(Guaranteed Chapter 1)

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"Ahem...... You still have to pay attention, you are about to arrive at the center of this nightingale collar, Yuanmu Tree City. ”

The elven princess, who was alone on a unicorn riding briskly beside her, showed a very disdainful expression, although Hade was careful not to "stabilize" Wella's mood in the presence of other bystanders, but Ingrid and Raizel, the leprechaun, could see clearly with two pairs of eyes, one large and one small.

Even if he was as thick-skinned as Hade, he felt a little uncomfortable, and deliberately changed the topic to Raizel, who was sitting on the spiral horn on the unicorn's head, with a curious face, and asked, "Is there a fairy workshop or temporary residence nearby?"

Originally, it was just a matter of finding something to say, but Raizel nodded: "Just now I sent out the word of the goblin, and I received a few responses, there are a total of twenty-three companions in this elven territory, and they are all concentrated in the center of the source wood tree city Nightingale City. ”

"Oh?" the name of the territory reminded Hide of the Golden Feather Nightingale of the Source Spirit released by the unknown elf druid last night.

Wella has shrunk into a half-sleep state in Made's arms, although she can divert her attention by kissing, but this is a palliative, not a curative method after all, and the fierce conflict of emotional changes is actually quite physically demanding, so Wella, who has the strongest overall strength, is now the weakest part of Hide's group.

"Anyway, first go and meet the lord of this territory, Your Royal Highness Princess, remember the way I told you to deal with it. ”

Ingrid didn't have a problem either, she actually wanted to get to the big city where Shijie Tree was located as soon as possible, and then find a way to get rid of these two humans.

The center of this nightingale collar is the source tree city. It's a relatively small tree city, and the source wood tree city is usually a giant tree carefully cultivated by the elves using the seeds of the source wood shijie tree. The druids, a plant breeder who specializes in the cultivation of source trees, improved and catalyzed the growth of source trees, so that the trunk of source trees covers an area of two or three square kilometers to ten square kilometers. The root branches and branches of the pillars are intertwined and stretch and expand in all directions, forming a peculiar three-dimensional flora shape.

In particular, the main trunk and various branches form a hollow of different sizes, and then carefully cut out the portal window, it is a natural tree house, but also the elves live in the permanent residence, and according to different hobbies, you can add vines and other small parasitic plants to form balconies, stairs and other structures, in short, it becomes a unique wooden town.

Although more than 90% of the entire town structure is made up of wood-structure plants, it has been improved by various special plants. It also has a wide range of applications, and with a variety of special living facilities, even if you build a fire in the house for cooking or heating, you will not have to worry about causing a fire or anything. After all, the elves in this shijie are not vegetarians who only eat fruits, and they also refuse all kinds of cooked meat, but generally speaking, the taste is lighter than that of humans.

"The Source Wood Tree City in this territory seems to be composed of a mixture of many small Source Wood Trees, which is a town that has not been created for a long time. "Head, who travels through the city of Genwood Tree, estimates that this town will not be more than a hundred years old, according to the concept of elves. It's definitely a newly built new town.

When she met the patrolling elven militia on the periphery, Ingrid also identified herself, so before she reached the center of the town, the lord of Nightingale City had already come out to greet her very warmly. It seems that the name of the elf princess is still very useful.

"It is a great honor to welcome Her Royal Highness to Nightingale City. ”

The lord of Nightingale City, Count Molly, is a petite female light elf with supple blonde hair and attractive blue eyes. The appearance is naturally very beautiful, which is a typical elf female imagination. Listen to her introduction, her full name is Molly Nightingale Wright.

However, judging from her height of less than one meter six. There should be no high elf blood, and the age doesn't seem to be too big, and it is estimated that Hade will not be more than three hundred years old, and as far as ordinary elves are concerned, they can only be regarded as youth, and it is really rare to be able to become a lord and have the title of earl.

