It was nearly noon, and from a distance, it seemed that there were light black butterflies dancing on the ancient tree of life, and it was the dark elves who were constantly busy.

Di Xue lay on the trunk of the Ancient Tree of Life, her hands resting behind her head, squinting her eyes and enjoying the breeze blowing through her hair, the light and shadow across her face, the warm atmosphere of Greenstod made him feel extra relaxed and act casually.

Taylor was still sitting, chatting with Di Xue lying beside him from time to time, and both of them enjoyed the rare tranquility.

Di Xue said lazily, "Taylor, how long have we not been together like this?"

Taylor recalled, "Probably, for a long time. ”

Once upon a time, when Taylor first came to the Eternal City, Di Xue would take her to look at the clouds in her own cloud breeze, and when there were no clouds, she would look at the view of the Eternal City at her feet.

At that time, girls and teenagers in their prime would get along almost every day.

Remembering when he was a child, Taylor burst out laughing: "Do you remember when I first followed you, I asked you, what should I do, and how did you answer?"

Di Xue's eyes were still slightly narrowed, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she said, "Of course I remember, I said, I don't know what to let you do, you can play with me." ”

Then, Taylor really played with Di Xue for two or three years.

Dexue took Taylor to play in the Tower of Eternity, leading her through every floor of the Tower of Eternity, and the assassin who was still a girl was often amazed that a tower could be so big, even bigger than a city.

Taylor takes Emperor Snow to play in the Eternal City, pulling him away from the annoying royal guards, and the young prince always admires that there are so many interesting things in the lives of commoners, which are much richer and more exciting than the lives of nobles.

The most is that Hua Nian is in his youth, and that time is a memory that both of them cherish in their hearts.

When he grew up, Di Xue, as the eldest prince, had a lot of schoolwork after all, and he had to learn magic, and time suddenly became tight for him. And Taylor also began to gradually take over the affairs of the Brotherhood of Light under the arrangement of Master Herris.

The relationship between the two has not been resolved, and Taylor will often follow behind Di Xue, becoming the silent female assassin who is dressed in white and hides in the dark of her hood.

It's just that what many people don't know is that in recent years, Taylor has actually been handling affairs in the Brotherhood of Light's stronghold in Eternal City most of the time, and is not by Di Xue's side.

Only when Di Xue needs to go out, because he doesn't like to bring his entourage, His Majesty and the Empress are always not at ease, so they will let Taylor come back to protect his safety with Uncle Xu.

Although in Di Xue's opinion, this is not necessary, and it is enough to have Xu Bo by his side, but he himself doesn't know why, he really likes to have a non-talkative figure like Taylor behind him.

Sometimes when she's not there, he's not used to it.

This has created the impression of the people of Eternal City that the Great Prince of Emperor Xue is always followed by two mysterious guards, one white and one black.

"Did you know that the people of the Eternal City have nicknamed us both?"

"I don't know. ”

"The Black Old Ghost and the White Yaksha......"

"Ahahaha......"

"You have that too. ”

"What? I have it too?"

"Her Royal Highness the Ice Beauty. ”

“......”

"At least better than the Black Ghost and the White Yaksha. ”

"What a fart, these boring ladies!"

Just as Di Xue kept asking about his various nicknames, Taylor suddenly gave a boo with his hand.

Then he said sneakily, "Introduce you to a new friend." ”

She snapped a twig from the branch of an ancient tree beside her and threw it at the lake below.

The water splashed everywhere, like fireworks, and in Di Xue's surprised eyes, a beautiful mermaid broke through the water like a green carp leaping.

Her jet-black hair and pale skin were stained with water droplets on her upper body, which was particularly touching in the golden glow of Greenstod, and she swam back and forth on the surface of the lake, her body naturally resembled a real fish, and the green scales of her lower body shimmered under the surface of the lake.

Nana raised her head and said to Taylor and Dixue who were sitting on the huge branches of the ancient tree above her, "Oh, Sister Taylor, you found me again, but you didn't hit me this time, hehehe." ”

Di Xue looked at the mermaid Nana in front of her in surprise, on the Red Sea Continent, she had long thought that the mermaid race was extinct.

Taylor introduced, "Dexue, this is Nana, I'm surprised, right? You probably haven't seen the merfolk since you came to Greenstod." Nana, this is Di Xue, he is mine...... Friend. ”

The mermaid Nana gracefully spun around in the water and grinned, "It's a boyfriend, right?"

Taylor lowered his head to look at his knees, his cheeks were faintly crimson, and Di Xue said naturally: "Hello Nana, I'm Taylor's boyfriend, Greenstod is really an amazing place, isn't it said that the merfolk have long been extinct?"

Nana blinked her big eyes, and there were still a little drops of water on her long eyelashes, the mermaid and elves were indeed the same beautiful race as the legend, she said: "Doesn't the legend say that the dark elves are also extinct? haha, our ancestors came here with the dark elves, and in a long time ago, our two races were friends." ”

A certain shy girl finally became a little more natural, Taylor raised her head and said: "There are a certain number of merfolk living here, no less than the dark elf clan, but Nana's clan doesn't like to surface, so you haven't seen it in the past two days." They have a palace at the bottom of this lake, and I'll dive down to see it when I'm healed. ”

Di Xue said: "If you want to go, I'll take you there now." ”

Taylor said, "Uh...... No need. ”

Although he said no, of course he still thought about it in his heart.

