For Thousands of Years, My Weakest Brother Has Become a Demon King

   Chapter 167 About Elves

   "They said they wanted to come up and check the cabin?"

   Hobbes asked with a frown.

   "Yes, they say these are extraordinary times and all ships from the Empire are subject to strict inspections...including merchant ships like ours."

   After getting off the barge, the first mate who had been sent to communicate with the person in charge of the other party nodded and replied.

  Hobbes heard the words and looked at the few elf longships with hulls as graceful as crescent moons not far away. At this moment, the distance between them and the Whalebone was about 500 yards.

A distance of 500 yards, this is a safe distance that needs to be actively maintained when a strange ship meets at sea and it is impossible to tell whether the other party is malicious or not. It is as if the sky is generally unattainable.

   Those elven longships with the banner of the Blood Blade family strictly abide by this unwritten rule at sea and keep their own safe distance. But at the same time, they also stopped on the way to Misty Harbor, and stopped the Whale Bone from the pier.

"What did they say to check? I've been doing business here for decades, and this is the first time I've heard of such a request. Also, why is the Blood Blade family flag hanging at the dock? Are you done?"

  Hobbes continued, pointing to the flag hanging on the pier.

   "I asked, and the other party only told me to stay out of my own business... As for why they had to go on board for inspection, they said it was a routine matter, after all, this is the current situation, they are worried that there are imperial military spies hidden on the boat..."

   "Who is the spy of the Empire and can't write on his face, this reason is too far-fetched."

   A low male voice interrupted the first officer's words, and everyone turned their heads, just to see William and Diana, who seemed to be a little seasick, come to the deck.

   "So, is the other party not letting us dock now?"

   Saved the boring chat, William asked directly.

   "It has to be inspected before it is allowed to dock, and now the entire pier is under martial law... There has never been a similar situation before."

  Hobbes answered with some worry.

   Then he continued:

"And the martial law is not the local garrison family in Yisu City, but the Blood Blade family in Fenghuo City. The garrison force between the seven major city-states should be completely independent, and it is impossible to have such a situation in normal times. situation arises.”

   It is difficult to say whether this was an adjustment in response to the imperial military threat, or some political turmoil within Ava.

   or both.

   "What to do? Mr. Ishma."

   Seeing that William fell into silence and kept silent, Hobbs asked tentatively.

   "Then follow their rules, there is no need to fight them on the other side's territory."

   Hearing the words, William came back to his senses and replied.

   Then he added:

   "Be careful with the three sailors locked in the storage room. When their men board the ship for inspection, remember to make it clear to them first, so as not to cause any misunderstanding."

  Hobbes nodded immediately after hearing the words, and then he immediately greeted the people around him to act quickly, as if he was afraid that William would go back on his words.

   In fact, Hobbes was really afraid that the other party would go back on it.

   Magic casters, especially powerful magic casters like the opponent, are generally extremely proud and sensitive in character. Therefore, after learning that the other party asked to board the ship for inspection, Hobbes was most worried about nothing but whether his employer would have unnecessary trouble with the other party because he felt that this was a provocation for him. conflict.

   Now with his words, Hobbs felt much more at ease.

   After the simple preparatory work was arranged, "Thunder Fire" released a [Lightning Technique] into the sky, which was a signal to agree to the inspection earlier. After a few seconds, one of the elf long ships came over, and the wooden oars on both sides of the slender hull rowed uniformly. Right.

Seeing this, the sailor on the Whalebone was about to throw down the ladder to let the other party climb up, but the five high elves on the elf long ship, dressed in dark silver scale armor and wearing blood-red daggers on their waists, jumped up directly. Like a bird that just fluttered its wings, it jumped up to a height of four or five meters, crossed the guardrail of the side chord, and landed lightly on the deck, causing the sailors on board to exclaim.

   Four of the high elves protected each other almost instinctively after they landed. They looked around, and after confirming that there was no threat around, the hand holding the hilt of the sword was slowly lowered.

   After landing, the remaining high elf dressed as an officer walked straight to the direction of William and Hobbs at the bow.

