Chapter 274: Tricked Again and Again
When Aurelia truly listened to Chen Ran’s command, the subsequent process was infinitely simplified.
With a huge detection range, devastating DPS, appropriate monster luring and crowd control, no creature could escape the combined attack of Chen Ran and Aurelia. This also saved a lot of stealth or hiding processes, and allowed Chen Ran’s level to rise again.
Along the way, they killed an unknown number of elemental creatures. Except for the durable earth elementals, they basically didn’t let any go. This unknowingly raised Chen Ran’s level to 64. They also entered the depths of the Emerald Forest, getting closer and closer to the Elf King’s Staff, which occasionally showed some movement.
During this trip, Chen Ran was not devoting all his energy to finding the Elf King’s Staff. When no one was around, he would use the Light Bird spell to constantly check if there were any Blood Essence Fruits nearby.
Hard work pays off. Finally, on the fifth day after he entered the Emerald Forest, he really found one.
Taking advantage of the break, Chen Ran sneaked out. He didn’t tell Aurelia about this, so as not to make her suspicious. The combat trust that had been built up with great difficulty couldn’t be broken so easily. He still had to rely on that female elf to take him to level 65 and learn the skill with unknown effects first.
It didn’t take long for him to arrive at the ancient tree with the Blood Essence Vine.
It wasn’t easy. After searching for a full five days, he only found this one. Judging from the slightly green color in the red, it was not yet ripe.
This made Chen Ran crazy. If this continued, how could his grand plan be realized…
Forget it, one is better than nothing.
But just as Chen Ran was about to pick it, a red warning suddenly appeared on his map, coming without any preparation…
A sharp arrow whistled over, but it was not aimed at Chen Ran, but at the stem of the Blood Essence Fruit that Chen Ran had found with great difficulty, shooting the section where the Blood Essence Fruit was far away to another tree.
At the same time, a light figure appeared in Chen Ran’s field of vision. A female elf wearing a black cloak rushed toward the Blood Essence Fruit, moved quickly, picked the half-ripe fruit from the stem, and put it directly into her mouth.
“…”
At this moment, Chen Ran wanted to die…
Even a half-ripe fruit had to be robbed. What kind of world is this?
Chen Ran looked at the graceful black-clothed elf opposite him with red eyes.
“Hey, hey, don’t look at me with such excited eyes,” the female elf in the black cloak realized Chen Ran’s bloodshot gaze and pouted. “Good things like Blood Essence Fruit have always belonged to whoever grabs them first.”
The elf in the black cloak in front of Chen Ran was dressed similarly to Aurelia. Except for the solemn skin with a hint of pale purple luster, if he guessed correctly, this female elf should be a member of the Night Elves.
Compared to the fair and smooth skin of the Light Elves, which looked very bright, the skin of the Night Elves was fair with a deep condensation, like the feeling of night, and also sexier. Especially with a pair of impressive long legs, that black-clothed elf looked incredibly sexy.
Chen Ran suppressed the urge to transform into a wolf and xx the black-clothed female elf, and said with a gloomy face, “My impression of your Elf Clan is getting worse and worse.”
“Oh, so it’s a human,” the black-clothed elf put one hand on her hip and raised her melon-seed face. Her bright red eyes sized Chen Ran up, and she smiled charmingly. “I didn’t expect the Light Elf Clan to hire a human to help. Looking at your performance with Aurelia before, you cooperate quite tacitly.”
Listening to the Night Elf’s words, Chen Ran suddenly realized and asked, “You followed us?”
“Don’t make it sound so ugly,” the black-clothed elf waved her hand. “I just happened to meet you. I didn’t follow you for long. Seeing you sneak out, I followed you. It turned out that you found such a good thing as Blood Essence Fruit. It’s not easy to find a Blood Essence Fruit in the Emerald Forest now. Even a half-ripe one tastes good.”
“You’re welcome.” Since he was robbed, and it had already been put into someone else’s stomach, Chen Ran could only swallow this loss.
The black-clothed female elf smiled and said, “Mmm, finding the Elf King’s Staff is important. I won’t keep you company. Remember to say hello to Aurelia for me. Just say an old friend came by. As for you, I can’t take advantage of you for nothing. I’ll tell you a dispensable secret as compensation. If you can collect more than ten Blood Essence Fruits and eat them together, there will be an unexpected surprise.”
After speaking, the black-clothed female elf leaped lightly, jumped onto the branch of a big tree, leaped between the branches, and quickly disappeared from sight.
“Damn it… Don’t let me find a chance for revenge next time…”
Now, how could he find ten Blood Essence Fruits?
Looking at the Blood Essence Vine with only a stem left, the corner of Chen Ran’s mouth twitched, and he even had the urge to x that female elf a hundred times.
