Volume 3 The Misty Sea Chapter 57 The Prairie

It is a vast and beautiful grassland.

In winter, the cold wave blowing from the ice ocean of the North Sea will bring a wide range of snowfall to the south, and at that time, the entire grassland will be covered with ice and snow, presenting a beautiful scene covered in snow. In winter, it is like a sleeping ice beauty.

In the summer, the warm and humid air currents from the hot south move north, forming an abundance of rain on the grassland, moistening the grassland, and at that time, the grassland will be full of purple and red wildflowers, rushing with hordes of demonic beasts. In summer, it is full of energy and wild beauty.

This is the Northern Xinjiang Grassland.

The Northern Frontier Steppe, as the name suggests, is a steppe located in the northern frontier of the Bimon Empire. With an area of nearly three million square kilometers, it is the largest grassland not only in the Bimon Empire, but also in the western part of the entire continent, second only to the Nareslan grassland in the northeastern part of the continent. In fact, the Northern Frontier Prairie is only the current name of the Beamon Empire, its past name was not called the Northern Frontier Grassland, but called Bayinville Grassland, 'Bayinvillea' in the ancient Elven language, which means 'the place favored by the moon goddess', and the reason why this grassland was once named after the ancient Elven language is because this grassland has been the land ruled by the elves for a long period of time. In the distant days when other sapient races dominated it, it also had beautiful names such as Asemido, Katliana, Ossunia, and many more.

At that time, on the Bayinville steppe, there were many intelligent races scattered and scattered. In this grassland, humans, goblins, ogres, orcs, dwarves and many other intelligent races have established kingdoms one after another, and they have also given this grassland many different names. However, the states established by these races on the prairie, like many short-lived small states in the history of the continent, have been annihilated in the long river of history, and have had little impact on the course of continental history. However, 1,800 years ago, there was a powerful empire that shook the continent and had a profound impact on the history of the continent.

Eighteen hundred thousand years ago, the Saracen Dynasty, an elven empire in the southern part of the Bayinviria steppe, fell into civil strife, in which an exiled tribe of blood elves came to the Bayinviria steppe, an uncivilized land that the elves regarded as 'savage', and quietly grew stronger. These blood elves do not have the noble character of other elves, they do not pay attention to the principle of harmony inherited by the elves since ancient times, they believe in iron-blooded, tough, fierce, and violent, after decades of conquest, the blood elves have eliminated all the kingdoms or separatist forces established by other intelligent races in the Bayinvilian steppe, and unified the entire Bayinvilian steppe. Later, the blood elves of the steppe marched south, destroyed the Saracen Empire, which had exiled them, and established one of the most powerful kingdoms on the continent at that time, the Umayyad Dynasty of the Elven Empire, in blood and fire.

On the day of the fall of the Saracen Empire and the founding of the Umayyad Empire, the Moon Goddess Eluni suddenly performed a miracle to redeem the Blood Elves who had stepped on the corpses of countless of her followers to dominate the nascent empire. The redeemed Blood Elves have since become the undisputed supreme rulers of the Empire, and the other Elves in the Empire have recognized the rule of the Blood Elves because of their miraculous displays.

The elves of the Umayyad Empire are united and powerful like never before.

Immediately afterwards, the elves of the Umayyad Empire, adhering to the brilliance of the moon goddess, began to conquer the various alien races on the continent like angry waves.

The dense rain of arrows of the elven archers obscured the scorching sun in the sky like dark clouds, the heavy steps of the ancient trees of war shook the ground beneath their feet like thunder, the sturdy posture of the ice-wind Chimera flew unrestrained in the boundless sky of the continent, and the wild roar of the giant bear druid fluttered deafeningly back and forth in the mountains and cities where the earth was lined with trees. At the height of the Umayyad Empire, its territory occupied almost one-third of the entire continent, and countless intelligent races became servants of the elves.

Since the elves believe in the moon god, whenever the moon rises, it is when the sun sets, and the moon seems to expel the sun. Now the whole continent trembles at the feet of the elves, so the Umayyad Empire is also known as the 'Dynasty of the Sunstriders'.

In the most glorious period of the history of the elves, an elven bard in the Umayyad Empire once sang with great pride: The glory of the empire has spread all over the continent, even far away from the sea; humans grow tea for us, orcs hunt for us, dwarves are our industrious craftsmen, ogres have become our charioteers; dragons have to bow their proud heads in the face of us, and when the giants see us, their violent tempers immediately become gentle, and as for the cowards of the sea tribes, they are deeply cowered in the depths of the sea, not daring to spy on the continent。

Since then, the Umayyad Empire has reached the limit of its expansion, and the elves have changed their national policy in due course, abandoning the policy of conquering foreign races everywhere and beginning to focus on building their country.

