Vol 6 Chapter 31: Mochizuki garden

Walking on the long forest path, the lonely dark-haired wizard was surrounded by a dozen elves and dancers-according to Luca, they were going to the Wuyue Court.
As for the envoy team that came with him, Luca told him not to worry, they will be escorted by the leader of the war dancers in the morning star forest, namely Liya, to Wuyue Ting in four days.
After just thinking about it, Loren immediately understood that Luca was using a very clever way to help himself make a time difference.
The arrival of the imperial mission, of course, it is impossible for the Morning Star Forest to conceal and not report, let alone pretend not to exist; but Luca can let himself enter the Wuyue Court first, and understand the situation first before the other party has fully responded.
Although there is no evidence, Loren is sure that Luca has definitely heard his conversation with Liya.
The only question is, is this just his own idea, or is the decision made by the entire Morning Star Forest after careful consideration?
Loren is very hopeful that 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 the ogres, and only the elves of the eastern forest had communicated with humans-with the number of settlements The most, the largest area, and the richest forest; but at the same time, it also has to face the invasion of ogres in the south and the "threat of the human world" in the east.
In other words, they may also be the only elves that have "feelings" for humans.
The remaining two areas-the elves of the Western Forest, headed by the Arasuka Forest, are the "pure" ancient wood forest elves in the true sense. The number is the least and the most scattered. There are even many elves warriors who survive alone;
The war dancers in the western forest are the most in the three places-the proportion and the number are the most-every time the ogres invade, the eastern forest will call out to the west, often as the main force and scouts.
It is worth mentioning that, among the more than one hundred elves who had accompanied Loren on the expedition to Yongye Forest, almost all the young war dancers were from the west, or had traveled through the forest in the west.
The other is the elves of the northern forest headed by Wuyueting.
The elves here are a little different from the forest settlements in the east and west-the elves in the northern forest are the only elves with coasts and ports.
Although the closed coastline prevented them from having any contact with any imperial port, the sea gave the elves here more wealth, allowing them to start a small amount of trade with the other two elven settlements and become prosperous.
Because they have table salt.
The brave elven war dancers can survive in the jungle alone, they can fight with the ogres, and they do n’t need any goods from the outside world-but they ca n’t help but eat salt.
There are no salt mines in the forest, so sea salt from the northern forest has become the only source of salt for all settlements; the northern forest that holds this important material, especially Wuyueting, has a very special position in all ancient wood forest settlements .
It wasn't until the eastern forests began to contact Deep Forest Castle and Lotel that refined well salt from Elleman and East Sacran was imported into Morningstar Forest, which only slightly broke their "monopoly position."
However, as the ancient wood forest was blocked, this status returned again.
Is there some connection between these two things?
"Loren, you are ... Southerner, right?"
Walking on the trail, the lustrous Luka asked abruptly: "Ruvin of the Deep Forest Castle once talked to us. He said that your hometown of Bain is a vast place and is rich in a fruit called grapes. , Can be made into the best wine in the world; there are the most brave and combative knights riding horses and waving flag guns. "
The dark-haired wizard looked at him in confusion, wondering why he suddenly wanted to ask this.
"Don't get me wrong, just walk too boring, just ask." Luca smiled again: "It's pure curiosity. Why is such a rich and vast country so loyal to a leader from another land?"
"Routel, Byrne ... so many places, so many people, why are they loyal to a family and become one ... what is that word called?"
"empire."
"Yes, the empire." Luca exhaled. "How did it become an empire?"
"A lot of reasons." The black-haired wizard paused and thought for a moment: "Because His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire, his family once received resistance to the invasion of the North, they have a very high reputation, they have the most powerful Of the army ... they have dragons. "
"A dragon can destroy a city, slaughter an army, and clear a land ... and they have twelve heads."
Luca nodded thoughtfully.
"That is to say, the reason why they can rule all the remaining land with a piece of land ..." The middle-aged elf turned his head and looked at the dark-haired wizard meaningfully:
"Because they have the most powerful army, and there are dragons-the rest of them fear them to maintain the existence of this empire?"
"Well ... the same can be said."
Looking around, Loren shrugged.
"Then the unity maintained by fear, threat and force, in Loren's opinion, is it a good thing or a bad thing?" Luca continued to ask.
He is suggesting me something.
Loren kept the usual calm, as if the two were really just chatting; the sight just touched and moved to another place.
"Should it be ... a good thing?"
"Do you really think so?" Luca raised his eyebrows and smiled softly: "Even if one of them has to give up his freedom and absolutely obey the other in exchange for the so-called peace?"
"Just like yourself-as the leader of the Bayern, but have to obey the arrangements of the leader of the Sakran people, abandon his people and land, and come to the ancient wood forest that had nothing to do with you, and execute his Command, never dare to disobey. "
"Tell me, are you really willing and have no complaints?"
This time Loren really laughed, his mouth wide open.
Sure enough ... Lucca is much more powerful than a straight female elf.
"First of all, I was not persecuted, but voluntary ... because I knew what would happen if I did not come." Slowly exhaling, Loren looking back looked at him seriously:
"Secondly ... surrender, in most cases, does not mean absolute obedience from one party to another, which is closer to a kind of" agreement "."
"Oh?" Luca's expression was curious.
