VCRMM: Chapter 220

“Ah, is it really here?”

Lan Xiaoyin followed the elves around the Asmo Mountains for two days, looking around at almost every corner he could go to. However, he couldn’t find anything.

The saddest thing was—

[Please find the elf queen as soon as possible and swear allegiance or the main quest will be judged as a failure.]

This was the third time this system notification had occurred.

It happened three times. Lan Xiaoyin had a hunch that this judgment would definitely fail next time!

D*mn, why do this to him?

Lan Xiaoyin sat on a stone dejectedly. The elf team around him was also very depressed.

“I’m 100% sure that the mother tree is in this mountain range!”

The elf woman sitting next to Lan Xiaoyin said quietly, “But why can’t we find her?”

This 20 person elf team, except for Lan Xiaoyin, all came from the elf tribe and had awakened their blood.

This elf woman’s name was Milia. She was the oldest one among the elves sent out. She was older than Angus. In addition, she was the strongest and had the strongest sense for the Tree of Life.

But the delay in finding the Tree of Life made her doubt herself.

“There can be no mistake.”

Soon, Milia said firmly, “The high concentration of elements in this place is definitely related to the mother tree.”

“The mother tree must be near us. Someone must’ve hidden her so we can’t find her!”

“Could it be in that trial place?”

At this time, another elf put forward his opinion. “Now in the entire Asmo Mountains, the trial place is the only place we haven’t explored.”

The trial site in the Asmo Mountains was heavily guarded by the Roland army as early as when the interstellar beasts were being cleaned out. Moreover, Lan Xiaoyin had read the strategy. They had to go through a labyrinth to enter it.

Moreover, this trial was very troublesome.

He heard that at the beginning, more than a dozen people in the NPC team who accidentally entered it had died. It was very dangerous, so he stopped the elves from entering.

What’s more, he didn’t think the Tree of Life would be inside.

“The queen must be with the mother tree. How could she place the mother tree in such a dangerous trial place?” Lan Xiaoyin retorted.

Originally, as the youngest one, there was no room for him to speak here. But who made him a lawless player?

“Maybe it is a human’s fault?”

The moment he finished speaking, an elf said with a resentful expression. “They imprisoned the queen and hid the mother tree in the place of trial!”

The elves in this team were all born elves. This meant that when they came to the human world, they must’ve encountered many twists and hardships.

Even after living in Roland for a hundred years, they still had a strong prejudice against humans.

Lan Xiaoyin was speechless. He thought for a moment before saying, “I think you… should put aside your hostility and prejudices against humans. Times have changed now. Roland’s new emperor seems to be a benevolent and capable ruler.”

“You don’t have to think so badly of humans…”

[That’s right. His Majesty Snow is obviously very good!]

[Yes, in the final battle of the beast wave, we would’ve never won so easily if he and Marshal Si Sheng hadn’t taken action.]

[Before, it was only because of His Majesty Snow’s Balance that there weren’t so many NPC casualties.]

[Yes, His Majesty Snow gave us land!]

Not to mention, many players in the live stream room had become loyal fans of Roland. As the most popular character in Starry Sky Age, Snow Roland was loved by players.

Even Lan Xiaoyin had a good impression of the emperor despite being ruthlessly imprisoned by him.

This was probably a special feeling that players had for the leader of the faction, especially this leader who was very powerful and generous.

“You don’t understand.”

The elf who spoke before refuted him.

His words meant that Blue Mark was born in the human world and hadn’t experienced what they had experienced.

Don’t advise others to be kind without knowing their suffering.

Lan Xiaoyin understood this truth but…

“Do you want to continue living like this?” He asked with a frown.

The interactions with the elf NPCs these days had really subverted Lan Xiaoyin’s previous imagination of elves, especially the method they used to sneak out of Imperial City.

They were skilled, so skilled that it made people feel sad.

Then after constant inquiry and understanding, Lan Xiaoyin found it difficult to agree with this approach.

He had been paying attention to Starry Sky Age since the closed beta of the game. He had also learned a lot about the history of Roland.

For example, before the beast wave occurred four years ago, Roland had at least a few hundred million people, according to the players’ calculations. Now the five main cities combined were only 90 million.

Before that beast wave, Roland had experienced several beast waves. All these beast waves were blocked by the front-line defenders, but the human army also suffered heavy casualties.

Lan Xiaoyin’s level had improved through the daily task of ‘Respecting the Old and Loving the Young.’ Even in the relatively wealthy Seizing Star City, more than half of the families had lost their parents at a young age or their children at an old age.

So even if a large number of open beta players poured in, there was no need to worry about not having a daily task to do. This was actually quite unpleasant to think about.

Roland had very few elementalists, and even fewer spiritual elementalists who could decide the outcome of a battle. In this case, naturally, only ordinary people could rise up.

For those ordinary soldiers who reached the top, their health was only around 5,000-6,000. Wasn’t this completely dependent on human lives?

Then what about the elves in front of him?

