Chapter 619: Fate and Elves
"The most favored and beloved child of the Mother Goddess - the elf."
If the creator has his own preferences, then the elves are undoubtedly the most favored children.
The handsome face, the long lifespan, the powerful and preferred talent, the possibility of dual cultivation of magic and martial arts, the potential of the superior elves and the royal elves beyond the mundane, all of these are the grace of the Creator.
And these favors have also created a unique elven culture, and their talent for fighting and long lifespans have brought them to the pinnacle of the multiverse in magic and martial arts, and formed a hierarchical but strict social structure.
Born with beautiful faces, coupled with their sensitivity and unremitting pursuit of beautiful things, their art, music, and literature have reached the point of luxury and waste, and this has also allowed them to have a long-standing racial culture, which will not fall apart during the long ice age.
The elves, the most beloved children of the Creator, are a reality that no living creature can deny.
No civilization has such a long history as theirs, and the oldest golden elves are the golden people who were born with the first ancient dragons and demons, and it can be said that they were born at the beginning of the world.
In the history of elves, they have fought with trolls, exchanged technology with sage civilizations, and even taught ancient and modern humans what magic is, and their glory is too long and too long.
"Don't discuss history and art in front of elves, just as you don't boast about courage in front of orcs." This old proverb may say a lot.
Jihad is cruel, and other dominant races have lost their status as "protagonists" and often disappear in history, such as the Troll Empire, the Sage Civilization, the Dwarven City-States, and the Undead Republic, while the elves who have experienced several holy wars have only gradually withdrawn from the stage of history.
This is not only because of the grace of the Creator and the potential of the race. It is also because in the past, the elves were very good at dealing with other races, and at many key points in history, they stood on the side of the victors.
The Republic of the Undead, the Sage Civilization, and the Mage Nation of Modern Humanity, all of whom have been more or less blessed by the Elves, and under the guidance of the Golden Elves, the Elven Empire has always shown inexplicable friendliness to the nouveau riche races except for the trolls.
But perhaps it is precisely because of this slightly weak style of doing things. Let the golden elves gradually be opposed by the elves who yearn for greater glory and eternity.
"Why should we bow our heads to those inferior monkeys!"
"Why did we move to the forests and mountains?"
"Why can't we just exterminate the inferior races?"
With the passage of time and the coming and going of the elemental tides, the Golden Elves, like other races from ancient times, entered the final stage, and the decrease in elemental power led to a gradual decrease in the fertility rate of the Golden Elves as an ancient race, and by the end of the time, the birth of each Golden Elf could allow the empire to hold the grandest celebrations.
On the other hand, the holy wars and racial wars of the past dynasties have damaged the top Golden Elf Immortals, and the spiritual decline has caused the senior elves to fall into eternal sleep. The new generation is insufficient, and other lower elves and upper elves naturally gradually occupy the upper strata of society.
Doesn't it sound familiar? Yes, the current Moon Elf and Silver Elf societies are also facing the same problem, the quantity and quality of the lower races have risen, and they are naturally not used to looking at the upper races that are getting poorer and weaker, which has nothing to do with the stupid and wise decisions made by the upper races, it is simply that with the social change, the power of all levels of society is rebalanced. The new mainstream of society has re-opted for agents.
It's like the transformation of the productive forces has led to the transformation of society, in the magical world. The replacement of the upper echelons of combat power and strategic leaders has naturally led to social change, or the whole society is calling for change.
At this time, no matter what the golden elves did, it was wrong, so the high-ranking elves holding the banner of freedom collectively rebelled. The great rebellion is not only a mortal matter, but the great reshuffle of the elven god system is the key, and the final result is that all the golden elves will be destroyed, and the gods will fall and mortals will die. Only Heloise reawakened after a few hundred years, but she was no longer human.
