"Okay, very good." Lan Guan nodded with satisfaction, "With our reproductive advantages and the protection of Mis Noel's myth lock, it won't be long before we become the largest race of Mis Noel.
Turn that place into our core base against the drow."
He is a rare wise man among the woad people.
Since he became the leader of the tribe, he has carefully summarized the experiences and findings of the Silent Tribe's battles with the drow over the past few decades.
The biggest mistake of their Silent Tribe was that they did not have a stable rear base so that they could quietly raise a large number of woad tree men and form a woad tree man army.
Those drow seem to be very aware of the growth time of their seedlings, and come to raid them every time they are about to be transformed into adult woad trees in large numbers.
Adult woad tree people can escape by blending into the forest. Those seedlings are still in the state of trees, so there is nothing they can do. A fire can destroy them all.
In desperation, the Silent Tribe could only choose to plant secretly in Mir Forest.
This method is secretive enough. Before adulthood, the woad tree seedlings will disguise themselves as the same tree seedlings around them, just like a chameleon imitating colors. This is an innate ability, not magic, so it cannot be detected.
.
If it is not marked, even the woad tree people themselves will have a hard time identifying it.
Secret is secret enough.
But without the careful care of the woad tree people, those seedlings have to rely entirely on themselves if they want to survive.
Insects and beasts eat them, and due to the crowding out of similar plants, only one out of ten woad tree seedlings can successfully mature, and their growth rate will be much slower than under careful care.
After they reach adulthood, the Silent Tribe will have to find them first before the drow.
Lan Right Arm added on the side: "There was a little accident during this process. Those drow elves discovered us first. If it weren't for the elite team of Myth Noel to respond, we would have almost been stopped outside."
Lan Guan looked solemnly and said: "They built a large isolation zone around Max Noel?"
The woad tree people have the special ability to blend into the forest. They only need one round to blend into trees that are larger than themselves. They can blend into the tree for a long time - without eating, they can blend into the forest.
After drinking it for several months, the tree he melts into will provide him with the most basic nutrients for survival.
You can also choose to appear around other trees no more than 18 meters away.
This unique ability makes their whereabouts in the dense forest extremely secretive, making it impossible to track them.
This is also the reason why they have been fighting with those drow elves in Mir Forest for so many years.
If we didn't have any support, we would have been uprooted by the opponent long ago.
But the drow elves have already figured out a way to deal with them and the fey - establishing a fire isolation zone.
Once they exceed their teleportation distance in the trees and want to get to the other side, they have to show up. At this time, being entangled by the drow elves, it is difficult to find a chance to integrate into the forest. The activation time of this special ability is a bit
Too long.
Lan Right Arm said angrily: "It's the good deeds of those Moando servants. They corrupted and poisoned all the forests for several kilometers around Mis Noel. If we want to enter Mis Noel, we must show up."
Along this stretch of road, those drow elves will definitely not let us join Misnoel easily, but Lord Gavin promised that as long as we go as promised, they will send someone to pick us up."
"I don't agree to join Myth Noel." Several woad tree men emerged from the surrounding trees one after another. The leader of them had a crown of branches on his head that was khaki.
"Huang Guan, why are you so stubborn? Joining Mis Noel is not only the best choice for us, but also for Mill Forest." Lan Guan said helplessly, "Didn't you already agree with Mis in the last Triple Crown meeting?
Has Noel been in contact?”
"I agreed to contact, but not to join." Huang Guan said with a strong attitude, "They are also invaders of the forest, worse invaders than elves or even drow elves. I have heard clearly.
The city lord named Gavin has a close relationship with the city lord of the human city of Darauma, where there are as many humans as ants. Once they gain a foothold in the forest.
Those humans will flood in, and they will use their own axes and torches to destroy the forest and open up this place into a forest suitable for their lives, just like their ancestors.
Before these forest pests appeared, Mir Forest wrapped around the entire mountain range, stretching to the endless sea to the west and south."
"It is precisely because of this that Lan Guan and I decided to join them. Only by joining them can we better guide them and prevent them from making decisions that endanger Mir Forest." Several more woad tree men appeared from the trees, led by
The crown of branches on the head of the one is green.
The leader of the Silent Tribe is not one, but three. Initially they were just a circle of woad tree people druids, but later developed into a tribe, and have always maintained the three-crown co-governance model.
But given that they don’t attach much importance to material needs, they have unique reasons for racial inheritance.
The three crowns all maintain relatively strong independence.
They will only gather together when encountering life-and-death matters or decisive battles.
"Green Crown, you're here too." Lan Guan nodded towards the newly arrived woad tree man. Obviously, Green Crown was on his side in this matter.
After Green Crown gestured, he continued, "The war with the drow has almost drained our life force, and we no longer have the energy to make any more powerful enemies.
