Great Elf Sage

The northwest of Aslan continent, along the coast of the Sea of ​​Death. The several hundred meters offshore area between the land and the death sea enveloped by the hurricane seemed to be completely separated from the death sea. It was a peaceful sea area.

Shirley hid several meters below the sea surface, her body being held up by sea creatures, and she was breathing through the small bubbles brought down from the sea surface by the fish she had summoned.

Tears silently melted into the sea water. Shirley knew that turning back to save her brother now was just an act of committing suicide. Since her brother desperately delayed the pursuers so that she could have a chance to escape into the sea, she couldn't waste this time so irrationally. The opportunity that my brother bought with his life.

With mixed emotions of grief, regret and helplessness, Shirley's helpless but determined figure slowly advanced under the sea towards the sea of ​​death.

A few days later, in the depths of the Dead Sea, between the huge waves and the violent storm, a silvery white figure was vaguely visible among the waves.

Shirley brought up the remaining natural power in her body and slowly injected it into a bone-deep wound on the dolphin's body.

This dolphin suddenly appeared a few days ago, lifted up Shirley, who was nearly exhausted, and swam all the way to the depths of the sea of ​​death. Shirley didn't know why the dolphin wanted to help her. The only thing she could do was to accept its kindness and use the power of nature to heal its body that was injured by mutated creatures and space cracks in the sea.

At this time, they had just escaped from a group of large space cracks that suddenly appeared. Shirley's remaining natural power could no longer completely heal the dolphin's wounds like before.

Shirley's consciousness was not very clear at this time. She didn't want to think about anything in a daze, but she couldn't help but think of a lot.

She thought about her deceased father who always insisted on the superiority of elves and believed that humans and dwarves were just inferior species; she thought about her brother who no longer knew whether he was still alive. He was perfect in all aspects but only for Human beings are extremely contemptuous; I think of the little beggar I have given money to on the roadside for decades, who was already the leader of the human rebels when we met half a year ago; I think of the young human knight who swore allegiance to him, in order to protect Xue Li escaped from the Blue Mountain and was killed by her fellow humans; she thought of the descendants of the traitors who were expelled from the Blue Mountain thousands of years ago, calling themselves dark elves and working with the human rebels to turn the Blue Mountain into ruins...

Why can the animals in the forest and the sea live such a simple life? Why do elves and humans have to be at odds? Why do elves always cling to their past glory? Why are humans always greedy and short-sighted...

Shirley's consciousness gradually sank.

When Shirley woke up again, she felt like she was lying on a hard surface. Shirley stood up, looked around, and found that she was still in the sea of ​​death, or in other words, surrounded by the sea of ​​death.

Shirley was currently standing on a small island that was covered by sea water that was half the height of her hand. The island was very small, with a radius of only about ten meters. What was strange was that it was surrounded by storms and huge waves. area, but within a radius of tens of meters centered on this small island, it was unusually calm, with not even a single wave rising.

The cheerful chirping of dolphins made Shirley notice what was behind her. On the other side of the island, the dolphin from before was jumping excitedly on the sea next to a plant.

Shirley walked in and took a look and found that the wounds on the dolphin had healed and the scars from the previous wounds had disappeared. Only then did Shirley notice that this island was actually filled with an unusually rich natural power, even richer than the location of the Tree of Life on the top of the Blue Mountain.

The source of these natural forces turned out to be the plant next to the dolphin.

After careful observation, Shirley saw clearly that this plant turned out to be a huge tree root. Every texture of this root exuded an aura of vigor that seemed to have experienced countless years.

The tree roots grow out from under the sea at one end, twist and spiral, forming an arch shape, and extend under the sea at the other end.

Seeing that Shirley finally noticed the dolphin here, she stuck her head out of the sea, raised her long snout and called out briefly, then sank back to the surface of the sea, then suddenly jumped out from the sea and plunged headlong into the dolphin. Among the arches made of tree roots.

There was a flash of light, and the dolphin's figure disappeared within the arch.

"Do you mean to ask me to come in? It seems that it has known this place for a long time." Shirley didn't think too much. She was willing to believe in this smart dolphin that accompanied her through hardships and dangers all the way.

After a burst of white light, Shirley found that she was standing on an island similar to the one before. Not far behind her was the sea of ​​death with constant storms and huge waves, and in front of her...

There is probably a continent ahead, and an endless forest, but these are no longer important in Shirley's eyes. In Shirley's eyes, there is only the intersection of the sky and the horizon deep in the continent, and the tree seems to reach the zenith. , a towering giant tree with even the floating white clouds just under its canopy.

Tears were streaming from the corners of her eyes uncontrollably. Shirley knew from the overwhelming feeling of natural force permeating the space that she had returned "home".

……

The Forest of Elves, under the World Tree, the City of Morning Light.

The City of Morning Light was originally a city designed by Nolan for the golden elves. However, after the Elf Elders Council received news from the princess of the golden elves, Ji Liye, they forcibly voted to make the City of Morning Light the joint capital of the four elves and built it to The place where the jurisdictions of the four major elves meet. To this end, Nolan also spent some time redesigning the current City of Morning Light.

