Warhammer

Should she get up and find a way to prepare the sacrifice?

A doe?

Or some other prey?

What if this is part of the ritual and Lilith hasn't had time to respond, and I stand up and interrupt her, would that make the goddess feel disrespectful?

Leia's mind was full of random thoughts, and the chaotic thoughts caused by tension and pressure had not yet completely calmed down.

A gentle breeze suddenly blew across the water, creating ripples, but on the grass around the spring, there was no sound of wind.

The warriors faced the statue of the goddess in the spring, drew their swords again, thrust them into the ground, and knelt on one knee.

Leia was shocked and stopped having wild thoughts. She felt ashamed for becoming impatient after just a short while. She was not as pious as these human warriors. She calmed herself down and lowered her head.

The agile and tangible wind swirled over the water for a while, and finally spun upwards, surrounding the statue of Lilith.

A ray of emerald green light suddenly flashed from the scepter held in the goddess' hands, and an illusory phantom walked out of the statue of Lilith, floating lightly, with its toes touching the ground in front of Leah.

The appearance of the translucent shadow made the female elf almost unable to suppress her excitement, but she tried hard to control the movement of raising her head. It was not until a pair of beautiful hands made up of countless glimmers gently supported her cheeks that Leia trembled and raised her head.

"My, my goddess..."

This was not the only time in Leia's long career that she had seen the presence of gods, but it was definitely the only time she had such a close and sacred contact with the mysterious goddess, the daughter of the Father and Mother Goddess, the Moonlight Maiden, Radlia, to whom the elves of all generations had presented many honorable titles, held countless sacrifices, and offered countless offerings.

If the news got back to the main island, just based on the fact that Lilith's incarnation came down and touched Leia's cheek, expressing her closeness, she would be able to undisputedly obtain the identity of a "Forest Ranger" at the local meeting of the Wood Elves. In layman's terms, she is the so-called "parliamentarian."

The church of Lilith visits her and asks for the goddess' teachings and instructions. The goddess's followers will recognize her and are willing to help Leah if they can. In short, she will gain a buff of +20 favorability from Lilith's worshippers.

Leia raised her head, but before she could open her mouth to repeat her question, the shadow of Lilith pointed her finger at the sky. Leia followed the goddess's guidance and her pupils shrank sharply.

I saw that the sky was covered with a layer of faint green light, and several thick and powerful rays of light came from all directions like chains, as if a cover was added to the Pina Forest, with several locks tied on the cover.

"Chains, connect...the web of World Tree roots!"

After the shock at the first sight, Leia suddenly recalled a "legend" that it had been one hundred and fifty years, or even longer, since it disappeared and was destroyed from the lives of the wood elves.

Roots of the World Tree!

The Forest Network of Athel Loren!

Chapter 16: Leah's Condition

Ai'er sat cross-legged on the throne, with only his two heirs beside him, Misha and Kael'thas standing on his left and right.

Taking off her cloak, the female elf Leah Isa walked slowly into the front hall behind the guards. Her emerald green eyes immediately looked at the owner of this palace and the ruler of the entire tribe.

He was wearing a mask and a black fur coat.

Sitting cross-legged in silence on the throne on the thirteen steps.

"Dear guest who has come all the way from Osuen, please take a seat."

Kael'thas walked down the steps, his robes dragging down the stairs with his steps, two steps slower than his body.

Al couldn't help but frowning when he saw this, and planned to ask Kael'thas to tuck in the hem of his robe to prevent it from dragging on the ground.

The beastman maids brought a chair and placed it in the center of the palace, one higher than the other opposite the throne.

Leia bowed slightly as a courtesy, but did not sit down. She just stood behind the chair, stretched out her hands to hold the backrest, leaned forward slightly, and leaned on the chair.

If a wife were to do this pose, her breasts would definitely be particularly prominent, but the figure of the female elf can only be barely distinguished between male and female at a glance, and the extra feminine charm is just...

"Ruler of the tribe, I, Lea Isa, an Asrai from the sacred grove of Avalon."

"I am here in compliance with the guidance of the goddess Lilith to pay homage to you."

Leia bit her lip and bowed not very petitionfully.

Al didn't care about these, but Misha's pupils shrank and the corners of her mouth instinctively curled up into an imperceptible arc.

Al directly grasps the key words.

"Lilith"!

Well, this matter is not so bad, the good is a little bad, bad, but the bad is still good.

