97 Solomon and the Half-Elf (6)
The source of the initial riot is no longer traceable, only that the half-blood elves in various cities in the kingdom were suddenly attacked, the attackers had no reason, there was no fixed target, as long as they found out that it was the half-blood elves, they would do it, and in just a few days, hundreds of half-blood elves had been killed and injured. The grace of the past in these attackers is completely gone, and there is only bloody tyranny and boundless hatred.
In the face of these atrocities, the royal court did not punish them. Because the half-blood elves themselves are slaves, the attacker only needs to give monetary compensation to the slave's owner, so it is not considered a serious crime. Moreover, now that the half-blood elves have been resisted by most of the elves, and the only race guardian god obviously doesn't like these elves who have tarnished their bloodline, the royal court has also allowed the wanton behavior of these attackers, and has not even tracked them down.
Seeing that their malicious actions were completely unpunished, the attackers became even more unscrupulous, and more and more half-blood elves were killed and injured, and finally broke through the bottom line of the purebred elves who had endured so hard.
Purebred elves also know that after losing the protection of the moon god, half-blood elves will become real slaves again. So in order not to make the clansmen hate their families even more, they have been tolerating everywhere, but what they didn't expect was that it was no longer a matter of becoming slaves and being disliked, but that some elves didn't plan to let the half-blood spirit be flexible at all.
The war broke out in this sudden situation, and the main combat force of the half-blood elves was those pure-blooded elves who served in the military department, and they had already become professionals who had been fighting on the front line of the battlefield all year round, and some of them were even extraordinary, far from being comparable to those attackers who only relied on brute force. In the first encounter, the attackers suffered heavy casualties. Knowing that they couldn't win the battle, the attackers had no choice but to find the help of the transcendents among their family and friends, and the intensity of the battle instantly escalated!
As the number of elves involved in the battle proliferates, so do the number of transcendents, and the death toll on both sides skyrockets, and those supernatural powers are devastating for the professionals, not to mention the civilians engaged in production. Although the half-blood elves are inferior to the attackers in numbers and strength, the slaves who have no way out are basically determined to die, and everyone from male adults to the elderly, women, and children will join the battle as long as they can hold their weapons! For a time, the forest was full of blood, and everyone was in danger.
Faced with this situation, the royal court finally realized that the half-blood elves were no longer lambs to be slaughtered, but the riot had spread to the entire kingdom, and there was no way to stop it, because the half-blood elves no longer believed in the royal court. So the new elven king had to turn to the priests of the temple, hoping to use the power of the gods to quell this civil war. But what the royal court and the priests did not expect was that the sun god did not respond to their prayers, and without the help of the gods, the temple was helpless in the face of such a difficult situation.
Seeing that this civil war is intensifying, and more and more innocent elves are involved, the Solomon family stands up. As a family of gods who have been committed to helping the half-blood elves, they have a very high prestige among the half-blood elves, coupled with the previous generation of elven kings who disobeyed the gods for the sake of the half-blood elves, it can be said that in addition to the Moon God Temple, Solomon is the only elven nobleman they trust.
The current head of Solomon's house, after meeting with the principal of the half-blood elves, went straight to the royal court. In front of the Elf King and the High Priest of the Sun Temple, he put forward three conditions for the half-blood elves. The first is that the half-blood elves have changed back to the title of half-elves, the second is that even without the Moon Temple, the newly born purebred elves can still be separated from slavery, and the third is that there must be laws to protect the safety of half-blood elves.
After hearing these three conditions, the Elf King breathed a sigh of relief, but the High Priest frowned. Because the third condition, which seems to be difficult, is nothing compared to ending this civil war, and the second condition, given the tradition of the elves, is not unacceptable, but the most troublesome is the first seemingly simple question of title, because it involves the oracle given by the sun god at the beginning, and if you want to change it, you must get the permission of the gods, and judging from the situation that there was no response to the last prayer, it is likely that the sun god will refuse to respond to the prayer of sacrifice again.
However, seeing that the number of elven deaths was increasing every day, the high priest had to risk angering the gods and prayed, only to his surprise again, the sun god actually answered his prayer and granted the conditions for the name change. The high priest, who was extremely excited, thanked the gods for their mercy and sent the message back to the royal court, and the head of Solomon's house, who had been waiting here, seemed to have received some verification after hearing the news, and then left the royal court as soon as possible.
Because he knew that the half-blood elves at this time were already at the end of their crossbows, and the seemingly evenly matched battle was just the appearance, it was entirely because they were fighting for their lives. After the opponent adapts to this style of play, the gap in equipment and level will become more and more prominent. The gap between slaves who have to work every day to survive and civilians who have no pressure to survive and who have been somewhat trained cannot be bridged by hard work.
So the reality is that the casualties of the half-blood elves are getting bigger and bigger, and they are on the verge of collapse at any time, and at that time, only a small number of half-blood elves may escape from the forest and survive, but they will also carry the curse of the gods for the rest of their lives, and life is better than death. That's why Solomon negotiated with the half-blood elves and chose three conditions that were not very excessive, rather than a requirement that would inevitably anger the gods.
The civil war that affected the entire kingdom finally came to an end, and according to statistics, in just one month, the death toll of elves reached as many as 5 million, more than half of the total population. The half-blood elves are even more tragic, with more than seventy percent of the total number of deaths, that is, more than 7 million, and only a little more than 2 million survived.
Although the war is over, the elven forest no longer has the tranquility and peace of the past, and the hatred between the two elves has been completely buried. The half-blood elves were officially changed back to half-elves, and the law protecting half-elves was officially implemented in the kingdom. But their living conditions were even worse, because few elves were willing to take half-elf slaves anymore, and without a stable source of food, half-elves had to survive by scavenging leftovers, or going deep into the forest to compete with wild beasts for food.
If you can't own property, you can't engage in production, and even with the help of Solomon and a few compassionate nobles, how much can you help. The half-elves are in decline, and their numbers are getting smaller and smaller.