Until the end of dinner, Cedenas asked us a lot of questions. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Mainly about life in the human world, as well as specialized topics in many areas of medicine.

Most of the time, Liu Xiao was answering, and Ai Li was tasting fine wine and fresh fruits, looking like a fairy outside the world.

"By the way, how many creatures are there in this world?"

This question popped up for me.

"Puff clam clam"

Ellie almost squirted her wine out.

Liu Xiao and Sednas also looked at me in surprise.

"No, no, I mean, how many, uh, intelligent creatures"

"Speaking of Wisdom ......"

Sednas seemed to be lost in thought.

"Once upon a time there were eight intelligent beings in the world of reflections"

"Reflection World?"

My translation mantra translates the word he says into a reflection.

But this statement makes me uncomfortable.

It seemed that a huge amount of information was pouring out of Sednas's memory, making him unable to heed my words.

"By the way, I remember ......"

The doctor stood up abruptly and went upstairs.

Doctor......

My impression of this elf was limited to the first meeting.

In the future, it would be better to call this erudite elf Mr.

The sound of open cabinets from upstairs and the sound of churning in a mess.

After a while, the gentleman came down from upstairs with a wide and thick book in his arms.

Spread out on the table, taking up almost the entire table.

Flipping it over, there is a smell of ancient leaves.

These words and drawings are not written on paper, but on some kind of leaves.

But it is very well preserved, which is presumably the characteristic of this foliage.

It reminds me of those 10,000-year-old branches and leaves in the Valley of the White Trees.

White Tree Valley, White Wood Valley.

Could it be said.

"Are these leaves from the Valley of the White Trees?"

Sednath nodded.

"Where is the Valley of the White Trees?"

Liu Xiao didn't know, because I hadn't told her.

"When we first arrived, Maispear took me to the Valley of the White Trees to purify the blood erosion with the branches and leaves of a tree."

"The branches and leaves of the trees in that place never seem to rot"

Liu Xiao nodded in amazement.

"Is the Valley of the White Trees near here?"

Sednath shook his head.

"The Holy Land is southeast of the Dawn Mountains, hidden by magic"

"Only the bloodline of the Elven King knows the specific location and how to enter"

"It's an honor for the elves to have the help of the white-crowned tree"

Forehead...... The white-crowned trees, the arenas, the roof iceflowers, it seems that I have indeed received a lot of preferential treatment from Mespier.

The gentleman carefully flipped through the pages of the book and stopped on a drawing.

This drawing takes up two pages and is very large, with several creatures depicting them.

Strong color contrast, similar to oil painting.

"Elf...... Caveman ......"

I read it out loud.

In the picture, I have seen both creatures, and the characteristics are obvious, and I can tell them at a glance.

"This tall and strong one is a giant."

"Oh, that"

Sednath shook his head.

"They are barbarians who live in Middle-earth, around the Black Fire Mountains"

"Powerful, fierce, iron-making, and unyielding to the harshest natural environments"

"This is the giant"

Eh――

I thought it was a mountain range in the background of the painting, but when I looked closely, it turned out to be a humanoid creature with a huge weapon.

It's the size of the one formed by the magic 'Storm Giant' unleashed by Corlius.

It turns out that it wasn't the huge effect of magic, but their original form, right?

"Why are there humans?"

"Clams, that's not human, little ghost"

Ellie's mouth was full of wine as she spoke, and her face was red, but her eyes were still shining, and she looked excited.

The little one got up from his chair and reached for my shoulder, staggering and nearly falling.

Ouch, little ancestor.

I quickly picked up the little drunk.

In her state, I didn't dare to let her sit on my shoulder, for fear that she would fall if she wasn't careful.

Ellie struggled twice in my arms, reaching out her little hand and pointing to the page.

"It's a ...... Belch...... Witch"

"Witch?"

"They are thinner than elves, about the same as you humans"

Sednas continued.

"We call the women in them witches and the men wizards"

"Their number is very scarce, and now, there are probably less than 10 of them on the entire continent."

"And without exception they all live a reclusive life, so we hardly see them either"

"But they have very powerful magic"

Sednath's tone became mysterious and oppressive, looking at me with a childlike look.

