Chapter 156: At the Foot of the World Tree
With Orlanado's papal seal, Rococo found the elves in the Holy City all the way, and after explaining his intentions, he easily gained the trust of the elves who seemed to be liaison officers.
The elves on the continent of Emissia are very similar to the elves in Western fantasy stories that Rococo once came into contact with as a digital life on the virtual network of the earth's space-time, with a slender body and fair skin, both men and women are very beautiful, kind and kind, and will not treat people indifferently, but they will not get close to people easily.
There are not many elven liaison officers in the elven guild, and for elves who love nature and forests, living in a bustling big city like humans for a long time can be a chore that will make them lose their spirits. Rococo just happened to arrive, and the Elven Hall had just arrived from the Elven Forest to replace the old ones who had been here for a while, so that they could go back to their homes in the Elven Forest to rest for a while.
Although there is a tamed antlered eagle that is familiar with the route between the Holy City and the Elven Forest, Rococo will basically not get lost on the way even if he is alone, but since there is a chance to go back with the returning elves, it naturally does not hurt. So, after waiting for an hour at the Elven Hall, Rococo and the elves who were about to return home set off on the Antlered Eagle in the Guild Hall and flew in the direction of the Elven Forest in the south of the Holy City.
Two hours of travel time is not a short time, and because the elves who are traveling with them are originally a race that is not talkative by nature, and they are a group of ordinary aboriginal NPCs who have no self, Rococo has nothing to chat with them to relieve their boredom, so they have to sit alone behind their antlers eagle, which looks like they are distracted, but in fact, they are looking at some information about the elves in the game forums in the NPC system...... Originally, she had planned to do so.
It wasn't until two hours were about to pass that Rococo, who felt the antlers under her and began to descend, woke up slightly, and she found that she hadn't looked at the forum materials in the system interface in front of her for two hours, but really sat there and "faked it" for two hours...... What repeatedly appeared in her mind was not the information of the elf race, not the information of the storm inland sea incident, not the information of her own side plot, but the scenes of her own embarrassing estrangement between herself and Chu Jiajia yesterday.
"Xiao Ke, we're here."
Hearing Arya's reminder in his ears, Rococo shook his head, clearing away the thoughts that had thrown his head into chaos, and finally refocused for the time being.
-----
---
For the elves who love nature, although they also need shelter, they will not be at the precondition of destroying nature like humans. Not cutting down trees and destroying the natural terrain meant that the elves had little access to the most basic building materials, such as wood and stone, and that they could not get enough building space in the middle of a sea of trees, and it was clear that the concept of "house" was not fundamentally suitable for them.
As a result, from the very beginning, the elves had a different way of thinking about building their homes than the humans. On the premise of not destroying nature, the elves tried to use some specific magic to induce nature to form various shapes suitable for their habitation, and finally formed a unique "architectural style" of the elves.
Several large trees stand in an approximate square orientation, but the canopies of the trees extend and intertwine in a strange shape on the sides and above, forming a shade dwelling that can miraculously shelter from the wind and rain; Or maybe a large tree that is occasionally taller than the surrounding trees, with an unusually lush canopy that "covers" the dwarf trees around it like a huge eaves...... Elves like this use their unique natural magic to create "treehouses", which abound in the Elven Forest.
Of course, even so, such a "building" method must have certain characteristics of the woodlandform to be able to use, fortunately, the population of the elves is not large, a large elf forest, for the elves can easily find a suitable place to settle in it, the only problem may be that the places suitable for building "tree houses" are often scattered, so the elves who live in the forest are not very like humans, it is easy to gather together to form villages and towns and even cities.
However, there is the only exception, and that is the sacred land of the elves, the only elven city located at the foot of the world tree in the northern part of the elven forest, Travalno.
Perhaps, as the elves themselves believe, the forest in the area where Travalno is located is a gift from the goddess of creation and the World Tree to the elves. Because of the existence of the World Tree, this area is filled with the rich life breath that the elves love most, and this unusually rich life breath also promotes the abnormal growth of trees and plants in the forests in this area. Tall and stout, and strangely shaped trees and other plants are everywhere here, providing the best terrain for the elven magic builders.
All kinds of "treehouse" buildings that look strange but can be used to but feel very reasonable have been born here, providing a place for a large number of elves to settle, and due to the elves' worship of the World Tree, almost all major collective activities in the clan will choose to be carried out in this forest at the foot of the World Tree, and over time, this has become the only place where the elves live in large groups in the elven forest.
