Chapter 183: The Celestial Song Saintess's Preferences
In the minds of ordinary people, the Golden Flame family is the legend of the mercenary world, and it is the ultimate goal of countless mercenary groups.
But a big nobleman like Lady Loriss knows that the reason why the Golden Yan Family was able to rise was not only because of their huge power in the mercenary world, the Golden Flame Dragon blood flowing on their bodies, and their outstanding contributions to the front line of the war with the orcs, but more importantly, they actually had a deep elven background behind them.
After the elves retreated from the continent, the remaining High Elves split into three branches, and the Sun Elves ascended the "Hanging Gardens" and completely closed off their connection with the ground, leaving themselves self-sufficient in the matte moon that cruised around the land, only approaching the earth briefly once every seventy-six years.
The Star Elves retreated to the Demon Forest of the Kaichen Peninsula, relying on this mysterious region where many monsters from the Mythical Era remained, resisting harassment and prying eyes from the outside world.
The Moon Elves, the most numerous and powerful of the three high elves, still retain the establishment of the royal court, although they retreated to the elven island on the sea, but in the countries of the southern peninsula of the mainland, in the Black Continent on the other side of the Harp Sea, they still maintain a certain sphere of influence.
Although the number of elves has dropped to the point where it is difficult to threaten the hegemony of the human continent, the exquisite magic of the high elves and the number of high mages who have been baptized by war still make them have a pivotal position in this world.
In the dark millennium era, when the Holy See was at its strongest, it was not that he didn't want to completely wipe out these alien races in one fell swoop, but the consequence of taking the initiative to start a war was that the orcs and elves joined forces to counterattack, the Thunder Fortress was broken by the orcs, the Flower Language Plain was once occupied by the orcs, and the Tower of Babel fortress stationed on the front line of the Burial God Desert was taken by the elves in one fell swoop, and the shattered star cannon left by the magic empire was completely destroyed by the elves, and the million-strong Eastern Crusade army that the Holy See worked hard to assemble was destroyed three times in a row, and half of the five major knights were disabled, and the strongest Holy Grail Knights were even damaged to only three people at one time, even the Immortal Sword Saint, the strongest member of the Church at that time, fell to the hands of the strongest War Saint of the orcs.
If it weren't for the profound heritage of the human world, the emergence of strong heroes in an endless stream, and the use of forbidden spell mages as a deterrent, the continental hegemony of the human world would almost have been completely reversed in this joint counterattack by alien forces.
It was also this war that caused the power of the Church to suffer a heavy loss, and the knights and nobles took the opportunity to rise and overwhelm the power of the Church, ushering in the age of empires dominated by the knights.
However, although the orcs and elves gained the advantage at the beginning of this war, the later phase of stalemate made the two races realize the strong heritage of mankind and the unshakable hegemony of the continent. The land invaded by the orcs was eventually driven out by humans in the following centuries and relegated to the great eastern wilderness.
The elves' response was a little smarter, they did not directly occupy the land at the beginning, but controlled the land in the south by supporting the agent model, and even took the initiative to withdraw from the human sphere of influence and preserve their strength when the human race launched a major counteroffensive strategy.
Since then, the elves' policy towards humans has changed from frontal confrontation to active interference policy, constantly selecting heroes and forces from humans to fund, as the human world's pro-elf forces to cultivate, for this reason, even at the expense of sending a lot of pure-blood elves, combined with the heroes and elites in the human race, and many half-elves were born.
The Golden Yan family is a representative of the rise in this context. The first generation of Huang Jinyan was just a small mercenary, who met an elven companion during his adventure career, and in a thrilling adventure, the two sparked a spark of love and became a partner.
With the help of the elves, Huang Jinyan, who was originally just a member of countless obscure mercenary groups, developed rapidly, and gradually mastered the unique channels of trade with elves, and finally made great contributions in the war to expel the orcs, and successfully transformed from a mercenary group to a territorial knight.
Today, the "Gem Chamber of Commerce" of the Golden Yan family has almost monopolized trade with the elven world, and with a huge network of mercenaries, their caravans cover the entire continent, from the Death Desert of the Black Continent, to the Azure Inland Sea of the Northland, from the Orc Wasteland in the east, to the Seven Kingdoms of the Strait in the west, there are chamber of commerce fleets decorated with beautiful "Jewel Flowers" everywhere.
Although the Silver Tide City is quite far away from the territory of the Golden Yan Family, as an important trade hub for the Harp Sea trade, it is also an important stronghold of the Gem Chamber of Commerce.
And the reason why Mrs. Loriss knows the history of the Golden Yan family so well, in addition to the gem chamber being her important partner, is also because the Golden Yan family is also one of the key marriage families of the mermaid family.
The mermaid family has seven daughters who have married into the Golden Yan family, and in exchange for the bloodline of the Golden Yan family to integrate into the mermaid family. It is precisely because of this close relationship that the Gem Chamber of Commerce will increase its investment and spend huge sums of money to build a magnificent grand theater in the city of silver tides.
"Lady Loris's here!"
Before Mrs. Loriss got out of the carriage, a middle-aged man who was chubby, wearing a small round hat, and his eyes were almost narrowed into a line, hurriedly trotted all the way over, and offered twelve points of enthusiasm to Loris!
"Welcome, welcome, welcome, Lady Loris, your arrival will make the whole theater shine brightly!"
"It's you, President Ronald!"
Mrs. Loris's identity was immediately recognized, it was Ronald, the head of the Gem Chamber of Commerce's branch in Silver Tide City.
"Has Her Highness arrived?"
Mrs. Loris, while raising her gloved right hand, asked with a smile as she kissed the back of President Ronald's hand in a ladylike manner.
Of course, she came to this theater not only to watch the theater performance, but also for a more important reason, because at this time today, Her Royal Highness Angela, the Holy Maiden of Heavenly Song, will come here to watch the miracle play.
Speaking of which, Her Royal Highness the Holy Maiden of Heavenly Song and the Holy Maidens of the past generations are not very willing, she does not seem to like the serious style of the church, usually does not like to live in churches and monasteries, but lives in the castle dedicated by the Silver Tide Council to show respect, on weekdays, she rarely presides over sermons, and prefers to go to the theater to watch various operas and concerts, showing a great interest in art.