But success is also Xiao He is also defeated, the golden elf clan who has ruled the elf clan for countless years is obviously wise, even if it must be decentralized, they have handed over the country's most important military, religion, people's livelihood, and diplomacy to different high-ranking elves, although such a political structure has led to the emergence of family groups in the high-ranking elves, but it also allows them to restrain each other.
Moreover, it also planted the cause of the destruction of the future.
And after the existence of the golden elf at the top fell, the four high-ranking elves with similar strength faced the most headache, they were not much different from each other, and no one was willing to be willing to become subordinates, but it would be too stupid to draw a sword and see it immediately, so for a while, the parliamentary system and the senatorial system seemed to become the only choice.
Outcome? Now the scattered elven tribes and elven kingdoms are proof of this, some things only need to look at the results, the elves from prosperity to decline, the turning point is the collapse of the elven empire, the loss of the balance of the golden elves, so that everything began to get out of control.
The Dark Elves and Rose were banished as losers in the struggle, the Wood Elves and the Druid Alliance withdrew from the Elven Empire to join the neutral natural camp, the other high-ranking Elves defeated the Wood Elves, and the Moon Elves and the Silver Elves broke up, none of these historical events would have happened if the Golden Elves were still around.
When the share of the head on the top of the head was taken away, the elves and the elven gods all swelled up after tasting the joy of victory and power, and they all thought that they could lead the elves to a better tomorrow instead of the "rotten and weak golden elves...... Then the high-ranking elves, who were already different in nature, began to meddle in each other's realms, and the constant friction eventually escalated into a civil war, followed by a holy war, which made the elven empire retreat into the tribal system.
If you talk about the rapid defeat, I am afraid that there are few races comparable to the high-ranking elves, of course, they themselves will not admit it, everything is "other people's fault", "all the fault of this world", "all the conspiracy of the golden elves"...... Although there is more or less the responsibility of the golden elves, it is really miserable that people will be dug up and shot.
When the elves were separated, everyone was very happy, and the idea of "finally not having these drags" was probably there, but the days were getting more and more difficult. Naturally, there will be people who miss the old dynasty, and as the entire race is surpassed by humans and other "short-lived monkeys" and becomes more and more marginalized, the elves are having a better and better time, and they begin to miss the era of the Great Empire again.
As the difficult years accumulate, more and more high-ranking elves miss the glory of the past. In the eyes of some old antiques, I feel that there is a bit of irony of fate.
And now, the elves have once again reached a turning point in their fate.
The Moon Elves have nominally established a new elven empire, which can be regarded as the fulfillment of a long-cherished wish, and at the moment, the fulfillment of this long-cherished wish is indeed of great practical significance.
First of all, it nominally rules all the elves, then. When the imperial capital is threatened, are the elven powerhouses obliged to rescue? And if someone escapes from the Moon Ring Capital at this time, can it be said that he is a deserter and a shameful traitor?
The answer is yes, there will always be no shortage of old-fashioned and dogmatic among the elves, and the moon elves have not given up hope, they long for even a glimmer of hope.
Every day, countless reinforcements depart from all over the world for the Moon Wheel Capital. There are wood elf druids and rangers who come out of the forest, and there are half-elves and human mercenaries who admire elven culture. There are young warriors who aspire to merit and glory.
"Maybe the information is wrong? Maybe the Devil Tide isn't as desperate as it is recorded in history? Perhaps, we still have reinforcements, we have the favor of the gods, we can survive this demonic tide, we can survive this calamity. ”
This fluke may seem stupid, but if you put yourself in their shoes. There is a highly accurate prediction that an island nation on Earth is about to sink into the sea in ten days, what will happen?
Due to the large population and the short time, the Great Escape was too late. And even if those islanders flee to other countries and are kindly accepted, but they become refugees, the country is completely finished, and even their homeland is gone, is this nation still alive? Even if he exists, can he still be independent and free?
And if there are enemies on all sides like elves, and the national elves are still the most valuable slaves in the eyes of humans, the actual situation is even more terrifying than what was just assumed.
