Great Elf Sage

Nolan has been walking around the City of Morning Light these days. Every time he stays in one place for more than an hour, he will go to the next destination. He is modifying the magic formation in the City of Morning Light. .biqugev Modifying a magic circle of this level is still very time-consuming and energy-consuming. These days, Nolan is almost deaf to anything happening outside the window.

Of course, the main reason for doing this is to avoid those princesses who are also in the City of Morning Light at this time.

Although Nolan agreed to the request of the Presbyterian Council, at this stage, he does not want to turn his life into a Shura field, not to mention that he is nineteen years old, and as an elf, he is still a minor.

At least before completing the coming of age ceremony, he will not marry the princesses.

Elves reach the minimum standard of adulthood at the age of twenty. Every elf who reaches the age of twenty and is physically mature will enter the coming-of-age ceremony stage. It is called a stage because this coming-of-age ceremony can last up to forty years. Later sixty years old.

The adulthood of elves is different from that of humans. Humans are considered adults as long as they reach the age, but elves are different. Every elf who reaches the age of twenty must complete his own 'coming of age ceremony' independently before the age of forty to be considered an adult.

The concept of elves' coming of age ceremony is very broad, including completing a novel topic, making a new research result, creating an interesting object, helping to complete a contribution work... it can be said that 'coming of age' Almost anything can be done within the scope of rites, but in fact not just any thing can be recognized by the Presbyterian Church. You must complete something that is considered 'meaningful' before it can be recognized as completing the rite of passage. .

Elves do not have the same concepts of 'work' and 'reward' as humans do. Every elf can use the power of nature to make plants produce fruits. As long as there is a seed and a piece of land, the elves do not need to worry about food. Under the premise of such 'developed productive forces', things that can be considered 'meaningful' by the elves basically belong to the category of 'intangible culture'.

In such a social atmosphere, the civilization of elves has developed much faster than the other races outside the Elf Forest. At least in terms of the value created in the field of art, this country of elves with a small population has already come close to itself in Nolan's view. The total value of art in the world for thousands of years before the emergence of modernism in previous generations.

The same goes for other fields. The fields that the elves are familiar with have basically developed to a very high level. It is not that easy to make "interesting" results, and it is not so easy to make "interesting" results in fields that the elves are not familiar with. "Meaningful" results are not that simple, so in the society of the four elves, completing the coming-of-age ceremony is a very valuable thing.

Of course, in order to avoid the embarrassing incident of some elves not being able to complete their coming-of-age ceremony for forty years and thus being unable to reach adulthood, the Elven Council of Elders passed a 'rescue bill' two thousand years ago:

If an elf is unable to complete the 'coming-of-age ceremony' within the forty years from the age of twenty to sixty, the Elders Council will arrange a research direction that is considered to still need improvement based on the area in which the elf is good at. After completing this Before being assigned a 'job', this elf will not be free to do other things that require a long time and a lot of energy. The previous sisters Aike and Ai Lu were such older 'underage' elves who were about to reach their prime.

As for Nolan, he found a very big topic for his coming-of-age ceremony. Before completing this topic, he had enough time to establish a relationship foundation with several princesses. This was the only thing he had to insist on.

……

At this time, Nolan had just completed modifications to the last part of the Magic Array in the City of Morning Light and was hanging high in the sky above the City of Morning Light.

The 'Basic Pan-Magic Sensing Technique' has become Nolan's first magic technique engraved in the sea of ​​consciousness. If you don't count world privileges, Nolan just became a first-level mage a few days ago. Nolan injected spiritual power into this basic spell, and enabled world privileges to go deep into the seventh ring, constructing a high-level magic spell specially created to assist the observation of the magic circle.

The formation under his feet was exactly the same as the design. Nolan casually dispersed the spell and began to think in this high altitude where no one could reach except himself and Chris.

The bloodline fusion of ancient elves and modern elves would cause hidden bloodline defects. Yggdrasil must be aware of this, but he did not stop it. Instead, he waited quietly for seven thousand years, and then found the perfect bloodline between himself and Chrissy. appeared, and after the Elf Presbyterian Council vaguely investigated the cause of the perfect bloodline, they suddenly spoke up to confirm the Presbyterian Council's guess...

Or, from the beginning, World Tree knew very well that the perfect elf would appear, and he had just been waiting...

Then why didn’t World Tree create elves with perfect bloodline from the beginning? Is it impossible to do it, or is there some purpose that prevents it from being done?

Nolan looked at the giant tree in front of him that seemed to support the heaven and earth, and his mind couldn't help but gradually entered the quagmire of conspiracy theories.

First of all, World Tree is undoubtedly an intelligent creature. In the few communications with World Tree, Nolan felt that World Tree was not actually as muddy as most plants. World Tree had a concept of 'self' similar to that of intelligent creatures. From this point of view, He There should be desires, but this 'self' is different from the self of ordinary intelligent creatures. The 'self' of Yggdrasil is very pure.

