"You want our help?" In the conference space, the incarnations of the World Trees all looked at Lich, who was standing in the middle. Fen stood tall and straight, looking valiant and valiant. She looked like she was ready to fight at any moment.
Because she was an invited guest, she didn't have a seat. Only then did a certain someone sitting on the high-back chair realize that the chair under his butt wasn't so easy to sit on.
Facing the question of the World Trees, Fen wasn't afraid at all. She said bluntly, "Yes. I hope to receive your help, but only if I confirm that you are qualified to help me. "
"Oh, how interesting. You want to test us first? Your Majesty. "
The war between the World Trees had stopped because there were Magic Towers everywhere in the current maze. But at the beginning, the war had stopped because King Fen had ruled the entire maze. Many World Trees that refused to submit were cut down and burned, becoming materials for the Dark Army to create something.
Therefore, to the World Trees, Fen Tikal was a familiar opponent. Needless to say, Wadwo, Lahti, and the others had received Lin and the others recently, so they were naturally more familiar with them.
Fen was clearly asking for help, but she arrogantly said that she wanted to test others. The World Trees weren't interested in such an attitude. Or rather, the thoughts of these plants were different from those of humans.
In the eyes of outsiders, the World Trees were aloof and mysterious. In fact, this was only because most people weren't qualified to talk to these old antiques who had lived for a long time. But if they were qualified, the World Trees were actually very easy to talk to. Their lives were too long, and they were too bored …
Fen didn't waste time. She spent some time preparing. With a clap, she used the Whiteboard Technique to display the four helical DNA information she had compiled in front of all the trees. The amount of data was so huge that it shook the conference space. Even a few younger World Trees were lost in the huge amount of information for a moment and only managed to get away after a while.
Most of the World Trees didn't know what was going on. A few ancient World Trees were deep in thought. Only the two Ancients, who were originally puzzled, suddenly understood, and then showed an excited expression. Yuktrasir said, "Demon King, have you already grasped the secret?"
Instead of asking what it was, he asked how much he had grasped. Fen had a feeling that this trip would not be in vain. Lich said, "What I need your help with is to compile the most suitable ideal body." He raised his hand and displayed a list of the body's parameters.
The reason why she didn't say 'perfect' but 'ideal' was because she had argued with someone for a while about whether 'perfect' actually existed. In the end, Fen also admitted that there would only be the most suitable one, and it was impossible to find the perfect one. Even in her own body, she acknowledged that there were certain areas in which it was lacking. She could only use other methods to make up for this shortcoming.
Although she had made her request, Fen did not immediately discuss it with the World Trees. Instead, she said, "Lin and I have studied all the homo sapiens in the maze and found that all the races seem to have the same origin. But for some reason, they developed into different races with different appearances, habits, and cultures. Does this matter have anything to do with you? "
Faced with Fen's question, all the World Trees focused their attention on the two Ancients. To outsiders, the dark and profound history was just a part of the inheritance for the World Trees, so all the trees knew the answer to this question.
Yuktrasir and Fasnath did not hesitate and opened a secret record. This special symbol that was similar to words but not words was a special inheritance method between the World Trees. It would allow the viewer to experience the scene from a third person's point of view, experiencing a memory of the past. Although they could not interfere, they could experience it completely. It could be said to be the best embodiment of a dream that lasted a thousand years.
In his memory, there was a creature that was very similar to humans but shorter, covered in hair, and walked with a hunched back. The World Trees called it the 'Elemental Body'. These Elemental Bodies would act according to the orders of the World Trees. However, they were clumsy, slow, and weak.
Then, the memory changed. Countless vines captured the Elemental Bodies and dragged them into a swamp that emitted a strange fluorescent light. Some Elemental Bodies weakened and died, while others mutated irreversibly. These mutations were both good and bad. The World Trees eliminated the bad ones and left the good ones, or rather, left those that mutated in the direction they wanted. Then, they bred, and after generations of modification, no one knew how long it had been.
The initial changes were, of course, quite subtle, but as generations of mutation and reproduction passed, they were already quite different from the most primitive Elemental Bodies. Some became taller or shorter, some had pointed ears, some had changed skin color, hair color, and pupils color. Some even had a few more pairs of arms, some had a snake tail, some had a horse's lower body, and some had a bull's head.
In the end, the remaining Elemental Bodies were the many Homo sapiens races in the mysterious land today.
After leaving the memory, Fen immediately asked, "Could the swamp that caused the Elemental Bodies to mutate be the legendary 'Rui' soil?"