At first, Aiur didn't take the delegation that wanted to ask the tribe to send troops to attack the greenskins' rear seriously, and was ready to send them away with courtesy. But suddenly an elf from Osuun who claimed to be a "special envoy" stood up among them and asked to meet with Aiur.

Frankly speaking, when he heard the words "elf" and "envoy", Al was shocked.

He originally thought that the tribe had been living in the inland forest, Estalia was blockaded by green-skinned pirates, and the Elf Federation was extremely inefficient due to the daily verbal attacks. Al felt that no matter how hard it was, he would have to conduct preliminary exchanges and communications with the outside world, such as the elves, the empire and other major forces, to obtain the attitudes of both sides and make subsequent strategic judgments. This would not be possible until he swept the south of Estalia and exposed his ambitions - he made a strong announcement.

Now suddenly an "elf envoy" came, catching him completely off guard.

Chaos corruption, belief in evil gods, brainwashing with spells, hidden plots of commanders who manipulate allied forces... any one of these things, once exposed, would be an unbearable storm for the entire Four Mothers Tribe.

Although the Omniscient and Lilith seemed to have reached some kind of cooperation, when the fog spread to cover the entire Pina Forest, the voice of the Omniscient sounded in Al's mind. She told the boy that the ground veins of the Pina Forest had completely revived. With the blessing of Lilith's divine power, the natural power here would continue to grow, and the most important and direct benefit brought about was:

Before Chaos revived and the power of the Warp surged again and flooded the mortal world, the Beastmen who worshipped the Four Mothers, especially the Wrathhorns, had more extreme emotions. Compared with the original Chaos believers, whose corruption was severe enough to affect the environment, distort the mind, and transform others, their corruption was softer and more harmonious in most cases. This "Four Mothers corruption" could also be said to be a kind of "camp power" that would be absorbed, cleansed, and converted into magical winds and other powers by the ground network of the Pina Forest.

In other words, the superficial disguise of the past is no longer a cause for Aiur's concern that other forces of order will launch a great holy war with the purpose of "eliminating chaotic elements" and pulling out the chaos vanguard of the tribe that dares to reach out to the mortal world again without knowing how to live or die.

With the help of Lilith's divine power, at least in the land of the Estalia, Al didn't have to worry about a group of bald heads suddenly jumping out of the crowd and shouting, "God Emperor Sigmar! How dare you! I can tell at a glance that you are Chaos elements!"

As long as it is a traditional method of identifying corruption, it will not be able to discover tribal problems.

So Al was panicked at first, just like in Terra... In the last century of the Earth, when the two superpowers were competing most fiercely, he ran to the back garden of the bald eagle and a small country to engage in warlord division. On the surface, he only wanted and dared to be a big poisonous warlord oligarch to compete for the position of the commander-in-chief Kaka. Everyone was happily eating the people's fat, but in fact they were secretly building a team that was loyal to Marxism-Leninism, with capital in the open and a society in secret.

Before they could seize the kingdom’s legitimacy, a special envoy in the shape of a bald eagle suddenly airbornely came to “investigate the people’s sentiments.”

It can also be the other way around.

Once it is exposed, I am afraid that the blockade and sanctions will be imposed on the second day, and the aircraft carrier fleet or the elite troops of the full Osuun Legion will be ready to be deployed across the ocean on the third day to fight the Chaos believers.

Ai'er was even prepared to take necessary radical measures if things reached the worst point. After all, not all of Pina Forest belonged to the tribe, not to mention that there was a war gang of several thousand greenskins circling in the north.

Of course, killing eunuchs should not be done unless it is absolutely necessary, and sometimes it is not of much use if done.

He went to ask Lilith, but Lilith suddenly lost contact and could not be contacted. Al panicked, but from the fact that the other party first followed in with the human delegation and then took the initiative to reveal his identity and ask for a meeting, it can be seen that the other party must have come for other things. If he really discovered the big secret of the tribe, he would naturally pretend to be deaf and dumb and do nothing, then leave the control of the tribe and run day and night and return to Bilbarri.

......

"My purpose is to hope that you can agree to a condition I propose on behalf of my clan, at least for now."

Al shook his head, his voice slightly distorted by the mask.

"Before you state your conditions, I can't make a promise to agree or refuse at will."

