"That's what I'm trying to say. As a representative of the elven side from the Temple of Arts and Music, Moore slammed the ruben in his hand on the table, his fingers kept tapping on the rubbing, and there was a faint anger in his voice: "It's exactly the same, it's because of this circle that I happened to be here." ”

"It's also in the Elven Forest?" Pannis, a little surprised, asked, "Unlikely." ”

"Not yet. Moore stood up from her seat and paced in place as she spoke, "Two months ago, another of her kindred went missing while on an adventure, and the accompanying Tree of Life withered and withered, indicating that she had returned to the embrace of the forest. This is the eleventh death of an elven adventurer in six months, and the scope of death is within the Neville Federation. As an adventurer, it is actually a normal thing to die in an adventure, but there has never been such a high frequency of deaths in elves. The elves who can be agreed to leave the elven forest to participate in adventures in the human world have the lowest strength of the silver high level, and they have a strong ability to protect themselves, for example, two months ago, this compatriot was a golden junior archer, but not only did he die so inexplicably, but there was no news at all, as if he had completely disappeared from this world. ”

"No wonder the Elven Court is paying attention. Pannis nodded and said understandingly, "I'm afraid this is the first time since the 214-day war 1,200 years ago that someone is suspected of targeting elves." ”

Before Pannis finished speaking, the rest of the people were waiting for him with an unpleasant look. Although 1,200 years have passed, the mention of the war that really broke the human world still makes every human being's heart feel a little stinging. Completely ignoring the hostile gaze of the others, Pannis continued casually, "However, even if they are dead, you should have a way to find them. ”

"Yes, we found it. Moore nodded heavily: "Through the guidance of the accompanying tree of life, we have found the remains of seven of them, or rather the remains, and the remaining four because they did not pay attention to them at first. The Tree of Life has completely withered away, and is no longer capable of guiding. ”

"I've already guessed the result. Pannis smiled wryly and said, "Those people are the same as the victims we are talking about now, right?" ”

Moore closed his eyes and sighed. It's a little sad. The population of the elves in the Yala world is very small, less than seven or eight hundred thousand, so every elf is very concerned about the safety of the same race, and once a fellow die unnaturally, the whole race will feel sad. Moore closed his eyes and silently blessed his deceased compatriots before saying, "Exactly the same." It's all old and dead. But this is simply incredible, my individual has a lifespan of 2,000 years, and the oldest of the dead is only 500 years old, and the youngest is only 200 years old, so it is impossible to run out of life. Moreover, the clansmen will have a sense ten years before they die, and at this time they will return to their companion trees, and slowly wait for the guidance of the forest, and there will never be a phenomenon of clansmen dying of old age in the outside world, unless someone uses some means to take away their remaining lifespan. ”

"So to speak. After all, is there still someone collecting life force in the end?" said Lina, "and we doubted the answer too. ”

"No, not the life force. Moore denied: "If it is the life force that is taken away, our companion tree will change, not naturally wither and wither, so I just used the word lifespan." ”

"Incomprehensible. Lina sighed: "I don't understand, the word lifespan is more of a non-substantive conceptual thing, how can this non-substantive thing be taken away?"

"I want to know too. Moore said helplessly: "If I could know, I wouldn't feel so bothered." ”

"Well, let's not study what exactly is taken away, and we don't study how to take away something that doesn't actually exist. Pannis said, "You can find the remains of your kindred. What's more, unless they break it in person this time, they will completely destroy the circle after committing the crime, so that people can't see it. How did you recognize that?"

"The other party is indeed very cautious, and after each attack, he uses spell destruction to cover the surrounding environment, so that all retrospective probing spells cannot take effect, but our elves have their own secret methods, and the caster can sacrifice his fifty years of life. In this way, some of the special abilities of the Companion Tree are activated, and through the shared senses of the Companion Tree, you can retrace the scene at that time. Moore took out a dead branch, stroked it gently, and said, "She is only a two-hundred-year-old child, and she is active by nature, and she always wants to see the outside world, but she never expects to return to the forest with her real body." Through the Companion Tree, I can feel her last moments of fear and pain, I can see the two Legendary Mages and one Legendary Warrior who committed the murder, and I can also see the complex and evil strange magic circle on the ground. I can even feel the utter despair and unwillingness of this child when she finds herself rapidly aging, alas, it is a pity that such a good child will never be able to see the world she loves with her own eyes. ”

The participants present, except for a group of members of the guard who served as the official clerk at the venue, most of them were high-ranking members of the temples, and the unique sensitivity of the clergy and the reverence for life made them empathize with Moore's regret and sorrow, and everyone prayed for the young elf and even all the innocent lives hurt by this group of murderers in their own special ways, wishing their souls eternal peace.

