Chapter 113: The World Tree, Garanord

There is no end to the lush canopy of trees that obscure the clouds!

Ahead, there is a backbone that is already immeasurable with the naked eye, and although he knows that he is very far away from it, the children of the abyss still have no real sense of the fact that this is just a tree. The dark brown behemoth looked like a mountain reaching straight to the sky, and like a huge tower towering into the sky, but it was difficult for one to associate it with plants, if one ignored the countless branches branching out from the top of the main trunk as high as a mountain.

Countless wonderful things emitting a soft white glow were distributed over the branches of this great life, and these things that looked like glowing nodules brightened the vast area that should have been filled with shadows and shrouded in the canopy, and the green of the ground was full of life under this strange light. André felt that everywhere he could see was a botanical garden that had been carefully tended by the owners, full of verdant vitality and at the same time making people feel organized.

This is the incarnation of the goddess Garandia, the tree of life that originated from the elves!

This is the first city that the Elven Kingdom is proud of, built on the foundation of the World Tree - "Garanord".

Look ahead at the sky, where the canopy of the branches is at its most luxuriant. Look at the sky to the left, a lush foliage dotted with a little white light, and look to the right...... The same is true, even in the direction from which the Children of the Abyss came, there are still green canopies and patchwork of white light that cannot be seen.

André suddenly remembered that when he had seen the edge of the canopy of great life before, it seemed like half a day ago. The wind-powered Otter No. 1 can easily run up to a dozen or even twenty kilometers with an hourglass - it would take a mortal half a day to walk on flat ground.

The Emerald River meanders under its shade and surrounds the core area of this great city. The brisk "little otter" left the green on both sides behind, and a moment before André thought it was something from the bridge, until the ship approached and he realized that it was an inconspicuous branch of the vast roots of this giant prehistoric tree in the center of the city. But it is still not inferior in scale to the bridges made of cement and steel by mortals in another world.

"How thick is its trunk?" said Andre, looking beside him, the Great Druid, who had been silent all along, not disturbing him to watch the wonder of the world.

"Thousands of years ago, the sages used their footsteps to roughly measure the length of its outer circle, eight kilometers, and the deviation of this value is not very large, it is the sages used a variety of methods to repeatedly measure the final conclusion. Judeon stared intently in the direction of the Garlanod Center, and even the elves who had long been accustomed to its presence could not help but be shocked by its greatness from such an angle.

"In other words, the diameter is about 2.5 kilometers, and the shade of the trees covers the area?"

Although he was a little curious about the reason for the son of the abyss's estimation of this number, he still didn't ask, because the great druid, who had learned this knowledge with Andre, knew that the young son of the abyss had accumulated more than ordinary people could do in arithmetic.

"It's almost fifty kilometers from east to west, north and south. The druid replied very calmly.

This is already equivalent to the area of a second- or third-tier city! The Son of the Abyss suddenly felt his scalp tingle.

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"Welcome to Garlanord. Young son of the abyss. "The leader of the hosts was an elven woman of extraordinary temperament, dressed in a moon-white silk robe, with her long, plump arms exposed. The faint fine lines on her face not only can't hide her charm, but they add a bit of maturity and intellectuality.

Andrei knew who the lady in front of him was.

She is the princess who led the elves to drive the demons out of the Whispering Forest five hundred years ago, and she is also the one who actually holds the supreme power and prestige in this ancient kingdom.

"Your Royal Highness, I am not afraid that you will come to greet you in person. Although she is also the owner of the legendary bloodline, this eldest princess, who actually exercises the powers of the queen, has a lofty status that Andre can only look up to. At least in terms of seniority, she is equivalent to the "King of Nations" level of existence, so it will not hurt to use the honorific Son of the Abyss against her.

The eldest princess had a kind smile on her face: "As the princess of the kingdom, I should have met you earlier, but because you are a young man, you have brought many such headaches to the entire kingdom as soon as you appeared, and I have to be busy in order to deal with those troublesome things." ”

Andrei didn't know whether the highest-ranking woman in the Elven Kingdom was complimenting him or sarcastically mocking him, but no matter what others thought, there were still some things he would fight for.

"But now it seems that I don't have so much thought in vain, do I? it turns out that even the goddess has been keeping an eye on you, great young man. Her Highness Loxanne winked playfully, making her look less like an elder who was old enough to be a grandmother even in an elven society, but more like an energetic older sister.

"So when the harvest festival arrives, even the goddess can't wait to see you. Are you ready, young man?"

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For this princess of the elves, Andrei has heard of it for a long time. It is said that more than 100 years after the end of that war, the previous elven queen took off her crown of power. And the daughter of the previous queen, although she is no longer innocent, Princess Luoshan, who is still of marriageable age, has never married.

