The Death List Novel - Chapter 370
Chapter 370 Danger of Life and Death
“Alright, alright!” Elistine frowned and thought for a moment. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he looked at Qin Lun with a trace of joy. “Perhaps with your status, you can influence the thoughts of the tribal elders!”
In my capacity? What do you mean? Qin Lun raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn’t interrupt and waited for Elistine to continue.
A lot of things seemed to have been held back in Elistine’s heart for a long time. When he encountered Qin Lun, he might have just reached a certain spill point, and the elven druid was able to vent all of it.
Listening to Elistine’s narrative, Qin Lun began to understand the current situation of the Jondahl Fairy and the current predicament of the Demon Cup Royal Court. Because the fragmented starry sky did not have a high degree of exploration of the world, the background information that could be given was also very general.
Actually, the Jondar Elves at this time were different from the Jondar Elves before the Valley Calendar. Their racial composition was different.
During the Great Elf Civilization, the Jondar Elves belonged to a branch of the Keldomo Elves, and their inheritance dates back to the Siopian Fairy Kingdom. Originally, the three elven kingdoms of Theopia, Seintal, and Eirut, which were located in the southeastern part of the Keldomo Forest, had a chance to unite. However, they were destroyed by the dark elves of Illesri, resulting in the “Three Leaves War” between the three elven kingdoms.
Later, during the Second Dragon War, the Keldor Mogg Forest split into the Dragon Forest, the Duttle Forest, and the Tyser Forest. The Forest of Dragons and Dattle belonged to the northwest of the Keldor Mogg Forest. There were two great elven kingdoms, Ilfarang and Orishar. The Orishar elves gradually died out during the war and had long since lost the Elf Court.
Theopia and the Thenthal Kingdom’s Great Forest of Tyser was divided into Ank, Thorn, Forest of Winter, and Jondal Forest during the Age of Skyfire, the war between the Qi and Flame Giants. The Forest of Winter belonged to the Serntal Elves, while Ank and Jondal Forest belonged to the Theopian Elves.
The actions of the Theopian elves would be divided into two parts, each living in Ank and Jondal Forest. The exact reason for this was unknown, only that it might have something to do with the succession of the royal family at that time.
Although the Theopia Fairies were divided into two parts, as one of the two most complete Fairy Courts (one was the Ilfarang Fairy Courts currently residing in the Mill Forest), their strength was not fundamentally damaged.
Compared to the Sun Fairies who had suffered heavy losses in the Utmost Forest, lost their ancient heritage, and migrated to the Commanso Forest in the northeast of the continent, the Moon Fairies and Green Fairies of Theopia did have reason to claim their orthodoxy.
Whether it was the Theopian elves who settled in Anke Forest or Jondar Forest, the main tribes consisted of Moon Elves and Green Elves. The Moon Fairies occupied the dominant position, while the Green Fairies were relatively weaker. Their seats in the Elf Council were roughly three to one. The Elf Kings were both Moon Fairies.
This tradition continues in Anke Forest, but not in Jondar Forest, where the Jondar Elves encountered an unprecedented challenge in the 255th year of the Primordial Era.
At that time, the human kingdom of Jondas in the north of the Jondar Forest was rising day by day and gradually expanding to the south, chopping down randomly in the Jondar Forest and establishing human settlements.
After several failed negotiations between the Jondar Elves, the war between the two races finally broke out. At the beginning of the war, the Jondar elves were weak in terms of military strength, so they could only defend the forest and could not threaten the human cities in the northern plains.
In this situation, the Fairy Court activated an ancient forbidden spell to prevent the final destruction of Jondar Forest. At the expense of the Elf King and most of the Elf Elders, most of the Jondas Kingdom’s territory had been turned into a vast ocean. This was the Weihong Sea, which was now connected to the Falling Star Sea.
This war had caused the Jondas Kingdom to fall from the peak of the continent to a third-rate country, and the Jondar Elves were also severely injured. Especially in the Moon Fairy Clan, none of the elves were able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of being an Elf King. In the end, they had no choice but to let a green elf become a successor Elf King.
The Green Elf King was called Neon Greenleaf, and he was the grandfather of the current Elf King, King Testament.
Even though Neon Greenleaf had won the throne very righteously and not through scheming, the Greenelves, whose status had greatly increased, were unwilling to surrender to the Moon Elves whose influence had greatly decreased. They began to join forces with the Elf King to suppress the Moon Elves.
The two Elf Kings after Neon Greenleaf also continued their policy of suppressing the Moon Fairies until King Testament ascended to the throne. However, after being suppressed by the three generations of Elf Kings, the Moon Fairies in Jondar Forest could no longer endure. Most of the Moon Fairies moved out of the Elf Court and established a semi-independent Moon Fairy Tribe outside the forest.
These past few months, the elven tribes had established their own joint meeting of elders. In fact, it was equivalent to independence. If this was in human society, then such independence would not be tolerated by any ruler.
However, this was an elven society. The elves were essentially a race that advocated peace and freedom. To the green elves, excluding the moon elves from the elven court was already the bottom line. It was impossible for them to harm their compatriots for this. Even though the Moon Fairies were unhappy about being pushed out of the Fairy Court by the Green Fairies, they had never thought of using violence to regain their dominance.
