Chapter 592 Stormwind City! (Three in One)
More than two hundred years ago, when the Holy Continent had not yet encountered a catastrophe, the elves had their own cities, and they were like the pearls of this Holy Continent.
However, ever since the previous queen died in battle and the holy city of the elves was destroyed by the undead, the strength of the elves began to decline.
What is even more outrageous is the human race. Not only do they not remember that the elves became weak in order to save the Holy Continent, but because of the weakness of the elves, they have intensified their efforts to plunder the elves and sell them.
If it weren't for Alice this time, if it weren't for the fact that she was the only female bloodline of the elven royal family, then these people Alice brought from Eurasia would never have been able to stay in the sacred forest.
Because for the elves whose lifespan is up to thousands of years, hatred will not be erased by the passage of time.
On the contrary, many of the elves present here are eyewitnesses. They have witnessed humans’ ingratitude and their ruthlessness.
Therefore, the hatred of the elves towards humans is deep-rooted, and they really dislike treacherous and greedy humans.
"Elder Almond, building Stormwind City is not something that can be completed overnight. Although the humans I brought with me are still very weak, my father and Count Gust are already strengthening their training. I believe that in a few years they will become excellent warriors, not inferior to any human holy city forces!"
"Also, Elder Almond, and all the tribesmen, I know you hate humans and don't trust them! But the humans I brought with me have never been involved in anything that harmed the tribesmen!"
"And I am not only your queen, but also the queen of those humans. As long as I am here, they will not dare to do anything to harm the elves! I can guarantee this."
"I can even ask them to help protect my people. Today, the strength of our elves has declined by more than half, not even one-third of what it was two hundred years ago. There are only a few million people in our tribe. If we rely on ourselves alone, it will be difficult to restore our former glory!"
"So the elves can use these humans I brought to help us rise!"
"The human population of the Holy Alliance has reached billions, but in my Eurasian continent, the population there is also tens of millions, and it is completely possible for them to occupy a place in the Holy Continent!"
"Those great nobles and black-hearted adventurers of the Holy Alliance are very evil and cunning, but the humans I brought with me can also curb their evil and cunning, so that our elves can truly develop rapidly."
Adela sat on the throne and spoke a long speech with a calm expression, leaving all the elves below speechless.
Even some young elves, who had not had much contact with the humans of the Holy Continent, did not have such deep-rooted hatred towards humans. After listening to Alice's words, they actually agreed with her statement.
Although the elves have declined, it is not because of their lack of intelligence that they have been squeezed out of their living space by humans or other races.
On the contrary, the elves have a long lifespan, so they have more time to learn knowledge and improve their strength.
Therefore, their combat capability and wisdom can be said to be many times stronger than those of humans and orcs.
In fact, the real reason why the elves are in decline is because of the population problem.
More than two hundred years ago, the population of the elves reached tens of millions. At that time, the elves were a truly powerful race in the Holy Continent.
However, because of that catastrophe, the population of the elves was reduced to millions, and because the elves had the racial characteristic of a long life span, their reproduction was very slow, so the elves have not yet recovered, and have become even more decadent.
This is what is called: The Creator is fair. While opening a window for you, he will close another window.
On the contrary, the human and orc races, which have relatively weaker talents, suffered a population loss ratio no less than that of the elves. However, after more than two hundred years of reproduction and development, the human and orc populations have long since recovered and regained their former prosperity and strength.
As one thing grows stronger, the other shrinks. If the elves don't find a way to change, then even the Sacred Forest, their last refuge, will probably be slowly squeezed out.
Looking at the tribesmen below who remained silent, Alice knew that she had to strike while the iron was hot to change the minds of these older generations, so she continued
"Besides, before I came back, my people were unwilling to trade with humans because they hated them. This caused our elves to not only have a sparse population, but also become financially challenged. Many people in our tribe have already adopted a primitive lifestyle like the orcs."
"This is complacent, and our elves will become weaker and weaker in the future!"
"So, we need to trade with the human race. Only then can we have a large amount of gold coins to allow our people to live a better life, so that they can study knowledge and magic with peace of mind and improve their strength!"
"And these humans I brought with me just gave us such an opportunity. We can let them come forward to help the elves trade with humans!"
"Everyone already knows about the previous trade with the Holy Trading Company. In the past, the tribesmen only knew how to trade with the Holy Trading Company using stream water, and the price was very low, one gold coin per bottle!"
