The Magic Empire for 20,000 years

Chapter 93 History gave the Royal Empire the name Byzantium.
As Leah listened to Elian's words, a strange, inexplicable feeling suddenly welled up inside her:

"As expected of a godless race, how strange..."

At least for now, that's what the Sun Elf princess thinks.

Just as Lia and Guirasser Goldflake were immersed in the ideological debate between humans and elves, Serka Radiance, seeing the first light of dawn in the east, quickly interjected:

"Alright, enough talk. It's almost dawn, we need to hurry back to the Sun Elf army!"

“Oh, right, we’ve been out for too long, we really should go back.” Leah nodded.

She vaguely felt that her discrimination and hostility towards humans had diminished considerably.

"Perhaps, humanity is not an evil and treacherous race..."

"Perhaps, even elves, and even the extremely xenophobic sun elves, can become friends with humans..."

This is what the Sun Elf prince thought.

Lia Sunburst placed her hands on the shoulders of Serka Radiance and Guirasser Goldflake, watching as Protector Master Kad and the other human mages removed the spatial blockade, preparing to teleport away.

"Wait a mininute!"

El-Erian suddenly called out to the three of them.

"Is there anything else?"

The three elven spellcasters turned and asked.

With a smile, El-Erian pulled a sparkling crystal from his pocket:
"I have recorded the entire process of the three guests being captured by us humans, agreeing to cooperate with us, and our filming and joint acting."

Seeing the fear on the three people's faces, Elian raised his hand to reassure them:
"Don't worry, don't worry, we're friends now."

“As long as we don’t fall out, I definitely won’t send this video to the twenty-four elven families and broadcast it publicly.”

When Lia heard this, her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

It's all over, it's all over, it's all over!
His three legendary exploits—not only being captured by humans, but also agreeing to cooperate with them to fabricate a complete set of videos, which were then played on a loop across various Sun Elf clans…

What will people think of it then?

"What? So the record of killing hundreds of human mages was all fake?"

"The dignified Sun Elf princess actually colluded with humans to fabricate battle records and deceive us?"

“It’s true that people cannot be judged by their appearance!”

"Does someone like that even deserve to inherit the throne of the Sun Elf race?"

"Yes, she should be stripped of her heirship and imprisoned forever!"

"..."

Just thinking about it for a moment made Leah feel her vision go black and her legs go unsteady.

Almost fainted.

"In that case, it's all over. Complete social death within the Elven race!"

"It would be better to be captured and tortured with the cruelest and most painful black magic for 100 years!"

"Even if I reach the Elven Kingdom later, this shame will never be washed away. I will be ridiculed by the other elven souls there..."

"How can humans be so evil?"

"I admit, I was overthinking things just now. Humans are the most evil and cunning race!"

Princess Lia, her face deathly pale, her legs trembling, and nearly collapsing to the ground, exerted a great deal of effort to successfully teleport the three of them away.

As the three elven spellcasters disappeared in a burst of crisp crackling sound and a flash of light, Elian wore a faint smile.

Tonight, Elian deliberately avoided asking Leah about the things he cared about most—

That "subterranean monster race that may have traveled through time and space".

He doesn't intend to show too much concern for this matter publicly.

Otherwise, those strange creatures that returned from the end of time would surely notice him, the "time traveler"!
Just now, while shaking hands with Leah, Elion subtly strengthened the trace of the mark within her once again, allowing the magical mark to last even longer!

In any case, with this trace, Elian could monitor Lia's location at any time and observe the surrounding environment through the eyes of this sun elf princess.

At that time, you will naturally be able to obtain the relevant information.

Just then, Little Grete walked up to Elian.

The boy looked somewhat bewildered.
"Your Majesty Elion, my teacher. Are the elves right?"

Are their beliefs, their worldview, and their reverence for gods as the highest values ​​truly superior or more correct than those of us humans?

Elian shook his head slightly:
"I don't think so."

Little Gret thought for a moment and said:

"That's true. Our human philosophy of survival, which treats magic as a tool, is probably the most correct one."

"Even if mortals are insignificant, our efforts should not be denied. We too can strive to do the things that should be done by the gods!"

El-Erian smiled faintly, watching the eastern sky lighten, letting the evening breeze lift his clothes:
"I didn't say that."

Little Grete was now confused:
"Teacher, I don't understand. So, which value system do you think is correct?"

El-Erian tilted his head slightly, gazing at the distant eastern horizon.

That is the direction for millions of people in the nation of mankind.

The pure white dawn gradually spread across the night sky, dyeing half of the night white and melting away the few morning stars.

Just like white ink staining black Xuan paper, half the sky is deep and dark, and the other half is bright!
"This kind of cultural superiority and inferiority debate is just idle talk by later scholars to make up for the victors and the losers."

The emperor of mankind gazed directly into the east as night faded and dawn broke, his profound gaze seemingly traversing 20 millennia:

"What if we lose in the future, what if the human kingdom of Eldoron is destroyed?"

"What if humanity were to become extinct, or never recover..."

"Our merits and demerits will be judged by others."

"Future history books will record: In the ancient human kingdom, among the ignorant people without divine protection, there was a group of mortal sorcerers who lacked reverence and attempted to seize the authority of the gods."

"This group of arrogant mages mistakenly believed that the gods really lived in the high heavens, and built floating cities in the sky as a clumsy imitation of the gods."

“We will be seen as symbols of stupidity, arrogance, and conceit, forever etched on the pillar of shame, to be ridiculed by elves, dwarves, and gnomes of the future.”

"And if we win, one day, Eldoron will truly become a magical empire spanning all planes of the universe, achieving a feat that even the gods cannot attain today."

"Future anthropologists will devote all their efforts to studying us, studying what Gutt is saying today, and even studying the foolish attempts of the human mages and nobles of Eldoron in the past to ascend to the heavens and the throne of gods, and will try to prove—"

"It was the great ambition of humankind and its ever-positive and striving spirit that forged their future glory!"

Elian turned slightly, his black velvet robe fluttering in the morning breeze.

He patted the boy on the shoulder:

"Therefore, we cannot afford to lose."

The darkness receded like a tide in the direction the human emperor faced; and behind him, the sun was rising.

……

Meanwhile, in the retreating Sun Elf army, in a temporary camp, several Sun Elf commanders were covered in sweat and looked quite nervous.

"So much time has passed, why haven't Princess Lia and the other two returned yet?"

"All three of them are legendary spellcasters, and Princess Lia is hailed as a combat prodigy among the young Sun Elves. There's no way something could have happened to them!"

Everyone was on edge, constantly holding their breath, and even when they sent magical messages, they received no reply.

It should be noted that Princess Lia is not only the daughter of the Sun Elf King, but also the Crown Princess of the Sun Elf race, and has the potential to become the queen of the entire Elf race in the future.

If something were to happen to such a distinguished person, it would be disastrous!

(End of this chapter)