Over the next month, the Ice Palace issued a call to all major cities, inviting high-ranking transcendents from the ice elves to gather. They began explaining the current situation and their plan for investigating the disaster. These elite transcendents were then divided into teams, supplemented by support personnel, and sent to various locations across the northern continent to gather data and investigate the local conditions. Loran Hill also prepared to delve into the depths of the North Sea with Thehua to explore the changes under the sea.
Everyone started to get busy.
As the entire ice elf clan gradually took action, an exquisite puppet also came to the quiet library of the Ice Palace.
Because many high-level transcendents have been transferred, the current administrators and guards are unaware of this extra presence entering the library.
Iseglin floated in the sea of bookshelves, searching for ancient records, occasionally pulling out thick books and looking through the things described in them.
Some of them are about the end of the First Age, some are about the beginning of the Second Age, some are about the migration of the Ice Elves, and some are reflections of the predecessors on that war.
"Analyzing the developments of the centuries since the end of the Second Era, it's clear that the elves' methods of resisting the Mercury Dynasty were a failure." — "Summary of the Past War" Third Era 672, Maester Sheleni.
"Despite our numerous sacrifices, the stubborn resistance of the Forest Elves, and the annihilation of the Silver Elves, we were unable to stop the increasingly ferocious Nine-Headed Mercury Serpent."
"The Mercury Dynasty isn't a single nation or entity. In fact, its composition is quite complex, encompassing witches, necromancers, descendants of the Crimson Empire, warlords, black knights, and more. The reason they all use the Wisteria Crescent as their banner and call themselves the Mercury Dynasty is primarily due to revenge."
"The hatred of the human ancestors who were persecuted by ogres and orcs, the hatred of the fall of the True Crimson Empire, and the hatred of the passing of the Witch of Plenty, these survivors who were chased to the ends of the earth have long embarked on a path of extremism."
"If you say they built a country with rich culture, prosperity and peace, I don't believe it, but for the people at that time, these did not seem to be important."
"They didn't care about anything like beautiful poetry and painting, stories and legends, morality and ethics. They didn't care about any of that. All they did was kill people. They were extremely cruel. The mountains of corpses and the sea of bones were the true portrayal of the time."
"If we elves did this, we would have been torn apart by internal opposition and would have been in constant internal friction. But for them, this would have no side effects at all."
"In that crazy era, everything was allowed. Although the weak among them felt insecure, they did not think there was anything wrong with such a system. Instead, they accepted it very much."
"Equality? That's a joke. Humans have never experienced the concept of equality. This is something the elves never experienced back then."
'Before the First Age, the elves had already entered a civilized era, with abundant resources and friendly relations with each other.'
"There is little historical record of where humans were before the First Age. Even if they did exist, they were at most a rat-like existence in the wilderness, no more civilized than ogres."
"During the founding war, the ancestors defeated the Giant King's Court, but we did not expand our territory to the entire continent because many places were far less comfortable and beautiful than the world tree."
'This gave many weaker races opportunities, and perhaps it was during that time that humans developed in the cracks.'
'But even so, there are still orcs who are more fertile, expand faster, and are more powerful than them.'
"So their gathering places were limited to remote corners. This continued until the Blood Moon Witch Julie changed the situation."
"After that, the True Red Empire slowly rose, and then the human kingdom was established, and civilization began to develop."
"But this process was interrupted a few hundred years later. The Crimson Empire collapsed, and the great witches, represented by the Witch of Plenty, passed away. This dealt a huge blow to humanity and also laid the groundwork for future hatred."
"First, we need to survive before we can talk about things like equality. In reality, humanity has never been able to gain a sense of security in life, and at that time, no one discussed topics like equality. The Mercury Dynasty acted without scruples, using any means necessary. Their policy was to do whatever it took."
'Faced with such a formidable and ferocious opponent, our ancestors' defeat was not unjust.'
"But if we had clearly understood the Mercury Dynasty's internal problems, preserved our strength to the greatest extent possible, avoided direct conflict with the enemy, and simply elevated the Mercury Dynasty to an unstoppable pedestal, when they had no rivals, they would have lost their way. The so-called nine-headed mercury snake would have begun to fight and devour itself, and then disintegrated."
'The development of history also proves this.'
"It's a pity that our ancestors didn't endure until that time."
This sentence at the end of the book is marked with a huge red cross. I wonder which borrower left his handwriting on it.
"Stupid! They're standing at your doorstep with a knife, about to burn your house down and kill your whole family, and you're still saying you haven't been patient enough. What a joke!"
There is another line of blue handwriting below, but it looks more neat and elegant, and should be written by another person.
"In the Second Age, three witches descended upon the World Tree, transforming it into a sea of fire, burying nearly a million elves who remained. This level of endurance was the limit, wasn't it? Our ancestors did well enough, and we shouldn't judge them arbitrarily. If the history recorded in this book weren't truly fresh, I wouldn't have rented it."
"When later generations look back on history, they always feel as though they too could achieve great things. Yet, countless heroes and powerful beings vanished without a trace. Is it because they were blind or unintelligent? Please show some respect to those who have left their names in history. They did their best to the best of their ability at the time."
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