Golden armor, standing on the earth.

Titus froze. He'd seen other armor, and the brocade guard was wearing it now, but it was the first time he'd seen it so golden.

"It's . What are you going to wear? ”

"No, automatic." Shang Luo climbed up and poured a bottle of Qi into the place where Apollonia was supposed to be stuffed.

"Okay." He pulled out his phone, clicked on the app, and slid the virtual joystick.

With a clang, the golden armor jumped out of the box and fell to the ground. Shang Luo also pulled out the spear of the Sun God and stuffed it into Jin Jia's hand.

"Then I'll go first, I'll see you later, and we'll meet in a moment."

"See you later!" The other three in the car all waved at him. Shang Luo had ventilated before, saying that this was "Imperial Sword Technique".

Sword cultivation can be used to resist swords, although real flying swords, like other "explicit" techniques, need to become a celestial before they can do it. But Shang Luo has been digging out the "Innate Spirit Treasure", and there is nothing special about him being able to use the sword.

With the truck, they headed away in the other direction of the forest, except for Titus, who kept looking at the golden armor that could "run autonomously", and never came back to his senses.

"Let's go too." With a step, he followed Jin Jia into the forest.

The moon has risen, which is the most traditional, way of starting the ritual. Enter the Sacred Forest as a stranger at moonrise and meet the King of the Forest.

There are shallow paths in the dense forest. Judging from the width, it seems that this is not left by humans, but by the path of animals such as wild boars that are often walked. The weeds were ankle-high, but it was impossible to penetrate Shang Luo's armor.

"But just now, he seemed surprised." Shang Luo and Apollonia chatted.

"Just kidding, this is a big robot that every boy can't refuse! Ha! Jin Jia waved his white crane wings, and Apollonia's voice came directly from the microphone.

"Hey, stop playing, save some gas. Otherwise, I'll have to climb up and refuel, which will be very troublesome. But let's just talk with our voice, okay? ”

"There's no one else here, it doesn't matter."

Halfway through, she switched to another channel.

[Or do you prefer it?] 】

"I always feel like you. Well, it's like two chirps on Nezha's head. ”

[Tsk, it's really unpleasant to say that. Such a lovely Apollonia that she had to be on a specific channel to recognize my identity. Okay, okay, this armor isn't tailor-made for me anyway. Tsk, sometimes I envy those elves. 】

"By the way, Karin's situation is actually similar to your golden armor?"

[It's pretty much the same.] Apollonia reached out and looked at it. Although it's the hand of Jin Jia, it's quite easy to manipulate, [but after all, it's a big robot, I still want to be more cute.] 】

"Cuter female robots?"

[No, more lovely people.] But the refinement of the human body is one of the highest achievements of alchemy, so I have to spend the night in your phone. 】

"And how did Karin's body come about?"

Karin's body is her own, you don't think that the elves can create another body. No, although imitation is magic, the consciousness of imitation cannot be born out of thin air. Theoretically, she has exactly the same personality as Karin, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to grow up like Karin. 】

"Isn't the body important?"

[No, the human body is not important, what matters is the light of the human being. Alchemy doesn't really want a human body if it wants to refine the human body, they are human themselves, aren't they? Bodies are everywhere. They just want to peek into the divine power refined by the human body and study the principles therein, so as to achieve their own immortality. For elves, the body is even less important. So after they took Karin's light, the body itself remained. 】

"Karin, then."

There is one thing he has been thinking about:

"Do you think Karin will become a fountain elf, ahead of us?"

[Possibly.] But there are many elves in the spring, and it may not be Karin in front of you. 】

"Well, I'm looking forward to what Karin will look like now."

As previously stated in the pre-war briefing, the most critical ingredient of the Fountain Elf is that it is large.

If you want to find the closest image, then the counterpart to the spring elf should be the Greek mythological nymph elves, some maidens wearing flower crowns.

It's just that this girl is a little big, with an average height of about 2.4 meters, which will vary depending on the individual, but without exception, she is wearing heavy armor that covers her whole body, and only her golden hair and pointed ears stick out of the gap in the helmet.

Their weapons are two-handed greatswords, which are larger than a person's height, but are the size of a normal two-handed sword for the Fountain Elves.

According to the guide, they will show the graceful swordsmanship of dancing. In many cases, some of them are closer to dance than to sword skills, as if the "perfect presentation" of the sword dance itself is more important than killing the enemy. There are even a few flaws, but they are not so easy to catch in the face of the delicate sword dance.

And once they are defeated and their enslavement is released, the wrath of the Fountain Elves will burn into a furious wave, leaving all the dancing and the like behind. They will smear their armor with blood, and use sheer strength and speed to cut everything in their path. Titus mentions a time when an angry Fountain Elf slew the King of the Forest by himself, breaking it into countless pieces, and that the Golden Bough was exceptionally energetic that year.

This is what Titus called "whitewashing three times stronger". Because after whitewashing, it will be furious, and tripling is just a conservative estimate. Directly killing the Forest King himself with his anger is obviously more than three times.

"In other words, what would have become if there had been no salvation?"

"I will continue to stay.] The lifespan of an elf has no temporal significance, it is related to the task. If they are not liberated, they will always be on guard. When it's all over, if their obsessions are let go, then they should disappear. The light that has been stripped of its body will return to the light, but it is also an obsession to continue to live as a human being. Karin shouldn't be so easy to lose faith in life, because the character of the mimetic is exactly the same as Karin's. Since the imitation. No, since Karin at home cherishes her life so much, this one in the forest should not leave so easily. 】

"What would her life be like if she did become a fountain elf?"

[Probably, it will be like a dream, maybe in a dream I did something that I would never do when I was awake.] The best way to describe it is a dream, because time does not have a 'linear' meaning to the elf, just as life cannot constrain the elf. However, when you wake up from the dream, the memories in the dream will quickly fade. 】

"I hope so. I hope that after the long dream, she can return to her original life, and then I will find Karin at home a job for Alexander, which will be more complete. Oh, I'm so tired. ”

[What for?] You're tired, and then what? Do you want me to carry you? 】

"I don't want to, but I just can't walk. This thing weighs dozens of pounds, which is too heavy. ”

(End of chapter)