The beautiful mage was kidnapped by the contracted beast again

Chapter 226: Divine Source Wood (Thanks to Baby Ouhui)

The great elder standing nearby lost his composure the moment he saw the ball of light falling, and instinctively reached out to grab it.

Then he remembered that this thing was sent out by their noble mother tree herself, and his movements stopped in mid-air, his expression changing and becoming extremely distorted for a moment.

Jiang Liujing could certainly notice his huge emotional fluctuations, but he didn't know the situation and didn't dare to move. His body stood straight like an arrow stuck in the ground.

He saw the hunchbacked old elf opposite him looking at him back and forth several times with a very complicated look.

That look was a mixture of shock, confusion, incomprehension, and perhaps a hint of heartache.

This reminded Jiang Liujing of one of his subordinates who mentioned that his friend had run away with a strange man. The girl had the same sad expression on her face when she mentioned her friend.

But at that time, Jiang Liujing could never have imagined that one day he would be stared at in such a way.

The Great Elder stood there for a long time before he sighed deeply and said in a tired voice:

"This staff is a sacred object that my clan has guarded since ancient times. It has been protected by the Mother Tree since I can remember.

It has no recorded name. The only thing that can be identified is the material of its shaft: Divine Source Wood. This sacred wood was completely extinct thousands of years ago. This staff may be the last Divine Source Wood artifact in the world.

He looked at Jiang Liujing and said, "You are a mage, you should understand the value of the Divine Source Wood."

Jiang Liujing did know.

In the alchemy class at school, he had tried to make a staff, so he was very familiar with various materials.

A wide variety of materials can be used to craft staffs, with stone and wood being the most common. The most important requirement for a high-quality staff is the material of the staff body, which almost entirely determines the lower limit of the staff's ultimate quality. The upper limit is determined by the subsequent addition of various mineral crystals and engraved magic arrays to enhance the staff's quality.

As a top-grade material that has long been extinct, the Shenyuan Wood was only used by Mo Jun as a piece of knowledge to casually popularize it to them.

Compared with other top-grade materials, it has a very powerful feature and is not restricted by any properties.

The water staff that Jiang Liujing possesses can only release water magic, while the Divine Source Wood can amplify all attributes.

When Jiang Liujing heard about it in class, he felt that the Divine Source Wood was exactly the material he had always dreamed of, and it perfectly matched all his hidden attributes. Unfortunately, it had become extinct eight hundred years ago.

Unexpectedly, he would encounter a staff made of divine wood here.

However, the ideal staff was right under his feet, so close to him, but he did not reach out to pick it up immediately.

He turned sideways to the mother tree and asked as if he were talking to a living person face to face: "Do you want to give it to me?"

After the ball of light condensed, the spiderweb-like white light undulating on the tree's trunk dimmed completely. Upon hearing Jiang Liujing's question, the mother tree did not shake its branches, but a sudden gust of wind swept through the air.

Jiang Liujing felt his hand go cold and heavy. He looked down and saw that the staff that was lying on the ground had appeared in his palm.

The tree's intentions were clear.

Jiang Liujing thanked it again, and the tree rustled happily.

Creation is truly magical. The mother tree clearly doesn't even have the facial features to express emotions, but Jiang Liujing can actually feel its joy from its twinkling star-like leaves.

While people were friendly to the mother tree, the great elder was living alone in seclusion. He had been with the mother tree for more than three thousand years, but he had never seen the mother tree so happy to see him. He was extremely depressed for a while.

"I originally wondered if you were a dark elf, but now I don't think so. The mother tree has never been so friendly to any elf."

"Dark Elf?"

"Yes, it is a rare branch of the elves." The elder grabbed a handful of his golden hair and waved it at Jiang Liujing.

"The recognized pure bloodline among the elves are all blonde, but occasionally some other types will mutate, such as dark elves. They have black hair like you, but their numbers are extremely rare and none have been born in the past five hundred years."

He casually said, "In fact, black has always been an ominous color on the mainland. It was not until that person appeared that black became a symbol of respect."

Jiang Liujing understood what he meant: "So, dark elves were not welcomed before?"

The Great Elder did not answer this question immediately.

He looked up at the huge and tranquil mother tree, as if through the lush leaves and thick branches, he could see the time frozen in history.

After a long while, he said, "No matter where you are, it is difficult for aliens to survive."

He smiled again, "But that was a long time ago. Nowadays, dark elves are well protected once they appear. After all, black is very precious now, and dark elves are indeed more likely to obtain powerful magic than other elves."

Chi, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly said, "You are actually very afraid of them, right?"

The Great Elder paused and turned to look at him.

With his status and strength, he would have rarely encountered anyone who would contradict him, but today was obviously unusual.

"how do I say this?"

The red-haired young man's voice was as steady and immovable as a mountain, and he spoke without any emotion, simply stating the facts:

"If you truly believed dark elves were precious, you wouldn't have assumed gold was the official color. Instead, you should have treated them as royalty from the moment they appeared. They're stronger than you, aren't they?"

Chi has recovered a lot of his racial memories over the years. He knows that he is an extremely rare Red Po in the clan, one that has only appeared in more than ten generations. He has stronger talents and strength than other Po clans, and he will be trained as the future clan leader from birth.

If dark elves are really as precious and rare as the Great Elder said, they should be treated the same as him.

But along the way, whether from Alia or the Great Elder, Chi only heard that the purer the blonde hair, the purer the bloodline.

The Great Elder's eyes flickered. He hadn't expected him to grasp the details of this angle. He admitted, "Indeed, but it's not because we discriminate against or fear them. It's because dark elves have a short lifespan."

"In the entire three thousand years, the elven race has produced a total of seven dark elves. The oldest of them only lived to the age of thirty-five, as if cursed by heaven. Therefore, although the dark elves possess extremely powerful magical talents, we will not consider continuing their bloodline."

"curse?"

"Yeah. This kind of thing is obviously not a coincidence, but it's also not something human can do, so it can only be a curse from heaven."

The Great Elder put his hands behind his back, a look of emotion on his face. He stared at Jiang Liujing for a few seconds, then suddenly let out a puzzled "Huh?"

He strode to Jiang Liujing's side, grabbed his collar and forced him to lower his head, then observed him carefully for a while.

The Great Elder released his hand, his expression suddenly becoming serious. He said to Jiang Liujing, "I hadn't noticed before, but you also have traces of the curse on your body. Are you aware of this?"