"But after Caroline's negotiation, the price of our stream water is fifty times higher than the original price. This is the importance of these humans I brought with me. They are also humans, and they are businessmen who understand humans best."
"In addition, there are the golden wines of my husband Gervis. Ordinary golden wines are 10 gold coins per pot, and the premium wines are as high as 50 gold coins per pot! You can't imagine how much profit there is! It's almost a huge profit!"
"Especially now that the grape vines are planted in this sacred forest and are cared for by our people, they can produce grapes all year round, and in large quantities. In the future, these seemingly wild fruits can be exchanged for gold continuously."
"So you don't have to worry about not having enough gold coins to build Stormwind City. In fact, the wealth of our elves will continue to increase in the future because of this!"
"Once Stormwind City is built, with the human warriors I brought with me fighting alongside the elves, and with the endless wealth that will allow our people to live a better life, do you think there is any harm in me building this Stormwind City?"
Alice's words on the last part were very sharp as she looked towards a group of elves below her.
"Your Majesty, please calm down! We have misunderstood your Majesty's intentions! Please punish us, your Majesty. We are willing to confess our mistakes to the Goddess of Life!"
Hearing Alice's sharp questioning and cold eyes, the old elves who were not very willing to accept the human race trembled, knelt on the ground and confessed loudly.
"Get up! I know you are angry about what the humans in the Holy Continent did. Believe me, one day I will lead my people to rise again and make anyone who dares to offend the elves pay the price!"
Looking at the elves below, Alice was very satisfied with their reactions and knew that it was almost time.
His expression immediately softened, and he made assurances to everyone in an extremely sincere tone.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Later, Alice comforted the elves again with a few words, and then cleared everyone out of the hall.
"Huh! Gervis, you bastard, where are you? Come back soon to settle your vassals and subordinates!"
When Alice was the only one left in the hall, she took a deep breath, holding the telescope given to her by Gervis, and muttered to herself.
Through Gervis's elf bugs, Alice and others knew that Gervis must still be alive, but they didn't know where Gervis was.
The Holy Continent is extremely vast, and no one knows where its borders are.
Therefore, if Gervis was unlucky, even if he survived, it might take him many years to return to Eurasia or the Holy Alliance.
Alice also wondered whether Gervis would be in the Holy Alliance.
But there is still no way to find it. There are billions of humans in the Holy Alliance. It is very difficult to find one person.
Moreover, Alice had to guard against the New Temple's revenge against Gervis. After all, Gervis and herself had completely destroyed the New Temple's layout in Eurasia.
Even though the New Temple is not very strong in Eurasia, that is because the teleportation array is unable to teleport super-powerful people.
However, in this holy continent, the strength of the New Temple cannot be underestimated. Even the Holy Alliance cannot wipe out this organization, so you can imagine how terrifying it is.
So Alice didn't dare to reveal the news, and she didn't even dare to ask Caroline to ask the Holy Trading Company for information, because that might very likely put Gervis into a dangerous situation.
Alice's backup in finding Gervis is golden wine and golden oysters. With these two things, if Gervis is really in the Holy Alliance, he will definitely come looking for her in the future.
This is why they immediately used golden oysters and golden wine to trade with the Holy Trading Company shortly after arriving in the Holy Continent.
Making money is only one of the reasons. Another reason is to spread the news that they have arrived in the Holy Continent.
Tap! Tap!
Just as Alice was lost in thought, a tall white horse suddenly came in from the door. It was Gervis's unicorn.
"Unicorn! Why are you here? Do you want to go out for a walk again?"
Alice was immediately awakened by the sound of the unicorn's hooves. She then stood up and walked down the throne platform with a smile. The back of her white dress dragged two or three meters on the ground.
hiss!
The unicorn came to Alice happily and kept stroking Alice's white palm with its huge head.
"You're getting smarter! I don't know how Gervis trained you to be so smart. I've never heard of a low-level unicorn being able to possess such wisdom!"
Alice giggled and fiddled with the unicorn for a while, then came to the side of the unicorn and flew lightly to the unicorn's back.
hiss!
The unicorn neighed happily, then quickly ran towards the door of the hall, lifting Alice's long skirt off the ground and fluttering in the wind.
…
In the City of Hope, on the top floor of the Holy Alliance headquarters, there is an extremely large conference hall.
At this time, the conference hall was already full of people. These people were representatives stationed here by various forces of the Holy Alliance, and they could represent the attitudes of each force!