The six-leaf tattoo on the upper arm of the elf's left arm suggests that she is only a six-leaf elf, but Hade feels that the power of nature emanating from her body feels a little incongruous, not quite like the pure force of nature. And it should be more than the strength of the six leaves, and the accumulation of pure source power is probably slightly deeper than herself, that is to say, she should have the strength of the eighth order, which is equivalent to the seven-leaf elf.

It's a bit strange, but Hede doesn't really care about it, and there are a minority of elves who are reluctant to declare their actual class strength, and it's not uncommon for such elves to be mild-mannered and reluctant to fight.

Count Molly was very deferential and courteous, and personally led the group into her Earl's Palace, the central location of the Genki Tree, and then entertained Princess Ingrid and her three retinue in the circular parlor.

"I can't imagine that Her Highness Ingrid has such a powerful goblin companion, it's really enviable. Molly was quite interested in the royal goblin Raizel, and greeted Ingrid with a smile.

The little goblin in the small and delicate silver-white armor saluted without being humble or arrogant, and did not say much, but he had the demeanor of an accompanying knight.

A little goblin like Raizel is not only super powerful, but also uses a relatively unique neutral position, although in the past year, the elf empire has been semi-coercive in the management of the elf clan in the territory, but it has not completely destroyed the cooperative relationship with each other, so the elf clan is still more respected.

Although the elven princess Ingrid is considered by Hand to be an idiot many times, this kind of pure aristocratic communication can still be handled easily, and after a few polite words, she began to get to the point, mentioning the request to borrow the dragon.

“...... I found some documents with more historical research value in the ruins of the Golden Tomb, and Uncle Bashamu was also very interested in them, so I wanted to rush to Bashamu City as soon as possible to discuss the historical materials recorded in these documents with my uncle. Therefore, I hope that the Nightingale Lord can temporarily borrow two Wyverns for me and my subordinates to hurry, and I believe that Uncle Bashamu will be greatly appreciated when he knows the generous help of the Nightingale Lord. ”

Ingrid made a request in accordance with the words of discussing Haode with Hade in advance, and deliberately dragged Duke Bashamu, one of the twelve Grand Dukes of the Elph Elven Empire. Use the power of the grand duke to make this female lord more concerned, so as not to take this elf princess with little status seriously.

Lord Molly frowned slightly and stroked the starfish pearl necklace around her neck. A little embarrassed, he said softly: "Originally, there was no problem, but the four dragon knights under me are currently on a mission. Now only my own Wyvern mount remains in the territory, and in the coldest weather of this cold season, I am afraid that a Wyvern will not be able to carry His Highness and three followers. ”

Ingrid asked curiously, "Why does Lord Molly's Wyvern Knight also go out on a mission in this season?"

"It's not a big deal, but some time ago, the patrol team on the northwest border captured a group of slave catchers and rescued nearly 200 compatriots, most of whom belong to the residents of my territory, so I sent some guards to pick up the subjects of the territory, and I will probably return tomorrow night." ”

Lord Molly glanced at the elven princess who obviously showed a disappointed look, and thoughtfully suggested, "Why don't Your Highness Ingrid rest in my territory for a day." I immediately sent someone to inform Lord Bashamu, asking him to send a team of dragons to meet His Highness, and when my subordinate dragon knights return tomorrow, I will lend three dragons for Her Highness the princess and her two followers to leave first, so that you and the dragon team sent by Lord Bashamu can meet halfway, how about that?"

"That's ......", Ingrid hesitated, this result is actually not bad. But she didn't dare to say yes without Have's consent.

Standing behind her in a loyal guard posture, Hade frowned slightly, conveying a sense of consent to Ingrid by connecting the boundary.

The two sides reached an agreement, and the elven princess relaxed, and began to chat with the nightingale lord about the elven nobles' favorite artwork and other topics. After a while, they were all excited and ready to go to the personal art collection room that every elf nobleman would have to look at the collection.

Beard and Wella, who looked very tired, were taken by the servants to rest in a room-sized tree-hearted house in the inner courtyard of the Nightingale Lord's mansion.

