Chapter 2280 - To Be (1) (1/2)

The elders looked on silently toward Dyon's question.

In fact, they were quite impressed with this young man. He could remain as calm as Calen did in their presence. This alone proved his worth.

One shouldn't look toward Calen's lowered head as weakness. He was simply showing respect to his elders. His countenance was just as calm as Dyon's despite his still lowered gaze.

As for Dyon, since he was representing another Clan of people, it was inappropriate for him to lower his head. Though, even if Dyon wasn't, he wouldn't bother to lower his head regardless.

”If it's just cooperation for the first phase, this may be possible. However, cooperation for the second phase will be difficult.”

In a stark contradiction, the fact that Dyon downplayed the strength of his backing so severely actually made the dwarves more comfortable.

The current Dyon actually monopolized about 20-30% of the Mortal Plane. He had the tower quadrants, former sprite alliance territory, and the devil quadrants under his control.

Under normal circumstances, having such a powerful ally might be a good thing. But, it was actually the opposite for the dwarves for some reason.

”It may not be that my elders chose not to explain this to me, but rather that they have forgotten the matters of the past.” Dyon explained. ”If they hadn't, they wouldn't send me here.”

The elders nodded, agreeing with Dyon. They wouldn't casually play with the life of such a genius if they were aware of those matters.

A particular elder who stood off to Dyon front right sighed. He had greying green hair and deep-set wrinkles beneath his eyes. He looked quite like a cute old man, one that one might help cross the street. But his limbs still vibrated with power.

”Our Era was known as the Golden Era for a reason, but we were simply too ambitious. Soul research was only in its infancy so we didn't really know what we were getting ourselves into. It was only thanks to the World Tree that we didn't destroy ourselves sooner.

”The dwarves and elves were fundamentally one race of humans in the past, but our ancestors received two sets of blessings from the World Tree.”

Dyon's brows furrowed. ”The World Tree, just what level of existence is it?”

Not even for a moment had Dyon thought the World Tree was actually such a powerful existence, capable of giving birth to the pinnacle races of an Era. He had never thought much of it from the very beginning.

It wasn't that he didn't know it was powerful, but just that he believed that if it was so strong, then how did the elves and dwarves fall? It didn't make much sense.