Chapter 61: The Heart of the Mother Tree
No one thought that there would be an accident that they couldn't go back.
Spence grabbed Ollie and Arya back to the canvas.
"Haven't you found your way back yet?" Shino asked, taking a moment out of the battle.
"No, Joan and I tried all over the approximate location where we fell, but we couldn't find the root when we came down!"
"Is it possible that someone has sealed it from the inside?" said Shino, who asked Ollie.
"I don't know, I've only come down once before. ”
The dark elves who were attacking while they were talking suddenly retreated, but Shino and the others immediately became alert, which was by no means a good sign.
Sure enough, there was a slight vibration under his feet, and it was the sound of breaking ground.
"All off the ground. Shino roared and volleyed into the air.
Spence and Joan, who had just landed, flew up again, and Arthur instantly launched his gliding spell and slid into the air.
Before the feet of a few people left the ground, huge black vines covered with spikes emerged from the ground. After the vines were unearthed, they grew rapidly and rolled towards several people in the air.
There are also natural magicians among the dark elves! It seems that their level of civilization is not much lower than that of the elves on the ground?
Sino's sword swung and the vines were slashed one after another.
It's just that the severed vines continue to grow rapidly, and more and more vines break through the ground to form a continuous forest of vines, and there is no place to stay on the ground.
The more vines that break the ground, the more vine tentacles will roll into the air, and Sino already needs to continuously swing his sword to cut off all the vines that reach under his feet, and if this continues, the fighting spirit of the warrior will be exhausted.
Joan helped throw a cloud of fire into the ground, but she was completely dumbfounded after the cloud of fire, and none of the thick black vines burned off.
Arthur, who relied on gliding to dodge, was even worse, except for running farther and farther, he was helpless against these vines, and many dark elves had already chased after him.
"Is there any other way back?" Shino asked Ollie urgently, he was already gasping for breath.
Ollie replied without tears: "There are still many passages down, but I don't know where exactly?"
Ollie was only a captain-level elf, and the slightest bit of secrecy wouldn't reach him.
Shino was already anxious, "Think about it carefully! There must be a way to go back! If you really can't go back, I'll throw you down first, and then turn against you, those dark elves must have a way to fight back to the ground." ”
Shino is not exactly scaring Ollie, there are legends about the dark elves on the continent, which means that these dark elves must have appeared on the ground, and they must have a way to return to the ground.
"Don't throw, don't throw, I'm thinking!" Ollie was terrified, he had heard of what happened to those dark elves.
In a hurry, Ollie's memory was really stimulated, "I remember, it is said that there is a largest passage near the mother's heart, but I have never been there!"
Sino reacted instantly, the "mother's heart" in Ollie's mouth is the heart of the elf mother tree, and the position of the heart of the tree is naturally in the middle.
"Let's go. This time, without Ollie leading the way, Shino flew all the way to the middle position, and after flying a few hundred meters, he also picked up Arthur, who was being chased by the dark elves and desperately escaped.
The speed at which several people flew through the air quickly shook off the pursuing dark elves.
The diameter of the Elven Mother Tree on the ground was more than the size of a medium-sized city of the Terrans, but they didn't expect the root diameter area under the ground to be even larger, and Shino and the others flew for half an hour before they began to approach the center of the tree.
The closer you get to the center of the tree, the greener the light becomes, and the wobbling roots grow thicker, some of which have hung down to the ground, and the ends of the roots have dug into the dirt again.
Eventually, the distance between the tendrils was so dense that Shino and the others had to abandon the flight and return to the ground.
Arthur and Shino had fantasized about the heart of the Elven Mother Tree on the road, but the moment they actually saw it, they were deeply shocked!
It was a huge green ball of light, more than 100 meters in diameter, buried in the soil on both sides, and wrapped in emerald green roots on the periphery, and a rich green light penetrated through the cracks in the roots.
Far away, you could feel the surging breath of life energy emanating from it, and if Ollie hadn't been caught under Spence, he would have already prostrated on the ground and began to worship.
"Where's the way back? Not in the heart of the tree?"
Ollie hurriedly denied it, "No, except for the Elven Queen, who has been approved by the mother, there is no way for anyone to enter the mother's heart! ”
"Let's spread out and look for it. Shino flew to the top of those tendrils again.
"We're here to help, too. Spence handed Arya to Arthur, put Ollie down for the time being, and flew up with Joan to find the entrance.
At the top, the thick roots are almost next to each other, and it is not particularly difficult to find.
It didn't take long for Joan to shout excitedly: "Here!"
In front of Joan was a thick root with a diameter of more than ten meters, and through the green magic light curtain, you could vaguely see the wide passage entrance inside, and there seemed to be many elven warriors guarding it.
Joan flew excitedly into the light curtain, and when she came out, she felt like she was passing through a curtain of water, and instead of appearing again, she was bounced back.
Joan adjusted the angle and tried again, still being blocked out of the light curtain.
Both Shino and Spence's faces turned very ugly, and now it was finally confirmed that their way back was blocked.
The green light curtain in front of him was not the layer of magical protection spontaneously generated by the Elven Mother Tree, and even now, it was under the control of others.
"Get out of the way, I'll try it!" The long sword in Shino's hand began to condense, and instantly turned into a giant sword more than ten meters long and slashed down with one sword.
The thick tendrils were cut three or four meters deep by this sword, but the magic light curtain at the top of the roots that covered the entrance of the passage did not change at all.
The unwilling Sino then slashed out the second and third swords with all his strength, and the three swords fell, with a rumbling sound, and the thick roots were completely cut off and fell to the ground, completely revealing the passage that was still closed by the magic light curtain.
"Bastard!" Shino couldn't help but scold angrily, they had been deceived by the Elven Great Elder, and I was afraid that Thrani had let them come down and send them to death.
"Shino, help!" came Arthur's hurried shout below.
Arthur was holding Arya and was using his gliding technique to quickly flee in the direction of the heart of the mother tree, chasing several swift black shadows behind him, and the speed was still above Arthur's gliding technique.
The sound of Shino chopping through the roots just now drew the dark elves back in.
These dark elf warriors who appeared were stronger than the previous ones, and Arthur was no match for them one-on-one. Therefore, when Arthur saw these dark elves rushing towards him, he did not hesitate for a second, and even ignored Ollie beside him, Arthur picked up Arya and turned to run, and at the same time shouted for help.
Ollie, who didn't run away, was decapitated by a sword when the dark elves passed by.
"Don't!"
Shino flew madly towards the dark elves who were chasing Arthur, because Arthur had no way to escape, and the huge elven mother tree heart stopped in front of Arthur.
The Dark Elves had chased after Arthur, their daggers stabbing him in the back of the heart.
Then it was Arthur who leaped into the heart of the green mother tree under the incredible gaze of everyone......