Chapter 292 Withering Moon Disease

After nearly a few days of sailing, a white coast finally appeared on a blue sea. A little white ice floated up and down in the waves and slowly sank into the icy water.

After entering the Northern Continent, the airship did not stop immediately, but continued to fly until it saw a city where life gathered.

The undulating icicles are connected together to form a tall wall with an arc, blocking the cold wind on one side, while the other side is directly open to welcome the thin and warm sunlight in the sky.

Compared with human towns, the buildings here are extraordinarily beautiful. The gray-blue and blue-green rocks are smooth and straight, forming the outer walls of high towers and castles. Below these tall castles and tower walls, slices of white huts with curved tops like bread are neatly arranged. If you look down from the sky, you can see that the streets and buildings below together outline a huge ice calendula, and there is a moon outside. and other floral patterns.

"There is 'Scarlandi', which means 'city of mountains and winter winds', and it is also the largest city in the ice elf country closest to the southwest."

When the airship was several kilometers away from the city, it began to descend slowly. Irene introduced this magnificent big city on the deck and several companions beside her.

On the endless snow field, the city is surrounded by large coniferous forests, which stretch continuously to the north and east, bringing a lot of life to the monotonous world.

"It is estimated that this is the last city to see the sun. If you go further north, you will find the country of the ice elves in the shadow season." The scholar on the side looked at the icy blue city and sighed with emotion.

Before they came, they checked a lot of books about ice elves. Although the forest elves had not interacted with ice elves for a long time, they still left some records in the distant past.

"Keep moving forward. This time, it is estimated that the ruler of 'Scalante' will guide us to reach the Court of Ice Palace in the Northern Continent."

"Does Erin know anything about Scalandi?" Athey asked the companion beside her.

"I don't know much, but I heard that the ruling family of 'Scalante' is a branch of the Duke of Lourdes. Lourdes, Callender, and Stide are the three Dukes who currently rule the ice elves. , they respectively use the 'Qin of Ice Strings', 'Dark Moon Calendar' and 'Biankyo Foil' as their coat of arms, and members of their families dominate most of the affairs and responsibilities of the Ice Palace Court."

"If it is divided into factions, in fact, the Sileni family I belong to is also a vassal under the Duke of Calender."

The airship's propeller blew the ice particles on the ground, bringing up white snow mist. With a wave of shaking and adjustment, this fine airship slowly stopped on the ground, and the propeller and sail also stopped moving and became quiet.

The long metal ladder was lowered, and the spikes on the bottom side of its tail were embedded in the permafrost to fix it, and then a forest elves stepped off the airship.

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When Roland Hill carried the puppet and got off the airship, a group of ice elf cavalry riding the cold feather bird had already rushed over in the distance.

The blade of the long lance is elongated into a narrow and sharp triangle, reflecting the cold light in the sea breeze. These ice elf cavalry are not weak, almost every one has the strength of Sequence 3, which can be said to be rare. 's elite.

When they approached, they did not launch an attack immediately, but waited and negotiated with their own envoys.

Several messengers first took out the edict of the current Queen Aiqinweila, negotiated the documents, and then asked Irene to come out and talk to the ice elves.

After seeing Irene, the ice elf, the cavalry captain's expression softened a little, but he still carefully examined the document for a long time before raising his head.

"Sorry, I can't decide many of these things, but I can hand over some of the documents to Lord Antonis for you. He is the current lord of Scalandi, and he decides."

"We can accept it, but we also hope that we won't wait too long." Several members of the envoy nodded to each other, expressing understanding.

So, the first day ended here. The envoys first camped near the place where the airship landed and waited for the reply later.

The next day, no one in the city came to reply, but some extraordinary people in the envoy felt some prying figures in the sky.

On the third day, still no progress.

On the fourth day, a few ice elves finally came to the camp. They said that a small number of envoys could enter the city, but the number should not exceed five.

After some negotiation, the envoys added Irene, and finally formed a 6-person team and entered the city, including Roland Hill.

Riding on a long-haired pony, Loren Hill wore a light gray and ice blue coat with a wide hood on his head, and his transparent blue eyes looked curiously at the scenery on both sides of the street.

The city of 'Skarandi' is very lively, and there are ice-blue long-haired ice elves everywhere. They wear light blue long skirts, and there is often a layer of semi-transparent tulle on the outside as an embellishment.

These ice elves were very curious about the people who entered the city, and from their conversations, Loren Hill found that many of them didn't know the news of the envoy's arrival, but were just curious about the appearance of the forest elves.

