Age of Arcane

Chapter 519 Headhunters and the Emerald Court
The clear sky flew ahead, and the air flow swept over her ice crystal wings, and the water vapor condensed into ice flowers, drawing two white snow lines on the wingtips.Going south across the busy sea route of Rage City, you will find the endless empty deep sea.

This trip to the Emerald Forest was a temporary idea, and the reason was that I received a letter from Daier yesterday evening.

Since knowing the existence of the magic spring, Dai has been looking for traces of the magic spring.For this purpose, she has gone deep into the Emerald Forest many times to conduct investigations.

During a recent investigation, Dale discovered a very strange creature.It looks like a snail, but it is very big, and the snail shell on its back is like a small house.It wanders in the forest, and its strength can easily knock down a towering tree, and can swallow the tree in a few minutes.

After Daier found the giant snail, she observed it for a month.

The range of activities of the giant snail is a clockwise spiral from the center of a circle. It will clean up all the trees and shrubs it encounters, and at the same time, lush grass will grow quickly in the places it passes.After the giant snail sorts out a territory with a diameter of about 200 meters, it will return to the center of the circle circle by circle.

Then there will be many villains in the grass.

Daier described the villain in this way:

They were no taller than my knees, dressed in grass-leaf clothes, and held sticks and "spears" made of sharp stones.They spend most of their time hiding in the spiral grass, and the dense grass higher than them is the best hiding place.

Sometimes the villain will go out hunting.They are superb hunters and can easily kill small animals such as mice.But for the Emerald Forest, full of all kinds of large beasts and otherworldly creatures, the power of the little people is still too weak.

I saw them try to kill a python, but it was too big for them.

After being swallowed by a boa constrictor, the others ran back to the Spiral Meadow in panic.At that time, I was hiding on a big tree outside the grass, and I saw these small people around the giant snail... I don’t know if I should continue to call it a giant snail, because it has not moved since it returned to the center of the circle , From a distance, the snail shell seems to be empty.

Those villains sang and danced around the giant snail, as if they were completing some kind of sacrificial ceremony.

Then the next day I saw a special guy appear in the villain.He was extremely agile, like a dexterous squirrel, wearing simple bone armor and a very sharp bone knife as a weapon.

This special guy followed the group of villains to find the python he met yesterday, and soon the python that the group of villains couldn't handle was killed by that special guy.

Two days later, the little man who went out to hunt met a Timber Wolf.The wolf possessed some wind-attribute skills, and killed the villains and ran wildly. Even the villain in bone armor had no choice but to escape.

The same thing happened again, the little people sang and danced around the giant snail, and the next day they had a mage.

The lone wolf became their dinner.

In my observation, I found that as long as the villains encounter prey that they can't handle, they will hold a sacrificial ceremony around the giant snail, and the next day their colony will have more powerful companions.There are bone armor villains, there are mage villains, and later I saw cavalry riding badger pigs and a combination of leaves that resembles flying things like giant praying mantises.

Finally I had to end my observation of this strange colony, because they spotted me and rounded me up.I escaped, but I didn't dare to go back and continue to observe, for fear that something powerful would be waiting for me the next day.

In the letter, Dale described her discovery in the Emerald Forest, and at the same time told her discovery to her naturalist tutor Makatina.

"Professor Makatina was very nervous after hearing my discovery, she went to see the dean of the Emerald Magic Academy, and soon the academy issued a school closure notice.

The Emerald King's Court blew the summoning horn, and the entire forest was full of elf warriors riding griffins and flying horses.Many mentors from the Emerald Academy of Magic accepted the call of the Elf King and went to the Elf King's Court to assemble and stand by.

Miss Weatherly Sky, I'm a little scared, what kind of frightening thing have I found? "

The giant snail and the mysterious villain that Daier discovers are the reasons why Qingkong decides to go to the Emerald Forest on the spur of the moment.

During the ancient war, the Emerald Forest was a vassal civilization of the Dragon Kingdom.The elves learn powerful magic from the dragon and fight for the dragon.During the war, many world-famous and powerful heroes were born among the elves, and many ancient war relics remained in the Emerald Forest.