All of them were three star spiritual elementalists! Even before the level restrictions were lifted, they were all two stars.

Combine this with the other elves who weren’t present and there were at least 70 or 80 two star elementalists, right? They were all the most powerful spiritual elementalists!

Such a powerful army of spiritual elementalists, each with strong agility and archery skills, but they had been hiding in the war between humans and interstellar beasts, living a stable and prosperous life.

Even though they knew that the human race used the wrong method to select spiritual elementalists due to a civilization gap, they didn’t want to remind the humans. If they joined the army, they had to use Advanced Camouflage to hide their strength.

Lan Xiaoyin knew that they had been subjected to trials and tribulations by human scum, but such a cautious elf tribe who were unwilling to stand up in the confrontation with the interstellar beasts still made him feel a bit strange.

He could work for the revival of the elf tribe, and even endure the pain of not being able to advance in level for the time being but…

He would be unhappy if he had to live in such an aggrieved manner. What was the difference between this and a stinky rat in the gutter?

Shouldn’t elves be synonymous with power, beauty, pride and nobility?!

“Everyone has lived in Roland for so many years. Personally, the humans I have come into contact with are all very friendly. In order to survive, they are also working hard like us. They are almost using the entire nation to fight against the interstellar beasts.”

“We can work with them…”

“Blue Mark,” Milia interrupted him. “The friendliness you feel is because you have been pretending to be a human being.”

“In their eyes, you are a member of the same race, so you are treated sincerely by them.”

“Once they know that you are a foreign race, they will wave the butcher’s knife mercilessly, capture you and sacrifice you to the nobles.”

Her tone was very calm, but there was numbness in her grapefruit-colored eyes. It was filled with the vicissitudes of life that only those who had been mercilessly baptized by time could contain.

“I know you want to say that slavery has now been abolished.”

Milia continued, “But don’t forget that the abolition of this system only protects human beings. Without the dirty slave market, won’t there be other forms of trade?”

“Now the Roland Empire is indeed developing in a good direction. It is becoming stronger again. But the more it is like this, the more it scares us.”

Milia looked up in the direction of Roland’s Imperial City.

“You have never seen what it was like when it existed as the most powerful country. It was brilliant and glorious for humans, but it was a disaster for other races…”

The other elves also looked approving.

After suffering from the natural disaster that almost wiped out the race one hundred years ago, the elves could no longer afford to gamble.

There were just over a hundred elves remaining, who were all their clan members. In the face of the survival of the race, they could no longer take risks, let alone listen to the opinions of a young elf.

Lan Xiaoyin failed to convince them and fell silent.

He looked at Milia, who was speaking calmly. She didn’t elaborate but he could already imagine the oppression that the other races faced by the once powerful humans.

After all, not all humans were rabbits. Some liked to mess around but… he really felt that the current Roland wouldn’t be that bad. There was no need for the elves to be scared!

The distant Roland Palace.

In the emperor’s palace.

Xu Sili looked at the scene on the big screen and listened to the elves’ talk. He couldn’t help falling into deep thought.

In such an important place as the Asmo Mountains, not only was there the Tree of Life but also the trial place. How could he not let Xiao Wu keep an eye on it?

In fact, the elves had been watched by surveillance bees when they entered the Asmo Mountains. All their actions in the mountains were recorded.

Of course, Xu Sili didn’t know about them at first. Xiao Wu wasn’t that free. He basically didn’t pay attention to them until Lan Xiaoyin triggered the alarm behavior.

What’s more, the communication device used by Lan Xaoyin was within Xiao Wu’s monitoring range.

He knew that these people were members of Asheng’s tribe, but Xu Sili wasn’t in a hurry to pick them up because he wanted to test the defense devices he deployed at and around the entrance of the canyon.

The elf player wanted to see Asheng. Chamo came to ask him for advice, but he temporarily suppressed it.

It was under such circumstances that the test results would be the most realistic!

Xu Sili was very satisfied with the final test results. This elf team didn’t trigger the defense mechanism of the elf canyon and kept wandering around the Asmo Mountains.

In fact, the entrance of the canyon was only a dozen meters away from where they were resting now. However, the elves were unaware of this and were still troubled by the lack of traces of the mother tree. There was even a debate between old and new ideas.

Xu Sili hadn’t expected to hear such a conversation.

The elf who said good things for him was obviously a player. Xu Sili happened to remember him. He seemed to be called Blue Mark.

For the sake of his firm position, Xu Sili decided that if he behaved well later, Xu Sili might allow him to meet Asheng.

As for the other elves…

He originally welcomed them, but now it seemed that elves were quite prejudiced against humans.

Of course, some of what they said made sense.

There was certainly no shortage of scum among humans, especially among Roland’s nobles. Even though they basically had no real power, wealth was often a form of power.

Now life in Roland was getting better and better. There was no threat of interstellar beasts around them and they would soon usher in more rapid development.

Some corruption phenomena might also arise.

Perhaps in addition to monitoring the behavior of players, he also couldn’t let go of the empire’s higher-ups.