Hade had attached a small liquid magic orb to the elven princess's hair ornament as a medium for surveillance, observing the movements of Ingrid and the Countess Molly and eavesdropping on their conversations. And he also released a number of small magic gold bubbles to scout around for various situations.

But the two elven women were clearly talking about high art, and Head listened to the two elves talking in his left ear and out of his right ear. While observing the environment and the layout and personnel composition of this lord's Yuanmu Tree Mansion.

"This elf seems to be a moderate, and there are many human servants in the mansion. It seems that the living environment of these humans is not bad. ”

Hade remembered the human slaves he saw on the periphery of Nightingale's territory, maybe from a human point of view, they were treated very miserably, but Hade, who was familiar with the situation of human slaves in many places, could see that the humans in this territory were actually very happy, at least in the cold season, many people had simple leather jackets and vests to keep out the cold, leather shoes to wear, and tree houses to live in, and their bodies looked relatively strong and clean, compared to human slaves in other regions, life was already quite good.

"The elven lord seems to be very fond of human-style household objects, well, the collection she admires with Ingrid also has a lot of beautiful artwork from the human realm. ”

The more Hade looked at it, the more strange he felt, thinking that this female elf lord named Molly was a very human elf, and the decorations in many tree heart houses in her mansion were very human, of course, nearly half of the servants in this lord's house were human, and the humanized arrangements in those simple little tree heart houses were not very special.

However, in the few rooms that were clearly used by her, there was a variety of human-style furniture and furnishings, and even most importantly, the bed used for sleeping and resting was different from that of most elves, and the bed used by this elven female lord was very human aristocratic four-poster bed, not the source wood hanging hammock that most elven nobles were accustomed to.

"This female elf's habits are really weird, she doesn't look like an elf at all. ”

At this time, Hade discovered a strange detail in the scene detected by the magic gold bubble hidden in the hair ornament of the elf princess's head:

From time to time, the nightingale female lord subconsciously reached out and stroked the starfish pearl neck ornament on her neck, the collar-like neck ornament was about four fingers wide, almost completely covering her long and white neck, but after all, the neck ornament was made of small round pearls, and there were still some subtle and delicate gaps where the skin on her neck could be seen.

"Those two patterns...... "Hade carefully identified for a long time, and found that this Molly Lord had two very special tattoos on his neck, especially because the elves originally liked to tattoo on their bodies, and in their daily life, they especially liked to show their satisfactory tattoos in front of other elves, which is a relatively unique taste.

But the two patterns, one is turquoise and the other is bright red, which is very inconsistent in terms of color matching at first, and does not conform to the artistic appreciation taste of the elves. And although he couldn't see the entire structure of the tattoos, Hed still roughly estimated the graphic composition of the two tattoos in his mind.

"One is supposed to be a special domination contract used by the High Elf royal family, a contract mark for natural dependents. "Hede was very sure of his judgment, that emerald green weird tattoo should be a troublesome domination contract for elves, although the name of the contract of natural dependency sounds mild, but it is actually a typical master-slave domination contract, similar to the soul contract that is rarely used in human shijie.

"Another red pattern on the back of the neck...... , which should be a special bloodline contract of the former Titan Empire. "This is also a very terrible contract of domination, very similar to the bloodline contract signed between Hede and the first guard of the empire, but the effect is more domineering, judging from the composition pattern, it is a permanent immortal contract.

And the bearer of these two contracts, the Countess Molly, was or is clearly a slave shared by a human and an elf.

"It's strange that theoretically these two contracts could be signed at the same time or one after the other, without affecting each other's role, but at least it used to be the slave of an elf and a human at the same time. I'm afraid this female lord had a hard time before. ”

After looking closely at the two red and green contract markers for a while, Hade realized that both contract marks seemed to be invalid, at least for now, the colors of the two price patterns were dull, and they didn't look like they were still working. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)