Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 365 The Redemption of the Dark Elf

Several magic professionals from the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group" surrounded the dark cave entrance of the Dust Mountain Secret Road, and hurriedly released more than a dozen detection magics. They finally confirmed that there was no danger in the cave, so they boldly let the lord Enter the cave with the members of the subsequent expeditionary force.

But Xia Houyan actually felt that these magicians really got older and less courageous:

Last winter, the "Hammer of Purgatory" division of the Glorious Federation just walked through this secret passage, and it has only been a few months now, so what danger can there be?

In fact, when they first walked into the cave, they just took the magic light lamp distributed with the team and found the visible on the ground of the cave, which was left behind by the "Hammer of Purgatory" division. Mark of:

In addition to the "flesh and blood disaster" chariot, which left clear tracks on the dusty and muddy rocky ground in the cave, straw paper, rags, and food scraps discarded by the soldiers of the Purgatory Hammer Division can be seen everywhere in the cave. , even on the stone wall not far from the entrance of the cave, there is still a huge flame warhammer flag of the "Hammer of Purgatory" division, which is obviously belonged to a good-for-nothing person in the orc army at that time handwriting.

Even the air in the cave didn't have the stale smell that an ancient secret path should have. Instead, it lingered with a faint smell of gunpowder—the "flesh and blood disaster" chariots of the Glorious Federation were far less precise than the weapons of humans and demons. Sprinkling ammunition along the way is also one of the characteristics.

This ancient secret road through the mountain seems to have been quietly living here since last winter, when the orc division was awakened from a sleep that spanned thousands of years, waiting for the visit of the Shuangfengling Expeditionary Army.

Xia Houyan didn't wait for the members of the expeditionary army to enter the cave one after another, so he took two steps forward on the ground, lowered his head, and used his command knife to push away the debris on the ground, then bent down, and picked up a thin sheet of paper from the ground. Scrap paper.

It was an unfinished letter from home.

Its author is probably a "Hammer of Purgatory" soldier with a low level of education—this soldier used inferior charcoal, childish fonts, and not fluent orc language to confide on a piece of paper that he was on the march. , How much I miss the recipient of this letter from home—his wife and his seven-year-old daughter who are far away in the hometown of the Glorious Federation, who are always looking forward to his return in victory.

Perhaps due to the urging of the superior officer, or perhaps due to the shame of his poor writing, the orc soldier did not finish writing the letter, but smeared it with a charcoal pencil and threw it on the ground.The surface of the piece of paper was also stamped with a few dirty mud footprints by other orc soldiers who passed by.

For some reason, Xia Houyan remembered the old orc general who sat and talked with him when he led the undead army to chase and wipe out the remnants of the enemy.

Gullit Gale.Xia Houyan remembered his name, and also remembered the bitter smile on his weather-beaten old face.

He still remembers a promise, a promise he can't forget.

So, he carefully folded the family letter that was abandoned in the secret passage and could never be delivered to the recipient, and then received it in his arms.

Master Laurie, who was watching the action of the lord, immediately knew that when they returned to the territory, there would be another collection in the war memorial exhibition area of ​​the Frost Maple Ridge Museum.

Sean Mountbatten looked at the lord, and took a step forward hesitantly, he wanted to speak, but stopped, and finally said nothing.

Xia Houyan turned around, looked at his subordinates who had stopped because of his actions, smiled apologetically, and casually made a tactical gesture.

So the Frost Maple Ridge Expeditionary Army behind him did not stop at the entrance of the tunnel, and began to march towards the federal land opposite the cave without any hesitation.

The torrent of war formed by the flesh and blood of the horses, the magic glow and the steel armor, galloped past the lord, reversing the path that the "Hammer of Purgatory" had walked, heading for the slaughter and death in the distance.

"My sergeant, isn't he quite majestic?" Xia Houyan looked at this expeditionary army, laughed, and said a word without beginning or end.

The horse boys were stunned and speechless, but the slightly dignified aura just now was swept away.

