novelonline Chapter 2548: The Elf's Arrow and the Journey to Vesta City
Chapter 2548: The Elf's Arrow and the Journey to Vesta City
Chapter 2548: The Elf's Arrow and the Journey to Vesta City
After temporarily bidding farewell to Luvia, Shad prepared enough lunch and cat food for Mia, and then headed to the strange forest city.
After walking out of the tree hole in the ruins, he immediately leaned against the tree and looked around. The forest was still peaceful during the day, and the shadows of the trees were projected onto the floor tiles at the edge of the ruins. The big-tailed squirrel that was picking pine cones in the shadows was startled by the sudden appearance of Xia De, and quickly ran up the tree holding the pine nuts.
Xia De thought that the mysterious elf would appear immediately, but he didn't see her after waiting for a long time.
So he put on the wreath and tried to find the flower sea according to the location he had written down last night. The forest told Shade how to go forward, but when he arrived at the clearing, the flower sea was still there, but the elves had disappeared.
Fortunately, above the silver-blue sea of flowers, the familiar silver-blue flowers were floating in the sun. When Xia De walked over, it took the initiative to fly forward to show Xia De the way.
After that, Xia De entered the forest again and followed the little flower for about five minutes. After crossing a stream in the forest, the flower stopped under a giant tree. When Xia De approached, the flower slowly fell into his palm.
Xia De looked around and finally looked up to see a tree house on the giant tree. It was called "a tree house" because rope ladders and vines connected the three floors of the large house.
This is a typical elf-style building. It is obvious that the mysterious elf girl lives here.
Xia De turned into a butterfly and flew upwards. At this moment, the door of the middle floor of the three-story tree house was also pushed open. The blonde elf dressed exactly the same as yesterday came out and stood on the wooden platform in front of the door. The tree on which the tree house was built was extremely tall. From this place, you can see the lush and green forest in early autumn.
Then the butterflies landed around her:
"Good morning, Miss Sienord."
As Shade said this, he showed up, but the elf dodged to the side, apparently not wanting to get too close to Shade.
Of course, she was only two meters away from Xia De at this time.
She placed one hand on the railing and turned to look at him. There was almost no trace of her thoughts in her emerald green eyes.
"Sienod is just one of the priests' surnames among the Moonbrook Clan elves. Not all Moonbrook Clan elves have the surname Sienod."
"I don't really understand this, I'm sorry."
The stranger, who had a complete set of "ancient elf knowledge" given by Treefather and had heard a lot about modern elf traditions from Emilia, said embarrassedly:
"But this is a really nice place you live in."
As he spoke, he took out the stone tablet containing "Crystal Light" from the black market last night. The elf was not surprised by the appearance of such a large stone tablet. She waved her hand and the stone tablet floated to the table in front of the tree house behind them:
"You move really fast."
"Since you have promised to do something for someone else, you naturally have to deal with it as soon as possible."
He answered like this, but he didn't mean to leave immediately:
"By the way, do you know anything about the city of Vista?"
"of course."
The emerald green eyes continued to look at him:
"Why, do you still want to ask me for local intelligence? But I am actually more familiar with this forest than the city. I have not lived here as long as you think. If you want to find out the local customs, intelligence, etc., you can go to the black market."
"Well, do you know if there's a big hotel with an accordion sign in the area?"
The elf's eyes moved away and looked at the distant view of the forest:
"You can buy a copy of the Vista Woodlands Travel Guide. Page 8 provides detailed information about the 'Accordion Inn'. It's very famous there. It only takes seven minutes to walk from the Accordion Inn to the 'Golden Music Hall'."
She seemed to feel that Xia De's question was boring, and her tone was full of disdain:
"I feel like you're testing me. Why, haven't you seen an elf before?"
"I've seen elves before, but I didn't expect to see pure-blooded elves living alone around human cities."
"Before humans, the forest belonged to the elves."
She continued to look at Lin Hai:
"If you doubt my friendly attitude towards you, I said last night that I am just curious about you. You have the blessing of the tree. If I was not sure that you are indeed a human being even though your face is disguised, I would even suspect that you are also a high elf."
"I do know a young high elf."
Shade paused:
"But my purpose of coming here has nothing to do with elves. In fact, I am looking for someone. My friend is missing here."
"friend?"
"Or teacher. Anyway, she is a very strong lady. You and I combined cannot beat her.
