Prince gave Adam a defiant look as he threw the question, but Adam really didn't know about it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The dark elves are a type of elves, and they can't answer that they were elves before the Fall. Will be laughed to death by Prince.

Fortunately, the others didn't know the answer, so Adam didn't look particularly embarrassed when facing Prince defiantly.

It's like finding that in modern society, even the top students can't answer the questions raised by the teacher, and suddenly they don't feel ignorant.

That's how Adam comforted himself at this moment.

The second round hit Adam, I don't know if it was a success or a failure.

But Prince still explained it to everyone.

"Before the establishment of the Siser Empire, it was the Elven Empire that ruled the continent. At that time, the elves in the elven empire were mainly divided into two categories, the high elves and the ordinary elves. The High Elves are the nobles of the Elves, holding as much as sixty percent of the power and wealth of the entire Elven Empire, but the population is less than 10% of the entire Elven society. ”

Adam was stunned, whether it was a rumor or a novel, the elves have always given people the impression that in addition to their excellent and exquisite appearance, they are peace-loving and artistic, and do not eat the fireworks of the world.

It was only then that Adam discovered that the elves also had the mundane reality that a few privileged classes controlled most of the wealth.

"Among them, the noble high elves among the elves are divided into two types: sun elves and moon elves, who have a long lifespan and are natural archers and mages. However, before the establishment of the Elven Empire, there was a third type of the original High Elves. ”

Listening to Prince, Adam almost knew what the third spirit was.

Sure enough, then Prince said: "It is a kind of high elf called the star elf, and the sun elf and the moon elf are all nobles among the elves. ”

"How did they become the Dark Elves they are now?"

"Curse, a powerful curse." Prince said, "Under that terrible curse, all the Star Elves degenerated into evil and cunning creatures of darkness and engaged in a great battle with the other Elves of the time. ”

"In the end, these fallen star elves were defeated and driven into the dark regions of the first layer of the underworld. Since then, the Star Elves, one of the three High Elves, have disappeared, and the Dark Elves, one of the dark races, have been born and become the rulers of the Dark Regions. ”

"Wait, you just mentioned that the population of the High Elves in the Elven Empire is less than 10%, and the Star Elves, as one of the High Elves, should not be a large number." Adam asked.

"That's right."

"The population is small, but the dark elves are very good at infighting, how did they unify the first layer of the dark region of the underworld?"

"Dilute the bloodline." Prince spat out a word that was very unfamiliar to everyone.

"I've only heard of purifying blood." Martin muttered.

"High elves are natural darlings, and once they reach adulthood, they almost have the power of the silver rank, and it is very easy to have a better talent at the silver level. But they also have an Achilles' heel, which is the low fertility rate. ”

This is the same as the dragon race, the adult dragons are basically the golden rank, but the relative number of them has not been very large.

"After the Fall, the Star Elves gave up their powerful bloodline as High Elves and chose to dilute them, exchanging their strong racial talents and long lives for high fertility. Therefore, the lifespan and talent of the current dark elves are not much different from those of humans. ”

***

Three days later, Adam and his party had come to the Green Cloak Forest near the passage.

Because adventurers and merchants often traveled to the underworld to explore or trade, a camp was formed in the remote part of the Green Cloak Forest, where adventurers of various professions came and went.

However, the atmosphere in the camp was a little strange at this time, and it was not as noisy and lively as usual, and several adventurers in uniform still had wounds on their bodies.

"Could it be that the races of the underworld are planning to rush out of here and fight the adventure group?"

Martin and Pepin took Spencer to inquire about the situation, and it was always right to gather enough information.

Adam took Andrew with him, Prince took Ben, and the four of them found a place to rest in the camp.

"I heard you're from Celtic?" Prince asked stiffly.

"That's right, Falcon City in the Federation of Seven Cities."

"So the Church of the Dawn?"

"What?" Adam didn't keep up with Prince's train of thought at all.

"You were on the blacklist of the Church of the Dawn, and you don't know about it?" is on the blacklist of the Church of the Dawn, and it all flows into the hands of black market bounty hunters, and he has to be notified by an outsider about such a thing.

For the first time, Prince felt a hint of admiration for Adam in his heart.

"Blacklist." Adam glanced at Andrew, who shook his head and signaled that he didn't know.

