548: 451 548: 451 “Good, very good,” Blue Crown nodded with satisfaction, “With our breeding advantage and the Mystlock Locks of snoel to protect us, it won’t be long before we beco the largest race in snoel, transforming it into our core base against the Dwarves Elves.”
He was one of the few wise ones among the Sodalite Treants.
Since he had beco the leader of the tribe, he had carefully summarized the past decades of warfare experience with the Dwarves Elves and found.
The greatest mistake of their Silent Tribe was the lack of a stable rear base where they could quietly nurture a large number of Sodalite Treants, forming an army of them.
It seed the Dwarves Elves were very clear about the growth ti of their saplings, attacking just as they were about to transform into adult Sodalite Treants in large numbers.
Adult Sodalite Treants could escape by lding Into the Forest, but the saplings, still in their tree state, had no such option.
A large fire could easily send them all to their doom.
Left with no choice, the Silent Tribe could only secretly plant them in the Mir Forest.
This thod was indeed secretive enough; Sodalite Treant saplings, before reaching maturity, would disguise themselves as similar tree saplings around them, just like a chaleon changing colors—an innate ability, not magic, and thus undetectable.
If they weren’t marked, even the Sodalite Treants themselves would have a hard ti recognizing them.
The secrecy indeed was sufficient.
However, without the careful care of Sodalite Treants, those saplings had to rely entirely on themselves to survive.
Between the nibbles of insects, the predation of animals, and the competition from other plants, one in ten saplings would successfully reach maturity and their growth would be much slower without ticulous care.
After reaching adulthood, it was still up to the Silent Tribe to find them before the Dwarves Elves did.
Blue Right Arm added from the side, “In this process, there was a small accident.
The Dwarves Elves found us first.
If it wasn’t for the elite squad of snoel coming to our aid, we nearly got trapped outside.”
Blue Crown said with a grave tone, “So, they’ve built a large isolation belt around snoel?”
Sodalite Treants possess a Special Ability to ld Into the Forest; they need only a mont’s ti to blend into a larger tree, becoming one with it for an extended period—surviving for months without food or water, supported by the basic nutrients provided by the tree.
They could also choose to appear around other trees within a radius of no more than eighteen ters.
This unique ability made their movents in the dense forest extrely secretive, making it virtually impossible to track them.
This was the reason why they had been struggling with the Dwarves Elves in the Mir Forest for so many years.
Without so form of support, they would have long been uprooted by their foes.
But the Dwarves Elves had also devised a set of specific strategies aid at them and other Fae Races—establishing firebreaks.
Once they exceed their teleportation distance within the trees, to get to the other side, they would have to reveal themselves, and getting entangled by the Dwarves Elves at that point would make it very difficult to find a chance to ld Into the Forest again, as the activation ti for this Special Ability was a bit too long.
Blue Right Arm spoke indignantly, “It was the doing of those Moando Servants; they’ve completely corrupted and poisoned the forests for several kiloters around snoel.
If we want to enter snoel, we must reveal ourselves and walk this stretch.
Those Dwarves Elves will certainly not let us easily join snoel, but Gaven City Lord has promised that, as long as we go as agreed, they will send soone to aid us.”
“I do not agree with joining snoel,” several Sodalite Treants gradually erged from the trees around them, the one in front crowned with a yellow-tinged branch crown.
“Huang Crown, why are you so stubborn?
Joining snoel is not only in our interest, but also the best choice for the Mir Forest,” Blue Crown said sowhat helplessly, “At the last three-crown eting, didn’t you agree to establish contact with snoel?”
“I agreed to establish contact, but not to join,” Huang Crown replied adamantly, “They too are invaders of the forest, worse than the Elves, even worse than the Dwarves Elves.
I have already investigated clearly.
That Gaven City Lord is closely related to the human city lord of Darama City, which is teeming with humans like ants.
Once they gain a foothold in our forest,
those humans will flood in, using their axes and torches to destroy the forest, turning it into a land suitable for their habitation, just as their ancestors did.
Before these forest pests appeared, Mir Forest covered the entire mountain range, stretching westward and southward to the boundless ocean.”
“It is precisely because of this that I and Blue Crown have decided to join them.
Only by joining them can we guide them better and stop them from making decisions that would harm the Mir Forest,” several more Sodalite Treants erged from the trees, the one in front crowned with a green branch crown.
The leaders of the Silent Tribe weren’t singular but tripartite—a model that began with the Sodalite Treants Druid Circle and later developed into a tribe, maintaining the co-governance of three crowns.
Due to their lack of interest in material possessions and the unique nature of their species’ legacy,
the three crowns maintained a strong sense of independence.
They only gathered together when faced with matters of life and death or in the heat of battle.
“Lv Guan, you’ve co as well,” Blue Crown nodded towards the newly arrived Sodalite Treants, evidently having Lv Guan’s support on this matter.
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