Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 366 The World of Yesterday

The Frost Maple Ridge Expeditionary Army marched all the way in the secret passage of the cave illuminated by the magic light, and the narration of the master of spiritual songs gradually unfolded along with the records of the dark elves of the "Nigrum" tribe on the cave wall.

At first, only the lord and Master Laurie were the only ones who walked beside the master of the spiritual song with a bridle and listened intently to the master's translation of the wall script.

But it didn't take long for Master Lingge to unknowingly crowd around a group of Shuangfengling executives who were listening to the story, all of them were so curious that they seemed to have found a part-time job in Dongbingku and were frantically gathering materials for a new book.

However, only the spiritual master, who is the storyteller himself, seemed a little embarrassed and uneasy.

After all, the descendants of the elves in the modern Haven Continent, as a rare non-human race, uphold the political stance of "co-prosperity of all races and racial equality", and ask the suzerain country to cancel discrimination such as "tolerance tax" every day sex policy;
As a result, the stone inscriptions left by the "Negrum" tribe just show that the great elf empire 500 years ago was the one that played the trick of "racial discrimination" the most!

Just because of "fear of being punished by the Mother Goddess", they involuntarily carried out genocide against the dark-skinned dark elves. The behavior of the elf empire in the past is undoubtedly a bit unreasonable in the context of today's mainland.

The master of spiritual songs never expected that when he went out to travel and eat a melon, he ended up eating it on his own head!

He only knew at first that the dark elves disappeared into history inexplicably, maybe they were all killed by a large meteorite—but according to the records of the "Nigrum" tribe, other light-skinned people The persecution of the "Upper Elves" is probably inseparable from the extinction of the dark elves!
In this way, wouldn't it make the current Stardust Protectorate elves look like a group of morally kidnapped double-standard dogs? !
Of course, the extremely aggrieved master of spiritual songs is, after all, the revolutionary comrade of Shuangfengling who was able to write "Southern Journey".

This elf magister was indeed thoughtful, but he secretly drew a clear line between himself and other counter-revolutionary elves in his heart, so he looked at the inscription on the stone wall of the dark elves with peace of mind, and devoted himself to the translation work.

The subsequent historical records of the "Negrum" dark elves are all related to this "Road to Salvation" plan to escape to the east of the mainland and avoid persecution.

Perhaps it was the innate self-respect and pride of the primates of all things back then, or perhaps it was the helplessness under the persecution of the shadow of death;
One thousand and five hundred years ago, the dark elves of the "Negrum" tribe really began to avoid the surveillance of the upper elves, and secretly started the excavation project of the tunnel through the mountain!
The Dust Mountains are hundreds of kilometers wide, the roof line of the continent, the watershed, and the pillars supporting the sky. Even the dwarves of the Coldbone Mountains who specialize in mining iron and iron may not have the dragon-slaying skills and bravery to open a tunnel through the mountains;
And the dark elves, who usually don't work hard and don't distinguish between five grains, not only thought so, but also found a way to do it:

with plants.

Even carefully cultivated elven plants are not the hardest substance in the world. It is of course a fantasy to dig a tunnel between the rocks of the Dusty Mountains purely with plant materials;
However, the dark elves in the ancient times really knew these green partners who shared their fate with them:

They know that even the weakest plants can dig their roots into the most solid soil and squeeze the heaviest rocks with their branches during the process of growth. Even if they use up every drop of water and every nutrient, You must stick your unyielding green leaves out of the shadows and let them spread freely in the warm sunshine!

The power of plants is the power of life!
Everything is due to the crack in the rock formation that the "Nigrum" dark elves discovered on the Dust Mountain Range at the very beginning.

The dark elves buried the precious elven plant "rotten cypress" seeds in the cracks of the dust mountain.This ancient species of elven plants that mutated due to "desecration and corruption by the dark elves" is completely incompatible with the mainstream society of the elven empire, but it has the magical characteristics of absorbing metal elements and embrittlement of rock formations during the growth process.

The priests of the "Nigrum" tribe asserted that as long as the "rotten cypress" grows along the cracks in the mountain, this plant is enough to penetrate the seemingly indestructible mountain of the Dust Mountain by its own strength!

And what the dark elves need to do is to follow behind the "rotten cypress" and repair the passage opened by it!

——Hearing this, all the senior leaders of Frost Maple Ridge admired and yearned for the will to survive and developed imagination of the "Nigrum" dark elf.

