A walking tree!

Charles, who had spread a bush and watched not far from the forest, was curious about it.

The bright sunshine penetrates the shade of the trees, forming light spots on the undulating grass in the forest, and the birds sing lively around the forest, and occasionally chirp to another tree.

In this environment, a straight torso is very similar to a poplar tree, but it is reflected in the eyes with a strange tree that walks with legs like roots.

It was walking eastward from the west of the shrub where Charles was.

It looks heavy, and with every step it takes, its weird legs sink into the forest surface covered by fluffy and dead leaves.

But he was very "light", so light that he did not step on any living flowers and plants on the surface of the surrounding area.

Sometimes there is really no place, its unique roots and feet will support the entire heavy body like tentacles, moving one by one, and being careful to the extreme.

So it is not difficult to guess how slow the tree will walk.

Because there is nothing in a hurry, Charles has enough time to waste now.

He observed the tree, his eyes shifting as it continued to move, until the tree approached his hiding place, and then quietly turned and retreated.

Shire is very curious about this tree, but before knowing it in detail, it is better not to get in touch with it rashly.

It was just that he thought so, but the strange tree obviously wouldn't think so much.

Although Charle's movements were hidden and silent, it seemed clumsy, but in fact, the Ente tree herder, who was particularly sensitive to the forest environment, had actually discovered him long ago.

"May the stars shine on you, young Elda."

A thick and slow voice sounded not far away, with a little roundabout accent, which sounded a little blurry and uncomfortable.

This seems to be some kind of dialect version of the Elf Sinda language.

At this time, Charles had left the bushes and hid behind a large camphor tree.

After hearing this sound, he tilted his head and found that the strange tree man was now stopping in front of the bushes he had originally lying on.

His body was facing him, and his "neck" was slightly forward, revealing a cheek that grew on the trunk, which looked angular but full of dullness.

Elda means the people of the stars, which generally refers to all elves, but in fact, because of the long period of time and the diversion of elves, it is no longer popular to call this.

There are unlikely other elves around, so the person is obviously saying hello to Shir, so that Shir unconsciously glanced at the bright sky outside the forest.

He looked kind, and he felt that he was not hostile, and he spoke the language of the elves.

So Charle stopped hiding, tidied up the black cloak that had become a little tattered because of the rush, and then stepped out from the hiding tree.

"Hello, young tree friend."

Although the other party's movements were slow and dull, his face actually looked very young and did not look old at all, so Charles called him that.

"Treeman? I'm not a tree man." The slow voice replied, "I am a member of the Ente tribe. If you ask for the official title, you can think of us as tree man."

What is the difference between a tree man and a tree man?

Shire didn't understand, and it was not easy to ask for the first time when he met, so he nodded "understanding" and said, "Okay, young tree shepherd, good noon."

"If you want, you can call me Vladliff, yes, all the Elda I know call me that. Or bark can do it."

The tree man answered again and swayed at Charles's sparse branch. "I need to hurry up, a friend is calling me, what might be urgent? Young Elda, I hope to know what you are called before leaving. If I have the chance, I will chat with you again. In fact, I like to chat with strange Eldas the most, they usually walk a lot, and we... well, you should see that we have always walked very slowly."

Charles answered truthfully, but the other party was troubled and scratched his head with the branch.

"Shar? What does the meaning of this name mean? Sorry, I'm not very proficient in Elda's language... In fact, I've learned it for a while, and I learned it from my Elda friends. Well, young Shire, I'm glad to see you."

After saying that, it struck the branches at Charles again, and then walked away again with his extremely heavy legs.

...

"He seems to be a little talkative."

Watching the other party leave slowly, after a long time, Charles muttered and then began to continue his journey.

Before, he was actually tired of traveling for a long time, but now after such a stimulation, he suddenly discovered a new fun.

However, the original goal will not change.

Shire has been walking south, preparing to go to the relatively easy-to-find dwarf city, and then experiment with how much results his past knowledge of enchantment and secret texts can bring here.

"It's just too small, it seems a bit inappropriate to swing a hammer and make iron."

He kept thinking about it in his mind, but it did not affect his progress.

The dwarf who had passed by the Haradin had informed each other of his name and residence when exchanging potions.

So Shire was not running blindly at this moment. He always rushed to the south of Haradin with the goal of following the woods to a river called Aska, because there is a road leading to the depths of the blue mountains on the north bank.

The road is mainly used for communication and trade between dwarf cities and the outside world, so it is called the dwarf road by elves and even dwarves themselves.

Going to the two dwarf cities in the Blue Mountains, you basically have to pass this road, and there is no other road to go.

Shire didn't think he could find that path, because the small battle not long ago happened at the corner of the Aska River and another river.

But at the beginning, he did not walk on Linlu, but rode a wolf straight to the land. However, whether it was Linlu or land, as long as he kept heading south towards the Haradin headquarters, the first river he encountered must be the Aska River.

In other words, the dwarf city is actually easy to find, but I don’t know how long it takes to get there.

With this mentality, Charles is full of confidence.

However, as the sky outside the forest gradually changed from bright to dark, and was finally completely shrouded in the starry sky, his original confidence suddenly disappeared.

Because he suddenly saw a figure that would never be seen again according to the normal route - the Ente tree herder called the Bark!

"Did I turn?"

After walking out a forest path with obvious artificial traces and looking at the towering figure not far from a river, Charles was a little stunned.

The tree man was moving forward in the past, obviously facing east, while he kept moving south. Why are he meeting here again now?

But in a flash, he temporarily suppressed the problem in his heart, because the other party was acting angrily and constantly attacking.

The target of the attack was a short half-orc wearing tattered leather armor.

"Why are there these ugly monsters everywhere?"

Hiding behind a camphor tree on the edge of the path, seeing the situation sideways, Charles couldn't help but frown.
Chapter completed!