Chapter 57 Inside the Mother Tree
Arthur and his team entered the Elf Kingdom for the first time.
A part of the hollow part at the root of the Elf Mother Tree has been transformed into an Elf's Palace. The vacant space may be less than one-tenth of the diameter, but it is also a space that is even larger than the human palace.
There are no other foreign items in the palace except for the high platform and simple tables and chairs made from the mother tree itself.
The entire huge palace looks empty and ethereal.
Arthur gently stroked the palace walls with his hands, and there was a rich life energy flowing inside, which was part of the Elf Mother Tree.
Arthur finally accepted the task of the Great Elder. Putting aside the risk of the task, the opportunity to enter the Elf Mother Tree is hard to come by. Sino and Joan almost joined the task with an adventure and curiosity mentality.
There is a spiral downward staircase on the east and west sides of the Elf Palace, which is the entrance and exit of the elves usually enter the underground part of the mother tree.
The Great Elder Thranyi only sent Arthur and the others to the entrance of the stairs, and the route elf Oli, who was facing down from behind, led the way for Arthur and the others.
Oli and Shino walked at the front of the team, Spence was at the rear of the team, and Arthur and Joan protected Alia in the middle of the team. Because they were worried that Alia would not take care of her after the few people left, Arthur and the others brought the girl together.
The stairs are built very spacious, and every ten meters or so, a illuminated fluorescent stone is embedded on the cave wall, which makes the surrounding environment extremely clear. If you didn't go all the way from above, no one realized that they were actually in the body of the Elf Mother Tree and were constantly going deep into the ground.
After walking for a long time, I don’t know how many miles I have penetrated underground, and the entire team is silent.
"You look nervous?" Shino suddenly patted Oli's shoulder lightly.
Oli shivered in fear, "Where is it?"
Shino smiled, "Your movements have been exposed. Tell us, are those insects called tooth-eating ants really that scary? After all, you have so many high-level elves warriors, and it doesn't make sense no matter how many of them are under absolute combat power."
Oli smiled bitterly, "The tooth-eating ants are really difficult to deal with. In addition to those insects, there are also some small monsters that are also dangerous."
"You mean monsters, not monsters, that is, there are other things underground?" Sino keenly caught the loophole in Oli's words.
Oli had to admit it.
"It seems that you Elder Selanyi didn't tell us the truth. Those monsters are what he really wants us to deal with, right?"
“Yes, not.”
"What's the meaning?"
"We elves do have to remove insects every once in a while, but those insects will definitely encounter those little monsters during the insect killing process."
"What are the monsters you are talking about?" Joan asked curiously behind.
"I'll know when I see you." Oli only answered this sentence, and no matter how much Sino and Joan asked, they would not reveal a word.
After walking down for a while, a passage suddenly appeared in the passage that extended parallel to one layer, and Oli seemed to have seen it, and still led everyone down.
Keep going down, and every distance, such a channel leading to other directions will appear. Once, I happened to encounter several elves coming out of one channel.
Joan finally couldn't help asking curiously: "Where do these passages lead to?"
"The place to the destination of the elves." Ole's face explained expressionlessly.
"The place of home?"
"That is, the place of burial after the elves die. According to our elves' tradition, after all elves die, their bodies will return to their mother's arms and become part of their mother. Then they will wait for the next opportunity to be reborn."
Arthur instantly figured out that the dead elves corpses would be buried under the roots of the elves' mother tree and become nutrients for the elves' mother tree. However, the elves never understand this burial behavior like the human race.
Ollie continued: "For the elves who wander or die in the outside world, the ultimate wish is to return to their mother's arms."
Arthur suddenly thought of the elf Ilaya. He had made up his mind to return to Sauron Canyon sooner or later. If his corpse was still there, he would definitely send him back!
Lu Oli stopped talking, and from his increasingly nervous expression, he could guess that they were getting closer and closer to their destination.
The downward road was no longer one, but began to fork, one after another, and I don’t know how many roads lead down. And there were guarding elves warriors starting to appear on the road, with two people in groups, and a group of guard warriors every hundred meters. Judging from the direction of their defense, the danger obviously comes from underground.
The narrower the downward passage, the narrower it is, and in the end it can only allow one person to pass through. Even so, it will soon reach the end.
What appeared in front of me was a light green light curtain, just like the tree canopy covered on the ground. This is the self-protection method of the elf mother tree.
"We'll go out, there's still a distance below." Ollie was the first to get out of the light curtain.
After Oli, Shino, Arthur, Joan and others went out one by one.
After passing through the light curtain, Arthur stepped down and jumped down. It turned out that there was actually hanging outside the light curtain, and Arthur fell directly. Arthur's first idea was not to start gliding but to hug Alia who came out with him.
With a bang, Arthur's back fell heavily to the ground. Fortunately, the ground was only seven or eight meters away from where they came out, and this height did not cause any damage to the physical constitution of level five warriors.
When Arthur got up from the ground, Joan was also grinning and climbing up from the ground. The magician's body was thrown to pieces.
When Arthur raised his head, he was completely shocked by the scene in front of him!
I saw thousands of thick roots floating in the air. These roots were swinging gently like the tentacles of an octopus, because the light green light outside the roots formed a green ocean composed of floating tentacles.
Arthur and the others can no longer tell which root they came out of?
Arthur knew that these were the roots of the Elf Mother Tree. The only thing he didn't understand was how the space he was in was formed. Shouldn't all roots be rooted in the soil?
"Where are the tooth-eating ants you mentioned? Why didn't I see it?" Qiong poked Oli, the elf standing there stupidly.
"We're standing on the ant nest now!" Oli said in a crying voice.
"Ant nest? Where is it?" Qiong stomped down with her feet twice, but she felt that it seemed soft.
Qiong's body suddenly shook, and she felt that the ground around her seemed to be lower than that here.
No! They are constantly rising!
Qiong slowly lowered her head, and the cold sweat fell down instantly.
Chapter completed!