However, there was an elf senior mage from the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group", who frowned and asked the spiritual master:

"However, master, I remember that the ancient species among our elven plants grow extremely slowly, and it takes decades to grow into shape at every turn—relying on the growth power of the 'rotten cypress' to penetrate the entire dust mountain The vast mountain... it will take too long, right?"

The master of spiritual songs sighed:

"Yeah...it's been too long, and the 'Nigrum' dark elves at that time couldn't afford to wait, so they also paid the price for their freedom... You see, it is recorded on this section of the stone wall that they not only prepared enough There are hundreds of 'rotten cypresses' tree species, and even used the taboo 'Occurrence of the Curtain of Darkness' to forcibly inject life force into these ancient trees in order to accelerate their growth..."

"'The Ritual of the Curtain of the Night'?! They even used this sacrilegious ritual?" The elf mages shouted in an uproar.

"Yeah...for survival...and freedom." The spiritual master looked at the tunnel everyone was in with some melancholy, "Under the urging of this dark elf ritual, the growth speed of plants can reach an unimaginable speed. According to the stone wall, from planting tree seeds in the cracks of the mountain to digging tens of kilometers of tunnels with the "rotten cypresses" and digging half of the dusty mountains, they even only took... 40 years. "

"40 years?" Xia Houyan was also taken aback, because in his perception, 40 years can only make an earth fir tree grow less than one meter in diameter. "Master Ling Song, What kind of ceremony is this 'Ritual of the Dark Night Curtain' you mentioned, so magical?"

Faced with the boss's question, Master Linge's face, which had already returned to normal, suddenly became a little ugly.

"This... magic ritual, in short, is to use the dark elves to perform specific actions to create life magic power to promote plant growth..." the master of spiritual songs faltered, vaguely speaking.

"Do you know the method of performing this ceremony? We in Shuangfengling are worried that the trees will grow slowly..." Xia Houyan gave full play to his pedantic spirit of inquiring, "You said that you want to 'perform a specific behavior'...is it true? What behavior?"

The soul song master couldn't hold back a little:

"...The dark elves, because of something bad, it's a behavior...you have to understand that stimulating the growth of plants, and other creatures...uh...'creating life', these two things are still It's kind of related..."

The senior executives of Shuangfengling who were watching were dumbfounded.

However, Master Laurie stared at the lord's left and right, and still felt that his boss still seemed to have "want to learn" written on the left face, and "want to try" written on the right...

Master once again felt that it was his mother's fault that he was expelled from the mage academy city because of "studying forbidden magic and having a bad style"...

Those old members of the Xuecheng Mage Council back then, if you open your eyes and look at the behavior of the Duke of Shuangfengling, what kind of shit I did back then is still a big deal? !
Master Laurie was filled with righteous indignation for the inequality of human beings, and almost forgot to keep charging the magic glow lamp in his hand.After Master Spirit Song snapped his fingers to remind him, Master Laurie raised the lantern again, illuminating the subsequent dark elf stone wall inscriptions.

The master of spiritual songs read the records of the ancient compatriots with great satisfaction, and continued to narrate:

It only took the dark elves of the "Negrum" tribe 40 years from the beginning of the "Road to Salvation" project to the half-digging of the Dust Mountain.

However, there is not much time left for the dark elves.

The dark elves who were raised in the "Emerald Garden" by the upper elves of the great empire did not escape the sword of Damocles hanging above their heads because of the increasingly strict monitoring and control of the great elves empire.

In the past 40 years, one dark elf tribe after another has been ruthlessly massacred by the center of the great empire. One after another, dark elf settlements that were originally vibrant and rich in nightlife have quietly disappeared in the green grass and giant trees. South bank of the "Anne-Calevio River".

Even if the "Negrum" tribe has kept a low profile as much as possible, even if they have put all their hopes on the "Road to Salvation" plan...

But the pointer of fate, which symbolized death, finally pointed to them.

After the fourth last dark elf tribe in the world was massacred overnight by the Highborne guards, the dark elves of the "Nigrum" tribe finally realized that their "Road to Salvation" plan was too late .

Therefore, in this race against fate, in order to stimulate the growth of the "rotten cypress" as much as possible, they began to work in the tunnel day and night, speeding up the frequency of the "Riter of the Dark Night Curtain" enough to rub The ultimate in fire.

It was also from this period that the inscriptions left by the dark elves on the stone walls no longer had the gorgeous poetic style full of literary youth in the past, and became rough, simple and impatient.

