Early February 1361 in the valley calendar, Hureke Forest.
The cold wind in winter has frozen the Hurek Forest area into a vast white world. The rivers here are covered with a thick layer of ice and the coniferous forests are covered with white snow. Although the land no longer looks like a It was so frozen a month ago, but there is still a long way to go before it thaws.
After meeting Surun Mama, Aaron decided to set off from Susar. However, he did not go directly to the camp in Evening Star Town. Instead, he fulfilled his agreement first - to transfer the Withered Thorns of Earthwalker Rhodok. The staff was returned to Hurek Forest.
As mentioned earlier, Hurek Forest is located in the northeast corner of Cormyr, adjacent to the Thunder Peak Mountains. This forest was originally the most primitive forest. However, with the continuous reclamation and development of Cormyr, the original elven empire was left to humans. The large forest is now cut to pieces and broken into many small pieces.
Hurek Forest is a larger area among these fragmented forests. It was once a vast area with sparsely populated areas. It was not until the Assan IV period that large-scale reclamation activities began. Humans entered the forest with axes and tried to cultivate enough farmland. This eventually led to the tragedy of Rhodok, the Earthwalker.
For Rhodok, human reclamation is invasion, murder, and shameless and brutal invaders.
The local residents do not think so. These pioneers struggle to survive on the edge of the forest, and from time to time they have to face monsters and evil tribes in the forest. Most of the farmland reclaimed by the forest has insufficient fertility and limited crop harvests. Therefore, the locals often Even maintaining food and clothing is a problem.
After all this, that damn Dru Yin still called us sinners and murderers, and carried out a massacre of the felling team without any shame? Is this Dru Yin a fellow human being? Do you stand with our fellow human beings?
We humans just want to get some living space! We just want to survive!
So when Aaron and others came to the edge of the Hurek Forest and asked the village residents at the edge of the forest about Rodok, the villagers often tied Dru Yin to murderers and anti-human beings. They did not welcome any Germans. As Lu Yin approaches, they regard Dru Yin as the culprit who destroys their difficult life.
[In view of the general environment,
There was flying snow in the sky. After Aaron and others left the village, Eleanor finally couldn't help but said: "He is a fallen Dru Yin. He left behind a lot of blood debt. He killed hundreds of human beings, but now , but I hate him no matter what, Aaron, do you think we were wrong?"
"Didn't our Lord teach us that everyone should be treated equally?"
"We are not wrong, but so is Dru Yin, because for him, the forest is his friend and the small trees are his partners. We are not wrong." Cousin Maximian was wearing a shabby dress Wearing the monk's robe, he clasped his hands and shook his head with a wry smile: "Everyone just wants to survive and get living space. Miss Eleanor, don't you think that Cormyr's expansion process is peaceful? In order to establish a country, We have been fighting the surrounding forces for four hundred years. If nothing else, the corpses of goblins and gnolls should be piled higher than Thunder Peak."
"Tsk, there's nothing you can do with all this." Disma, the second senior student, held a grass seed in his mouth. He didn't like Dru Yin's story. For him, this kind of story was just a waste of time. Wei: "In the final analysis, this Earth Walker is not strong enough. If he were strong enough, what would happen like this? If he were a legend and he said I would protect this forest, would the people here dare to open up the wilderness?"
"Weakness is weak, there is nothing to say. For this matter, Dru Yin is weak, and for the people here, they are weak when facing Dru Yin, so they are all punished." Disma. After summing up the matter, the second senior turned his head disdainfully: "Hurry up, Aaron, don't waste too much time here."
Aaron smiled. He gently removed the snowflakes on Eleanor's white priest's robe with his hands, and looked at the promised place in the distance in silence.
There are four people in their group, including Aaron Salian himself, the priest Eleanor, the second senior Disma and his cousin Maximian.
Although the eldest lady Charlotte has made up her mind,
Yi joined the Liberation Army, but she still had some things to deal with. The two parties agreed to meet at the camp in Evening Star Town. University President Leonard joined the team of the Church of Justice, as well as several of Aaron's Purple Dragons. Fellow knights join Ms. Raul's reserve group of knights.
What is noteworthy is that Manakorn-Anaheim, the son of Bane, also announced in a high profile that he would join Ms. Raul's Restoration Army. For this purpose, the Anaheim family mobilized a private army of 200 people, all of whom were apprentices. Professionals above grade.
Ms. Lauer, unaware of Manakorn's identity, was moved by the inclusion of the Anaheim family.
There is hope for Cormyr and there is power for humanity!
