29. Saloki's Ambition
The Tree of Life, since the Age of Ashes, has been one of the most important treasures of the Elves.
When the Ancient Elves were divided into many new races after the death of the World Tree of the World, the Tree of Life became the most important foundation for these elves. Basically, in the elven activity area of the North Continent and the West Continent, each tribe is built around a tree of life, and when the tree of life dies, it means that the tribe is basically declining and perishing.
Because the significance of the tree of life to the existence of the elven tribe is no longer as simple as providing some materials that can be used to strengthen equipment or make demonic equipment as in the past, the strength of a tree of life directly determines whether the tribe that exists around this tree of life can grow and become stronger. The more vigorous and powerful the tree of life, the more life liquid can be born every month, and the elves who take this life liquid will increase the success rate of pregnancy and childbirth, which is the key to the strength of the elf tribe.
It can be said that if an elven tribe has a tree of life and can ensure that this tree of life grows, then the tribe's strength is just around the corner.
The premise is that the tribe and its Tree of Life do not die prematurely.
So the elven tribes are as eager for the tree of life as dragons and humans are for wealth.
Today, there are only three Living Trees in the entire Wild Lands.
They are guarded by the Eye of the Storm Tribe, the Wind Feather Tribe, and the Raven Tribe, and the other elven tribes that are basically distributed throughout the Savage Land are all living around these three tribes. To put it simply, it's the elven tribes, big and small. If you want to trace back to the roots, then their ancestors must be related to these three tribes, just as the Broken Wind Tribe and the Snowwind Tribe were both separated from the Eye of the Storm tribe.
However, it is naturally impossible for a tribe to break away like this and take the Tree of Life with them. They can only take a few seeds from the Tree of Vitality. As for how many seeds of the Tree of Vitality they can make in the end, it depends on the ability of these tribes who have broken away, if they don't have the ability, then it is very likely that they will not even be able to sprout, and in the end they can only return to their original tribe or be swallowed up by other tribes.
Of course, this is not absolute.
Just like if the Tree of Life grows to a certain stage, it can attack the World Realm Tree, and if it succeeds, it can transform into the World Realm Tree. Since the Tree of Vitality is known as the Little Tree of Life, it can of course also transform into a Tree of Life. It's just that this process is very complicated, and it can even be said that it is a very difficult behavior.
Just as there is only one Tree of the World Realm within an area, the area of the Savage Lands is divided between three Living Trees. Therefore, these three Living Trees will never allow a Living Tree to grow to a stage where it is sufficient to transform into a Living Tree. Once the Living Tree senses such a threat, it will communicate with the Clan's Witch Priest, and the Tribe will send troops to cut down the Tree of Vitality, which is already powerful enough, and then dig out its heart as a resource for the development and evolution of its own Legacy Tree.
The reason why the three major elven tribes in the Wild Land have not broken out into large-scale wars with each other now. That is, these three trees of life have not grown to the point where they threaten each other and even devour each other's hearts. But in the future that can be foreseen. The war between the three elven tribes of Eye of the Storm, Wind Feather, and Raven is absolutely inevitable, but this future may be a bit long for humans.
It's just that Sean knows that there is a way to shorten the process.
That is the broken branch of the tree of life.
As the name suggests, the broken branch of the so-called tree of life is a part of the tree of life that is broken off.
As a tree of life with great efficacy, it is naturally also a part of the rules of this world, and the broken branches that are broken from its body will naturally contain a small part of this rule. And no matter how broken the rules are, they are still enough to restore them in the hands of some people. Or even comprehend the more perfect, higher rules from it, so as to step into a stronger path.
But the broken branches of the tree of life. It is also an extremely rare treasure for the Tree of Vitality.
It can make a Tree of Vitality skip one or two stages of growth and evolve directly into a Tree of Life, and the more complete and powerful the Tree of Vitality grows through this means, the higher its stage will also climb.
Assuming that it takes a total of five stages for the Tree of Vitality to evolve into the Tree of Life, then if the broken branches of the Tree of Life are used in the fourth stage, then the Tree of Vitality can at least reach the peak of the second stage when it transforms into the Tree of Life. And now, as far as Sean knows, the three trees of life in the Savage Land are only the beginning of the third stage, so having such an extra new tree of life that can be compared to these three trees of life will definitely cause the collapse of the pattern of the three elves in the entire Savage Land.
Based on Sean's knowledge of Saloki, he didn't think Saloki would do such a thing, after all, she was now competing with the Wind Breaker Tribe for the position of heir to the Eye of the Storm Tribe.
Just a little thought, Sean already knew what Saloki wanted to do.
She wants to use the broken branches of the Living Tree to secure her position and take the Eye of the Storm chieftaincy. And with the broken branches of the Tree of Life, she could even make the Eye of the Storm's Tree of Life directly cross the entire third stage and enter the fourth stage, so that the Eye of the Storm's Tree of Life would surpass the other two tribes by a whole large stage.
