Chapter Seventy-Nine, I Seem to Have Found a Group of Fake Elves (Part II)

Follow the subgod Lori. According to Machuri, the elves on the continent of Falmatt are very contradictory creatures.

On the one hand, the elves used to be very powerful, and as early as before humans appeared on the continent, the elves had already existed widely throughout the continent, establishing their villages and city-states, creating countless wonderful and powerful magic, and were regarded as "ancient rulers" by the humans who came later; On the other hand, elves are also very vulnerable, they can only adapt to the environment of the forest, once they leave the place where the ancient trees and plants are flourishing for too long, their bodies will slowly weaken, and if they continue to get sick, if they do not return to the forest as soon as possible, they will even die.

In other words, elves can only live in dense forests suitable for elven life, and they can migrate long distances like humans and orcs to build their own settlements between deserts, grasslands, mountains, and swamps, which is impossible for elves to do.

This insurmountable illness greatly reduced the aggressiveness of the elves - after all, not all places were overgrown with all kinds of trees.

Therefore, even with overwhelming civilization and technological superiority, in the absence of any decent opponents, the ancient elves could not break out of the forest and conquer the entire continent, and even their own tribe could not be unified within themselves: all forests were divided into pieces by grasslands, mountains, deserts and seas, and it was difficult to communicate with each other, and no elven king could expand his rule beyond his own forest.

At the same time, it also limited the development and expansion of the elven city civilization - the nature of the elves made it impossible for them to destroy nature and build large cities. And if you want to build that kind of sci-fi-style creature city, the technical reserves of these elves on the Falmatt continent are far from enough......

What's worse is that the elves have too long a lifespan and a very low reproductive ability, making it difficult to expand the number of the race. With the passage of time, instead of continuing to evolve and sublimate, the elven civilization has gone into decline and decadence, and even all kinds of elven magic have been lost one after another.

In this way, the human beings who were latecomers on the Falmatt continent picked up the cheap, first took root in the plains and grasslands that the elves looked down on, expanded the living space step by step, and rapidly multiplied the population, while actively absorbing and introducing the advanced culture and technology of the elves, and finally with the numerical advantage, they gradually eliminated the elven tribes in an isolated state and became the overlord of the continent - in the face of human attacks, it is difficult for the elves in different regions to support each other. What's more, they don't have such a sense of helping each other at all.

After the conquest, the remaining elves in the human world were no different from serfs. However, because they are unable to adapt to the environment outside the forest, they cannot get to work in the fields or throw them into the mines to dig stones. Therefore, these elves, who have lost their homes and independent status, can only migrate to some remote and barren forests under the supervision of human armies to fend for themselves, barely relying on hunting and farming to survive, and every year like human nobles pay tribute to mushrooms, wild fruits, animal skins and other things, and sometimes have to sacrifice wives and daughters for human officials to enjoy. Roughly similar to the status of Jews and Gypsies in medieval Europe...... In this case, it is a joke to talk about the "noble elegance of the elves".

In the same way, the so-called handsome men and beauties, on the one hand, rely on natural beauty, and on the other hand, they must rely on the acquired support. These elves who were forced to integrate into human society, endured the exploitation of officials and nobles, and were sent to serve labor and were sent did not have the comfortable and free life in the forest.

What's more, even the ancient elves did not have such an exaggerated thing as everyone being handsome men and beautiful women, but the average appearance was slightly higher. In addition, the elves at that time were the only civilized race on the continent, and in the face of barbarians from all walks of life, they could make each other feel defiled in all aspects.

Just like when China was at its peak, the barbarian chiefs of the Quartet, in the face of the Central Plains gentlemen's Eguan Bo belt, poetry and wine elegance, all consciously inferior, and even tried their best to imitate in the dictionary, clothing, and social system, North Korea used thousands of years of Chinese characters, completely ignoring the fact that Korea and Japan are Altaic language families, while China is Sino-Tibetan language family, and the two are actually incompatible at all...... However, after the fall of modern times in the past century, the former Chinese nobles have become the sick men of East Asia and the "ugly Chinese" that everyone despises......

Therefore, in the face of these elves who have "flipped phoenixes are not as good as chickens", Wang Qiu will have the illusion of "I seem to have found a group of fake elves".

But the problem is that no matter what the elves are in reality, visitors from Earth will definitely not want to see such elves that lack fantasy style.

“…… This is very difficult to do, now that humans have become the overlord of the continent, if you want to find that kind of wild elf tribe, you can only go to the desolate mountains in the north of the continent, or the wild islands in the south to try your luck. And even if they find it, they may not be willing to relocate. ”

In response to Wang Qiu's inquiry, Yashen Lori spread her hands helplessly, "...... After all, after so many years of warfare and attack, the hostility between humans and elves is too deep, and the Church of Omorrah, which I serve, has little influence in that kind of place. As for the vicinity of the Arnous hills, I only know that there seems to be an elven tribe in the southern Schulz Forest, but it is not a white-skinned High Elf, but a dark-skinned Dark Elf......"

“…… I know that, too, but according to our perception, the dark elves should live in dungeons that don't see the light of day......"

- Although like the drow elves in the Feron continent of the DND world, there are also a group of dark-skinned and silver-haired dark elves on the Falmatt continent, but in terms of living habits and religious culture, they are absolutely different: the dark elves here are basically similar to the surface elves of the DND world, but they don't pay much attention to chastity, the relationship between men and women is chaotic, and they often regard selling meat as a side business, and they also have the natural defect of "can't leave the forest to live". But the problem is that in the eyes of earthlings, the dark elves actually live on the surface in a big way, no matter how you look at it, it is weird......

However, the nature of the race is really undistorted, and wanting these dark elves to leave the forest, move into the dungeons, and make a living by selling cute to humans is simply more unbearable than killing them - roughly like forcing humans to live on the Antarctic ice sheet!

So in the end, Wang Qiu and the others could only make up the number of projects for a dwarf dungeon "Iron Furnace Fort", which is still in the process of being built - in fact, the dwarves put their smelting workshop in the dark underground, which is also a very tangled matter in the eyes of the earthlings. Because there has never been an example of how humans have built a heavy industrial base underground: how do fuels and raw ore get in? How are the products shipped? How to solve the problem of smoke exhaust and heat dissipation underground? How to deal with water supply and wastewater problems? Not to mention the additional lighting costs...... Even if it has the advantage of being close to the ore vein, but coal mines and iron ore and copper mines usually do not appear in one place, which one should be more important when choosing a site? Of course, it seems that the dwarves of the fantasy world can directly use lava for heating, lighting, and smelting, and if so, there is some truth to building factories underground......