   He wore a dark gold helmet with a phoenix pattern on his head, and a pair of pointed ears were exposed outside the helmet. A few golden tassels were blown behind the helmet by the sea breeze. It is not only the tail that symbolizes the phoenix, but also his identity as a commander.

Compared with humans, the stature of the high elves are taller and slender, and even their faces are slightly sharper. Coupled with the delicate facial features, the other party seems to show a hint of feminine femininity. beauty.

Because of the image of the high elves, people often think that the high elves are a bunch of scumbags who can't lift their swords, neither as full of wild power as their distant relatives in the Jade Province, the forest elves, nor like the Cold Stone Province. The ice elf is so muscular and can go out hunting in the ice and snow with a half-covered animal skin, which has a rough beauty.

   But in fact, under their seemingly fragile and slender appearance, there is a power far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

   Specifically, if the high elves are selected as the starting point in the game, the player's initial value panel will be much higher than other races.

After all, it is difficult to say that it is a mortal race after blessing the high elves through the Phoenix Sacred Fire. For example, the previous thing such as these people jumping up to four or five meters high to board the ship, naturally did not rely on the explosive power provided by the muscles, and William did it. It also didn't feel the breath of magic at all. This is some kind of innate spell, just like the witch can use her scale powder to hypnotize, create dreams, and blur the distance. It is a "phenomenon", not a spell.

But on the other hand, compared to the truly extraordinary races such as witches who were born on the basis of a certain concept, the high elves can only be regarded as half an extraordinary race - after all, they still need to rely on the act of reproduction in order to maintain the survival of its own race.

   As the Phoenix Sacred Fire that maintains this, its gift is both a blessing and a prison.

  The Blessing of the Holy Fire will only continue to take effect in the Awa continent and the area covered by the fog. Once out of this range, the blessings received by the high elves will inevitably weaken and fade with the passage of time. Players who choose the high elves to start will enter a period in the early and middle stages of the game. Item properties, however, remain the same, and sometimes even go backwards.

  The regionality of the Phoenix Sacred Fire's blessing is an important reason why the high elves tended to be conservative before the rise of mankind, and never expanded to the Vic Continent or other places.

   In the later Bronze Age, after the rise of mankind as the ruler of the Vic continent, there was a crisis of belief in Ava.

   At that time, the elves on Ava Continent still called themselves "Elves", and there was no "higher" prefix before their racial names. At that time, many elves, who were tortured by long and stagnant lives and nearly collapsed, had always longed for change, and saw the passion of life and the potential to change the status quo from the human race.

   They believed that it was the false immortality brought about by the blessing of the holy fire that poisoned the entire race, so they decided to resist the confinement brought by fire and fog, and follow the example of mankind into a new era.

At first, they planned to directly extinguish the Phoenix Sacred Fire and cut off the inheritance of the King of the Mist, so that the entire elf family would completely lose their blessings and become a man with "old age, sickness, and death" after "birth". A true mortal race.

   To this end, they launched a rebellion in the name of freedom, and the result of the rebellion was a failure without accident under the pressure of the fog king Weili.

   But the former King of the Mist was a wise and wise monarch, and he saw that this trend of thought had shaken the foundation of the entire Awa Continent Sacred Fire Blessing System. Therefore, he did not choose to execute the rebels, to destroy their bodies and build an immortal monument for their spirits. He chose to eventually banish those people and allow all who agreed with their ideals to follow them away.

   Thus, the first and only large-scale racial migration in the history of the elves began. This migration lasted for more than fifty years, and it was divided into six batches and left in sequence.

  The first fleet crossed the Broken Sea, passed through Fairy Bay to Ravenwood, where it made a contract with the holy tree and became the later forest elves. The second fleet crossed the White Sea, passed through the Thousand Snake Islands, landed near a crater in the Longji Mountains north of the Boiling Plain, and suddenly disappeared a hundred years later, leaving only the The molten iron city is a legendary fortress city.

  The third and fourth fleets went to the mainland of Ossis, and it is said that they established a prosperous country there. But hundreds of years later, the continent of Ossis encountered the crisis of the moon, and eventually the entire continent was sunk into the sea by the Void Kings, and the descendants of these two fleets were all destroyed. The fifth and sixth fleets all headed north, and one of them landed in Lengyuan and made a covenant with the local ice giants and became the ice elves of later generations; What is going on in the north, and after passing through the Keel Islands and continuing to the north, the sound is completely lost in the end.

