Crackling sounds echoed endlessly around the Ancient Elven Tree.
More and more Elf Race elders, with auras as vast as the ocean, appeared, each holding a staff and chanting with solemn expressions.
The Elf Race's most powerful defensive magic array, used to ensure the Ancient Elven Tree's safety, constantly reformed only to be continuously broken through.
Finally, under the magical torrent of hundreds of Council of Sages elders, a strange state of balance was achieved.
Seeing this situation, Aelita immediately realized she had probably caused a huge problem...
"Don't worry, Ailili."
Hilulele stood on her tiptoes and patted Aelita's shoulder, a confident smile on her face.
"Big Sister will protect you!"
"Big Sister..."
"There's no need to worry, Princess Ailita."
Lop, usually gentle and amiable, now erupted with intense joy and dominance.
"No one can hold you accountable! You haven't done anything wrong!"
"But... the Ancient Elven Tree is in turmoil."
Aelita looked, somewhat dazed, at the wildly surging ground around the Ancient Elven Tree, as if countless earth dragons were about to burst forth.
Such a turmoil of the Ancient Elven Tree had never been seen since the Elf Race's birth.
"It's not turmoil."
Another gentle voice sounded, and Aelita felt a delicate hand on her head.
She turned to see an Elf woman, equally aged, but still possessing the gentle aura of an intellectual lady.
"Grandma Beixi, you've come out too?"
"Of course, with the Ancient Elven Tree encountering such a rare opportunity, how could I be absent?"
Beixi pointed to the Ancient Elven Tree with a benevolent expression.
"Do you see, Aelita? The Ancient Elven Tree is growing... rapidly growing, after countless years of accumulation!"
Hearing this, Aelita and Hilulele finally noticed that the Ancient Elven Tree seemed to be rapidly growing taller every second, though its immense height made such growth difficult to notice.
"So... I was right?"
Aelita clenched her fists, a hint of surprise in her voice.
"Exactly!"
"Then why is the Ancient Elven Tree..."
"Calm down, Aelita."
Beixi placed her hand on Aelita's back, channeling natural magic.
"Feel the resonance in your heart with the Ancient Elven Tree, do you see it? It is joyful, it is grateful, it is longing..."
"The Ancient Elven Tree is cheering for its own growth, Aelita, whatever you did, now, continue, for the Ancient Elven Tree, and for the glory of the Elven Kingdom!"
Bone meal?!
Aelita had calculated everything, but she never expected that bone meal would make the Ancient Elven Tree so excited.
She understood!
"This is over-fertilization!"
"..."
Beixi was silent for a moment, then forced a smile.
"That's one way to look at it..."
Aelita was still so good at bringing down the mood with a single, incisive comment at an exciting moment.
She had just prepared so many elaborate and philosophical words... talking to a brick wall!
Beixi grumbled inwardly, watching Aelita walk forward with determined steps, carrying the last half-stack of bone meal.
The tumultuous ground strangely calmed down as Aelita walked.
Until Aelita reached the Ancient Elven Tree, an extremely slender root snaked out and took all the bone meal.
The Ancient Elven Tree once again broke through the mages' magic, growing vigorously towards the sky, as if it would punch a hole through the firmament.
"It looks like the defensive magic around the Ancient Elven Tree will have to be redrawn."
Beixi chuckled heartily.
No matter what happened, witnessing such a magnificent growth of the Ancient Elven Tree was an honor for the Elf Race... After a long while, the Ancient Elven Tree settled down again, even cooperating with many mages to construct the magic array.
At the same time, numerous dazzling light clusters rained down.
Beixi waved her staff, gathering all the light clusters in front of her, enveloped in gentle natural magic.
"Sixty-five new Elf Race members..."
Even with their mental preparation, Beixi and Lop found the number incredible after counting.
This was sixty-five new Elves born at once; before this, Elf newborns would probably take decades to be born.
Because this time, all of them matured?
If this happened a few more times, wouldn't the biggest problem hindering the Elf Race's development—insufficient population—be easily solved?
Aelita... she really brought back something extraordinary!
"Grandpa Lop, these children aren't premature, are they?"
"..."
Truly sisters, they were equally matched when it came to pouring cold water on a joyful atmosphere and making people's blood pressure soar.
"Your Majesty, there's no such thing as premature birth in the Elf Race... Once a new Elf is born, they are definitely a child nurtured to maturity by the power of nature."
"Hehe... I was just trying to liven things up, as the Queen, of course I know about such things!"
Hilulele replied with little confidence, and Lop shook his head helplessly.
"Your Majesty, this is not something to joke about."
Before Hilulele could say anything, a sharp kick tore through the air, and Lop performed a spectacular mid-air full twist, landing with zero points.
"You old fossil! What's wrong with Hilulele making a joke! You're making a big deal out of nothing!"
It was clear that Beixi, also an elderly Elf, had no traditional virtue of respecting elders.
Lop, accustomed to it, got up and used a decorum spell on himself, remaining silent.
