Chapter 866

Walking along the long forest path, the lone black haired wizard was surrounded by more than a dozen elves and dancers - according to Luca, they were going to the fog moon court.

As for the delegation that came with him, Luca told him not to worry. They would be escorted to the fog moon court by the war dancer leader of the morning star forest, that is, Leia, in four days.

After just thinking about it, Loren immediately understood that Luca was making a time difference for himself in a very clever way.

With the arrival of the imperial mission, it is certainly impossible for the morning star forest to hide and report, let alone pretend that it does not exist; However, Luca can let himself enter the fog moon court first and understand the situation first when the other party has not fully responded.

Although there is no evidence, Loren is sure that Luca definitely heard his conversation with Leia.

The only question is, is it just his own idea or the decision made by the whole morning star forest after careful consideration?

Loren very much hopes for the latter.

After the southern forest was occupied by ogres, of the remaining three parts of the ancient wood forest, only the eastern forest was still struggling against ogres, and only the elves of the eastern forest had communication with humans - the largest number of settlements, the largest area and the richest forest; But we also have to face the invasion of Ogres from the South and the "threat of the human world" in the East.

In other words, they may also be the only elf settlements that have "feelings" for humans.

The remaining two areas - the Western Forest Elves, led by the wasteland forest, are truly "pure" Ancient Wood Forest Elves, with the least number and the most scattered, and even many elf soldiers living alone;

The Western forest has the largest number of war dancers among the three places - the largest proportion and number - every time the ogre invades, the eastern forest will call on the west, often as the main force and scout.

It is worth mentioning that among the more than 100 elves who went on an expedition to the eternal night forest with Loren, almost all young war dancers came from the west, or had traveled in the west forest.

The other is the elves of the northern forest led by the fog moon court.

The elves here are somewhat different from the settlements in the eastern and western forests - the elves in the northern forest are the only elves settlement with coast and port.

Although the closed coastline prevented them from having any contact with any imperial port, the sea gave more wealth to the elves here, so that they could carry out a small amount of trade with the other two elves and become prosperous.

Because they have salt.

Brave elves and dancers can live alone in the dense forest, fight with ogres, and don't need any goods from the outside - but they can't live without salt.

There is no salt mine in the forest, so the sea salt from the northern forest has become the only source of salt for all settlements; The northern forest, especially wuyueting, which holds this important material, has a very special position in all ancient wood forest settlements.

It was not until the eastern forest began to contact shenlinbao and lottel, and the refined well salt produced in ellemans and East Saxony was imported into Morningstar forest that their "monopoly" was slightly broken.

But with the blockade of the ancient wood forest, this status has come back.

Will there be some connection between these two things?

"Lauren, you're... From the south, aren't you?"

Walking along the path, Luka, with a gentle look, suddenly asked, "Luwen of shenlinbao once talked to us. He said that your hometown Bain is a vast place, rich in a fruit called 'grapes', which can make the best wine in the world; there are the most brave and fighting knights who ride a horse and wield a flag gun."

The black haired wizard looked at him in confusion. I don't know why he suddenly wanted to ask this.

"Don't get me wrong. It's just boring to walk. Just ask." Luca smiled again. "It's just pure curiosity. Why would such a rich and vast country be loyal to the leader from another land?"

"Lottel, Byrne... Why are so many places and people loyal to a family and become a... What's the name of that word?"

"Empire."

"Yes, Empire." Luca breathed, "how did you become an empire?"

"Many reasons." the black haired wizard paused and thought a little: "because his Majesty the emperor of the Empire, his family once received resistance to the invasion of the north. They have a high reputation, they have the most powerful army... They have dragons."

"A dragon can destroy a city, kill an army, and wipe out a land... And they have twelve."

Luca nodded thoughtfully.

"In other words, the reason why they can rule all the remaining lands with one land..." the middle-aged elf turned his head and looked at the dark haired wizard meaningfully:

"Is it because they have the most powerful army and Dragons - the rest are afraid of them to maintain the existence of this empire?"

"Well... You can say so."

Looking at each other, Loren shrugged.

"So is this unity maintained by fear, threat and force a good or bad thing for you, Loren?" Luca continued.

He's suggesting something to me.

Lauren remained calm as usual, as if the two were really just chatting; The sight just touched and moved to other places.

"It should be... A good thing?"

"Do you really think so?" Luca raised his eyebrows and smiled gently. "Even if the price is that one party has to give up his freedom and absolutely obey the other party in exchange for the so-called peace?"

"Just like yourself, as the leader of the Byrne people, you have to obey the arrangement of the leader of the saklan people, leave your people and land, come to the ancient wood forest that has nothing to do with you, and execute his orders with fear and dare not disobey at all."

"Tell me, are you really willing and have no complaints?"

This time, Lauren really smiled and the corners of her mouth grinned up.

Sure enough... Luca is much better than some honest fairy.

"First of all, I'm not forced, but voluntary... Because I know what will happen next if I don't come." Lauren slowly breathed out and looked back at him seriously:

"Secondly... Submission, in most cases, does not mean absolute obedience of one party to another, which is closer to a way of 'agreement'."

"Oh?" Luca looked curious.

