"Want our help?" In the high-seat meeting space, the avatars of the World Tree look together at the Lich standing in the center. Fen's standing posture is upright, heroic and cool, and he has the posture of opening the film without saying a word.

Because she was an invited guest, there were no seats. In this regard, someone sitting in a high-backed chair realized that the chair under his butt was not so easy to sit on.

Faced with the problems of the World Trees, Fen was not afraid at all, and said bluntly: "Yes. I hope for your help, but only if I confirm that you are qualified to assist me. ”

"Oh, that's funny, do you want to test us first. His Majesty the Demon King. ”

The war between the World Trees has stopped, of course, because the current Lost Land is full of magic towers. But in the beginning, the reason why the war would be stopped was when Finn came to the whole of the Lost Land. The soldiers swept through, and many unsatisfied World Trees were cut down and burned, and became the materials for the Dark Legion to make something.

For the World Tree, Fen Ni Tikal is a familiar opponent. Not to mention Wadwo, Lahti, etc., who have also received Lin and his party in the near future, of course they are more familiar.

Obviously there is a request for others, but they arrogantly say that they want to test others, and the World Tree is not interested in such an attitude. Or rather, these plants think and think differently than 'humans'.

In the eyes of outsiders, the World Trees are lonely and mysterious. In fact, this is just because most people are not qualified to talk to these old antiques who have lived for a long time. But if they are recognized as qualified, the World Tree is actually very good at speaking. Who told them to live too long and be idle to panic......

Fen doesn't talk much nonsense either. After a moment of deliberation, he snapped, and in the high-five, he used the whiteboard pen technique to display the four-strand helical DNA information he had compiled in front of the trees. The sheer volume of data really shook the high-seat meeting space; Even a few of the younger World Trees were lost in the huge message for a while, and it took them a moment to get out.

Most of the World Trees are unknown, and a few ancient World Trees are thoughtful. Only the two ancients went from incomprehension to abruptness, and then showed excited looks. Yuktrasil opened his mouth and said, "Demon King, could it be that you have already mastered the secret? ”

Don't ask what it is, but how much it has been mastered. Fen had a feeling that this trip would not be in vain. He said, "What I want your help in compiling the most suitable ideal body. With a lift of his hand, the lich displayed a list of bodily parameters.

The reason why she doesn't say 'perfect', but 'ideal', is because she once argued with someone about whether 'perfection' actually exists for a while. Eventually, Fen also admitted that there would only be the most suitable one, and it would be impossible to find perfection. Even her own body, she agrees that there are deficiencies in certain areas. She was just able to make up for this shortcoming in other ways.

Although he made his request, Fen did not discuss it with the World Tree right away, but said, "Lin and I have studied all the Homo sapiens races in the Lost Land, and found that all races seem to have the same origin. But I don't know why, but they have developed into a race with different appearances, different habits, and different cultures. Does this matter have anything to do with you? ”

In the face of Fen's questioning, all the World Trees focused their attention on the two Ancient Ones. For outsiders, the obscure history is only a part of the inheritance of the World Tree, so all the trees know the answer to this question.

Eugtrasil and Fassnath did not hesitate and directly unfolded a secret record. This is a special symbol that resembles a text, but is not a text, and is a special way of inheritance between the World Trees. It will allow the viewer to experience a past memory from the perspective of a third person. Although it cannot be interfered with, it can be experienced in its entirety, which can be called the best embodiment of a thousand years of dreams.

In my memory, there is a creature that resembles a human, but is shorter, hairy, and walks on a rickets, which the World Tree calls 'Primitive'. These bodies will act according to the orders of the World Tree. But they are rather clumsy, sluggish, and weak.

Then the memory screen turned, and countless vines captured the body, dragging them into a mire that emitted an eerie glow. Some will weaken and die, while others will develop irreversible mutations. These mutations are good and bad, and the World Tree weeds out the bad ones and leaves the good ones behind, or rather the ones that mutate in the direction they want. And then multiply, and so on from generation to generation, I don't know how long it will take.

The initial changes were of course quite subtle, but with the mutation and reproduction of generations, they have become quite far from the most primitive bodies. Some of them have become taller or shorter, their ears have become pointed, their skin color, hair color, and pupil color have changed, and they have even had several pairs of arms, or their feet have become a snake's tail, their lower body has become similar to that of a horse, and their heads have become bull's.

Eventually, the group of mutants left behind was the many Homo sapiens races in today's Lost Land.

Detached from his memory, Fen immediately asked, "The swamp that caused the mutation of the body is the legendary 'Rui' soil?" ”

"Oh, Demon King, you know 'Rui'." Fasnas said appreciatively.

