The blood-red humanoid rune disappeared into the jungle, as if absorbed by the forest, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
Xiu sat on Yafujie's shoulder and looked at all this with his chin up. This was the fifth time he had recalled and released the blood pact beast. He knew that the person he was looking for was inside. Although the contract could be passed without any obstacles, people could not. The entire elf forest was like a large magic circle, inviting all unwelcome guests out.
If that's the case, destroy all of this.
The flaxen-haired dwarf straightened up, looked at the lush forest in front of him, and patted the mechanical puppet's head.
From now on, there will be no elf forest in Chaos Continent.
***
The light shot straight down from the interlaced branches and leaves, hitting the stone wall of the altar, illuminating the strange and beautiful runes and idols. It was an open-air altar, flowers covered the road, branches and leaves woven into a wall. On the circular altar, a golden branch grows in the small pool in the center, the top hangs down naturally, and a golden liquid is secreted from the top bit by bit. After a long time of gathering, it finally forms a Small drops of water fell and dripped into the small pool. The small pool was not large, with a radius of about 3 meters, and it was filled with a golden-colored liquid—the sap of the tree of life. Legend has it that just one drop of the tree of life sap can restore a person to a peak state and greatly strengthen his physique.
A beautiful elf kneeled below the altar. She had long golden hair and was wearing a flowing white robe. The white-gold forehead flashing on her forehead indicated her identity as the elf queen. The Elf Queen put her hands on her lips, closed her eyes, and assumed the most devout gesture. After a long prayer, the Elf Queen looked up at the Tree of Life. Except for the emerald green branches and leaves around the altar, other parts were completely black.
There was a rustle of leaves, and the elf queen stood up, a little unpleasantness flashed in her golden eyes. She walked outside, and soon saw her most loyal captain, Simon, and the disgusting necromancer, walking over with a dark-haired Terran who was pale and in a coma . As for the last Ariel, she was directly ignored by the Elf Queen.
"Your Highness, I have something to report." Simon bowed to the Elf Queen in a hasty tone. "The dwarf you told you last time seems to have signed a blood contract with this human race, and he should come over soon."
The elf queen was slightly startled. After Simon came back, she reported to her everything she encountered in the gnome ruins. Although the elf queen was surprised at the sudden appearance of the gnomes, she didn't think much about it. The most important thing now is to heal the tree of life. The dwarfs and the elves have always kept the water from the well. The queen of elves believed in Simon's ability, and the dwarf would never find out that the elves did all this. But now because of the blood contract, the dwarf who has a five-star mechanical puppet and a six-star mechanical puppet has come over
For the elves with three gods of war and two gods of law, although one sword saint and one god of martial arts can't shake them, it is also a big trouble. The Elf Queen turned her gaze to Anat: if it weren't for this undead...
Anat noticed the elf queen's gaze, and she stroked her red lips with a charming smile. "Why do you stare at me, how do I know that they have made a blood contract."
"When do you remove 'dirt'."
"It depends on when you brought me the person I want. What I want is that dwarf. As long as you catch him, I will naturally fulfill my promise." Anat smiled with an inexplicable look on his face. . "For elves anyway, a dwarf is nothing, is it?"
It is nothing, but even if she is the elf queen, she can't order the elf elders who have not asked about their affairs without any scruples.
At this moment, the mountain suddenly shook, and the Elf Queen supported the branches and looked into the distance in surprise. The Elf Forest seemed to have been hit by a huge meteor, and the raging fire turned the sky blood red. A green ball of light flew over from afar, which was the soul of the ancient war tree. The elves have planted hundreds of ancient war trees in the elves forest, relying on them to protect the elves country, when the ancient war trees die, their souls will pass the information to the elves before they dissipate.
The Elf Queen reached out and touched the ball of light, sensing the information in it, and no one could see anything from her expressionless face. In the end, the green ball of light disappeared, and the Elf Queen was still calm, but more like the calm before the storm.
"Simon." The voice of the elf queen was cold. "Go and invite the third and fifth elders over."
