94 Solomon and the Half-Elf (3)
After hearing Lin Mu's words, the Great Sage of Ritatien leaked a somewhat surprised look, but he didn't make any comments, but nodded and continued the story of the Elf King.
At that time, the god of the moon was not hidden, and was still the patron saint of the elves. Just as the High Priest of the Sun Temple arrived at the royal court, the High Priest of the Moon Temple also arrived, because she had also received the oracle from the Moon God. "The elves are allowed to marry with foreigners, and I will give protection to these newly-born elves." Although the oracles of the two gods occasionally intersect, as the guardian gods of the same race, they basically belong to the allies of the same camp, so this oracle that is obviously completely opposite to the sun god scares the sacrifices of the Moon Temple. But as the most staunch believer in the gods, the Moon God High Priest still resolutely chose to carry out the oracle.
So in the royal court, the highest symbol of power of the elf race, the high priest of the two gods clashed head-on for the first time, but that's all, because they all knew that the direction of things at this time was not decided by them mortals, and the elf king as a party could only be a spectator waiting for the judgment of the gods.
After a month-long ordeal, the three parties finally waited for a new oracle, "Elves are allowed to intermarry with foreigners, but all half-blood elves born of offspring will become slaves for life!" This time, the oracles of the two gods were finally unified, but there was a slight difference in the place where the fate of the half-blood elves was decided. One has the word "life", and the other is not. However, such a small difference doesn't matter in the eyes of the great priests, they are suffering a lot these days, for fear that the two gods will launch a divine war because of this, and the elf clan will definitely be doomed.
But it was these two words that were ignored that changed the fate of an unknown number of living beings.
With the new oracle, the elven king is relieved, not only does he keep his throne, but he can also be with his lover in the future, the only problem is the fate of their descendants. Because the elven bloodline is naturally stronger than that of humans, their children are the same as normal elves in appearance, so they are not considered half-blood elves, and they are exempted from the fate of becoming slaves. But this is only the first generation, as a family of gods, there is always a need to spread out, and there are more descendants, and sooner or later there will be half-blood elves, although the probability is very low. However, as a mortal, he could only obey the will of the gods at this time, and he did not dare to announce the oracle without the permission of the temple, so he had to bury his worries in the bottom of his heart. But what he didn't expect was that the cause and effect he caused would explode in such a surprise way.
The madness of the Terran merchants chasing profits is well known to the whole continent, so after the elves opened the door to trade, after the initial temptation, countless merchants flocked to the forest, which was like a treasure land that had never been explored for them, and there were things that could make money everywhere. Therefore, the Terran caravan in the city of Nechester is getting bigger and bigger, and the number of humans is also increasing, and after having a certain base of population, anything with a low probability can happen, such as cross-racial love.
With the emergence of more and more elves who intermarry with humans, there are more and more descendants born naturally, and slowly occasionally elves find that their children have an appearance that is different from ordinary elves, such as shorter ears, eyes are no longer blue, etc., but because they have long been prepared when they are combined with humans, and the probability of appearance is too low, it did not attract the attention of the elf king, until the second and third generations of such non-purebred elves appeared in large numbers, and the royal court did not react, It's just that at this time, they have spread all over the cities and villages of the elves, causing the shock of the whole kingdom.
It is said that with the extremely low reproductive ability of the elf race, this should not have happened, but because those non-purebred elves have a part of the blood of the human race, their fertility has been greatly improved, and in less than a hundred years, three generations have been reproduced, and the elf race is too long and low fertility The work of counting the population is based on a hundred years, so the time for the royal court to receive the news is so delayed. According to statistics, the number of non-purebred elves at that time had reached nearly 100,000, although it may not even be a splash compared to the population of nearly 100 million elves, but after all, it has become a scale, and with their reproduction speed, it is likely that it will not take thousands of years to catch up with the current number of elves. Thousands of years is really not too long for elves...
When the Elven King learned of this, he was silent alone in the room for a long time. Then two new decrees were issued the next day, the first was that all non-purebred elves would henceforth be called half-elves, and the second was to gather all half-elves in a village adjacent to the Terran border for ease of management and to limit their numbers. As soon as the second decree was issued, it was opposed by many elves, most of whom were relatives and friends of half-elves, as well as some of them intermarried with the human race but gave birth to children who were pure-blooded elves, and they were also worried that their offspring would appear half-elves. However, the Elven King was very determined to push the executive order this time, completely ignoring all opponents, and relying on his prestige, he forcibly asked the military headquarters to send forest rangers to transport the half-elves.
In less than a week, the half-elves of the entire kingdom were transported to the small village on the border by various means, and the resources consumed by the teleportation alone were a huge amount, and these costs were completely borne by the royal court, and fortunately, after opening the door to trade, the royal court could receive a large amount of taxes every year, otherwise these expenses would have caused a deficit in the treasury.
The day before gathering all the half-elves, the Elven King himself went to the Moon Temple and did not leave until late. At dawn the next day, the last of the half-elves also arrived in the village. To the surprise of the forest rangers and half-elves, the elven king also came to the village at this time, and at this time, the elven king was only accompanied by a few guards and all of them were dressed in hunting clothes, and at first glance, they were deliberately disguised for fear of being discovered. After arriving in the village, the Elven King urgently issued a new order to escort all the half-elves across the border to the Terran territory!
Although it was not known why, the prestige of the Elven King was extremely high at this time, and the forest rangers faithfully carried out the order and began to call the half-elves who had just settled in the village. And hearing the news that they were going to continue to hurry, the half-elves began to protest, although they didn't know where to go, they were already very tired, but in the case of knowing that the elf king personally participated in the escort, they had to leave their dissatisfaction in their stomachs, and not everyone had the courage to say no to the king head-on.
The team set off in such a stumbling situation, and the elf king was in a hurry along the way, as if something was chasing behind him, but the team was almost to the border and nothing happened. Because the village was originally very close to the border, so when the sun was about to set, everyone came to the place where they could see the border with the naked eye, which was the outermost part of the elven forest, and the human kingdom and the elven kingdom were divided by the forest, the forest belonged to the elves, and the forest belonged to the humans.
However, at this time, not only the world outside the forest appeared in front of them, but also a small but well-equipped army, each of them was wearing full body armor, wearing heavy helmets, and the long swords and shields in their hands were shining with magical light, and the silver shining armor was engraved with the enchantment of the sun pattern on the chest. At the head of the procession stood an old priest in a white robe, a red cloak trimmed with gold trim, and a red high hat, and in his hand a golden scepter taller than himself, with a sun-patterned emblem at the top of the scepter so bright that it was impossible to see directly with the naked eye.
At this time, the forest rangers in the team also recognized these people, the Templars of the Sun Temple and the High Priest of the Sun Temple!