In the Name of the Queen

There are too many Yahoos.

Continuing south, Roland saw these hairy barbarians everywhere.

Thinking of the Sussex Empire pioneers who had to deal with these uncivilized barbarians when they opened up colonies overseas, he didn't know what to say for a while.

But this era is over.

After reaching an agreement with the Dark Ethnic Group, several major countries in Rodinia will withdraw from the southern continent in an orderly manner.

The natives of the southern continent think that the colonists are bloody and barbaric, right? Then hand them over to the truly bloody Dark Ethnic Group.

To be honest, the Dark Ethnic Group is the real native of the southern continent. Whether it is the hairy Yahoos or the foreign colonists, they are all latecomers.

Thinking of the scene of the Dark Ethnic Group's iron-blooded treatment of the Yahoos, Roland didn't know who to sympathize with for a while.

He thought he was not a good person, and he didn't want to confront the Dark Ethnic Group head-on to save the Yahoos. At this time, the Dark Ethnic Group's rule has not yet completely arrived, so he just took this opportunity to travel around the southern continent and see this beautiful and absurd world.

Just when Roland was about to think that the southern continent was full of barbaric, stupid, and uncivilized apes, he accidentally discovered a magical human subspecies.

This human subspecies lived in the inland area, surrounded by the territory of the Yahoo chieftain.

They looked very similar to Rodinian humans, and their skin color was closer to white and yellow people, which made them look out of place among the dark-skinned Yahoos around them.

What surprised Roland even more was that the language these people used was a variant of the Earth Spirit language in the Third Age.

Although their beliefs were completely different and their lifestyles had changed dramatically from the Third Age, Roland was very sure that these people were the descendants of the Earth Spirit.

After all, they were former enemies and knew each other too well.

The Earth Spirit also recognized the damned elf aura on Roland. They received Roland with a distant and polite attitude, exchanged goods with Roland, and resolutely refused Roland's request to visit and give lectures.

Their reason was simple: the son of the Titan was unwilling to have in-depth interactions with the descendants of the elves.

Although they were unwilling to have a deep exchange, Roland was a rare big customer in recent years who was both generous and polite, so they maintained a minimum respect for Roland.

Faced with these polite but distant guys, Roland didn't care too much, because the earth spirits were an arrogant race.

Although their average height was not as high as that of humans, they insisted that they were descendants of Titans.

They were handsome and beautiful, unlike the sturdy and solid dwarves, and more like proportionally reduced humans.

Earth spirits were born with the ability to use special earth skills, and were able to build magnificent cities underground, and had a completely different lifestyle from humans.

As the last great sage of the elves, the elves represented by Roland and the earth spirits were originally mortal enemies, but times had changed, and both sides had gotten to this point, so it was meaningless to entangle with the past events that happened many years ago.

The reason for the enmity between earth spirits and elves was even more absurd.

The elves worship nature. They like to plant trees, especially super ancient trees. From war ancient trees, wisdom ancient trees to golden ginkgo trees that can create a sea of ​​flowers, they like these huge and towering ancient trees.

Ancient trees are good in everything, but their roots are very deep. Not to mention nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium two meters below, they can also absorb nutrients from hundreds or thousands of meters underground.

The earth spirits like to live underground. The underground palaces they build hate these giant trees with pervasive roots the most.

The roots of these giant trees will destroy their carefully built buildings and affect their main food, earthworms and ground wheat.

Originally, the two sides had a chance to reconcile. After all, the number of ancient trees is limited. As long as they communicate effectively, the two sides can compromise with each other when planting trees and building houses and avoid each other's core areas.

But both sides are proud races. How can they reconcile with despicable tree planters/dirty tree destroyers?

They don't believe they will lose to shameless enemies.

The war broke out.

During the war, the wise men of both sides proposed reconciliation to the leaders of the tribe more than once, but the war had taken too many lives of the tribe, and the hatred had already escalated and could not be eliminated at all.

They did their best to cause trouble to each other and destroy each other's living environment.

As long as the elves detected that the earth spirits were building cities underground, they would not hesitate to plant the trees with the most developed root systems above.

The elves even cultivated a kind of red eucalyptus tree with loose wood, no fruit, no oozing, but extremely fast root growth, which caused huge damage to the soil.

The only purpose of this tree is to cause trouble for the earth spirits.

