Forests Don't Support Idle Goblins

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Xia Er had heard many times before about the formation of magical beasts. These strange creatures were said to have mutated from ordinary animals, and the energy that could mutate animals was called "Dark Force".

The Nightmare Power exists only in the Nightmare Forest, which is where the forest's name comes from. Interestingly, this power prevents humans, dwarves, and elves from staying in the forest for more than three days, but it has little to no effect on goblins, hags, or other species.

The Church of Night and Fate previously explained that this was because the material plane has two sides, good and evil. In order to ensure the safety of intelligent races, the Creator God bound the evil power to this region so that it would not affect other regions. These races became the luckiest chosen races and were the most devout followers of the Church of the Four Gods.

However, Sharl was skeptical of this. He had little contact with the elves, and those "hermaphrodites" did not like to talk too much about themselves with other races. The dwarves did not worship the four gods. They were said to live in the high mountains of the far north, where the peaks were covered with ice and snow all year round, and the dwarven royal court was located inside the mountains.

It is said that those dwarves worship the ancient elemental gods, and the dwarves that Sharl had previously encountered often spoke of "the ancient elemental gods above".

"Therefore, the race that worships the four gods is very likely humanity itself." This was Xia Er's previous judgment, but such a statement was considered heretical, and if he didn't want to cause trouble, he should not talk about it publicly.

Judging from the current panel of the Elephant Lord, magical beasts seem to have a certain path to advancement, from ordinary low-level magical beasts to high-level magical beasts like giant bees and spiders, and finally to evil gods like feathered serpents. This made Xia Er a little curious.

"Then, Zunimassa, I'd like to ask," Charles stretched out his hands, "when did you develop self-awareness?"

He knew that some animals were very intelligent and might have the idea of ​​"I," but the vast majority of animals did not have such thinking. Just like the experiments he had seen in his previous life, animals would get agitated in front of a mirror, seeing the image in the mirror as their own kind competing for territory. But according to Elephant Lord's previous statement, it had clearly already possessed intelligence.

"I don't remember," Zelda thought carefully for a moment. "I've lived for a long time, and there are some things I can't remember. What's deeply ingrained in my mind, apart from the scene of being transformed by my master, is my daily patrols in the forest and the many changes that have taken place there."

"Transformed?" Charles frowned. "Were you also transformed by someone?"

After the incident with the Terrorclaw Bear, Sharl asked Agatha about the formation of magical beasts. These strange mutated creatures could be transformed due to the influence of the evil forces that occasionally appeared in the forest, and they could also be artificially catalyzed into magical beasts.

This was mainly done by some mages. After thousands of years of development, some mages have now learned to combine dark magic and arcane magic circles to guide the evil power in the forest to transform the animals in the magic circle into magical beasts.

However, this practice is considered illegal by all the kingdoms, and by the highest degree. If a magician does this and is reported to the police department, he will be arrested and wanted.

Charles knew that the various kingdoms probably considered this behavior illegal from their own interests. If there were more beast cores, they would lose one of the means to control the nobles. Therefore, from the perspective of protecting the common people, they considered this behavior illegal, but this practice still could not be stopped.

"As for protecting civilians, that's just an excuse. The lives of civilians have been almost ruined by the nobles."

“I remember that day,” Zunesha nodded. “That day I was transformed into my current form by a human who claimed to be my master. At that time, I felt a strange sensation.”

"If that's the case, it's probably a self-awareness that developed later. I don't know if it was during the advanced magical beast stage or the stage of becoming an evil god." Xia Er pondered, stroking his chin. "In other words, it's possible that he was the Feathered Serpent Evil God, or it's possible that he was transformed by someone and then developed into the evil god he is today."

"That's not very dangerous. Behind every evil god is an even more powerful human mage." He frowned, recalling the middle-aged mage who died beside his bed the night he saw the clone. "These mages are practically everywhere. If Quetzalcoatl doesn't like to move, then if a great mage sends his disciples and grand-disciples, it'll be enough to give my people a hard time."

"Do you still remember your master?" Charles looked up and asked the elephant lord. He didn't know much about the group of high-ranking archmages who were rarely seen. He only knew two of them: one was his sister Vivian's teacher, and the other was the old lecherous archmage Afif, whom he had met a few times.

"He is long dead, or rather, he is asleep," said Elephant Lord, flapping his two giant ears. "He sleeps among the elephant graveyards of my people."

"Elephant Graveyard?" Charles raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised by the answer, but immediately understood what the other person meant. "The person who transformed it is probably dead, and the purpose of transforming the elephant lord was to have these elephants use their bones to guard his coffin."

"So that means the Elephant Graveyard is probably very dangerous." Charles had to give up the idea of ​​contacting the archmage through the elephant lord. "Now we just don't know how the feathered serpent god was transformed into a magical beast, and whether there is another archmage behind it."

According to what Qingpi said before, the Feathered Serpent God seems to be very evil and greedy. He only kept these magical beasts after they were transformed to collect their cores. Could it be that the guy ate his master?

Having put aside his various speculations, Charles gazed at the enormous elephant before him. "Let's get back to the topic. You asked me to help you take care of the elephant herd, but what exactly do you want me to do?"

"The temperature in the forest is getting lower and lower, which is different from before. I don't know why this is happening. Last winter, some members of my family died," the elephant said, swinging its trunk and exhaling. "You can provide them with warm shelter and water."

"A dwelling place and a water source?" Charles spread his arms wide. "Is this also what that creator said?"

What kind of creator is this? This is just a troublemaker! Is he going to build a warm elephant shed for these thirty-odd elephants? And with a body like the elephant's owner, how can we build an elephant shed for it?

“Yes, the Creator said you can do it, on the condition that,” Elephant’s eyes were fixed on the goblin before him, “we need to obey your commands.”

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