Throne of Magical Arcana

"Two guests, are you looking for me?" Nordaniel pointed at himself suspiciously when he saw Heidi and Katrina walking towards him.

Heidi smiled and said kindly: "Nordaniel, your speech on natural balance just now was really great and interesting!"

She noticed that Nordaniel had a relatively cheerful personality, so she greeted him with a familiar look, calling her Ma'am and Miss without politeness.

Hearing Heidi's sincere and straightforward praise, Nordaniel was a little shy and waved his hands a little awkwardly: "I just sorted out the ideas that the elders usually explain."

"My name is Heidi, and this is my companion Katrina. I just came to the forest as a guest today. I am very glad to meet you for the first time." Heidi became more and more enthusiastic.

She was not as introverted as Annick, and introduced the two of them to Nordaniel openly.

Getting along with such a talkative, cheerful and non-stressful guest, the little tension in Nordaniel's heart quickly dissipated, and the conversation became natural.

"Well, we are entrusted by Her Majesty the Queen to investigate the demonization of a small number of elves. We have some questions for you about Triss." After chatting for a while, Heidi asked directly.

Nordaniel was silent for a while, and said with a sad expression: "Heidi, Katrina, if you have any questions about this, just ask, I very much hope that you can find the source of the corruption and let Triss and the others recover, even if they can't recover, Don't suffer like this again."

"Did Triss show any signs of abnormality before she fell?" Katrina asked according to the standard questions discussed by Jurisian, Felipe and others.

Nordaniel is a sun elf, with fair skin and brilliant blond hair, she looks quite noble under the sun, but there is no smile on her face, and she said while recalling: "At least for me, before that Nothing too strange happened in my life. The partners also hunted and picked fruits every day, looking for places where the balance in the forest might be broken and repaired. All kinds of classics after the age of mythology..."

Everything is so peaceful, so leisurely, and such a beautiful life seems to never be broken, but: "That morning, I suddenly noticed that the magic pattern on Triss's skin changed, full of hatred and killing. It feels... yesterday was fine, we danced a special dance she just learned and said goodnight to each other."

"Special dance?" Heidi recorded Nordaniel's answer in the magic notebook, subconsciously paying attention to the dance with the adjective "special".

Nodaniel nodded slightly: "She said Ms. Martha taught her, so I'll dance for you?"

Heidi and Katrina answered at the same time, half investigating and half curious: "Okay!"

Nordaniel took a few steps back and danced very rhythmically without musical accompaniment.

Many movements in this dance are quite weird, almost violating the normal physiological conditions, that is, the elves' bodies are soft and exaggerated, so they can barely do it.

"Although the movements are difficult and strange, I have to say that this dance is really beautiful..." Heidi moved her left hand and legs, feeling an urge to join in the dance, but she quickly patted her face in frustration, Consider whether to prepare a bottle of potion to stimulate the blood after returning home, otherwise it is impossible to learn this dance.

Katrina tapped the time for Nordaniel, and secretly connected with her mind: "This dance belongs to the sacrificial type, and it gives me a strange feeling. I will focus on mentioning it when I gather information at night."

During the dance, Nordaniel seemed to recall his friend, and gradually exuded a feeling of sadness and mourning. It took a long time to recover, and asked in a low voice: "Is this dance okay?"

"There are no magic fluctuations, no magical aura, and no weird prying eyes, but that doesn't mean it has no problems. You'd better stop jumping until the matter is investigated." Heidi liked this new elf friend very much. I specially reminded her.

After Nodaniel nodded in agreement, Katrina continued to ask: "A few days before the fall, did Triss's mood change, or did her concept change?"

Nordaniel recalled carefully: "She felt a little lost, because the magic lines grew slowly and there was no substantial breakthrough, so she told me very seriously that she wanted to become a druid, learn natural magic, and play a role in maintaining the balance of nature. greater effect."

To play a greater role in maintaining the balance of nature... Heidi frowned and wrote down Nordaniel's statement, and at the same time asked casually, "Are you a druid?"

"Well, I just became a guardian of nature, which is what you call an intermediate druid." Nordaniel was quite proud of his status as a guardian of nature, and the haze between his brows disappeared a lot.

Elves are not divided into levels like low, middle and high, one, two, and three like humans, but the levels are interlinked. "Nature Guardian" is a Druid apprentice, "Nature Friend" is a beginner Druid, and "Nature Guardian" It is a mid-level druid, and the "staff bearer" is a high-level druid (including level nine).

Heidi was quite interested in the druid profession, so she got to know more about it.

"...every elf can sense the grace of nature, so it can become the guardian of nature without hindrance, and then we need to sublimate our understanding of nature into our own ideas and implement them in our daily actions , with the integration 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 official magic..." Nordaniel did not hide it.

The three chatted for a long time, and then separated.

In the evening, Heidi and Katrina returned to the tree house with the magic notebook full of harvest, and gathered information with Urisian, Felipe, Annick, Splinter and others.