"Thank you. Finding that the atmosphere at the venue was a little low, Moore reluctantly smiled and said: "By the way, Pannis, after I passed the results of the retrospective to the royal court through the colorful eagle last month, the royal court replied two days ago, and it was not exactly for me, but it was also for you, and Her Majesty the Empress asked me to give you a suggestion." ”

"Huh?" Pannis was stunned and asked, "Her suggestion?"

"No, it was she who asked the three Hoshimi Lords in the Royal Court Elder's Council to join forces to predict the outcome of this matter. Moore smiled bitterly and said: "Even if the three demigods join forces, they can only vaguely see that it is related to you, even if it is so vague, the prediction process is still extremely difficult, and you understand the reason." The three adults didn't see much clearly, but they had only one thing for sure, and Her Majesty had asked me to convey it to you—your conjecture was correct, and if you follow your train of thought, no matter how long it takes, there will always be results. ”

Pannis and Lina glanced at each other, and Lina nodded, "If this prediction is correct, it seems that your conjecture just now is correct, and there is indeed a connection between the two." ”

"What conjecture?" Celessa, the priestess of the Aeolus Church, remained silent before finally speaking, "Can we listen to it together?"

"No problem. Pannis asked the members of the garrison who were serving as miscellaneous servants for a pen and paper, and quickly sketched a magic circle on the paper for everyone to circulate: "The rubbings in everyone's hands are the magic circles used by the perpetrators, and this one is circulating now is another set of magic circles that we have found." Although I don't know the type and direction of the magic power of each stripe, nor do I know the number and order of the overlapping points of the intersection of the lines, so I can't restore the effect of the magic circle, but if anyone here has a better understanding of magic array, you should be able to see that more than 60% of the characteristics of these two circles are of the same origin, and it is very likely that they came from the same period, or even from the same person. ”

"That's true. "Among the representatives of the various temples, although Amber and Marcia do not understand magic at all and belong to pure physics professions, Moore and Teresa have a certain in-depth study of magic arrays, and under the prompting of Pannis, they quickly affirmed Pannis's statement. Teresa's lake-like eyes stared at Pannisy and said, "It's indeed the same origin, but I don't know what this circle you took out is ......"

"The first time I saw this circle was when a teammate and I broke a sacrifice of the evil god using a simplified version of the circle that didn't catch my attention at the time. But not long ago, we received another commission from the City of Innocence, and two other teammates from our adventuring party were unable to come here because they had to assist them in investigating several successive sacrifices. In the information provided to us by the Hand of Shadows, what was found at the sacrifice site was the complete version of the circle, which is the one I drew for you. ”

"So, the two groups are together?" asked Teresa.

"Not necessarily, but at least it will be related. Pannis replied, "Otherwise, the existence of these two homologous circles cannot be explained." ”

"Now we have this incident. Teresa asked, "You also think it's a sacrifice?"

"No, I'm more inclined to Moore's opinion on this aspect. Pannis shook his head and said, "I also think they're collecting lifespans, because the engrams we submitted to the Adventurers' Guild once showed that they had collected some black special hedron from the field, and they should be using this special hedron to collect something." However, although the methods of the two are different, I don't think there is a contradiction between the direct sacrifice on the one hand, and the post-processing after collection on the other, and the existence of the offering at the time of the sacrifice may not be possible, so it is completely self-consistent to say that it exists. ”

"You have a point. "But it doesn't seem to be of much help to the recent investigation." ”

"There are still some. Pannis disagreed with Teressa's opinion: "If the two circles are confirmed to be of the same origin, and the two groups are confirmed to be related, it will be even more troublesome, because I took out this sacrificial circle and the accompanying sacrificial text...... It is derived from the script used by the gods of the First Age. ”

The faces of all the high-level professionals changed, as clergy, everyone knew better than other outsiders the horrors of the group of gods who had fought wars with the gods and could win and defeat each other, and anything, if it had anything to do with these existences, it would become much more complicated and terrifying.

"So I have a suggestion. Pannis coughed, attracting everyone's attention: "All people below the Golden Rank should not participate in this exploration, and those who are not confident in their actual combat ability should not participate, because the danger is likely to be higher than everyone thinks." (To be continued.) )

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