Miss Elf with the longbow on her back was breathing heavily. After regaining consciousness, perhaps her long-term ignorance had damaged her health. This movement of breathing heavily made Jenkins very worried that the other party would not be able to breathe out in one breath and would faint.
Fortunately, she quickly adjusted her breathing rate, and turned her head to look at her companion on this trip, the adventurer who broke into this damned place like herself:
"Oh, half-elf!"
She said in Elvish in surprise.
Miss Elf's Elvish language belongs to the older one, and her voice is very gentle, like a breeze blowing on the treetops. Perhaps in the eyes of humans, there is not much difference between half-elves and humans, but elves can always see through the identity of half-elves at a glance.
"Since we are of the same race, let me tell you something about this..."
She spoke faster and gradually recovered her ability to speak, but stopped speaking halfway through, and looked at the young elf in front of her with a little doubt.
She smelled a strange smell, the smell of nature, the smell of hometown. She is very familiar with that smell, and whenever she smells this smell, her instinctive reaction is—
Miss Elf bowed slightly to salute Jenkins. The bloodline of the World Tree Priest cannot be distinguished by smell. After all, elves are not blood-sucking species, but there is nothing wrong with another smell:
"World Tree, good day."
The young elf girl's name was Leonie Syluf, and the elves had not even migrated from the material world to the flowery world at the time of her entry into Paradise, which would explain her archaic grammar.
Miss Syluff's last memory is that she failed to defeat the monster in the castle and died unexpectedly on the way. And when she woke up again, the World Tree, which looked like a half-elf, was already standing in front of her.
In fact, Jenkins is still different from the original World Tree, not to mention that his power is far weaker than that of the World Tree itself in any period. In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstanding, he also explained his situation, but Miss Elf didn't care:
"Since you are the second World Tree recognized by the World Tree, then to me, you are the World Tree."
Before entering the tower, the World Tree consciousness in the dream gave Jenkins a green leaf, which was enough to prove his identity, so no matter what he said, it didn't really matter.
The elf Leonie Siruff knew about the end of the era. She was very surprised when she heard that the material world had reached the eighteenth century, but she adjusted her mentality and decided to help Jenkins:
"Has it been so long... Since I can accompany you to move forward, please use my power. Maybe I can't go to the end with you, but even if I can provide you with the slightest help, I should have The life that fell here has regained its vitality."
Jenkins couldn't imagine the respect the elves had for the World Tree, and he was sure that the other party was indeed an elf, and he completely trusted Miss Leonie Syluf. In fact, he was even more curious about the role of the Lord of Flowers in the eyes of the elves before the elves left the material world, but now is not a good time to ask this question, and he does not want to let Ben should go with him because of his curiosity. companions are dissatisfied.
What the elf Syluff experienced in the strange world about ten thousand years ago is almost exactly the same as what Jenkins encountered now. He also met the old butler after entering the strange world—at that time, the old butler didn't have a metal body structure. He also got the task of defeating four monsters and also got three extra help.
However, among the three servants that the elf faced at that time, only the oldest church member was the same as what Jenkins saw, while the young swordsman was never seen by the elf. In other words, the young swordsman should have entered here between Leonie Syluff and Jenkins, and then stayed there completely.
In the story of the elf Leonie Syluf, she was more cautious than Jenkins, and she didn't even choose a map, just a companion. Miss Elf has a very powerful ability to track powerful "prey" even in a treacherous environment. Of course, she also paid the price for her carelessness. Even though she managed to defeat the first three enemies, she lost her life when she strayed into a corridor she shouldn't have entered while looking for the fourth enemy.
"If the contents of the Paradise haven't changed, the first three enemies should be the Envious Banshee, the Pride Executioner, and the Heart of Wrath."
said the Elf, but added:
"But it will definitely not be the same. The companion I chose at the beginning also provided information. He only defeated two enemies. Although those two enemies are similar to the one I encountered, they are different."
"Will the locations of those enemies be different?"
Jenkins asked again.
"Yes, it will be different."
Hearing this, Jenkins opened the map in his hand. The map is hand-drawn, but it is quite careful. There are not only annotations, but also various icons to mark the location and danger of different rooms. Most of the terrain of the castle is depicted in the map, while a small part is blacked out and marked "not exploreable".