Nana said at this time: "Hehe, even if you want to go, you can't go, today is the Yuan Rite Festival, and now the people are busy and crazy, Priest Weiner will come and invite you to the dinner tonight." ”

Taylor asked, "Yuan Etiquette?"

Nana said, "You'll know in the evening, there's going to be a beautiful show tonight!"

Taylor said: "You still sold us Guanzi, you said that you are very busy down here, so why did you still come here?"

Nana playfully said, "Of course I sneaked out to play." ”

As the saying goes, two women will always have endless things to say when they are together, and Nana and Taylor immediately discussed the special festival of the dark elves and mermaids, the Yuan Rites, and put Dixue aside for a while.

"Rites, it's to celebrate the first day of the Dark Elves and Merfolk coming to Greenstod.

More than 1,000 years ago today, our ancestors were transported here by the magic of the god Dichen, and found a living environment here that was several times superior to the past. The ancestors of the Dark Elves immediately began to build houses on the Ancient Tree of Life, and the ancestors of the Merfolk began to set up magic circles under the central lake to teleport the ancient palaces of our old lands.

When the busy day was over, the ancestors threw flowers and drank wine to celebrate, and the Dark Elf King and the Mermaid King of that generation jointly announced that today was the common festival of the two races - the Yuan Rite Festival, and since then, the Yuan Rite Festival has become the most important festival of the year for our two races......"

Nana's description, though brief, is still like an old picture scroll unfolding in front of you, and one can't help but think of that nascent era.

However, Di Xue only noticed four words, and he said with a strange face: "Di Chen...... Great God?"

When it came to the "Emperor God", Nana's eyes were immediately full of little stars, and she said in a heart-warming manner: "Yes, the Emperor God is a very great person, and we have a portrait of him in our clan, I have seen it, he is so handsome...... I heard that Brother Di Xue is a descendant of the Great God of Emperor Chen? ”

Then Nana muttered again, "I didn't recognize it at first......"

Di Xue said, "What are you talking about?"

Nana was a little nervous and said, "Uh, no, it's nothing. ”

Taylor covered her mouth and snickered, and Dexue was confused.

"It's not too early, I'm going back, or they'll find out I'm lazy and run out, Sister Taylor, Brother Dixue, see you in the evening!" Then Nana swam away with a glittering herring tail.

Di Xue looked at Nana Youyuan's figure and said, "What a strange mermaid girl. ”

Taylor said, "Nana is just innocent, and everyone here is like that. ”

Di Xue said: "Anyway, I didn't realize that she was so close to us at the beginning, her ability to conceal herself is really not ordinarily strong, as if she can merge with water." I don't think her cultivation is very high, is this some special skill of the mermaid clan?"

"You guessed it, this is a special talent of the merfolk people, when they are in the water, they can fully merge with the water element, you will be difficult to find them. Taylor explained.

Di Xue said strangely: "Then how did you find her?"

Taylor replied, "You perceive mentally, but I use my eyes and ears." ”

As soon as these words came out, Di Xue became clear, he was a magician, and the magician obtained the ability to monitor environmental changes within a certain range of his body by controlling the spread and radiation of his own spiritual power, in this range, the magician can perceive a change in the environment, and the higher the realm, the wider the range that the magician can perceive.

Taylor is a warrior, and the warrior perceives the changes in the environment around him by sight and hearing, and when Nana approaches them, the mermaid's natural affinity for water and water are one and the same trait hides Dixue's perception, but Taylor sees the reflection of the herring tail underwater as she swims.

It can only be said that the water of this underground lake where the ancient tree of life is rooted is too clear.

Not long after the mermaid Nana left, another dark elf gracefully waved her beautiful black butterfly wings and floated down from the top of the Ancient Tree of Life, and flew to the place where Emperor Snow and Taylor were.

"Ah, Dexue and Taylor, so you're here. High Priest Weiner said.

Di Xue and Taylor looked at each other and smiled, Di Xue said, "I'll accompany Taylor out for a walk." ”

Weiner said: "I see, I am here to invite you to tonight's Yuan Rite Feast, autumn is also the harvest season for us Dark Elves, in order to celebrate the autumn harvest and the first day we came to Greenstod thousands of years ago, every year today we will hold a grand Yuan Rite Gala, especially this year, there will be a very wonderful performance." ”

Taylor said, "Thank you High Priest for the invitation, Nana has just told us that we will have this banquet tonight. ”

Weiner smiled: "Nana, this little girl, ran out to be lazy again." Now that you already know, I will come directly to take you to the top of the Ancient Tree of Life in the evening, and we will see you in the evening. I'm sorry I can't talk to you anymore, but I still have a lot of things to do for the event. ”

Di Xue said, "Priest Weiner, go and get busy, Taylor and I will be waiting for you in her cabin in the evening." ”

The High Priest of Weiner floated away again, and on top of the lush ancient tree of life, the dark elves were decorating the branches of the giant tree, building a strange magic array, preparing for tonight's Yuan Rite Festival.

The central lake where the ancient tree was rooted was still calm, but Di Xue could feel at this time that there was a huge magic array slowly reviving under the calm lake, and the vast magical energy made him a little surprised.