Most of the forest elves have blond or chestnut hair, which is not the same as the ice elves, it is easy to distinguish, in addition, they all have pointed long ears.

Compared with the slightly lively forest elves, most of the ice elves are much quieter, and there are few scenes of loud shouting even on the street. These ice elves are often used to writing the price on the notice board on the side, and they are reluctant to speak too much, and generally they do not take too long to negotiate the price.

Compared with the places where Roland Hill has been, there are no such mobile stalls on the streets here, all in their own

In the store, and the store is also decorated very warmly, there is a kind of life atmosphere.

Emerald-colored vines, various small pendants and curtains, white conch cups, light yellow scented tea, and small hand stoves that breathe light and dark, the interior style here can see the usual vines and flowers of elves, and can also see part of it The unique and elegant style of the East has a feeling of combining the East and the West.

Perhaps it was because they cut off contact with the Western Continent for too long, which made the Ice Elves more influenced by the Plantagenet Dynasty.

Under the towering city wall in the city, several elven knights in moonwhite armor in front of the castle unlocked the door and let the gate slowly rise.

There was a creaking sound, and some grated ice chips fell along them. It seems that this gate is not often used.

Roland Hill raised his head, looked at the towers behind the castle gate, glanced over, and found many traces of the arrangement of the magic circle.

It seems that the security measures here are very strict, perhaps because of the proximity to the border.

There was silence in the passage of the castle. Although several elf knights watched the group step in, they all kept silent, neither welcoming nor hostile.

When I came to the hall in the castle, I saw a huge ice-blue lyre, about ten meters high, close to the top of the ceiling. to a kind of amazement.

"Welcome to 'Scalante'~"

"I'm Antonis and the current manager of Scalandi."

The quiet environment finally broke, and an elf man with short light blue hair in an ice blue dress walked down the stairs.

"For hundreds of years, the forest elves have not visited our remote country of ice and snow. What mission is this time?"

He didn't have too many courtesy, but directly asked about the purpose of the group's visit.

"This time, we are here mainly to solve the problem of the cold disaster with our previous clan, and also to restore the communication between the two clans."

Aitesi spoke first. As the princess of the forest elves, she has the right to negotiate with foreign countries.

"Is it a cold disaster... It's really a trouble, I can provide you with some help in this regard."

After pondering for a small meeting, Antonis nodded, then patted his palm, and asked the attendants to arrange white shell tables and chairs, and invited everyone to sit down together.

"Everyone has come all the way to the north. Although I can't entertain you in a grand manner, I have prepared some basic etiquette. Let's dine here tonight. I think after hundreds of years, there are still many things worth talking about. things."

Unlike the indifferent elven knights and residents outside, the administrator maintained a certain enthusiasm for the embassy.

Soon, the meal was served.

Transparent ice crystal shrimp, sweet and soft pastries, delicious transparent hot soup, grilled ice pig with steam, the food here is not simple.

At dinner, Antonis' sister also came to participate, which made the atmosphere a little more harmonious. After some conversation, several people became familiar with each other.

The Antonis brothers and sisters are not too old, they are probably about the same age as Vestena. They grew up in the Court of the Ice Palace when they were young, and came here more than ten years ago to replace the previous city lord, that is, his uncle.

"Is sister Irene still in the habit of eating tonight?" The noble woman wearing an ice blue off-shoulder dress asked Irene softly, she was Antonis' sister, Anton Snow.

"Habits, even make me nostalgic for a long time ago." Erin replied.

After confirming that Irene is the eldest daughter of Count Sileni, Anton Snowy became very enthusiastic and interested in her.

"How did Sister Aileen leave the Northern Continent at that time? I was still studying in school at that time, and suddenly everyone began to spread your story, which aroused the yearning and curiosity of many people."

"This... I'm afraid I can't explain it tonight." Irene shook her head, smiled at the curious junior, and then briefly explained.

With the existence of Irene, the former ice elf noble, the relationship between the two parties quickly became familiar and eased.

At the end of the dinner, Anton Xueni whispered to Irene: "This time your visit will probably be difficult, because the adults of the Ice Palace don't want to see you. Even my brother and I can only provide Limited little help."

After Irene listened, she wanted to continue asking, but An Dongxueni had already returned to her brother, and the two of them bent down and saluted together, ending the dinner.

After arriving at the accommodation arranged in the city, Irene told Athey, Roland Hill and others about the matter, and then they discussed it together.

"It looks so troublesome, I'm not good at dealing with or dealing with complex relationships." Athey lay on the table, looking at the white candle in front of her with some frustration.