When the elves left, we all celebrated as a family, thinking that the forest had ushered in unprecedented peace.
But it didn't take long for the drow to arrive.
Even if we drive away the drow, other intelligent races will come.
Times have changed, and the entire world has been dominated by intelligent life.
Our thinking must also change because of this. We are no longer expelling all forest creatures, but uniting with those races that are kind and causing relatively little damage to the forest, expelling those evil ones that are causing serious damage, and ensuring that the damage to the forest is reduced to the minimum.
lowest."
"You are cowardly and compromising." Huang Guan growled angrily, "Your behavior is gradually deviating from the forest. When you are talking here, you should be in tune with the forest and feel its pain and anger.
, every step of concession you make is based on its pain and anger."
"Don't let pain and anger cloud your eyes." Green Crown said calmly, "Don't you feel the forest cheering for the restart of Mystic Noel?
Are you going to turn a blind eye to the powerful purifying and corrupting ability displayed by Myth Noel?
Not only is Myth Noel needed to expel the drow, but it is also needed to cure the poison left by Moando's servants."
"Why was the Mir Forest poisoned? It wasn't because of the reckless actions of the elves back then. If they hadn't sealed the Temple of the Evil God in Misnoel, how could today's disaster have happened?
All these are the seeds they planted yesterday to bear the poisonous fruit today.
And the decisions we make today are likely to be the seeds of tomorrow's poisonous fruit." Huang Guan is not ordinary stubborn.
"Is this your personal opinion, or your pruning opinion?" Green Crown decided not to engage in theoretical disputes with him, because doing so would have no results even if it continued for several years.
"Of course it's our pruning decision." Huang Guan responded with his head held high.
"In this case, let's split into two parts. We, Green Crown and Blue Crown, will join Mis Noel. You, Huang Crown, will still maintain your original lifestyle, and let time verify who is right and who is wrong among us." Green Crown suggested.
Languan's wooden face trembled for a few times, and he said in surprise: "Doing this is tantamount to splitting the Silent Tribe. The three crowns advance and retreat together, which has always been the foundation for us to remain strong."
"Three Crowns advance and retreat together based on unity of opinion. Now that there are serious differences in opinions, how can we advance and retreat together?" Lv Guan asked, "Now we can't persuade Huang Guan to join us, but we will because of Huang Guan
Abandon our plan due to objections?”
"No." Lan Guan shook his head without hesitation.
The changes they made were not impulsive, but after a long period of thinking and research.
Now that the arrow is on the string, how to change it?
"We all think that we are making a decision that is beneficial to the forest and the tribe, but no one can be sure that our decision is 100% correct." Green Crown explained patiently, "In this case, why don't we stay on both sides?
seed.
Even if the other side is wrong, the other side will continue to take root and continue to fulfill our innate mission.
I just hope that no matter what path we choose, we will never forget our original intention to protect our forest."
Huang Guan's expression was no longer as angry and extreme as it was at the beginning. He nodded involuntarily and said: "I think this method is appropriate, and we cannot have these children outside without anyone looking for and taking care of them."
Lan Guan also had to compromise: "In this case, let's follow the path we each chose, but one thing is for sure, no matter where we are, we woad tree people will never be enemies of each other."
"This is nature." All the woad tree people present echoed at the same time.
"When will we start migrating?" Lan Guan asked.
"Do you still need to prepare for this matter?" Lu Guan asked.
"So, you have brought all the people from your branch here, so let's get started." Lan Guan nodded clearly.
While using the blend-in-the-forest skill, they cannot carry anything other than wooden items.
Therefore, they rarely bring foreign objects, and are only equipped with wooden shields and heavy wooden sticks twisted and shaped by the bending wood technique.
As for shelter, daily necessities, etc., there is absolutely nothing.
All trees are their home and their source of strength. They can occasionally pick some wild fruits and vegetables, and occasionally eat meat, but most of them die of natural causes and they rarely take the initiative to hunt.
When nearly a hundred woad tree men began to move quickly in the dense forest, an extremely unique sight appeared.
The trees swayed slightly, a vague magical light appeared in the air, shadows flashed and disappeared, and the surrounding vegetation automatically separated from the surroundings.
The woad tree man is only in trouble when the skill of blending into the forest is activated. After all, this is a process of transforming material form into energy form.
When the distance between trees suitable for them to walk (at least trees larger than them, certainly not shrubs) does not exceed eighteen meters, they can run along these trees and keep walking through them.
In the dense forest, it is too easy to meet such conditions.
They ran like this until they reached the center circle of Misnoel.
Once here, they had to show up.
This is the place most severely corroded by the roots of the gods. All the trees are twisted and dead, sparsely scattered there, which is shocking.
Every time he sees such a situation, it is difficult for the woad tree man to suppress his anger.
