Game of the World Tree - Chapter 506

506. Chapter 504: Cell’s Choice

The Iron and Silver players at max level were having a blast in the Death Desert.

The Orcs, who they regarded as the biggest wild monsters and leeks, were in a miserable state…

Especially the Orc tribe in the northeast of the Death Desert, near the Black Mountain Range.

As the elves’ incredible actions spread, such as desecrating the statues, capturing Orcs as slaves, and even eating their corpses, the Orcs were almost terrified of the elves…

Of course, the last one about eating them was completely a rumor. Even

if the players were heavy-handed, they would not go to such lengths.

It was just because the bodies of the killed Orcs would disappear, and the players were keen on barbecue, that the rumors were spread.

Of course, for the large number of Orcs, the number of elves causing trouble in the Death Desert was only about two thousand.

And two thousand people could not shake the foundation of the Orcs anyway.

But even if the attacking elves were few in number, they would attack the Orcs’ tribe tirelessly again and again like flies that could not be driven away…

If they were vigilant, it would be fine.

If they relaxed for a moment, these elves would rush forward like eggs staring at cracks.

Large tribes were fine, but many medium-sized tribes disappeared just like that.

Of course, because many players have already reached the maximum level of Black Iron, for them, gaining more experience is no longer helpful for upgrading.

At most, they can choose to store it and upgrade directly after the Silver rank is opened, or if they die and lose level, they can temporarily upgrade it back.

Therefore, compared to killing Orcs, many players are more interested in the Orcs’ belongings, the materials traded between the Orcs and the Sauron Chamber of Commerce, and the labor value of the Orcs themselves…

These things, to put it bluntly, can all be turned into wealth.

And wealth often means equipment, which means an increase in strength.

In fact, in a sense, this is really a mockery for the Orcs.

In the past, the orcs captured the elves, in addition to Uller’s instinctive fear of the revival of the world tree, mainly for the wealth brought by the elves…

But who would have thought that things would be reversed one day.

Today they have become prey, and the former prey have become hunters.

The shock brought by this kind of spiritual impact is not something that outsiders can understand.

…

Dark Canyon, Rivendell.

The orc Sharu grunted and loaded the mined ore into the wheelbarrow, then put away the iron pickaxe and carefully pushed the cart out of the mine.

He has been a miner for more than half a month.

During this half month, he has been worried and afraid, and he is always worried about the sudden revenge of the elves.

But the facts have proved that these elves… really only need them to mine.

Not only that, although they have signed a slave contract, these elves are not very interested in them at all.

It seems that the only thing these elves care about is their strength.

Of course, Cell didn’t understand. This was because the appearance of the orcs really didn’t meet the aesthetic taste of the players…

They were of hostile races, looked shabby, and were not very strong. Their only advantage was their strength.

For players, such guys could only work as slaves.

Cell was very open-minded about this.

Those elves were so cruel that he still couldn’t forget their devilish grin of enjoyment when they slaughtered the orcs.

Compared with their people who died at the hands of the elves, Cell felt that he was quite lucky. It’s better

to live a miserable life than to die a good death…

Moreover, although it was a miserable life, as long as they were obedient, these elves were also easy to talk to.

At least… the orcs who worked as slaves would not be treated badly.

Even… Cell felt that the food provided by the elves was better than that in the Death Desert!

It can only be said that the Death Desert is too barren after all.

Although there are some luxurious furs and jewelry there, the food is quite scarce, and at most they will not starve to death.

In the past, when the Elf Forest was still under the control of the King’s Court, the orcs could still survive by hunting in the Elf Forest.

Although many orcs were not used to the climate of the Elf Forest, coupled with the secret obstruction of human forces, the plan of the orcs to migrate to the Elf Forest after the Millennium God War failed, but at least there was a lot of food for them…

But now…

the orcs can only improve their lives by trading with humans, or simply robbing from the human kingdom in the east…

It can only be said that the products in the Elf Forest where the players are are really different.

It is extremely rich.

Especially since the players can also use magic, and many of them are good at nature, they can greatly shorten the frequency of harvesting products…

Although the influx of a large number of public beta players has made the food output of the Elf Forest tight for a while, it is only for a period of time.

When many of the public beta players have learned natural magic, changed their jobs to become druids, and also began to be interested in “farming”…

the food output of the Elf Forest has become very cheap again… The things

thrown to the orcs are already the ones that the players look down on the most.

But these are what Cell didn’t know.

He pushed the full wheelbarrow and walked carefully along the mine.

Today, he was in a good mood.

Because he dug up some rich ore and got a lot.

And the elves’ rewards and punishments were fair. If you dig more, you will not only get more food, but also meat!

Thinking of this, Cell felt a little wet in his mouth again.