"Here you go." Prince took out a piece of parchment and tossed it to Adam, "So you'd better be careful lately, it would be too boring if it was dealt with by the priests of the Church of the Dawn." ”

He also wanted Adam to live well, and then watched in pain as he married Bella.

Adam saw a portrait of himself, and to be honest, this body created by the sanctuary space was really good, even if it was painted on parchment.

"I'll have to take a long detour when I go back." Andrew reminded Adam of a fact.

Swaggering through Frans to Celtic was impossible for Adam unless he had the strength to get as close to the Golden Rank as the two of them in the Church of the Scourge.

"Sooner or later, I'll settle accounts with them."

Adam has no real grudge against the Church of the Dawn, and at the outset Adam regrets that he did not go to the Council of Nobles to join the Church of the Dawn. Who would have thought that there would be a conflict of interest between him and the Dawn Church because of their different positions, and it would slowly evolve into the current situation.

Prince was skeptical of Adam's ambitions.

"The strength of the bronze rank is openly working against the Dawn Church, you are the most daring white mage I have ever seen."

"It's just a conflict of interest, and it's not worth making a fuss about." Adam thought for a moment and asked, "If one day you have a conflict of interest with the Harvest Sect, will you watch your own interests suffer?" ”

"I think that as the eldest prince of the Soke Kingdom, the first in line to the throne, I will not have a conflict of interest with the Harvest Church." Prince said confidently.

"What if one day the Harvest Church fully supports your brother in the struggle with you for the throne?" Finally seized the opportunity, where would Adam let Prince go so easily, and asked relentlessly.

Prince was silent for a while and said, "If something like that really happens, it only means that I am not a qualified prince." ”

Adam pouted, not at all satisfied with Prince's answer.

Adam's question just now, Prince really hadn't thought about it before, if that really happened, would he really be willing?

He didn't know.

Fortunately, Martin and they came back at this time, which made him breathe a sigh of relief and put the problem behind him for the time being.

"What happened?"

"Hey, there's good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

"Good news." Adam found that he could always get all sorts of news from Martin's mouth.

"The good news is that when we set off from here to the Underworld, we won't have to pay anything to the party that has mastered this passage, it's free."

Free is a very popular thing in every world, and it is still today.

Although he didn't have to spend money on Adam, he was still a little happy.

"What's the bad news?" Prince asked.

"As you know, the passage to the underworld is generally held by the major powers, and it is the Fangs and the Shadows that hold this passage. According to their rules, each time you use this passage, you need to pay a fee to both parties at the same time, which is about ten gold coins per person. The adventurers who have been using this passage all this time have also consciously complied with it. ”

"But there was an accident four days ago." Martin gloated, "The two mages were stopped by a member of the Fangs Adventure Group while they were on their way to the Underworld and demanded payment, only to be refused. ”

"And then?"

"Of course there was a fight. This kind of thing had not been encountered before, and soon the leader of the silver-rank fanged adventure group came out to fight the mage, and as a result, he was almost killed. ”

"It doesn't seem to have much to do with free." Adam would not have thought that the mere defeat would have waived all of their expenses.

"Of course, what's next is the point." Martin was enthusiastic to explain to Adam, "Those two mages cast a curse on the two groups of Fangs and Shadows before entering the passage, and all the members of the two groups that were here that day had not eaten anything for four whole days, and there was not a sip of water. ”

"Is it because of that curse?" Prince also came to be interested.

"That's right, it's the curse. Poor fellows, they were starved to death, but they couldn't eat any food. ”

This curse is indeed vicious enough to starve people to death. If you say that you starve to death without food, it is okay, but what is desperate is that all kinds of delicacies are placed in front of you, and you can't swallow them by all means.

"This happened, and the two adventuring groups no longer have the energy to send people to guard the passage to collect fees, and they are looking for the white mage and the priest to lift the curse like crazy. But ......"

Martin was a little worried: "This means that we may encounter these two powerful mages when we are in the underworld, and it will be bad if there is an accident." ”

"Just stay out of the way." If you really don't want to encounter a black mage who can cast a curse on this evil black magic, the best way is to avoid it in advance.

"Have you ever asked what those two mages look like?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Martin hurriedly said, "They said it very clearly, those two mages are very easy to identify. One of them was covered in white bandages, like a mummy. ”

"Why are they again?"