"There are two reasons why I called everyone here today. Let's talk about the first one first!"
"The elves have a queen again. I believe everyone knows this news!"
"However, the reason why we are calling everyone to this meeting today is not because of this matter, but because of a letter that the Queen of the Elf Tribe sent through the Holy Trading Company!"
"The content of the letter is the abbreviation of the Elf Queen, and it is very simple. It means that a large number of our compatriots who fled overseas because of the catastrophe have returned to the Holy Continent some time ago, and they are preparing to build a holy city. We hope that they can join our Holy Alliance at that time!"
In this conference hall, most of the representatives from the holy cities sat in the circular seats on the periphery. Only the representatives from the twelve holy cities sat at the central round table in the conference hall. They were the real core of the Holy Alliance, the twelve strongest holy city forces.
The person who stood up to speak at this time was the representative of Sky City. After finishing the first thing, the representative sat down and stopped talking.
Wow!
As soon as the representative sat down, the entire conference hall was instantly filled with discussion.
"How is this possible? Forget about escaping in the first place, but now he has returned and wants to establish a Holy City force and join the Holy Alliance. We in the Holy City of Cher are the first to oppose it!"
"That's right. We must oppose it! If they really want to return, they can only choose to disperse and join us. We can't let them establish their own forces!"
"That's right. The Holy City still needs a Holy Tree. Do they have one? Also, why did the Elf Queen entrust the Holy Trading Company to deliver the letter?"
The discussion below was very heated, but the views were surprisingly consistent, that is, it is impossible to allow the Holy Alliance to have a new force.
Those who returned to the mainland from the sea either chose to be disbanded and then incorporated into the alliance, or were directly excluded from the Holy Alliance and became savages.
"Okay, everyone should have finished discussing it, let's vote now!"
"Before the vote, I need to tell you that those fellow tribesmen who came from the sea seem to have a good relationship with the elves!"
"A good relationship with the elves? That's strange. Don't the elves hate us the most?"
"Who cares? Anyway, the Holy Alliance can only own 108 holy cities. If they really want to establish a power, then they should own the Holy Tree first!"
Soon, the voting began, and just as the representatives had shown before, no one agreed to allow those fellow tribesmen to establish a new force to join the Holy Alliance.
"Very good, now that the vote has been made, this matter is settled!"
If it weren't for the letter from the Elf Queen, they would definitely not bring up this matter for discussion at this meeting.
After all, they didn't know the exact number and strength of those humans, so the Holy Alliance had no time to pay attention to them.
"Let's talk about the second thing! It's about what happened in the Magician's Tower some time ago!"
"At present, there are clues that the reason why there are so many orcs in the Nahum Wizard Tower is a conspiracy of the New Temple!"
"And the appearance of the purple bone dragon was also caused by the New Temple, so I, the Sky City, hope that you can pass the news back to your own Holy City, and let each Holy City conduct a strict investigation of the New Temple personnel!"
Having said that, the representative of Sky City looked around and found that no one said anything more, so he continued.
"Then that concludes today's meeting!"
In fact, regarding the situation in the Magician's Tower, every holy city has known in the past few days that it was the New Temple's fault. However, because the members of the New Temple are hiding in the dark, there has not been much reaction from each holy city.
On the contrary, it was the Duke of Sky City who found out that his granddaughter was almost in danger because of the New Temple's plan, so he specifically mentioned it in the parliament and asked everyone to start a new round of attacks on the New Temple.
Although doing so would only kill a few small fish and shrimps at most, it could be considered a blow to the New Temple and a way to vent his anger for his granddaughter.
…
After taking a short rest at Leng Feicui Manor, Gervis and his party checked out and left the manor.
But in the end it was not Lucky who paid the bill, but Adela.
When Adela left, she made an excuse that she wanted to buy a bottle of fine wine for her elders, and at the same time paid the thousands of gold coins for today's meal.
This made Lucky extremely depressed. Adela's actions completely blocked his fantasy of having dinner with Adela again.
After all, if Adela didn't pay the bill this time, then she had promised to invite the two of them to dinner, and she would definitely have to fulfill her promise next time.
After leaving the Leng Feicui Manor, Gervis and his companions returned the same way and finally parted at the gate of the Alliance Higher College.
After Adela and Zenia left, Laci originally wanted to take Gervis to immediately complete the procedures for his admission as an auditor, but Gervis temporarily declined.
