Alien world

Chapter 1113 35. The Green City
Where there is growth, there is withering.

Where there are mountains, there are abysses.

Where there is training...there is assessment.

Feeling his body filled with strength and his head full of confidence, Annan walked out of the training hut holding the "children's bow".

He saw two elves standing in the open space. Annan nodded to them, then looked around suspiciously. He always felt that the forest was particularly lively today... Was it an illusion?
"Still shooting?" Annan asked.

"Do not."

Ariana looked at an elf, who was standing about 25 meters away with an apple, holding it up.

"Shoot it, and you'll pass the first level."

Annan refused, saying, "You are willing to take the lives of your compatriots as your own, but I am not willing to do so."

"They are just phantoms."

phantom?

Annan sensed it and indeed did not feel any mixed emotions from the male elf.

"That'll be easy."

He set up the prison with confidence, drew the bow, and the emerald green children's bow was almost fully pulled.

Annan held his breath, closed one eye, and after a few seconds, released his fingers.
call out--

The arrow turned into an afterimage and firmly hit the target in the distance.

Outside the training ground, some whispers could be heard faintly:

"It doesn't look like him..."

"Who else then?"

"Could there be a traitor..."

"Maybe he's pretending..."

Snapped--

The apple fell and rolled several times. The elf with an arrow in his forehead leaned back with his eyes wide open.

"How about it?"

Watching the elf burst like a bubble, Annan took credit for it to Ariana.

"What did you shoot?" Ariana asked expressionlessly.

"The enemy's vital points! Otherwise, why would I shoot apples during a battle?" Annan said confidently.

Aliana stared at Annan for a few seconds and nodded: "...You have passed the basic archery test. The next step is the practical test."

As soon as he finished speaking, a summoning circle appeared in the training ground.

Steel parts wrapped in vines were scattered on the open ground, and then they were picked up by a hurricane and pieced together into a tall shape.

"This is the Supreme Golem, defeat it."

Annan raised his head following the rising golem and activated the amulet without thinking: "Help me, Mr. Skeleton King!"

The Skeleton King, who was visiting the royal court, was stunned for a moment. He sent an apology to an elf elder who was accompanying him, and did not resist the magic circle that appeared under his feet.

As soon as he appeared beside Annan, Annan hid behind him. The Skeleton King looked at the golem that had just climbed up and waved his magic wand.

The magic beam shot out and fell on the Supreme Golem that had just been assembled, turning it into a pile of scattered parts again.

Aliana looked at the Skeleton King, then at the disintegrating Supreme Golem. Annan walked out from behind the Skeleton King and said, "What's the difference between letting warlocks fight without spells and letting elves throw away their bows and arrows and fight orcs in close combat?
The Skeleton King raised his head, and the elves hiding around him appeared one after another to show their respect for him.

Annan looked around in surprise. It turned out to be so lively...

"You passed."

There was a long silence. Ariana broke it.

As Annan looked on with reluctance, the magic circle reappeared and took away the broken Supreme Golem.

I wonder if I can ask for it as a "trophy"...

The elves who were "watching the ceremony" retreated.

"Follow me," Ariana said, walking ahead.

Skeleton King and the freed Annan followed her out.

"Thank you for your guidance, Instructor Anna."

Annan's flattery was not responded to. He didn't care, and even asked openly which envoys had come from the Skeleton King.

"Humans, orcs, dwarves, dragons, undead, ratmen, sea people, many messengers have appeared in the Green City."

Annan glanced at Aliana's back and asked, "Do you notice anything wrong?"

The soul fire in the Skeleton King's eyes flickered, as if he was looking at Annan: "I didn't attend the previous celebration... but I think your feeling is right. This time, the Elf King's Court invited many guests who shouldn't be on the list."

"I reminded them, but they confidently said it was nothing. Perhaps this is the confidence given to them by 40,000 years of history?"

I don’t know if Ariana was fed up with Annan’s slander, but she stopped.

"Here we are."

Annan looked ahead and saw an ordinary forest. He looked up and saw the tall treetops that were impenetrable.

Before Annan could ask what she meant, Aliana suddenly took a step forward, as if she had passed through some kind of barrier, and disappeared in the ripples in the air.

Annan and the Skeleton King followed through the ripples on the water. After a moment of change, a gentle breeze brushed their cheeks.

He opened his eyes and, like everyone else who saw this place for the first time, stood there in shock.

Aliana stood in front of a nearby cape, looking out at the vast core area of ​​the Elf King's Court, and said with a touch of pride:
"Welcome to the Verdant City, Evanas."

In front of me is a vast basin gently embraced by mountains, like a dazzling emerald inlaid in the earth. The grass on the outer slopes is rippled by the wind. The forest in the distance rustles, and the tall trees with lush branches and leaves are like living towers, flashing with light. The suspension bridges and platforms formed by vines, branches and thick branches connect each tree, forming a three-dimensional forest city.

Crystal clear streams meander between the city-states, and between the lush trees, there are exquisite wooden and stone buildings and towers hidden.

The sunlight turns into spots of light and sprinkles on this green city-state. The golden light and the emerald green vegetation complement each other, forming a symphony of light and shadow.

But such a beautiful city-state that can be called a miracle is eclipsed by an existence——

At the very center of the basin, the World Tree stands.

Scale seemed to lose its meaning in front of it. How many thousand meters high was it? Or tens of thousands of meters? Annan only knew that the World Tree was rooted in the earth, and its canopy covered the entire green city and basin, seeming to touch the starry sky. The branches that covered the sky and blocked the sun made even the legend feel insignificant.

"I have to take back some of my previous words..." Annan said to himself, "As long as the World Tree is still there, the elves will have the capital to look down on all races..."

What force could destroy it? Even if the ratmen were to gnaw at it, it would take them 10,000 years.

He couldn't help but wonder, if the elves had not hidden the World Tree, would he be able to see the vague crown of the World Tree in Middle-earth?
Annan even felt a little ashamed of himself... He had previously thought that the alliance between Free City and the Elven King's Court was just a way of climbing up the social ladder, and that if he was given a few decades to develop, it was still unclear who would be the boss. Now he realized that he was extremely wrong...

I am just like an ant holding its most precious cricket leg in its mouth and preparing to marry an ancient dragon...

(End of this chapter)