"Two guests, are you looking for me?" When Daniel Noh saw Heidi and Katrina walking towards him, he pointed to himself in confusion.
Heidi smiled kindly and said, "No, Daniel, your speech on natural balance just now was really great and interesting!"
She noticed that Nodanil had a relatively cheerful personality, so she greeted him with a familiar look and did not politely call him "Madam" or "Miss" or anything.
Hearing Heidi's sincere and straightforward praise, Daniel Noh suddenly felt a little shy and waved his hand slightly awkwardly: "I just sorted out the ideas that the elders usually expounded."
"My name is Heidi, this is my companion Katrina, I just came to the forest today, and I am very happy to meet you for the first time." Heidi became more and more enthusiastic.
She was not as introverted as Annick, and generously introduced the two of them to Daniel No.
With such a talkative, cheerful and non-stressing guest, Daniel No's little nervousness quickly dissipated, and the conversation became natural.
"Well, we were entrusted by Her Majesty the Empress to investigate the demonization of a small number of elves, and we have some questions for you about Tris." After chatting for a while, Heidi asked directly without concealment.
NoDaniel was silent for a moment, and said with a gloomy expression: "Heidi, Katrina, if you have any problems in this regard, just ask, I really hope that you can find the source of the fall and let Triss and the others recover, even if they can't, don't suffer like this anymore."
"Did Triss show any signs of anomalies before her fall?" Katrina asked according to the standard questions discussed by Yurisian, Felipe and others.
Noh Daniel was a sun elf, with fair skin and brilliant blond hair, she looked quite noble in the sunlight, but there was no smile on her face, and she said as she recalled: "At least for me, nothing too strange happened in my life before that, my friends also hunted every day, picked fruits, looked for places in the forest where the balance might be broken to repair, and then felt nature, comprehended magic, choreographed dances, sang music, and read various classics after the mythological era......"
Everything was so calm, so leisurely, such a beautiful life seemed to never be broken, but: "That morning, I suddenly noticed a change in the magic patterns on Tris's skin, full of hatred and killing...... Yesterday was fine, we danced the special dance she just learned together and said good night to each other."
"Special dance?" Heidi recorded Nodaniel's answers in a magic notebook, and had a subconscious concern for the dance with the adjective "special".
Daniel Noh nodded slightly: "She said that Ms. Martha taught her, let me show you?"
Heidi and Katrina replied at the same time, half investigative and half curious: "Okay!"
Noh Daniel took a few steps back and danced very rhythmically without musical accompaniment.
There are many movements in this dance that are quite strange, almost contrary to the normal physiological conditions, that is, the elves' soft bodies and exaggerated flexibility can only be barely done.
"Although the movements are difficult and strange, I have to say that this dance is really beautiful......" Heidi moved her left hand and legs, and had an urge to join the dance, but she quickly patted her face in annoyance, and considered whether to prepare a bottle of blood-stimulating potion for herself after going back, otherwise it would be impossible to learn this dance.
Katrina tapped Noh Daniel and secretly connected with her mind: "This dance belongs to the sacrificial type, it gives me a strange feeling, and I will focus on it when summarizing the information in the evening."
During the dance, Daniel Noh seemed to recall his friend, and gradually exuded a feeling of sadness and sadness, and it took a long time for him to calm down and ask in a low voice: "Is this dance okay?"
"There are no magic fluctuations, no magical aura, and no strange existence prying in, but it doesn't mean that there is no problem with it. Heidi liked this new elf friend very much and specially reminded her.
After Nodaniel nodded in agreement, Katrina continued to ask: "Did Triss change her mood or her concept in the days before the fall?"
Noe Daniel recalled carefully: "She felt a little disappointed, because the magic pattern grew slowly and did not have much substantial breakthrough, so she told me very seriously that she wanted to become a druid, learn the magic of nature, and play a greater role in maintaining the balance of nature."
Play a greater role in maintaining the balance of nature...... Heidi frowned and noted down Nodaniel's account, while casually asking, "Are you a druid?"
"Well, I just became a guardian of nature, which is what you call a mid-level druid." Nodaniel was quite proud of his status as a "guardian of nature", and the haze between his eyebrows disappeared a lot.
Elves are not divided into levels according to low, medium, high, one, two, three, like humans, but the levels are the same, "Nature Guardian" is a druid apprentice, "Friend of Nature" is a beginner druid, "Nature Guardian" is an intermediate druid, and "Staff Bearer" is a high-level druid (including level 9).
Heidi was quite interested in the druid profession, so she took a closer look.
「…… With the fusion of ideas and nature, we will form a 'heart of nature' similar to your perception of the world...... which is named after the core of the elf tree and is the basis for performing formal divine magic" Nodaniel did not hide it.
The three of them chatted for a long time before separating from each other.
In the evening, Heidi and Katrina returned to the treehouse with a magic notebook full of harvests and summarized the intelligence of Ulyssian, Felipe, Annick, Splinter and others.