"Oh, Demon King, you know 'Rui'," Fasnath praised.
"I learned it from some of the old gods. The origin of the gods is said to be the mother of the gods, and there is also the origin of the earth. Gaia, the mother of the gods, is actually the original consciousness of the mysterious land. I destroyed it once. I didn't kill all of them, although I really wanted to destroy this world at that time. — "
Bystander A was shocked. Playing like this, and it didn't cause the end of the world! This meant that the will to live in this world was strong.
"— However, I have only heard of the name 'Rui', the origin of the earth, but I can't find any trace of it. Even when I infiltrated the memories of the old gods, they only knew its concept, but not its whereabouts. I never thought that 'Rui' was just an item without a soul. Where can I find 'Rui' now? "
Yuktrasir said, "Unfortunately, Demon King, there is no more. Among the people I and I created, there were those who were astonishingly talented and learned of the wonders of 'Rui' and took it for themselves and made it their own. Not only did they become heroes, but they also led their people to conquer the world. Some even used the power of the mountains, the sun, and the moon to achieve their own mystery, which was the original gods. The first thing these gods did was to destroy all 'Rui' with the reason that they no longer let their people suffer from the mutation. There is no more left. "
"Is that so?" Since she knew the result, Fen did not continue to ask. Perhaps she was not familiar with the World Trees, but she at least knew that 'lying' was meaningless to these plants.
Instead, it was Lin who asked, "You just watched as those first gods destroyed the so-called 'Rui' soil?"
"Your Excellency, everything has its destiny. We were caught off guard by those gods, so it was naturally nothing to worry about, but wasn't it also an opportunity for those strange things to withdraw from the stage of the mystical land? There is no point in regretting what has already happened, "Yuktrasir said in a matter-of-fact tone.
Lin knew that there was no point in continuing to discuss this statement that was filled with the perspective of fate. So he asked another question that troubled him, "Since all the Homo sapiens in the mystical land were modified by you, why? Why are the tribes of the World Tree dominated by elves now? "
"Humans, war is the best touchstone. The great war in the past proved that elves are the best controllable tools for us. Compared to the indifference of the dwarves, the powerlessness of the goblins and gnomes, the betrayal of the orcs and ogres, and the unpredictability of humans, the transformation of these races and the reliance of the World Tree is an inevitable outcome. In the end, it can only become the foundation of our advancement and a memory, "Fasnath said.
Heh, what he meant was that these seemingly wise and long-lived big shots also created things that they could not control. Then, some trees played themselves to death, while others were lucky enough to survive. It seemed that self-destruction and courting death were not exclusive to humans.
Let's not talk about whether the material called 'Rui' was some kind of radioactive material that someone had imagined. The entire process of the creation of the Homo sapiens sounded like the mystical land's version of 'agricultural and animal husbandry'.
However, on Earth, this was led by humans. Most of it was used on vegetables and fruits, and a small part was used on animals such as pigs, sheep, and cows. But at most, it was through hybridization, and part of it was genetic modification, so that the species could be improved. But in the mystical land, it was led by plants, and they used destructive and variable substances to speed up the entire process of species improvement.
Perhaps from the standpoint of humans, this kind of behavior would be cruel. But just like how humans on Earth did species improvement, or even genetic modification, they would not ask the feelings of the target plants and animals. How ridiculous it was to expect the World Tree to stand on the side of humanity and sympathize with the people or so-called 'bodies' that they were playing with.
Or rather, the word 'humanity' was filled with the arrogance and conceit of humans. In front of nature, humans were no different from ants.
After living in the mystical land for so long, a certain someone had long forgotten the pride of humans as the spirit of all things. There were too many things here that could beat those so-called geniuses to pieces. So he did not want to discuss with the World Trees what they had done in the distant past.
Fen did not care about this kind of thing either. If the World Tree played with an entire race, it was something that happened in the distant past; as a Lich and necromancer, her past actions were even more cruel and inhumane, and the time was even more recent.
Therefore, if a certain someone could not and did not want to control the person next to him, how could he control the behavior of more than twenty World Trees?
They would eat and sleep when they should, and they would obediently offer their livers when they should, and carry out the life of a social animal to the end. There was nothing to discuss. Now, a certain someone only cared about one thing. "So, do you think there's still a problem with their qualifications?" This question was asked to Fen.
Fen withdrew her previous arrogance and greeted everyone with the ancient etiquette of Mages. She said, "There's no problem. I believe that you can play a great role in my research. Then, the second question is, are you interested? "
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