A piece of red eucalyptus can turn an earth spirit city from a livable city into a rotten land with extremely poor living environment.

The earth spirits were naturally unwilling to be outdone. They bravely rushed out of the underground, formed a logging commando, and carried out devastating damage to the ancient trees carefully cultivated by the elves.

Not only that, they also prepared special alchemical potions to systematically destroy the underground roots.

As long as they can make the other party feel disgusted, they are willing to do anything.

The strength of the earth spirits and the elves is similar, their breeding ability is not too strong, and their military level is not much different, so neither can completely destroy the other.

If one side has an outstanding military genius, it can gain the upper hand for a period of time, and then the other side will also have a super talent to make up for the disadvantage.

The two sides have been entangled until the arrival of the God's Punishment Legion.

They all failed.

The potential and strength of the Magic Empire are not stronger than the elves and earth spirits at their peak, but they are good at unity, can integrate various forces internally, and can reach an alliance with extraordinary people externally, so they can defeat the God's Punishment Legion head-on.

Although this is a tragic victory that lost the post-war dominance, at least the fire was preserved.

If the elves and earth spirits had not disgusted each other, but had developed on their own and united to fight against the God's Punishment Legion at that time, they would definitely have created a more brilliant result than the Magic Empire, and even had a chance to wipe out the God's Punishment Legion.

Unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world, only results.

The descendants of the earth spirits kept people at a distance, and Roland had no reason to be so cold-hearted. He said goodbye and prepared to leave.

The earth spirit official in charge of the reception was very polite to see him off, and sent some local specialties along the way, so that Roland did not leave empty-handed.

The descendants of the earth spirits used practical actions to interpret what is called distant courtesy.

Just as Roland was about to leave, someone suddenly shouted his name behind him.

"Great Sage Roland, please stay."

Roland turned back with some curiosity.

This was the first time he heard the smooth and melodious Third Age Elf language in these days.

Earth spirits and elves are old enemies, and they know each other as well as themselves. It is normal for earth spirits to speak elven language, and the elves can also use the earth spirit language proficiently.

But they are not willing to use each other's language when communicating with each other.

What they like most is to master the other party's language and then find loopholes to criticize harshly.

Over time, using the other party's language is assumed to be a humble request.

Roland really wants to know what the Earth Spirits want to ask him.

The Earth Spirit receptionist who saw Roland off was even more surprised than Roland, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

"Sage Chromie, why are you here?"

The sage called Chromie is short among the Earth Spirits, and looks only about 1.4 meters tall.

Although his hair and beard are white, he is energetic and runs as fast as lightning, which shows how strong he is.

Roland never doubted that there are still masters among the descendants of the Earth Spirits.

They can survive in the southern continent surrounded by jackals, so they naturally have a trump card. The total population is not large, and the only thing that can protect them is advanced equipment and super personal strength.

Roland smiled and greeted Sage Chromie, "Sage Chromie, if I'm not mistaken, your strength should be at the gold level. I may not be able to solve the troubles that you can't solve."

Chromie's smile froze slightly, and his footsteps slowed down a bit.

He sighed lightly, smiled and shook his head, "Sage Roland, you are joking. If the tribe still had gold level, it wouldn't be blocked by a group of monkeys at the door."

"If you don't mind, I have a pot of good tea to share with you."

Sharing tea?

The Earth Spirits once had territories on the ground, but they were always suppressed by the elves. As the relationship between the two sides deteriorated completely, the elves relied on the help of the ancient war tree and treated the Earth Spirits as moles, hitting them as soon as they showed their heads.

As the ground positions were lost, the Earth Spirits lost their source of tea. Their favorite daily beverage gradually became a luxury that only the upper elites could taste.

Inviting guests to drink tea is the highest etiquette of the Earth Spirits to entertain guests.

No matter what Chromie wants, Roland will not refuse such a grand reception etiquette.

Unless he wants to continue the hatred of the past.

There are only a few elves known to exist, and they all exist in almost the same appearance as humans.

The number of earth spirits is slightly larger, but they can only maintain their existing territory and survive.

The former world ruler has become like this now, what is there to fight for?

Roland showed an "overwhelmed" expression and responded in the most standard official language of earth spirits, "Thank you for the hospitality, sage."

Both of them were stunned, and they recalled the early days of contact between the two tribes.

At that time, earth spirits and elves were not the world hegemons, and the descendants of the three goddesses still ruled the entire world.

