Warhammer

"You can also put some national policy announcements, recent news and other important news."

"Cost? Well, it's a little expensive... Let's do both. Let the Scholars Council work hard to improve the production process. I will open the 'door' for them next month as a reward."

"Then contact some of the larger stores, chambers of commerce, and companies, and ask them if they want to advertise their products and services. It costs more money. Does the Empire have any rules in this regard? Oh, it also means paying for it, right? I remember some people in Margarita have already started doing this, but they are using products from the Empire."

"For those who have already done it, don't use this year's law to collect taxes from the previous year. The existing ads must be removed after half a month. All future placements must go through government bidding. The explanation is that they are learning from the advanced experience of the Empire Big Brother!"

After giving some small instructions, Al turned around and looked at his third daughter with sharp eyes.

"Third brother, I know you have a casual personality and love to play... Have you ever thought about becoming an idol?"

"Father... huh?"

The Sheep Girl tilted her head.

El took her hand and placed the blue crystal in Barbatos' palm.

"You, if you want to say it, you are the one who is closest to the Estalia among the others. Why don't you make use of your expertise in this area? I will call the deer demon over again, and you can record some dramas, songs and dances for publicity. How do you think?"

Because of today's speech, Al suddenly remembered the "Kemono Girl Idol Project" that he had put aside for a long time, so he just threw it in.

Just when the third daughter was confusedly being pushed by El, "For the kingdom, for the four mothers, for your father! Become an idol!", a phone call, no, a spiritual link was received in El's spiritual space.

Only those four can do this, and the Shepherd God, but the Shepherd God rarely shows up, and is very lurking, and...

My child~

"Guna!"

Al almost couldn't help blurting it out, but he stopped himself for fear of being resentful by Lilith, who was petty and didn't know whether she was small or not.

【Don’t forget our promise】

"Ok?"

[The helpers that mom sent for you are about to arrive~ Is this the right time to arrive? 】

In the living room, Al grinned.

"Elves? Or Bretonnians?"

[Hmm.....both, both]

Al heard that the latter's tone was a little strange, so he emphasized it again and asked the other party to explain clearly.

[You don't need to consider the Bretonnians. Just think of them as knights and their stewards... As for the elves, there is a little problem...]

"Um???"

Al was confused. What's the problem?

[It's not Asrai who came to you...it's Druzy]

Al: “…”

Chapter 29: Druzy

What kind of person is the so-called "Duruzi"?

It was not originally a person's name, but a general name for a clan. Since the beginning of the world and the creation of the ancient saints, several races have successively become overlords in this world, and there have been countless heroes and beauties, heroes and tycoons who have dominated the world and become famous for all time.

But many, many outstanding figures could not resist the erosion of time and were submerged in the long river of time. They would only be pulled out (made up) to refresh their existence when needed by the higher-dimensional demon gods.

Among them, there is one great hero who is still praised today, with people from all over the world paying homage to him. His existence is so unique and dazzling.

The first Phoenix King, Aenarion.

He single-handedly reversed the situation of the elves being in a desperate situation and being invaded by Chaos. He personally forced out the "martial arts attainments" of the high elves. He then fought for many years without a single defeat, and killed demons as easily as cutting melons and vegetables. Later, he aimed to pull out the cursed Cain, causing the gods, even the Chaos Four, who were kicking the gates of the mortal world and punching the gods of Order, to personally come forward to advise him:

Aizi! Kane's sword is too powerful, you can't grasp it. It is said that the Phoenix King after drawing the sword is equivalent to a peerless strong man blessed by Asuryan and Kane at the same time, and even has the ability to injure the four gods.

In the final battle, he was fighting one against four without the suppression of the whirlpool, and was able to exert 100% of his strength as a great demon. Then he laughed and left, and died suddenly after returning the sword. He was the ancestor of the elves, a figure like Qin Shihuang and Zhu Hongwu.

But today's incident has a lot to do with him...

Because he married twice, although this is not a big deal, the important thing is that his second wife was a very troublesome person.

The most beautiful woman in the world, Morathi, the witch with unclear relationship with Chaos, especially Slaanesh, gave birth to a son for Aenarion.

His name is Malekith.

What follows is a series of well-known events, including the attempt to seize the throne, the barbecue party, the elf civil war, etc.

The elves who defected across the sea became Druzil, those who closed themselves off in the forest and cut off communication became Asrai, and the one who stayed behind was the "orthodox elves" Asur - although the so-called orthodoxy became a complete joke after the truth was revealed after the great war.

After so many years of fighting and so many deaths, it has become an irreconcilable blood feud. Tell me, is the ultimate villain on the opposite side, who is black from head to toe, oozing with oil, evil, and pus, actually the orthodox Phoenix King appointed by the Lord God Asuryan? All the Phoenix Kings after him were not recognized by Asuryan?

And Druzy was also confused.

They followed Malekith in bloody battles, shattered the continental shelf, sailed across the ocean, left the paradise of Osun, and from then on fought against the sky, the earth, people, and the upper and lower worlds in the bitter and cold bad land of Naggaroth.