"How to say, this is like the relationship between a single person and a settlement-but it is enlarged to the level of the territory and the empire. She has a set of rules." Loren talked eloquently:
"The empire provides protection for each territory with equal and respectful treatment; the territory provides the empire with material resources, and the manpower allows the empire to continue this protection; both parties have their own powers and obligations, because the title of the empire belongs to everyone. , Not one-way. "
"If the empire wants to break the original rules and establish something more beneficial to him ..."
"Then we no longer have to obey the rules;" Loren replied immediately: "By then, there will be three choices before each leader."
"Freedom of independence; overthrow the current ruler and bring the empire back on track; or ... build a new empire yourself."
"But you said, there are dragons in the empire, how can we ..." Luca wanted to ask.
"So, you have to be cautious when making these choices." Loren glanced at him with a smile, and the smile was even happier: "The most important thing is that there can't be only one person."
"Because one person's complaint is only a complaint, and everyone's complaints can be combined to become a force-we respect the opinions of very few people, but if we want to promote something, of course we must follow the majority of people's ideas.
"Conversely, if the ideas of a very few people become the majority ..."
The original majority has become a very small number-so the key is how to complete this transformation.
"……I understand."
After thinking for a long time, Luca breathed a sigh of relief.
He turned his head and looked solemnly and seriously at the dark-haired wizard: "Thank you, Loren."
"No need to thank you, really." Loren and he stared at each other with a hint of cunning in the corner of their eyes: "We just chatted for a while, didn't we?"
Luca also smiled.
Finally, one evening in the days of going north, when finally walking through a jungle, an elven war dancer walking in front stopped suddenly and turned to look at Luca and Loren behind him:
"Wu Yueting, we are here."
Luca raised his head with a smile, Loren followed his gaze out of the jungle, his gaze fixed.
It's the sea.
Behind a towering cloud crown tree no less inferior to the Morning Star Forest, there is a calm sea.
The steam on the coast, like a tulle, enveloped the entire settlement; layers of tree houses lined up one after another huddled together, one by one like a street like a messy and neat;
Not as natural and casual as Morning Star Forest, nor as tidy as Ebden or Red Blood Castle, just like the gradually expanding free town, full of life.
There is a wide open space around the cloud crown tree in the center, like a deliberately left "square"; and not far away is a large area of ​​salt fields, a lot of elves on the field ridge, are Hard work.
Next to the humble pier, a group of elves who had just returned from fishing were pushing their small sampan to the beach, and the spear gun was still wrapped with rattan and branches for hemp rope, and a full return of fish cage.
The children running barefoot on the beach yelled and picked up the conch and shells that washed up ashore with the waves, and yelled, just like the elf teenagers who chase butterflies in Morningstar Forest.
It wasn't until this moment that Loren really understood why Wuyue Court was called "Wuyue Court", instead of using the local woodland as its name like other elven settlements.
"Lucca?"
Outside the Wuyue Court, an elf warrior resembling a guard stepped forward and looked at the middle-aged elf with some surprise: "How come the elves of Morning Star Forest came so soon?"
"Something happened, I had to start early." No matter who he faced, Luca seemed to be as gentle as ever, not at all different from the other party's attitude:
"The situation is urgent, you must make a decision as soon as possible to other elf elders in Wuyue Court!"
The elf guard first gave him an inexplicable glance, and immediately responded: "Here comes from the east, do you mean ..."
"East ... something happened." Luca nodded and looked at the young elf solemnly.
"I understand!"
The elf guard nodded with a straight face, turned his head and turned to his back, and shouted to the companions behind him: "Remove all guards, and let the elves of Morning Star Forest enter the Wuyue Court!"
"Thank you." Luca nodded with a smile.
However, just as the party was about to set off and marched towards Wuyue Court, the elf guard had just "spokenly politely" to them and suddenly raised his spear and laid it in front of him.
Almost at the same time, the surrounding elf guards swarmed up, and surrounded the dancers of the Morning Star Forest in the center, stopping their pace.
"Wait!"
The elf guard frowned and narrowed his eyes to the end of Luca's group, with a solemn tone: "Please tell me before you go in, who is this person?"
Ok?
All the elves turned their heads while swiping, turned back behind them, and ...
There is nothing.
The dancers of Morning Star Forest looked at each other, while the guards of Wuyueting were puzzled. A big "?" Came to their minds at the same time.
What about people, what about others? This is the elf of Morning Star Forest.
People, who? This is the elf of Wuyue Court.
The elf guard opened his eyes wide, shook his head desperately, rubbed it again, rubbed his eyes, and then completely froze when he looked again.
What about people, what about people with big goals? !
Right in front of his own eyes, black hair and black eyes, especially conspicuous and easy to recognize; standing at the end of the morning star forest elf team, he waved to himself!
Why did I disappear when I saw what I just saw? !
Only Luca's eyebrows picked up, and a slight, undetectable smile flickered at the corner of his mouth.
"Is there any problem?"
Luca asked very politely ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The frowning elf guard, seriously looking at each morning star forest elf in the team, the confusion in his heart grew.
Could it be ... I was wrong?
Finally, the elf guard with the expression of "have seen a ghost" lost his soul, and trance let out the way, and the elves of the morning star forest entered the Wuyue Court.
Although the morning star forest dancers with different expressions were also puzzled, they were reminded by Luca to remain silent.
As he was about to enter the door, Luca's eyes
inadvertently
swept to a corner outside the door—some of the
elf guards
who had just stood there, now disappeared.
In the end, the young Wuyueting elf didn't realize that one of his companions was missing.
With a light smile, Luca, who no longer looked left and right, pretended not to be aware of it, and strode towards Wuyue Court.