"Very, very powerful"

If Mr. gives such an evaluation, then it must be very powerful.

"Then this is the Kraken."

At the edge of the picture, in a sea of water, I saw a creature with a human body and a fish's tail.

"Well, yes, they inhabit the seas around the continent."

"Hardly ever go ashore, so we don't know much about them"

"This tree, it can't be a tree man?"

I saw a funny tree with two hands.

"Yes, the Treants, who once lived in the ancient forests of the South"

"After the Great Tribulation, it was extinct because of the fire of heaven"

Extinct?

I noticed that Liu Xiao frowned slightly.

Although it is already known that Skyfire has killed countless creatures on this continent.

But the guilt that led to the extinction of an intelligent race still upset her.

"Ah, this, dragon"

I found this creature on the drawing.

They are painted relatively small, flying in the sky in the distance of the picture, so there is no first glimpse of them.

An inexplicable sense of dread came out of my heart.

Burning Spell ......

I still don't dare to confront these words.

It's not the most powerful I've ever seen, though, and it's not even magic.

But going through this spell left me with very painful memories that can even be described as psychological shadows.

This is probably one of the effects of this spell......

Ellie placed her warm little hand on my face as if she were stroking her own frightened pet.

"Imp, so pitiful"

Probably my fear was transmitted to her through the soul link.

"The magic of dragons is also powerful"

Sednas continued.

"But their magic is much more ancient and straightforward"

"It's more like the embodiment of their own powerful vitality than the subtle control of their magic"

"By the way, when I first came to the Dawn Mountains, His Majesty Meispil put a suppression spell on my hand, is that also dragon magic?"

"No ......"

The gentleman's expression looked longing.

"That's the witches' magic"

Oh......

The Suppression Spell locks the local flow of time, but does not cause any damage to the target, powerful and subtle;

The Burning Spell gave me a deadly and painful burn and left behind an indelible fear, evil and powerful.

The magic of witches and the magic of dragons, these two things have very distinct characteristics.

It's easy to realize that these are two completely different races.

"Dragons originally inhabited the Black Fire Mountains, and they are the most powerful predators in this world"

"Any other creature lives under their haze"

"Later, the other seven races united and launched a dragon slaying war"

"Giants, barbarians, treants, witches, elves, cavemen, and even krakens who only live in the sea send troops deep into the heart of the land"

"An army like an ocean surrounds the Blackfire Mountains"

"All the dragons were besieged to death"

As if he were telling a story, Sednas's tone was engaging.

"I read a book in the big library"

Liu Xiao interjected and came in.

"Tell the story of the dragon slaying war, there is a picture on it"

"Drawing a dragon with black and red scales and a ring made of lava on its head"

"That's Goragoni Bloodscale, the last king of the dragons"

"The Battle of the Dragons basically wiped out all the dragons"

"The surviving dragons know that they can't fight all our races by force alone"

"So they divided us by stratagem, so that all our races were suspicious of each other, and hatred was accumulated, and finally war broke out"

"Almost all the populations on the continent are enemies of each other, and even if they are not hostile, they do not trust each other, and it is from that time that it began"

It seems that the dragon's plan has been successful.

"But he also paid the price for his ploy in the end"

"The Seven Kings besieged the last dragon and perished together in the Black Fire Mountains"

"Since then, there has been no shadow of a dragon in the world"

"Considering the lifespan of dragons, we thought they were extinct at one point"

Sednas looked at us with uneasy eyes.

"Until you're attacked by the Burning Spell"

I shuddered.

These four words make every cell in my body uncomfortable.

"I'm afraid there are descendants of dragons who survived"

"Grinding the claws of counterattack in the dark"

Dragons once threatened all living beings in this world.

After that threat was eliminated, it plunged all the creatures in the world into war.

The strength and cunning of this creature is extraordinary.

Mespier took the matter so seriously that the Dawn Council was nervous about it.

And what the Elven King said was to prepare for the worst.

Now I can understand all of this.

To paraphrase Sednas is-

The stakes are just too great.