Chapter Ninety-Five: Wood Elves
The Era is like a tree that nourishes the entire Athel Loren Forest, which naturally includes all the creatures living here, so the safety of the Age Oak is the goal of the entire Athel Loren intelligent race to defend.
The next day, Durt led his army of Treants and began to march towards the Age Oak, along with the old man and four other ancestors. The combat units of the Treant clan are very single, the first-level type Dryad, the second-level Dryad, and the third-level Treant. Although there are only three simple troops, all of them belong to the monster infantry, strong defense ability, super self-healing ability, and sharp attacks, so that any enemy who dares to invade Athel Loren has become the nourishment of the forest, especially in the recent period, the beastmen have launched wave after wave of attacks on the western passage protected by the Flowing Water Palace, which directly led to the forest around the passage rising amazingly, with dense branches, higher than all the surrounding trees.
At first, in the face of the beastmen only attacking the defense around the Flowing Water Palace, it was very incomprehensible to Durt, but in the end, after leaving a living mouth, he asked, they originally came for the branch, in order to make the Flowing Water Palace quiet for a while, at the suggestion of the old man, Duarte asked all the corpses of the beastmen to hang on the trees in the west passage, and finally the beastmen slaughtered the village of Bretonnia on the outskirts of the Athel Loren Forest, and then they no longer directly entered the western passage with the beast path, so that the ancestors could also take a breath, There was time to inquire about the origin of this human and the items he carried, and this was the matter of Durt leading the Treant Legion to the Age of Trees.
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The Aslai are an offshoot of the elven race, unlike the High Elves and the Dark Elves, the Wood Elves are a more peace-loving race, and they love the forest far more than the other two branches. The king of the Wood Elves is the Eternal Lord Orion, who has made it his mission to protect the forest and the prosperity of the trees, birds and beasts of Athel Loren, vowing that if the forest is threatened, he will be the first warrior to stand up.
As the king of the entire race, although the territory he rules is not large, it also makes him feel satisfied, especially the protection of the era like a tree, which makes him even more proud. But the elves of the forest are not only the elves of their forest, but also the spirits of the forest, those old antiques who exist like fossils, their chattering voices can always be heard in the forest, they are sometimes silent pretenders on the sidelines, and sometimes they are irritable and uproot other trees. Elves don't know much about the way the Treants think, but it is enough to know how to get along with them.
As the elves' staunchest allies, the Treants, Orion was still very reassured of them, but this trust was recently broken, first by the unusual invasion of the Beastmen. Then there are the scouts that roam the forest, and the Wanderer's probe reports that Durt, the ancestor of the treants, has unsealed the sealed superlative weapon, the Sword of Dyth. Later, in the face of the invasion of the beastmen, he was extremely violent and hung all the corpses of the enemy on the tree, although Orion did not pity the lives of these beastmen, but the practice of hanging all the corpses on the tree Orion really could not agree.
The sensitive Orion sensed the unusual aura of the Elthel Loren Forest, so he specifically sought answers from the Times Like Tree, in the dream Orion saw the crow, saw the Chaos Chosen One with a pointed golden helmet on his head, as if he had three eyes, and then the destruction of Athel Loren, among whom there was also the figure of a huge acquaintance. O'Ryan awoke in terror and found that the times were no longer as lush as they used to be, the leaves were no longer green, the branches were languishing, and the whole towering tree felt languishing.
In the ensuing Emergency Elven Council, Orion overrode the crowd and asked the envoys represented by Macgret to immediately use the World Root to go to the Empire, but just as Macgret was about to leave, the Holy Maiden, the messenger of Carcasson, came to visit the King's Forest with a top-secret letter from the Lake Nymph. Macgrett then set out with the emissaries of the Grand Duke of Bordero.
Although there were some hiccups before Macgret met Emperor Karl, the result was still very smooth, and after Macgrett returned, the two countries began to have close business contacts, the empire needed Athel Loren's wood, herbs, amber and other materials, and the wood elves needed steel, intelligence and some technical support. During this time, the Treant's prophecy master, Terlock, and other ancestors were investigating the human. Later, in order to deepen the communication between the two countries, Orion asked McGrett to carry the Fountain of Life to the Empire to show his sincerity, intending to do a deeper exchange. Finally, the Eye of Heaven appeared, and the spring of life of Macgrett played a key role, and the empire not only strengthened the commercial exchanges between the two countries in order to show its gratitude, but also upgraded the non-aggression pact to a mutual defense treaty, once the Wood Elf Kingdom was declared war by another country, the empire would immediately enter the war.
Orion and his guards are now inspecting the forest passage to the south to the Empire, although the Wood Elves have signed various treaties with the Empire, but Athel Loren is still not open to other races, so he has enclosed a piece of land on the outskirts of the southern forest, allowing human merchants to build a trading post here, and all goods are circulating here, and the Wood Elves and the human army jointly govern this place, and the human army is provided by the garrison of Wisson Province.
In addition to the Empire, the Wood Elves and the countries of Bretonnia are also nervously signing contracts, preparing to work together to deal with the elusive beastmen. Just as Orion watched the people of the trading post come and go to think about the next strategy, a bad news reached his ears, Durt led at least three fully armed treant troops to force the defense line of Yufendor Rock Hall and Vaal Anvil, because there was no order, the soldiers of the defense line did not dare to stop it, and the treemen went all the way down, straight to the direction of the era like a tree.
After hearing the news, Orion had a headache, and immediately returned to the King's Forest with his personal guards, and rushed to the Times Like Tree with two full garrisons, and at the same time asked the Relay Soldiers to give an order to the defense line soldiers through the Root of the World, and urgently returned to the Times Like Tree. At this time, the backwardness of the wood elves was revealed, and when the communication crystals of the outside world had been updated n times, the wood elves were still using the oldest message transmission techniques, which was really delaying the military situation.
When Orion arrived at the Era Tree with his army, Dult had just arrived to lead his army, plus the Tree Man defenders of the Oak of the Times, Durt had a total of five full troops, while Orion only had four armies, and most of them were ranged troops.