Finally, ten miles away from the eastern end of the mountain range, the ancient elf empire officially raised its butcher knife to the dark elves of the "Nigrum" tribe——

——At this moment, they are the only and last dark elf tribe left on Haven Continent.

The upper elves of the Great Empire showed their ferocious appearance, and the dark elves of the "Negrum" tribe also tried to see it, and collectively withdrew into the secret road of the dust mountain——

——And the "Road to Salvation", this grand plan that has been hidden for generations and decades under the eyes of the Great Elf Empire, was exposed to the upper elves.

The upper elves, maddened by the deceit and betrayal of the "Negrum" tribe, launched an attack on this tunnel desperately, but because the dark elves had been prepared for a long time, the imperial guards who were rampant all over the world unexpectedly For a while, it was impossible to break through the desperate defense of the "Negrum" tribe huddled in the cave.

However, the dark elves of the "Negrum" tribe knew that all these were just expedient measures.

One day, the imperial guards will break into this mountain of dust tunnel, and until then, the "Rotten Relics" will not have time to complete the task and open up a way for them to go to the other side of freedom.

So they decided to give it a go.

The last elves of the "Nigrum" tribe, and perhaps the last dark elves in the entire Haven continent, joined hands in this tunnel and held a forbidden ceremony from ancient times—this ceremony, will Summon a powerful force that has never been seen in the Haiwen Continent, complete the final excavation in place of the "rotten cypress" and kill the upper elves who besieged the tribe!
This taboo ceremony will sacrifice the lives of all participants, but the dark elves of the "Negrum" tribe who participated in the ceremony believe that the dozen or so young dark elves who were excluded from the ceremony, their Brothers, sisters and sons and daughters will walk out of this road of redemption with their will and hope that will never die, and live happily and happily in the east of Dust Mountain, the land of freedom and happiness forever!

Although my body dies, the blood of the dark elves will live on forever!
"The description on the stone wall... ends here." The master of spiritual songs sighed after reading this, "The dark elves who carved words on the stone 500 years ago should have finished carving this line, and then went to participate in that 'Forbidden Ritual'."

"What about the result of the ceremony?" Xia Houyan was a little dazed, "The story has reached its climax, don't be an eunuch!"

"Anyway, none of the dark elves who participated in the ceremony back then should have survived to tell us the ending. After all, according to the statement on the stone wall, the 'forbidden ceremony' would sacrifice the lives of all participants..." the spiritual master sighed road.

The elf magister was stunned for a while, then shook his head and said:
"However, from today's point of view, their ceremony should be...successful, but it was not successful. The orc's 'Hammer of Purgatory' division, as well as our Frost Maple Ridge Expeditionary Force, can pass this tunnel to and from both sides of the Dust Mountain Range , indicating that the Dark Elf's ritual replaced the 'Rotting Hard Cypress' after all to complete the final work and open up this mountain tunnel. But the young Dark Elves who brought all the clansmen to live...maybe died in the tunnel Perhaps they managed to reach the other side of the mountain, but failed to survive in the end... In short, there is no dark elf left on the Haven Continent today."

"They should have successfully reached the side of Dust Mountain." Master Laurie reminded, "After all, the Federation of Glory can get the secret text to open the tunnel. It must be that the descendants of the dark elves left clues somewhere in today's Federation. It was recently discovered by orc archaeologists. However, it is extremely difficult for the remaining dozen or so young dark elves to gain a foothold in the unexplored barbaric foreign land, and they probably died in a short time..."

After a lapse of 500 years, witnessing the history of the decline and decline of an ancient race, the hearts of everyone present seemed a little heavy.

Xia Houyan was silent for a moment, then suddenly thought of something, tilted his head and said:
"The dark elves are all dead, but why haven't their remains been found in this tunnel, and there are no traces of the 'rotten cypress' they used to open the mountain at that time?"

"My lord, that's 500 years after all..." The spiritual master smiled wryly, "Time can wash away all traces, not to mention the overgrown 'rotting cypress' It will only quickly decay into dust, so what will be left behind?"

"It's a pity..." Xia Houyan said sullenly, "...I still want to get some 'rotten cypress' seeds to plant in the territory for fun..."

Master Laurie snorted:

"I think you want to try the Dark Elf's 'Ritual of the Veil of Night'?"

Alice Comstock glared at the wretch.

(End of this chapter)