Although he was quite shocked that the elves would eat meat, he had to say… these elves are quite good at cooking meat.

Especially the various spices in the meat, it is really delicious.

Of course, Cell didn’t know that the barbecue provided by the players to the orcs was originally the leftovers of the two dragons…

With the surge in the number of players, more and more players wanted to provide barbecue to Myriel and Tiberia in exchange for dragon scales and ambergris.

Even if the dragons have a good appetite, they can’t stand the large number of players. In the end, even if two dragons eat as much as they want, there are often leftovers. These residues used to be fertilizers, but now they are cheap for the orcs…

However, the remaining ambergris has naturally been carefully picked up by the players as if it were a treasure.

Sharu pushed the wheelbarrow and walked slowly.

Along the way, he could also see other orcs coming and going.

Compared to when he first came, there are more orc miners here…

Sharu felt that when his tribe had the most people, there were probably not as many orcs as there are in the mines of Rivendell now.

I don’t know how many orcs those elves… have captured as slaves.

However, although most of the orcs have not recovered from the collapse of their faith and their expressions are a little numb… But their overall condition is much better than Sharu imagined.

Not only that, he seemed to see that some orcs seemed to be a lot fatter than half a month ago.

This discovery made his expression a little strange.

But it is understandable.

Although the elves asked them to keep mining, they did not abuse them. Apart from collecting ore, they did not bother to pay attention to them.

The food was good.

In order to make the orcs more energetic, the elves provided them with sufficient food.

Only meat was rewarded by the orcs’ mining efficiency.

But even so, the sufficient food alone improved the living conditions of some small tribes who had no food to eat.

So, some orcs who were malnourished because their tribes were too weak actually got fat.

Of course, the living conditions here only refer to the food conditions.

Compared with the dark mines, Cell still prefers the bright Death Desert.

But in this world, the strong are respected, and if you lose, you lose. As a loser, being alive is the greatest luck. Now that he can have such a day, Cell already feels very lucky.

He sighed deeply, quickened his pace, and looked forward to today’s barbecue.

However, as he walked, he suddenly slowed down.

Because he suddenly noticed that in a mine cave on one side of the mine tunnel, there seemed to be more than a dozen orcs and humans gathered. They looked angry and seemed to be discussing something…

These guys who refused to give up.

Sharu shook his head.

Although the treatment provided by the elves was much better than expected, and although many orcs had lost their faith and could not return to the past, there were still many people who were unwilling to be trapped as slaves and wanted to escape.

Especially since there were not many elves guarding the orcs, and they were on a shift basis, this gave some people more confidence.

In addition, these elves seemed quite lax.

They didn’t seem to worry about the orcs escaping, or they didn’t have this awareness at all.

Not to mention that they didn’t send strong people to guard them, the elves even gave the iron pickaxes with certain lethality to the orcs to control…

and this naturally made many people eager to make a move.

Try to defeat the elves and then escape?

Sharu shook his head.

Not to mention that they had been forced to sign a slave contract, if they resisted, they would suffer serious backlash even if they didn’t die. Even if they survived the backlash of the contract, Sharu didn’t think those who wanted to escape would succeed.

“Escape? Impossible… because you don’t know what is guarding us…”

Looking at those excited guys from a distance, he shook his head and said to himself.

He had dealings with Andris, a middle-level caravan leader of the Soran Chamber of Commerce, and often asked him for some information.

Andris had once told him a secret about the elves…

It was said that during the underground war, the elves had sent out a legendary monster with terrifying power – the Crypt Spider Queen.

After arriving at the mine, Cell had seen many Crypt Spiders in the abandoned mine.

Combining some of the secret information Andris told him, and thinking about the elves’ laxity, and the conversation of the elves that he overheard when transporting minerals, Cell understood that the real existence guarding them was not these elves at all!

The ones guarding them were the Crypt Spiders that they always saw in the abandoned mines, the existence behind the Crypt Spiders… the terrifying monster with legendary power!

And what he overheard that day was that the elves were complaining that a lot of the ore they dug had to be handed over to the Crypt Spider Queen as the fee for guarding the orcs.

“Legendary monster…”

Cell shuddered and felt his scalp tingling.

Whenever he thought that there might be such an existence spying on him in the dark, he felt uncomfortable all over.

At the same time, he also felt that the foundation of the elves was too terrible…

“A bunch of pathetic creatures.”

After looking at those people again, Sharu continued to move forward.

Those orcs were not from his tribe, and he didn’t care about their life or death at all…

The orc tribes were like this, and they were not united at all.

If they were really united, with their racial combat power, even if they were weak, they would not be trapped in the Death Desert.

You know, the orcs and the nomads of Blue Star are a bit similar.

