After successfully rescuing the underage elf girl Gerath Liadon, Zuo Si now has a qualified guide.
You must know that Sodanisla is a city built on a huge tree of life.
Therefore, the complexity of the terrain is even more troublesome than those cities where there is no design and planning, buildings of various sizes are piled together haphazardly, and there are so many narrow alleys that it looks like a maze.
In particular, some vines and branches are still alive, and it takes the forest elves living here to drive them to link the roads together.
In addition, many houses are mostly hidden among tree trunks, leaves and flowers. If you don’t look carefully, you may simply ignore them.
Of course, it is precisely with these advantages that the elves in the city can deal with and resist these invaders who are much stronger than themselves.
Some elven priests and mages can even control activated plants to form a wall, or cut off the connection between the canopy platform and the canopy platform, and at the same time use the mystery lock to prohibit all flight and teleportation abilities from taking effect in this area, thus putting themselves
Be physically isolated from the enemy.
In short, the actual situation in Sodanisla was much better than Zuo Si imagined. Most of the casualties were caused by the unprepared surprise attack in the first round.
After these forest elves reacted, the two sides soon started fighting back and forth.
Although the elves are generally the weaker side and are being suppressed, they are not without the power to fight back. Several tactical ambushes have caused considerable losses to these evil creatures from other worlds.
In particular, the defense system built with the huge temple as the core is simply impregnable. Demons, golems, evil beasts, and yugoloths have organized several fierce attacks, but in the end they all ended in failure.
The result was that the two sides faced each other across a large area of ​​airspace with no road connections, taking the tree canopy near the northern part of Sodenisla City as the boundary.
Elf warriors, mages and priests protect about 1,500 civilians and hold on cautiously, while those in the occupied areas of the southern canopy can only hope for their own good.
The demons capture captives for slaughter and sacrifice, and most of them are from the latter.
Without the intervention of outside forces, there is a high probability that the elves in the occupied areas will be captured one by one and slaughtered in the next few days, and there will be absolutely no survivors.
After all, high-level demons are all under the effect of true knowledge. Whether it is invisibility magic, secret doors, or secret passages, it is impossible to deceive their eyes.
But Zuo Si's arrival successfully rescued about six to seven hundred elf women and children hiding in this area.
As for men, most of them sacrificed their lives to protect their wives and children.
Counting the 1,500 people gathered in the temple, almost 2,300 civilians ultimately escaped.
Don’t underestimate this number.
It accounts for one-third of the total population of Sodanisla.
Yes, you read that right.
The capital of this elven kingdom has only about 7,000 people.
Even counting the small and large villages scattered in the Wildas Forest, the total population does not exceed 50,000.
And this is almost the largest gathering place of elven countries and races in the Faerûn continent, except for Evergather Island.
This shows how serious the impact of several crown wars was.
You must know that in the most famous "Theater of Gods" battle at the end of the Third Crown War, the two sides lost 70,000 elven soldiers and 100,000 orcs controlled by the Arivanda Empire in just one fight.
At that time, the elves could raise an invincible army with a total number of more than 100,000, including a large number of mages and priests.
But now, the Elf Kingdom of Sodanisla only has a standing army of a thousand people.
Six hundred of them were also sent out to resist the dark elves emerging from the Underdark. There were only about 400 people in the city.
Half of these four hundred people were killed in the first round of Irenikas' invasion.
There are currently less than 140 people stationed in the temple, and the rest are waiting at the entrance to the Queen's Palace and the Tree of Life.
Watching the hordes of refugees passing through the portal to a safe place, the elf captain who had been holding on here for several days with a tired face finally let out a long breath, put one hand on his chest and rushed towards Zuo Sixen who was maintaining the portal.
Bowed deeply.
"Thank you very much! Without your help, all the civilians in Sodanisla would have died in this disaster."
"You're welcome. After all, they are my subjects from now on, and I have the obligation to protect them and let them live a better life." Zuo Si responded with a smile.
It can be seen that he is in a pretty good mood at the moment.
