Chapter Five Hundred and Ninety Fourth: Bait

It took Joshua some time to figure out the structure of the Forgotten Land. The architectural style here is more like a small town, a small town used as a refuge.

There is an observatory with an excellent view on the second floor of the Forgotten Land, but the observation equipment here has been damaged, and Joshua can only borrow Ciri's one-way telescope to look at the scenery outside the city wall.

Joshua observed with binoculars that Ino pushed the small wooden cart full of snacks to the edge of the Forgotten Land. With the announcement on the pop-up web page, two wild high elves were attracted.

"What did you make the holy tree do?"

Elder Sindonal and the man in black stood behind Joshua, while Ciri went to the outskirts of the Forgotten Land with Ino to ensure the safety of Ino.

High elves all have a pair of eagle eyes, or... highly farsighted?

They can see what is happening in the distance without the help of a telescope.

Elder Sindonal immediately recognized Al and the branches and leaves that appeared at the edge of the forest.

The reason why they ran to the Forgotten Land, Elder Sindonal has no way of knowing for the time being, this elder can gradually feel the mutation in himself, that is hunger.

The man in black was not so sensitive to the feeling of hunger after leaving Arthur Crowe for a long time, but other high elves were different.

Hunger is a very foreign state to them.

"I just turned on the energy-saving mode of your world tree." Qiao Xiu said.

"Energy saving mode?"

Elder Sindonal was ready to accept the change brought about by the guidance of the holy tree, but this change came too fast.

"I communicated with your World Tree."

Joshua should be thankful that the World Tree of the high elves can speak, while the World Tree of the frost elves can only meow, and Tailin needs to translate this cat language.

"Your World Tree is the power source for Arthur Crowe to float in the sky, and at the same time maintain the powerful magic shield around Arthur Crowe and...provide the energy you need for life."

It was difficult for Qiao Xiu to explain where a World Tree got such a large amount of energy, and the energy source that made the World Tree grow, that is, the belief of living beings, made Qiao Xiu feel a little weird.

Can such a huge city float in the sky just by relying on the power of faith?

In the end, Joshua gave up thinking about what the power of faith was, but it was okay to stop some of Arthur Crowe's functions.

"In order to save energy for your world tree, I temporarily stopped the energy supply to you, which means that you will have to get energy from food for a long time in the future." Qiao Xiu said.

"Eating the remains of living things?"

Elder Sindonal glanced at the man in black next to him. The mask on his face prevented Elder Sindonal from seeing his expression clearly, but the way Al was wolfing down a piece of cake in the distance was captured by Elder Sindonal. look in the eyes.

"If this is the will of the holy tree." In the end, Elder Sindonal could only slowly accept these 'abnormal feelings' on his body. '

Joshua continued to focus on the two high elves, but at this moment Ciri's voice sounded in Joshua's ear.

"The city management is really here!"

"I have told Ino to evacuate, Ciri, try not to come into contact with those high elves."

Joshua also saw a group of high elves coming from a distance through the one-way telescope.

"What about the little wooden cart?"

"Stay there."

Qiao Xiu observed the group of high elves. This race seemed to be a matriarchal society. At least there were unexpectedly many women in the inspection team.

"It's a pity to just stay there like this."

"Cake, Ciri, can you enjoy it in Nolan, right?"

"No...I mean, put a little sleep-inducing potion on the cake or something."

"..."

While Joshua was talking with Ciri, Ino had managed to escape into the Forgotten Land with Al and Zhiye, and the patrol team of high elves had also arrived at the outskirts of the Forgotten Land.

"There should be one or two people who will take the bait."

Before Qiao Xiu finished his sentence, a wild high elf took the bait.

It's a pity that this high elf is Al who had bitten the 'bait' before. She seemed to think that the 'bait' was too delicious, so she was a little bit unwilling and turned back to bite again.

"Do you want to save her?" Ciri asked softly.

"Let's see the situation first."

………………

It's that problem child again!

Aurelian, who was the leader of the inspection team, sensed that someone had broken into the Forgotten Land ten minutes ago.

She immediately led her patrol team to the outskirts of the Forgotten Land, but she caught a familiar figure in the first moment... Apprentice Priest Al.

"Al! Shouldn't you be in the Hall of Contemplation?!"

Aurelian was still a step late. When she arrived at the periphery, another high elf who was with Al, and a suspected human figure had already run into the Forgotten Land, and only Al turned back halfway.

Al didn't seem to hear her words. After finding the wooden box for packaging under the small wooden cart, he quickly began to put the cakes on the small wooden cart into the wooden box.

Although Al's character is usually a little naive, she is not stupid. If she has time to answer the inspector's questions, Al might as well pack a few cakes and run away.

"Al, you have made a big mistake by forgetting the admonition of the Council of Elders and approaching the Forgotten Land without authorization. I will arrest you in the name of the Council!"

Aurelian's voice already had a bit of gnashing of teeth.

The relationship between her and this trainee priest is not good, the reason is very simple... She lost to Al in the priest assessment, the most hateful thing is that she lost on talent, not personal effort.

Seeing that Al still didn't respond to her intentions, Aurelian's anger caused by being ignored and scorned caused Aurelian to take out a wooden arrow without an arrow point and point it at Al.

A large number of silver-white inscriptions are engraved on the wooden arrow, and those who are hit by the wooden arrow will be restrained in place immediately.

Take the bow, draw the string, aim.

Archery is the only ability that Aurelian is confident of defeating Al. She aimed the arrow at the belly of the apprentice priest.

But the moment the arrow was about to hit Al, Al turned around and blocked the arrow with a magic barrier overflowing from his left hand. When she released the magic barrier, she still had a piece of cream cake stuffed in her mouth.

Easily blocking the attack from Aurelian, Al swallowed the cream cake in his mouth, and then ran towards the Forgotten Land with the cake he had packed.

"Aurelion..."

The fellow elf inspectors behind him watched Al who ran into the Forgotten Land, and they didn't know how to make a choice for a moment.

"Wen Naen, go and tell the elders about this."

Aurelian glanced at the small wooden cart that Al stopped just now. The words written on the small wooden cart were human characters.