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Chapter 79, I seem to have found a group of fake elves

According to the sub-god Lori Mercury, the elves on the Farmat continent are very contradictory creatures.

On the one hand, the elves were once very powerful. As early as before humans appeared on the continent, the elves had already existed widely throughout the continent, established their villages and city-states, and created countless wonderful and powerful magic. The human beings who came later are regarded as "ancient rulers"; on the other hand, elves are also very fragile, they can only adapt to the forest environment, once they leave the place with towering ancient trees and lush plants for too long, their bodies will gradually weaken , If you continue to get sick, if you can't go back to the forest as soon as possible, you will even die.

In other words, elves can only live in dense forests that are suitable for elves. It is impossible for elves to migrate long distances like humans and orcs, and to build their own settlements among deserts, grasslands, mountains, and swamps. .

This insurmountable chronic disease has greatly reduced the aggression of the elves - after all, not all places are full of trees of all kinds.

Therefore, even with overwhelming advantages in civilization and technology, the ancient elves could not rush out of the forest and conquer the entire continent without any decent opponents, and even their own ethnic group could not be unified: all forests are It is fragmented by grasslands, mountains, deserts and oceans, and it is inconvenient to communicate with each other. No elf king can expand the scope of his rule beyond his own forest.

At the same time, this also limits the development and expansion of elf city civilization - the nature of elves makes it impossible for them to destroy nature and build large cities.And if you want to build that kind of sci-fi-style biological city, the technical reserves of these elves on the Farmat continent are far from enough...

What's more terrible is that the lifespan of the elves is too long, but the reproductive ability is very low, making it difficult to expand the number of groups.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 Farmat continent took advantage of it. First, they took root on the plains and grasslands that the elves looked down upon, gradually expanded their living space, and rapidly multiplied the population. At the same time, they actively Absorbing and introducing the advanced culture and technology of the elves, and finally relying on the advantages of numbers, gradually wiped out the elf tribes in the isolated island state one by one, and became the overlord of the mainland. In the face of human attacks, the elves in different regions want to support each other. It's hard to do.What's more, they simply don't have the awareness of helping each other.

After being conquered, the remaining elves in the human world are no different from serfs.It's just that because they can't adapt to the environment outside the forest, they can't get them 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 to fend for themselves under the supervision of the human army, and barely rely on hunting and farming to make a living. Mushrooms, wild fruits, animal furs and other things, and sometimes wives and daughters have to be sacrificed for the enjoyment of human officials.Roughly similar to the status of European Jews and Gypsies in the Middle Ages... In this case, it is purely a joke to talk about "the nobility of elves".

In the same way, the so-called handsome men and beautiful women depend on their natural beauty on the one hand, and on the other hand they need to be supported by the day after tomorrow.These elves who were forced to integrate into human society, endured layers of exploitation by officials and nobles, and were dispatched to serve labor, did not have the comfortable life of freedom in the forest. She is a peerless beauty, but she will be tortured by the harsh environment and lose most of her beauty.

What's more, even in the ancient elves, there is no such exaggeration that everyone is handsome and beautiful, it's just that the average appearance is slightly higher.In addition, the elves at that time were the only civilized race on the continent, facing barbarians from all walks of life, they could make them feel dirty in every way.

Just like when China was in its heyday, the barbarian chiefs from all over the world felt inferior to others in the face of the gentlemen in the Central Plains with their crowns and belts, and their poetry and wine were elegant. Chinese characters have been used for thousands of years, completely disregarding that North Korea and Japan belong to the Altaic language family, while China is from the Sino-Tibetan language family. The two are actually incompatible at all... But when modern times fell for a hundred years, the former Chinese aristocrats became human beings. People despise the sick man in East Asia and the "ugly Chinese", and the surrounding ethnic groups are also busy abandoning Chinese characters and switching to letters...

Therefore, facing this group of elves who are already "feathered phoenixes are not as good as chickens", Wang Qiu has the illusion that "I seem to have found a group of fake elves".

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

"...This is very difficult. Now that humans have become the overlords of the mainland, if they want to find that kind of wild elf tribe, they can only go to the desolate mountains in the north of the mainland or the wild islands in the south to try their luck. And even if they find , people may not be willing to move here."

Regarding Wang Qiu's question, Yashen Lolita spread her hands helplessly, "...after all, after so many years of fighting and attacking, the hostility between humans and elves is too deep, and the Church of Gomorrah I serve, in that kind of The place has no influence either. As for the vicinity of Mount Arnus, all I know is that there seems to be an elf tribe in the Shulz Forest in the south, but those are not white-skinned high elves, but dark-skinned dark elves..."

"...I know this too, but according to our concept, dark elves should live in dungeons that don't see the sun..."

——Although there are a group of black-skinned and silver-haired dark elves on the Farmat continent, just like the drow elves in Faerun in the DND world, they are completely different in terms of living habits and religious culture: the darkness here The elves are basically similar to the surface elves in 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 sideline, and they also have the natural defect of "cannot live outside the forest".But the problem is, in the eyes of the people on earth, the dark elves live on the surface in a big way, which is weird no matter how you look at it...

However, the nature of the race cannot be distorted. If you want these dark elves to leave the forest, move into the dungeon, and rely on selling cuteness to humans for a living, that is simply more unbearable than killing them-roughly like forcing It is almost the same for humans to move to the Antarctic ice sheet!
So in the end, Wang Qiu and the others could only make up a dwarven dungeon "Ironforge" project, which is still in the process of construction. In fact, the dwarves put their smelting workshop in the dark underground, From the perspective of people on earth, it is also a very tangled matter.Because humans have never built an example of heavy industry bases underground: how to transport fuel and raw ore?How are the products shipped out?How to solve the problem of smoke exhaust and heat dissipation underground?How are water supply and waste water issues dealt with?Not to mention that there will be additional lighting costs... Even if it has the advantage of being close to the mine veins, coal mines and iron ore copper mines usually don't appear together. Which one should be more important when choosing a site?Of course, the dwarves in the fantasy world seem to be able to directly use lava for heating, lighting and smelting. If so, it makes sense to build factories underground...