Chapter 31: Elves
ELF (Elf)
Elf, who appears in many fantasy works and RPGs, resembles humans, has pointed ears, and is a beautiful and long-lived race. Generally living in the forest (dark elves live underground), they love nature, have delicate emotions, beautiful voices and melodies, and are natural poets and dancers; In dim conditions, the field of vision is also twice that of a person, so he has mastered the art of archery; Knowledgeable and highly gifted in magic.
Elves generally live to be over 700 years old, which is why they are always unhurried. Elves are always happy to spend a lot of time on things that humans can't understand: listening to the murmuring of water, the birds in the woods and the wind blowing...... For elves, the meaning of life is to slowly discover a beautiful place and enjoy it to the fullest.
It is also difficult for them to form deep friendships with a race whose life is short, and it is painful to see a friend pass away while they still have a lot of life to live.
In addition, in the setting of fantasy works, elves often do not deal with dwarves, although both have long and long lives, but the dwarves who are bold in their attitude to life are the objects of elves, and dwarves think that elves are too hypocritical.
But with such an elegant and pure race, why do they need to dress up as women when passing through their territory?
Gaia was completely unable to understand the meaning of Dora's words, and even began to recall in her mind images of the life of "humans" from the previous era.
Well, even in modern times, humans are actually more elve-oriented, and they still give Gaia a sense of elegance and calmness, which is completely different from the hurried life of real humans.
Seeing that Gaia's face was ever-changing, Dora also realized that she had forgotten to tell Gaia about the situation of the elf race, so she coughed twice to make Gaia react, and looked at herself with suspicion:
"Ahem! Let me answer the question. Legend has it that the elves were created by the mother goddess Alder long before the sun and moon awakened, giving them immortal beauty and gorgeous singing voices. They wake up under the starlight of the Far East, wander around, and gradually create languages.
Elves are long, intelligent, beautiful, elegant, and keen-eyed. They were the best at poetry, literature, and music, and were the best archers in the world. They are immortal and disease-free, and only blades made of black iron or extreme grief can kill elves.
Of course, this is a bit of an over-mythology, in fact, although the elves live a long life, but three thousand years is the limit, in addition to the means that can kill humans, you can also kill the elves.
Hawkers, this is not ruled out because of the chaos of modern magic elements, which has led to a certain degree of decline among the elves themselves.
All in all, the elves, as the only intelligent race in the previous era, survived after the destruction of the previous civilization for some reason, but lost the relevant inheritance.
What's even more terrifying is that in the passage of time, the creatures of this world have gradually evolved a trend that is difficult for the elves to accept because of the chaos of magic - that is, the more powerful the race, the more difficult it is to reproduce.
The powerful elves degenerated, and some evolved into modern humans, sacrificing the average quality of the individual in exchange for strong fertility; Some evolved into highland dwarves, and although the average quality is higher than that of humans, their fertility is only acceptable.
As for the original elves, due to the decline in fertility and long lifespans, only females were left alive, and evolved into a kind of ability that can reproduce with males of any race, and it must be the ability of female elves to be born.
In order to ensure the survival of the elven empire, every year the elves will send hunting teams to the territory of various countries to abduct men, until they succeed in making themselves pregnant, and although the released men are not responsible for their children, but living in oppression and fear for a long time, as well as physical fatigue, often make them almost collapse after being released.
As a result, elves have become recognized as the public enemy of men in the world.
But—"
Speaking of this, Dora shrugged helplessly, and lifted her hair to reveal her ears, which were not as long as the elf, but not short either:
"There will always be races that are not afraid of death, one is the dragon race, they are also a powerful race that survived from the last era, but it is said that they used to be the transportation of the elves, so the relationship with the elves was not good at first, until the fertility decreased significantly, so they had to turn to the elves for help, so as to ensure the circulation of the dragon bloodline.
Because it is the only two races that have survived from the previous civilization, the children of the dragon and the elves will retain the characteristics of both sides, although the strength has decreased, and the life span is not so long, but the fertility has increased a lot, and I am already a grandmother. ”
"Wait?!"
Looking at Dora, who looked fourteen or fifteen years old in front of her, Gaia's face turned green:
"Are you serious? Who did it to you? Still shameless? ”
Dora herself didn't care, and shrugged her shoulders directly:
"I can't believe it on the outside, I'm hundreds of years old and an adult, and Miramichi is even more than ten thousand years old. Besides, my husband passed away more than 100 years ago, so it doesn't matter if you want to be embarrassed. ”
Gaia still couldn't accept Dora's words for a while, so she had to wave her hand and let her continue:
"And what's the special case?"
For the second case, Dora couldn't help but stretch out her paw and gently tap the table, and said with an unhappy face:
"That's the aristocratic women of the human race, who like to play with the beauty of the elves, and even more like the moaning of the elves whose screams are extremely moving even when they are tortured.
And they also brutally cut off the elven ears as slaves, so that even if they were rescued in the future, they would choose to die because their ears were hurt as elves, so as to prevent their crimes from being exposed.
But there is no such thing as an impermeable wall, and this kind of thing will always be revealed.
Therefore, until more than ten years ago, the multi-race slave hunting team of humans was notorious, and there were rumors that elves, dwarves, dragons, and even subhumans planned to unite and exterminate humanity like a goblin.
Fortunately, King Arthur ascended the throne more than ten years ago and abolished the slavery system, which eased the relationship between human beings and other races. ”
Slave Catchers......
remembered that Chamis and Rayas had said that they met decades ago because of their bad fate, and then thought of Rayas's goblin identity......
Something wasn't right, if that was the case, wouldn't Shamis be too......
Seeing the confusion flashing across Gaia's face, Penk replied in the affirmative:
"Mister Gaia is thinking about Miss Chamis, right? That's right, she is also an elf who was once captured by humans, although she didn't choose to kill herself after being rescued, but the whole person has also become decadent, which is really regrettable.
And it was also during her time as a slave that she met Miss Rayas, who was also a slave plaything and is now the president. ”