Chapter Ninety-Nine: Ordinary Life Above

Elves are higher creatures created by the creator gods, and they like to be in contact with nature and use trees to build all kinds of furniture they like. But they don't like to go down into www.biquge.info the pit to dig ore, it's an insult to them. Any elf will keep their clothes clean at all times, which makes them dislike dwarves and gnomes.

But for the most common species on the continent, humans, the elves maintain a minimum of acceptance. It is not to associate with it, but to keep the rules of trade. The elves can produce everything else themselves, but the demand for iron tools can only be purchased by humans. For dwarves and gnomes, though the largest producers of ore, do not like to do business, and they maintain a hostility towards the hypocrisy of the elves. So there are no dwarves and gnomes who travel long distances to elven villages to sell things.

At this time, human beings jumped out and became the beneficiaries of it. Although the dwarves are masters of forging and mining, there is a saying that rare things are expensive. To a dwarf, a piece of iron ore fished out of the ground is no different than a piece of dirt, after all, the yield is too high. Even a piece of finished armor forged by a dwarven master can only be sold for one or two hundred gold coins at most in the dwarven kingdom, but when the human merchant brings it back and adds some useless decorations, it can be sold for four or five hundred gold coins.

In particular, rough goods such as hoes, sickles, and arrow clusters are cheaper. Humans buy it at a very low price, and then add some exquisite trinkets made by humans and the like, and then ship it to the elven tribe. However, the elves do not use human coins, and the most primitive rules of equivalent exchange of items are still popular among the elven tribes.

Deer antler velvet, herbs, magic wands and magic scrolls, which are very expensive and valuable in human society, are sold at low prices. Sometimes a trinket with a beautiful appearance but only worth a silver coin can be exchanged for a high-level magic scroll sealed by a female elf mage himself. For elves, the cost of mana is nothing. Although the elves are natural magicians, they rarely intervene in wars, and they hardly use any magic except for daily magic consumption. But these strange gadgets brought by humans are not available every day. Magic wands are not easy to use, magic scrolls are not simple, and humans are attentive and carry a large number of blank magic scrolls with them, from low-level parchment to high-level velociraptor skin.

The consumption of low-level magic scrolls in the human world is also staggering, because the price is not high, so the demand is particularly high. For example, the cost of a "lighting fire" is only one silver coin, but if you have torches, kerosene, and flint, the price is about the same. Noble elven magicians are like an endless stream of magic crystals, constantly transporting all kinds of magical items to human society.

However, there were once a few cunning human traders who wanted to deceive the pure elves with some dastardly means. (The elves say) some cheap items in exchange for a magic scroll of mass destruction. But the matter was known to the elven queen, and the village elders involved in the matter were locked up for ten years, and the human caravans involved in the fraud were blacklisted, and any elven tribe was forbidden to trade with them. After this incident, all caravans that need to purchase scrolls of high-level magic and above and equivalent mana items will need to go to the Elven King City to buy them.

Although two months is a momentary feeling for the elves, the damage of farm tools and the like is not so fast. But usually the human caravan will also bring some human snacks and the like, and the children who have already begun to be greedy can't stand it. But after half a year, a year, ten years, the human caravan disappeared as if it had never appeared. Because the elves of several nearby villages are still in communication, and sometimes human wars break out, and the caravan will be greatly affected, so they don't think too much about it and continue their stable life. During this time, many young elves rode their characteristic mounts, the elk, to the nearest human city, only to find it empty. The most unacceptable thing for the elves is that the elven elder meeting that was originally held once every fifty years did not come to the elves to inform them. It was only at this time that the elves began to panic, and the elders of several villages discussed the time to meet together, only to find that everyone was the same, and they had lost contact with the outside world.

The elven elders wanted to contact other villages through the elven realm, and although they were prepared, the elven stones that did not respond still disappointed the elders. The last few elders consulted with the time-based magicians in the village and came to the conclusion that for unknown reasons, their villages had been taken to another empty plane, and that they would not be able to return to their original world unless there was another miracle.

The elders were like deflated balloons when they learned about this, but the good news was that most of the people they knew were brought over, so it wasn't a particularly sad thing for the elves, who had always liked to live in seclusion. The days are still going by, but without the caravans of humans, many things can no longer be bought. As time passed, all the iron became rusty and unusable, and the elves returned to their primitive lives.

Elves have never been very curious creatures, except for the fact that they went out to explore at first, and gradually gave up after several generations. There are countless forest resources and infinite wildlife, and the absence of such expansive creatures as humans has allowed them to live a paradise of peach blossoms.

But there is one person who doesn't think so, and that is Bert, who inexplicably teleported in. In the past few days, Bert has been squatting at the entrance of the village with two black and white swords, knocking on something every day.

"Bert, what are you doing?" said the village chief, Sim, as he passed.

Bert stopped what he was doing, wiped the sweat from his face, and said, "I think I can come in because of these two swords, I'm trying to see if I can activate them again." ”

The village chief smiled and ignored him, turned around and went back with two buckets of water.

"Damn, what about people?" Bert clanged his sword again. However, the two sword spirits did not respond no matter how he called them, which made Bert feel helpless, in his opinion, these two old men simply knew everything, and if he couldn't find a way from them, he probably couldn't go back.