Someone was already setting up a stall on the streets of the capital, and the old man selling breakfast was adding charcoal to the stove. Sparks jumped out of the stove mouth and fell to the ground, where they were extinguished.
In order to make the vegetables look fresh, the woman selling vegetables sprinkles the vegetable leaves with water and arranges them neatly on the stall. The water drops flow down along the veins of the leaves, giving people a very fresh feeling.
No one noticed the two men wrapped in cloaks walking around the corner of the side street.
The crack of "Boundary Break" opened on the piece of Blackstone Flats outside Crow Valley. When the two came out of the crack, the morning mist was rolling slowly against the ground.
Morgana was sitting at the door of the stone house, with a roll of sheepskin on his knees, and he was directing a piece of charcoal to draw something on it.
Hearing the footsteps, she rolled up the sheepskin and put it aside, then raised her eyelids.
"There's quite a commotion in the royal capital."
"Yeah, it's not a big deal, but luckily it's all solved." Lin Ze sat down on the stone bench.
Sirius was leaning against the stone wall nearby, with his hands in his sleeves, looking at the legendary Night Elf.
Morgana glanced at Sirius.
"I am his friend." Sirius said.
"You came here from somewhere else with him too?"
"Of course, the king is here." Sirius raised his head.
"I'm talking about the future." Morgana glanced at him.
Sirius felt that his soul was shaking under the other person's gaze. It was a strange feeling...
A little more...
Exciting?
Morgana Picked up the pottery bowl from the stone platform.
There was clear water in the bowl, and she stretched out a finger to tap lightly on the water.
A circle of ripples appeared on the water surface. The ripples spread to the edge of the bowl and then turned back, gathering in the center to form a blurry shadow.
It was a forest. There was a small stream in the forest. The stream passed through the cracks in the rocks. Next to the cracks grew a very thick Old Oak tree.
"Here is..."
"Tree of Life of Elf Race is planted here." Morgana took back his finger, the ripples spread out, and the water surface returned to calm.
"Further north than the North, if Mordred wants to completely activate the "life" finger bone, using the crystal of Tree of Life is the best choice."
"Crystal?" Lin Ze asked in confusion.
"It can be understood as 'fruit'." Morgana said.
"It's just that the fruit of Tree of Life only matures once every thousand years. If we calculate the time, there are still a few days left before the next fruit matures. I just remembered this."
Morgana looks a little embarrassed.
"Okay, okay, but is there an easier way to get there? I mean... we want to find our way home quickly..."
Morgana handed the roll of sheepskin to Lin Ze.
Lin Ze took the parchment handed over by Morgana. On it was a rough map drawn with charcoal, with several locations marked, and the outline of a tree drawn at the top.
"Going north from here, passing through the the North border, and then over two ridges, there is a coniferous forest shrouded in fog all year round."
Morgana clicked his finger on the map, "Tree of Life is in the center of the forest, and most people can't see it."
"Tree of Life is guarded by the barrier of Elf Race. Only elves or people with finger bones can pass through the barrier."
Morgana glanced at Lin Ze: "It won't be a problem for you to go in with your "space" phalange."
Lin Ze nodded and put down the parchment. "Where is Mordred? He is over there by the tree now?"
"Tree of Life's fruit should release a large amount of magic power before it matures. It's impossible for the holder of the "life" finger bone to not feel the fluctuation."
Morgana paused for a moment and then added, "I guess he has been waiting for the fruit to mature."
"You've been waiting here all these years?" Sirius spoke quickly, and it was inappropriate to say the words because Lin Ze told him the reason why Morgana couldn't leave here.
Morgana was not upset at all, he just poured the water from the pottery bowl into the soil next to the stone platform.
"Every time I walked to the entrance of the valley, I would be bounced back directly. Later, I was too lazy to try again. If that kid hadn't cursed me when he took away the finger bone, I wouldn't have been here to study magic for so many years. At least now I dare to say that there is no one who is stronger than me."
"Wow!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Okay, let's go now. Sirius and I can go directly to the swamp. If we go further north, we have to walk." Lin Ze patted his knees and stood up.
"There's one more thing..." Morgana suddenly said, but the expression on his face was a little unnatural.
"Mordred is this person... if you find him... don't do it if you can... it's not that I'm afraid you'll lose to him... it's just... this person's identity is somewhat special..."
Lin Ze looked at Morgana for a while, then nodded. "Okay, let's try not to do anything with him, but if he really doesn't know what is good and what is good, then we won't be able to blame him."
"Thank you." Morgana said sincerely.
Lin Ze didn't ask any more questions, waved his hand, opened a space rift and walked in with Sirius.
Sirius followed, walked a few steps and then turned back and waved to Morgana.
"Let's go, Elf Sister."
Seeing Morgana's mouth twitching, Sirius grinned and disappeared together with Lin Ze.
The other end of the rift fell on a barren slope outside the boundary of the North. Lin Ze had been here before. This was the northernmost place he could go.
The air of this land carries the astringent smell of pine resin and frozen soil.
The two of them walked north for a long time, taking turns using "Apparition" to get on their way.
After climbing over countless ridges, we finally saw a coniferous forest engulfed in thick fog.
The fog was gray-white, rolling continuously in the forest, wrapping the entire forest tightly.
Lin Ze held the "space" finger bones and walked into the fog. A blue-white shimmer appeared on the surface of the finger bones. The fog retreated to both sides in front of him as if being pushed away by a hand, revealing a path that was narrow enough for only one person to pass through.
Sirius followed behind, his hand on the wand, muttering as he walked, "This forest looks a bit scary."
"It's always right to be careful." Lin Ze said.
The two of them carefully used "Detection Charm" to explore the road ahead bit by bit.
The two walked in the fog for nearly an hour.
Sirius The wand in his hand was always on. The fluorescent light could only shine three steps away in the thick fog, and beyond that it was swallowed up by the gray-white fog.
He walked a little irritably, and poked the fog in front of him with his wand. A large amount of fog was dispersed, but it gathered again in the next second.
After trying several times, it was found that the mist could not be dispersed at all, and Sirius could only move forward little by little as if resigned to his fate.
"I find that every time I go out with you, I encounter weird things like this." Sirius complained as he walked.