There would be no fish if the water was clear.

Xu Sili understood this truth, but there were some issues that he absolutely couldn’t tolerate. After all, the empire he worked so hard to build couldn’t be dominated by scum.

Xu Sili thought this way and looked at the elves on the light screen. He had a bit of a headache but had no intention of appeasing them.

He couldn’t comment on their grievances with humans.

But now Roland’s situation had only just improved. Its ability to resist risks was still very weak. If these elves refused to submit, it would be a very troublesome matter.

As mentioned before, it was impossible for him to tolerate more than two factions on Escher Star. The tragedy in the future forum reminded him of how uncontrollable the existence of players was.

Once different factions appeared on Escher Star and the player camps started to compete with each other, it would be almost impossible to develop with the peace of mind now.

However, after all, they were still members of Asheng’s race. Their experiences were indeed worthy of sympathy…

Xu Sili thought about it for a moment. Then he still sent a message to Asheng and Chamo to tell them about it.

This was an internal matter for the elves. Let them resolve it themselves. The same would be true for the other ancient tribes who would submit in the future. As long as it didn’t violate the law, Roland wouldn’t interfere in their internal affairs.

Asheng might be young but she had Chamo as a guardian.

In fact, as long as the forest elves didn’t make trouble, maintaining the status quo was fine even if they didn’t submit.

He might not have obtained the knowledge base of the elves, but there were other ancient races.

Asheng was taking care of the Tree of Life in the canyon and transforming the canyon as well. This canyon had been assigned to the elf tribe and was called ‘Elf Canyon.’

Of course, she was the only elf in the Elf Canyon right now.

Not long after the news was sent, Xu Sili received a reply.

Asheng: [I haven’t seen them before.]

His Majesty Roland: [But they are your people.]

Asheng: [Because I have elven blood? But I also have human blood.]

Don’t look at the fact that Asheng seemed young. As a half-elf, she had a much longer childhood than ordinary humans. In fact, she was already dozens of years old. Thinking about it, she was older than Xu Sili.

With the awakening of her bloodline, she also gradually inherited the memories recorded in her bloodline inheritance. She found out about her own life experience.

Her elf royal blood came from her mother, but her mother was also a half-elf. During her mother’s lifetime, she was ostracized by the other elves in the tribe because of her human blood.

Later, she couldn’t awaken so under the cold eyes of other elves, she chose to leave the tribe and live in the human world.

In the human world, she met another half-elf. Soon after they got married, they encountered the natural disaster. They could only struggle to survive in troubled times.

Later, Asheng’s half-elf father chose to enlist in the army to fight the interstellar beasts on the front lines and never returned. Her mother fell ill after giving birth, dying of illness when Asheng was young.

It was a kind grandmother from the neighbor’s house who adopted her, but not long after, the grandmother also died.

Fortunately, she was already able to run and jump at that time. She started to live a wandering life alone. This was until she met the seriously injured Chamo and was picked up by him…

Asheng looked through her parents’ memories and didn’t feel any warmth from the elves.

What’s more, even without these inherited memories, there were no clansmen in the world for her. There were only the people she liked and cared about.

First of all, the most important one was Chamo, who raised her. Then it was Imperial Brother who gave her a place to live, let her be fed, and gave her clothing and a job. Finally, there was Brother Joan, who took her to play together.

As for the elves? She didn’t know them and she didn’t like them. She had been human for decades because of her upbringing.

Chamo also said that she originally had human blood. It might now be purified by the Tree of Life, but she still retained her past cognition.

Asheng: [Your Majesty, when will Brother Joan come back?]

Aboard the Starry Sky spaceship.

In the control room, Val said goodbye to the person on the other side of the light curtain.

“Your Majesty Anta, let’s catch up on old times when we arrive on Sigta Star tomorrow.”

“Okay. Then I will be waiting for you.”

After hanging up the communication, Val finally sighed with relief.

At this time, the quiet Joan finally opened his mouth. “Mom, this emperor of Sigta Star looks similar to us.”

After being out for over a month, Joan had seen a lot of aliens. Most of them had completely different appearances from humans. Some were weird and scary, while others were cute.

He hadn’t been outside for a long time, but Joan had undoubtedly gained a lot of knowledge.

“Yes.”

Val smiled and nodded. “The Sigtas also have the appearance of humans. They are a very friendly race.”

Sigta Star might be a small country, but it was very prosperous because the local area was rich in a type of mineral that was indispensable for the making of space items.

She remembered that back then, Sigta Star was as poor as Roland.

It was because she discovered this mineral during her visit to Sigta Star and used her strong connections to connect the people of Sigta Star to other planets that Sigta Star became rich and powerful.

Due to this good karma, Val still received a friendly and courteous reception from the royal family of Sigta Star even after so many years.

If this went well, it should be able to provide a stable supply of materials for Roland’s teleporter production and establish the first trade channel.

Of course, at this moment, she never would’ve thought that there was a person originally from Roland on Sigta Star who was living in dire straits every day.

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