The elves, who gave up their force, gave full play to the noble artistic accomplishment in the elves' nature. During this period, poetry, painting, music, novels, sculptures and other cultural arts in the empire were greatly developed, and the entire empire presented a rich civilization and a thriving scene.

However, the empire flourished and declined for only a little more than a hundred years.

The Umayyad Empire was too large to accommodate many other races, and the elves who were the ruling class in the empire had an extremely long lifespan due to their own race, but due to their extremely low fertility rate, their numbers were always at an absolute disadvantage.

After the arduous expansion of the territory in the early stage, the elves of the Umayyad Empire also faced the same prosperity crisis as other powerful dynasties, that is, the elves in the ruling class began to indulge in comfortable life and luxurious pleasures. With the rapid development of imperial culture and art, the relative regression of the empire in the art of war such as magic, martial arts, and military strategy was regressed. Coupled with the innate low population of the elves in the empire, the elves will soon be powerless to suppress the impatience of those alien races with a large population base in the empire.

In the past 100 years, the empire's territory has been shrinking in the constant wave of resistance, struggle, and independence of other races in the country. Eventually, the empire returned to the territory of the Saracen Empire. Perhaps, only a territory of this size is suitable for the effective management of the sparsely populated elves.

The Umayyad Empire was no longer divided, but has since collapsed.

The Umayyad Empire continued for another hundred years, until the Bimon Empire, founded by orcs, rose like a comet to the south of the empire, and finally ended the history of this great empire after nearly a hundred years of tug-of-war with the Umayyad Empire.

This war between elves and orcs is known as the 'Hundred Years' War.

After the collapse of the Umayyad Empire, the remnants of the elves fled to the northern steppes of Bayinvilia, trying to resurrect the glory of the blood elf tribe hundreds of years ago. However, the army of the Beamon Empire pursued the elves all the way, and soon entered the grassland, and after the elves failed in the final battle with the orc pursuers on the grassland, they had to flee into the sparsely populated Yesong Forest in the northwest of the grassland, and since then the elves have rarely been active on the mainland. The Bayinvilia Grassland was officially incorporated into the territory of the Beamon Empire after the war, and was renamed the 'Northern Frontier Grassland'.

The Beamon Empire has been founded for more than a thousand years, and the northern grasslands have been under the rule of the Beamon Empire for thousands of years. However, due to the large number of races on the steppe, the situation is complicated, and the rule of the orcs has almost never stopped in this thousand years, so that the Beamon Empire does not have much economic value for this area, and the land of chicken ribs that is tasteless and abandoned is also a big headache, and the governance method has always been based on bondage.

Over the years, the Beamon Empire has strengthened taxation throughout the country in order to fight against the mountain giants on the stalagmite plateau in the northwest, and the northern steppes are no exception. But for the barren steppes, the part of the tax raised by the Bimon Empire, which was not too high, could be called a rampant extortion. As a result, in recent years the inhabitants of the steppes have become increasingly rebellious against the Beamon Empire, mostly under the guise of mercenaries. The corresponding measure taken by the empire was to send troops to suppress, but because the main army of the empire was contained in the stalagmite plateau, the combat effectiveness of the legions that went to the northern grasslands to "suppress bandits" was generally not high.

The vast northern prairie stretches for thousands of miles as far as the eye can see.

The east, west and south directions of the northern Xinjiang prairie are all grasslands and forests, but in the northern part of the prairie, there is a majestic and magnificent giant mountain range - Tanggula Mountains. Further north of the northern steppe, there is no land, only an endless ocean. Due to the vastness of this vast ocean, which is bordered by several continental countries, including the Beamon Empire, this ocean is collectively called the North Sea by the continental countries.

On the vast north coast, at the foot of Tanggula Mountain, the most majestic mountain range in the northern prairie, lies a beautiful and tranquil village. It is a fishing village that has lived by fishing and hunting for generations, and it is called Senjin Village. The inhabitants of the village are mainly humans, but there are also dwarves and even a few dwarfs, who live in harmony regardless of race, living a peaceful life of sunrise and sunset. From time to time, fierce monsters from the depths of the Tanggula Mountains and the bottom of the North Sea often attack fishing villages, but most of these monsters end up as a meal for the villagers, and only a few of them are lucky enough to escape after attacking the fishing villages. Because in Senjin Village, there are many villagers who know martial arts, and what is especially remarkable is that the villagers seem to be familiar with the combat formations in the army, and when encountering the invasion of powerful demonic beasts, the villagers can often rely on the battle formation to retreat from the enemy, and defeat the strong with the weak. And all this stems from the arrival of a black elf boy five years ago, who not only taught the villagers martial arts, but also taught the villagers military strategies, making Senjin Village a militarized village.