I expected."

The silver-haired, red-eyed elf walked on a huge flat branch with a big sword on his back. While scanning the green landscape, he muttered to himself: "There are so few unnatural buildings, and the population density is too low. It doesn't look like centralized production at all." A city where data overwhelms productivity.”

This three-dimensional plant city of the elves is full of maze-like tree holes and three-dimensional roads. Along the way, Cheng Bin saw many forked roads that bent upwards and then turned upside down to connect to the upper branches. The wooden roads with twists and turns are distributed all over the city with an alternative geometric beauty.

However, even the elf larvae who were born not long ago know how to use the specially modulated elemental power permeating all the plants in the royal city to run upside down and jump like walking on the ground in this complex terrain. Very convenient.

"Lord Kasa, would you like to try something we usually like to eat?"

After covering up the scarlet vertical pupils and body curves with some magic props presented by Dior, Lacey's appearance returned to an ordinary appearance that would not attract the crowds of elves. She is standing on the side of the road at the moment. Beside the dwarf plant, a red fruit dangled in his hand and looked at Cheng Bin.

"Do you like to grow food by the side of the road?" Cheng Bin turned his head and glanced at the strange plant with only one branch that looked like a faucet beside Lacey, and Cheng Bin nodded curiously.

"The royal city is very big. Before I was born, a very idle guy discussed with the guardian in charge, and planted this specially prepared magic plant in every corner of the royal city. It is said that it is not thirsty when walking, anyway. Very useful."

Lacey stuffed the juice-filled fruit into her mouth, puffed her cheeks and pinched the leaves of the strange plant with her fingers.

Accompanied by the transmission of magic power and the complex changes of elements, a fruit grew rapidly on the solitary branch of the strange plant at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After picking up the fruit thrown by Lacey, the silver-haired elf carefully looked at the fruit in his hand with a shimmering red pupil, and then threw a moderately sized fruit into his mouth while chewing the fruit. Juicy fruit while pondering.

——From this fruit plant like a vending machine, it can be seen that the elves who are born with the ability to control the elements, in the environment of rich forests and elemental energy, the individual productivity can fully meet most of their needs Material needs.

From this point of view, it is quite normal for the elves' royal city to have such a sparse and loose appearance with few functional buildings. On the contrary, the establishment of a complete system of the kingdom is quite abnormal.

After all, the sociality of races comes from the survival needs of mutual assistance and complementarity. Creatures like giant dragons standing at the top of the food chain have no need to cooperate to establish a society without external interference.

Elves, a loose race that can obtain life-saving materials and only trade high-end magic items with each other, can form a kingdom that is integrated from top to bottom. There must be abnormal forces interfering, but they don’t know that this power is the pressure of external enemies and internal beliefs. It's still kind of hidden.

Lacey, who took the red dragon to eat the fruit, seemed a little excited. The process of visiting the royal city was abruptly turned into a gourmet tour by her, and the rest was simply to lead the red dragon all the way to find good food with good reputation.

According to Lacey herself, although she liked delicious food in the past, she was not so persistent. This kind of appetite, which seems a bit abnormal for elves with little appetite, may be caused by the erosion of the red dragon's veins. a side effect.

Ivy was instructed by Dior to go to an old magician to report the situation, and Dior himself went to the Elven King's Court to argue with the high-level rulers of Garrott. Drag yourself around.

——Although he is very interested in the collection of the Mage Association, the Mage Association says it is an association. Of course, it is not Dior's monologue. There are many things with limited authority, and he can't force them to go until Dior comes back to coordinate. look.

As for whether it would be a problem to let a dragon walk in the city of the Elven King, considering the temperament and attitude of Red Dragon, the strong man who crushed the legendary team, before Dio left, he did not force the old man to stay in the association and not move. After sending props to Lacey, let him wander around casually.

Anyway, the Elven King's City is the strongest fortress and the most powerful weapon of the Elves. As a major master of the magic lock in the King's City, Dior can know the location of the red dragon at any time and respond instantly.