Simon was ordered to retreat, and Anat saw the indifferent gaze of the Elf Queen turned to this side. She knew that a slap would give a sweet date. Anat snapped his fingers, and a bat flew over.
"The last time I gave it to your child is almost dead."
With a flick of Anat's fingertips, the bat flew to the tree of life. It lay on the trunk of the tree of life and began to suck "dirt". The elf queen looked at all this, and a hint of helplessness finally flashed across her indifferent expression. If it weren't for Anat's bats, the tree of life would have long been completely contaminated with "dirt".
The glamorous vampire smiled happily.
"Pleasant to work with."
***
The fire phoenix flew over the forest, its long tail feathers swept past, and the rich fire element fell on the trees, like a crimson flower. The fire phoenix landed on a tall tree and saw that the surrounding green was replaced by red, all of which were the fruits of its efforts. The fire phoenix spread its wings and chirped very happily, and then seemed to think that "Mom" couldn't see its masterpiece, and folded its wings in despair.
"Water cage."
When the fire phoenix found out that it was wrong and wanted to take off, it was too late. The water element in the air formed a water rope and wrapped it tightly. At the critical moment, a figure jumped to the top of the tree and grabbed the phoenix and rushed out of the prison, it was Old John.
A figure gradually appeared in the air. It was a male elf in a blue robe. He looked at the fire phoenix in the hands of Old John, and then looked at the forest ravaged by the fire, and finally decided to solve the problem of the elf forest first, then go to Capture the divine beast that has not yet recognized its master.
The elf took out his staff and simply spit out three words: "Rainstorm."
In an instant, a large number of dark clouds gathered over the Elf Forest, and heavy rain poured down, putting out the forest fire. Xiu looked up at the elf in the sky, this kind of ability to use high-level magic just by chanting a name could only be a magic god. For the Mage, magic has become as instinctive as breathing, and they can even cast intermediate and low-level magic instantly.
"Yaff knot."
When the mechanical puppet heard the order, it stopped the slaughter of the ancient war tree, and looked up at the elves in the air. The elf didn't seem to mind that he was being targeted by the mechanical puppet, and still controlled the water element to put out the fire in the forest. The mechanical puppet jumped sharply and slammed into the elf. At this moment, it seemed as if the slow release button had been pressed. The mechanical puppet's hand approached the elf little by little, and then was hit with a punch the moment it touched the elf. Light penetrates.
Xiu turned around, and on a tall tree behind him, another elf appeared. The elf put the arrow on the bow again, aimed at Yafukie who was struggling to get up, and let go. "Don't get in the way."
Xiu looked at the Yafu knot that had been pierced twice. Two dazzling holes appeared on the silver-white shell of the mechanical puppet, destroying the beautiful arc. Only the same Martial God can cause damage to the six-star mechanical puppet. Attacks under the Martial God cannot be broken at all. Obviously, the elf on the tall tree is a Martial God.
Being stared at by a magic god and a martial god, Xiu's expression was very strange. He raised his head, the corners of his mouth were raised high, and he gave a sinister smile.
"Finally someone came to play with me." Water dripped on Xiu's hair, printing the maroon into dark brown. He stretched out his little hands and bent them down one by one.
"The blue side's elves 1, 2, a total of two people; the red side's mechanical puppets 1, 2, 3, 4..."
The hand of the elf holding the bow on the tall tree began to tremble. Since he advanced to become a god of war, he has never felt this kind of despair and fear again. As the dwarfs counted, mechanical puppets appeared one after another, and the oppressive surging power could be felt between their behaviors. There were six stars painted on their chests, all of which were... Valkyrie.
"… 9, 10, ten people in total." Xiu put down his hand and announced in a soft voice, "We can start the game."
