Chapter Ninety-Four: The Tree Man

The secluded Asrai are a race of elves who have long said goodbye to their comrades and only want to live in harmony with nature. After slaying out the forest home of Athel Loren, the Wood Elves saw themselves as guardians of the natural world. In addition to the Aslai clan, the Eltholoren Forest is also inhabited by the spirit of the forest, the Treants. Among them, Dusur is the elder of Athel Loren, known as the ancestor of the ancestors, and the tall treant is so old that even the vampire's thousand-year-old age pales in comparison. Over the years, Dusur has succeeded in aligning the forest spirits of Athel Loren with the Wood Elves. He had thought the alliance would be a good event, but with the deforestation of vast swaths of the forest, and the calamities that the elves had brought upon Athel Loren (Bretonnia, Beastmen), Dusur was now furious, and if it weren't for the face of the Asrai clan fighting against the foreign enemies that threatened the forest, he would have whipped them with his own branches.

Dusur and the forest spirits live in the northernmost part of the Eltholoren Forest, the Palace of Flowing Water, which is one of the kingdoms of Bretonia from the west through the forest pass, and the South Grey Mountains to the east. The other three main cities of Athel Loren belong to the Aslay clan, they are the Three Cities of King's Forest, Findor Rock Hall, and Vaal Anvil. Although the Treants only make up one-fifth of the entire Athel Loren (with the exception of the Three Cities and the Age Tree which belong to the Common Guard), they have been at peace with the Asrai until the arrival of a human.

"Ancestor Dusur, I don't agree with you, the sluggishness of the times like a tree does not mean that the Aslai clan is the devil, and it is not good for them." Athel Loren had many wonderful sons and daughters, and in addition to Dusur, the ancestor of the ancestors, there were four other ancestors, and the one who spoke to Dusur now was the ancestor of Talenik, who possessed a powerful attack magic.

"Talenik, judging by the omen of the branches brought by the humans, in the near future, Athel Loren will be a sea of fire, and the times will be like the complete destruction of the tree, and the entire forest will be in ruins! And all this is caused by the stupidity of the Aslay clan, they now communicate frequently with the outside world, make various covenants with the people they originally hated, use the water of life produced by the era like a tree to make all kinds of transactions, greed makes them forget their mission, ** make them forget their oath! So Talenik! We must stop them before this happens! "Ancestor Turlock is a prophet among the Treants, who can see the future of the whole of Athel Loren from the changes in the forest, and although he is a new prophet less than a hundred years old, he is trusted by Durt.

"But Tellock, that branch doesn't come from Athel Loren, according to the records of our historical rings, all previous omens have never used a branch other than Athel Loren, although I don't know how to prophesy, but I believe there must be a reason for this, so your omen may not be accurate." The memories of Du Renze's ancestors stored all the things that had happened in the past, and he was a living fossil.

"Not every branch of a tree can have an omen, look at what those elves were doing when the times were like a tree languishing! They cut down more trees, make more weapons, train more soldiers, and even the armies of Findor Rock Hall and Vaal Anvil have blocked the road to the Age Like Tree, and I'm sure soon they will attack us! The more Terlock Ancestor spoke, the more excited he became, and finally stood up directly, and leaves kept being shaken off on his body dozens of meters high.

"Tellock! They are not defending us, but the beastmen, the village of a thousand people in Bretonnia at the western exit has been slaughtered, and we don't pay attention to it, don't we let the elves turn a blind eye? The Vaal Anvil is closer to the western exit than we are. Ancestor Diland, the Master of Life, shot back.

"That's it! Stop arguing. Durt's voice stopped the ancestor who was still trying to speak, "Since there are still people who doubt Tellock's prophecy, then tomorrow, we will go to the era like a tree, and Terlock yourself will use the branch of the era like a tree to make another prediction, if it is still the same as you predicted before, then we must give some warning to the Aslay clan, otherwise, they may forget who should be the real master of this forest!" Durt stood up and ended the meeting, much taller than the other Ancestors, his deep voice and unquestionable attitude showed that Durt had a strong grip on the entire Treant Clan.

With the other four ancestors respectfully sending him off, Durt left the hall of the Flowing Water Palace and walked towards his habitat. The place that should have been accessible only to Durt now has a human inside, an old man for humans, who is on crutches, in a crimson tattered coat, and has a small crow on his shoulder.

"Human, tomorrow we will go to the Age Like Tree together, if you let me know that the branch you brought does not match the prophecy of the Age Like Tree, then you are ready to act as nutrients!"

In the face of Dursu's threat, the old man did not feel any panic, first politely bowed to Dursu and then said calmly, "Respected ancestor of the ancestors, Your Excellency Dursu, please rest assured, I use my life to vouch for all this is true, the wood elves united with humans to steal the essence of the era like a tree, and they are ready to sell it at a high price in the human empire, and the first person they contacted was Prince Aldolph of the empire, remember the heavenly eye, it is said that the prince was seriously injured by that eye, In the end, it is to heal under the life spring of the era like a tree, after which the entire empire high-level is crazy to buy this spring from the Asley clan, look at the originally barren road, now it is crowded with caravans, endless demands make the era like a tree begin to wilt, and if it is not stopped, the trees of Athel Loren will no longer be nourished by the root of the world in the future, I believe the result does not need me to continue. When the old man finished speaking, he stopped talking, and stood there like a sculpture, but the crow on his body seemed to love this place, and jumped from the old man's left shoulder to the right shoulder, and then jumped to the top of the old man's bare head, looking left and right, looking very curious.

Dursu was silent for a long time, "Everything will wait until the Oak Tree of the Times, you will stay here, you are not allowed to go anywhere, if I find out that you are ready to escape, without De Land personally attacking, I will kill you first!" "A strange human, with a branch corroded by chaos, all the treeman ancestors did not trust at first, but the old man passed all the tests and tests unharmed, and finally the ancestor of Telllock was forced to trigger his prophetic ability when testing the branch, the content of which made Durt furious, although he has never been merciful to the enemy, especially the frequent attacks of the beastmen on Athel Loren in recent times, so that Durdt's anger has never stopped, but in the absence of conclusive evidence, He is still reluctant to start a civil war lightly........