In the Name of the Queen

Of course trees can be burned.

But not now.

Even if you burn an ordinary valley full of trees, you have to make a firebreak to prevent the fire from spreading and causing a large-scale wildfire, not to mention that these trees are not ordinary trees.

No one knows whether these tree demons will do something extreme when they are dying.

We must be fully prepared.

Under Roland's persuasion, Sif strangled the devil named impulse in the sea of ​​consciousness.

It was late at night when they returned to the Governor's Mansion.

Sif was tired and fell asleep after taking a bath.

Roland also fell asleep in his bedroom.

He was not sleeping, but looking for a botanical expert in the Third Age.

A sea of ​​flowers, natural ancient trees, and the elf Sif sitting quietly, as if sleeping.

Roland basically saw her in this style every time.

The wide long skirt covered her lower body, as if she was afraid that someone would see her beautiful legs and feet.

Although it was a bit regretful, Roland didn't think much about it.

Although only consciousness was left, he still regarded her as an independent life form that was both a teacher and a friend.

"Sif, I saw the golden ginkgo tree demon."

"Tree demon?"

The elf Sif stood up, carefully pressed the hem of her skirt, and her dull eyes suddenly lit up.

"Are you talking about the golden ginkgo that became extinct in the Third Age?"

"Yes."

Without waiting for Sif to ask, Roland described everything he encountered in the valley in detail.

Including the coriander and bleeding vegetables that were found before.

The elf Sif lowered her head slightly, was silent for a long time, and slowly said:

"Do you know how almost all ginkgo trees, including the golden ginkgo, became extinct?"

"I don't know, but I have a lot of time." Roland found a place to sit opposite the elf Sif, his eyes full of expectations.

It seems that the elf Sif knows a lot.

After a moment of silence, the elf Sif sighed and said faintly: "The environment in the Third Age was suitable, gymnosperms were very prosperous, and it was common to grow to hundreds of meters."

"In addition to the common pine, cypress, and fir, ginkgo was also the main species at that time. In addition, there were special trees that could grow to thousands of meters and even produce wisdom."

"These intelligent plants are called ancient trees. The elves and ancient trees are friends and depend on each other. There are two candidates for our deification movement, the Elf King Aslan and the World Tree Hill, which shows the dependence between us."

"Ancient trees need nutrients to grow and rare materials to evolve. The elves provide materials for the ancient trees, and the ancient trees protect the elves and fight side by side with us."

"Originally, we got along very well. Later, some elves cooperated with the wise ancient trees to breed offspring, and the tree elf branch was born. The tree elves have a physique similar to that of ancient trees, so they don't need to get pregnant. They can breed offspring by simply placing the fetus in the ancient tree."

Roland was a little surprised. With such a convenient breeding method, the elves should have a large number of people.

"However, tree elves are evil after all. Plants are plants, animals are animals, and even if plants have wisdom, they are completely different from flesh and blood life. The birth of tree elves has confused the boundaries."

The eyes of the elf Sif flashed with a trace of pain, and she sighed:

"No matter how much benefit it can bring, confusing the boundaries is not a good thing. But tree elves are our compatriots, and ancient trees are our brothers and sisters. They already exist, so what else can we do?"

"The number of tree elves is increasing, and the speed of evolution is getting faster and faster."

Roland was even more curious. The elf books obtained through the inheritor profession never recorded the tree elves that once occupied a dominant position. There must be some unknown secrets.

Fortunately, the elf Sif was an eyewitness, so this history was not forgotten.

"The number of tree elves is increasing. As their number increases, the number of elves has once exceeded 500 million, and they have the upper hand in the competition with earth spirits."

"Five hundred million?"

Roland was surprised.

As we all know, the number of elves is small, and even at its peak, it did not exceed 100 million.

The quantifier "one hundred million" is really a bit inconsistent with the elves.

Considering the convenient breeding method of tree elves, it is not surprising that there are over 100 million.

After all, the elves have a long life span and a low mortality rate. As long as the fertility rate increases slightly, it will be a big deal.

Roland did not interrupt the elf Sif, but just held his chin with both hands and put on the same listening posture as Sif.

When holding his chin, he did not realize that this was Sif's common posture, and he always liked to cross his legs when listening.

The elf Sif took a deep breath, and her eyes gradually became painful. The next memory was obviously not a good one.

She tried to control her emotions and said quietly: "The powerful breeding ability of the tree elves has turned them from a minority into an absolute majority."