If there is a great escape of elves, and countless elves flee to other countries in chaos, will there be more than a dozen slave hunting brigades jumping out of the border line on the human side? Counting on the discipline and lower limit of those human nobles?
Truth be told, this kind of assumption and decision is too difficult to make, but no matter how you look at it, no matter what decision the elf makes, it is a desperate sight.
If the decision to flee is made, it will be equivalent to announcing the end of the Moon Elf Empire in advance, and the ensuing elven catastrophe and humanitarian disaster, but no elf high-level can bear the heavy responsibility of history, in their eyes, it is also equivalent to the slow death of the entire elf race, it is better to unite to face the apocalyptic crisis.
Even, driven by all kinds of luck mentality, there have been rumors that the demon tide will not appear in the Moon Ring Capital, this is just a rumor spread by humans in order to disintegrate the elven empire,
Not to mention, this rumor is spreading, and many people really believe it, after all, people always like to listen to what is beneficial to them.
Now, the countries of the entire world are stunned by the Moon Elves, and they actually didn't refute the rumors! This seems to be an official acquiescence, they are actually whitewashing the peace?
The attitude of the Moon Elves is very clear, now I have at least rebuilt the Elf Empire and left traces in history, if I can survive it, I will make a lot of money, and if I can use the righteousness to recruit some more reinforcements, maybe the chances of surviving the crisis will increase a lot.
And in the eyes of some people, this kind of luck mentality is the most stupid, you have fallen into the pit, at this time pull people into the pit together, everyone is happy to die together.
At this time, the most rational thing is naturally to shout "leave me alone", and then obediently go into the pit to die, so as to retain the elven blood as much as possible, but many times, especially when life is threatened, the perceptual instinct of intelligent creatures will far override reason.
Perhaps, those split silver elves saw through all this and chose to go north, but they seemed to be too late.
Perhaps, it was the creator's reluctance to see the elves fall that drove the invisible hand of fate and touched the key people at a critical moment.
"Roland come here, I have found something here, which makes people very concerned."
At this time, I was also a little surprised to hear Heloise's exclamation, because in the soul link, there was a rare surprise and joy, could there be anything that could make the well-informed Heloise so happy.
I wasn't looking too much forward to the Succubus Lord's treasury. Because these old fellows have a habit of not putting real treasures in their own homes, or being robbed by the enemy will lose people and money...... Well, I admit that I also dug up a bunch of treasure troves and drew a bunch of real and fake treasure maps.
As for the treasure trove at home? Leave something behind, so that others will not be able to go home empty-handed and kill people to vent their anger. After all, no one can really succeed in preventing thieves for a thousand days.
I looked at Didina with some surprise, I didn't expect her to be so "tender"? But then, judging from the undisguised surprise on her face, it seemed that she didn't expect it either.
Walking into the treasure house, it was not surprising to see a bunch of dazzling golden lights, but I didn't need to identify them, those gold coin mountains were either the fantasy gold coins of the little goblins, or the cursed gold coins of the devils.
Instead, in the midst of the golden light, Heloise and Margaret were busy around some shabby antique furniture. One of them, which he wipes repeatedly with a wet towel, is a white oak classical dresser.
"Roland, this is the dresser I used back then!"
Heloise only showed me the same treasure, perhaps because she was too excited to see her own supplies, and her mental age seemed to be degrading.
Just looking for me for this? I said angrily.
"Yes, yes, the furniture of the year can be regarded as super antiques, ....... strange that you have proved your fossil-like age again?"
At this time in the past, the dead cat had turned into a flying cat and bitten it. Today, she is a little excited and a little strange.
"Hmph. I know that you don't know the goods, look. ”
Heloise stood in front of the mirror on the dresser, clearly in her adult form, but in the dilapidated mirror was the blonde young elf.
She took a deep breath and tapped her fingertips against the mirror. But there are ripples rippling slowly.
