Si Sheng sat behind Xu Sili, looking at him with lowered eyes while slowly lost in thought.
The mini Ah Li was only 20 cm in size, and his every move exuded a cute aura. In particular, the way he ate made Si Sheng want to hold him in his palm and look at him carefully.
He thought about it and took out a low table from his personal space.
The low table was of normal size, but a golden light was faintly shining on it.
Then the low table continued to shrink. It finally became a mini version, lying quietly in the palm of his hand. Then he placed it next to Xu Sili.
Just as Xu Sili was going to continue talking to the little sprite, he felt a shadow above his head.
He looked up and saw Si Sheng, like a magician, had turned the large, low table to the size of two fingers.
He stared blankly as Si Sheng put the table down, took out the tea set and did the same thing. Finally, he placed it on the low table and made him a cup of tea as if playing house.
It really was like playing house.
Small Round Biscuit was completely speechless when he saw this scene.
“Ah Sheng, how did you make things smaller?” Xu Sili couldn’t help asking.
Si Sheng looked at him and the low table, wondering whether to get two more chairs. Hearing this, he casually replied, “Use the rules of this relic.”
In other words, it was the power of the sprite’s inscription.
He had previously blocked this power and returned himself to his normal size, but now he was simply applying this power to the objects again.
Xu Sili raised an eyebrow. “So you can change me back, right?”
“……”
Si Sheng was silent.
Xu Sili snorted twice, but he couldn’t really be angry. After all, he had guessed it a long time ago.
At this time, the sprite asked, “Can you make me bigger?”
There was desire in the boy’s eyes. He looked at Si Sheng eagerly and even put down the potato chips in his hand.
It seemed he wasn’t very satisfied with his body shape.
It was a pity…
“According to the rules of this ruin, I can only turn things smaller even if I mobilize my strength.”
Si Sheng said coldly.
The sprite was the only life in this ruin who wasn’t affected by the rules except for him. if the rules were applied to him, he could only become smaller.
Imagine if he became the size of a bee, which would be too small.
Small Round Biscuit seemed to realize this as well.
He was disappointed but he just curled his lips. Then he flapped his thin wings, flew into the air and sat cross-legged.
Fluorescent powder kept falling from his thin wings like falling stars. It was very beautiful.
“What do you want to talk to me about?” He asked Xu Sili with crossed arms.
The boy temporarily put aside his hostility towards the two outsiders. These two humans could relieve his loneliness.
Compared to the big banyan trees that only had a vague consciousness, the two humans could relieve his loneliness better.
Xu Sili smiled slightly. He picked up a teapot, poured a cup of tea for the little sprite, and said, “Let’s talk about Turles, talk about you, or you can ask me anything you want to know.”
“Aren’t you curious about the world outside the forest?”
“There is another dense forest outside the forest.”
The young man flew over, picked up the cup of tea, and quickly flew away. He looked at the smoking tea and frowned.
“I’ve been out there before. There are still strange beasts and plants outside the dense forest. It isn’t fun at all. I might as well stay here with Turles.”
Xu Sili nodded slightly. The dense forest of Siasa was still quite a distance away from the border line opened up by Roland five years ago.
Given the size of the sprite, it would take him a very long time to fly this distance. So even if he got out of the forest, it would be difficult for him to encounter humans.
Not to mention, Roland was defeated in the beast wave five years ago. Once they returned to the time before liberation, it would be even more difficult for the little sprite to see humans.
Xu Sili thought for a moment before asking, “How did you and Turles meet?”
Turles should’ve been trapped here a hundred years ago. The little sprite said that he had been here for 87 years. This meant the two of them should’ve met after all of Turles’ people had passed away, right?
The boy didn’t rush to answer him. Finally, he opened his mouth and drank some tea.
The fresh taste of the tea spread in his mouth, making him feel warm and reminding him of the days when Turles were still here. He liked it all of a sudden, and his mood gradually relaxed.
He was lost in memories.
As a member of the long-lived sprite tribe, he was only 102 years old this year and was still a half-grown child.
He was born in the dense forest of Siasa, a guardian sprite conceived by the elemental elves, who were impressed by the strength of the lineage of the engravers.
If nothing unexpected happened, he would still continue to live in the dense forest of Siasa, protecting the family of inscription masters and occasionally playing tricks on humans he liked to bring them good luck.
However, this didn’t happen.