Only the master of spiritual songs is a sincere person, holding the elf wood staff in his arms, looking at the soldiers of the Shuangfengling Expeditionary Army, there is only emotion in his eyes:

Although this expeditionary army from the Land of Splitting Souls only has 500 people, it really deserves the word "majestic"!
You only need to take a look at it - every soldier of the Frost Maple Ridge Expeditionary Army, they hold the sharp blade that can blow Mao Youchen, and wear the armor of Yaoguangxue, even the horses under each seat are A magic pendant engraved with protective runes is hung in a luxurious way!

This is only visible, and the most valuable part of the 500-man expeditionary force lies in the quality of the soldiers that are invisible on the surface: from the establishment of Shuangfengling, the pacification of the wasteland to the current counterattack of the orc land, countless deaths, large and small The battle of evil has given these Igor family elites the brilliance of battles that will never fade: these warriors carefully selected by Frost Maple Ridge have killed bandits, hacked zombies, and beaten the empire Cavaliers, also beat the Federal Vanguard!

The master of spiritual songs from the north asked himself, among the major duchies of the empire, there are not a few whose total army strength exceeds that of Shuangfengling, but what kind of group of winebags, beasts and insects can be filled among the private troops in these territories?
If it is really said that such an elite group of 500 people can be recruited from the subordinates of the territory, there are probably only a few companies in the empire, such as Rosario's Rose City and Rivera's Sanshuiwan?
The master of spiritual songs can hardly imagine what kind of bloody storm such a small but sharp war machine will set off in the undefended territory of the Glorious Federation——

——Then, the elf master couldn't help but glanced at Sean Mountbatten again.

Xia Houyan didn't know that the elf deputy head of his mage group had already turned so many thoughts in an instant.

With Alice's support, he climbed onto his white horse "Meteor", and prepared to follow the high-speed expeditionary soldiers with the high-level officials of the territory;

But a little detail at the edge of his field of vision caught his attention.

"Master of Spiritual Song!" he shouted, then stretched out his command knife and pointed at the high place on the right stone wall, "Look, what is that?"

Calvino Master Lingong had also mounted his horse, but when he heard the boss calling, he hurriedly looked to the right as well.

The eyesight of the elves is stronger than that of humans. This junior magister of the water system immediately realized what the lord was talking about:
Although the environment is dark, his eyes can vaguely capture some special patterns that seem to be carved on the high positions of the stone walls on both sides of the tunnel.

The master of spiritual songs hurriedly took over the magic glow lamp from his magic apprentice. With a thought, the majestic magic power poured into the lighting crystal in the lamp along the palm of his hand——the crystal that originally exuded white light. Below, a dazzling light blue glow burst out.

The radiance was so strong that it not only almost blinded the dog eyes of the curious people watching the glowing light, but also illuminated the high places of the cave tunnels as bright as day.

Under the illumination of the glow lamp, Xia Houyan saw that what was engraved on the high stone wall were some crooked, off-white lines.

"It seems to be Elvish..." He raised his head and muttered, "But the alphabet is not the same as the one taught in Xuecheng, so I can't understand it..."

"It's the language of the dark elves, a variant of the ancient elf language." The master of spiritual songs let out a foul breath, "Look, this secret passage has obvious traces of artificial excavation, and it is not naturally formed in the mountain at all... I think, The dark elves who dug this tunnel must have left their marks on the stone walls on both sides at the same time..."

Xia Houyan suddenly remembered the elven murals on the stone wall of the Dragon Bone Peak's treasure house back then.

Leaving a trace wherever he goes, seems to be some kind of... eccentricity of the ancient elves?

"Can you read dark elf language?" Xia Houyan asked, "This ethnic group has been extinct for so long, their language and writing should have been lost long ago, right?"

"You're right - on the current continent, there may not be more than twenty people who can understand the ancient dark elf characters...but I am one of them." The spiritual master pulled the reins of the horse and said with a wry smile, "These dark elves must have engraved words on both sides of the tunnel. Let's go forward. I will read and translate for you as we go."

Master Spirit Song handed over the magic glow lamp in his hand to Master Laurie, and without hesitation let this fellow magister act as a tool man for charging the lighting crystal;

Then, accompanied by Master Laurie's murmured scolding voice, the Master of Spiritual Songs walked side by side with the lord, translating the description of the dark elves on the stone wall sentence by sentence.

However, within a few words, a heavy haze spread over the thin cheeks of the master of spiritual songs.

