84. Chapter 84 – Warrior?

Chapter 84: Warrior?

Barry continued to look at the old house, a hint of memories flooding his cloudy eyes.

“I remember this, the land in the mountains of McCalla holds some special power, it gave me peace in the beginning.

“I met my wife, Risa, here, and she farmed here, so I bought the whole farm.”

Hearing this, Heine couldn’t help but ask, “What were you going through in the beginning? The chaos of that emotion was beyond my imagination, it seemed to come from the Shadow energy itself, like ……”

Barry: “It was like there were a million people swarming around and asking you to join them.”

“Yes.”

Barry shook his head, “I can’t explain it …… but I know it’s like that for everyone who advances to level five.

“But when I asked the others if they felt similarly, almost everyone looked like they were offended and became angry.

“I searched in vain for answers and was ostracized by many for this behavior. Then later, I left the Northlands and became a Betrayer.

“I gained peace here, but I also paid a price.”

He looked to Dylan, “If I’m not mistaken, no one in the family broke through to level five after me, right?”

Dylan was silent.

Heine was even more curious, “So in your time, Archduke McCalla was also so living in the middle of the four countries?”

“No, child, at that time the Archduke’s power was far from being as weak as it is today, and there was no shortage of rank seven or even rank eight warriors by his side.”

“Wait ……,” Heine couldn’t help but frown, “Is the ‘warrior’ you’re talking about a generic term for a combatant or is it this kind of profession? ”

“It’s warriors, warriors that have fallen out of favor nowadays.”

Barry lamented, “I don’t know what has happened over the years, where have all the warriors of yesteryear gone ……”

Heine exclaimed, “But what did they fight on? Mere physical strength?”

“Fighting by what …… That’s an interesting question.

“In those days, warriors’ battles were never fixed, and they continued to learn new fighting techniques throughout their lives.

“All weapons, energies, means, could be a part of fighting.

“But if you ask me what they rely on, I cannot answer.

“Probably the unyielding will to fight? After all, a warrior never only dies in battle.”

Heine couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

So Warrior Brother was so powerful?

It sounded like an all-compatible blank slate profession with a rich set of modules.

So now it’s missing modules?

Barry followed the memories and headed upstairs, Dylan then pulled Heine aside.

“How the hell did he …… he get like this?”

Heine then spoke briefly.

“After …… the lair ruptured, he became ordinary. His research manuscripts were taken away by the Shadow Templars, but you can start from the beginning.”

Dylan: “What about his temper? I’ve heard that ancestor had a foul temper and was often angry ……”

Heine: “He excised his anger.”

Dylan: “? What?”

Heine blows through the deconstruction spell again.

Dylan listens in silence.

That’s when a greeting came from upstairs.

“You come up here, what is this spell of yours?”

Heine: “…… It seems like the temper hasn’t changed much?”

Dylan’s face collapsed at once.

He instinctively wanted to get angry.

But then a wave of powerlessness flooded over him at the thought that someone else’s deconstruction spells could even strip away emotions.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

Watching him hurry up the stairs, Heine walked toward the house.

…

The wood elf stood there frozen, like a tree.

Heine thought back to the time he and Simon had come to pay the ransom, and it did seem like the guy wasn’t lying.

After all, he had only asked him one question – whether his hair was dyed or natural.

“Tell me what you came to see me about.”

Linumu looked like he had seen his savior and was relieved.

He stepped forward and said, “I didn’t know that Eli Monte was trapped in the Whispering Crypt, and I’m not an accomplice to anything.”

It was basically the same as what Heine thought.

In fact, he hadn’t suspected the other party from the very beginning.

After all, he was fairly clean in the player’s mouth.

Heine: “You talked to Jianglu?”

“Yes, I know what happened and I know that Jungle Winds …… can’t really be called a hero in your position. I’m sorry, I hadn’t thought about that.”

Heine couldn’t help but wonder, “So why would the relics of a Night Elf hero be in the Valley of Mourning Wood? Aren’t you a wood elf?”

Linumu sighed.

“Long ago, elves did not make such elaborate distinctions. “In the earliest days there were only wood elves who lived in the forests, except that some of them left the forests for the plains of Lucu, which was the territory of the People of Gold.

“They abandoned their faith in favor of the Holy Light, and the local People of Gold liked them so much that they called them the People of Silver.

