Chapter 12: The Peril of Life and Death
"Well, okay!" Yilistin frowned and thought for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Qin Lun with a hint of joy. "Maybe with your identity, it can affect the ideas of the elders of the tribe!"
As my identity? What does it mean? Qin Lun raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn't interrupt and waited for Yilistin to continue talking.
Many things seemed to have been in Elistin's mind for a long time. When Qin Lun met, he might have just reached a certain overflow point, and the elf druid vented it all.
Listening to Ilisten's narrative, Qin Lun began to understand the current situation of the Qiongdal Elf and the current difficulties faced by the Magic Cup King. Since the Broken Starry Sky has not explored the world very well, the background introduction that can be given is also very general.
In fact, the Jundal elves at this time were different from the Jundal elves before the Rikkal celestial period of the Valley, and their racial composition was different.
During the Great Elf civilization period, the Jondal elves belonged to the Keldomo elves, and their inheritance can be traced back to the Seopia Elf Kingdom. The three elves kingdoms, Seopia, Thorthal and Eilur, which were originally located in the southeast of the Keldomo Great Forest, had the opportunity to unify, but were destroyed by the dark elves of Ilisri, and the "Three Leaf War" between the three elves courts broke out.
Later in the Second Dragon War, the Keldomo Forest was split into the Dragon Forest, the Datel Forest and the Taser Forest. The Dragon Forest and the Datel Forest belong to the northwest of the original Keldomo Forest, and there were two elves in Ilfaron and Olichar. Among them, the Olichar elves gradually disappeared in the war and had long lost the elves.
The Great Forest of the Taser, where the Kingdom of Seopia and the Serntal Kingdom was located, was divided into Anke, Thorns, Winter Forest and Jundal Forest in the war between the Sky Fire Age, and the Akira and Jundal Forest in the war between the Qi Giant Spirit and the Flash Spirit. Among them, the Winter Forest belongs to the inheritance of the Serntal Elves, while Anke and Jundal Forest are the inheritance of the Seopia Elves.
The works of the Seopia elves will be divided into two parts, each living in the Ank and Jondale Forests. The specific reasons are no longer verified, and they only know that they may be related to the inheritance of the royal family at that time.
Although the Seopia elves are divided into two parts, their strength is not essentially damaged as one of the two most complete elves (the other is the Ilfalan elves that currently live in the Mill Forest).
Compared with the sun elves who suffered heavy damage in the Supreme Forest, lost their ancient heritage, and moved to the Great Forest of Comanso in the northeast of the mainland, the moon elves and green elves of Seopia do have reason to claim their orthodoxy.
Whether it is the Seopia elves who settled in the Anchor Forest or the Jondal Forest, the main tribe is composed of moon elves and green elves. The moon elves occupy the main dominance, while the green elves are relatively weaker. The seats of the two in the Elf Presbyterian Church are roughly three to one, and the Elf Kings are both moon elves.
This tradition has been around the Anchor Forest to this day, but not the Jondal Forest. In 255 BC, the Jondal elves encountered an unprecedented challenge.
At that time, the human kingdom of the north of the Jondal Forest was rising and gradually expanding its power to the south, cutting down the borders in the Jondal Forest and establishing human settlements.
After several failed negotiations, the war between the two tribes finally broke out. In the early stages of the war, the Qiongdal elves could only guard the forest due to their weakness in military strength and were unable to threaten the human city in the northern plains.
In this case, in order to avoid the final destruction of the Jundar Forest, the Elf Court activated an ancient forbidden spell that ruined the world. At the cost of the deaths of the Elf King and most of the Elf Elders, most of the territory of the Jondar Kingdom became a vast ocean, which is the Weihong Sea that is now connected to the Sea of Falling Stars.
This war caused the human kingdom of Jondas to fall from a peak power on the continent to a third-rate country, and the Jondare elves were also severely damaged. Especially in the Moon Elf clan, no elves could bear the heavy responsibility of the Elf King, and ultimately had to make a green elf the successor Elf King.
This green elf king is called Neon Green Leaf, and he is the grandfather of the current elf king, King Testir.
Although Neon Green Leaf was well-received and did not obtain the throne through conspiracy, the Green Elf clan, whose status has greatly improved, is unwilling to be under the Moon Elf whose power has been greatly reduced, and begins to join forces with the Elf King to suppress the Moon Elf clan.
The two elves after Neon Green Leaf also continued the policy of suppressing the moon elves. This situation was not alleviated until King Testir ascended the throne. However, after the suppression of three generations of elves, the moon elves in the Jondal Forest were unbearable. Most of the moon elves moved out of the elves and established a semi-independent moon elves tribe on the periphery of the forest.
These moon elves have established their own joint meeting of tribe elders, which is actually equivalent to independence. If this is in human society, then this independent status will not be tolerated by any ruler.
However, this is an elf society. Elfs are essentially a race that advocates peace and free life. For Green Elf, excluding the moon elves from the elf court is already the bottom line, and it is impossible to harm their compatriots for this. Although the moon elves are resentful that they are excluded from the elf court by the green elves, they have never thought of using violent means to regain their dominance.