The Druzis are cruel, sadistic, and decisive in killing. There are always various conspiracies and ambitions flowing and surging within a city, family, or legion. Under the brutal (to some extent, laissez-faire, intentional) rule of the Witch King and his mother, the entire Druzis society has become highly militarized, dark and twisted. The Witch King, who created all this with his own hands, has never truly regarded his subordinates who have followed him and fought for thousands of years as his own people.

He still longed to go to Lothern, depose the "usurper", and then take the throne at the Phoenix King's court there, ruling over his noble Asur brethren and the prosperous isle of Ulthun rather than the ambitious and cruel men of the Druzi and the Naggaroth of the bitter cold.

After the three elves retreated into the Great Forest of Athel Loren and held a meeting in the territory of the Wood Elves, the three elves merged and respected Malekith as the Eternal King. Then a series of events happened, in which justice triumphed over evil and light returned to the earth. The elves also moved collectively back to the restored home of Ossuen.

The original Duruzi, and later the "dark elves", suddenly realized that they had thought they had followed the right boss, and had followed the dragon into the pass, with the purple air coming from the west. Today, even if they couldn't be treated as superior people, they should at least be equal to each other, right?

But the Witch King—the Eternal King despises the dark elves!

Malekith has had a knot in this regard for thousands of years. Becoming the Phoenix King and ruling Asur has always been his long-standing concern. To this end, he can use any means, he can be cruel, he can be gentle, he can go to the island to plunder and massacre, to intimidate the elves, or he can take the initiative to resist chaos just to protect "his kingdom, his people, his Ulthun."

He has a bit of a childish personality, the kind that will target someone if he likes you, but will get anxious and worried if you don't agree with him.

Once the long-cherished wish came true, if others knew this:

A thousand years of civil war, the deaths of millions of people (note that these are fucking elves), countless atrocities throughout the mortal world, the world's accelerated descent into chaos, and a bunch of other shit, all because Asuryan was used to being AFK when he sat on the throne and didn't say "Brother, just stay in the fire for a while and I will reshape your body to become the true Phoenix King", and then he held back for thousands of years without saying anything or expressing any opinions, like a super stubborn old kid throwing a tantrum.

The basic mentality will either explode or break.

But Malekith accepted everything happily and with tears of joy, the situation that couldn't get any worse, the declining ethnic group, all kinds of conflicts, and the internal environment that was full of ulterior motives.

"I don't care what the gods do or how many people Chaos kills! As long as I am no longer the legitimate Phoenix King, I will not be reconciled!"

"Dad! Did you see that? I have become you! I have surpassed you! I am also the Phoenix King Power!"

After the great war, the Everking dragged his family and the reluctant Everqueen, the standard couple of the Phoenix King, to the court of Lothern for a grand coronation ceremony. Then he quickly, even close to the mentality of "convert fanaticism", put himself in the position of a native Phoenix King of Ulthun. Naggaroth? A cold and barren land, except for key places such as Naggarond (the original capital of the Witch King), other restraints can be left alone. Come on, keep playing the music and keep dancing!

Druzy originally thought that he was a first-class citizen. Although he was a little unhappy to suddenly live under the same roof with his Asur relatives, with whom he had a thousand-year blood feud, but that was it. After all, our boss won and life could go on as usual.

As a result, he suddenly discovered that compared to these cold-blooded and cruel tools, the Eternal King liked and loved the Asur people who he had dreamed of for thousands of years and who were "noble", "passionate", "elegant" and had a lot of advantages.

Instead, Druzi was marginalized in the royal court. Except for a few loyal and capable subordinates, after rebuilding Ulthun and entering the brief "Age of the Everlasting Kings", there were probably less than ten original Druzi among the one hundred people in Malekith's court.

This made the Druzis, who thought they had made great contributions and had fought with you in Naggaroth for so long, feel very bad.

Fortunately, not long after, Malekith ascended to the realm of gods. Relying on his good strategy and fighting skills, as well as his advantage in reproduction speed, although the Dark Elves cannot say that they can completely control the Elf Federation, they can still compete with the Asur and maintain their position as the second largest.

However, not everyone is satisfied with this situation.

Some dark elves were hurt by Malekith's attitude and believed that all the gods were liars and the so-called Phoenix King was a hypocritical and arrogant child who only cared about the crown. So they simply broke away and set up their own business.

Others are obsessed with replicating the separation and do not want to join you. Of course, these are a minority, and the mainstream voice is still within the Elf Federation, competing with Asur, and everyone is fighting for discourse and dominance.

But after Lilith told Al that "the elven civil war is imminent", it seemed that this stall would not last long.

There are radical ones, as well as conservative and moderate ones.

Just like above, some people believe that all the gods are fucking liars, and Asuryan the Halfling is a pure (silenced). Why didn't you say something earlier? My fucking father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather, and me, so many people, would it be necessary for us to fight to the death with Osuen for thousands of years?

Damn it, if I hang out with this group of insect gods, I’ll get killed sooner or later!

It’s moisturized!

