Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Forest of Flowers
Unless there is a problem with intelligence, no Root King will leave his Root Artifact behind. After obtaining Gerald's Root artifact, Charlotte and Claire had a brief exchange, and both deeply admired Gerald's intelligence.
At that time, Gerald must have sensed that Yog, the god of death, was snooping nearby, so he put on a posture of declaring war on Charlotte and Claire, so as to confuse the gods and add fuel to Charlotte's plans.
In order to confirm this idea, Charlotte contacted Gerald through the Black Blade the next day. There was no need for any sacrifices for this communication, and because of the particularity of the Root Artifact, Charlotte easily made cross-border contact with Gerald.
Claire, Willett, and Inuit were waiting outside.
The communication lasted for about half an hour, during which Claire felt a clear spell shock, and when Charlotte came out, Claire's worry was written on her face.
"How's it going?"
"Basically as we suspected, he agreed. ”
"You know that's not what I'm asking. Claire stopped talking, "Contract...... Is it decided?"
Charlotte nodded imperceptibly, not wanting to talk more about this topic, and instead looked at Inuit, "Because of yesterday's battle, your plan to summon that person is only impossible, are you okay?"
The reason for this is that after the night, Inuit's face was so pale, that even ordinary people with no professional training could easily feel his weakness.
"It's fine. Although his face was pale, Inuit's extremely masculine face still showed a relieved smile, "It's a bit of trouble, but since it's the Demon Lord's troubles, there's no reason for that person to do anything about it." But Grand Duke, does the agreement between us still count?"
"Nature counts!"
After this conversation, several people chatted a little, because last night's battle was too much, and this continent was not a place to stay for a long time, so they left each other's contact addresses and separated.
Claire puts the Seat of Willett's Soul in charge, and she decides to complete one last assignment with Charlotte. As mentioned earlier, there is another crucial factor in order to increase the success rate in addition to Gerrard, and the next step is to achieve that goal.
On the way to the Flower Language Forest, the two have been preoccupied. Although they have not had much contact over the years, for the two of them, Daphne has always been an important partner who has supported each other and experienced bloody storms. With the personalities of the two of them, it was too painful to make a move to hurt this partner.
But there were some things that had to be done, because beyond that, Charlotte and Claire could no longer think of any way to safely infiltrate Erru. And time is clearly not enough.
The Flower Language Forest is located in the north-central part of the Valcam continent, bordering the two principalities of Hoscent and Lotham. Of course, in fact, with the strong northward movement of the Helm Empire over the years, the Flower Language Forest has inevitably clashed with the Helm Empire.
Although they had heard rumors about the policies of the Flower Language Forest in recent years in their respective territories, they were still surprised when they actually saw it. The elves who originally lived in the forest began to expand their territory, and they established a number of strongholds outside the forest, most of which were bazaars and walled cities, but in addition, on the border with the Helm Empire, the elves also built a huge fortress with beautiful shape but amazing defense, firmly holding the canyon leading to the forest.
The shape of the fortress resembles Charlotte's Winter Castle, the whole is made of pure white huge stones, and the defense towers that stand are not straight up and down like human fortresses, but with a perfect mathematical arc, and from a distance, it looks like a palace where fairies live in a fairyland.
But the two who infiltrated it could feel the amazing defenses of this beautiful fortress.
The fort's towers are stacked on top of each other, making the most of the elven marksmanship, and if an army invades from outside the canyon, the elven marksmen can deliver a deadly, yet precise rain of arrows from the towers.
The walls were sturdy and sturdy, with a perfectly mechanical form of sloping outwards in an irregular arc, which meant that ordinary ladders could not be securely attached to the walls, making the battle geometrically more difficult.
In addition to the elves, there were also warriors from Locente in the fortress, and it is said that after Nell succeeded to the throne, he implemented the national policy of his brother Brentt and maintained close cooperation with the forest elves.
Thinking of Nell, Charlotte thought of his stepson, Hibbert Jr. Over the years, he had been busy contacting the gods against the gods, barely taking care of the stepson, and the last time he saw him was before the last meeting, when little Hibbert had learned simple words and was able to call Charlotte father.
The route of action of the two was from the Helm Empire through the Elven Fortress and north towards the Flower Forest. Along the way, the trauma of war and turmoil can be seen everywhere, and the two who have experienced the peace of their childhood have experienced a lot.
But in this regard, the two who have long had different styles did not communicate much, and two days later, they completely crossed the periphery of the flower language forest where the elves lived, and came to the legendary capital of the elf forest - Ifrit.
It is said to be the capital of the country, but the architectural form of this elven city is very different from any known structure. She does not have walls in the traditional sense, and as a protector is a huge rhizome known as the Elven Mother Tree. And Ifrit was built on the Elven Mother Tree.
There are no stone walls, no tall fortresses, all the buildings are made of logs, and the most amazing thing is that the logs used in the buildings do not seem to be dead, and the flowers that are born on the buildings make Ifrit a beautiful picture of flowers.
In the national capital, the birds are crisp and all kinds of friendly little animals shuttle among them, they are not afraid of the elves living in it, and even reach a wonderful form of harmonious coexistence with the elves. Elves provide protection for the critters, who tend to collect fresh fruit as gifts.
Charlotte and Claire really can't imagine that there will be such a fairyland in today's troubled times. Even the kingdom of God, which claims to be painless, must lack vitality and vitality compared to Ifrit.
Seeing such a fairyland, the hearts of the two of them inevitably overflowed with remorse, and even their originally firm steps became hesitant and slow. Although they didn't communicate, they all realized what their next actions would bring to this fairyland.
Perhaps, Ifrit will be utterly destroyed by their actions.
Standing on the periphery of Ifrit, the two stopped moving forward. Further back, their tracks are likely to be detected by Ifrit, who has countless legends, and even with the strength of the two of them today, they dare not infiltrate carelessly.
Charlotte, who is proficient in illusion, doesn't care about herself, but Claire may be detected, but it's a pity that Eleni's deception mask is not on her now, otherwise this problem can be solved.
"So, you're going to leave me alone again?" Claire looked a little unhappy.
"If you fail, you have to have a trusted companion on the side. ”
"......," Claire sighed, "are you underestimating me? Don't use this excuse to leave me behind, this is our common act and decision, not yours alone." ”
Charlotte was stunned.
He knew that Claire wanted to share the pressure on himself, so he silently patted Claire on the shoulder and gave him a sincere smile, "Okay!