The Northern Elf Royal Court, the song of Hao Dixiu, is actually a tree.

From the gloomy forest floor, several thick roots with a diameter of more than ten meters broke out of the ground, broke through the obstacles of the void, and meandered up from the surface, intertwined roots and branches obscured the sight of the entire space, until about three hundred meters in the air began to gradually converge, revealing the trunk of the tree in the center with countless rhizomes and stars holding the moon in the middle.

The inside of the trunk of the giant tree is hollow, forming countless tiny apertures, due to the age of the tree, the aperture has even been crowded with thick soil, countless new vines and other plants, densely packed into these spaces, until the elves come and open it all up - these aperture naturally become the natural communication channels in the tree city, and as they can climb directly to the top of the tree, countless elves shuttle back and forth in it, like an ant colony that survives on the giant tree.

The main trunk of the giant tree, with a diameter of 300 meters, grows to a height of more than 1,000 meters at the top, and it is also like a proud lonely peak in the elven forest with protruding peaks, standing alone on the grassland of the forest. Its desolate and tall trunk was flanked by countless branches that stretched out into the air, and together with the top of the giant tree, it formed a dense canopy that covered almost the entire forest.

On the branches of the trunk of each mother tree, there is an elf town, and in every elf town, there is an elf family that has been breeding for a long time.

Every night, the branches of the tree city are brightly lit, like stars, reflecting the surrounding forest, the glowing birds fly happily between the lights, and the elves are happy, and the tactful singing voice sings one after another, transforming the night sky of the forest into the most beautiful paradise in the world.

This is the Song of Hao Dixiu, the city of Hao Dixiu, the elven god in charge of art.

A tree is a kingdom.

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Her Majesty Berenhill, the queen of the Northern Elven Court, sings alone in her palace, holding a fine wine in her hand, crystal clear from the human kingdom, the glass wine cup from the human kingdom is full of blood-red light, this is a wine that the elves only choose to drink when they are sad and full of war, this wine has a very ominous name - Zhu * Yan * blood.

The queen sipped her wine and sang softly, her voice low and hoarse, as if hiding a deep pain, she took a sip of wine and sang a sentence, her eyes looking at the north, where there was a memory that she could not forget, the source of her deep pain for hundreds of years.

The elves are happy, they are a race favored by the gods, they are beautiful, exquisite, but full of wisdom, they are the most perfect creatures in the world, they are the darlings of the gods, just that long life, I don't know how many intelligent races on the continent are jealous.

But many people don't know that this longevity is an advantage, but many times, it is also equivalent to a curse for elves.

It is difficult for a race with a short life like humans or orcs to understand the feelings experienced by the elves in their long lives, and the longevity gives the elves a lot of good experiences, but more than that, it is the endless pain that is unforgettable in the memory of life. After all, for the race of intelligent creatures, the feeling of happiness in life is mostly short-lived, but the pain that corrodes people's hearts can last a long time.

The long maturity period of the elves is too long, more than ten times more than the human and orc races, the long life, not only emptiness and boredom, they have to go through the waves of life one after another all kinds of pain, pain has become the most important part of the elves' life, so that they rely on the fear to get rid of the emptiness of the long life of the main emotion.

Because of the long life, the elves' family ethics are also very different from humans, the elves' long childhood is grown up in a collective education environment, there is a concept of family, but not like humans have a family, they will experience many lovers in their lives, making it difficult for them to have those orderly, intimate and harmonious family relationships between human beings, to entrust their too rich feelings, to make them forget the long painful memories. They can't even have the time and mentality to taste and reminisce about the happiness hidden in the bitterness of life in their old age, when they are full of children and grandchildren, like humans and orcs.

The life of the elves is a long life, and it is also a life full of pain and remorse, and many elves choose to commit suicide in desperation. Therefore, in order to escape this pain, the elves have to become indulgent, become willful, and become perverse, compared to most ordinary elves, they are pious clergy, lack of complex experience, and their elves will feel happier in their lives.

In this social environment, every successful elf is an elf who is good at taking the initiative to find the meaning of his life.

Hatred is the most enduring motivation in life, at least according to Her Majesty Queen Burren Hill. Her only companion in life was to die on the banks of the Kampra River a hundred years ago.

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On the first quarter of the month of prayer, the Elven Temple of the Northern Elven Court issued an oracle to the realm under its jurisdiction, initiating the full mobilization of the elves. The Northern Elven Royal Court, first of all, part of the royal court's knights marched north, crossed the grassland, and reached the bank of the Kampra River on the northern border, took over the border posts there, and began to use air cavalry to start a large-scale pre-war reconnaissance of the enemy on the other side of the river.

After the results of the investigation came back, the news from all sides was summarized, and the temple priests and the royal court elders held a meeting together, at which the plan for the elven army was decided, and then everything was unstoppable.

