Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 396 Observation Log of the Seed of Creation

For the Seed of Creation, the biggest problem has always been distance.

The distance between the two stars prevented it from projecting a part of itself onto the other planet, which put it in a passive and vulnerable position. Fortunately, its father provided a reliable solution, allowing it to successfully complete the deployment.

However, after completing the deployment, the Seed of Creation discovered that distance was still a huge problem.

Unlike the roots that were around it, these roots that were dropped onto the alien planet managed to survive, but many of their functions were difficult to perform. For example, the ever-changing transformations that it was most familiar with required its consciousness and soul to support them. However, after such a great distance, its consciousness and soul could hardly affect the sapling that had already taken root and sprouted on the alien planet.

"Unless a large amount of energy is extracted, it can only be used for surveillance for now..."

After attempting to manipulate the alien sapling, the Seed of Creation, far away in Tahrir, shook its head.

Even if it can only be used for surveillance, it is still a good thing. After all, according to the hunting skills taught to it by its father, to defeat the prey, one must first understand the prey.

Just like what its father taught it, about how to observe a mammoth.

The Seed of Creation also began to observe those long-eared elves.

"They seem to be quite similar to the Tahririans?"

This was the Seed of Creation's first reaction.

Like the Tahririans around them, the long-eared elves also liked to build cities as settlements. However, unlike the Tahririans, the long-eared elves' cities clearly had a certain defensive function and even showed obvious signs of use.

If we could learn the language of those long-eared elves, we might be able to hear something new from their everyday conversations.

With this in mind, the Seed of Creation rapidly learned the language while continuing to observe.

However, the more Seed of Creation observed, the more it felt that these long-eared elves were similar to the Tahririans. For example, the Tahririans ate two meals a day, while the elves ate four meals a day. They both ate and had the habit of communicating during meals. As for their food sources, they mainly came from farming and animal husbandry, so there seemed to be no difference.

If we must point out a difference, it's that most of the time, the long-eared elves don't cook by each household lighting a fire. Instead, the mages handle the cooking collectively, turning it into a pile of bottles and jars that end up in the hands of the elves.

"It seems very efficient; perhaps we should learn from it."

The Seed of Creation nodded. It could indeed learn this technique, and it might even be more efficient at doing it than the elves.

Although it can only guarantee vegetables and fruits, and cannot synthesize meat, this supply model will inevitably greatly improve the efficiency of the Taheris people.

"However, compared to these long-eared elves, the Tahllis are indeed of little use."

Thinking of this, the Seed of Creation couldn't help but sigh.

It can only be said that without comparison there is no harm. Before, because he had always followed his father's ideas, the Seed of Creation always felt that there was no need for any connection between long-lived and short-lived species, and that short-lived species were meaningless to long-lived species. But now, after witnessing these elven mages build one mage tower after another, the Seed of Creation had to admit that short-lived species might still be somewhat useful.

If it were up to it, it would most likely choose these long-eared elves, since those mage towers could indeed aggregate resources and capture the drifting information from the astral plane. "We still need the Taheris to have some technology too. We don't expect them to be perfect; it would be a blessing if they didn't hold us back."

But soon, the Seed of Creation discovered that technological advancements were not necessarily all good things.

It was three days later, after the Seed of Creation had learned some of the Elven language and could understand the local dialect, that it realized that these long-eared elves were not truly a monolithic entity.

Development is like the spread of roots; it is not a single path but will branch out into various tributaries.

Just like these long-eared elves, while building various mage towers, they were already clearly divided into two factions.

One faction, known as the Astral Faction, advocates obtaining support from the stars. They are willing to sell their souls to some great beings if it can solve the current problem of the colliding stars.

The other faction, which calls itself the Native Faction, advocates seizing more resources from the starry sea to replenish the planet itself. They believe that as long as the planet is powerful enough, it can completely crush or even dismember the opposing planet, thereby making itself stronger.

Of course, when it comes to the war itself, the two sides can still stand on the same side, but when it comes to matters outside of war, they will still argue fiercely.

"The main reason lies in the allocation of resources."

After observing for two more days, the Seed of Creation felt that it had figured something out.

Given the current resources on this planet, there is actually more than enough for both factions to carry out their ideas. However, it is clear that each faction wants to do better. In the view of the Astral faction, more resources need to be used to communicate with the great beings in the astral plane in order to summon them and solve the current predicament.

In the eyes of the local faction, all resources must be used for infrastructure construction, building more mage towers, training more vanguard teams, personnel arrangements, and various subsequent compensations... This is also a huge expense, and can even be described as a bottomless pit.

This is a fundamental disagreement, and it is difficult for the two sides to reach any agreement.

"They could have done it, but internal problems arose instead?"

From the Seed of Creation's perspective, this might be a point that could be exploited, but it was more curious about how the divisions among these long-eared elves would develop.

In a sense, it also inherited some of its father's habits in this respect.

With this in mind, it continued to observe.

In particular, the actions of the Astral Faction.

It could see the actions of the native faction, and it was always the one that personally engaged the suicide squads that came to the land—on the contrary, it had always been completely unaware of the so-called communication between the Astral faction and the Astral realm.

Furthermore, given that the Astral faction is able to compete with the native faction, this so-called Astral faction likely has its own unique strengths.

(End of this chapter)