As marginal races, earth spirits and elves can only live in corners that others don't want.

Elves live in forests, and earth spirits mainly live underground. They don't interfere with each other, and they have many areas that can complement each other, so the relationship between the two sides is pretty good.

When two civilized races interact, they naturally have to respect each other.

At that time, elves and earth spirits tried hard to learn each other's language, and took the initiative to use each other's language to show respect when interacting.

It was a beautiful pastoral era.

Unfortunately, all this ended with the incompetence and stupidity of the three goddesses' tribes, which lost their world dominance. The competition among the heroes ended with the earth spirits and elves taking the lead.

After the two sides briefly divided the world dominance, a new dispute emerged.

Does the Third Age belong to the elves or the earth spirits?

It's a good question, and this question has troubled the two major civilized races throughout the Third Age.

Today's Roland and Chromie are very much like the two sages who carefully tried to contact each other back then.

Roland's voice gradually softened, but it was full of unquestionable firmness.

"Sage Chromie, no matter how many hostile actions we had in the Third Age, the parties involved at that time have passed away, and the hatred should not continue. I hope to return to the state when the two tribes first met."

Chromie's expression was a little complicated.

He struggled for three whole days and finally made up his mind to compromise, but Sage Roland made the same decision in just an instant.

Chromie, even compromise lost to the elves, you should know your shame!

Chromie didn't expect Roland to lower his attitude and give him a way out. He was stunned for several seconds before he reacted. He quickly lowered his attitude and bowed to Roland to invite him.

"Sage Roland, you are right. Please forgive me for my neglect during this period. I will try my best to make up for your disappointment."

Dealing with civilized people is refreshing.

During this journey, Roland had seen too many tribes full of wild beauty. At first, it was a bit fresh, but after seeing so much, he began to miss Rodinia.

After all, no one can live in a zoo for a lifetime.

If he hadn't had a journey to continue, he would have wanted to turn around and go home.

If he put aside his arrogant attitude, the earth spirit is indeed the most hospitable host.

Chromie not only arranged the best tea, snacks, and dishes for Roland, but also asked young men and women to perform songs and dances for the distinguished guests.

At the last moment of the welcome ceremony, two handsome teenagers presented Roland and Lisa with olive branches and flower crowns.

This time even Roland felt a little exaggerated.

He had only seen this level of welcoming ceremony in ancient books, and had never seen it in reality.

When only he and Chromie were left in the slightly simple reception room, he couldn't help asking: "Sage Chromie, I feel a little pressured by your warm welcome. It would be embarrassing if I couldn't do what you asked."

"You can definitely do it. This is a big deal for our tribe, but it's just a piece of cake for you now."

Since Chromie had a clear understanding of the gap in strength between the two sides, Roland was relieved.

He smiled and put down the teacup, and said softly: "Sage Chromie, please tell me."

"I'm tired of being neighbors with these monkeys. I want to move. I want to take my people away from this hellhole. If you are willing to accept us, we want to be neighbors with your people like we were in the beginning."

Although he said it very tactfully, Chromie's old face still flushed. He kept twisting his beard, trying not to look like a beggar.

After all, he was asking Roland to take him in, so he was a little embarrassed.

That's it?

Roland extended his right hand without hesitation and invited solemnly, "Sage Chromie, on behalf of the Sussex Empire, the Golden Kite Republic, the Vladimir Empire, the Val Free State, the Tyrol Kingdom and the New Magic Empire, I welcome you and the wise earth spirits. You can choose to live in any of the above countries, and I will arrange the best land for you as an autonomous territory."

"You and your people can enjoy the highest level of autonomy on the basis of abiding by the laws of each country and the laws of the Rodinia Alliance, and your people will also have full citizenship. How about this?"

Chromie's eyes were red with excitement.

He just wanted to give the tribe a chance to survive now, so how could he dare to expect such a luxury as autonomy.

Unexpectedly, Roland gave him a big surprise.

He took a deep breath, held Roland's right hand with both hands, and when he was about to touch it with his forehead, Roland took the lead and wrapped his palm with his left hand, making a gesture of holding hands.

Chromie looked up in astonishment.

This means that Roland is willing to accept the earth spirits as equal allies, not subordinates.

He took a deep breath and promised word by word: "The Son of Titan promises to fight alongside you and the noble elves until the end of the world." (End of this chapter)