"Special Dance...... Ms. Martha ......" Julisan muttered these two terms, "More than 70% of the fallen are related to special dances, 30% are learned from Ms. Martha, and the rest do not know where they learned ......"
Felipe said in a low voice: "It may be the custom of the elves, they love dancing very much."
"Anyway, we're going to see Ms. Martha tomorrow." Yurisian said.
At this time, Annick said shyly and solemnly: "Could it be a dance similar to the 'Viken's Special Summoning Ritual', with no strange things on the surface, focusing on the ideas or emotions that are instilled and formed in the process of learning?"
Heidi had just cracked such a case, and she was very sensitive to it, and nodded seriously: "It's possible, natural hatred, hatred, I remember that one of the ancient devils is called 'hatred'!"
"The problem is that 80% of the fallen demonic elves are natural balance factions, and the remaining 20% are still some swaying between the two factions, and the real natural hatred elves have very little depravity, otherwise the people of the elven royal court would have noticed the strangeness long ago......" Yurisian looked at the data sheet in front of him and rubbed the corners of his forehead.
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After Lucian, Natasha, and Atlant checked the "Heart of Nature", they went to the "Prison" led by Malfurio and Ranhill to try to find clues from the fallen elves.
The "prison camp" of the elf clan is still a hut made of tree trunks, but this part of the tree trunk is iron-gray, as hard as steel, due to the special reason of the tree itself, and also because of the blessing of natural spells.
Lanhill let the two elves guarding the "prison" open the door, and a terrifying howl suddenly came from inside, like the "wailing" of a beast in the forest at night, which made people tremble.
The two guard elves showed sad expressions, inside were their companions, not beasts!
Lucian, Natasha, and Atlante stood outside a cell, looking through the gaps in the trees at the fallen elf inside.
This is a beautiful elf girl, but her magic patterns have spread from her neck and arms to her whole body, and her face and hands seem to be painted with terrifying and mysterious abstract paintings, and unlike the tender green of ordinary elf magic patterns, it is dark green with a hint of blood, ferocious.
"It's like the pattern on the back of a human-faced spider......" Natasha said in the psychic connection.
Indeed, the magic patterns and skin of this elf have signs of spiderization!
"I'm going to kill you!"
"A clean world for green!"
"All intelligent beings will die!"
The fallen elf girl suddenly threw herself next to the gap in the tree trunk, her eyes stared at Lucian and the others with great eyes, her pupils were no longer smart, only a deep sense of tyranny and destruction, the center was a solidified red, at the same time, she opened her mouth, her teeth bit on the tree trunk, it seemed that she could only rely on such primitive means to attack without being able to use spell-like abilities and natural abilities.
The two rows of teeth, which were originally neat and white, were like white bones at this moment.
"The ...... of the Natural Balance" Malfurio introduces Lucian and the others to the identity of the elf girl.
Lucian and Atlant had seen countless horrific scenes, but they were not affected by this scene, and each used magic to check the situation of the elf girl.
Time passed minute by minute, Lucian suppressed the extent of the elf girl's depravity, and then said: "It is basically certain that it is related to the contamination of the elf tree, but I don't know if it is the cause or the effect.
"In this regard, I will ask Arestine and the others to cooperate with the magician's investigation, and the two of you will go to the abyss crevice with me first?" Lanhill suggested.
Lucian nodded without objection.
At this time, due to Lucian's suppression of the fallen power, the elf girl's eyes suddenly became a little clearer, and she hugged her head in pain: "Why is this happening!"
"Why is this happening!"
Her body glowed green, and a faint sense of tranquility flowed out.
Lucian's face changed, and he wanted to stop it, and Malfurion sighed: "She is in such pain, let her free herself, there are other fallen elves to investigate......"
The elf girl hummed a beautiful melody in her mouth:
"Every elf is a tree, coming from nature and returning to nature......"
"We are born of love and union, we return in peace and serenity, we sing for the forest, we rejoice in life......"
As the ethereal singing came out, the green light on her body gradually became thicker, and then Malfurion opened the door to the cell.
The elf girl danced out and bowed deeply to Lucian, Natasha, and Atlante:
"Every elf is a tree, rooted in the earth and breathing the ...... of the sky"
"We guard nature and maintain balance......
She flew outside with difficulty, the green light on her body wrapped her, and then slowly fell to the ground, at this time, the two guard elves couldn't help but have red eyes.
"Every elf is a tree......"
The singing voice became smaller and smaller, but it echoed melodiously, the green light disappeared, and there was a tall and wonderful tree in the forest.
Every elf turns into a tree after death, which is why they love green so much.
"We must investigate the cause of the fall!" Witnessing this scene, Natasha clenched her right hand into a fist and said to herself.
Lucian closed his eyes and turned to Ranhil: "Let's go to the abyss crevice and take a look."
(End of this chapter)