Chapter 547: Chapter 547: Where is the Promised Experience Bag?
Riding atop Lotcar, Yang Yu circled the periphery of the Elf Forest and was quite surprised to find that the Beastman Soldiers stationed around the Elf Forest had completely disappeared without a trace.
Yang Yu had originally thought he was just unlucky and couldn’t find any Beastman Soldiers. He retraced his steps for a ticulous search, but still, he didn’t so much as glimpse a single hair of a Beastman Soldier, only their encampnt remains.
Damn, where did the promised Experience Bags go? Why did they just vanish?
Yang Yu couldn’t puzzle it out. After much deliberation, he figured it was highly likely due to the escalating war between Wansheng Country and the Luo Ze Empire, forcing them to sacrifice the safety of so civilians and engage their border-guarding soldiers in battle.
If his guess was correct, this was an extrely dangerous signal, and he needed to hurry to join the military.
If he waited too long, wouldn’t he end up like Chongzhen, who hanged himself on a crooked neck tree—bravely enlisting after the enemy had advanced, with no chance to fight back?
If things developed to that state, he could only watch as so many walking Experience Bags and Racial Essences slipped away.
However, he couldn’t be completely certain that this was the case.
Perhaps the Elf Queen had once again rejected Wansheng Country’s war invitation, leading Wansheng Country to believe there was no profit to be gained, so they withdrew the Beastman Soldiers who had long been guarding the elves.
If Yang Yu were the king of Wansheng Country, he would have made the sa choice.
After all, with the situation being so dangerous already, investing too much in a race with no benefits to gain was purely sentintal.
At most, out of humanitarianism or for the sake of future relations, they would leave one or two squadrons to patrol the area.
However, Yang Yu hadn’t expected the timing to be so perfect.
“Could it be that envoys from Wansheng Country entered right when we arrived, communicating with the Queen and confirming her stance on the war…”
Yang Yu muttered to himself. If that was the case, he had truly missed a chance to connect with soone high-ranking.
But it wasn’t worth regretting. Being rejected by the Queen, the envoy would surely be in poor spirits and would be dismissive, if not avertive toward him, a Human, might even be more wary of him due to his race.
If he could question the Elf Queen again, Yang Yu would be able to confirm whether it was the first or the second possibility. However, returning to Luoyu City now would only result in being attacked by a group of elves.
Having lost his experience pack, albeit helplessly, Yang Yu still decided to stick with the original plan.
Fortunately, there were also many demons in the Elf Forest. Hunting demons was slow, but he could gain quite a lot of Experience, and it was an opportunity to train both Lotcar and He ng’s combat skills.
Lotcar aside, He ng was also surprisingly enthusiastic; having Favorability definitely made a difference.
During rest tis, He ng would conjure a small hand from his body, pick up a branch, and first draw a Sli on the ground, then a person, with an arrow in between.
Yang Yu, of course, understood He ng’s intention; it must be the sign that the long-coveted Sli King Task was about to begin.
However, despite being able to embark on He ng’s major storyline, Yang Yu decided to wait and first resolve the war between Wansheng Country and the Luo Ze Empire before addressing He ng’s Task, as running back to Newbie Village and then returning here was quite inconvenient.
Thus, Yang Yu told He ng that he would definitely help, asking it to wait a bit longer until his own strength was truly sufficient.
He ng seed to want to say sothing else, but seeing the Clover in Yang Yu’s hand and considering their communication barriers, it gave up and began nibbling on the aromatic Clover.
After a few days of travel, Yang Yu finally found the ti to read the Elf Chronicles seriously.
Sitting next to the campfire, leaning against the enormous Lotcar, he opened the book and read the text by the light of the fire.
It wasn’t written in an ancient language, but in modern text, which Yang Yu could also understand, as if it was displayed specifically for outsiders.
The elf race was much younger than he had imagined.
Although they had a history of ten thousand years, counting Ailena, the current Elf Queen, there had only been twelve generations in all. Excluding the first three Elf Queens and Ailena herself, every Queen’s reign had lasted over a thousand years.
The various events occurred based on the intervals of the Queens’ reigns.
The first half of the book, dealing with the first three Elf Queens, was chaotic and vague, but starting with the fourth Queen, the entire book began to be written chronologically. Reading through it line by line was not as interesting as one might imagine; on the contrary, it was quite dry.
Only significant events were described in detail, which saved Yang Yu a lot of ti filtering information.
At a glance, Yang Yu could spot many major events.
It was these significant events that beca the legends passed down among the elves and the source of many elven holidays.
It is worth ntioning that Yang Yu found records related to the invasion by the Demon Clan in the world.
The earliest record of the Demon Clan appeared in the year 3052 of the Elf History, over 6000 years ago, with detailed descriptions in the Elven Chronicles about the opening of the Gate of Demon World.
“Far across the horizon, black clouds converged into a vortex, the edges of the black clouds tinged red, as the whirl tore the sky apart. Finally, a massive white beam of light plunged from the center of the vortex down to the sea, causing towering waves.
A black landmass rose from the seabed. The light parted on either side, transforming into a green door. Various demons crossed through that green door, establishing that black landmass as their stronghold and erecting tall and magnificent buildings. We call that place ‘Demon King City’.”
The descriptions of the Demon King Descent were quite detailed, as if seen with one’s own eyes.
Yang Yu noticed sothing—the location of the Demon King Descent was at sea, yet the land of the Elf Clan, from any direction, was far from the sea.
The Elf Clan had a wide distribution in the past, all the way to the edge of the sea. Or could it be that this description was sothing the Elf Clan had heard from other races?
Or perhaps the Elf Queen was lying, and the control the Elf Clan had over elves wasn’t as strict as it is now—they could travel to any corner of the world without fear of expulsion by other elves, able to return to elven settlents at any ti…
The book didn’t depict the life of the elves at the ti of the Demon King Descent nor spend any ink to portray it, making it extrely difficult to judge.
Turning page by page, Yang Yu realized that the occurrences of the Demon King Descent weren’t few.
The mont of the Demon King Descent into this world seed to happen periodically, and the Elf Clan would appropriately assist the Hero of that era.
Flipping through, Yang Yu turned to the page about the previous Elf Queen Ming Tu Sai Qiute, who ruled for nearly two thousand years before Ailena.
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