Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton - Chapter 584 - Chapter 584: Chapter 330: Let Me Think About It Again _1

Chapter 584: Chapter 330: Let Me Think About It Again _1
 

Watching Aestolia delicately picking up the two-meter-long stick to poke at the farmers’ manure containers gave everyone a profound sense of discordance. She is a Goddess of Truth and Law and, moreover, so beautiful. If the elves found out, would they be livid?

However, the sight of a holy, delicate little angel flying around with a bucket brought a sense of harmony to everyone’s minds. If even the Holy Spirit Angel isn’t exempted, who does the Elf Archmage think she is?

Lisa lamented, “I thought she would back away from the challenge. I never expected her to be so determined. Now, I’m in trouble — I’ve deeply offended her. Why does she insist on serving the master?

Negris glanced at the Tree Herder on Tree Man Gaur’s body and mumbled, “Elves’ lives are tough. Their god has absconded. Moreover, she’s not here to serve Ange. She’s here to serve the Little Sapling.”

The elves’ lives are hard. The God of Life used to answer their prayers occasionally, but now there’s no response at all. No one knows if he has been burned to death or what.

The elves are having a tough time after losing the God of Life. They are like a bunch of pampered children who have yet to grow up; without their protection, even survival became arduous.

The Tree of Life is not just their god. It is a giant tree of resources, providing them with an endless supply of goods. Its branches can be used to make bows, wands, clothing, and its fruits are edible. When hollowed, it can provide shelter. As long as they had no special needs, elves could spend their entire lives living in the Tree of Life without getting their feet dirty.

Even their offspring could play around carefree. The God of Life would protect her, preventing her from falling off the tree to her death.

But recently, three elves have fallen and died, two of which were young, and one was an adult elf.

Yes, without the protection of the God of Life, even adult elves could fall off the tree.

So, the Tree of Life was no longer a safe place to call home, and they had to move to the ground.

In fact, they had already moved to the ground when the God of Life got angry and released a green fog. They retreated to the ground, but that was only a temporary measure. Now, they find that they might have lost their deity forever.

The move from tree to ground was not merely a change in living conditions. It also increased their living expenses. Now they needed to assign some elves specifically to act as nurses and teach the young ones.

In addition, beds, chairs, tables, pots, bowls, ladles, basins, even tents, and curtains, all became necessities because there were mosquitoes and insects on the ground. When they lived in the Tree of Life, these harmful insects couldn’t reach them.

Since they don’t produce these items, they had to buy them from humans. This forced many elves to return to the trees, disregarding the possibility of falling to their death. They had no choice but to be more careful and set up ropes to cordon off their activity areas.

Most elves adapted well to tree life, providing they took suitable care of the young and elderly.

However, this was just one of the issues. Without the protection of the God of Life, they had to adapt to various other changes. Previously, it wouldn’t rain within the realm of the Tree of Life. All the rainwater would turn into mist, sprinkling evenly over all the crops.

But now, it rains. Especially since the Tree of Life was burned, although Ange managed to save it, its leaves were far less lush than they used to be. The rainwater would seep through the branches and soak them, turning them into ‘soaked elves’.

Here I need to explain, ‘Soaked Elves’ is a famous human painting depicting a delicate elf soaked from head to toe. With a startled look on her face, the delicate yet startled, shocked yet charming expression is widely acclaimed, regarded as one of the top ten works in human art history.

However, elves are by no means delicate. But the problem is even the strongest elf, once soaked, is prone to illness.

Oh, right. Illness. Now the chance of elves getting sick is much higher than before. Some elves even suffer from insomnia.

In short, every aspect of their lives has been impacted. But they could overcome all these – the only insurmountable problem was that the Tree of Life had ceased to produce the Fruit of Life.

Elves are long-lived, with a lifespan close to a thousand years. However, what most people don’t know is that only elves who have eaten the Fruit of Life can live for a thousand years. If an elf has not eaten the Fruit of Life since their birth, their lifespan would shrink to two hundred years.

If the God of Life never returns, that would mean, from here onwards, all newly born elves will only have short lifespans.

In the next few hundred years, newly born elves will age and die quicker than their parents. This will continue until all long-lived elves who have eaten the Fruit of Life are gone.

It was only then that Aestolia truly realized how ridiculous her previous thoughts were. It was never that the God of Life belonged to the elves; it’s the elves that couldn’t live without the God of Life. Without his protection, their lives became unbearable.

All elegance and delicacy are gifts from the God of Life. They are absolved of the most trivial concerns of survival essentials. Elves need not hunt or gather food each day, nor do they need to explore the forest or mine for resources. They don’t need to deal with the hassles of childbirth and child-rearing and hence have plenty of time to be elegant and refined.

Aestolia thought back to the parasites on the big trees — how similar are the elves to them?

If it were the past, Aestolia would still hold the belief that: I am an Elf Archmage. I am here to serve the Little God of Life. You should feel honored and grateful for the benefits.