   And after that, there has never been a large-scale racial migration in the entire history of the elves. However, Avazhou still retains the corresponding system. Whether it is in the era of the King of the Mist, or in the era of the seven free city-states later, as long as people have doubts about the Phoenix Sacred Fire blessing system, they can choose to give up their own. Blessed with the surname, left Ava Continent in the name of the Ranger.

  Although the high elves who gave up their blessings are still much stronger than ordinary people in agility and perception, they are not as good as ordinary humans in attributes such as strength and endurance. Combined with the emptiness of the soul due to the loss of a blessing, many elven rangers suffer from a condition known as "elemental mutation". Therefore, the stereotype of the high elves in the Vic continent is always a sickly and weak appearance.

   But in fact, the real high elves are definitely not this kind of image.

  William thought to himself as he watched the officer walking towards them.

   This seems to be the first time that William has seen a high elves who have been blessed with complete blessings. As a magic caster, it is difficult for him to judge the opponent's combat effectiveness from the perspective of non-magic warfare. But judging from the vigilant posture of the opponent at all times, the fighting posture when walking, and the aura surrounding him - just the five people who boarded the ship, or a tactical team without the support of a magic caster, they can Like cutting butter, bring everyone on the boat down in five minutes except yourself.

   Including the three magic casters already on board.

In Ava Continent, every elves with warrior-related surnames are absolute warriors. Since they were given their surnames and embarked on their own "road", all their goals in their lives are to be tempered. own warrior way.

  The talent inherited from the ancestors, coupled with the tempering of the long years, although the number of warriors in Avazhou is rare, each of them is an absolute elite who is a ten or even a hundred.

  I must get this army...

   Looking at these warriors who are much stronger than the thorns black guards in the city of thorns, William thought to himself.

  Although you will gradually lose your blessings if you leave the Awa Continent, but from Remedios’ example, as long as you return to Awa Continent, this kind of blessing can still be replenished.

   Or maybe he can decipher the principle of the Holy Fire Blessing and use it as another hole card against the Moon Realm.

  While William was thinking about whether or not there was something, the elf officer had already walked up to Hobbs. Hobbsdui extended his hand to him with a smile, but the other party just glanced at it and did not hold it.

   "Hobbs Black Whale, captain of the Whalebone. I heard that you have been in business with the Windsong family for the past twenty-seven years?"

   The other party asked straight to the point, in a tone as if the interrogator was interrogating the prisoner who was hung on the torture device.

  Hobbs withdrew his outstretched hand with an embarrassed look on his face, then glanced at William who was beside him, and then replied as if he had regained some confidence:

"The Windsong family is just a middleman. We mainly do business with the Silver Hand, Gray Porcelain, Cold Fire and other families. We brought all kinds of rare minerals from Awa, and they sold us handcrafted products. And the Windsong family is not The only middleman..."

   "You just have to answer my question. Have you ever had any business dealings with the Windsong family before, yes or no?"

   Although it sounds extremely impatient, there is no impatient tone in the other party's tone.

  Hobbes nodded and said:

"Yes."

"very good…"

   Hearing the words, the other party turned his head and said to the four blood blade guards behind him:

   "Don't miss any corner of this ship, Imperial spies may exist in every corner."

   Hobbs, who had known the other party's intention for a long time, hurriedly ordered the crew on the side to lead them, and finally added:

   "There are three imperial sailors in the storage room on the second floor, please pay attention. They are the survivors of the previous shipwreck of the imperial warship. We only rescued them by accident. They are not our crew members. Don't misunderstand them."

As soon as    said this, the officer looked at Hobbs with a solemn expression.

   "What's going on, please clarify."

  Hobbs briefly told the other party what happened on the road, and after listening to his description, the man immediately turned his head to look at William who was on the side and said:

   "You mean this man, he ran out of Mist Phantom's hands and rescued those three people?"

   (end of this chapter)