"Yes … Yes, Village Chief. Their short spears were very powerful, and Lynch was impaled on the spot … I wanted to help him, but … but …"
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly began to pant. His cheeks, which originally had some color in them, quickly turned pale, and he began to fall to the side. His companions hurriedly supported him, but they saw that Arte's limbs were involuntarily twitching. His mouth was wide open as if he wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
Seeing this, Bati picked up the Magic crystal that belonged to Arte from the nearby wooden table. When he pressed the red crystal into Arte's hand, the dying fellow suddenly came back to life like a fish in water …
"Cough … cough …"
Arte, who had inhaled too quickly, choked on his own saliva and violently coughed. His hand gripped the Magic crystal so hard that the edges almost pierced into his palm … But after magic slowly spread out, he quickly returned to normal. Bati coldly watched all of this and said, "Continue."
Arte organized his thoughts and began to narrate the details of the battle. After listening, Bati's expression became gloomy, but he did not ask any more questions. He waved his hand and had them treat their wounds and eat. He then returned to his wooden house and stared blankly at the formation he had drawn countless times.
Someone knocked on the round door of the treehouse. Bati said, "Come in." A wood elf carefully leaned in from outside and said, "Village Chief … the last batch of things has been moved back."
The area of the ruins that had been discovered was not small, and there were naturally many things inside. Many of the most precious books and notes had already been broken into pieces because ordinary paper could not be preserved in the humid forest environment. Barty's collection was one of the ones that had been specially protected by a spell. Thus, they could still be flipped through and read today. Aside from these items, there were many other items in the ruins. With Barty's limited knowledge, he did not know that these were the various experimental devices in a large laboratory. But with the principle of "good things should not be left for others", he ordered a few of his confidants to move the items out of the ruins. Those that could be taken were taken away, and those that could not be taken away were smashed.
He had been doing this ever since he discovered the cave half a year ago. Even though the weather was cold, he still risked his life to do it. After all, some human mercenary groups had discovered that place … And now, Bati could finally heave a sigh of relief.
"Are there any other traces?"
"Village Chief, there have been a few mercenary groups loitering nearby recently …"
"That's great … I'll find a suitable time to get rid of them once and for all."
As Bati spoke, he took out more than ten pieces of Magic crystal from the pile in front of him. "I know you've always been cautious. Take these and make sure they don't return."
"Yes, Chief!"
The colorful Magic crystal was enshrouded in intense energy waves. Under normal circumstances, when so many Magic Crystals were placed together, the elemental fluctuations between them would affect each other and eventually lead to an explosion. But now, Bati casually put them into a bag woven from tree vines. No matter how much they bumped or shook, there was no reaction.
The Wood Elves left and closed the wooden door with a click. The wooden hut fell into silence again. But at this time, one could vaguely hear the Wood Elves quarreling outside after finishing their practice. Not long after, it was the usual fights. The wooden walls were not good at soundproofing, nor were they good at keeping warm. Bati put on another fur coat and continued to stare blankly at the magic circle in front of him.
He looked a little hesitant. Because of the repeated carving of the magic circle for many days, Bati now believed that he could reach the level required in the notebook. So he really wanted to try activating it.
Now, Bati was the most powerful Wood Elf apart from Erza Village. His power brought unimaginable authority, so much so that most of the Wood Elf villages in the Silent Forest were now under his control. With power, he naturally wanted to expand. And in his eyes, Erza Village was a nail that he had to "pull out".
How to expand? So, Bati began to recruit people from various villages and began to instill the words mentioned in the notebook into the thin and weak Wood Elves. At first, he only imitated, but as he spoke more, his way of thinking seemed to change. Until now, Bati, who was originally hesitant about "expanding", had already made up his mind. But if he really wanted to become the absolute commander, he knew that he had to go further than these Wood Elves.
Currently, these people could only cast spells with the Magic Crystal in their hands. Without this "raw material", they would be useless. Barty wanted to control his fate in his own hands, so in the end, he stood up and decided to activate the magic circle that he had carved countless times.
After embedding the Magic Crystal into it, Bati carefully moved the slate magic circle that he had taken from the ruins outside the hut.
He also knew what the result of failure would be, so after some thought, he brought it to a hidden cave outside the village. In order not to be disturbed, he ordered his most trusted subordinates to stand guard outside and forbid anyone from entering.
In order not to be disturbed, he asked his most trusted subordinates to guard outside and forbid anyone from entering.
After giving a few simple instructions, he stepped into the cave and quickly completed the preparations. Then, he directly activated the small formation map.
The light lit up, and the steady output of energy made Barty overjoyed. He secretly clenched his fist, and with a large magical crystal in his hand, he stood on it!
For a moment, Bati felt that his body was being torn apart by the turbulent power. He tried to open his mouth to make a sound, but found that he had lost control of his body. Looking down, his body and limbs appeared to be translucent in the energy storm, and then completely fell apart!
Bati's heart sank. He did not know what was going on, but once the magic circle was activated, there was no way to stop it. Before he could find a way to shut it down, the violent energy wave completely occupied his mind.
When he regained consciousness, Bati suddenly sat up from the cold ground. When he realized that he was naked, he instinctively wanted to find something to cover himself. Because Bati knew the consequences of hypothermia.
But after a few seconds of stretching out his hand, he suddenly found that he did not feel cold. Barty looked at his arms in surprise and suddenly shouted excitedly, "That's right!
"I did it … I did it!"
*****
On the other side, Pan Da, who was descending from the cliff with a rope, stepped on the mountain wall in front of him. After descending for nearly 30 meters, he shouted, "Stop!"
There were also mountains in the Forest of Silence, but the highest point was only about 200 meters. Therefore, there were no majestic peaks, but this did not mean that there were no steep terrains. At this time, the location where Pan Da and the others were at was a very hidden "canyon."
It was located on the inner side of the mountain. From the outside, it looked very ordinary, but if one walked in for a distance, one would find a crack that looked like the work of the gods. The huge mountain seemed to have been split open here by some kind of force. There was a gap five to six meters wide in the straight cliff. Halfway down the straight cliff, Pan Da followed the gap and found the simple cave in front of him.
Pan Da looked around. There were many footprints where he landed, and there were also climbing marks on both sides of the cliff. This meant that someone had gotten here before him. However, Pan Da was not surprised. After all, he had accurately found this location based on the mercenary Rudy's clues. He was here now only to confirm if there were more High Elves' relics inside.
"Everyone, come down one by one. Leave someone to guard the top!"
He ordered the team of 40 or so to explore the cave. In order to ensure safety, he naturally could not let everyone go in. The team was divided into three groups. One group went in to explore, one stayed outside the cave, and one stood guard above. Each group also had a rotating list to conserve energy.
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