The red dragon, who has no intention of making troubles, did not have any major troubles in his sightseeing activities in the city of the elf king. The unpretentious appearance of the elf holy sword perfectly shields the red dragon's aura.

Most of the elves whose magic power is closely related to plants do not seem to like lively creatures. The various elves he saw on the road are basically small circles in twos and threes except for walking alone, and it is rare to see large groups of elves moving together.

The only time he communicated with other elves was when he was stopped by the guardian of the royal city on the way and advised him to put the sword on his back in a scabbard so as not to accidentally injure other elves or public facilities.

In addition, this guy also volunteered to introduce Red Dragon to a boutique item shop opened by a friend, saying that items such as scabbards can be customized on the spot there, ensuring that the shape is exquisite and unusual.

Because he recognized the good-natured and merry-go-round mood on the other party's face, the red dragon was a little bit dumbfounded. He could only politely refuse, then raised his hand to hold the hilt, and used a weak but complex magic to give the holy sword, which even the guards of the royal city could not recognize. Putting on a simulated scabbard, he persuaded the guard who was too busy to panic to leave.

The civil affairs system of the elves doesn't look very good. Although the population growth is completely controlled and has a magic system as convenient as fingerprints and mobile phones, it has not developed a big data network platform to identify the identity of each elf.

——In addition to magical communication, it would be interesting to give them some hints on the details of these social developments.

Because the elves are not a bisexual race, and all larvae are uniformly cultivated by the priests of the World Tree Sect, the organizational structure of the elves royal family is very different from the human royal family that revolves around bloodline inheritance, and there is no difference between the elf kings of the past Any special innate connection.

The notion of administrative work as a responsible chore is quite common in elf nature.

The elves who graduated from the primary education of the World Tree Sect, except those who stayed to become priests, will go to different elf organizations for further education according to their talents, preferences, and social needs until they become useful.

The proportion of elves who would take the initiative to go to the administrative system can be said to be very small, and even the warrior training camp is more attractive than the royal court.

Therefore, the profession of the Elf King is actually quite difficult. Just to restrain the scattered clansmen to form a kingdom is already the result of the continuous accumulation of the hard work of the Elf Kings in the past.

After all, the population of the elves is too precious, and the elves who leave the kingdom can't live happily, so many other planar empires can't use it here.

Therefore, when a powerful foreign enemy appeared, the Elf King was worried, but there was actually a tinge of joy in his heart-it is always a good thing to have reasons to strengthen the group and gather greater strength.

However, when the current Elf King heard the specific ability information of the unreasonably strong young red dragon who failed to defeat the dragon slaying team and crushed the dragon slaying team from his predecessor Garrott, his joy was a bit reluctant—— —Super magic resistance, several times the speed of sound, infinite regeneration, and you can learn to become stronger while fighting

——Is this the rhythm of subjugation of the country? !

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Dio, the leader of the Mage Association, to return to the king's city and report the news that the danger of the red dragon was temporarily under control. This made the Elf King, who was about to use the last resort, heaved a sigh of relief.

However, Dio refused to say what happened between him and the red dragon after Garalt left, and where the red dragon went now, which made the Elven King feel a little restless.

The palace where the Elf King lives is one of the control cores of the magic fanlock in the royal city. Lying here is quite risky. Dio did not dare to make excuses to deal with the Elf King like he did in the wild to coax Garrott, let alone tell His dangerous red dragon was walking in the royal city at the moment, so naturally he could only talk about him.

However, after the staff of the prophecy department serving the royal court spewed blood and made vague hints of conforming to nature, the Elf King couldn't continue to urge Dior, the legendary mage, and could only maintain a certain degree of trust to expose this topic.

Garrot, who was listening in the royal court, asked about the lost elf holy sword and Lacey after the elf king gave up the treatment. Dio didn't hide anything about this insignificant aspect——

Anyway, tell the truth and let the other party know that Holy Sword and Lacey are in the royal city. The specific location and other follow-up processing can be dragged out for a long time with the elves' concept of time, which is enough to discuss and solve many things with the red dragon. .