Aaron was wary of the addition of Son of Bane, and he didn't know what Manakorn's high-profile purpose was. Just as it happened, after a few months, Aaron finally remembered his agreement with the Earthwalker Rodok. I haven't returned the dead wood staff to the forest yet.
So he came, along with Eleanor, Maximian, and Disma.
The valley where the saplings were born has been severely damaged. Humans have used this place as a stronghold and separated it with walls. A waterwheel has been built under the small waterfall. The dense jungle in Dru Yin's memory has been destroyed. Covered by bare farmland, Aaron believed that if Rhodok saw this, he would yell "What a sacrilege" and strike again.
This is the case for most Dru Yin. If it is natural evolution, population evolution, or climate change, then Dru Yin will often not interfere because they believe that this is the choice of the force of nature. However, replacing forests with farmland is not the case, because farmland replaces forests. The system is very fragile, cannot be self-sufficient and self-circulating, and requires a lot of human intervention and support.
This is a blasphemy against nature, at least that's what the Druids think.
The development process of human beings is always accompanied by claiming and re-claiming nature, and the attitudes of the gods are also different. It is said that the earth mother goddess Chantia originally had a very good relationship with Silvanus, the father of the oak tree, but Chantia was too Favoring humans aroused the anger of Silvanus, and the relationship between the two parties gradually declined from closeness to ordinary allies who help each other.
After some searching, Aaron finally found the location of the "little tree" mentioned by Dru Yin.
He inserted the withered wood staff into the location where the small tree was cut down, and let the staff go deep into the earth. This was a Dru Yin staff that was full of curses, but also had powerful power. If it was not handled properly, it would be very dangerous. It is easy to cause the corruption of the land and some abnormal phenomena, so Aaron used life magic to make a string of shrubs grow on the spot, covering the staff.
These shrubs can balance the corruption of the staff and conceal its existence. If someone comes and cuts down all the shrubs and insists on digging out the staff for use, it is none of their business.
After returning the staff, Aaron thought about it and decided to write something. The other party was once a master Dru Yin, and he should not die in such an unknown way. He carved Rodok's name on the bush.
"Rhodoc the Earthwalker, a fallen master-level Dru-Yin, longed for, fought for nature, had merits and deeds, suffered setbacks, mustered up courage, caused disasters, and fought for the sake of nature. You gave your life fighting against the snake, that's all, may your soul rest in peace."
Aaron sighed. Seeing that the other party had helped him deal with the snake people, sacrificed for them, and left the inheritance of Dru Yin, he tried his best to describe the other party's life in Spring and Autumn style.
"As you wished, your staff was buried where the sapling grew. Rhodok, I have fulfilled the promise between you and me." Aaron bowed lightly and planned to leave.
However, the moment Aaron turned around, a thick black fog rose from the bushes. It evaporated into the air, forming a purple-gray shape, and a low, distorted voice sounded.
"I hate it so much~"
"Who!" The expressions of Aaron and others changed. He immediately took out the Dark Moon Sword, Eleanor raised the Hand of the Moon hammer, Maximian took off the longbow behind him, and Disma He looked around uncertainly.
"I hate it so much~ I am kind-hearted, but I have suffered such a terrible fate. Human beings, I want to destroy you~~"
The dense fog formed the shape of a tree man, which was shrouded in purple-gray color
In the fog, it was difficult to see its specific appearance. The tree man stared at Aaron and the others: "I am not willing to give in, I am not willing to give in!"
"Rodok?" Aaron looked at the shadow above the bushes in confusion. He pointed at the shadow of the tree man with the Dark Moon Sword: "The agreement between us has been completed!"
"No, I'm not willing~ Human, I don't want to die like this~" The tree man's shadow continued to roar: "Human, do you feel the scars on the earth? Do you feel the pain of the world?"
"Are you Rhodok? Or?" Aaron frowned. Seeing that Eleanor was already preparing to release the magic, he stretched out his hand to signal Eleanor not to do it yet: "I emphasize again that the agreement between us has been completed. Already."
The shadow of the tree man obviously hesitated. After a pause for a few seconds, it said: "We once fought side by side against the snake people and humans. I sacrificed for this. You can't calm my resentful spirit in such a simple way." , otherwise I will tear the earth apart, I am the embodiment of power~!"
"You must offer tribute to appease my resentment~"
"Okay, whatever you want, as long as it doesn't go too far, I'll try to satisfy you." Aaron sighed.
"Very good, human. I can smell the sweet scent of that half-elf woman. You just need to leave the honey biscuits and fresh milk bottles on her body, and my resentment can be appeased~"
"???" Aaron looked confused, Eleanor said "Ah" and covered her chest in shame and annoyance, while Maximian smiled ambiguously, waiting for Aaron's decision.
