Chapter 600: The Affliction of Mankind
The territorial forces that belong to the High Elves occupy a small area, about 30,000 square kilometers. The land of the High Elves was surrounded by the Mahakan Mountains, with the future Kingdom of Redania to the northwest, the future Kodwin to the northeast, the future Temeria to the west, and the future Aden to the east. As such, it is very close to the future Kingdom of Aden. However, in the present years, the entire territory of the High Elves is surrounded by the Ainsidi, and the north is the three major dynasties of the human race. These dynasties, in the long years that followed, split into many families, as well as the future royal families.
After the High Elves forced humans into submission with strong force, the Elves of Ainshidi frequently came into contact with the High Elves. At this time, although Ainsidi is gradually declining, it is also a behemoth to humans. Although their population is sparse, and they have been a little green and yellow over the years, their individual strength is very strong, and it is definitely very easy for an elf to beat several humans. In addition, his civilization is also very advanced, and many of the objects and things used in the human dynastic society are from the elves, and until many years later, these inventions and objects from the era of the elven kingdom are still being used by future humans.
In the face of the frequent contact and overtures of the Einsidi elves, the High Elves always maintained a suitable distance, neither offending nor alienating. Instead, he started trading with Ainsidi, and at the same time established trade relations with human dynasties. In the past few decades, the High Elves have gradually copied their civilization and industrial chain, and in order to obtain resources, they have chosen to develop in a low-key manner when their strength has been greatly damaged. However, due to the high level of publicity and strong force in the past, no force will dare to underestimate them.
The humans they had previously released, with the exception of some of them, chose to settle near the cities inhabited by the High Elves and pay their allegiance to them. The other part of humanity chooses to return to human territory to continue living. Because they have been working as laborers with the High Elves for many years, they have learned about the information that the humans in the outside world do not know, which is what the three human dynasties are eager to know. However, the information they know only shows that the High Elves are very powerful, and they are superior to humans in all aspects, and other than that, there is no critical information at all.
Even so, these messages are also important information for the three major human dynasties to have a preliminary understanding of this group of high elves. As time passed, the entire continent was surrounded by peace, away from the smoke and flames of war. Except for the various monsters and monsters that are still raging in the vast land, there are no large-scale wars anywhere else.
And the existence of the High Elves is gradually becoming familiar to humans. Although the humans know about the existence of elves, they at least know that the existence of the two elven races is not different from each other, and they belong to different races. And, according to their appearance with each other, they are distinguished. And the High Elves gradually gave a certain recognition to the humans living outside their cities, and included them in their rule. After all, some production work still needs to be carried out by these humans.
As time passed, this part of the human race, which had chosen to be ruled by the elves and saw itself as a member of the elven kingdom, gradually took on a new name. The High Elves called them 'Hesti' which means 'people who serve the elves', and the human world calls them 'River Valley People', and according to the distinction made by the places where they live, they did not care about the Histi given by the High Elves and accepted the popular name. Compared to the chaos and poverty of the human world, it is obviously much better to serve the High Elves.
They had to pay only half of their annual production and a certain amount of gold, silver, or other raw materials, and no other taxes. In addition to the need to mobilize them every few years to repair roads, city walls, rivers and bridges, and so on. No other tasks were assigned to them.
Therefore, after more than ten years, these humans who choose to be ruled by elves are actually not poor. On the contrary, to a certain extent, rich. Their safety is protected by the elves, and the production of agriculture and handicrafts is guided by the elves. Taking advantage of the poor mountainous land, countless arable land has been reclaimed, grain and fruit are grown, and a certain amount of deep processing is carried out, flour is milled, and various pasta, fruit wine, and cloth are made for weaving. In addition, there are various further further processing, as well as processing work such as jewelry.
The High Elves have imparted a great deal of knowledge and production techniques to them, and have taught humans some less important knowledge. Although this knowledge is indifferent to them, it is very advanced for human beings. And because they have been influenced by the High Elves for a long time, not only clothing, food, housing and transportation, but also other traditions, languages and writings, etc., have also been influenced by the High Elves. Even after the passage of time, humanity completely abandoned the human script and instead learned the language and script of the High Elves. They colonized extensively in the High Elves' realm, and as their population grew, settlements of all sizes spread throughout the country. At the same time, small roads and wide avenues are connected to each other, and every day humans drive the carriages to the city of Isver to trade.
Because humans were not allowed to enter the city inhabited by the High Elves at will, these humans who came with the trade, outside the city of the High Elves, traded, they repaired roads and houses, and over time, these buildings were torn down and renovated, and one by one the sharp white houses rose from the ground. At the same time, the rise of this new city led to trade in the High Elf Kingdom. The trading caravans of the human dynasty came here to trade and open up the merchant house, and the Elves of Ainshidi also came here to open up the merchant house. A steady stream of food and consumer goods are brought here, and all kinds of scarce and abundant resources are also brought here. At the same time, weapons and armor from the High Elves, as well as various works of art, are also sold here. To this end, the High Elves have appointed officials to run the area. At the same time, they recruited humans, built majestic fortresses and castle guards on various major roads in the country, and even built Great Walls on the mountains to patrol.
With the defense of the Great Wall, the shortcomings of the High Elves can be regarded as another layer of protection. At the same time, in order to train the half-blood descendants of the clan, the monster cleanup of the entire territory of the country began, and all kinds of monsters were killed and expelled. At the same time, Esfate also built a college in the city that specialized in training wizards, and selected gifted hybrids to teach them about wizards.
Unlike their easy encirclement and suppression of the rampant monsters and monsters, the human race is annoyed by all kinds of dangerous monsters and monsters all over the continent. The army faces these monsters, some of which can be easily killed, such as those water ghosts that rage like locusts. However, facing some monsters like daytime demons that are not afraid of mortal attacks becomes extremely troublesome. What's more, there are griffins, petrified chicken snakes, trolls, deerheads, werewolves, vampires and other powerful monsters, which are not ordinary humans can deal with. It would take professional mages and warlocks to wipe them out, but monsters are rampant, and human warlocks and mages may not have the same number as monsters.
And if humans open up new lands, if they are too far away from cities and towns, without the protection of garrisons, it will be difficult to survive the attack of monsters. As a result, the scope of human activity has been very small, and even within the protection of the town garrison, it is difficult to ensure complete security. For this reason, human warlocks and mages began to ponder how to solve the situation in front of them.