Because Travarno is inhabited by a large number of elves, and the high-level leaders of the elves, the elven queens and elders of the past generations have basically settled here, so for foreign races, especially the human race, this is the "capital city" of the elves, but in fact, the meaning of the name Travalno in the elven language is quite straightforward, it only means "at the foot of the world tree" and does not have meanings similar to "towns" and "settlements".
In fact, from the perspective of Rococo, which has already arrived over Travalno and is about to land, there is no strict demarcation line for agglomerations such as city walls or borders, and although the "treehouse" building looks very elven and the shape is not ugly, in fact, there is no clear concept of the overall architectural planning elves...... Indeed, it is more appropriate to call it a group of "tree houses" that were built by accident at the foot of the World Tree rather than a cluster of buildings formed in accordance with certain regulations.
People on the continent of Emissia always think that the elves have reached the pinnacle in combining art and nature, and they can always develop the full potential charm of nature without destroying nature, but in terms of the combination of architectural layout and natural terrain alone, Rococo does not feel that the city of Lancarlos of the Free Federation is much worse than the Travarno of the elves.
Just as Rococo was spitting out this groove in the depths of their hearts, they finally approached a naturally formed glade in the center of Travalno, where the elves, who had been prepared for their arrival, had already sorted out a place for the staghorn eagles to settle down and summoned them to descend, and the well-trained staghorn eagles noticed the gesturing signals of the elves on the ground, and they all let out a docile chirp, and then slowly fell from the sky.
"Welcome to Travalno, Honorable Emissary."
As she dismounted from the landed staghorn eagle, Rococo heard the elven trainer who was holding the reins beside her.
The "emissary" here is naturally different from the emissary that Orlanardo has always called her, this time, although she was there to find Arya's body inside the World Tree, she was nominally an emissary of the Goddess of Creation Sect.
"Several elders have already received contact from Lord Orlanardo, and they should be waiting for you at the Elders' House at this moment, and we will arrange for someone to take you to the Elders' House later."
Rococo smiled politely and nodded, then stood aside, waiting for the person in charge of the antlers eagle landing site to arrange manpower, and turned his head to look at the world tree that towered into the sky not far away.
A joy that has been churning in the depths of her heart since she approached here just now reached its peak at the moment when the trunk of the World Tree met her eyes, although she, the new generation of Primordial Fairies and the former Primordial Fairies, are already two people, but the origin of the Primordial Fairies is still the World Tree has not changed, and she can be regarded as "going home".
The only fly in the ointment is that although she herself knows that she, the second-generation primordial goblin, is now "home", but unfortunately she is still in the state of a village girl at the moment. Although she was able to directly meet with several elders of the Elven Clan by relying on Oranado's face, she also knew in her heart that the other party would not let her easily approach the World Tree because of Orlanado's assurance, and she would still have to figure out her own way when the time came.
It's not that she didn't think of using the power of the Godhead Fragment to become the Primordial Goblin Mode here, after all, among those elders within the Elven Clan, there are also a few people who have experienced the Genesis War like Oranado, so they know the Primordial Goblins of the previous generation. As long as they recognized her, with the prestige of the primordial elves in the elven race, it would naturally be a piece of cake to get close to the World Tree. However, when she told Arya about this idea, she was immediately poured cold water on Arya.
Arya's use of Godhead fragments to temporarily restore Rococo's original goblin power is actually Arya's use of her own law authority to impose a second anti-interference on Mira's game law system on the continent of Emissia. It's not much to use in battle, but this time it can't be done.
On the elven side, there is a plot trigger point for the second stage of Rococo's own side plot, according to the normal process, Rococo should complete the first stage of its own side plot on the imperial side, and after awakening a part of the primordial goblin power, it will use the player on the elf side to trigger the second stage of the plot to complete the second stage of the plot, and further complete the awakening of the power as the second generation of primordial goblins. If Rococo relies on Alya's power to directly restore the identity of the original goblin here and is seen, it is likely to cause the flow of Rococo's personal side plot to be disrupted.
In the worst case, Mira's game rules system may assume that Rococo's first stage quest has ended and start moving on to the second phase, so that when Rococo returns to her original village girl mode, she may never be able to trigger the first phase of the side quest again, in other words, there is no way to recover her original fairy power through the normal side story.
That's pretty bad.