From the map, it looks more like a dungeon full of traps than a castle. Jenkins couldn't imagine what kind of person would set up rolling stone traps and pressure-triggered black powder traps in his home.
"Let's go as soon as possible, you need to complete the task before the lord returns, otherwise I can't bear the lord's anger."
The old butler urged.
"Do you know the information of the lord here?"
Jenkins asked the elf again, who shook her head. She died before the time limit expired.
"So when you came here, was there this moon in the sky?"
The elf raised his head in the direction of Jenkins' finger, and immediately lowered his head after a muffled grunt. Jenkins immediately reached out to help her calm her restless spirit, and then she probably understood:
"Oh, sorry, I forgot you're different from me... You didn't have this when you came?"
"Yes."
Miss Elf groaned in pain, but Jenkins' treatment was very effective, and the brief gaze didn't cause her too much damage:
"I really can't think of the relationship between this strange place and the original moon. It should be the original moon, right? I only heard about it in childhood stories, the bright yellow moon~"
This at least proves that the so-called lord is not the moon-swallowing civet, and it shows that there will not be a real disaster beast in the fourth paradox like the previous one.
After understanding the basic situation here, the two officially set off. The elf has no luggage besides the small bag hanging around his waist. Only the beautiful longbow is considered the most important weapon. Unfortunately, the bow is not a numbered item, otherwise this business might be easier.
The musty smell inside the castle is stronger than outside, and the power of the shadows is also stronger.
Standing in the hall, the two iron doors behind him closed with harsh sounds. Jenkins took out a candle for lighting, and the elf also took out a bottle from his small bag. There seemed to be a firefly in the bottle, which could provide enough light.
The candle and the light in the bottle illuminated the way ahead, and Jenkins and the elf looked up at the furnishings and oil paintings in the hall. Most of the oil painting was covered by spider webs, and the visible area was also dark and dirty, and it was impossible to tell what was depicted in it.
"Let's go to the kitchen on the first floor."
Jenkins pointed to the map and said:
"Here recently, I need to know about the strength of the enemy before I can make a plan."
"The enemies are not strong, but they are very weird. They can not only affect the emotions and consciousness of us adventurers, but also have some special abilities."
Miss Elf explained, and pointed to the map with her slender fingers:
"There is more than one way to the kitchen, which one should we choose?"
In the castle, there is not a corridor connecting all the rooms, but a complicated labyrinth. There are not only rooms with unknown meanings like "half floors" between the two floors, but sometimes to enter the rooms on the first floor, you need to go to the second floor first. first floor, and then from the second floor to the first floor.
This is still the most basic terrain. Judging from the map, there is even a phantom wall here, and the specific location of the phantom wall is not marked at all, it just shows that such a wall does exist.
"Let me see."
Jenkins looked at the "maze map" in his hand. The two are now in the center left of the first floor, and the kitchen is probably in the upper right corner. In order to avoid unnecessary battles, he first excluded some rooms where he would encounter other monsters, and then removed some paths that he knew were unsafe, so that there were not many options left.
"Why do I feel that finding monsters may be more difficult than defeating them."
Jenkins complained under his breath, and motioned for the elf to follow him.
"Your feeling is completely correct. After all, I didn't die at the hands of monsters, but died on the way."
There was a regretful expression on the elf's face, but he quickly adjusted it.
The old castle is very gloomy, but compared to the hallway of the "Night Manor" that Jenkins once experienced, it is really not worth mentioning. He led Miss Syluff, and left the door along the corridor on the left side of the hall. The corridor is somewhat inclined and curved. When they met the first corner, the two pushed open the door of the broom cabinet, threw away the cleaning tools inside, and came to another new corridor through the trap door behind the cabinet. .
Cautiously dodged the activated iron armor holding a spear in the new corridor, and then found a room with a red door sign. After opening the door, the elf and Jenkins cleaned out the poisonous spiders inside, then removed the bulky solid wood wardrobe, followed the hole under the wardrobe, and climbed the rope to the basement.
To get to the kitchen on the first floor, it's safest to walk around through the basement.