Chapter 19: Arrows and Nature

"Look, there's only one chance!" Early the next morning, Christina took Shen Yan to a small cliff near the village.

There is a wooden lookout here, but when the male elf standing guard saw Kreis helping Shen Yan up, he immediately left the fruit and disappeared with a smile.

The breeze was just right, and Krees looked at the air around him and nodded decently. After repeatedly telling Shen Yan to be attentive, Krees reached into the brocade bag and gently grabbed a small handful of rose powder. Her expression looked so distressed that even tears rolled in her eyes and her hands shook...... A small half of the grabbed powder fell back into the bag.

Shaking so much, are you a cafeteria aunt?

Shen Yan looked both moved and helpless - he knew that the mountain people did not have the leisure and elegance of planting roses, and even the elves could not afford to live an exquisite life. The rose powder was all accumulated by Krees from collecting the petals of wild roses, drying and grinding them, and accumulating little by little—for an elven girl of her age, there was no penny in her pocket, and it was the most precious treasure she could have.

"Or shall we grab some dirt instead?" Shen Yan suggested softly.

"No, only roses are the love of the wind elves!" When it comes to professional knowledge, Christdon, who is a first-time teacher, seriously refuses. Elves believe that everything is a genie and that they themselves are part of nature's elves. "If it's not correct the first time, it will give you a false impression, and it will be difficult to correct it later. If you can't comprehend it this time," she said, looking at the rest of the rose powder in the bag, she gritted her teeth, "I'll demonstrate it again at most!"

I hope not, you look pretty smart...... Right? ”

Looking at the elf's big eyes that were a little pitiful and teary-eyed, Shen Yan really couldn't bear it, so he could only raise his hand in surrender, "I swear that no matter whether I learn it or not, I will personally collect rose petals and compensate you in the autumn." ”

"Really?" Krees's big eyes immediately bent down with joy, and the tears miraculously disappeared, Mityz added. "You don't know where the wild roses are born, so we'll go with you then!"

The elf's fingers were slender and straight, spreading out in the wind like willow branches.

The pink and purple rose powder was tossed in the wind, swirling and dancing between the fingers, saying goodbye and pulling into thin silk lines in the wind.

Shen Yan opened his mouth slightly in surprise, he thought that the elves' set was all idealism, and he had even thought about how to hypnotize himself into believing ...... But at this moment, he really saw the wind!

See the elves dancing in the wind!

*****

If 100 elite human crossbowmen and 100 elven archers are lined up in three phalanxes to shoot each other, then when there is a tailwind and crosswind, all humans will be wiped out and the elves will survive 50%; If the wind goes against the wind, the humans will be wiped out and the elves will survive 30%.

The elves are equivalent to an army dominated by marksmen and snipers, but unfortunately they do not have much advantage in the era of queuing to shoot, and the front row lacks a meat shield to resist the line. Cultivation is expensive, but in the end it is consumed as cannon fodder. Considering the "population advantage of humans" and the fact that "elves are best at archery", humans actually have an overwhelming advantage.

That's why humans can replace the ancient elven empires as the masters of this land. In fact, in the later stages of human expansion, the elves made an active and comprehensive retreat, valuing life more than the land elves.

But if a hundred elves and a hundred elite human soldiers were scattered into the forest at the same time, the result would be that the humans would be wiped out and the elves would be unharmed. That's why after the Great Elven Retreat, there are still a large number of Elven villages on land. If you want to conquer these villages, you can't do it with 10,000 times more manpower! With such a high price, it is better to collect a small tax and then recognize its status and turn a blind eye......

Elves don't rush out of the forest to grab human stuff anyway.

In particular, there are many enemies and potential enemies of human beings in this land, goblins, orcs, cultists, barbarians, monsters, dragons, ...... Wait a minute. With so many threats, elves who favor the good side tend to be allies rather than enemies, as long as the rulers who are not brain-dead understand this.

*****

Shen Yan saw the wind, and also saw the expression on Christina's face at that moment - happy and proud, this is the elf.