"When there were only one million tree elves, they said that we were all elves and should live in peace; when the number of tree elves approached that of blood elves, they began to fight for the right to speak, saying that nature was the destination of elves; when the number of tree elves exceeded 100 million, they told us to shut up."

"They said that red blood was mean and barbaric, just like those crude barbarians. Green blood is the most noble. They even opposed the name of blood and called the damn green juice holy liquid."

"When the number of tree elves exceeded 500 million, the blood elves no longer had the right to speak."

Looking at the chest of the elf Sif rising and falling due to excitement, Roland was silent.

There is never anything new under the sun. This kind of thing has happened too many times in history, so it is difficult for Roland to stir up waves.

The mood of the elf Sif also gradually eased.

After all, she has experienced triple death, neither life nor undead, only consciousness.

This was an event from the past who knows how many years ago. All the parties involved have died, and there is no point in thinking about it anymore.

She sighed quietly and continued to talk about the past.

After the tree elves gained the upper hand, they quickly seized the right to speak.

They are forbidden to eat plants because plants are their parents.

Roland was speechless.

Elves are nature's darlings. Although they do not reject meat, eggs, and milk, their diet is light and mainly vegetarian.

"If you are not allowed to be vegetarian, how can you allow elves to eat meat? Five hundred million elves are not a small number. Even if the animals and plants are prosperous in the Third Age, it will not be enough."

"No, animals can't eat it either."

Roland was very happy, "You can't eat plants, and you can't eat animals. Do you eat mushrooms all day long?"

"Yes, after the tree elves took over, for almost three hundred years, our legal food was all kinds of mushrooms."

Roland opened his mouth, but suddenly couldn't speak.

He found that in extreme aspects, humans and stubborn elves were still incomparable.

"How can just eating mushrooms be enough? I don't believe these tree elves don't want to eat."

"They really don't eat. They dare to be so crazy. Of course they have a trump card. The tree elves purified from ancient trees have evolved chloroplasts. They can obtain energy through photosynthesis like plants."

Roland: "."

After a long time, he slowly asked: "Photosynthesis supports elves. Is this scientific? I mean, is the energy enough?"

"Of course it's not enough. So these idiots choose to stand still like plants with very little movement. Only when they find out that we maliciously obtain extra food will they angrily uproot the trees and chase us."

"You can't understand the suffocating oppression. In the dense forests of the Third Age, every tree is their eyes. As long as our people get food, even a bird egg, they will be punished as heretics. "Tree punishment."

Roland didn't ask what tree punishment was. It didn't sound like a good term.

He didn't know how to comfort the elf Sif.

This memory is indeed too painful.

He couldn't even tell whether the tree had turned into an elf or the elf had turned into a tree.

But this is a bit extreme.

Elf Sif bit her lip and said: "Tree torture is to tie my compatriots to pillars, and then sow tree seeds that can grow wildly inside the body. As the tree seeds take root and sprout, the tortured person is sucked into a mummy, a hideous punishment. The tree will grow vigorously. At most, there are hundreds of thousands of trees of punishment near the royal city alone."

Roland's face changed slightly.

It is indeed a shocking and cruel method.

Just as the natural enemies of humans are humans, the natural enemies of elves are also elves.

This topic was really heavy, and Roland felt a little suffocated, so he had to ask casually: "The tree elves are acting in such a perverse way, didn't the earth spirits take the opportunity to attack?"

"No, because they are also in civil strife."

There was a trace of disdain on Elf Sif's lips, "Their reasons for civil strife are more absurd than ours. You must know that the earth spirits are divided into two branches: the hairy earth spirits and the hairless earth spirits, but they are all descendants of the Titans. In fact, It's a family."

"They named each other with the insulting epithets 'Naked Ape' and 'Yehu' and started a brutal civil war."

Elf Sif said softly: "The civil war between the tree elves and the blood elves is somewhat understandable, but the civil war between the hairy earth spirits and the hairless earth spirits is completely incomprehensible to me."

"It's not surprising, there are not enough resources."

Roland said calmly: "According to the classic records, with climate change, the once dense forests are gradually turning into savannas, and there is less and less food. This is not only the reason for the fight between the naked ape and Yehu, but also the reason for the fight between the tree elves and the blood elves. source of conflict.”

"Due to the decrease in resources, it is impossible for everyone to maintain the original standard of living. The tree elves have chosen to move closer to plants, and they are naturally worried that they will be used as food by you after losing the ability to move. The naked ape and the yahu are directly competing for living space and resources."

