As autumn deepened, Yang Yu began to wear warr clothes, while Lotcar, being a Beastman, did not feel the cold.
Beastn all have a strong resistance to cold. When humans are wrapped up in thick clothes, Beastn can still enjoy dancing in the icy, snowy wilderness wearing nothing but light garnts.
Wansheng Country often made great use of this trait of the Beastn.
According to records from the All Things Library, every winter, Wansheng Country would launch a winter offensive against the Luo Ze Empire.
Winter was one of the few tis when Wansheng Country could take the initiative.
Unfortunately, even though they wrested back so land with their winter attacks, by spring and sumr, it would be reclaid by the Luo Ze Empire, which then made use of the autumn harvest to launch a fierce attack, further encroaching on Wansheng Country’s territory to gain an advantage.
In this protracted war, there wasn’t much ti for Wansheng Country to breathe with relief.
The situation worsened further after the fall of the ruler and the young Imperial Princess took charge.
Even the winter offensives that Wansheng Country launched beca gradually ineffective against the well-planned defenses of their enemy, Luo Ze.
If the Elves could lend their full support to Wansheng Country in resisting the Luo Ze Empire, perhaps this year’s winter offensive could turn the tide of their losing streak— at least, it might boost their flagging morale.
It was probably for the sake of preparing for the winter offensive that the Pri Minister of Wansheng Country personally tried to persuade the Elf Queen.
Although he had returned without any achievents, it wasn’t a failure.
Understanding the situation in Luoyu City, the Pri Minister of Wansheng Country, who was also an Elf, decisively and unsentintally withdrew his troops that had been stationed there, with no plans to offer any aid to the Elves.
He planned to let ti persuade the Elf Queen for him.
The Elf Queen gathered all the Elves to prevent a tragedy, but this led to a cascade of problems, particularly with food.
Many villages remained small and spread out, their size largely dependent on the resources they could obtain from nature.
A place becos a large city because it can effectively solve the problem of food supply.
In Yang Yu’s original world, only with the advancent of transportation did the birth of cities with tens of millions of inhabitants beco possible.
Without convenient transportation providing enough food, large cities of tens of millions would collapse at a visible, rapid pace.
Unfortunately, the Elves clearly lacked any significant transportation capabilities and were unwilling to clear the forests, making forty or fifty thousand inhabitants the limit for their largest city.
In primitive societies, when populations exceed what an area can support, they suffer a severe backlash from nature.
The move by Wansheng Country’s Pri Minister was a smart one.
As nature’s backlash grew harsher, more and more hungry Elves would begin to question the Queen’s decision, then leave Luoyu City for their villages, potentially causing the city to lose its prosperity.
If another tragedy like last year’s occurred...
The grievances of the Elf populace could overwhelm the Queen, forcing her to decide to join the war.
Had the Elf Queen not considered this?
Possibly she had, or possibly she had not.
It was the first ti the Elf Queen encountered such a situation, and she lacked experience, but it was also possible that she knew yet chose to gamble – to see whether she would break first and choose to join the war, or whether the war would end first.
Thoroughly understanding another’s thoughts is quite challenging.
Moreover, with the opposing party having lived for so long, it was unclear whether she was naively sweet or deeply cunning.
From the information provided by Bai Jin, the food crisis in Luoyu City was starting to break out ahead of schedule, bla it on a significant part of the elven diet consisting of at.
Animals aren’t fools either, knowing which places have beco dangerous, they naturally stopped going there.
Realizing that the elves could at best hold out for one or two more winters, Yang Yu wrapped himself in a blanket and decided to wait and watch for a while.
The elves being forced to join the battle was not entirely a bad thing for Wansheng Country and the elves, it was just unclear why the Elf Queen held that attitude towards the war.
A few days later, Yang Yu and his team resud their routine of leveling up as usual.
Lotcar, roaming the outskirts of the Elf Forest, suddenly sensed an unusual scent in the air. He bent down, brought his nose close to the ground, and sniffed lightly.
"What’s the matter?"
"Yang Yu, I sll other humans. More than one."
"Slave hunters? The news about Wansheng Country withdrawing its guard troops seems to have spread faster than expected."
"What do we do now?"
Yang Yu fell silent for a mont before answering, "I would really like to say to just ignore it.
After all, with Wansheng Country withdrawing troops, this kind of situation will only beco more common.
We can’t stay here forever solving this problem for them; they must rely on themselves.
The Elf Queen will bring the elves together to manage and prevent such things from happening again.
Bai Jin and Iyas are still in Luoyu City, and Hake probably hasn’t settled down yet...
If those slave hunters target the hunting team and successfully capture so of them, we, wandering in the Elf Forest, even if reluctantly, might once again be seen as suspicious by the elves, and treated with difficulties everywhere.
What’s more, if there is an internal lockdown in the Elf Clan, forcing Iyas and Bai Jin into a situation where they cannot escape from Luoyu City, that would cause a lot of trouble too.
At least, before winter cos. We need to ensure that Iyas and Bai Jin can officially rejoin the team.
In one or two months, Iyas will be able to learn a little more."
After looking over Iyas’ skill list, the previously half-complete skills, "Interdiate Healing" and "Heavenly Feather" were now lit up and appeared in the skill list.
Iyas’ "Light Arrow" skill also underwent an evolution, with a new passive "Holy Light Perception" added below. The cooldown of "Light Arrow" reduced significantly, allowing it to be used as a normal attack like Bai Jin’s "Frost Ice Arrow," able to launch attacks without needing arrows.
It also helped Yang Yu save on the cost of arrows.
Now that Yang Yu had money, he had bought all the high-quality arrows available on the road, and there were still several thousand arrows in the warehouse.
Speaking of the System, this burden-free System was really good. It would be even better if they got rid of the grid design. The 20X50 grid was almost filled up by Yang Yu.
Now with Wansheng Country facing a food shortage, to be prepared for any situation, Yang Yu stored all the demons he defeated into the System, filling up grid after grid.
"Lotcar, track the scent and if you co across the elves from the hunting team, tell them about this. Try to spread the word as much as possible."
"Roger that."
With that, Lotcar dashed off in the direction of the scent.
However, he hadn’t gone far when suddenly, several bows and arrows fell from the sky. Yang Yu instantly took out his shield, executed "Interception," and the Illusion Shield unfolded in a flash, blocking the incoming arrows.
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