In this case, as long as the eye of the storm is not too arrogant, and the tree of life is allowed to cooperate with the breath to suppress a little, it will be so quiet and dormant for ten or twenty years, and when the other two tribes find that the situation is not good, they will definitely not be the opponent of the eye of the storm tribe. And when the time comes, as long as you save a breath to counterattack these two tribes, I believe that the tree of life of these two tribes will be cut down, and its heart will even become a tonic for the tree of life of the Eye of the Storm tribe.
Devour the hearts of two third-order trees of life, with the power of the tree of life in the eye of the storm. The most bad will grow into a life tree at the peak of the fourth order, and it is only one step away from the fifth order. And after that, as long as the wilderness does not die, this tree of life may really be able to grow carefree in this land that has no rivals. Until the most lucrative evolved into a world realm tree.
If this is the case, then this is probably the first World Realm Tree to reappear since the Twilight Age. At that time, let alone a wild land, the entire Southern Continent will be included in the glorious scope of this World Realm Tree, so that even the Eye of the Storm Tribe will become a tribe that unites all the elves in the entire Southern Continent.
The ambition of this Princess Saloki is so huge!
She wasn't just content with the position of a Eye of the Storm chieftain, nor was she content with uniting all the elven tribes of the Savage Lands. What she wants is the submission of all the elven tribes in the entire Southern Continent! And Sean is sure that if she really let this female elf get to this point, then her next pursuit target will be all the elven races on the entire surface. It may even be a reproduction of the splendor of the elven royal court of yesteryear.
Such a huge plan may be a grand goal for mankind that will require the joint efforts of several generations or even more than a dozen generations.
But for elves, longevity is their greatest advantage.
So Saloki had the patience and time to plan and perfect and implement this whole plan.
"Your ambition is really terrible." Sean looked at Saloki, then shook his head slightly. "So the search for the secret trade of the human nobles is just a front at all. The real purpose is simply to equip your clan with more powerful equipment to throw into this civil war. ”
"You're only halfway there." Saloki was also calm and did not deny Sean's speculation, "The correct way to understand it should be both." …… I do need the equipment you humans have crafted to arm my tribesmen, and not only in the civil wars of other elven tribes in the Holy Land, but also for the purpose of defending against other invaders. ”
"But you said you didn't even think about buying this truncated branch by auction......"
"Yes." Saloki nodded, "The first way I thought about it was actually stealing. …… In your human terms. It is that I have an internal presence in this trading caravan, and he can provide me with the real place where this truncated branch is kept. And I'm sure I can steal it. ”
"But have you ever thought that this is most likely a trap?" Sean frowned slightly, he didn't know why he wanted to say this to Saloki.
"Of course." Saloki nodded as a matter of course, "The regular secret trade between those guys of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance and the tribes of our Holy Land has been unilaterally suspended, and it is clear that they have discovered that we are growing much faster than they imagined, so they naturally hope that we can cause internal strife ourselves." …… In fact, when I knew that such a broken branch would appear, I knew that it was a conspiracy, but so what? In your human terms, it's a double-edged sword, and who can be sure that it's not the Chamber of Commerce who are playing with fire? ”
Listening to Saloqi's words, Sean felt that this female elf was really a terrible person.
If the ranking of the top ten generals in the continent is not just a restriction on human beings, Sean believes that there will definitely be Saloki on the list. Yukikaze's place, because this is a man who is as good at layout as Hela. It can even be said that because of the longevity advantage of the race, she has more time and energy to design and check all the details and holes in the entire layout to achieve true perfection.
If those guys in the Chamber of Commerce Alliance knew that there was such a person in the elf clan of the Savage Land who was good at layout and planning, I am afraid they would not have given such a severed branch to the elves of the Savage Land.
Because as the princess said.
Due to the impact and destruction of the head-tailed snake route plan formulated by the Chamber of Commerce Alliance, the Chamber of Commerce Alliance is temporarily unable to fight against the combined army of the Savage Lands, so it naturally wants to use the broken branches of the Tree of Life as bait to plunge the elves of the entire Savage Lands into civil strife, thereby weakening the combat power of the Savage Lands. But this is also an opportunity for Saloki to make her tribe stronger, as long as she uses it well, then the Chamber of Commerce Alliance will taste the taste of lifting a stone to shoot herself in the foot.
But will the Chamber of Commerce allow such an opportunity?
I'm afraid that the moment the broken branch of the Tree of Life is stolen, the Chamber of Commerce Alliance will spread false news in the Savage Lands.
Thinking of this, Sean finally understood why Saloki would say that they were going back.
"Perhaps, we can work together more deeply." Seeing Sean's suddenly enlightened look, Saloki. Xue Feng spoke again, "As long as Lord Sean can help me obtain the broken branch of the Tree of Life, then I can guarantee that the tribes I can influence and command will be your strongest allies. ”
And at the moment when Saloki's words fell, Sean finally obtained the second link of the mission chain that he had wanted to obtain before. It's just that Sean is definitely not very happy. Because if he had known that this would be the case, then he would definitely not have come to the second link of the quest chain to find Saloki and ask about it. (To be continued......)