As for the nomads of Blue Star, a certain Mongolian Khan once swept across Asia and Europe with only 200,000 cavalry after integrating the grassland.

Not only that, after knowing that there was a legendary monster spying in the dark, Sharu didn’t dare to get involved with these guys. If something happened, he would be considered an accomplice and he would be finished.

Shaking his head, Sharu continued to move forward and finally walked out of the mine a few minutes later.

As soon as he walked out of the mine, he saw those familiar elves.

But today, there seemed to be more people outside the mine…

Sharu noticed that it was not just the elves, he also saw a lot of dark dwarves.

The dark dwarves were talking and laughing with the elves…

and behind them, Sharu saw more than a hundred orcs.

These orcs were tied up with ropes just like when he first came to Rivendell. Their eyes were blank and empty, as if they had just suffered a great mental shock…

Sharu, who had experienced it once, immediately knew that these should be the newly captured tribesmen of the elves.

As for the empty eyes, they were probably also forcibly wiped out of their faith.

However… Sharu noticed that their expressions seemed to be more trance than when he first came, as if their faith collapsed more seriously, and he didn’t know what they had experienced…

At the same time, they seemed to be thinner than the tribesmen in the mine, as if they were specially picked out.

For a moment, Sharu also felt that these elves were more awe-inspiring.

Seeing the elves communicating with the dwarves, Sharu hesitated for a moment, and did not rush forward, but waited for them to finish from a distance.

At the same time, the conversation between the elves and the dwarves, echoing from the mine walls, reached Sharu’s ears…

“Hahaha! Demacia brother, the Orc slaves you provided last time were really good. I never thought… you elves would also have a day in the slave trade.”

This was the dark dwarf.

“Hehehe, brother, we are the same, let’s make money together! Today’s batch of Orcs is not bad either, look, look…”

This was the smiling elf.

So they were going to sell these people to the dark dwarves…

Sharu’s eyes were complicated, and he suddenly felt that he was lucky.

The underground world was a more chaotic place…

He couldn’t imagine being sold there as a slave.

The communication between the elves and the dwarves continued.

After hearing what the elf named Demacia said, the dwarf looked at the orcs and frowned slightly:

“It’s pretty good, but I feel that they are a little less energetic and thin…”

“Hey! Brother, you don’t know this! This is because these orcs are different from the previous batches sold to you. They have completely lost their faith, so they are in a trance… As for their thinness, that is also the sequelae of the wiping out of faith!”

The red-haired elf said excitedly.

“Is that so?”

The dwarf muttered a little.

“Yes.”

The elf looked serious.

Cell:…

He opened his mouth and felt that the elf in front of him refreshed his cognition again.

This elf…

Doesn’t he blush when he lies?

The trance in his eyes is indeed because of the wiping out of faith, but the thinness… That is really due to personal problems.

Obviously, this elf should be planning to sell those weak orcs to the dwarf.

The two communicated for a while, and the dwarf was finally convinced by the elf.

“Okay, Demacia brother, how much do you plan to ask for?”

The dwarf asked.

But this time, the elf suddenly shook his head and said with a smile:

“No, no, no… I don’t want money this time. I want to do some other business with you.”

“What business?”

“Ahem… I heard that you seem to have business in the Dark City-State… That… I wonder if you can get some statues of the God of Darkness and Shadows? The kind that has been worshipped by people…”

Dwarf: …

“What do you want these things for?! Isn’t Her Majesty Eve hostile to that person?! And Her Majesty the God of Death is also hostile!”

The dwarf was horrified and subconsciously took a step back.

“Ahem, of course it’s not for worship. Anyway… If you can, can you help me? I heard that there are many small underground monster tribes in the Dark City-State that believe in the God of Darkness and Shadows. I think we can just rob them from them… Anyway, they are very weak.”

The elf said with a smile.

Dwarf: …

His expression changed several times, and finally he said:

“I… give it a try. This thing is too sensitive. Only a black market unbeliever like me dares to do this to you.”

“Hehehe, happy cooperation…”

The two communicated for a while, and finally ended.

And Cell, who heard the whole process, became more and more confused.

The elves…what do they want the statue of the God of Darkness and Shadows for?

However, although he didn’t know the elves’ thoughts, he suddenly thought of something else.

He looked back at the mine, and his expression changed.

“Anyway…you are going to fail…”

he muttered to himself.

Finally, it seemed that he had made a decision. Cell gritted his teeth and pushed the cart forward.

When he came to the elf, he put on a smile and said:

“Master Elf! This is the ore I dug today, please examine it!”

And after that, his expression became serious again:

“And…I have some important information that I want to report to you.”

Ah ah! It’s too late!

(End of this chapter)