Although I have some clues now, I am alone after all. So if you have time, I would like to ask you to help me find her traces in this forest. Of course, I will pay you. "
The blond elf tapped the wooden railing with his fingers:
"There are many ring sorcerers who mysteriously disappear in the Vestal Forest every year. There are always some people who don't know how to respect the forest. It's no problem for me to help you find them. I won't charge you for it. After all, I don't think I can help you find them."
She raised her left hand and twisted a strand of hair hanging by her ear:
"I do have some interesting information about Vista Grove. If you want it, please help me collect some information during the operations in Vista Grove and Creekwood.
There are many relics of ancient elves excavated from ruins scattered around this place, and I need this."
The light green spot of light formed a transparent arrow in front of the two. The arrow kept turning itself over, allowing Shade to see every detail of it. The arrowhead was engraved with ancient elven runes, and the arrow shaft was covered with dense patterns of trees and leaves.
"Is this an antique? Or an alchemical weapon? Or a relic?"
Shade inquired.
"When you find it, you can give yourself the answer. I don't know how many lost arrows there are, but I will give you a reward for each one you bring back. You can regard this as a commission. If I help you, you will help me too, right?"
The elf said, and Shade looked at her:
"It's no problem for me to help, but this is only the second time we meet. Why would you want to entrust me with this kind of thing? You seem to be very familiar with me?"
The blond elf smiled, twisted her hair and turned to look at him:
"I admit that you are handsome, but please don't use this old-fashioned way of chatting us up to get closer. You have the scent of a tree, and you, like me, have been blessed by the ancient father of trees. That's enough."
Some light green spots floated out again, and after touching the wooden railings in front of the two people, the dead wood instantly came back to life.
Xia De reached out and touched it. It was a trace of the genuine miracle element of the Tree Father's magic. However, it was not a magic related to time, but a magic related to "tree".
"Are you satisfied with this?"
"Yes, I will accept the commission and help you find those arrows."
After bidding farewell to the mysterious elves, Shade went to Vesta wearing a wreath. This time he still went along the forest railway and took the train to the Vesta train station.
He arrived in the city at midnight yesterday, and now standing in front of the train station again on a sunny morning, Xia De was once again convinced that the city was filled with a relaxed and leisurely atmosphere.
The "City of Music" is surrounded by forests, and it seems to be completely isolated from other worries on this continent. If it weren't for the children selling newspapers still shouting today's big news "His Majesty the King Lion announced an expansion of the army by 200,000", Shade almost forgot that the conflict between the North and the South has really reached a point where it is about to explode.
Because he had his own destination, Shade did not wander around in this strange city. After finding a horse-drawn carriage at the entrance of the train station, he asked the driver to set off for the "Accordion Inn".
On the way, Shad also talked to the talkative coachman about whether there was any news in the city recently, but the biggest news he got was just that the mayor was photographed by reporters while having a secret meeting with his mistress, and the upcoming Moondance Festival concert attracted a large number of tourists and musicians from all over the world, and environmentalists were protesting against the government's deforestation in front of the city hall.
The area of Vista City is not large. It takes less than an hour to travel from the train station in the northeast of the city to the city center. This is because the local streets are not very wide, so carriages dare not drive too fast.
On the way, Xia De also saw the general appearance of the entire city from the car window. There were not many tall buildings here, but green plants could be seen everywhere. Not only the street trees and flower pots on the balconies of residential buildings, but also flowers and green leaves seemed to fill every blank gap in the city.
Nature and the city grow together harmoniously. Even though it is not known as the "City of Music", Shad feels that it can definitely be called a "Garden City".
Of course, Shade also found an astonishing number of concert halls and opera houses in the city. Although these buildings were not all formal performance venues, at least every concert hall and opera house with a sign hanging on the door could see audiences coming in and out.
The terrain of the entire Vista City is high in the middle and low around. Similar to Huntington City, both are built on hills. In the past, the town of Creekwood was located in the northeast of the hill, with the main part of the town distributed on both sides of the river, but now the city completely occupies the hill.
The city center is the "Golden Music Hall", which is actually the highest point in the entire city. City hall, police station and other city functional departments are built around the "Golden Music Hall", so the "Accordion Hotel", which is less than ten minutes' walk away, is also the most important hotel and landmark building in the entire city.
(End of this chapter)