Some things become second nature... "Grandma Beixi, Grandpa Lop also meant well."
Instantly, Beixi's face again became benevolent as she stroked Hilulele's head.
"I know, Grandma just simply doesn't like him, it's been a long time, Hilulele, let Grandma see... why are you thinner again? Are you not eating properly?"
"No, I have a great appetite! I just don't gain weight no matter how much I eat!"
This old woman was as two-faced as ever.
Lop maintained his inner complaints without changing his expression.
Aelita finally, somewhat dazed, returned to Hilulele's side.
Many of the mages maintaining the array also gathered around; the array could be redrawn anytime.
But the sudden explosive growth opportunity of the Ancient Elven Tree—if they didn't listen now, they might never hear it again.
"Aelita, you've made a great contribution this time."
Beixi opened her arms and gave Aelita a fierce hug; the latter was still a bit disoriented.
"Ailili, what's wrong?"
Hilulele grabbed Aelita's arm, her face full of worry.
"Did the Ancient Elven Tree affect you?"
Lop and the others were also a bit nervous.
Aelita now held the secret to the Ancient Elven Tree's growth; if not handled well, as Aelita said, the great revival of the Elven Kingdom was at hand.
Meeting their concerned gazes, Aelita slowly opened her hand.
It was then that everyone noticed Aelita was holding two items.
One was a cup woven from intertwined vines, filled with colorless nectar; even a close sniff felt purifying.
The other... a small, exquisite emerald green orb, looking exactly like the one on Hilulele's head.
But after clearly seeing these two items, everyone present's eyes widened in unison.
"Spring of Life and... Heart of Nature!!!"
..."Knock knock!"
"Come in."
Su Lin, lying in a rocking chair, leisurely reading a magic book, called out.
A Royal Court Guard carefully pushed the door open.
"Excuse me, Mr. Su Lin."
"Has the earthquake ended?"
Su Lin asked casually, and the Elf maiden nodded absently.
After a long silence, the Elf maiden said again:
"Mr. Su Lin, I apologize that the earthquake just now affected your visit."
"Additionally, for your safety, Her Majesty the Queen has dispatched one hundred new Royal Court Guards to protect you; rest assured, they will not appear around you, only follow in secret, and we have no intention of monitoring you."
Su Lin nodded slightly.
"Understood, by the way... they are all female Elves, right? I'm not very used to being protected by men."
Still the same old saying.
He, Su Lin, liked to be a kept man.
"Yes, this batch of Guards are all the Royal Court Guards who usually protect Her Majesty the Queen."
"That's good... Is there anything else?"
"Yes... Her Majesty the Queen is hosting a banquet in the Royal Palace tonight and would like to invite you to attend."
Hearing this, Su Lin raised an eyebrow and closed his book with a smile.
"Tonight won't work, the Elven Kingdom just had an earthquake, and there's probably a lot to deal with; I just became a Mage and want to take this opportunity to learn magic, as for banquets... maybe in a few days."
To such a request, this Elf maiden surprisingly nodded and agreed without hesitation.
He watched her carefully close the door and leave.
"It seems... the effect of the bone meal far exceeded expectations, but Aelita's radicalism also far exceeded expectations."
Su Lin was in a good mood, leisurely flipping through the magic book.
Having become a Mage, he was now Lv32, which corresponded to his experience level in the MC Dungeon.
It seemed that job level and MC experience level were linked.
This was very significant; Su Lin remembered that the theoretical maximum level in MC in the game was over 2.1 billion.
Although this was achieved with commands, there were still MC players in the tens of thousands of levels.
In that case... "I'll have to visit the mob farm more often in the future."
If the job levels on Aetheram Continent could always be linked to the MC Dungeon's experience levels, then... Goddess?
What level was she!
Once he reached hundreds of thousands of levels in the MC Dungeon, he would definitely storm the heavens and make all the goddesses work for him!
Su Lin had long been dissatisfied with the lax summoning and reincarnation system in the heavens.
They could summon countless souls from other worlds to reincarnate and deal with the Demon Lord, like dumplings being dropped, so why did they only summon one each time?
The business model of the heavens was still too backward.
Once Su Lin took over the heavens, he would have to set performance targets for each goddess.
If a world had a Demon Lord, each goddess would summon a hundred heroes for a righteous group beating; no need for a lone hero!
Once the heroes defeated the Demon Lord, they would all be brought over to develop the MC Dungeon for Su Lin, creating a good employment environment of summoning for production, on-the-job employment, and retirement placement.
"People's entrepreneurs like me are truly rare..."
After a moment of heartfelt lament, Su Lin continued to delve into the borrowed book.
Besides waiting for Aelita, the MC Dungeon promoter, to continue her efforts, and for the Elven Kingdom to truly realize the importance of the MC Dungeon.
He also had to ponder which other countries on the Aetheram Continent were suitable to be his workhorses.
Su Lin was going to bring blessings to this beautiful world!