……

It was an ancient dark elf tribe named "Nigrum" who left these words on the stone wall nearly 500 years ago.

They are also the diggers of this ancient tunnel that crosses the dust mountain and connects the two sides of the continent.

As far back as 500 years ago, when the Great Elf Empire was in its heyday, the land of broken souls in the west was far from the wasteland of death seen by modern Haiwen people—on the contrary, the ancient name of the elves was "Ane-Kalevio" The south bank of the Lionheart River is a blessed land full of trees and flowers and plants, and it is also called the "Emerald Garden", the core area ruled by the ancient elf empire;
After all, the ruins of "Chiba City", the capital of the ancient elf empire, were on the north bank of the Lion Heart River.

The dark elves of the "Negrum" tribe discovered a mountain fissure formed by the movement of rock formations at the eastern end of the "Emerald Garden" and at the foot of the Dust Mountain Range.

Therefore, the dark elves at that time decided to use this natural fissure as a basis to continuously widen and extend it, and finally dug a mountain passage through the dust mountain and directly to the opposite side of the mountain!

Digging mountains and rocks has never been an easy task, let alone the ancient elves whose metallurgical industry is not yet developed?
The plan of the "Negrum" tribe seems a bit whimsical and unrealistic at first glance.

However, all of this is closely related to that ancient elf century.

The reason why the "Negrum" tribe tried their best to open up this mountain passage is also very simple:
Because of the dark elves, they became increasingly unpopular in the ancient elf empire.

The dark elves, who behave wildly and promiscuously, are increasingly hostile to the mainstream citizens of the ancient elf empire——

Whether it is the moon elves, flower elves, gold elves, wood elves, or the rarer elves such as gray elves and dwarves, they all feel more and more that the existence of these dark-skinned compatriots is a great shame to the elves.

Those "god-respecting" elves are convinced that sooner or later, the elf mother goddess will make all the elves on the mainland lose their blessings due to the incurable evil actions of the dark elves!

At that time, there were even so-called "prophecies" claiming that the elves would be doomed because of the existence of the dark elves!
This group of black-skinned evildoers will lead to the collapse of the great elf empire!

Rumors abounded like needles.

In the era when the "Negrum" tribe planned to dig the tunnel, five or six dark elf tribes in a row were "cleaned up" by the central elf empire because they disrespected the mother goddess and held evil rituals.

Among all the dark elf tribes, although the "Nigrum" tribe is still restrained, they are increasingly feeling the imminent danger:

The dark elves of the "Negrum" tribe knew that sooner or later, the butcher knife of the great elf empire would also fall on their necks—just because of their black skin.

In order to avoid the tragic fate, the "Nigrum" tribe took the initiative to apply for exile from the Elven King——

They hoped that the Great Empire could exile their tribes to the east of the continent on the other side of the Dust Mountains;

There, the rule of the Great Elven Empire was not perfect, but low races such as orcs and sub-orcs thrived.

Leaving the Central Plains of the Great Elven Empire, going to the barbaric East to coexist with a group of orcs-for any elves, this is a great shame, but in order to avoid the butcher knife that may fall at any time, the darkness of the "Negrum" tribe The elves have no choice.

However, even this humble wish, which couldn't be more humble, was flatly rejected by the Elf King.

The idea of ​​the Great Elf Empire is simple: the Mother Goddess will not forget the elven blood flowing through the dark elves just because they live far away—as long as the Dark Elves are still performing blasphemy rituals, the Mother Goddess may be angry with all the elves people.

Therefore, not only did the Great Elf Empire not dare to exile the "Nigrum" tribe, but it even put this group of dark elves under strict supervision, so as not to cause disasters for the entire race due to their blasphemy.

The "Nigrum" dark elves, who were placed in the "Emerald Garden" and lived like prisoners, felt the increasingly harsh living environment inside the great empire, witnessed the slaughter of one dark elf tribe after another, and finally made a decision. made a bold decision.

They must take action to save their own destiny!
Since the Great Elf Empire refuses to let us go, then at worst we will go by ourselves!
So what about strict supervision?What about the ban on leaving the country?

Just look at us, on the mountain of dust that is as hard as the hearts of our compatriots, we have carved out a road of salvation to the east of the mainland!
(End of this chapter)