Serial Player
Chapter 698 - 370: Artillery Fire

Chapter 698: Chapter 370: Artillery Fire

Moria walked towards the cabin hesitating for a moment before asking the subordinates following behind him to back off.

The elf he was about to meet was a fellow elf who had gone missing thousands of years ago from the Guardian Lineage.

In terms of status and seniority, Moria could not afford to offend them.

"As expected of the Guardian Tree Lineage, it feels like facing the Divine Tree itself." Moria touched the wooden ring in his hand, a tool made of a branch bestowed by the Divine Tree.

It was an essential tool for elves to find the Guardian Lineage, capable of discerning the presence of their kin. Especially when facing a Guardian Lineage elf with the aura of the Divine Tree.

In fact, this was because Li Changhe was carrying an officially prepared branch of the Divine Tree, intentionally misdirecting Moria with it.

Knocking gently on the door, a crisp elven language echoed from the room.

"Come in."

Moria’s heart stirred as he silently pushed open the door and saw the girl in black.

Her refreshing ponytail stood at the back of her head, and the horizontal blade in her hand exuded a restrained cold light.

She sat on a wooden chair in the room, peaceful and refreshing.

Looking at her beautiful face, Moria felt a strange sense of unease in his heart.

"What is this feeling?" wondered Moria. Could it be that he was attracted to this kind of girl?

Suppressing the strange feeling in his heart, Moria bowed to the girl in black and said, "Salutations, unknown Guardian of the Divine Tree. I am the commander of the elf navy, Moria."

The girl in black nodded her head silently, and then stared at Moria, asking in the elven language, "Have you come to rescue me? Or have you come to assassinate me?"

Moria’s heart skipped a beat, and then he understood.

This fellow elf had left her homeland and even left the familiar world. She had also suffered from the malice of the outside world. It was only natural that she would be suspicious of her suddenly appearing kin.

No wonder she was holding a weapon, fearing that he would assassinate her?

Moria sighed inwardly, feeling that he had truly frightened this fellow elf.

"Please rest assured, as long as I am still alive, I will not let you be hurt. The elf navy will spare no effort to escort you back to your homeland," Moria whispered, "I swear on the Divine Tree."

"Damn, did he just fall for you? ’Swearing on the Divine Tree’ is usually used at elven weddings," Chen Yu sent a message to [Friends].

"Is that so? I must be a really sinful man then," the girl in black replied in [Friends]. "Looks like I’ll have to disappoint him."

"Woman! You are a woman now!" Chen Yu corrected.

In fact, Li Changhe didn’t understand any elven language. Even a player could not master a language within two days without using any Skills. Of course, some talented players were exceptions.

Li Changhe had simply memorized more than a dozen elven phrases to facilitate communication.

As for the translation, it was done by Chen Yu through a hidden bug in the room once Moria’s voice was captured, then transmitted to Li Changhe via [Friends].

This way, they could obtain useful information.

This was the first layer of insurance. If Moria had any ill intent toward Xiao Ye, he would have shown it when meeting Li Changhe alone. Since he hadn’t attacked immediately, Li Changhe’s role was now reduced to fishing for information.

It wouldn’t take long for Moria to see through the deception, as accents and habits are hard to imitate. In just a few sentences, Li Changhe’s disguise would be found out.

By then, it would be time to determine whether Moria really had any ill intentions. After revealing their player identity, they would take him to meet Chen Yu... Yes, to meet Chen Yu, not Xiao Ye.

Even at that point, the players still planned to mislead Moria. Chen Yu’s imitation abilities were stronger, and with the help of Title Skills, there was little chance Moria would notice anything odd.

Before reaching the Elf Island, the players had no intention of revealing Xiao Ye’s location to anyone.

After all, no one could be sure if any assassins had infiltrated the elf navy.

"How long has it been since I left my homeland?" the girl in black continued to ask.

"A thousand years," replied Moria. "A peculiar storm a thousand years ago scattered many of our kin across different worlds. Over the past thousand years, we have never stopped searching for you. Until about half a year ago, an elf player discovered you in a human world."

It wasn’t a lie. Xiao Ye had indeed encountered a storm during a trip to a village and woke up in a human world.

At first, the language barrier caused her a great deal of hardship. Especially when some people saw her and had certain intentions. That is, until a Transcendent found her.

Li Changhe also knew what had happened afterward.

A thousand years... it had been so long.

No wonder Xiao Ye found this world so unfamiliar.

"Are my parents still alive?"

"You have been gone for too long," Moria sighed, and his gaze on Li Changhe became even gentler.

Li Changhe felt goosebumps from being looked at this way. As a Reversed State, he felt disgusted even more when looked at with such a gaze.

Barely holding back the urge to kick Moria away, he continued to ask, "Why was I attacked? Weren’t only my fellow elves supposed to know my location?"

"Hmpf, it’s those rebels," Moria snorted and quickly explained, "Over the past thousand years, the Guardian lineage has withered. Three hundred years ago, the only guardian who could communicate with the Divine Tree, your last relative and cousin, had an accident while studying magic and their soul returned to the Divine Tree. It has been too long since we’ve been able to communicate directly with the Divine Tree."

"It was around that time that the Divine Tree began to show abnormalities. For some reason, its branches... turned into metal," Moria continued. "Due to the disappearance of the Guardian lineage, even with hundreds of magicians studying the phenomenon daily, we were unable to determine the cause of the Divine Tree’s changes."

Guardian Lineage was the only existence capable of communicating with the Divine Tree. After their disappearance, the elves had no way of dealing with the changes of the Divine Tree and did not know how to solve them.

Every moment, the branches and leaves of the Divine Tree were slowly turning into metal, or to be precise, into bronze.

The elven magicians had tried almost all methods but could neither reverse nor slow down this transformation.

It wasn’t until then that some elven players came into contact with Xiao Ye, who turned out to be the last survivor of the Guardian lineage.

She became the last hope of the Divine Tree, which was the main reason the elf navy was eager to escort Xiao Ye back to the Divine Tree.

However, there was a doubt: the elven players who had contacted Xiao Ye had not taken her away immediately. Even though the Divine Tree had experienced unimaginable changes, they remained silent on the matter.

Instead, they said that the time had not yet come. And in the end... they never reappeared.

"There must be some connection. Why didn’t those players take Xiao Ye away at that time? What were they waiting for?"

Just then, the expressions of Li Changhe and Moria changed at the same time.

Both of them sensed imminent danger.

But what had happened? Moria had been in the room for less than ten minutes.

Both of them drew their weapons simultaneously.

At the same time, they heard the alert from the investigative team and the sound of gunfire.

"The elves have launched an attack on us!"