At the end of the war, the Dragon Kingdom was too busy to take care of itself, and the Emerald Forest became independent from the control of the dragon.At the time of the rapid rise of human civilization, the integration of civilizations from overseas formed a branch of human civilization with its own characteristics.

The modern academic system built by the human civilization has been almost completely taken away by the Emerald Forest, including archaeology.

And because of the elves' long lifespan, the forest elves have restored the emerald forest in ancient times much better than humans.

In the excavation of ancient war relics, forest elf archaeologists discovered a strange race that can be regarded as a flash in the pan.

This race is named Headhunters.

The headhunters are a group similar to the ant colony social system.The bottom-level headhunters are similar to worker ants, they are responsible for hunting and searching for food; then there are hunters, they are responsible for hunting prey that the headhunters cannot handle; Set up the habitat.

At the top is the headhunting empress.

The villains that Daier saw were the lowest-level headhunters of the headhunters, the giant snails were hunters, and the bone armor villains, mage villains, weasel cavalrymen, and leaf praying mantises were all hunters.

The headhunting empress is hiding underground.

What Daier saw was just one headhunting camp, which meant that there were more headhunting camps in the entire Emerald Forest.They are connected to the mother's nest in an unknown place through tunnels. The headhunters capture prey to support the headhunter empress, and the empress breeds more headhunters, hunters, and hunters to expand their territories to hunt more prey.

This is expansion without any limits.

When the elves in ancient times realized that the headhunters were allowed to expand, they would kill all living things in the Emerald Forest.Therefore, the elves mobilized troops from the ancient battlefield to kill the headhunters with all their strength.The war was so fierce that the elves even had to ask the dragon to come to support them.

In the end, the headhunting empress was hunted down by an elite team of heroes, and the headhunters perished, and the forest elves paid a very heavy price for it.

No one knows how the headhunters came into being, they seemed to pop out of nowhere like other powerful species that appeared during ancient wars.

This is why Dai'er discovered the headhunters and made the Emerald Forest so tense.This time, the Emerald Forest is not a vassal of the Dragon Kingdom, and there is a high probability that it will not receive the support of the Dragon Kingdom.

I don't know how big the headhunters have grown to.

"Do you know how the headhunters appeared?"

In the spiritual starry sky, Luke asked Qingkong about the origins of the headhunters.

"Why do you ask me this question, as if I know it." Qingkong flew around the crescent moon, sat on the crescent moon, and said to Luke with a smile: "The prairie elves and the forest elves are far, far away. ..."

Luke looked at the clear sky and said, "Because your smile betrayed you, you must know something."

"Oh, I can't lie to you now." Qingkong said helplessly: "The origin of the world is the abyss and the starry sky. When the world system becomes seriously unstable, the influence of the abyss and the starry sky on the world will become more and more dominant.

Some energy from the abyss and the starry sky will overflow in a tidal manner, inevitably producing some powerful extraordinary creatures.

The world tree is an overflow point, so it can produce treants, petal elves, and release seeds of hope.

The headhunters were created because a divine power overflow point in the Emerald Forest was too active. "

"Magic Spring!"

"Correct answer!" Qing Kong continued, shaking his legs, "Don't expect me to answer more. I only know the reason why the headhunters appear. As for what they are, I know as much as you do."

Luke said: "Since the headhunters were created because of the overflow of the magic spring's divine power, does it mean that if you find the magic spring, you can find the headhunter queen."

"That's right!" Qing Kong said in surprise, "Why didn't I think of that. If the Magic Spring didn't take the initiative to move, the Headhunter Empress wouldn't have left the range of the Magic Spring.

Looks like I have something to do soon!I don't know what kind of hunter the Queen of Headhunters will create for me. "

The anticipation of the clear sky made Luke think of the ability to hunt down the queen.

In addition to her strong fecundity, the Hunting Queen has another ability to breed hunters who specialize in dealing with the powerful enemies she encounters.Once a Hunter is done killing, the Queen of Hunts will spawn more Hunters of that type.