…
Xiu poked the air in front of him with his hand, as if bursting a bubble, the unchanging forest in front of him vanished into nothing, and a beautiful and dreamy world unfolded in front of him. Xiu summoned the Bleeding Deed Beast again, and the red humanoid rune began to run towards the lake in the distance. Yafujie put Xiu on his shoulders, and followed the blood puppets with the other mechanical puppets. Behind them, the blackened ground was mixed with traces of blood, and the terrifying color was like someone mixing minced meat into the soil. Crushed and formed.
Along the way, I didn't see any living creatures at all. The elves were probably hiding. Xiu didn't have time to care about them now, and he was full of thoughts about finding that person. The bloody beast ran across the green grass, crossed the lake, and finally started to climb up the big tree in the middle of the lake. Yafujie followed it to the canopy of the giant tree, and finally jumped in from a place where the branches and leaves were sparse.
"Boom!"
The mechanical puppet fell heavily among the flowers, and the falling wind pressure blew the petals into a shower of flowers. Xiu stood up and looked directly at the altar opposite.
On the altar, the man is there.
Du Ze was caught in Anat's hand, he was still in a coma, and his face was pale with blood loss. The moment he saw Du Ze, Xiu's eyes instantly turned red.
"bump!"
The Elf Queen and the other elves involuntarily took a few steps backwards. Even though the mechanical puppet's attack was blocked by the light film, the terrifying pressure that would crush them into flesh was still going straight down.
"Touch! Touch! Touch!"
More and more mechanical puppets joined the attack on the light film. The elves looked at the mechanical puppet lying on the light film in horror. The inorganic red light looked down at them under the light film coldly, as if they were always there at any time. Make them disappear from this world.
Fortunately, although the light film covering the altar was crumbling and looked like it would be broken at any time, it still withstood the attacks of all the mechanical puppets. The Elf Queen maintained her calm appearance. She walked forward and said to Xiu on Yafujie's shoulder, "You can't open it. This is a barrier placed by the Goddess of Life."
Xiu finally turned his gaze away from Du Ze and turned to others. Seeing those brightly colored eyes, the Elf Queen felt suffocated for some reason, and it became difficult to even speak.
"There may be some kind of misunderstanding between us."
"Give him back to me." Xiu's voice was soft and sweet, but it made people shudder: "That's not someone you can touch."
"My student is not someone you can kill!" Anat suddenly interjected. Since she saw Xiu, a message came from the contract telling her that the dwarf in front of her was the one who killed her beloved student. . Anat stared at Xiu with hatred, his fingertips slid across Du Ze's chin, his bright red nails pierced the epidermis, stirring up the flesh. "Get those metal bumps out of your way! Or I'll just dig through his throat!"
Xiu was silent for a while, he clapped his hands, and all the mechanical puppets withdrew from the light film. Anat giggled at the Elf Queen: "Why are you afraid of him? This person is in our hands, and he doesn't dare to act rashly!"
"Anat," said the elf queen indifferently, "if I could, I wish I had never seen you."
"Huh? Are you sure, my dear Queen." Anat Jiao smiled: "If it wasn't for me, your tree of life would have been healed long ago."
Four of the ten six-star mechanical puppets left, and the rest stopped at the door. Xiu stood on Yafujie's shoulder and asked, "Is that a threat just now?"
Anat snorted coldly, the elf queen didn't speak, she looked at the mechanical puppet guarding the entrance, and her uneasiness became more and more intense.
"Then let me say something." Xiu stared at the elves headed by the elf queen: "If you don't give him to me, you will lose the tree of life now."
boom-
There was a violent vibration from the bottom of the tree of life, as if someone was about to uproot the tree of life. Under the terrified eyes of the elves, Xiu smiled.
"When he is dead, I will let the tree of life be buried with him."
Before Xiu said the last sentence, Anat had already sensed that something was wrong, but she was still snatched by the elves from Du Ze, and she was also suppressed by the two warrior gods of the elves. The elf queen's expression cracked for the first time, and she shouted to the demon outside in horror: "Stop it! We will return him to you intact!"
