The Death List Novel - Chapter 376
Chapter 376 Ancient Road
The Ancient Road? Sun Royal Court? Qin Lun’s eyes lit up and he pretended to know what was going on. At the same time, he divided his mind and looked through the death list. He definitely couldn’t ask Elistine about this information. After all, his current identity was also an elf, and he didn’t even know the history of the elves, causing people to suspect him.
Fortunately, the death list included the introduction of the Ancient Road and the Sun Palace. After all, this was an important part of the world background. Since the shattered starry sky was able to completely piece together the epic lines of the Great Elf Civilization, it was naturally no stranger to the Ancient Era’s path of the Elves and the Sun Royal Court.
Originally, the elves of Ferren Continent did not belong to Toril World. Instead, they were connected to one of the outer realms of Toril’s main physical world, known as Ferrier.
The reason why Ferrier was destroyed was unknown. The only thing they knew was that the survivors of the Tintagil Fairy Kingdom had broken through the power of high-level spacetime magic and arrived at Toril. They had settled on a continent that was almost completely covered by forests. They called it Ferrier, which meant the only continent.
The elves came to Ferren’s earliest days. Toril was ruled by giants and dragons. The elves and dwarves built many small and prosperous settlements throughout Ferren. The dwarves defeated the giants and began to build an empire. Before the end of this era, the elves began to do the same thing and defeated the dragons.
After sharing control of the continent with the Ancient Dwarves, hundreds of high-ranking elven mages gathered at the center of Fayron, known as the gathering place, intending to cast a spell to create a glorious elven home.
They had long forgotten the lesson of the destruction of the Tintagil Fairy Kingdom centuries ago. The only continent, Ferren, had been shattered by the magical power released by the spell. As a result, hundreds of elven cities were destroyed, countless elves died, and Toril’s world was changed. The name Ferren was no longer referring to the only continent. Instead, it referred to the largest continent right now. It was at that time that Evergathering Island was separated from the only path.
After the revival of the Fairy race, the first period of prosperity of the Great Fairy Civilization began. At that time, there were a total of four elven races that survived. They were the Sun Elves, the Moon Elves, the Green Elves, and the Dark Elves. The Sun Fairy was the strongest, and under the leadership of the Fairy Guardian, Corellon Larisan, they established the first post-disaster settlement in a forest north of Ferren-Irivada.
The Sun Elves called this forest the Utmost Forest, and considered themselves the Elf Royal Clan. They called the Elf Royal Court of the Utmost Forest the Sun Royal Court. Their actions quickly aroused the dissatisfaction of the other three Elves. Among them, High Priest Rose led the Dark Elves against the Sun Elves led by Corellon. She quickly moved out of the Utmost Forest and set up her own Elven Court in Illusory.
Since then, the Dark Elves and the Sun Elves had become mortal enemies. Because the Moon Elves and the Green Elves did not support them in their racial differences, they did not have a good impression of the two races either. The elven branch slowly declined and, after five Crown Wars, moved into the underground realm, becoming the notorious Drow Elf.
Although the Moon Fairies and Green Fairies did not support the Dark Fairies in their racial differences, they were equally dissatisfied with the Japanese Fairies’ aggressive and arrogant posture, as well as their expansionist ideology of excluding outsiders. In order to avoid civil war, most of the Moon Fairies and Green Fairies began to migrate to the south of Fallen Continent.
The Moon Fairies and Green Fairies slowly built up the settlements of Ilfarang, Keldomo, Myerita, and Santa Osrell. The settlements in Keldomo were very large, including the elven kingdoms of Orishar, Seintar, Eirur and Theopia.
In the two epic dragon wars and five crown wars, many forests were burned down by fires and wars, many elven kingdoms were destroyed, and the ancient heritage of the elves suffered irreversible losses.
The Myrita Fairy Kingdom was annexed by Arivanda during the First Crown War. Elizabeth, Olyssal, Ayerul, and Santa Osrell were destroyed in the Second to Fourth Crown Wars. Olyssal and Ayerul were destroyed by the dark elves of Ilisri, while Santa Osrell was destroyed by the Keldomo Alliance Army because of betrayal.
Of course, Ilisri’s Dark Elves had too many enemies and were eventually defeated. They moved into the underground domain and became the Drow Elves.
During this period, the sun elves of Irivada reached their peak and established the Vajra Empire. Due to their great contributions in the war against the Dark Elves, the Sun Court began to be recognized by the Fernando Moon Elves and the Green Elves. The Sun Elves finally became the true Pan-Continental Elf Royal Clan.
However, the good times did not last long. In less than two hundred years, the Vajra Empire had turned from prosperity to decline.
This opportunity was similar to the reason why all the great empires had declined. The Sun Elves had split from within. This gave the high mages and Moon God Priests who had perished in Irivada and were lurking around the world a chance to reverse the disadvantageous situation of the struggle for freedom and resistance.
