Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 452 The Elf Queen Who Committed Suicide and Was Reborn

Upon entering the Elf Kingdom, Tang San discovered that elves were not only female, but also male. However, their appearances were just as exquisite as those of female elves, making them almost indistinguishable to the naked eye.

It is obvious that the Elf race is a matriarchal society.

Mengmeng and Niannian must have some status in the Elf Kingdom. When the elves see them, they greet them warmly, but the rules are not as clear-cut as those in human society. It looks like communication between ordinary friends.

That's excellent.

This means that the elves will not truly oppress their own kind who are weaker or of lower status... This may also be related to the fact that the resources in this place are almost inexhaustible.

Tang San also learned from Mengmeng that the elf population exceeded one hundred million, and the real elf kingdom was actually the entire forest. The city he entered was just the central city of the elf kingdom.

Mengmeng and Niannian are priestesses in the Elf Kingdom, second only to the Elf Queen in status. They arranged to fight in the forest before because they didn't want to disturb the Elf Queen.

"May I meet the Queen directly?" Tang San couldn't help but ask as Mengmeng and Niannian led him toward the thousand-meter-tall elven tree.

Mengmeng nodded: "Of course."

Confused, she asked, "Why do you ask that?"

"In human society, outsiders who want to meet with a king or the like need to go through a lot of procedures..." Tang San explained in detail.

"Oh~ the human world is really complicated." Nian Nian paused for a moment, then said, "But our elven kingdom doesn't have so many rules. Although there are different statuses, every elf can meet the Elf Queen..."

Tang San nodded slightly, indicating his understanding: "She is a kind elf queen!"

But deep down, Tang San thought to himself: The elves are so pure and simple... like children. Apart from the Moon Night Elves who might be a little mischievous and playful, the rest of them are unlikely to have thoughts of betrayal, unless it involves faith, like Mengmeng and Nian Nian.

However, this is also because the environment here is excellent and resources are abundant. If it were a remote and impoverished place, the power of nature could not be applied and it could not be transformed in a short period of time. Even the simplest elves would become petty and calculating.

The relationship between humans and nature is a process of mutual influence.

At this moment, Tang San seemed to have realized something, his primordial spirit strengthened slightly, and his spiritual power became more refined.

"My mental strength can be considered divine sense," Tang San sighed inwardly, and continued to follow the two towards the Elf Tree.

Along the way, Tang San saw some strange things, similar to works of art.

Neither Mengmeng nor Niannian are fond of it.

After all, such paintings have remained unchanged for a hundred thousand years; they're nothing new...

When Tang San arrived at the Elf Tree, he truly sensed the immense size of this towering tree. Its trunk diameter alone exceeded two hundred meters, and its roots were gnarled and twisted. A staircase made of gold and stone led to a gate about twenty meters high. On each side stood more than ten elves, the men on the left and the women on the right. They all held short spears that resembled sealed tail spikes, longbows on their shoulders, and quivers with green leaves on their backs.

When they saw Mengmeng and Niannian, they all placed their hands across their chests—the male elves using their right hands and the female elves using their left—and bowed slightly, saying in unison, "Greetings, Priestess Meng and Priestess Niannian."

"Locke, Ariel, Yoda..."

"Frank, Aura, Golok..."

Mengmeng and Niannian called out the names of the guards, greeted each other, and chatted for a while... This also allowed Tang San to truly see that the elves did not really have much distinction between superiors and inferiors.

This fairy kingdom is indeed a dreamlike kingdom, not only in terms of scenery but also in terms of its people.

However, even in an environment of abundant resources, these elves are spiritually impoverished. Apart from making necessary living tools and weapons, they are devoted to the pursuit of faith.

Art?

Indeed, there are, but along the way, Tang San discovered that the artistic creations here are either from 100,000 years ago, or 200,000 or 300,000 years ago.

Development has been extremely slow.

The first principle of civilization is survival, but in this world, once the elves' basic needs for survival are met, they don't think about moving forward, and development stagnates.

If they could live here forever, undisturbed by the outside world, that would be fine. But the universe is vast, and there will always be races exploring the stars…

Perhaps he was worrying unnecessarily, but from a more distant perspective of time and space, if this Eternal Realm had not changed for billions of years, it would truly be nothing more than a stagnant pool.

Even if it was once beautiful, from the perspective of beings in higher dimensions, it is a stinking, decaying place.

The elves here are rather spiritually empty, and their faith in the gods is perhaps one of the few ways they can satisfy their spiritual yearning.

Tang San felt he had evidence for this as well: after Mengmeng and Niannian fought fiercely, besides their mutual disappointment, there was also a hint of satisfaction.

"Have we had guests from the Elf Kingdom?"

After an elf guard entered the treehouse to report, a little girl skipped out. Compared to the other elves, her clothes were also mainly green, but with many gold stripes. She also wore a lotus-shaped crown on her head, which was only the size of a palm and was not in the center but tilted to the right.

"Greetings, Your Majesty Queen Alice!" Mengmeng and Niannian knelt on one knee to show their respect, and Tang San followed suit, bowing to the little elf queen who was only 1.3 meters tall.

"Hehe, you're human?" Alice hopped over to Tang San, who had straightened up again, looked him up and down, circled him two and a half times, and laughed, "Your life force is even stronger than ours, elves."

"I dare not accept such praise. Compared to you, Queen, I am still a bit inferior," Tang San said modestly.

"Haha, that's right, I am the Elf Queen!" Alice put one hand on her hip, pointed the other to the sky, tilted her head back, and puffed out her flat chest, laughing heartily.

This personality is a bit too lively and overly confident.

Mengmeng coughed and whispered to Tang San, "Our Elf Queen has always been only one, Alice. But every million years, she needs to be reborn to have all her memories wiped off except for [the use of her own abilities, her awareness of her identity as the Elf Queen, and her duties as Queen].

Niannian added, "We all guess that the Queen's situation might be the same as that of that shrewd person, except that in order to prevent a mental breakdown, she needed to have all her memories except for the corresponding inheritance erased at the last moment."

"Each new Queen Alice learns this from the accounts of others, but she herself does not have that memory, so she will not commit suicide."

"You heard me right. In our elf eyes, the Queen's actions were tantamount to suicide..."

(End of this chapter)