She touched her neck, and the girl in the mirror did the same, but there was an extra golden sapphire necklace, and the next moment, there was an extra golden necklace around Heloise's neck.
She nodded her forehead playfully. A small, lovely golden crown appears on the forehead.
She stretched out her hand to the mirror and shook it, and there was an extra golden scepter in and out of the mirror.
"The Tears of Avis, the Will of the Elven Emperor, the Last Golden Crown...... The Golden Elf Royal Family's artifact trio! The Lost Elven Emperor's Certificate! ”
Didina actually recognized this treasure that had disappeared from history, and I re-estimated her age and value again, but this moment, I inexplicably felt that the situation was wrong, as if something super troubled had been entangled.
Looking at the smiling Heloise and accidentally picking up the baby, I should have felt pleasantly surprised, but this series of "coincidences" reminded me of the previous conversation with Catiro (the former god of fate).
"Catiro, can you really control your destiny? So, can you help me change my luck...... I don't need money or anything, just give me a little bit of feminine luck and give me a slightly more normal woman......"
“…… I feel a little ashamed to be able to pretend I don't know you? ”
At that time, the Hades had been established, and the two had a sneaky conversation in private, and Katiro was in a good mood, but it was rare to joke.
But I really wasn't joking at the time, I beat my daughter at the age or the old X, it's not a shame to say it, it's miserable, I just want a normal girlfriend to form a normal family, with two normal children, is this too much?
But then, Katiro is passing by, and since he talks about fate, he must also be serious.
"Reroute? Others may be able to, but you can't, and each individual is pulled by a myriad of threads of cause and effect, shouting that they are free from the shackles of fate, not knowing that it is also part of fate. ”
"Every being has its own destiny, or an ordinary life, or a heroic life, in the river of fate, but there is no essential difference. This thread of fate was decided at the time of their birth. ”
As he said this, Katiro gave me a playful look, as if there was something in his words.
"As the caretaker of the Temple of Destiny and the River of Destiny, I can cut and relink the threads of cause and effect, but if you give an individual some aspects of good luck, you will naturally give him the same weight of bad luck, which is the basic rule of fate."
"There is a limit to this change, I can watch the thread of other people's fate in the long river of fate, but after leaving, I will automatically forget it, and I can't reveal a single thing. Whatever change I make, it's part of my destiny. ”
When I heard this, I was not surprised.
"It doesn't matter if you have money or something, peach blossom luck is enough."
"Maybe it's a change of fate. And you, from the beginning, are not in the river of cause and effect, you can change the fate of the people around you, but you have no good luck and bad luck at all, you should be unlucky...... It's okay to say the worst luck. ”
I still remember him looking at me with incomprehensible sympathy in his eyes.
"I can implicate other people's marriage threads on you, but this is tantamount to challenging the original basic rules of the river of fate, throwing cause and effect into the void, and in the end, not only will I be punished, but the peach blossom luck will definitely become the peach blossom catastrophe......"
"Then you have a hair!? How can the master of fate be so useless? You're still a powerful god, so it's useless. ”
At that time, I was very upset and scolded directly, but at that time, Katiro laughed.
"Yes, the god of fate is indeed useless in the face of the shadowless and invisible hand of fate, in the face of the inevitability of countless accidents that eventually converge......"
is obviously talking about his own powerlessness, but the master of fate seems to be showing off the greatness of fate.
"....... no matter how I change and arrange, I can't resist the fateful arrangement. Roland, I give you a piece of advice, maybe you are not in fate, but the people and things you are involved in are also in the long river of fate, unless you are willing to cut off all concerns, in the end, you still can't escape. ”
That playful smile made my scalp tingle, and I was once again sure that the most hated thing in the world was the god stick, especially the god stick in the middle of talking.
Now, looking at Heloise as she showed her treasure, I felt more and more numb in my scalp.
"Damn the god, where did I get pitted again?" (To be continued......)