After three generations of elves rested and recuperated, the existing moon elves in the Jondal Forest have recovered their vitality and produced a large number of high-level elves rangers and druids, among which Ilistin is the most outstanding among the younger generation.
The blood of the original Month Elf Royal Family flows through Ilisten. In other words, she belongs to the original Month Elf Royal Family. Because the elves are relatively long and some of the elves are born from the fruits of the World Tree, they do not pay attention to blood ties. Their method of recognizing the royal bloodline is very simple, which is to have a more bloodline purity.
Hearing this, Qin Lun finally realized. Why did Ilistin be kind to Qin Lun after testing him? Why did King Testier deliberately win over him, an elf mercenary from a small forest tribe?
Because the bloodline of the higher moonlight elves is an extremely pure bloodline of the moonlight elves, they regard Qin Lun as a descendant of the moonlight elves royal family.
King Testir's previous invitation may be just a stepping stone. Since King Testir is willing to unite the moon elves again and include them in the ruling system of the Jondal elves, it is impossible to only pay one royal guard.
If Qin Lun agreed at that time, under the current situation of the Elf Court being in trouble, King Testir would probably arrange for him a plot task that is not very dangerous but extremely important.
In other words, it is to gilt him so that he can continue to raise Qin Lun's status, and through his "royal bloodline", he will slowly gather the hearts of the Moon Elf clan and change the semi-independent state of the Moon Elf tribe.
After realizing this, Qin Lun felt a little regretful. Without the fortress team, he might have obtained the most "safe" plot task since entering the Broken Starry Sky. Even if the mission reward is not high, he can still get a major gain from the Elf King.
The current King of Testir may be the most wisest king in the Jondal Forest since the split from the Tessel Forest. Since he ascended the throne more than thirty years ago, he has been trying to bridge the rift between the moon elves and the green elves.
If he was given one or two hundred years, the Jundar Elf would definitely be able to regain his glory, but in fact, he did not have so much time. Not to mention the increasingly powerful human forces on the continent, the Jundar Forest is currently in a huge internal crisis.
As the cornerstone of the Magic Cup King Court, the source of the inheritance of the Qiongdal elves, their world tree is about to die. In fact, except for the first generation of world tree in the Supreme Forest where the Sun Elves were originally located - the deceased Grandfather Tree, the second generation of world trees scattered in forests of various continents, are gradually dying.
In order to deal with this crisis, the Sun Elves of Cormanso are undergoing a major migration. They are going to transfer most of their tribe to Yongju Island, where the third generation of World Tree has been successfully planted.
In fact, this is also a helpless move. The world tree has strong vitality, but the survival rate of young species is very low, and it requires the inheritance of ancient secret techniques of the elves. Although the Komansori elves are firmly ranked first in the continent in the forest area and population, they have lost their ancient heritage in the five crown wars, which has led to the fact that they can only rely on the special environment of Yongju Island to cultivate the third generation of world tree.
Correspondingly, the descendants of the Seopia elves in the Anke Forest, the descendants of the Ilfalan elves in the Mill Forest, and the joint descendants of Maileta and Santa Osriel in the eastern part of the Supreme Forest, also gave birth to the third generation of World Trees one after another.
As for the Thorn Forest, which also lacks the secret inheritance of the World Tree, the descendants of the Seontal Elf of the Winter Forest have not yet survived the third generation of the World Tree. They are all trying to overcome this inheritance crisis.
As for the descendants of the Serpian elves in the Jundar Forest, they suffered their own consequences. When the third generation of Green Elf King excluded the Moon Elf, they did not consider the unique status of the Jundar Moon Elf in the inheritance of the World Tree Secret Technique. As a result, all the young species left by the second generation of World Tree failed to survive.
In fact, the elves caravan where Qin Lun is located is the elves envoys sent by King Testir to seek help for this. Their destination is Mir Forest, and they seek help from the descendants of the elves of Ilfaron there in order to regain the seeds of the World Tree.
"Why don't you ask for help from the closer Anchor Forest?" Qin Lun couldn't help asking strangely when he heard this.
Both the Ank elves and the Jondal elves belong to the descendants of the Seopia elves, which are much closer than the descendants of the Ilfaron elves in the Mir Forest. Although the two split in the Second Dragon War and the Flame Spirit and the Qi Spirit War, that happened more than 7,000 years ago.
"Because the Ankle Elf Court is recruiting the Moon Elf Clan of Jundar, the condition for them to help King Testir is that the Magic Cup Court cannot stop the Moon Elf of Jundar from joining the Anchor Forest in any way!" Elistin said with a wry smile.
So that's it! Although there are still some inside stories that are not clear, it is not important to Qin Lun. Based on the secrets mentioned by Yilistin, he can basically deduce several major plot lines of the Magic Cup King Court.
At the same time, a prompt message rang out on the death list at the right time, and he triggered a certain mission plot!
Chapter completed!