In the interval between another fierce battle, Richard communicated with the Tree of Life and told him of his own decision. The consciousness of the Eternal Night Life Tree is extremely weak at this moment, and the numerous wounds on the tree's body are no longer able to heal itself. It can only communicate through guò consciousness, and it cannot even condense even a simple image of a tree spirit.

"Let's go, I can hold them back for a while. "The Tree of Life is calm.

Richard said, "Surrender, don't buy us time." ”

"But......" The Tree of Eternal Life hesitated. Richard knew what it was hesitating about, and if it surrendered, it would mean that the Tree of Life would be part of the World Tree. This can be said to be a very humiliating thing for the Tree of Eternal Night Life from Norland. In the sense of life level, the Eternal Night Life Tree is no worse than the Green Forest World Tree.

"Survive first, I'll be back soon! At the gate of the plane, there is my army!"

The Tree of Eternal Night Life finally nodded, "Okay." ”

After communicating with the Tree of Life in the Eternal Night, there is another problem on the Elves of the Eternal Night. Ellie tells the Night Elves that only half of them can be evacuated with the party. On the question of which people would be able to leave, the Night Elves and Ellie were at odds again. According to Ellie, the best plan is to take all the elite warriors, as well as the children and young female elves. The rest does not constitute immediate combat effectiveness, nor is it of little use to the future growth of the tribe. They can choose to fight or surrender if they stay, and it doesn't matter to Ellie. Even if the entire Eternal Night Tribe is left behind, it is just looking for death, so it makes no sense for the eliminated elves to do anything, it is nothing more than consuming a few more guardian elf warriors. But as long as Richard returned to the forward base and gathered a large army and followers, he didn't care if there were more or fewer guardian elves.

But the Night Elves didn't think so, and all the elite warriors, including the two Grand Druids and the two Sanctuary Hunters, volunteered to stay, leaving the tribe's large number of old and weak and female elves to leave. In their eyes, death in battle is the duty and pride of a soldier. Moreover, although the High Elves are highly hierarchical, the higher rank and rights of the warriors are also accompanied by more responsibilities. At such times, it is their duty to protect the low-ranking ordinary people. Although there have been Grey Feather and the like among the Night Elves, after a series of accidents, the rest are all predators who adhere to tradition.

However, Ellie Jie refuses to agree, because the old and weak elves are too slow, so the time to return to the base city will be greatly extended. And in order to protect these elves who have no power to protect themselves, the knights have to fight to the death several times. In Ellie's eyes, every battle means a few names that will be crossed out of the roster of Constructed Knights!

Just when the two sides were arguing, Richard stepped down from the tree of life, stopped the roaring Ellie, and then ordered ten not weak constructed knights, let them get off the magic horse, and then summoned his own holy unicorn for some old and weak eternal night elves to ride, and then frankly said that this is the limit of what can be done, and for the real future of the tribe, Richard still hopes that those elite hunters and druids can retreat together. However, Richard ultimately left the decision in the hands of the Night Elves.

The Night Elves also knew that time was pressing, and after deliberation, about a third of the elite warriors remained, and at the same time, a Sanctuary Hunter volunteered to stay behind and lead all the remaining clansmen to break the rear.

Richard took a deep look at the Sanctuary Hunter and said, "You can surrender." I'll be back soon. ”

The Sanctuary Hunter performed a High Elf salute to Richard and solemnly said, "We will not surrender!"

Richard opened his mouth, but only nodded, not forcing again. At this time, the two Grand Druids of the Eternal Night Elves and a Sanctuary Hunter who decided to retreat simultaneously performed the highest courtesy to Richard, solemnly stating that they would fully obey Richard's orders in the future. The entire Eternal Night tribe has only now truly become a member of Richard's command. Just looking at the Eternal Night Tribe, which had less than five hundred people left, Richard couldn't be happier.

These must be, the retreating team will set off, and time is now the most urgent resource. The mounts given to the Night Elves were almost full of slow-moving Night Elves, and Richard himself was walking on the ground. Everyone knew that Richard's injuries were not healed at all, as evidenced by the fact that he was not able to cast large-scale magic at all. Ellie also jumped off the horse, letting several of the Night Elves get on her horse, while she walked side by side with Richard.

The team walked in the dark forest, and after a while, Ellie finally couldn't help it and asked, "Why?"

Richard didn't answer, but looked around, and saw that both the Night Elves and the Constructed Knight had a very subtle change in their attitudes towards him.