At the beginning of the Fifth Crown War, the elven coalition forces of other races defeated the imperial army and invaded the Supreme Forest. The final war of the crown ended with the complete defeat of the Vajra army and the division of Irivada. Many parts of the Utmost Forest have been abandoned, allowing the forest to live freely.
After splitting up, the Sun Elves moved eastward and entered the Commanso Forest. However, the death of most of the royal family members had caused them to lose their ancient heritage, and from now on, there would no longer be the Sun Royal Court.
The five Crown Wars brought the Great Elf Civilization to an end, and humanity began to rise. Ilfranc and Keldomo were the only two complete elf civilizations that survived the Crown Wars. However, during this period, the Keldomo Forest had been divided into many small forests by fire and war.
The elves moved south and east again and again during the war, plus the Japanese elves who moved north of the continent eastward to Commanso. The entire Fairy race started from the Utmost Forest in the northwest of the continent, extending southward to the Misty Forest, Verdas Forest, Mill Forest, Forest of Winter, Anke Forest, Jondal Forest, and eastward to Commando Forest.
These two paths of elven migration were known as the Ancient Road.
Now, with the demise of the second-generation World Tree, the sun elves of Komanso began to migrate once again, wanting to move to Eternal Assembly Island. Yongju Island was actually a fragment of the Ancient Faylor Continent. Its area was huge, and the island was completely covered in forests. The island was actually equivalent to a mini-continent.
When the Varenta Empire of the Sun Fairies and the Sun Court were destroyed, some of the Sun Fairies, Moon Fairies, and Green Fairies colonized Evergathering Island. There were even some dark elves from before the fall of the Sun Fairies, among whom the Sun Fairies accounted for more than 70% of the population.
Compared to the increasingly powerful humans on the Ferren Continent, Evergathering Island, which had no outsiders, was the paradise for the elves. Many elves had already realized that this era belonged to humans. The elves that lived in Faylon Continent had to hide in a remote forest to survive. If they wanted to merge with the human society, there was no third way to go.
Although the elves were still powerful, this trend could not be changed. It was as if thousands of years ago, the Jondar Elves had turned most of the Jondas Kingdom into Weihong Sea Region at the expense of the decline of the Moon Elf Royal Clan. However, it had no effect on the human world as a whole, and their resilience was far from being comparable to that of the Jondahl Elves.
Due to this understanding, the Japanese elves of Comanso had a fantasy. They took advantage of the great migration to send envoys to visit the elven courts of the various forests one by one along the Ancient Road to persuade all the elves on the continent of Ferren to migrate to Eternal Assembly Island together.
Of course, they knew that this kind of persuasion would not be very effective. Apart from a few elves who were in poor living conditions, most of the elven courts would no longer trust the Sun Elves easily. Their sole and exclusive expansion concept in the Ancient Era was truly unpopular.
However, the Japanese elves hoped that this effort would lay a solid foundation for the future elven families. Sooner or later, the elven courts of the Fallen Continent would gradually move to Eternal Assembly Island due to the pressing of humans. At that time, the Sun Elves, who made up the majority of the population, might be able to rebuild the Sun Palace.
“That’s why!” Qin Lun slowly nodded as he listened to Elistine’s narrative.
“The way the Sun Elves migrated from the Utmost Forest to Commanso was now cut off by the Enoch Desert, which was filled with Ferlin Sunflower. They could only cross the Falling Star Sea south and take a detour around the Vighon Sea. The Jondar Forest was their first stop.” Elistine sighed in admiration.
“Next, they will follow the southern forest of Winter Forest, Anke, and Mill to Karin Harbor in Karinshan, and then go north along the Grand Trading Highway until they reach the Fairy Court in the western part of the Utmost Forest.
The entire route was like a giant horseshoe, circling almost half of Faylor Continent. The journey was over ten thousand kilometers long. After they leave for the last Fairy Court, they will cross the Traceless Sea through Deepwater City, and Evergathering Island will be their destination. ”
“This is really a great journey!” Qin Lun’s eyes flashed with an inexplicable light as he smiled and asked, “Then they should encounter many dangers and difficulties, right?”
“Yes, let’s not talk about the human kingdoms along the way. Even some elven courts seem to be able to prevent them from completing this mission.” Elistine said helplessly, “Let’s not talk about the elven courts that have lost their ancient heritage. Those elven courts that have inheritance naturally do not wish for their arrival to affect the stability of the kingdom.”
Elistine suddenly said with a mysterious expression, “I heard some tribal elders say that the Sun Fairy’s Ancient Road Storm might also involve harpists and the Santalin Society.”
Qin Lun glanced at the death list and suppressed asking Elistine about the harpsichord and the Santalin Society. He smiled and asked, “Will King Testament help them if the Japanese Elves ask for help from the Demon Cup Royal Court?”
“Originally, I wouldn’t, but now … I don’t know!” Elistine frowned and sighed. Qin Lun’s question had completely lost her interest in continuing the conversation.
Qin Lun nodded his head. He didn’t pursue the matter further. After chatting for a while, he found that Elistine wasn’t in a good mood and took his leave.