When Xiao Chen and Dineh left Maya's magic shop, Maya simply closed the shop and followed them. Knowing that Xiao Chen wanted to live in Dining's house, she said that in order to study Xiao Chen's mobile phone, she would also live there. Dineen thought it was a good trend and agreed.

After using magic to clean herself up, Maya's image changed dramatically. When she untied her headscarf, she had short hair, and instead of wearing a mage robe or an elven dress, she wore an elven swordsman suit, which looked very energetic.

As it was getting late, Dineh took Xiao Chen and Maya back to his home.

Dineh's dinner was taken care of by two of his disciples, and although they were both low-level mages, they had a pretty good level of cooking by elven standards.

They prepared a feast in the local style, a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, combined into a variety of cakes, rolls and platters, the meat was a hare and beef, the elves admired the original food, the rabbit meat was shredded and mixed with wild vegetables, and the beef was cut into small pieces to make a shape similar to beef tartar.

The presentation of the dishes is exquisite, sculptural, and there is a special culinary magic that makes the dishes shine and be even more gorgeous. But the taste is too bland, anyway, Xiao Chen would rather go to the house of a human nobleman to eat barbecue.

After dinner, the two elves naturally continued to study their mobile phones, while Xiao Chen began to read Dinein's collection while waiting for Elaina to return.

However, it was already midnight when she appeared, and when Elaina found her teacher to understand the situation, her face seemed to be more sad.

Instead of avoiding Dinen and Maya, Elaina beckoned everyone to sit down and said, "The situation is troublesome, the World Tree is withering. And the rate of withering is getting faster and faster. ”

Dineen was obviously aware of the situation, and his expression did not change. But Maya's expression changed greatly, "How can this be, I don't know at all." No wonder I had a vague feeling that something was wrong with my surroundings, and I thought I was just too tired from doing experiments. This is a big problem that has never been seen before, what are the elders going to do?"

Elaina said: "Teacher, they didn't know the specific cause at first, but after they checked every part of the World Tree on the ground, they determined that the cause of the withering was in the roots, so they handed over the work of finding the underground problem to the dark elves. ”

"What are the dark elves?" Xiao Chen had never heard of this race in this world. According to the premise of many previous games, the dark elves are the sworn enemies of the High Elves.

Dinen said: "The dark elves are a branch of the High Elves, a long, long time ago, there was a kind of root-eating worm that devoured the roots of the World Tree, and the Dark Elves were those elves who voluntarily entered the underground to clean up and protect the roots of the World Tree. It took them hundreds of years to completely eradicate the Root Eaters, and then they got used to life in the underground tunnels and stayed behind to become the guardians of the World Tree. Over the millennia, under the influence of the escaping energy of the World Tree's root system, their appearance has mutated, gradually transforming into a dark-skinned, white-haired image. ”

Elaine continued, "Because the World Tree has a much larger root system than its canopy, the Dark Elves have been digging underground and exploring tunnels for the past few months, looking for suspicious targets. Until two weeks ago, they discovered a huge cavity at a depth of more than 1,500 meters. The cavity was filled with a white mist, and it was impossible to see what was inside. ”

"Did they go to investigate?" Maya asked.

"Of course, but it turned out badly. At that time, it was a sage of the Dark Elves who went to explore with the three masters. But once they entered that void, the energy and spiritual power in their bodies began to drain wildly, and the higher the strength, the faster the loss. The first to fall was the Sage, followed by the three Masters. In the end, only the weakest Great Swordsman escaped, and by the time he organized some low- and middle-level warriors to form a death squad and find the Sage and the two masters, they had all been turned into dried corpses. Elaina's tone was calm, but what she said was terrifying.

"A Sage died silently like this?" Maya covered her mouth and looked at her in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.

Then, two of the five elders entered the mist again with protective artifacts, but they only entered a little bit, and the same situation happened to the Dark Elf Sage, the two artifacts left by the God of Nature, instead of playing any protective role, lost all their power and turned into iron without magical power. Fortunately, the two Sages were prepared and retreated in time, but they were also greatly damaged. Among the elves who entered at the same time, only those who were below the realm of master would not be affected too much. "But even so, they were affected by something else: they were intimidated by something in the fog for no apparent reason, and a desire to obey a certain will naturally appeared in their hearts." ”

Dinen added, "I was also involved in the research, and I suggested at the time that there was a powerful object in the middle of the mist that could absorb energy, and I thought it was at least an artifact. It will absorb both the energy of the Tree of Life and the power of those who are close to it. ”

"It's useless to just guess. Whatever it is, you have to go inside and see it. Elaine said, "The elders are going to organize a team of high-ranking warriors, mages, and priests to find out. The team had to be made up of both elves and non-elves, so they needed to find a few reliable alien warriors. ”

Xiao Chen now finally understood why Di Ning said that this was his chance at the beginning: "In this way, I really came to the right place this time. I can also provide a ready-made high-tier warrior, and Roger is staying in the border town. If you take him over, this expedition will be more certain. ”

Elaina's face was hesitant, and she said softly, "I mentioned your situation with the teacher, as well as the matter of the World Tree sap. Unexpectedly, she agreed without hesitation. It worries me that she's willing to pay that price, which means it's a very, very dangerous thing to do, and I think you really need to think about it. ”

Xiao Chen was about to answer, but Elaina stretched out her hand to stop him, and said again: "I think the idea of getting the World Tree sap for Luo Ling will not be less than yours at all. But if this were to be exchanged for your life, I would never want to. ”

"Elaina, everyone here will go, right?" Xiao Chen asked.

Elaina looked at Dinen and Maya, with unspeakable emotions brewing in her eyes, "Yes. The elders did think so. The three of us are all the best in the high tier, Dinin is good at fighting, I am good at healing, and Maya is very good at all kinds of trap door locks. ”

"That's good, not just for Luo Ling. It's also for me not to regret it, for you to be safer, for Dinin to have the opportunity to marry a human beauty, and for the sake of being able to bring Maya back to Montenegro, isn't it enough for so many reasons?" Xiao Chen said with a smile.