Gervis used the excuse that it was still early and that he wanted to go to Lolita early to get some information, and it would not be too late to go through the admission procedures after he came back.
And Laci really thought that Gervis couldn't wait to find out about his background, so he agreed.
Finally, Gervis rode the warhorse that Lach had temporarily lent him and headed towards the headquarters of the Sacred Trading Company.
Whether he would stay in the Holy Continent or not, he naturally needed to find out more about the elves before deciding.
…
After walking on the streets of the inner city for more than an hour, Gervis finally arrived at the headquarters of the Holy Trading Company.
"As expected, he is rich and powerful!"
When Gervis arrived at the headquarters of the Sacred Trading Company, he discovered that the headquarters of the Sacred Trading Company was actually a large manor.
Gervis stood at the gate of the Holy Trading Company for a moment, and immediately a servant who was in charge of welcoming guests ran over and pulled the reins of Gervis's warhorse so that he could turn over and dismount.
"Please come in, welcome to the Sacred Trading Company!"
After Gervis dismounted from his horse, the servant did not leave. Instead, he held Gervis's horse with one hand and gestured with the other hand to guide Gervis into the manor.
The building in the manor was not far from the gate, only about twenty meters away. Gervis arrived at the gate of the building in just three or two steps.
The servant who was responsible for welcoming Gervis had already led the warhorse to the side and tied it to a wooden plug, and also fed the horse some hay.
Led by another servant, Gervis walked into the inner lobby of the Sacred Trading Company.
The lobby is very spacious. Although there are many guests, it does not seem crowded at all.
Moreover, all kinds of goods in the hall are neatly arranged, and there are well-dressed waiters waiting for customers at each counter, just like the luxury goods stores in the previous life.
"It is indeed the best in the Holy Continent. Such service awareness is completely ahead of the current level!"
"Dear guest, welcome to the Sacred Trading Company. Would you like to take a look first, or do you need me to lead the way and choose for you?"
Just as Gervis was marveling at the extraordinary nature of the Sacred Trading Company, the servant who led him into the lobby asked respectfully.
"Well, I would like to ask, is Miss Lolita here?"
Hearing the servant's question, Gervis withdrew his gaze and prepared to get down to business.
"ah?"
The servant didn't react for a moment, and just stood there in a daze with a cry of "Ah".
"I'm here to look for Miss Lolita. I heard she's at your Sacred Trading Company headquarters recently!"
Gervis was not surprised by the servant's reaction. His visit like this would be like going to the headquarters of a Fortune 500 company in his previous life and asking the security guard whether their CEO was there.
"Sir, do you know Miss Lolita?"
After the servant reacted, he didn't show any drastic change of expression, but instead asked Gervis a question in a probing manner.
"Yes, I know her. I met Miss Lolita in the Sunset Forest a few months ago. Look, this Deep Sea Lily Gold was given to me by Miss Lolita!"
In order to demonstrate his credibility, Gervey took out Lolita's original thank-you gift.
"I'm very sorry, sir. I can't make the decision on this matter. I'll report your matter to the steward now. Please wait a moment!"
Although the servant has a low status, he still has some vision to work in the headquarters of the Sacred Trading Company.
When he saw that the deep-sea glass gold that Gervis took out was indeed genuine, he apologized and went to report the situation to his supervisor.
Gervis didn't have to wait long. Soon, he saw a familiar figure walking towards him. It was the butler Ped who had followed Lolita at the beginning.
"Are you the Harry Master?"
Gervis did not wear a wizard's robe today, because this is not the Holy City of Heka. If he was caught by the Magic Association, it would be a big trouble even with Laci, so Gervis changed back into casual clothes. Pedder looked at Gervis for a long time before hesitantly asking.
"Yes, Steward Pedder, it's me!"
Gervis smiled, thinking that it was quite considerate of the other party to remember a small figure like him.
"Manager Pedder, although it's very presumptuous, I have something I want to talk to Miss Lolita about. I wonder if you can help me inform her."
"Well, follow me first!"
Ped's actions were beyond Gervis's expectations. He did not let Gervis wait here, but took Gervis directly through the lobby, walked out of the store and went deeper into the manor at the back.
The reason why Peder dared to take Gervis directly to Lolita without going to report was because Peder knew that Gervis had helped Lolita together with Adela, and Lolita had also given her a thank-you gift.
So Peder knew that with Lolita's personality, she would definitely meet this Harry.
Sorry, it's a little late for the three-in-one!
(End of this chapter)
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