"From the mouths of some of the Old Gods. There is a theory of the origin of the gods, such as the mother of the gods, and there is also a theory of the origin of the earth. Gaia, the mother of the gods, is actually the primordial consciousness of the Lost Land, which I destroyed once. I didn't kill it all, although at that time I really wanted to really destroy the world. ——”

The melon-eating crowd was startled. Playing like this, I didn't play the end of the world! It means that the will to survive in this world is strong.

"—However, the origin of the earth is 'Rui', but I have only heard of this name, and I have not been able to find any trace of it. Even the memories of the old gods are permeated, and they only know their concepts, but they do not know their whereabouts. It never occurred to me that Rui was just an object, not a soul. Where can I still find 'Rui'? ”

"Unfortunately, Demon King, there are no more. I and the people created by my generation, there is the amazing and brilliant one who knows the magic of 'Rui', and occupies it exclusively and achieves his own body. Not only did they become heroes and lead their clansmen to fight in all directions, but some even took advantage of the power of the mountains, rivers, sun and moon to achieve the mystery of their own bodies, that is, the original gods. The first thing these gods accomplished was to destroy all the Rui on the grounds that they would no longer let their people suffer from that change. There is nothing left. ”

"Yes." Now that he knew the result, Fen didn't continue to dig deeper. Maybe she wasn't familiar with the World Trees, but she at least knew that 'lying' didn't make sense to these plants.

Instead, Lin asked, "You just watched those first-generation gods destroy your so-called 'Rui' soil." ”

"Your Excellency, everything has its own destiny. It is natural that we were caught off guard by that group of gods, but it was not an opportunity for that kind of trick to withdraw from the stage of the maze. There is no point in regretting what has already happened. Yuktrasil said in a tone of course.

Regarding this statement full of fateful views, Lin knew that it really made no sense to continue the discussion. So he asked another puzzle that was plaguing: "Since all the Homo sapiens species in the Lost Land have been transformed by you." Why are the tribes of the World Tree now dominated by elves? ”

"Humanity, war is the best litmus test. The Great Wars of the past have proven that elves are the best controllable tool for us. Compared with the indifference of the dwarves, the power of goblins and gnomes, the betrayal of orcs and ogres, and the unpredictability of humans, it is inevitable that these races will be transformed and the World Tree they rely on. In the end, it can only become the basis of our promotion, as well as a memory. Fassnath said.

Oh, the implication is that these seemingly wise and long-lived bigwigs also make things out of their control. Then some trees played themselves to death, and some trees survived. Watching self-explosion and seeking death is not the patent of human beings.

Let's not talk about whether the material named 'Rui' is some kind of radioactive material as someone imagined. The whole process of the birth of the Homo sapiens race sounds like a mysterious version of 'agricultural and animal husbandry breed improvement' in the forest.

It's just that on the earth, this is dominated by humans, most of them are used in food such as vegetables and fruits, and a small part is used on animals such as pigs, sheep and cows. But at most, it is through cross-breeding, and some are genetically modified, so that the breed is improved. However, in the mistery, it has become dominated by plants, and destructive and variable substances are used to speed up the process of improving the entire variety.

Perhaps from the standpoint of human beings, they will find this kind of behavior cruel. But it's like when people on earth carry out breed improvement, or even genetic modification, they do not ask the feelings of the target plants and animals. How ridiculous it would be to expect the World Tree to stand on a humane standpoint and sympathize with the people or so-called 'bodies' that they are playing with.

In other words, the word 'humanity' is inherently full of human arrogance and arrogance. In the face of nature, how is the difference between man and ants?

After living in the Lost Land for a long time, one has long forgotten the pride of being the spirit of all things, and there are so many things here that can blow those so-called geniuses to the fullest. So he didn't want to discuss with the World Trees what they were doing in those distant days.

Fen doesn't care about this kind of thing even more. If the World Tree plays with an entire race, it is what happened a distant time ago; As a lich and necromancer, her past actions are more cruel, inhumane, and even more recent.

So even the one next to him, someone can't manage it, and he doesn't want to care about it, how can he care about the behavior of more than 20 world trees?

When you should eat, you should sleep, and when you should burst your liver, you will obediently sacrifice your liver, and carry out the life of social animals to the end, there is nothing to discuss. Now someone cares about only one thing. "So, do you think there's a problem with their qualifications?" This sentence is for Fen.

Reining in his previous arrogant aura, Fen greeted the four directions with the ancient etiquette of a magician, and said, "No problem, I believe you can play a great role in my research." So the second question is, are you interested? ”