Not only did they obtain more than 2,000 high-quality and long-lived people with a large number of professional skills and knowledge in vain, but they also conveniently swept away the mage tower that was captured by the yugoloth demon, and obtained a large amount of magical knowledge unique to elves from it. In ancient times,
secrets, and rumors of an interesting artifact.
The name of this artifact is [The Ring of Mysrien].
Legend has it that the God of Elven Myths, Mythryn Seret, helped the elves weave a large number of Mysts, which led to his own strength declining, and finally even fell to the level of a demigod.
In order to restore his former glory, he created this artifact to attract more elves to believe in him.
It is a pity that at the most critical moment of building the artifact, the beast god Mara suddenly launched an attack with the help of the thief god Musk and the storm god Talos, and successfully defeated and sealed the Mythryn Seret in
The only incarnation of Toril.
Then this artifact disappeared from everyone's sight, and there were even very few legends about it.
According to the records of the elves, although this ring is only a semi-finished product, it can double the duration of all protective magic, gain all the unique abilities of the elven God of Mystery Locks, and increase the wearer's vitality to a certain extent.
Cast a mage's protective magic or a priest's enchantment magic.
Last but not least, it is immune to all Mystery effects and can create or destroy a Mystery every year.
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According to the recorder's speculation, this artifact ring is most likely hidden in the Sharptooth Forest southeast of Baldur's Gate.
Because that is the place where the incarnation of Mythryn Seret last appeared.
If he can get this ring, Zuo Si can use the technology and divine power used on it to figure out the real mystery behind the Elf Mystery Lock.
Should the so-called mystery lock be considered a kind of magic?
Or is this an ability unique to this god?
Or maybe the combination of the two is the reason why Mysuo has such powerful protective power?
Why did the high mage in charge have to sacrifice his life when the elves were creating the Mystery Lock?
Although Zuo Si already had a lot of information about mythical locks, he never dared to try it easily.
After all, those complicated rituals are completely different from today's mainstream magic theories, and there are no explanations or explanations. The whole article tells you that you just need to follow them.
The elf captain stared at the scene of compatriots being resettled on the other side of the portal with a complicated expression, and sighed with a wry smile: "Although the kingdom may be destroyed after experiencing this disaster, as long as the people can survive, it is a good thing.
.At least our race and culture can continue to exist.”
"What are your plans next?"
Zuo Si glanced at the surrounding warriors who had not left. The mage and priest asked in uncertain tones.
"Of course we will fight to the death. No matter how powerful the exile is, we cannot sit back and watch him desecrate the Tree of Life."
When saying this, the elf captain's tone was decisive, without any hesitation or wavering.
This is also one of the biggest differences between elves and humans.
They know where their souls will go after death, so they have relatively little fear of death.
Especially those who are over three or four hundred years old and have accumulated enough experience and experience, they often take life and death very lightly, but pay more attention to things like responsibility, glory, and faith.
"In that case, I wish you the final victory. Goodbye, I hope there will be a chance to meet again in the future."
You don't need to ask to know that Zuo Si has obviously sentenced all these elves to death in his heart.
Because there is no second person in the world who knows better than him how powerful Irenicus is today.
It doesn’t take much, just absorb one-third of the energy of the huge tree of life at his feet, and this madman will become a veritable quasi-god.
If you reach half or more, you can transform into a demigod with the power of exploding stars in minutes.
This has completely exceeded the limit that mortals can understand, and cannot be defeated by means such as numbers, will, and magic.
Unless there are powerful artifacts or the intervention of the elves and gods, the whole army may be wiped out in one encounter.
But the elf captain and his men were obviously determined. They simply ate some food sent from the other side of the portal, and then began to lie on the ground to recharge their batteries, planning to wait for their physical strength and energy to recover before heading towards the queen's palace.
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Just as Zuo Si was about to turn around and leave, going to the other side of Sodenisla to see what Irenekas was doing, he suddenly felt a small hand grabbing the corner of his clothes.
I lowered my head and saw that it was Girather Liaton.
This elf girl did not go through the portal to a safe place with the other refugees, but followed closely behind her, holding tightly in her arms the powerful Moon Blade inherited from her family.
To be continued...