102 Hops and Ent
In a dense forest of pine trees, two towering trees are slowly moving, one is dark brown and the other is gray.
Compared with the common pine trees around, these two "trees" appear particularly obvious.
So much so that Charles recognized them directly after just a glance.
Ents.
Or, the tree shepherd.
So the big eagle soaring in the sky swept downwards, and the two tree men slowly looked up and looked down next to a stream in the open space not far away.
"Hello, young Elda." Before the wind could smooth out the strands of black hair that had risen, a familiar voice came from not far away.
The voice was a thick and slightly vague Xinda language, which sounded very recognizable, but he was not the one that Charles knew.
It seemed that the Ente tribes spoke like this. When Charles heard this, he greeted the other party politely, "Hello Ente friend, may the trees in your territory be evergreen, may the sound of Olomi's horn blow with the wind and ring around the branches."
His words made the two "trees" look at each other, and then they were quite surprised.
Because this is a habitual term for male Entes to greet each other, but few outsiders know about it except Ente.
"Where did you come from?" another white tree man asked curiously.
She looked like a birch tree with green branches and straight torso. Her voice was also filled with a hint of feminine softness, but she still looked very heavy.
"Osirion." Charles said the name of the Land of Seven Rivers and lowered the Eagle's Back.
The eagle took off and left.
This is its eating time, so Charles took this opportunity to chat with these two tree people he met.
"I knew Ent there, a name called Vladliff, so I knew a little about your customs." He explained what had just happened, and looked at the behavior of the two trees.
They seem to be... husband and wife?
"Vladliff?" The male tree man with a thick voice raised the branches and scratched the dense green leaf head, then hesitated: "I remember that the name Elda named after the hard bark is Vladliff. Does he... like flowers and plants very much?"
It seems that this person really knows that tree man with a weird temper.
Shire nodded when he heard this.
He met the Caleb Deer family more than ten years ago because of the tree man. They got along very well in the first period.
But when Charles made the potion and promoted it extensively, the tree man became alienated from him and the Green Elf, and some of his fellow tribes were also there.
And rarely met afterwards.
However, those tree people did not leave the Seven Rivers Land. He was very sure. Although he didn't have much contact, he must have understood it.
And although they no longer interact with most green elves, they are still friends with many elves who live primitively.
Shire was actually very curious about this race, but he was no longer welcomed on his territory. Now that he met a new pair of tree people, he naturally took time to talk.
During his conversation, he gradually learned that these two people also had formal Xinda names, one was Fan Gong and the other was Feimbrihill.
Similarly, they also have their own "nicknames".
Tree beards, tender branches.
Charles thought these two names seemed familiar, but he didn't think much about it.
As Charles speculated, they were a couple.
Although it seems absurd to be married to two trees, such a long elf life has made Charles accustomed to some local customs.
The tree beard and his wife grew up east of this place, on a highland called Dosonian. They usually like to roam in the vast pine forest, but occasionally they leave their territory and go to other places.
For example, they were ready to go to the nearby Shadow Mountains.
"Recently, Dosonian came to a group of spiders. They always ran around and made nets in the forest, which really annoyed me. So I was going to visit a friend in the west, and I haven't seen him for a long time." Shuxu said while walking, speaking very slowly.
Two tree men walked slowly along the stream, while Charles was by their side.
"Is it a spider crawling over the other side of the Horror Mountains?" he asked.
The Horror Mountains are officially named the Gogolos Mountains. To the north is Dozonian, to the west is the surrounding mountains where Gondolin is located, and to the south is the Death Valley called Nandungosepbe, which is rich in spiders.
"It should be, there are no other places that big spiders besides it." Chuhou replied.
The young girl beside him saw that Charles was thinking, and added: "Before we left, we informed Dozonian's Lord Elda, Egnoel, so I think they should disappear when our visiting friends come back."
"We also asked the birds to inform a human family in the northeast." Chuxu said slowly: "They are a tenacious race, and I am grateful to them, together with your Elda army, to block the evil invasion of the north. I am not happy about cutting down trees."
Dosonian is actually an important area on the Angbanhewei Line.
The entire encirclement is located on the northern border, spanning this land from east to west.
To the west is the Shadow Mountains, which firmly protects a region called Heslum behind, and is the territory of the king of the king of the supreme king of Nodo and his son Fengon.
In the center is the hidden kingdom of Gundolin. Going further east is the Dosonian Heights stationed by Fenrod's two younger brothers, as well as the Beo family territory, one of the three major human races.
The eastern half of the encirclement line was monitored and stationed by Fiano's seven sons, and further east was directly blocked by the Blue Mountains from north to south.
This line has a wide span, forming the military arrangement of Angban encirclement and also making it rare for darkness to invade the hinterland in the rear.
Dosonian was originally the territory of Fenrod, but since he built Nagorslod, he has moved south with most of his tribesmen.
So only his two younger brothers were left here to garrison, and the Beo family, one of the three major human races, also lived in this area.
Before he arrived in Gondolin, Fenrod was worried about one of his younger brothers in love with a human woman, one of the elves lords stationed by Dossonnian, and the one who fell in love with him was a woman from the Beo family.
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He walked slowly in the beautiful pine forest like a walk. He listened to the slow sound of the tree people, and the unique pine smell lingered in the tip of his nose. At the same time, the squirrels that were flourishing here also made him quite interesting.
Charles even "crossed" a gray-haired squirrel and put it on his shoulder. However, after walking for a while, the little guy reluctantly said goodbye to him and ran back.
It made Charles, who was originally determined to take it as a pet, feels a little regretful.
He also learned about some of the situations in the encirclement line from the couple.
The Dosonian Heights and the Angban Portal are far away, and there are also occasional attacks, but most of the time they are very peaceful.
Except for the northernmost Beo family who often gets sick from the vicious smoke from the Angban crater, there is no population damage.
Shuxu and Nengzhiniang are the leaders of the Ente tribe here, but the Ente tribe has a unique structure. It is said that it is the leader and does not care about it. They are usually busy with their own things, and even if the leader leaves here, it is completely fine.
It sounds like their route is actually the same as Shire. However, after walking for a while, Shire felt that they were walking too slowly.
So when Gewaihil returned from having enough food and drinking, he ended the conversation, said goodbye to the two tree men, and continued on the road on the eagle.
The couple politely waved their hand to him and said goodbye, and their originally tall figure became smaller and smaller.
At this time, the silver moon was hanging high in the sky, and the shining stars were blocked by floating dark clouds.
The cold wind was quite harsh in the sky, and even if Charles was wearing very thick clothes, he was still trembling by his frozen teeth.
Looking north, crossing a vast and green plain, three towering volcanoes with thick black mist were faintly visible. It was the entrance to Sangorozoom and Angban.
There were great enemies lurking in the north, but Charles's destination was Dossonian's west.
Continuously sweeping westward, gradually, the hazy mountains in the distance became clearer and clearer.
His destination was an army camp in the Shadow Mountains, but before Shire arrived, he suddenly found a group of sneaky orcs marching slowly in the plains.
After glanced at the number, Charles thought for a while, lowered his head and ordered Gewaiheil to say a few words.
Chapter completed!