Xiu watched the farce and patted the Yafu knot. The light in the eyes of the mechanical puppet flickered, as if conveying some message, and the movement below stopped. The elf queen almost collapsed to the ground, she forced Simon to bring the unconscious Du Ze over, Anat looked up at all this, she said with a sharp smile: "You think he will let him go if you give him back. You! Don't be stupid! I can see that he is a more evil devil than me!"
Although the Elf Queen did not respond to Anat's words, she was also affected, and she stared at Xiu. "You have to swear to God or we won't believe you."
Xiu didn't hesitate. "If you guys return him to me, I won't use any means to attack the Tree of Life." Xiu tilted his head and thought for a while, then smiled inexplicably. "Swear to the God of Light."
The Elf Queen saw a light shining on Xiu's body, which represented that the God of Light had notarized the oath, and any violation would be punished by God. She breathed a sigh of relief, walked to the center of the altar, and used a leaf to take a drop of the tree of life sap from the pool. The Elf Queen carefully poured the drop of golden liquid into Du Ze's mouth. Almost as soon as it entered his mouth, Du Ze's complexion returned to ruddy, and he became awake.
Du Ze looked around in confusion, his eyes were blurry, making him feel a little dizzy, like the feeling when he first put on his glasses. Du Ze had to take off his glasses to see if there was something wrong. The moment he took them off, he froze. With a vision that had never been so clear before, Xiu Zai stared at him, and he could even see that. The reflection of himself in his eyes is small, but it fills the whole eye, and there is no room for other people and things.
Du Ze didn't know whether to think about why his highly myopic eyes suddenly healed, or to think about what the situation is now. At this time, he heard Xiu say to him, "Come here."
Almost reflexively, he got up and walked towards Xiu, there was no elf blocking him. The blocking light film was opened, Du Ze climbed up on Yafujie's outstretched hand, and the mechanical puppet brought Du Ze to Xiu. A certain idiot saw Xiu's familiar flaxen hair and small face, and suddenly became nervous. I don't know what to say.
This is cultivator, a living person.
At this moment, Du Ze saw Xiu leaning forward and wrapping his neck around him.
"You'll come back to me eventually."
At that moment, Du Ze's heart was filled with emotion. In fact, he wouldn't panic if he was taken away, because he subconsciously decided that the religious order would come to him. A certain idiot thought blankly that he had long forgotten what it was like to have a friend, but the person holding him told him what true friendship was with his actions.
Just as Du Ze was about to reach out and hug back, he heard Xiu say in his ear, "Because I will destroy everything that separates us."
Boom... squeak... squeak...
It was a sound similar to bones being crushed and flesh being crushed into minced meat, just like the sound of stepping on a cockroach with one foot, and then constantly turning the soles of the feet to crush the corpse.
Du Ze had thought about it countless times, if he hadn't turned his head at that time, wouldn't he have seen the pool of blood gradually overflowing from the bottom of the mechanical puppet's feet? Wouldn't it be so clear and profound to realize that everything has changed - whether it's Xiu or the way he sees the world.
The Elf Queen widened her eyes and watched the mechanical puppet fall from the sky. If the two Valkyries were not fast enough, it would not be just Anat who was crushed. The mechanical puppet removed her feet, the blood spread, and Anat was spread over the blood like a rag, but even with her head flattened and her bones shattered into powder, she was still alive—killing a vampire was nothing but using Silver, just cut off its head. So the mechanical puppet picked up Anat, and the necromancer's body drooped limply. She made a strange ho-ho sound, not knowing whether she was laughing at herself or the elf queen who was about to follow the same path. Under everyone's eyes, the mechanical puppet grabbed Anat's head with his thumb and forefinger—Anat's head was only as big as the tip of his finger—and ripped it lightly.
click...
The rain of blood fell from the sky, and a little blood splashed onto the face of the Elf Queen. She stretched out her hand stiffly to wipe off the scarlet liquid. When the Elf Queen found that the mechanical puppet turned to look at her, she shouted in anger and horror: "You betrayed your oath, and you will be punished by the God of Light!"