There are actually quite a lot of elves who hold such thoughts. Every year, some elves leave Ossuun and may settle in the outside world. They are tired of life on the island and are disillusioned with reality. Most of these people are "veterans" who have experienced the Great War or died in the Elven Civil War and then had their souls retrieved and resurrected. Death is not terrible for them, but it is a bit discouraging to pay so much and then find that everything I have fought for is just a joke.

Of course, most people who deny the gods dare not say it out loud, but are hostile to them in their hearts.

Deny the kingship.

They even developed further into nihilists, believing that the gods, themselves, and all existence had no value, and if they were destroyed, they were destroyed, so they just had to live one day at a time.

Chapter 30: Intervene in the Elf Civil War?

Although the mainstream of these are "dark elves", also known as the Druzi, there are actually quite a few former high elves, wood elves and the like who have mixed in. After all, they have all become nihilistic. For the "nihilistic elves" who don't care much about the racial barriers in the past, they can just live a carefree life wherever they are.

The most important thing is not to be tormented by reckless men, idiots, cowards, (mama's boy) kings and "XX" gods anymore.

Now that I have decided to start, nothing can affect me!

This time, the first group of elves brought by Lilith to El to "immigrate" were a group of "Void Elves".

This annoyed Al.

What if you get a bunch of green-necked workers?

Come to my territory and use the carrot and stick in one hand and the sword in the other to beat you. If you don't submit, I will no longer be your eternal chosen one!

Get a group of... um, it's hard to describe, a life without God, authority, or government... elves.

Al felt that this might not be in line with his current xenophobic, authoritarian, and militaristic United Kingdom, which was a combination of theocracy and military. Was it possible?

He didn't want to accept it, but he had already promised Lilith. It would be unacceptable if he turned against them in the first batch. He had no choice but to accept them first if all else failed. If nothing else, he could build a "reservation" in a remote place for these guys - an elf community to provide for them. As a minority group that is opposed to the current mainstream society of the United Kingdom in terms of race, belief (if any) and ideology, it would be best if they don't run around outside.

Otherwise, he was quite worried about two situations that often occurred in the medieval world:

Blood, flesh and juice flew everywhere among this group of elves.

What kind of plot will happen when the fallen and vulnerable elves come to a strange country and face the humans and orcs who are completely opposed to them... Al finds it very interesting, but unless he is the protagonist on one side, it is better not to do it.

It's just such a double standard (not justified but confident)!

But just when Al was about to accept this difficult task and do "accepting refugees", which was seen as a direct impact on the world he came from, destroying the old European order 91 years later and leading to the emergence of the furnace of thought, and was considered a stupid thing at the time, Lilith's attitude became very gentle.

[My child, the destined king of the mortal world, you don’t need to be afraid of these poor lost ones. Their souls and beliefs have been lost and wandering in the wilderness of faithlessness because of the suffering that they can never escape and can never see the end.]

[The only person who can save them from suffering is you]

[You are the only king and leader who can gain their loyalty after facing the devil Inarion. As long as you can find the key to the treasure house, they will offer you their unchanging loyalty and present you with another key.]

[That will open the door to Lothern]

Al doesn't like the Riddler.

Always.

"Then how do I find the 'key'?"

[Its embryo is already in your thoughts, in your heart, in your every move]

Al suddenly felt that Lilith couldn't seem to explain that kind of thing clearly. It couldn't be that she was just being mysterious, right?

[The longships of the Wretched will arrive at Marus in half a month. This is the first batch, but not the last... My child, the arrogance of the elves almost destroyed them once, and they have never learned their lesson... The story of the 'Eternal King' is not as simple as you see, and a storm is brewing]

Lilith warned Al.

[The countdown to the end is already flowing. After the great war, the mortal world has gained nearly three hundred years of development—but in the disordered demonic realm, those blasphemous filth and those abominable dark sins have already spent tens of thousands of years! ]

[Libra is destined to be unfair, they will...disaster...weaken...you and your mothers will become the most important forces in the two worlds...]

Lilith's speech suddenly became intermittent, which made Al a little angry. He knew who it was, her, them!

His four mother goddesses did not want him to know too much in advance.

But while things in the future might be important, things at the moment were even more crucial, so he continued to listen attentively, not missing a word or tone.

[Let Osuen learn the lesson, let them suffer, let them cry, but——let the elves bleed less! Ai'er, my child, the Lord of Destiny, the King of Kings! ]

[Before all the curtains are lifted and all the chess players reveal their cards, you need their strength...]

"..."

Lilith then sent a message. It was nothing important, just some general information about the elves, but the meaning revealed in her words was enough for Al to chew on over and over again.

"The key to Lothern?"

Combined with the following "let the elves remember the lesson - less bloodshed" and "their strength is needed", it seems not difficult to guess that Lilith means to let El intervene in the civil war of the Elf Federation in the future.

emmmm.......

Although he was confident in his own development, after evaluating the current situation and looking at the non-existent "national power ranking", he couldn't help but say "let's seek help from someone else".

Even if the United Kingdom integrates the South and takes into account all the colonies, its population will barely reach tens of millions, which is not necessarily as large as the population of the Elf Federation that has grown like mushrooms from everywhere after the great war is won.