This made Shen Yan think a lot at that moment...... Shen Yan had seen many elves, lucky and unlucky. He had sneered at the temple elves under the rule of the Silver Moon, and he had lamented the misfortune of the city elves and was angry with them.

Accuse them of perishing, why not seek change? Why do you prefer to hold on to those old things? Isn't it good to put down the shelf and learn the good in humans?

However, at this moment, watching the wind snatch the beauty of the rose pollen from Krees's fingers, his stubborn notion was completely shaken...... If the elves are completely secularized and humanized, if the elves are transformed into nature to ride horses! Go to the aesthetics of the horse! Lao Tzu wants to give birth to babies, farm, build cities, and fight for the world!

Is that kind of elf still an elf?

The elves are more civilized than humans can imagine, and their philosophies have long been unified. Humans think that elves must be lonely in the mountains and forests, but elves think that they live among an infinite number of natural elves, and every day is very lively. They take from nature, and they give back and protect nature, and this pattern lasts for 10,000 years without problems. Human beings conquer (destroy) and subdue (destroy) nature, and then destroy themselves.

Archery is a game between elves and wind, and it's no wonder that elves are happy to do it.

When Shen Yan understood what the wind was, he took a soft bow and easily shot the wooden arrow from this mountain to the opposite mountain, because the wind was "helping". Seeing that Shen Yan really succeeded in "seeing the wind", Christina was greatly satisfied, and her small chest was tall! A "It's all my credit, hurry up and praise me" expression.

Of course, Shen Yan fulfilled her wish, and praised Kreis fiercely to death! The praise made her face flushed, panting and pouting, and finally she couldn't bear it and ran away covering her face alone.

The standing elf who disappeared silently appeared again silently and gave Shen Yan two thumbs up! The look of admiration on the face is in no way adulterated! "If my bear kid has half of your ability, no, even a tenth! It doesn't get to this point...... Alas~"

Shen Yan was also defeated and fled, it was really not what you thought! I didn't do anything to her!

He now understood why Krees had said that his past archery was a "hard shot"—the air-tearing way of archery was indeed a desperate brute force. There are no techniques such as "vacuum arrows" and "silent arrows" in Yuegui's archery skills, such as "vacuum arrows" and "silent arrows" that use magic to expel the air in front of the arrows, and Shen Yan still felt that Yuegui lacked imagination. Thinking that he would definitely create a similar technique in the future, he pressed the laurel head.

It's funny to think about those thoughts now...... When the arrow and the wind merge, the air is no longer a drag but a driving force, and the sound can become the wind or be silent. Even in the depths of the essence, there is no need for arrows to tear the air, where is the sound?

Now Shen Yan and Krees and the others naturally can't do it, but the road to the future has been opened, a new world!

*****

Shen Yan fell silent in the distant mountains for a while, and turned into a bad boy who hung out with the girls all day long, wandering and playing.

When it rains, he learns from Christina how to throw arrows that fall with rain to make them more powerful; When the wind rose, he and a group of young girls stood against the wind and shot wooden arrows together, and then watched a group of wooden arrows go around the small cliff like a flock of soaring birds, hitting a dozen or so wooden targets hidden behind the cliff, and cheered......

Flowers in spring and moon in autumn, warm wind in summer and snow in winter.

Shen Yan has an "immunity prophecy" on his body, and the gods can't use the prophecy to locate his whereabouts, and even if he is not careful, he will lose it, but staring at it all day is also a laborious thing. Therefore, when he felt that this young man was completely lost to everyone and no longer showed any great talent, the attention of the three goddesses to him changed from negligence to abandonment.

After a while, they even forgot that there was such a "flaw" that existed......

After all, after giving up surveillance, it was extremely difficult to find Shen Yan from the vast forest. Speaking of which, he can only sort out his interpersonal relationships little by little, and use prophecy to locate these people one by one...... But who remembers his intimate relationships?

Besides, who has that idle time to waste on a teenager?

The matter was eventually settled.

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