Chapter 140 (1/2)
”Before I begin, allow me to ask one more question.”
Standing in the middle of the long house, Loren was surrounded by the Elven elders. He gently raised his right hand with a smile and snapped his fingers: ”what you want from me is the truth... Or the truth you want?”
The elders, who had a gentle look, suddenly cooled down. Elder boon coughed: ”Lord Loren Turin, we invite you to come here to...”
”I want to tell you respected elders that everything that happened in the big wall was an accident and had nothing to do with any external factors!”
Robbed of the words, Loren continued to say: ”this year's ogre invasion is no different from the past. As long as the eastern elves unite as one, they will be able to overcome difficulties and defeat strong enemies... In short, that's all. Where I'm wrong, I hope to point out my mistakes.”
”You...”
”If you really want to listen to my nonsense, I don't need to stay any longer, let alone provide any support from the Principality of lottel!” after a farewell ceremony, Loren's tone was full of ridicule: ”may you win, defeat the strong enemy, and I'll leave first!”
”Stop --!”
As soon as the dark haired wizard turned around, the elder born sitting in the chair directly stood up: ”Lord Loren Turin, we regard you as a guest, but we don't give you the right to humiliate us at will!”
”This is the morning star forest, not where you can go in and out at will!” another elder roared angrily: ”if you don't want to help us, what's your heart?”
Loren, who turned his back to the elves elders, slightly tilted his mouth, but deliberately shook his head and spread out his hands: ”I thought I had proved with action what I came to do.”
The elder elves who had just stood up were speechless at once - they had heard about the big wall from Luka's mouth. Without this human wizard, it would be nonsense to recapture the gap.
Now, it's a joke that I have to question the other party's heart.
”Please forgive our improper use of words, but please don't try to provoke us.” calm down and reach a tacit understanding with the elders around. Elder boon slowly said, ”if you really find something, we are willing to listen and then make a judgment.”
After pondering for a moment, Loren's eyes always focused on elder boon - the elf elder is the most authoritative one in the morning star forest, and he is the only one he wants to convince.
”I want you to tell me how much you know about ogres?”
”It's clear.” elder Boone sat steadily in his chair, with a proud look on his face: ”I used to be a war dancer. There can't be a second elf in the whole morning star forest settlement, or even the whole eastern forest who knows these monsters better than me.”
”That's why I don't believe these monsters will master any strange power, or suddenly become smart - they are very terrible monsters, extremely cruel, but it doesn't mean they have brains!”
”They have no brains, but they still have faith.” Loren said faintly, ”just as elves believe in the power of ancient wood, ogres also believe in gods... Of course, they must be evil gods.”
”Yes, they often hold a huge ceremony after slaughtering an elf settlement, if you call it a ceremony.” elder boon's expression became heavy:
”We call it 'mazka' because that's what the ogres call it.”
”Have you heard it once?”
”Only once.” elder boon looked very ugly: ”maybe in your opinion, we will only shrink behind the big tree wall, but in fact, the war dancers in the morning star forest have also expedited outside the wall, fought with ogres farther away in the ancient wood forest, and even rebuilt the ancient settlement!”
”Yes, once the settlements of elves in the eastern forest were all over the big trees and walls, and the brave war dancers even hunted giant monsters in the wilderness of the south.”
The black haired wizard nodded slightly: ”but now the power of the ogre has spread all over the big wall, and the former settlements no longer exist.”
This is one of the biggest advantages of Asriel. As long as Loren spends little time scanning the treasures of the morning star forest settlement, he can ”keep all the contents in mind” and take them out when necessary.
”Not all.” elder boon replied coldly, ”we once revived the night forest outside the big tree wall, where the cloud canopy trees are as old as the morning star forest. Unfortunately, we failed.”