This is the frightening thing about the headhunters. As long as the hunting queen is there, the headhunters can continue to grow stronger as the enemy's strength increases.

If the forest elves cannot win quickly against the headhunters, they are very likely to be wiped out.

This is why Luke rushed to the Emerald Forest from the clear sky controlled by his consciousness.

Seeing that Qingkong was full of fighting spirit, Luke said: "Okay, let's follow the old rules. Leave the fighting to you, and leave the other things to me."

"I just like to see the sky when it belongs to you here. It's so charming. I can't learn that cool look."

Luke sullenly said: "I don't think so... Every time I control Qingkong, I have to imply that I forget the gender of myself and Qingkong. If I can create a character again, I will make a tall, muscular man .”

Qingkong flew close to Luke, and said almost cheek-to-cheek, "Then what you are facing now is also a tall, muscular man."

Luke made up the picture in his brain, and instantly realized that he was in the clear sky again.

"You continue to enlighten here, there is still a long voyage waiting for me, goodbye..."

"goodbye!"

Luke left the spiritual starry sky, clear sky flew back to the moon, and merged with the moon.

The sun that was lit up by Luke's arrival dimmed, and the starry sky covered by the sun shone brighter.

After flying for a whole day, the coastline of the Emerald Forest appeared on the sea under the moonlight, and soon saw the Emerald King's Court.

The Emerald King's Court is the capital of the Emerald Forest, and its status in the hearts of the forest tribes is equivalent to that of the Moonlight King's Court in the hearts of the barbarians in the western region.The one who ruled the Emerald King Court was the elf king of this generation, Sanye Garrett, also known as Garrett XVII, or King Sanye.

The Emerald King's Court is divided into two parts. The old city maintains a traditional style. The elves live in tree houses, and the tree houses are connected by ropeways woven with rattan ropes and suspension bridges.But now there are very few elves living in the old city, and most of them are elderly elves who can't keep up with the pace of the times.

Young elves love new towns.In the new urban area, there are tall buildings made of antique trees and tree houses, streets with leaf street lights, and corridors between tall buildings.Material abundance, convenient transportation, and many novelties from overseas.

There is also a special area in the new urban area, which is the emerald port area.This is the only open entry and exit port in the Emerald Forest, and it is also the only heavy industrial area established by elves who value environmental protection.

Cars and rail trains run everywhere in the port area, and the chimneys of factories emit black smoke with sparks all the time.There are various ships entering and leaving the busy port, and the coal-burning steam engines are constantly emitting pollutants.

The forest elves are not the only ones working in the port area. People from all over the world have brought all kinds of vices, making the port area of ​​the Emerald King's Court, like the ports in other places, full of dirty sins.

The clear sky that arrived at the Emerald Forest didn't want to reveal her identity prematurely. She chose to sneak into the port area with Jenny and Shelley, pretending to be passengers who had just got off a cruise ship.

The black dragon Balie moved freely, and it was really easy to find a hiding place in the Emerald Forest.

The hundred-year-old Jenferni came to the Emerald Court for the first time. She was wearing a maid dress in the old style of the Golden Shield Empire and a fluffy hat. She was dragging a large suitcase in her hand. Live and look around.

And asked Qingkong suspiciously: "Miss Qing, although you can see many elves here, the environment does not look much different from the port of Raging City, even worse than the old port of Raging City, which is different from what I imagined." Elfport is completely different."

Sunny is ahead.

Shelley followed at the end and looked around vigilantly, showing his gun to people with malicious intentions from time to time.However, the prestige of the Black Mamba doesn't work here. Instead, it attracted a few whistles because of its charming legs.

"Shelley, you can just follow me normally." Qingkong reminded Shelley, and then explained the difference in the port area to Jenferni, and finally said: "From a sociological perspective, the environment here is inevitable for the elves to receive the radiation of human civilization." Product, it brings advanced things, but also inevitably brings bad things.

But the elves have always had a clear boundary for the absorption of human civilization. When you really enter the Emerald King's Court, you will see the elf world you want to see. "

(End of this chapter)