Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 224 - 218: Elves?!

Chapter 224 -218: Elves?!

The Black Dragon was eventually persuaded.

Everything else could be lacking, but the grilled meat could not be.

After all, a certain Chosen One was providing over 70% of its grilled meat supply through sheer financial power alone!

Considering the enormous amount of food a young Black Dragon in its growth phase required, at least… Mairrel didn’t think any other Chosen One could manage such a feat.

And the Little Black Dragon, having grown accustomed to a life of eating and sleeping, and having honey-glazed grilled meat delivered whenever it was hungry, didn’t want to return to the days of hunting for its food.

However, just as Mairrel was preparing to take flight with righteous determination, it suddenly stopped…

It glanced suspiciously in the direction of the World Tree, remained silent for a moment, and then said to the Kukuku Bird,

“I can help you, but only against enemies you cannot defeat.”

This was the divine message Eve had just given to Mairrel.

The Black Dragon was just too powerful, with strength nearly reaching the Gold rank. If it fought with all its might, the mercenaries might be routed even before the players had a chance to join the battle.

That would make it difficult for Eve to gauge the progress the players had made.

Hearing the Black Dragon’s words, the Kukuku Bird was slightly startled but nodded nonetheless,

“Alright…”

Thus, after some negotiations, the Black Dragon joined the players’ mission.

Similarly, Dema had also persuaded Divine Favored Ail to join the players’ quest again.

In the following hour, all the Black Iron rank players online in the Elf Kingdom mobilized.

New players continuously teleported to Black Dragon Castle, having accepted the mission.

At the foot of the mountain slope where Black Dragon Castle was located, where the Rock Cave Tribe used to reside, a thousand-strong Chosen One Army was also gathering!

They assembled here and were initially somewhat chaotic, but under Li Mu’s command and arrangements in the large-scale battle voice channel, they gradually formed some order.

All the players who accepted the mission joined the team that Little Xian Miao formed.

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Once the team grew, Little Xian Miao handed over leadership duties to Li Mu.

However, as the number of players increased, Li Mu thought for a moment and eventually divided the team again, based on levels and magic pets, splitting the large group into several smaller squads.

Players with Earth Cave Spiders, in particular, were separated into a distinct group, forming a “cavalry” squad of over a hundred people…

Time passed quickly, and more and more people arrived upon receiving the message.

An hour later, more than two thousand players had gathered on the clearing below the slope, surprising even the leaders of the four major guilds with a total of two thousand five hundred players!

It turned out that not only had Black Iron rank players who accepted the mission joined, but even some level 10 players from the third test who didn’t meet the level 11 requirement decided to take part, totaling more than five hundred people.

After all… this was the first major plot event since the third test of “The Elf Kingdom,” and according to the circulating online videos, the most interesting part of “The Elf Kingdom” was the major plot events!

So, even if they couldn’t accept the mission, some third-test players wished to participate.

In this regard, Li Mu and others welcomed them.

*No matter how weak, they were still combat power, weren’t they?*

Of course, level 10 was the baseline; anyone below that was just asking for death…

Night had deepened.

However, the elves had strong night vision and could still see everything around them clearly.

Over twenty-five hundred players gathered together, forming several formations that could barely be called orderly. It looked… quite inspiring.

The time to depart had arrived.

Li Mu, astride his unicorn, stood on a hill, looking at the several player formations in front, his expression filled with excitement.

“Play the battle song!”

He commanded in the large-scale battle voice channel.

As soon as he finished speaking, the administrator player in the channel queued up a few epic BGM tracks and started playing them in the channel.

These were a few of the system tracks from “The Elf Kingdom,” used by Eve in previous battles to boost players’ morale.

However, players had recorded these tracks and now they were replaying them as battle songs in the voice channel.

This saved Eve from having to play background music.

With the grand and heroic music, all the players preparing for battle found themselves feeling exhilarated.

The howling night wind, the hard armor, the weapons reflecting cold light under the moon… at this moment, accompanied by the epic BGM, players unconsciously fell silent.

Their breathing grew slightly heavier, their hearts surged with excitement, feeling as if they had suddenly transformed into heroes about to save the world…

As the overall commander, Li Mu was equally stirred.

He felt a surge of emotion, took a deep breath, drew a longsword temporarily borrowed with “shining” effects, pointed it to the sky, and shouted passionately with the voice channel open,

“The time has come! Begin the mission!”

“Objective—eliminate the human mercenaries and rescue our brothers and sisters! Ura!”