At this time, the top of the tallest spire in the center of the City of Morning Light was in the meeting hall of the Council of Elders of the Four Elf Royal Clan.

"Nolan, stop struggling and just let it go." A male elf who was already showing his age and grace looked at the embarrassed Nolan with interest and joked.

"Yes~"

Another young-looking elf next to him echoed: "Actually, once you accept it, you will find that there is nothing wrong with it..."

Nolan looked helplessly at these two disrespectful guys.

These two elves are Nolan's grandfather and uncle. An elf's body matures when he is twenty years old, and his body does not begin to age until the last twenty years of his life. Nolan's grandfather Francisco is close to 500 years old this year and has entered the countdown to his life, and his uncle Fury Ye is just over 400 years old this year and is in his prime.

Nolan argued: "Although there are more women than men among the four great elves, but no one cares about talent anyway? You don't need me to sow seeds everywhere, right?"

Francisco made a serious face: "What do you mean by sowing seeds everywhere? You guys really dare to think about it! I just want you to combine with the princesses of the four royal families."

What's the difference? Nolan was still struggling: "But isn't the only princess of our generation of golden elves, Sister Ji Liye..."

Fourier interjected: "That's okay, don't forget that your grandparents are also brothers and sisters..."

Nolan's balls ache when he mentions this. In fact, not only his grandparents, but also the husband of the Golden Elf Queen two generations ago, his own grandfather, and his parents are also siblings... Ever since he learned that he was actually a member of the orthopedic family at the age of seven. , every time Ji Liye took care of herself, Nolan would feel uncomfortable looking at her elder sister's gentle eyes.

Nolan sighed and asked: "Why did the Presbyterian Council suddenly talk about this matter again? Didn't they already agree not to talk about it again? At least tell me the reason first."

Fourier smiled and replied: "Well, it's because Dalton came back a few months ago..."

Nolan raised his eyebrows. Is it actually related to his bastard father who has been in the house three times?

Fourier continued: "Dalton brought back some various research results on human society, including a piece of research information on blood inheritance..."

Hearing this, Nolan had a bad feeling in his heart.

Just listen to Fourier continue: "...Although humans have short lifespans, it is precisely because of their short lifespan that their generations change much faster than the long-lived elves, and the research on bloodline is much easier than that of the elves...

...The common characteristics of a family will be inherited by offspring as blood inheritance factors. These genetic factors will be diluted as the offspring continue to marry into other families, but regardless of whether these genetic factors are good or bad, as long as they are born between close relatives. The offspring will have a high probability of inheriting these factors...

…And we elves are a perfect species created by Lord World Tree, with no malignant defects in our blood. Even if we are close relatives, there will be no genetic diseases. And when we were first born, we also had a time when men and women were balanced..."

Hearing this, Nolan, who had studied magic for many years and developed strong thinking skills, already knew what was going on.

Today's elves are modern elves. There was no imbalance in the birth rate between men and women at the beginning of modern elves. It was not until the ancient elves bloodlines of the four royal families spread throughout the modern elves.

Modern elves and ancient elves, viewed individually, are both perfect species created by World Tree. Although they are both called elves, they are strictly two different races. Therefore, when the bloodlines of the two races merge, the flaws of the bloodline appear. .

Ancient elves are perfect beings created by World Tree based on the posture of its own soul. Therefore, the soul posture as close as possible to World Tree is the greatest blood genetic factor of ancient elves, and women are one of the important soul characteristics of World Tree as the mother of life. one.

But modern elves are on the contrary. In order to allow modern elves to reproduce naturally, World Tree kept their blood factors away from their soul essence when creating modern elves.

Therefore, for modern elves, the feminization of ancient elves is a blood defect; for ancient elves, the sexual differentiation of modern elves due to their distance from the essence of the World Tree is also a blood defect.

The strengths of each side are also the weaknesses of the other. In other words, it is a genetic disease.

Now that the bloodline of ancient elves has spread to all four major elves, it can be said that these two contradictory genetic diseases have spread throughout the entire elven group.

But because the bloodline of the ancient elves is too strong, the four major elves show more characteristics of the ancient elves. Therefore, instead of saying that the four major elves are modern elves mixed with ancient elves, it is better to say that the ancient elves are mixed with modern elves. . This is also the fundamental reason for the current imbalance in the birth rate between men and women among the four major elves.

It stands to reason that the mixed elven bloodline has been completely stabilized by now, but under this situation where the elves accepted their fate, an unexpected thing happened: Nolan's family started from Nolan's great-grandfather to Nolan's generation has had men for four consecutive generations. This is simply a miracle for elves where the presence of men in two consecutive generations is a big news.

At this time, Francesco spoke again: "We already asked Lord World Tree about this matter last month. Just when you came back yesterday, Lord World Tree took the initiative to communicate with us and told us..."

When Francisco said this, he suddenly stared at Nolan with extremely serious eyes and continued:

"...Nolan, you and Chris are both perfect hybrids of ancient elves and modern elves. There are no genetic defects in your bodies."

To be continued.