Chapter 42: Blood of the Ancients
Zach understands another layer of implications implicit in the Margarita problem.
In this world, [Ancient Blood] is the only force that can travel through the world.
For these warlocks, [Ancient Blood] is a kind of talent, a treasure they have been carefully caring for over the past decades.
But now a "wizard" who fell from the sky said that he could rely solely on magic to do the same thing as [Ancient Blood].
This made their past intrigues and conspiracy seem ridiculous, but the pattern shock that may be caused by this also made them unable to speculate and adapt for a while.
"In fact, everyone in the ancient elves had this power. But now they have declined." Perhaps because he read the meaning of Margarita's words, Yennefa added.
Another name for [Ancient Blood] is [Ancient Blood] or [Ean Al Blood].
Because ancient elves once had the ability to travel through time and space.
At that time, they were still called Elf Ain Woodod.
The expansion and colonization between that powerful civilization and different worlds were once extremely prosperous.
One of them came to this world about 3,500 years ago and settled, while the other branches continued to travel, conquer and colonize between different worlds.
However, about a thousand years ago, an unknown time travel accident caused the entire race to lose this ability to travel on a large scale, and various ethnic groups of the elves were trapped in different worlds.
The elves who settled in the world of witch hunters are called Earn Hiddy.
The elves who remained in other worlds are called the Earn El elves.
"You also know that even without the help of [Ancient Blood], the casters have a way to travel to other worlds." Zach continued: "Just like you can teleport directly from Temolia to Covell, some elves can travel between the worlds, and I can just teleport a little further."
Although the accident a thousand years ago shattered the elf race and the method of large-scale immigration to the world no longer exists, there is still a method of allowing individuals to travel between different worlds through the world wall.
Some ancient elves, that is, the "elves sages" mentioned by people, can accurately calculate and predict the time and place of cracks appearing in the world wall and where they lead. Then use some ancient Iron Woodod portals to connect those cracks and teleport to other worlds.
But this method often takes years of calculation and requires waiting for the opportunity, so it is not as good as you want.
"Some elves can activate portal ruins from ancient times to go to another world..." Zach explained.
Gero nodded. In this regard, Bailang had personal experience. He had followed an elf sage, Avarak, through several different worlds, and even traveled to the elf capital of another world, Tirnaliya.
"In addition to these elves, there are another group of existences who can travel through the world, and you are more familiar with them."
"Wild Hunting." Yennefa snorted coldly.
Except for Zach, the other three people fought directly or indirectly with "Wild Hunter".
And this name once made them feel disgusted.
In the folk story, the Wild Hunter was led by the Wild Hunter King, wearing rusty armor and holding a ghost of a long sword shaped like lightning. They rode skeleton horses and crossed the sky in groups.
People who see wild hunters in the night sky will always be frightened and cannot move. Anyone who stands in front of wild hunters will die or disappear.
Wherever they went, only frosted ashes were left, while the living were captured, further expanding their ranks of Ghost Knights.
Some people will not come back after many years, but they no longer remember anything when they were captured, both appearance and memory remain on the day they disappeared, even if the graves of their loved ones had long been submerged in the weeds.
During the Livia massacre five years ago, Geralt was seriously injured by a pitchfork, while Yennefa burned out his life to save his lover but was unable to turn the world back.
Xiri sent the two people who died on her dying day to the "after-death world" surrounded by fog, the Apple Tree Island, and then embarked on a journey alone.
Zach now speculates that the so-called apple tree island is actually a semi-plane created by ancient elves.
But that doesn't matter.
As the ending of the novel "The Witcher", Yennefa and Geralt should have died there. In this time and space, they were miraculously resurrected by unicorns, and the two of them lived a shameless life on the island for a whole year.
Until the wild hunter, who followed Cili's footsteps, found the island.
In the midst of chaos, Wild Hunting took Yennefa away and tried to use her connection with Xiri to continue tracing [Ancient Blood].
Geralt also embarked on the road of hunting and hunting, and met Resso of the Viper School during his journey.
After two years of tracking, the group finally caught up with the Wild Hunter in Willen.
However, this time they encountered a wild hunting army of hundreds of people.
In order to liberate Yen, Geralt joined the wild hunting himself. Yenette, who watched his lover disappear into the sky, could only cry helplessly.
However, the rescued sorcerer was not lucky. She soon fell into the hands of Nifgaard and disappeared for several years.
However, what the Wild Hunting Legion did not expect was that the Cili, who had been thinking about day and night, came to the door to sneak attack them and rescued the amnesiac Geralt.
This is where the worldview of the "Witch Hunter" game began.
Although wild hunting has always been the most terrifying legend on the Witch Hunter Continent, their real identities are not ghosts, but just a cavalry army of the Elf Ayn Elle - the "Red Knight".
Although the [Ancient Blood] abilities of these elves have been severely degraded, there are still some talented individuals occasionally.
And these people are called "navigators".
And the Wild Hunter was guided by the Navigator and drove through the void in their doomsday ship, Nagilfa.
But this method can only carry a small force, and it is far from allowing the migration and immigration of an entire ethnic group as in ancient times.
Of course, the Eldest Elfs never gave up finding their ancient glory.
The elves are also conducting secret experiments to cultivate more purified descendants of ancient blood by matching up these individuals with weak talents.
The experiment was successful 130 years ago, and the ability to travel through time and space finally reappeared in the Elf Princess Ayn Elle, Laura Doren.
The elves thought this was the beginning of the resumption of the glory of the race.
But I don't want to make my debut as the peak.
Laura Doron has a tricky taste and went to the world of witch hunters and fell in love with a human wizard. He died of dysfunction after giving birth to a daughter. From then on, the ability of ancient blood flowed into humans as a "recessive gene" and is now the eighth generation.
I don’t know if it was because of the fulfillment of the prophecy or simply coincidence, the blood of ancient blood has always had a tragic fate and has not yet grown for more than a hundred years.
Now there is only one "carrier" left in Xili.
This led to the Ain Al elves' deep obsession with Xiri. No matter where Xiri escaped, the wild hunter would always chase her, trying to regain hope of racial rejuvenation from her "thief".
Of course, they end up being just another villain who fell under the witcher sword.
After all, whether it is the elves with profound magical attainments or the talented navigators, they can only cross the [Void].
Zach now knows that Xili, who is in the ancient blood, can travel through the [Void Sea] alone.
That is something that only the holy masters can barely do.
"Anyway..." Zach looked to the other side.
Seeing that Margarita had already sat by the pool at some point, the black-haired mage turned his head back: "To make an analogy, if Nagilfa of the Wild Hunter Legion is a small sailboat in a river and lake, then the one carrying me here would be an ocean-going giant ship. And Xiri..."
Yennafa also turned around and looked over curiously.
Zach reached out to touch the water surface, and the hazy mist turned into the shape of a flying bird.
It dragged its long tail to Geralt's shoulder. The witch hunter was about to reach out to touch it, but it flew back into the air.
A faint sadness appeared on the white wolf's face, and he watched the little bird hovering over the heads of several people for several times, and finally disappeared into the water vapor.
Chapter completed!