His high-pitched roar, resonating across the large-scale battle voice channel, reverberated in the open valley, echoing endlessly…

The players also felt an overwhelming surge of emotion, responding in kind. They drew their weapons, pointing them to the sky, and couldn’t help but roar ferociously,

“Ura!”

The unified and robust voices startled the sleeping birds in the forest, sending echoes reverberating and even making Black Dragon Mairrel, who observed the players from the hill, click her tongue slightly.

Li Mu let out a breath slowly, then raised his sword again and shouted,

“Move out! Target the north!”

With his command, the gathered player army moved at once.

The assembled formations turned, led by thirty unicorn knights, with over two hundred cave spider knights as the vanguard, like a torrent rushing towards the map coordinates where Little Xian Miao and others were…

“A bunch of crazy guys…”

Watching the Chosen One Army slowly marching north, Mairrel shook her head, flapped her wings, and followed…

Amid the voice channel, watching the players, Eve observed secretly with eager anticipation,

“*After being dormant for so many days… let me see how much you have grown.*”

…

In the northeast of the Dark Mountain Range, on the trade route leading to the Fengye Territory on the Saint Mania Empire’s border.

Crocodile led his mercenary corps forward slowly…

Successfully ambushing the Black Dragon’s lair and capturing a large number of elves, the mercenaries were now eager to return to the Count Domain and sell their goods.

Having advanced several hours in the darkness and finding the Black Dragon hadn’t pursued them, Crocodile exhaled slightly in relief.

“*It looks like we’ve successfully escaped.*”

To avoid being detected by the Black Dragon in the sky, he had ordered a strict ban on lighting fires, proceeding stealthily along the trade route in the darkness.

Fortunately, years of trading with the Aries Kingdom had made this trade route between the two human kingdoms quite navigable, with decent road conditions preventing the Crocodile Mercenary Corps from encountering significant difficulties.

And after several hours of forced march, they had already covered another ten-plus kilometers overnight…

The sky was now lightening, and the night was drawing to an end.

Even though most of the mercenaries led by Crocodile were Black Iron Rank professionals, they couldn’t help but feel fatigued after a night of marching.

“Stop and rest a bit.”

Crocodile ordered.

The sky had brightened.

Constant forced marching was not advisable either.

With a bit of rest, they could pick up their marching speed again!

If they could push through for another day, they would make it back to the empire’s border.

Thinking of this, Crocodile felt a bit uneasy and looked at his subordinate again, asking,

“Are those captured elves still okay?”

The mercenary called by Crocodile was slightly surprised and quickly answered,

“They’re fine! They’re tied up tightly and can’t resist at all.”

“No one’s touched them, right?”

“No, no! We understand, elves… untouched, fetch a higher price!”

“Hmm… well done! We’ll all strike it rich when we get back this time!”

Crocodile laughed.

The mercenary’s eyes lit up with glee,

“Long live the Captain! The Captain is the best!”

Hearing the mercenary’s praise, Crocodile nodded slightly, starting to calculate the profits from this venture,

“58 elves! Hehe… If this is handled well, I can sell them for at least two hundred thousand gold coins!”

“Even after sharing the bonus with the mercenaries, I’d still have at least fifty thousand left!”

“Fifty thousand gold coins… enough to buy a viscount title in the Empire! With a title, I can shed my civilian identity, develop my territory, and become a true territorial aristocrat!”

“Hehe, this doesn’t even include the rewards from our mission in the Aries Kingdom and the goods from this operation. If I sell the goods from the Aries Kingdom, I could earn a few thousand more coins!”

*He thought with satisfaction.*

However, just as the mercenaries halted, set up camp, relaxed their vigilance, and began to rest…

Suddenly, dozens of arrows shot out from both sides of the forest!

These arrows glowed with magic and flew at incredible speed, instantly turning over a dozen mercenaries at the camp’s edge into pincushions.

Soon, the bodies of those shot mercenaries… turned to ashes right before the eyes of the other incredulous mercenaries!

At the same time, a series of thunderous booms echoed from afar…

The dozens of mercenaries on the perimeter barely understood what happened before feeling a powerful force; bloody openings appeared on their bodies, then they slowly fell to the ground…

“Not good! There’s an enemy!”

Crocodile’s face changed.

Before he could finish, he saw over a hundred monstrous figures charging out of the forest.

They were humanoid-sized spiders clad in black chitin armor…

But what made Crocodile’s pupils contract was the tall figures on the spiders’ backs.

They wore ornate armor or magic robes, some holding exquisite longbows, others wielding magic wands, while some carried heavy, smoke-emitting, unknown tubular devices along with their swords and blades…

“Elves?!”

Crocodile gasped in disbelief.