Now he finally understood the value of Blood Essence Fruit. The quantity was far less than imagined. It could be seen from the fact that someone would rob even a half-ripe fruit so openly.
Chen Ran sighed. He wanted to leave, but suddenly stopped again, turned his head, and unwillingly dug the stem out of the soil carefully.
For some reason, he had an intuition that this thing seemed to be useful later…
Chen Ran returned to where Aurelia was with a gloomy face.
Looking at Chen Ran’s unhappy expression, even a fool would understand that something had happened before.
Aurelia asked indifferently, “What’s wrong?”
Chen Ran said, “I just accidentally found something good, but it was snatched by a Night Elf who had followed us. At the same time, she asked me to say hello to you.”
“Night Elf?” Aurelia raised her eyebrows. “Within the ninth tier, the only one among the Night Elves who can avoid being discovered by you and me under my anti-stealth ability is probably—that bitch Sylvanas.”
Aurelia’s tone seemed a little gloomy, and the last few words were almost bitten out word by word.
“It seems you are old acquaintances?” Chen Ran sat down, depressedly took out a piece of dried meat to fill his stomach, and asked, “What’s her background?”
“The captain of the Night Elf Elite Team, a position similar to mine. I’ve fought with her many times before, and she can be considered an old rival. This time, she is also our key competitor. You be careful next time.”
“Dizzy, battles between women are really scary,” Chen Ran muttered, looked up, and suddenly found that not far away, a little dragon with three pairs of dragonfly wings appeared in his field of vision. It was the size of a baby, with pale green skin, a pale golden magic shield on the periphery, and two bulging big eyes, looking very elven.
“Huh, what is that little dragonfly dragon with three pairs of wings? It looks quite interesting,” Chen Ran asked curiously.
“Dragonfly dragon?”
Chen Ran’s sentence made Aurelia stunned. She followed Chen Ran’s gaze.
An elf dragon with three pairs of dragonfly wings.
“Elf King’s Staff!”
Aurelia’s sudden sentence startled Chen Ran. Before he could react, Aurelia suddenly erupted from herself and rushed straight toward the elf dragon, seemingly wanting to catch it.
But that elf dragon was not stupid either. With a “quack,” it turned into a flying golden ball and flew quickly into the distance. No matter how Aurelia ran, she couldn’t catch up with that agile and swift little light ball.
Leaving Chen Ran sitting alone, gnawing on dried meat…
“What did she say just now? Elf King’s Staff?”
He felt that he seemed to have missed something.
Not long after, Aurelia came back gloomily with a frustrated face, somewhat unwillingly saying, “Just a little bit more, just a little bit more and I could have completed the mission…”
Chen Ran asked, “Just now… what was that little thing…”
Aurelia replied, “That elf dragon is the Elf King’s Staff we are looking for. It has no absolute form, and that form is just a biological form of the Elf King’s Staff. As long as you catch it, it will return to the form of a staff. You can even make it turn into the required Elf King’s Bow, Elf King’s Sword, Elf King’s Crossbow…”
“Uh… why didn’t you say so earlier?”
Chen Ran hadn’t expected that he would watch the Elf King’s Staff slip away from under his nose, while he was still eating leisurely at the side. If he had just cast full status on Aurelia, maybe they could really have completed this mission at once.
Hearing the news that Blood Essence Fruits were so rare, Chen Ran’s desire to find Blood Essence Fruits couldn’t help but fade a little. A real man can bend and stretch. It’s better to get the Elf King’s Staff first.
And he had just missed an excellent opportunity…
Okay, keep looking. A Saint Seiya will never make the same mistake twice.
Then keep looking…
Another day passed.
The traces of the elf dragon gradually increased. It seemed that the main show was finally about to begin.
That little thing had been playing hide-and-seek with the elves. Sometimes it dared to appear in the frontal field of vision, giving people a glimmer of hope, but then relying on flexible mobility to transfer quickly, not giving people a chance.
Because they entered the inner forest area, the range was smaller, and many elves met in the forest. Chen Ran not only met friends of the Light Elves, but also accidentally saw teams of other Night Elves and Blood Elves.
The Night Elves were about the same as Sylvanas he had seen, all with pale purple gem-like skin.
The Blood Elves were a relatively special branch of the Elf Clan. Their appearance was similar to the Light Elves, but their pupils were mostly red, and they had a very high perception of the fire element.
The warriors of the Blood Elves were all dressed in some graceful and heavy battle armor, which had a great contrast with the cool clothes of the other two clans. They held double-headed war blades, a weapon that could be used as a thrown boomerang, with impressive damage.
These people were all going for the Elf King’s Staff.
As long as there was a direction where the elf dragon appeared, generally two or three teams would meet. If no one succeeded, he believed that some instructional civil wars between them would be inevitable.