Leah took a step forward, used both hands to move the exquisite chair away from in front of her, put it aside, turned her head, looked at the chair with interest, and then said softly:

"The elven crafts... were not made in Ulthun. They were made in Bretonnia... No, they were imitations. They should have come from Parraon. The 'Righteous Hand' workshop there is the source of almost all counterfeit elven crafts."

"Replica?" Al was puzzled. He thought the chair was pretty good. It looked exquisite and comfortable to sit on. Al closed the door of the palace several times and sat on it to play games with his wife and maids. It was quite interesting.

"I think it's ok, use it, it looks good."

"A chair like this can be sold for a dozen to dozens of gold coins in the southern world. If it can be proven that it is indeed from Osuun and made by the elf craftsmen of my tribe, it can be sold for hundreds of gold coins."

"If it's in the Empire, the price can be raised three or four levels. If it's in Kislev, the noble boyars are willing to pay double the price, or more specialties, usually food, furs, minerals, or even slaves."

"And this is only a part of the ocean of wealth of the elves, a tiny fraction of the prosperity we have created for this world..."

"Hmm!" Al suddenly spoke, raised his hand, and interrupted Leah who was about to continue telling the story.

"The tribe has always respected the noble race of Osuan, the backbone of the great war... So, what does this have to do with the conditions you want to propose?"

Al stood up from the throne, walked down a few steps, and then sat down, narrowing the height and distance between the two.

The female elf gently spread out her hands with a leisurely expression, "What I want to express is that Osuan controls the wealth, prosperity, and even everything of one-third of the world. As a member of Osuan, 'Aslai', that is, me and 'we', also control a huge power that should not be underestimated. We can also influence and even control the decisions of the Phoenix King Court and the Citizens' Assembly."

She put her hands behind her back and paced slowly back and forth on the stairs. "If this deal can be reached, I believe it will be an unparalleled wealth and funding for the tribe..."

"If we refuse this offer, Osuun will send his warships over, and his dragons and eagles will cover the sky over the Pina Forest, right?"

Al suddenly spoke, interrupting the female elf who was speaking. The latter's face froze and her movements became stiff, and the leisure she had deliberately shown was broken.

"No, no, of course not..." Leia waved her hands, trying to explain and evade the question.

Al shook his head, the mask covering the boy's face, he could see Leah clearly, but the elf girl couldn't see him.

"I was just joking. Please continue. I am eager to know your conditions and the specific contents of your 'deal'."

The elf girl clenched her hands into fists silently behind her back, then quickly unclenched them. She looked solemn and took a step back, as if she was about to make some important decision.

Dangerous beastman tribes, chaos corruption, entering the enemy camp alone, shocking secrets, prophecies from the gods, Lilith...

It can be said that if any of the above is involved, it will be difficult to reach a conclusion without several major wars breaking out and thousands of people being killed or injured.

But now, all these elements came together and pressed on Leah Isa, a female elf who was considered excellent among her peers and of the same age, but not particularly outstanding.

She endured a great test.

But the real danger is yet to come. When Leia puts forward that request, which is instructed by the goddess and considered by herself, she might be directly killed by El.

Chapter 17: The Beast King and the Elves Talk

When Al heard the first half, his vigilance suddenly increased.

The female elf Baba spoke a lot, and from Al's subjective perspective it sounded like this:

"You, the tribe, the beastmen, cooperate with us, the Great Elf Federation, the Great Asrai Nation, and the benefits will be huge!"

This kind of.

So he was very worried that the female elf would later make demands such as "Danzig or war", "demand Sudetenland", "set aside land and station troops next to the tribe to maintain peace in the southern world".

If that was the case, El was very afraid that he would not be able to control himself and would pin the female elf to the ground in anger, strip her clothes, rape her, make her into a hot weapon, check her academic qualifications, develop her body functions, and then put her in chains, giving her the same treatment as the stubborn female swordsman, the red-haired An.

Leia took a deep breath, opened her beautiful lips, and slowly stated her request.

"I hope to be able to obtain a piece of land in the Pina Forest on behalf of my people, to be used as a gathering place for the Asrai in the Old World."

"We are willing to pay whatever the tribe needs, as long as you are willing to share part of this forest with the elves."

"We don't want much. We can avoid any place occupied by tribes or where beastmen are active. If you are willing..."

"All right!"

El's loud voice interrupted Leia, and the female elf turned pale and was at a loss.

The words she just said were what she thought out on the way here. There should be no provocation or threat in them. Instead, considering the arrogance of an elf, it was a sincere gesture that could be considered "flattering" and "fawning".