After the rest of the three generations of elves, the remaining Moon Elves in Jondar Forest had recovered their vitality, giving birth to a large number of high-grade elven rangers and druids. Among them, Elistine was one of the most outstanding elves in the younger generation.
Elistine’s body flowed with the blood of the Moon Fairy Royal Clan. In other words, she belonged to the Moon Fairy Royal Clan. Because the elves lived longer and some of them were born from the fruit of the World Tree, they did not pay much attention to bloodlines. The method of recognizing the royal bloodline was very simple. It was to compare the purity of the bloodline.
Hearing this, Qin Lun finally came to a realization. Why did Elistine treat Kieran kindly after testing his blood? Why would King Testament specifically recruit an elven mercenary from a small forest tribe?
Because the high-grade Moonlight Fairy bloodline was an extremely pure Moonlight Fairy bloodline, they treated Qin Lun as a descendant of the Moonlight Fairy Royal Clan.
King Testament’s previous invitation was probably just a stepping stone. Since King Testament had the intention to join the Moon Fairies again and bring them into the Jondar Fairy’s ruling system, it was impossible for him to pay only one Royal Guard spot.
If Qin Lun had agreed at that time, King Testament might have given him a less dangerous but incomparably important storyline mission in the current situation of the Fairy Court.
In other words, it was to gild him, so that he could continue to raise Qin Lun’s status and slowly gather the hearts of the Moon Fairy Clan through his “Royal Bloodline”, changing the semi-independent status of the Moon Fairy Tribe.
After realizing this, Qin Lun felt slightly regretful. If it weren’t for the matter of the fortress guild, perhaps he would have obtained the safest storyline mission since entering the Broken Star System. Even if the reward for the mission wasn’t high, he would still be able to obtain a great harvest from the Elf King.
The current King Testament was probably the most devout king of the Jondar Forest after splitting from the Tessel Forest. Ever since he ascended to the throne more than 30 years ago, he had been trying his best to close the gap between the Moon Fairy and the Green Fairy.
If he was given a hundred or two hundred years, the Jondahl Fairy would definitely be able to regain her glory, but in reality, he did not have that much time. Excluding the growing human presence on the continent, the Jondar Forest is now in a huge internal crisis.
As the cornerstone of the Demon Cup Royal Court, the inheritance of the Jondahl Elves, their World Tree was about to die. In fact, apart from the first-generation World Tree in the Utmost Forest where the Sun Fairies were originally located-the extinct Grandfather Tree-the second-generation World Tree scattered in the forests of various continents was dying one after another.
In response to this crisis, the Sun Elves of Comanso were undergoing a major migration. They wanted to transfer most of their clansmen to Evergathering Island, where the third generation World Tree had been successfully planted.
In fact, this was also a helpless move. The World Tree’s vitality was strong, but the survival rate of its young species was very low. It needed the ancient secret arts of the Elves to be inherited. Although the Komansori Fairies were the strongest in the continent in terms of forest area and population, they had lost their ancient heritage during the five Crown Wars. As a result, they could only rely on the unique environment of Evergathering Island to nurture the third generation World Tree.
Correspondingly, the relatively intact descendants of the Siopian elves of the Anke Forest, the Ilfarang elves of the Mill Forest, and the combined descendants of Meryelita and Santa Osrell in the eastern part of the Supreme Forest also gave birth to the third generation World Tree.
Meanwhile, the Thorned Forest, which also lacked the World Tree’s inheritance, and the descendants of the Winter Forest’s Seintar Elves did not survive the third generation World Tree. They were all trying their best to overcome the crisis of the inheritance.
As for the descendants of the Selpiad Elves in Jondar Forest, they had suffered for themselves. When the three generations of Green Elf Kings pushed out the Moon Elves, they had completely ignored Jondar’s unique status in the World Tree’s secret arts inheritance. As a result, none of the young species left behind by the second generation of World Tree survived.
Actually, Qin Lun’s elven caravan was the elven envoy sent by King Testament for help. Their destination was the Mir Forest, where they sought help from the descendants of the Ilfarang elves in order to regain the World Tree Seed.
“Why don’t you ask the nearer Anke Forest for help?” Qin Lun asked curiously when he heard this.
The Ank and Jondal elves were both Theopian elves, much closer to each other than the Ilfarang elves of the Mill Forest. Although the two had split during the Second Dragon War and the Blaze Giant Spirit and Qi Giant Spirit wars, that was more than 7,000 years ago.
“Because the Anke Fairy Court is recruiting the Moon Fairies of Jondale, their condition for helping King Testament is that the Demon Cup Court cannot in any way prevent the Jondale Moon Fairies from joining the Anke Forest!” Elistine said with a bitter smile.
That’s why! Although there were still some things he didn’t know, they weren’t important to Qin Lun anymore. Based on Elistine’s secret, he could basically deduce several important plot lines of the Demon Cup Royal Court.
At the same time, a prompt sounded from the death list. He triggered a quest plot!