When the sky was slightly bright, the carriage finally came to the junction of the Blackwood Forest and the Blackwood City.

Caroli stepped out of the carriage with a suitcase containing her luggage.

It's a post station just outside the Darkwood Forest, since the Caroli family made a pact with the elves of the Darkwood Forest hundreds of years ago.

The inns around the Blackwood Forest have developed into a small exchange, where elves exchange special herbs and ores for magical machines or other novelty gadgets.

It's early in the morning, and you can still see some humans and dark wood elves in this station.

"You can go back to the manor, you don't need to follow me."

After giving this order to the coachman of the carriage, Caroli walked into the Darkwood Forest alone with her suitcase.

The reason why this forest is named 'Blackwood' is not because of the color of the trees, but because the trees in this forest are so large that the trunks of almost every tree are as thick as the legs of giants 100 meters high.

Walking into the forest in the early hours of the morning was a mistake, with no lighting and the huge vegetation around it blocking the sunlight, Caroli could only rely on her own memories to walk into the darkness along the path built by the elves.

But it wasn't long before the mushrooms growing in the forest shimmered, and the glow of some elemental creatures resembling fireflies made Caroli barely able to see the road ahead.

"Stop... Mankind. ”

A voice sounded in front of Caroli, and three Darkwood Elves with bows and arrows in their hands came out of the shadows, and two of them aimed their longbows at Caroli, the bowstring had been drawn, and the arrows could shoot through Caroli's body at any moment.

The hostile appearance of these dark wood elves surprised Caroli...... While the Darkwood Elves will not allow humans to step into the depths of the forest, they will only dissuade those who have strayed into the forest to leave, and only those who do not listen will be entertained with longbows and arrows.

The elven guards who had been following Caroli tried to make the three rude people retract their bows, but it didn't take long for the ground to tremble slightly.

"Calm down, she's the daughter of a human who serves Naruhi..."

An old but calm voice sounded behind the three Darkwood Elves, and a huge brown bear appeared behind them, along with a Darkwood Elf who looked to be in old age.

"But Elder Sephaun, in the current situation, we shouldn't let a human step into the forest."

"The Sacred Tree Narushi has taken in the Daughter of Humanity, who is the priest of Naruhi and one of us."

The elven elder known as Sephaon patted one of the elven youths on the shoulder before they put away their bows and arrows and their hostility.

Elder Sephaun walked up to Caroli with the huge brown bear.

"Mentor Sephane."

Caroli saluted the old Darkwood Elf, arguably the wisest elder in the history of the Darkwood Elves, who had led the Darkwood Elves to establish a hub of communication with humans.

"Caroli, you've grown up... The last time I saw you, you could hide in Etter's hair. ”

The elven elder looked at the black swan, the growth rate of human beings was indeed unimaginably fast for the elven race.

"Sit on Etter's back, and Frey can join you if you're tired."

Elder Sephaun stroked the hair of the brown bear beside him, a giant brown bear that inhabited the Blackwood Forest, with whom the Elven Elder had been a companion when he was young, and that relationship has continued to this day.

"Hmm!"

Caroli reached out and stroked the brown bear's wet nose, then climbed onto the brown bear's back with her elven guards.

With this brown bear named 'Ette' on her way, Caroli enjoyed the feeling of traveling on a soft bed on the road......

After about ten minutes, the darkness around the Blackwood Forest was gradually dispelled, and more and more plants with different lights appeared in the forest, and the sky was also fluttering with glowing insects.

Every time she visits the territory of the elves, Caroli feels like she has come to fairyland......

Arriving at the place where the Darkwood Elves lived, the brown bear lay on the ground, and Caroli and her elven guards stepped on the slightly damp ground with their luggage.

Sadly, this fairyland-like experience didn't last long.

A roar, enough to pierce any person's eardrums, suddenly resounded throughout the Darkwood Elf, and the terrifying sound waves turned into a tangible impact on the area.

The brown bear, named Etter, immediately stretched out its furry paws to stand in front of Caroli and her elven guards...... The surrounding leaves were scattered and fell to the ground.

Caroli covered her ears, still suffocating as if her heart had been grabbed by something.

Dragon... There was only one thought on Caroli's mind, and only a terrifying creature as a dragon could let out such a roar.

However, it was fortunate that the brown bear had blocked most of the impact for Caroli, otherwise Caroli would have been deaf in both ears during her stay in the Blackwood Forest.

After the roar was over, the brown bear rubbed its wet nose against Caroli, who was hiding in its arms, as if to confirm Caroli's condition.

"I'm fine..."

As a token of gratitude, Caroli took out some candy and other snacks from her luggage and fed them to the brown bear, who swallowed them directly along with the package.

"Elder Sephane, what the hell is the Brass Dragon... What's wrong? ”

Carori's elven guards stepped out of the brown bear's protection and came to the elven elven elder's side, she had never heard the brass dragon roar so terrifyingly in all her years of living in the Darkwood Forest.

There was also an extremely violent aura in the roar.

"The guardian of the World Tree has contracted some strange disease."

Elder Sephaon glanced around, and the Darkwood Elves who lived here were all worried by the brass dragon's roar.

"Illness is gradually eroding its sanity...... We are trying to find a cure, but the results are not ideal, so we can only keep communicating with it now, hoping to keep it sane, but the effect has been getting weaker and weaker lately. ”

"Weak? Doesn't that brass dragon like to talk? ”

Caroli's elven protector, Frey, had seen the brass dragon, and if I had to say that it was the 'die if you don't talk to anyone', whenever it met a new human, or any intelligent creature would babble on and on with them about a whole bunch of strange questions.

"Elven elders' words can't interest the guardians."

Elder Sephaon sighed, the elves of the Blackwood clan live in this forest all year round, and it is rare for young elves to go out and wander, and the old elves only stay in the world around the Blackwood Forest, as well as the books exchanged from humans.

The guardian of the World Tree, the brass dragon, who was far older than the elves, had long memorized these observations and knowledge, and of course this kind of old topic could not arouse its interest.

"Elder Sephaun, I think I could have a good conversation with that brass dragon."

At this point, Caroli sent a plea to Elder Sephaon with proper language and etiquette, but her elven guards ignored the 'camera' that Caroli was hiding behind her.