The mage regiment of the Northern Elf Royal Court, the Royal Court Guard, the Sword Elven Knights of Hao Dixiu, the Temple Sacrifice Regiment, the Temple Guard, and the temporary legions composed of the elves of each family have all begun to march north. Countless elven rangers, bards, and druids all emerged from their horns, followed the elven troops of each family to the north, singing war songs in praise of the gods all the way, and marched towards the northern frontier.

At the same time as the front army advanced, the rear did not stop, the mobilization system of the elven army has always been very comprehensive, on the day of the promulgation of the marching order, the market of Hao Dixiu's song, there were all kinds of signs, first magic crystals, magic cores, magic plant seeds, other spell casting materials, elf holy water, elf armor, elf swords, bows and arrows, steel, beast tendons, riding beasts, all kinds of key materials were ordered to stop trading, and were forcibly purchased by the royal court, and then the various merchant groups from the local and from the human kingdom were notified, The entire territory of the Northern Elf Royal Court has entered a state of war, and all the purchase and sale of war materials must be brought under official supervision.

From several other tree cities in the Elven Forest, Jimodo Tree City, Mastasia Tree City, Azure Tree City, ...... All of the Tree Cities sent troops on the orders of the Temple and the Royal Court. In addition, I heard that the other three Elven Royal Courts, the Western Elves of the Redwood Forest located on the coastline, the Swamp Elves located in the Southern Swamp, and the Canyon Elves located in the Eastern Elven Canyon, all sent support groups. All the way through thousands of mountains and rivers, converge to the north, converge into a great green torrent, along the forest and grassland north.

The martial arts of conquering the orcs of the wasteland are a great cause given to the elves by the gods, a major event that all the elves on the continent of Gaia should participate in, and a feat that the elves are destined to be in the annals of history!

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At the top of the huge canopy of the Song of Hao Dixiu, the priests in the elven temple were making the final tense preparations,

"Has our ancient spirit been awakened?"

"Awakened, Your Highness! The mage group had already taken one with them when they went north. ”

"Oh, that's good, the royal court's mage group is also an important force for us, they have a spirit, it's useful, but that's ...... What about our elven holy water, are our young priests sure to bring enough reserves? ”

"Enough stay, Your Highness! Moreover, all the soldiers had already distributed enough holy water. The priests below replied. They were already familiar with the character of their boss, the High Priest.

The current Elven High Priest is the youngest in the history of the Temple, and although he is full of ambition and ambition, he is not lacking in power and prestige, but none of this can hide the fact that he has not personally participated in commanding such a massive war. Now, he's a little nervous too.

"There are also seeds, seeds of magical plants, the storage list reported by the Druid priests, and the seeds of the most precious weapons of war must all be checked one by one, this war, our logistics must not be allowed to be lost."

"Yes, my Highness! This point we will go even to inform Lord Great Druid! ”

After the distribution of all the things was completed, and the priests and directors of all the stewards under His Royal Highness the High Priest were ordered to go down, at last there was only one person left in the main hall, and he looked up at the sky and bowed to the gods reverently, and silently recited in his heart:

"This time, we will succeed, we will definitely succeed, there has never been a Northern Expedition in the history of the elves that has had such a good start as this one."

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In the court of the elven king, the young Majesty Brunhill was also looking up in the direction of the temple, and at this moment, she was already wearing the most exquisite elven armor, and the hollow pattern of the armor was inlaid with countless gems, reflecting a little bit of fine starlight, reflecting on her beautiful face.

Then, with a thud, she drew her sword and swore to its edge:

"This battle must pay the price of blood for the filthy orcs, for him, for all the elves who have died on the banks of the Kampra River for thousands of years, this time, we must win, the wrath of the elves, will surely ravage the wasteland with fire and lava, and burn the ugliest and dirtiest orcs in the world, this is the will of the gods, and it is also the vow of me, the current queen of the royal court, Berenhill."

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In the Song City of Hao Dixiu, on the once most lively street of Toshiba Market, Baron Reed, a wealthy merchant from the human Solva Kingdom, looked at the elves running back and forth on the street, and fell into deep thought:

"Hmm! It seems that this time the elves are fighting again, I don't know what the result will be, but whether the elves conquer the wasteland, or finally collapse on the banks of the Kampra River, and what is the matter with me as a human businessman, the most important thing now, although this business can't be done, but this news, maybe it can be sold for a price. ”

The albatross, a communication bird domesticated by human merchants, soared into the sky from the forest like a sharp sword, flew into the air, and after recognizing the direction of home, it went all the way through the forest, through the mountains, and returned to the distant kingdom of Sorva. And then immediately after that, the same communication birds took off. A few days later, after tens of thousands of miles of relay transmission, this news finally reached the other side of the continent, the barrier in the southeast of the orc wasteland, outside the Heihe River Valley of the Hengduan Mountain Range, the first blockade of the southern human territory to defend against the orcs, and it belonged to the territory of the military nobleman Nicholas, the northern grand duke under the jurisdiction of the Red Dragon Empire.

On this day, a merchant ascended the gates of the castle of Grand Duke Nicholas, Grand Duke of the North.