"These things, it is estimated that the special personnel in the mission will have to be troubled." Irene suggested after thinking about the small meeting.

All kinds of talents in this mission are fully prepared, some are good at history and erudite, some are high-level extraordinary people who are specially responsible for combat, and some are good at diplomacy and negotiation.

In the next two days, the Antonis brothers and sisters entertained a few people again, and then gave the envoy a lot of local supplies, such as food and daily necessities, but there has been no progress on the reunification of the two ethnic groups.

"Can we go directly to the Court of Ice Palace?" Athey asked Erin one night.

"I'm afraid not. The Court of Ice Palace is located in the middle and highest point of Beiyao Hanshan Mountain. Not to mention the steep terrain there, there are several large city guards of ice elves around. If you forcibly break in, it is estimated that it will lead to a conflict with the ice elves." Ai Lin shook her head.

"This will be troublesome. If we can't conduct a joint investigation with the ice elves, we can't do it by covering such a vast continent and ocean."

"Why is the Court of the Ice Palace so indifferent to our visit? In the past few days, it is estimated that there has been news back there."

"I don't know, maybe it's rejection? Or is it afraid of trouble?" Irene guessed.

"It's not a good thing to drag on like this."

In the next few days, the envoys tried various methods, contacting several other nearby ice elf cities through trade routes, or detouring to the hinterland of the ice elves, but these were stopped by the ice elves.

As Antonis said, the Court of Ice Palace refused to receive the envoys and did not want to reconnect with the forest elves.

"Disgusting." After soft touch failed, Athey was a little angry, but her reason told her not to use violence.

And just when their patience was about to run out, different news finally came.

"The eldest son of the Silenis has brought someone here," Antonius said to the envoys one day.

"That's Miss Irene's brother?" Several elves on the side asked.

"Yes." After hearing the familiar name, Irene nodded helplessly, it seems that she won't be in the mission for long.

Three days later, a dusty team rode to 'Scarandi', a stern man in a dark blue trench coat turned over and dismounted, he clenched the hilt of the sword engraved with dark blue and gold lines on his waist, and then hurried to the envoy. resident visit.

"Eileen."

After seeing Irene, the elder brother's expression changed slightly, but quickly returned to his sternness.

"You should go back." His voice was steady and low.

"Brother..." Looking at this strong elder brother, Irene slowly lowered her head.

"I see, I will follow the arrangements at home."

"Humph."

"Not only the arrangement, you have to apologize to the Tixiu family, and father and I will also accompany you there."

"There's one more thing, I'm afraid I want to tell you in advance that Palos is in very bad health now. Your escape not only brought shame to the family, but also made Palos a bad life at home and lived a very difficult life."

"And you know his character. He was not good at words, he was introverted and weak, because he was laughed at by his peers and even his own sister. Under such a long-term depression, his health was getting worse and worse. Even suffering from the withering moon disease."

"Withering moon disease?" Hearing this, Irene raised her head with surprise.

"Yes, the cause of this disease is difficult to explain and find out, but the diseased elves slowly lose weight and dim like a crescent moon, and finally wither and die."

"I think you should be familiar with this. After all, you suffered from it for a while when you were a child, and then miraculously recovered."

"Let's go, don't make people wait for a long time this time. Even if Palos dies, you have to marry into the body repair family."

After finishing speaking, the stern elder brother led people out of the mansion, leaving only a few entourages who came from home to help Irene handle and carry luggage.

"Miss Irene, it's time for us to go back." Several familiar ice elves walked to Irene's side.

Are you leaving? Roland Hill looked at the hesitant Irene and sighed slightly. This is someone else's family business, and she doesn't want to interfere, but...

Just as Roland Hill was thinking about it, the doll in her arms moved, and a whisper of words entered her mind.

"Well, I see..." The girl replied in a low voice, then walked to Erin's side with small steps.

"If Sister Erin wants to go back, I haven't prepared any other gifts for you, so I will give this doll to Sister Erin. I hope she can accompany you to relieve your boredom on the road." Roland Hill blinked as he spoke. Eye.

"This..." Irene looked at Lorraine Hill who blinked at her. Although she didn't understand the reason for a while, she also knew that it was meant to be accepted by herself.

"Then thank you Jialan."

After that, Roland Hill sent a small suitcase specially designed to hold the body of the silver-haired doll and let Irene carry it. In this way, in the afternoon, Athey and Roland Hill watched Irene. Follow the family's team to leave the city and head to the hinterland of the ice elves, which is the direction of the Ice Palace Court.