"I just said I shouldn't take action against the Tree of Life." Xiu inserted his fingers into Du Ze's hair and stroked it soothingly. "It didn't say that the elves would be spared."
The elf queen looked at the dwarf in disbelief with a mocking smile, and her sweet voice revealed an extreme contempt and hatred.
"Heh... What is the God of Light?"
The Elf Queen finally understands what happened to Anat's last ho-ho laugh - mocking the elf who were about to follow her footsteps and foolishly believing in a devil. She stood blankly on the altar, completely ignoring the mechanical puppet's hand waving to her.
"Your Highness!"
The warm blood dripped on the face of the elf queen, and she woke up suddenly. Her most loyal chief guard said to her: "Your Highness, please run away first."
The Elf Queen looked at Simon's half-broken arm and couldn't say anything. At this time, the light film can no longer be opened, and now the elves elders can't even save themselves, let alone save the elves.
It turned out that the more chaotic situation finally brought Du Ze back to his senses. He resisted the throbbing desire to vomit and tried his best to persuade Modi to change his mind.
"Not to want to kill them."
You must know that polluting the elves and killing the elves are two completely different things. The latter is more extreme!
Xiu let go of Du Ze, and under Du Ze's gaze, he smiled little by little.
"To make me unhappy, die."
Two mechanical puppets tore an elf from the middle, and the flesh and blood fell to the ground.
"What hinders me, die."
A mechanical puppet folded his hands and directly crushed an elf into minced meat.
"Worthless, die."
Under Du Ze's disbelieving gaze, Xiu curled his lips and said the last sentence.
Why is Xiu still smiling
No, no, what's wrong! Xiu shouldn't be like this, it's just like, like—
Du Ze thought blankly, and his wandering eyes fell on Old John below. Old John sensed Du Ze's gaze, raised his head at Du Ze, smiled helplessly, shook his head, and made a mouth shape.
The little master lost his mind.
Du Ze stared at Xiu Yanyan's pupils, there was no sense in them.
"!"
Without the slightest precaution, Xiu was suddenly picked up by Du Ze. The black-haired youth jumped off the mechanical puppet with the dwarf in his arms, and rushed to the small pool in the center of the altar with all his strength.
"Whoa-"
The golden liquid splashed and fell high, like a crazy terminator.
The mechanical puppet threw Simon onto the stone wall with a wave. It looked at the demented Elf Queen sitting on the ground and raised its fist high. A slender figure trembled in front of the Elf Queen, but it was Ariel. The mechanical puppet didn't hesitate, and smashed his fist hard.
Ariel closed her eyes tightly, the fist wind had blown the hair on her forehead, but it stopped abruptly. Ariel opened her eyes cautiously, the huge fist was in front of her, but the mechanical puppet tilted her head and looked in one direction. Not only it, all the mechanical puppets looked at the center of the altar as if the pause button was pressed.
Ariel covered her lips in astonishment. The sap of the tree of life in the pool had completely disappeared. Sitting in the middle of the pool were Du Ze, whom she knew, and an unfamiliar elf. The elf had long silver hair draped behind her, her green eyes were like the latest shoots in spring, and her delicate face was so perfect that one could feel suffocating. Although the elves have always been beautiful, this level of beauty has never been seen before.
The silver-haired elf propped his body with his elbows and quietly looked up at the black-haired youth on his body.
Du Ze sat on Xiu's body, his hand slightly loosened Xiu's torn collar, and asked gently.
"Calm down, okay?"
Xiu stretched out his right hand, and the cloth slipped from his arm, revealing his fair skin. He held Du Ze in his arms, his long eyelashes hanging down.
"kindness."
******
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I will send you the sun, and it will be woven into your hair.
I will give you the moonlight to condense into your skin.
I will give you flowers and let it paint your beauty.
I give you trees to make up your house.
I will give you the harp to adorn your voice.
I give you the bow and arrow, and let it be your strength.
I give you Elf and make it your name.
—Excerpt from Half-Blood: Song of the Elf