Especially when I saw a large number of drow cutting down and poisoning the trees without restraint, it was even harder to suppress my anger.
Many woad tree men jumped out of the trees, roaring and rushing towards the damn deforestation people.
"Come back, don't act rashly, it's a trap!"
"Don't mess around."
Blue Crown and Green Crown yelled at the crazy woad tree men, trying to stop their reckless and almost stupid behavior, but to no avail.
The woad tree people obviously have two major advantages: blending into the forest and breeding quickly. However, they still cannot defeat the drow in the dense forest because they have a fatal flaw.
That is, the intelligence of most woad tree people is not very high, that is, at about seven or eight points, and they are on par with kobolds.
Their close relationship with the forest makes them very easy to be angered - not to mention deforestation, even the woodcutter's felling of trees and vines may attract their attacks.
To most intelligent creatures, the woad tree people are a symbol of barbarism. As long as there is a forest where they exist, there is rarely no conflict.
"Lan Guan, I will bring people to support and command them. You go to Misnoel for help." Green Guan appeared from the trees and said loudly.
"I'm with you, Blue Left Arm, Blue Right Arm. You are familiar with Miss Noel's situation. I'll leave it to you to ask for help." Lan Guan couldn't abandon the trap at a glance.
His own clan members dispatched requests for help.
Snap!
A series of whips sounded.
Hoho!
All kinds of painful roars came and went.
The drow drove their slave cannon fodder and rushed towards the woad army.
As soon as the two sides started fighting, they fell into an out-and-out melee.
The woad tree men have no formation to speak of.
There was also no slave cannon fodder for the drow, and they just rushed towards the enemy in such a mess.
In this case, the competition is about the quality of individual soldiers.
In this aspect, the woad tree people have an absolute advantage.
Because they are out-and-out quasi-extraordinary creatures. When they reach adulthood, they will have at least five natural life dice. It is not uncommon to have seven or eight. Some even have more than ten, directly entering the extraordinary.
Their fighting style is also a bit unusual.
Before those slave warriors come into contact with them, they must avoid all surrounding vines and trees, because they may become accidents on the battlefield.
For example, tree roots on the ground suddenly bend and turn into a natural stumbling block in the shape of a horseshoe, tripping the charging enemy.
For example, the trunk of a tree suddenly bent downwards by more than ten centimeters. The person could not rush through the place that he had expected to rush through visually, and he bumped into the trunk of the tree.
Another example is the rattan hanging from the trees, which is bent into a natural sling, directly hoisting them into the air.
When such accidents happen everywhere, they are no longer accidents.
It is another special ability of the woad tree people - the bending wood technique.
This is a second-level druid spell, also known as the carpentry magic.
This spell can bend and deform wood, permanently changing its shape and strength.
In the face of this spell, most of the woodworking skills of other intelligent races have become nothing.
Because the wood will change at will according to the caster's will, the only thing that can limit them is their own creativity.
Compared with those druids, the woad tree people are more powerful in this aspect. They can use the bending wood technique at will, just like drinking cold water.
On the battlefield, such small accidents are often fatal, especially when followed by a natural warrior with terrifying power.
The weapons in the hands of the woad tree people are indeed simple enough. They are usually giant wooden clubs with various wooden shields. They blend into the forest so that they cannot use equipment made of other materials.
But when the force is strong enough, blunt weapons such as giant wooden sticks can also exert considerable lethality.
Especially when facing a group of slave warriors with the same rudimentary equipment.
When they fight, the sound of bones breaking can be heard endlessly.
Those slave warriors were unable to stop the violent charge of these woad tree men. In the blink of an eye, they left corpses all over the ground behind them.
However, driven by the drow, more slave warriors rushed out, one after another, as if they were going to overwhelm this group of woad tree men with their numbers.
Soon the two sides fell into a melee.
At this time, the drow had just launched the most deadly trap.
Flames soared into the sky, forming a huge flame circle that surrounded and isolated the battlefield. Even the narrowest place was ten meters long.
This didn't just set the forest on fire, there was also obvious magical power inside, and even the empty space was still burning.
Just like most activated plants, woad trees also have a weakness of fire, and all fire damage will be maximized on them.
Even if they have a high Hit Dice, they would not dare to rush into such a flame belt, as it will be ignited before they can pass through.
They have now become turtles in a urn.
No.
To be more precise, they became the bait on the drow's fishhook, fishing for the defenders of Myth Noel.
The big fish took the bait much faster than the drow expected.
Before the Woad Treemen were surrounded by the sea of fire, those tall Goliaths rushed out of Misnoel.
They were still in the attack mode of a mixed team. At the front were twelve mixed combat teams lined up, with four core combat teams evenly distributed among them.
The two Goliath battle groups followed them step by step, forming a pincer shape and running towards the circle of flames.