It was because the elemental elves suddenly became weak and a terrible natural disaster unexpectedly struck. He, who had just been born, was also caught in many crises.
He lived a hard life in the dense forest, relying on the shelter of various native plants. He barely learned some survival skills, but the weakness of the elemental elves also made him weak.
During that time, the rules of heaven and earth were in chaos.
He lived in crisis and fear all day long. He even thought at one point that he might not be able to grow up and wait until the elemental elves recovered their strength.
Xu Sili listened to the little sprite’s story, which was a glimpse of the historical truth they had never known.
However, he already knew why the elemental elves were weak. It was due to the seal of Roland’s main city.
During that natural disaster, the seal of the main city was opened and the elemental elves were sealed. This caused the elemental concentration on Escher Star to start to decline.
This could also explain why, after leaving Escher Star, Old Huo and the others had their elementalist levels drop despite being far away in interstellar space.
The elemental elves that provided them with power became weak, so how could they maintain their original strength?
The culprit of all this, in the final analysis…
It was all the dog planners’ fault!
Xu Sili sighed.
He could understand that the game team designed all of this in order to transform Escher Star into a novice planet suitable for players.
However, once he switched to the NPCs’ perspective and thought carefully about their experiences, he couldn’t help wanting to send knives to the dog planners. He believed that players would also feel deeply touched by this.
“What happened next?” He asked again.
“Later? Later I met Turles!” The boy’s voice became cheerful.
He flapped his thin wings, reached his little hands into the snack bag, and started to eat potato chips with a crunch sound. There wasn’t any of the heaviness he had felt before.
For a sprite, a dozen years was actually a very short time. But that period of time was so hard to endure that it seemed particularly long to Small Round Biscuit.
After a long and painful period, he met Turles, the last of the inscription masters. This was a human who was just as lonely as him, but also extremely gentle.
It was a day he would never forget.
That day, he was looking for food in the forest when he was accidentally hit by the vines of the screaming dryad. He fell to the ground, dying. Just as he thought he was going to die, Turles finally appeared.
This was the first human he had met in all these years, and he had the aura of an inscription master that the sprite liked.
He wasn’t strong, just over one star but he possessed powerful inscriptions. This gave him enough strength to protect himself when surrounded by enemies.
Turles rescued the sprite, brought him back underground, and took good care of him. Eventually, he succeeded in saving the sprite’s life.
From that day on, they started to live with each other.
“Turles is amazing!”
The boy’s green eyes sparkled. He seemed extremely happy that he could finally show off Turles to others.
“He built the ruins to be solid and strong. There is no need to worry about them being pierced by the roots of plants or strange beasts.”
“Here, we don’t have to worry about safety issues. Turles said that no one can harm us except for disease and hunger!”
He was a guardian sprite. He might be young, but he was still able to send the sprite’s blessing to ensure that Turles didn’t get sick.
Thanks to the occasional lucky trick, Turles’ solitary life underground finally had a touch of bright color after he met Small Round Biscuit.
“Turles not only knows how to engrave inscriptions, but also knows how to grow wheat, bake bread and make all types of delicious food, including my favorite round biscuits!”
The little boy recounted Turles’ great deeds and was as happy as a real child.
“That is why he gave you this name?”
“Yes!”
The boy nodded vigorously. “Turles also taught me how to carve inscriptions. He said that I am very talented and might grow into a better inscription master than him in the future!”
The little boy patted his chest proudly and said complacently.
Xu Sili nodded without doubting it.
After all, the little sprite might look cute but he was actually a five star inscription master.
“However, Turles wasn’t satisfied with just teaching me. He hoped that more people could carry on the tradition of inscription masters.”
“But in this age of disaster, he knew he would never see that day.”
The boy’s tone became depressed as he looked at the inscription tablet next to him.
“He spent decades building this wordless tablet, recording all the knowledge of inscriptions.”
“Finally, at the end of his life, he integrated himself into it and gave the stone tablet a soul.”
He was a sprite, and a darling of nature.
In his eyes, Turles wasn’t dead but existed in this world in another way. Just…
Turles could no longer talk to him, cook him delicious food or play with him like before…
The little sprite’s eyes turned red. He wiped his tears vigorously and clenched his little hands into fists.
“This is Turles’ inheritance. It is the most important thing he left me. I won’t let you take it away!”
The boy, who had calmed down, raised his thorns again. He flew to the stone tablet and spoke angrily.
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