After dealing with the symposium, which was more tiring than doing magic research, Dio turned around to find the dragon vein duo who were eating, drinking and having fun in the royal city, and brought them back to the Mage Association to discuss the next thing.

There is no news from Ivy, who went to report to the high priest. Dio has doubts about letting the red dragon go directly to the World Tree Temple to contact the sacred things, so he plans to wait for the response from the high priest. By the way, he has more ideas. Let's talk about the red dragon.

"National information network? Magic authentication? Identity terminal? Simulated intelligence?"

Just after pulling the red dragon back to the safe and secret private space of the Mage Association, Dior heard a series of concepts from the red dragon made up of elvish vocabulary, and saw a series of spell frames he showed.

After thoughtfully analyzing the structure of the rune language displayed by the Red Dragon, Dio shook his head and said: "Mages are busy doing research, I guess no one is interested and has the time to do these popular things, the amount of work is too much. Big, and the vast majority of mentally retarded individuals are incapable of developing or using such things

"I've seen some mage Tatalings in other planes that are a bit similar to what you described. Why did you suddenly mention this?"

—Tarling? Some kind of artificial soul? I want to see it if I have a chance.

The silver-haired and red-eyed elf shrugged and said, "It's nothing, I just think that most of you elves are too idle, and the most spiritual entertainment is some poetry and music. You must know that the exchange efficiency, convenience, and processing speed of information are catalysts. central element in the development of civilization."

"To achieve this level of popularity, unless you are a magician for all people." Dio sighed and said helplessly, "I also want more people to participate in magic research, but mastering magic is too much for most elves. It's too difficult."

It is indeed a big problem that the intellectual requirements for getting started with magic are too high.

But part of the soul of intelligent life in this world does not exist in its body. There are great obstacles in the development of magic that deeply connects with the spirit, such as clear thinking and IQ upgrading. This aspect has suffered a lot.

Dior, who communicated with Red Dragon, also has a deep understanding of this issue.

"It's not realistic to use the language of runes to weave the intelligence of the tower spirit to improve the research ability." Dio thought for a while and gave the red dragon an example, "Legendary magic and divinity have spirituality, which are internally complicated enough to be judged. The phenomenon of soul derived from life.

"The problem of soul stripping you mentioned will still occur in such cases, so it is extremely difficult to construct virtual intelligence through the language of runes and use it on a large scale."

After a pause, Dior changed the subject and asked Red Dragon: "Speaking of which, have you thought about how to become a legend? There are many ways to tap the power of the soul or the authority of the real name, whether it is to polish the body and temper the will , or practice magic meditation knowledge, all paths involving life and spirit can be passed.

"Giant dragons are born legendary species. As long as you grow up to adulthood naturally, you can get a complete real name to reach the legendary realm, but you shouldn't choose to wait? Moreover, you don't want the real name corresponding to 'Casa' Bar?"

The silver-haired elf smiled and nodded: "In my case, I should choose magic. The path of exploring the unknown and the truth is quite suitable for me."

"In terms of magic, I have some basic frameworks of legendary magic. As long as you master and deduce them until the derivation of spirituality is released, you will be promoted to a legendary mage."

After Dio finished speaking, he glanced at Lacey who was quietly standing aside, and then continued: "Actually, Lacey's mutant magic power based on the activation rope spell, and Ivy's forest power that absorbs the power of plant elements are all from our elves. The legendary road front core built by habit.

"You can also choose a spell as the core springboard for leaping to the legend. After being promoted in the way we elf magicians are promoted, this legendary magic that produces spirituality will be deeply related to your real name, so that its effect, consumption, use, etc. The level of magic will far exceed other magic."

"Specialized skills, interesting." Looking at the rare legendary spell templates projected by Dior in mid-air, the red dragon browsed and analyzed them one by one, then pointed to one of them and said, "...then choose this one."

I caught up, at 23:58, I almost didn't want to send it. I don't want the perfect attendance award.