With everyone's efforts, it took about 20 minutes to finally clear the passage. When the dark elves on both sides met, many people cried with joy. However, they had no time to celebrate, because the shaking of the World Tree became more and more intense, and a larger landslide could occur at any time.
Xiao Chen led everyone forward. The higher they went, the smaller the vibration became. By the time the team got close to the entrance to the underground world, the passage had become relatively stable.
There were several connected public areas here, and here I finally saw the priests and warriors who were in charge of the dark elves. They led the refugees to sit down and rest in the open space, but did not tell them what to do. Xiao Chen found that their eyes were full of worry and hesitation.
Behind Xiao Chen and his group, groups of refugees continued to run out of the passage. Xiao Chen and his group cleared all obstacles along the way, allowing the people behind them to escape to the top without any obstacles. They even saw the sealed high elf warriors fleeing up, and mixed in with the crowd at a loss.
"It seems that many dark elves' caves and farms will be destroyed in this incident caused by the shaking of the world tree. I really don't know how their archons will deal with this matter next." Maya said worriedly when she saw the dark elves sitting around in the underground square and market.
"This is not something we should be concerned about right now. Let's first figure out what happened to the Elf King." Di Ning said.
“Come with me, let’s go to the upper level. My teacher should still be at the entrance.” Evelyn said.
The floor where Master Naan was located was the last floor leading to the ground. When Xiao Chen and his team arrived, they found that many dark elf masters were wearing equipment and organizing weapons, as if they were about to take action. No wonder these people were not seen in the places that needed disaster relief. But for some reason, when these people saw Di Ning and Maya, they showed obvious hostility.
As they passed through these people, another dark elf ranger couldn't help but yelled to Dining and Maya, "What are you doing here, you self-righteous guys? Aren't we not allowed to go up? How dare you come over here!"
"Shut up! Gorod! They are our partners. They have saved countless dark elves along the way." Evelyn retorted.
"You hypocritical! I've understood today that these high elves will only betray us! Stay away from them, Evelyn, they will stab you in the back soon!" The dark elf named Gorod fought back without showing any weakness.
"What's going on? Everything was fine just now. What have we done to offend them?" Maya said a little aggrievedly. When they came here, these dark elves were not very close, but at least they still had a normal cooperative relationship. Now they are actually speaking ill of each other as soon as they meet.
"Of course someone has done something wrong to them!" Xiao Chen pulled her up and walked away quickly. "It seems that the dark elves may have a conflict with the high elves."
They found Master Narn in a stone house at the edge of the square. Like the other dark elves, he was fully armed, wearing armor and carrying a longbow.
"Evelynn! You're finally back." Narn was a thin male dark elf who looked not much older than Evelynn, but was actually quite old.
"Teacher. We have completed the mission and saved the World Tree. But what happened in less than two hours?" Evelyn asked straight to the point.
Narn's eyes swept over the other five people, and finally landed on General Nord. He asked in surprise, "You actually captured Nord? What about his team?"
"We defeated them together. Maya sealed all the high elves. Now most of them are in the square on the next floor with the fleeing residents." Evelyn said.
"I know you can't do this by yourself. These two humans, as well as Dinin and Maya, must have participated in this battle." Narn nodded, "But what surprised me is that you actually discovered the conspiracy in the first place, responded in time, and defeated the old guy Nord. Very good!"
"We are just protecting ourselves." Xiao Chen said.
"Half of the troops gathered outside are here to deal with Nord and his men. Now we can save half of our efforts." Narn walked up to General Nord and said, "Nord, it seems that your queen has abandoned you. Even if Evelyn and her men don't defeat you, what are your chances of winning against our army?"
Nord sneered, "If my high-level team had not died in the cave and then been suddenly attacked by these people, would we have lost? You don't even have a saint now. Under the attack of Saint Taislun and me, how much chance do a tribe with only two masters have to win?"
Nunn knew that he was telling the truth, so he waved his hand and had him suppressed, and then arranged for people to capture the sealed warriors.
"Is the Archon going to go to war with the high elves?" Evelyn asked.
Narn said solemnly: "Whether to start a war depends on what the new queen of the high elves is going to do!"
"Queen!" everyone exclaimed.
"Just an hour ago, the Elder Hall of the High Elves announced that the World Tree was poisoned and destroyed by several spies who had been lurking in the Elf Kingdom for a long time. Saint Crest was seriously injured when he captured them. In order to save the World Tree, Saint Dahni announced that she would merge her life with the World Tree and become a Super Saint. In order to maintain the stability of the kingdom while two saints were practicing and one saint was seriously injured and difficult to recover, she prepared to ascend the throne to become the new Queen of the Elf. Saint Taislen became a prince, ending the regency of the elders that had lasted for thousands of years." The news that Naan said was too shocking, beyond everyone's previous imagination.
"What's going on with the vibration of the World Tree?" Xiao Chen asked.
Naan sneered, "Of course it was Her Majesty the Queen who made the fuss. Her first order after she announced her accession to the throne was to seal off the entire city and hunt down the 'spies' who seriously injured Saint Krest. Of course, she has the final say on who the spies are, but those 'spies' are not easy to deal with. Hehe, especially the 'spies' from the other three saint factions may not be much weaker than those of Dahni and Taislun. In order to suppress these elves, the Queen naturally needs to call on the power of the World Tree."
“But the World Tree has just experienced such a serious loss of energy, and today it was exposed to the God-Erosion Potion. If its energy is extracted again at this time... My God, no wonder the World Tree is restless.” Maya said.