In Nolan's previous life, in the study of "self" in psychology, some people believed that "self" is composed of the desire "id" and the social "superego".

Taking human beings as an example, human beings' "self" is the bottom-level desire centered on reproduction and violence, and human beings' "superego" is everyone's interpretation of the ideal form of society. Therefore, human beings' "ego" nature is mostly based on rules. selfishness and self-interest underneath.

Elves are completely different from humans because of their 'id' desires and 'superego' social form, so the 'self' of the elves in the Elf Forest is also far from humans.

But the ‘self’ of World Tree is different from these intelligent creatures.

The World Tree does not have a social ‘superego’. In Nolan’s view, the ‘self’ of the World Tree that he comes into contact with expresses his most fundamental desire ‘self’.

Taking the currently known information, including historical data, as a reference sample, the only event that can reflect the "desire" of the World Tree is the creation of the ancient elves, namely: ancient elves - new elves - modern elves - perfect blood elves. a line.

"For these individuals who are born with extraordinary power, have they finally found something that can be interpreted..."

……

Three days have passed since the news came from the strange tree root 'archway'. Shirley is already in an abandoned tree house at the southeast end of the Elf Forest. Since Nolan's pure white magic stone became popular, most elves They have all rebuilt their new homes. After all, on the premise that they cannot be renovated, except for forest elves, not everyone likes to live inside big trees. Therefore, there are currently many treehouses in the Elf Forest that no longer have elves living in.

Since Shirley entered the forest, he had seen several such uninhabited tree houses along the way, so much so that he doubted whether these 'distant compatriots' were still in this forest.

If it weren't for the fact that the forest roads along the way didn't look like they'd been abandoned for a long time, and that we could see the World Tree supporting the heaven and earth in the distance.

The World Tree is the source of life and the mother of elves in the Blue Mountain Elf records. The moment she saw it, Shirley knew that she had arrived at the birthplace of elves.

In the early days when the Blue Mountain Elves established themselves in the continent of Aslan, they experienced the aftermath of the True Spirit War and lost most of their records about their origins. So much so that the current Blue Mountain Elves don’t even know about the Elf Forest or the continent of Atalan. , only a few vague descriptions of the World Tree and the 'Eldest Son' ancient elf were passed down.

Shirley has been slowly moving towards the World Tree in the Elf Forest these days. She doesn’t know where the ‘distant compatriots’ in the literature are in this forest, but as long as they are elves, then they are near the World Tree. You can definitely find it.

"Well, what can I do if I find it?"

Shirley sighed.

"Should I ask them to help Lanshan recover? If it were my brother, he would definitely say so, but what right do we have to do this, and what obligation do they have to help us?"

Shirley shook her head, not wanting to think about these troublesome things.

The chirping of birds comes from time to time on the treetops, and the dappled sunlight shines on the forest path. The road is made of solid white stones. Occasionally, a few animals appear on the roadside. It is not strange for Shirley, a stranger... …

It is really a peaceful scene without any disputes with the world.

"It would be great if all the elves of the Blue Mountains could come to this forest..."

Although she said that, Shirley actually knew that she was just longing for and envious of this place. Will the magnificent Blue Mountain, with strict rules for each other, one day become like this one?

Just as Shirley's mind was relaxing, some white buildings in the distance were vaguely revealed through the gap in the woods ahead.

Shirley perked up and was about to walk over quickly when a voice came from the side:

"Hey! Are you from Lanshan?"

Shirley was startled, turned around quickly, and saw a figure in black walking out from under the shade of a tree.

Shirley breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that it was a black-haired elf like herself.

This is an elf with long black hair tied into a ponytail, middle-parted bangs pinned to a pair of long ears, and wearing a black enchanting eye patch.

"You, you are also a Blue Mountain Elf? Why are you here? Ah! You also went deep into the Sea of ​​Death and passed through that arch? Have you returned to the other side of the Sea of ​​Death? You..."

After finally seeing someone, and a black-haired elf like herself, Shirley's emotions that had been suppressed for several days burst out along with a lot of questions.

"Okay, okay, don't be too busy asking. The elves over there are here. You can talk to them first. I'm quite interested in those white stones I haven't seen before..."

The female elf in black stopped Shirley's question.

Seeing several figures in white walking towards the front who had heard the noise, Shirley calmed down after venting her emotions and quickly apologized to the female elf in black:

"Sorry, I……"

Before Shirley could finish speaking, the female elf in black interrupted her again:

"Okay, okay, there's no need to apologize or anything like that. I don't care about that either. You can negotiate with them first. Anyway, there's no rush between us..."

The female elf in black held up her blindfold with her right hand and then said:

"By the way, my name is An Jin."

To be continued.