Aaron thought to himself, what the hell is this request?
Even if Rodok's soul has not left the country, what he hates is still humans, the Cormyrs, the butchers, and even Aaron himself has no problem, but what's the matter with asking for honey biscuits and fresh milk?
Something's not right about this.
Moreover, Aaron did not feel the strong resentment and hatred of the living beings.
what happened?
While Aaron was still thinking, under the shade of a big tree not far away, a small mini dragon was already leaning forward and back with joy.
"Hahahaha~ I was laughing so hard."
"You are a human being, you are a human being, you are a fish, you are a complete fish~"
"A bunch of idiots~"
This little mini dragon is slightly larger than a cat, with a pair of beautiful butterfly-like wings reflecting moving colors in the white snow, and its slender tail swinging wildly following its owner's joy. The little mini dragon rolled around laughing as he watched the humans being tricked by his illusions.
"How are we going to tease them next?"
The blue dragon scales reflected the light of the white snow, but no one noticed the existence of this mini dragon.
In fact, it has been following several people for quite some time. Its scientific name is Fairy Dragon. It is a very special kind of dragon among the sub-dragon species. It belongs to the good camp, and the meaning of living is endless fun.
It was attracted by Aaron's charismatic charm. It originally wanted to see how much fun this special human being could bring to it, but it turned out that the fragrant smell of the pastor's body attracted it.
Mmm, honey cookies (muffins actually)! I want to eat!
Well, I want to drink fresh milk, ice cold and sweet!
So it used its own illusion magic to complete the job. It often did this, cheating people with food and drink, and the living often chose to give in out of fear of the dead.
While the Fairy Dragon was still dreaming about getting a free dessert, the second senior student Disma's voice was approaching: "Hey! Little one!"
Oops! Found!
The playful expression on the face of the fairy dragon immediately disappeared. It quickly cast a mirror shadow spell on itself. Three shadows separated from its small body, and it glided directly from the treetops: "What are you doing? Hey! Young~"
"Don't run!" Disma immediately caught up with him. The second senior's swords and swords in his hands, coupled with his aggressive face and his pair of dead fish eyes, frightened the fairy dragon into running around with its head in its hands: "Aaron, I I found out, it was this elf dragon that caused the trouble!"
Sure enough, with the discovery of the fairy dragon, all
The so-called "tree man's resentful spirit" disappeared immediately.
It turned out to be the evil dragon! Aaron also realized what was happening. He had seen an illustration about the Fairy Dragon in a book, and knew that it was a kind-hearted creature that liked to play pranks and had no subjective malice, so he planned to intervene and stop it: "Wait a minute... Senior... , don’t do it, and that’s called a fairy dragon, not an elf dragon!”
"Oh, goblins and elves are not good things!" Disma sneered and continued to pursue. He shuttled quickly through the snow, and with a delicate slide, he suddenly dodged the goblin dragon's breath, ignoring the other party's blah blah blah. He screamed and begged for mercy, "Wait a minute, let's talk." He laughed and said, "Look, junior, look at me subduing this troublesome little guy!"
"Your name is Elf Dragon, right?" Disma released a magic, and patches of thorns rose from the ground of the forest and snowfield, threatening to completely bind the Elf Dragon.
"stop!"
A bit of cold light comes from afar, the bowstring rings, and the arrow misses and flies!
Disma's expression suddenly changed, and the second senior subconsciously sensed the huge danger. This time, regardless of his image, he rolled out of the way like a lazy ass.
His decision was correct. The arrow fell to the ground, there was an explosion, snowflakes flew, and thunder shook the sky. The whole forest shook with this loud noise, causing pieces of white snow to slide down from the branches and treetops.
Where Disma stepped aside, a large crater three meters in diameter was left, with thick smoke rising.
In the distance, two elves holding longbows appeared. They were slender. The female elf was about 6 feet 1 inch (1.83 meters), and the male elf was taller than Aaron's table Robert. He might be taller. 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 meters), they are all wearing slim-fitting white dragon leather armor, with gorgeous long blonde hair, light brown skin and silver eyes, standing proudly in the snow.
"Keep your mouth clean, human." The male elf said in an extremely arrogant tone.
"Otherwise, the next arrow will be aimed at your head." The female elf also raised her chin with a very rude attitude.
Among the chasing Aaron and others, cousin Maximian's expression changed slightly.
He recognized the two elves and their archery skills.
Explosive arrow?
Arcane Shot? !
It's the magic shooter!
Snow elves from the far north who only exist in legends? !