After reading this, Richard said: "For the sake of ...... The world is in the heart. ”

"The world is in the heart?" said Ellie, chewing on this sentence repeatedly, but she didn't understand it. If you want the world to return to the center, just push the army over, and then the means are softer, isn't it natural to return to the heart?

Before she could think clearly, she suddenly saw Richard's whole body shocked, and her face changed suddenly. Richard paused, slowly turned his head, and looked in the direction of the Tree of Life. Not only Richard, but also the three powerhouses of the Eternal Night Elves also felt it, and looked in the same direction as Richard. From there, they all felt a throbbing, the screams of the Tree of Life's excruciating pain!

The Tree of Eternal Night Life was frantically flapping its branches and roots, and the ancient trees in the forest were swept down in rows. But black shadows burst out of the forest like lightning and swooped down on the tree of life. Those dark shadows are all guardian elves, but they are very different from ordinary guardian elves. They were a full circle larger, and all of their skin had turned grayish-black, wrinkled, and with sporadic scales. Not only were they large in size, but they were also much faster than the average Patron Elf, pounced like wolves, jumped onto the Tree of Life in a few leaps, and then quickly climbed up. In the blink of an eye, the tree of life was adorned with thousands of strange guardian spirits. These mutated guardian elves opened their mouths one after another, and their mouths were full of demonic sharp teeth! They were full of sawdust in one bite, and the thick, hard bark of the Tree of Eternal Night Life could not stop them from gnawing at all, and in the blink of an eye, it was full of potholes.

The pain of being eaten alive made the tree of life constantly emit a terrible trombone, and the sound of the trumpet was transmitted far away, making the vast forest and sea tremble. Under the Tree of Life, the remnants of the Night Elves are fighting to the death, and there are some of them elite warriors, but the mutated Guardian Elves are also greatly strengthened. From time to time, the Night Elves will be knocked down and dragged out of the line, and then those mutated guardian elves who are like beasts will rush up, and in the blink of an eye, they will gnaw the Night Elves into white bones!

More and more mutated guardian elves poured out of the forest, and more than 10,000 guardian elves were like swarms of locusts, frantically gnawing around the tree of life, not sparing even a single leaf.

In the distance, Richard's face sank like water, and he said very calmly: "Let's go." He stopped looking in the direction he came from and continued to walk towards the base city. The three powerhouses of the Eternal Night Elves followed in turn. Strange whistling continued to echo in the sky above Lin Hai, which sounded like the sound of the wind, but everyone could feel the indescribable pain in the sound.

It was the mourning of the tree of life.

Ellie was used to seeing blood and killing, but now she wanted to plug her ears. She couldn't help but ask Richard, "Aren't the guardian elves going to destroy the Tree of Life?

"Those aren't guardian elves anymore. Richard's tone was normal.

Ellie sighed and stopped asking. She also knew that the calmer Richard was at this time, the more angry she was in her heart. Richard's injuries were still severe, and anger didn't do him any good.

At this moment, a huge wooden hall with a radius of 100 meters was built in the depths of the forest sea. The main hall is dark and indescribably eerie. And the roof of the temple was burning with a raging fire, but the flames were a strange dark green. In the midst of the flames, the mysterious man in black robe sang and danced like a madman, but in a language that no one understood. He kept clapping his hands and stomping his feet, and the whole hall was shaking to his beat. The mysterious hall is divided into two gates, the front and the back, and a horde of guardian elves behind it is being driven into the main hall. These guardian elves are found in all tribes, even the elderly and children. A group of twilight hunters, armed with swords and spears, drove them into the dark door of the main hall. The gate was ten meters high and ten meters wide, but the inside of the hall was so dark that it was impossible to see what was inside.

One by one, mutated guardian elves kept walking out of the main entrance of the main hall. At first, their eyes were dull and their movements stiffened, and dark green sparks continued to fly out of the flames on the roof of the temple, imprinting on them. At this time, the mutant elves suddenly had souls, became fierce and terrifying, and rushed into the forest one after another, as if they had received orders from the underworld.

At the edge of the clearing, several elders of Twilight and other tribes gathered together, looking at those terrifying mutant elves, their faces unspeakably ugly. An elder of the Windwhispering Tribe suddenly said, "Isn't the Tree of Eternal Night Life willing to surrender, why do you ......?"

Another elder also said indignantly, "Yes, every tree of life is a future world tree, how can this be!"

Since someone started the way, the elders couldn't help but talk about it. The point is that the Tree of Life is equivalent to the god who guards the elves, a concept that has been rooted in the soul of the guardian elves for many years. The Great Elder of Twilight was silent, not saying a word. It wasn't until the discussion among the elders became more and more intense that he slowly said, "The old times have passed. ”