In the Elven tradition, the person who holds the authority of the queen must first possess a blood directly related to the goddess Garandia. With the blood of the royal family, if you want to be crowned queen by a princess, you must also get a happy marriage - the elves believe that only a crown prince who can take on the responsibilities of the family can take on the responsibility of ruling the rise and fall of the entire country.

Although in fact, in the kingdom of elves, even the queen at the top of the power cannot hold the power alone, but this princess with a legendary experience obviously cannot be judged by common sense. She acts as regent in the name of a princess and is one of the most prestigious leaders of the Watchmen. As the eldest of the only crown prince today, she has a close relationship with Her Royal Highness the other princess, who is both a teacher and a friend. Privately, Youdeon also told the Children of the Abyss that Andhrari was able to achieve the current momentum of development, and it was also inseparable from the support of His Highness.

So when Andrei once again proposed to the elven princess to form an army and how to start selling the ship's full of goods. His Highness's answer made the children of the abyss a little unsure of the other party's attitude for a while.

"Let's put all of this aside for now, first prepare for the bath and change your clothes to meet the goddess, and after you have admired the glory of the goddess, we will talk about the rest. ”

So after André arrived at the main trunk of the World Tree, he was pulled by the maids who served the royal family into the fountain of life, which looked like a natural garden and was actually like a natural labyrinth.

These waters, with their faint vapor and seemingly non-green glow, are said to have originated from the magical essence of the World Tree, Garanord, which was extracted and transformed from the depths of the earth, and was extracted and transformed by its powerful root system to form the unique magic spring that stretches for miles and miles.

The total population of Garanord accounts for 20% of the Elven Kingdom, but the Rangers, Druids, and Earth Sacrifices cultivated here reach nearly 40% of the elite class of the entire kingdom. Surrounded by the taproot of the World Tree, the fountain of life that resembles a continuous natural pond plays a vital role in this. Even transcendent creatures like unicorns are gifts from the Fountain of Life.

In the legend of the World Tree, these graceful creatures with spiral-shaped shimmering horns were no more than ordinary white horses before the elves were born. There was a foal playing by the spring when he met the moon god who came to the mortal world in his incarnation...... The good goddess groomed the lively pony for the night until it fell asleep. Enamored by the charm of the moon goddess Iglia, mortal beings spend their days near the Fountain of Life, just wanting to see the goddess again. By drinking the water from the World Tree for a long time, the young white horse slowly grew thick horns and began to have true wisdom because of his longing, but he was unable to communicate with his wild companions, and he missed the gentle woman who groomed his hair all day long. Galandia, the goddess of the earth, was grateful for the loneliness of the white horse, so she created her gentlest children in the image of the moon god in her mortal incarnation, the power of the World Tree, and let the first elves, who also possessed wisdom, accompany the lonely one-horned white horse until it slowly grew old and finally slept at the bottom of the tree.

This is the legend of the King of the Unicorns and the original Elves, who believe that it is because of such a story that the Children of the Abyss find unreliable that they and the Unicorns have become inseparable natural allies.

As for what the legend was unreliable, André remembered telling him about it when he was in the Demon Realm. The gods are the great forces that arise from the manifestation of great consciousness, and they are the laws that encompass all things, and they are also the things themselves. Such a divine will was originally devoid of an impersonal image, the so-called Godhead. The godhead of the goddess was finally established through the beliefs and prayers of many races such as elves, dwarves, orcs, and humans who lived on the earth!

In other words, the appearance of the earth goddess Garlandia, including her "gender", was determined after the elves had a civilization. However, this myth about the origin of unicorns and elves mentions that even before the birth of the first elves, the moon goddess Igria already had a nuanced godhead. But the elves were the earliest intelligent beings on Garlandia, if there was no intelligent race in the world at that time, then whose consciousness did the image of the moon god come from?

Iglia is just one of the children of the goddess of the sky, Abith, who gave the goddess of the moon the appearance of the kingdom and the city before the three gods of creation had established their "gender"?

It can't be creatures like the night wolves howling at the moon, they can't have the aesthetic of the elves!

So this is simply a paradox!!

When Yudeon figured out how the Children of the Abyss had discovered the strangeness of this legend, he also felt that there did seem to be something unreasonable about the legend that the elves had believed in for thousands of years. So the Great Druid, who was supposed to be in charge of receiving the leader of Andrarui, left André directly behind and went to His Royal Highness the eldest princess, who was more knowledgeable than him, to seek answers.

In the end, the children of the abyss, who were taken to the depths of the "labyrinth" by the maid alone...... If it weren't for the trunk of the World Tree being within sight, Andre, who was alone in an unfamiliar environment, would have lost his way.

These innumerable clusters of springs, which are associated with Garanord, have successfully weakened the path recognition "skill" level of the Children of the Abyss.