"Well, it's like the relationship between a single person and a settlement - but it's enlarged to the level of territory and Empire. She has a set of rules." Loren said with great assurance:

"The Empire provides protection and equal and respectful treatment to each territory; the territory provides material resources to the empire so that the empire can continue this protection; both sides have their own rights and obligations, because the title of Empire belongs to everyone, not one-way."

"If the Empire wants to break the original rules and set up a more favorable..."

"Then we have no need to obey the rules," Loren immediately replied. "Then there will be three choices in front of each leader."

"Independent freedom; overthrowing the current rulers and putting the Empire back on track; or... Forming a new empire."

"But you said, the Empire has a dragon, how to..." Luca also wanted to ask.

"Therefore, we should be careful when making these choices." Lauren glanced at him with a smile and smiled more happily: "the most important thing is that there can't be only one person."

"Because a person's complaint is just a complaint, and only when all people's complaints are gathered together can they become strength - we respect the opinions of a very few people, but if we want to promote something, of course, we should follow the ideas of the majority."

"Conversely, if the ideas of a few people become the majority..."

The former majority has become a very few - so the key is how to complete this transformation.

"... I see."

After thinking for a long time, Luca breathed a long sigh of relief.

He turned his head and looked at the dark haired wizard solemnly and seriously: "thank you, Loren."

"You're welcome, really." Lauren looked at him and squeezed out a cunning look from the corners of his eyes. "We're just chatting for a while, aren't we?"

Luca smiled, too.

Finally, one evening in the days of going north, when he finally crossed a dense forest, an elf and dancer in front suddenly stopped and turned to look at Luca and Loren behind him:

"Fog moon court, here we are."

Luca smiled and looked up. Loren followed his eyes out of the dense forest.

It's the sea.

Behind a towering cloud canopy tree no less than the morning star forest, there is a calm sea.

The steaming water vapor along the coast envelops the whole settlement like a gauze; Row upon row of tree houses are crowded together, one ring after another, as messy and neat as streets;

It is not as natural and casual as the morning star forest, nor as orderly as eboden or red blood castle. It is like a gradually expanding free town, full of the breath of life.

There is a circle of spacious open space around the central cloud canopy tree, which is like a deliberately reserved "square"; Not far away, there are large salt fields. Many elves on the ridge are working hard.

Beside the crude wharf, a group of elves who have just returned from fishing are pushing their small sampans to the shore. The fish guns in their hands are still wrapped with vines and branches to make hemp rope, and a fish cage full of harvest.

The children running barefoot on the beach are no different from those Elven teenagers chasing butterflies in the morning star forest.

Until this moment, Loren really understood why the fog moon court was called "fog moon court", rather than using the local forest land as the name like other elf settlements.

"Luca?"

At the periphery of the fog moon court, an elf soldier who looked like a guard came forward and looked at the middle-aged elf with some surprise: "the elf of the morning star forest, why did he come so soon?"

"Something happened and I had to start ahead of time." no matter who he faced, Luca seemed to be as gentle as ever, not different from each other's attitude:

"The situation is urgent. We must inform the other elves elders of the fog moon court as soon as possible and make a decision!"

The elf guard looked at him inexplicably, and then immediately responded: "from the East, what are you talking about..."

"Something's wrong in the East." Luca nodded and looked at the young elf seriously.

"I see!"

The elf guard nodded with a straight face, turned his head behind him, and shouted to his companions: "lift all the guard and let the elves in the morning star forest enter the fog moon court!"

"Thanks a lot." Luca smiled and nodded.

However, just as the party was ready to start and walk towards the fog moon court, the elf guard suddenly raised his long gun and stood in front of them.

Almost at the same time, the surrounding elf guards swarmed up, surrounded the war dancers in the morning star forest and stopped their pace.

"Wait a minute!"

The elf guard frowned, squinted at the end of Luca's party, and said solemnly, "please tell me who this is before you go in?"

Huh?

All the elves turned their heads while brushing together, turned behind them, and then

Nothing.

The war dancers in the morning star forest looked at each other, while the guards in the fog moon court were confused, and a big "?" appeared in their minds at the same time.

What about people, Loren? What about others? This is the spirit of the morning star forest.

People? Who? This is the spirit of the fog moon court.

The elf guard opened his eyes, shook his head desperately, wiped and rubbed his eyes. When he looked again, he was completely stunned.

What about people? What about people with big goals?!

In front of his eyes, black hair and black eyes, especially conspicuous and easy to recognize; Standing at the back of the morning star forest spirit team, he waved to himself!

What I saw just now, how did it disappear in the blink of an eye?!

Only Luca raised his eyebrows and flashed an imperceptible smile around his mouth.

"Excuse me... What's the problem?"

Luca asked politely.

The frowning elf guard looked at every morning star forest elf in the team seriously, and his confusion increased.

Am I really wrong?

Finally, the spirit guard with the expression of "seeing the ghost" lost his soul, stepped aside from the road in a trance, and let the elves in the morning star forest enter the fog moon court.

Although the morning star Lin Zhan dancers with different expressions were also very puzzled, they remained silent when Luca reminded them.

When he was about to enter the door, Luca's eyes "inadvertently" swept to a corner outside the door - a "elf guard" who had just stood there was now gone.

In the end, the young fog moon court elf didn't notice that one of his companions was missing.

With a slight smile, Luca, who no longer looked left and right, pretended to be unconscious and strode towards the fog moon court.