But Al didn't see it that way.

Perhaps the humans in this world, such as the Southern Kingdom, could allow the Empire to send an elite army to establish a "concession" and a colonial outpost next to their capital without any worries, and they did not feel that this was a shame or a threat to all aspects of their country, and that there was a possibility of being controlled and influenced by others.

Some even thought that this might be a good thing. When the Imperials came, they could do business, increase contacts, and further deepen relations. In the future, they could pull the Empire together in colonial affairs and suppress the neighboring country Tyrell.

But Al was very sensitive about this. Although he came from a unified era when there was no such thing as "foreign troops", he was a Chinese after all, and his hobbies and habits were relatively "retro".

Inevitably, Al would still look at many things from his own perspective rather than from the perspective of this era. After all, he was once a citizen of the Personal Union, and it was difficult for him to conform to the mainstream semi-feudal and semi-theocracy of this world, as well as the messy system of various oligarchs, merchants, communist elites, warlords, knights, classical city-states, etc.

When we hear the words "land" and "gathering place", we immediately think of garrisons, infiltration by external forces, and colonies.

The Wood Elves and Beastmen did not fight each other for long, only a few thousand years, which is about half of human history in the other world.

Now they suddenly want to claim the land and seek immigration, and there will most likely be garrisons afterwards.

El thinks that with your conditions, if you go to humans, Bretonnians, the Empire, or even dwarves and tell them that you want to rent or buy a mountain range, it will be much more reliable than for you, a wood elf, to go to a group of beastmen and tell them that you want to exchange a forest for them?

He took a breath, trying to control his emotions, and politely rejected Leia by stalling with the Estalia.

Al stood up, paced back and forth on the steps and said, "I have something to say, Your Excellency, please listen carefully."

Leah: “?”

"I once heard a story from faraway Zhendan: There were two tribes in the wild land, one strong and one weak. The weaker tribe submitted to the stronger tribe, but the two tribes had always been secretly hostile to each other. The weaker tribe had a wise monarch at the time. Once, the king of the stronger tribe sent an envoy to ask for the weaker king's mount, so the weaker king immediately presented the horse to the stronger king. The second time, the stronger king sent an envoy to ask the weaker king to present his beautiful wife, so the weaker king immediately presented his wife to the stronger king."

"The third time, the powerful king became more arrogant because of the weak tribe's obedience. He sent envoys again, asking the weak tribe to give up a piece of useless land to his tribe. The weak king convened a meeting to ask his subjects for their opinions. Some people said that the land was useless and could be given up or not." Elton paused and continued:

"The king said, 'Land is the foundation of the country! How can we give it to others?' So he sent troops to attack the powerful tribes, and if anyone retreated, he would be executed. The people were united, but the powerful king and his tribe had long been complacent and arrogant, so they were soon destroyed and annexed."

After finishing the story, Ai'er observed the female elf keeping silent, as if thinking. Thinking that the story ended with "the weak swallowing the strong", with some implications of war, his friends were inevitably surprised, so he added:

"I also heard that after the War of the Longbeard, the High Elves withdrew from the Old World, and the elves of Athel Loren were unwilling to leave the World Tree, so the two sides severed contact. Many years later, the three tribes were separated and each became one. It was only when Ulthun fell during the Great War that the Phoenix King showed his legitimacy and ascended the throne. The Asur, Asrai, and Drukki were united in Athel Loren."

"We are descendants of the same family and worship the gods of heaven and earth. However, we still have to wait until the building collapses and everything dissolves before we can break the barriers. What about the beastmen and wood elves? In the past, under the influence of the wrong belief in the evil god of chaos, there have been too many bad conflicts and contradictions. There are huge historical problems between the two races..."

"Of course, now that I have put the Beastmen of the tribe in order, they have done it... dealt with it... gotten rid of it... and are now on the right path of absolute order, kindness, and justice... Looking back on the past... we will definitely be able to... eventually..."

What this means is that in the past, our two tribes had a feud that was as deep as the sky and as profound as the earth. Of course, now that the beastmen have taken the right path, you have also moved to the island to live in the Garden of Eden. When we meet, we can just smile and forget all grudges, and each of us will mind our own business and never have any contact with each other again.

If this were two hundred years ago, the only two areas where the elves and beastmen could communicate with each other were the verbal mobilization before the war and the interrogation of prisoners after the war. There would be no other communication.