"Special dance...Ms. Martha..." Urisan chanted these two terms, "Over 70% of the fallen are related to special dances, and 30% learn from Ms. Martha, The rest don't know where they learned it from..."

Felipe said in a low voice: "It may be the custom of the elves. They love dancing very much."

"Anyway, let's go see that Ms. Martha tomorrow," Urisian said.

At this time, Annick said shyly and dignifiedly: "Could it be a dance similar to 'Viken's Special Summoning Ceremony', with no strangeness on the surface, and the focus is on the ideas or emotions that are instilled and formed during the learning process?"

Heidi just cracked such a case, and she is very sensitive about it, she nodded seriously: "It is possible, natural haters, hate, I remember that one of the ancient devils is called 'Abomination'!"

"The problem is that 80% of the fallen and demonized elves are natural balance faction, and some of the remaining 20% ​​swing between the two factions. The real nature-hating elves rarely fall, otherwise People in the Elven King's Court have already noticed the weirdness..." Jurisian looked at the data sheet in front of him and rubbed his forehead.

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After Lucien, Natasha, and Atlante checked the "Heart of Nature", they went to the "Prisoner" led by Malfurion and Ranhill, trying to find clues from the fallen elves.

The "imprisonment" of the elves is still a hut made of tree trunks, but this part of the trunk is iron-gray and as hard as steel. This is due to the special nature of the tree itself, and it is also related to the blessing of natural spells.

Lanhill asked the two elves guarding the "Prisoner" to open the door, and there was a shrill and terrifying howl suddenly, like the "wailing" of a wild beast in the forest at night, which made people tremble with fear.

The two guardian elves showed sad expressions, and they were their companions, not beasts!

Lucien, Natasha, and Atlante stood outside a cell, looking at the fallen elf inside through a gap in the trees.

This is an elf girl with a beautiful appearance, but her magic pattern has spread from her neck and arms to her whole body. Her face and hands seem to be painted with horror and mysterious abstract paintings, and it is different from the tender green of ordinary elf magic pattern. It's dark green with a trace of blood, which is extremely ferocious.

"It's like the pattern on the back of a human-faced spider..." Natasha said in the telepathic connection.

Indeed, the magic pattern and skin of this elf have signs of spiders!

"I'm going to kill you!"

"For a green and clean world!"

"All intelligent life must die!"

The fallen elf girl rushed to the gap in the tree trunk, staring at Lucien and the others with wide eyes. Her pupils were no longer flexible, only a deep sense of tyranny and destruction. In the center was a mass of solidified red. At the same time, She opened her mouth and bit her teeth on the tree trunk. It seemed that she could only rely on such primitive means to attack when she could not use spell-like and natural abilities.

The two rows of teeth, which were originally neat and clean, were like white bones at this moment.

"Natural Balance..." Malfurion introduced the identity of the elf girl to Lucien and the others.

Lucien and Atlante had seen too many terrifying scenes to enumerate. They were not affected by such scenes, and each cast their magic to check the situation of the elf girl.

As time passed, Lucien suppressed the degree of depravity of the elf girl, and then said: "It is basically certain that it is related to the pollution of the elf tree, but I don't know if it is the cause or the result. Similarly, prophecy can only tell Me, all fallen elves have something in common deep beneath the surface, and that's the point."

"In this regard, I will ask Elestine and the others to cooperate with the magician in the investigation. The two of you will go to the gap in the abyss with me first?" Landhir suggested.

Lucien nodded without objecting.

At this moment, due to being suppressed by Lucien, the elf girl's eyes suddenly became clearer, and she held her head in pain: "Why is this happening!"

"Why is this happening!"

A green light glowed on her body, and a faint sense of tranquility flowed out.

As soon as Lucien's face changed, he wanted to stop it, but Malfurion sighed: "She is in such pain, let her relieve herself, there are other fallen elves who can investigate..."

The elf girl hummed a beautiful melody:

"Every elf is a tree, which comes from nature and returns to nature..."

"We are born in love and union, we return in peace and serenity, we sing to the forest, we rejoice in life..."

As the ethereal singing came out, the green light on her body gradually became stronger, and then Malfurion opened the door of the cell.

The elf girl stepped out like a dance, and gave a deep salute to Lucien, Natasha and Atlante:

"Every elf is a tree, rooted in the earth and breathing in the sky..."

"We guard nature and maintain balance..."

She flew outside with difficulty, the green light on her body enveloped her, and then slowly fell to the ground. At this moment, the eyes of the two guard elves couldn't help but blush.

"Every elf is a tree..."

The singing became smaller and smaller, but it reverberated melodiously, the green light disappeared, and there was a tall and graceful tree in the forest.

Every elf will turn into a tree after death, so they love green so much.

"We must investigate the cause of the fall!" Witnessing this scene, Natasha clenched her fist tightly with her right hand and said to herself.

Lucien closed his eyes, turned to Lanhir and said, "Let's go to the gap in the abyss to have a look."