“Then the Blight Mark appeared in the Mourning Wood Forest, and the Wood Elves alone could not solve the crisis, which led to the return of the Elves to their homeland.”

…

Catch the Goat: “This dude seems to be giving Heine the wrong history.”

Mr. Xia: “Cow ah sheep, you can even understand this?”

Catching Sheep: “I know ‘silver’ and ‘homecoming’ when I hear it, you should have done this quest as well, restoring the historical collections in Mourning Wood Valley, those books have been tampered with.”

Mr. Xia: “I really did that? Why don’t I have any memory of it?”

Catch the Goat: “Really convinced you …… Going to a bunch of elders’ graves to look for old tree bark always remember, right?”

Mr. Summer: “Ohhhhhh, come to think of it! So where did it change?”

Catch the Sheep: “The Silver People weren’t shaken back by the Wood Elves, they ran back on their own accord.”

Guardian Iris: “Why?”

Catching Sheep: “Because of the witch hunt. Simply put, it was Eternal Dawn’s first large-scale heresy trial, which was the basis for the later split.

“They say that witches come from the forest to pass the elves over the fire, and that the Silver Folk fled massively during this period.

“When they returned they called themselves the Silver Elves, and because of their mastery of the Holy Light, they quickly curbed the spread of the Blight Scars.

“But the group didn’t get a handle on it, causing the Holy Light to flood the area. The trees that grew later were predominantly gold and silver in color, and that’s how the Mercury Forest came to be.

“Then later on, this group of people built a country in the Mercury Forest, initially just a small one, and waited until they established diplomatic relations with the Eternal Dawn and branched out with their support.”

…

By this time Linumu had also finished speaking about the birth of the Mercury Forest.

There was no difference in that.

It’s just that when it comes to the Silver Elf royal family he has a very disdainful tone in his voice.

Heine’s focus was all on the holy light flooding the land.

“What you describe is exactly what this farm has experienced.”

The wood elf froze, then looked to the farm in the distance.

Yes ……

The haunted farm was first saturated with death.

Then the holy light burned.

Then later the floating city of the Shadow Temple absorbed the excess holy light.

This was indeed the same as the Mercury Forest.

He couldn’t help but walk out of the courtyard and crouch down on the ground, both hands pressed against the ground.

After a long time, he stood up with a shocked expression:

“The soil here is actually recovering its vitality ……”

“Shouldn’t this be? The flood of holy light has all been neutralized.”

“No, the holy light of the Mercury Forest was also contained a long time ago, but the soil shows no signs of recovery at all ……”

Heine was shocked, “Then you still grow trees?”

Linumu shook his head, “Whether the soil can grow trees or not is not the same thing as whether it is regaining its vitality or not, as long as they use seeds, the Tree Shepherds can grow trees anywhere.

“But it doesn’t mean that every tree is alive. The seed only provides the blueprint; what kind of tree eventually grows depends on the soil, water and air.”

“How can you tell if a tree has life or not?” Heine asked.

“True life can blossom, bear fruit, produce offspring, and grow independently without the intervention of external will.” Suddenly he asked, “May I study this farm?”

Heine asked back, “Are you trying to find a cure for the Mercury Forest?”

Linumu nodded honestly, “Yes.”

The wood elf really doesn’t lie.

“Then you should go talk to Dylan.” Heine spread her hands, “I’m only staying here temporarily.”

Linumu glanced at the floating city.

Heine: “In case you don’t believe me, that was thrown here by someone else.”

Linumu is speechless for a moment.

He shakes his head, “I don’t trust necromancers.”

Heine: “? What do you take me for?”

“You’re different, there’s no death in your undead, your spells don’t cause blight.”

Heine sighed.

“Ugh, you pointy ears really are dead brains ……

“Did it ever occur to you that before the Holy Light Storage Well leak, this place was known as the ‘Haunted Farm’, not the ‘Haunted Blighted Land’?
“And look at that hunting ground over there, it’s so close to the Haunted Manor, but did it ever wither?

“So is it possible that the core of the problem isn’t the dead air, but other factors?”

Linumu froze.

After a brief moment of reflection, he suddenly looked at Heine with eager eyes.

“Can I …… I stay by your side?”

(End of chapter)