Elf Sif's eyes widened and she looked at Roland in disbelief, her chest rising and falling sharply in shock.

Seeing her shocked expression, Roland asked in surprise, "No one has thought in this direction for so many years?"

Elf Sif was silent. After a long time, she slowly said: "Creativity and innovative thinking are not our clan's specialties. The ancient books of the sages have never written that the same clan will kill each other due to lack of resources."

That's because the living conditions of the ancestors of the elves were so good!

This kind of thing has been recorded countless times in human history.

It can only be said that the abundant supplies of the Third Age protected the elves and earth spirits very well.

No wonder they were completely defeated in front of the Divine Punishment Legion, with no power to resist.

On the contrary, the Magic Empire, whose strength on paper was not as good as theirs, defeated the God's Punishment Legion miserably and retained the Fire.

After all, the Magic Empire is an excellent representative of the human race.

Creativity and courage are the immortal hymns of humankind surpassing previous intelligent races.

Of course, he would never say this.

Although he didn't say it, Elf Sif had vaguely seen the expression in Roland's eyes.

She didn't refute, after all, it was the truth.

Her voice was a little low as she finished telling the last period of history before the elves were destroyed.

As the tree elves continued to oppress the blood elves, the blood elves completely exploded.

They choose magic to fight, extreme to extreme, cruelty to cruelty.

They infused blood into tall plants that had not yet unlocked their intelligence, creating vicious trees that flowed with blood and fed on ancient trees.

These trees are called dryads.

It turns out that this is how the tree demon came.

Ginkgo, which has the longest lifespan and the most primitive conditions in all aspects, was chosen by the blood elves to become a revenge tree demon.

The blood elves sacrificed their flesh and blood and placed their souls in these tall trees, giving the ginkgo wisdom and becoming a sharp blade of resistance.

In the forest, the ferocious tree demons frantically gnawed those ancient trees that were unable to move despite their wisdom, and regarded the tree elves as nutrients.

Hearing this scene, Roland's mouth twitched slightly.

Thinking of the scene of the only forest standing up and gnawing at each other, he didn't know what to say for a while.

Although the blood elves were determined to fight, the number of tree elves was too large, and the blood elves were at a disadvantage in the war.

Seeing that the elves were about to be destroyed by foreign races, the elf king Aslan sacrificed himself and turned into seven flowers to protect his people.

"The sea of ​​flowers is not a flower, nor is it a sea, but a pool of blood formed by the blood of the tribesmen."

"Every tribesman who died in the battle will increase the power of the sea of ​​flowers. With the support of the sea of ​​flowers, we won, but the price was unimaginable."

This tragic war ended with the blood elves' tragic victory.

After this orthodox battle, the blood elf population was reduced to less than two million.

In order to avoid the disaster from happening again, all records about tree elves were destroyed, and topics related to tree elves became an absolute taboo.

This is also the reason why Roland's inheritance does not have any records of tree elves.

This war also has another sequelae. All the ancient trees died, and the world tree was burned clean by the endless flames brought by the angry blood elves.

The elves lost their barrier.

Fortunately, the earth spirits also killed blood and invaded without flaws.

Just when the elves were recuperating, the barbarians they looked down on invaded the rich land in the center of the continent to snatch living space.

In order to survive, the blood elves and the tree elves fought and retreated, shrinking back to the original birthplace of the elves.

As the seven flower seas gradually dried up and fell, the elves were unable to recover.

When the last day of return arrived, the God's Punishment Army arrived as scheduled.

Elf Sif laughed at herself: "The God's Punishment Army came according to the standards of our rank-one pseudo-god-level strongmen. This is not a divine punishment, but a massacre."

"The God's Punishment Army, which was not satisfied, cast its anger on other races. The barbarians who invaded our homes and the earth spirits who were recovering were also targeted by the God's Punishment Army."

"We came from the forest and perished in the wilderness. This is the entire history of the Third Age."

After saying this, the elf Sif seemed to have exhausted all her strength, slowly leaned over, and fell asleep quietly against the flower sea.

Before falling asleep, she subconsciously retracted her feet and covered them with her skirt.

Roland did not disturb her, but left quietly.

This narration consumed the little energy left by the elf Sif. She had just engraved all her memories in Roland's mind through a special spell, and then fell asleep.

Have a good rest.

I will definitely wake you up.