Chapter 694 Relaxing restrictions!
"I am indeed the husband of the Elf Queen. You city lords do not need to doubt this. Now let me tell you the second thing!"
Gervis was also helpless. Are he and Alice so incompatible?
It would have been fine when he was still the second son and was chosen by Alice to marry her. After all, he was really lucky to be chosen by her at that time, so it was understandable that others talked about him.
But now he is the king's man after all. Isn't it enough that the king and the king should be together?
However, he couldn't say anything more, so he could only interrupt everyone's discussion and say what he wanted to say.
"This time the elves are here to compete for a spot in the passage to the God's Falling Land. I hope the city lords can restore the age limit to the previous practice and relax the age limit for the elves to participate in the competition by 10 years!"
This is exactly what Alice asked Anna to tell Gervis. If they want to develop, they must fight for this channel quota, so she hopes that Gervis can take this opportunity to persuade the city lords to change the unfair rules against the elves!
But when Gervis finished speaking, all the city lords were silent, looking around without saying a word.
Previously, admitting that Stormwind City did not have any conflict of interest with everyone was just a favor, but the competition for the channel quota was different.
The elves are still very strong in terms of individual martial arts, but the elves' youth will grow slower than humans and beastmen before the age of 50 due to growth factors. This can be regarded as the Creator's principle of fairness.
But if the elves are given an age limit according to the previous management, there will be no difference between the two. Wouldn't that mean there will be an additional enemy? Naturally, the city lords are unwilling to do that.
Seeing that all the city lords were silent, and even the few city lords who were extremely enthusiastic before were looking around awkwardly, Gervis looked directly at Duke Edward.
"Duke Edward, this matter..."
When Edward heard what Gervis was saying, he immediately waved at him to indicate that he understood.
Edward then said to the city lords, "Everyone, the rules of this competition have been set, and it is not appropriate to change them."
"However, since Gervis has a close relationship with the Elf Queen, I hope that the city lords will reconsider it!"
"The rules we set a few days ago did make it impossible for the elves to win, but that was before."
"The situation now is completely different! City Lords, do you still remember that more than a hundred years ago, the Goblin tribe spent a lot of money to invite a powerful dwarf to participate in the competition!"
"That time, we were also competing for a spot in the passage, and that dwarf was really strong. He almost took the spot away!"
"And if Gervis represents the elves this time..."
Wow!
Before Edward finished speaking, the city lords suddenly realized that the competition for the quota did not restrict the race of the participants, as long as you could invite foreign aid.
At that time, the beastmen invaded the goblins and took away the place where they had set up the passage to the Land of Gods.
Later, due to the mediation between the Humans and the Elves, the Beastmen and the Goblins finally resolved the matter through a competition.
At that time, the Goblin tribe actually asked for foreign aid, who was a powerful dwarf warrior. Originally, because of this dwarf foreign aid, the Goblin tribe almost took back the land.
But in the end, they were outwitted by the orcs, who secretly used wine to get the dwarf warrior drunk, causing the dwarf to fall asleep when the final competition began, directly causing the goblins to lose the competition.
Although the dwarf later did not accept the goblins' reward out of shame, the goblins had lost one of their two original passages. The loss of this passage and the land became the last straw that broke the camel's back for the goblins, and now they could not even keep the last passage.
After that competition, both the Orcs and the Humans proposed to prohibit foreign aid from participating in such competitions. However, regarding such matters, the words of the Elves and Goblins at that time still carried some weight.
The two tribes disagreed to change the rule, so the matter ended.
After decades, people had long forgotten about this incident, because there had been no more conflicts among the races regarding the passage to the Land of the Fallen Gods.
Now that Edward suddenly brought it up, they immediately thought of a terrible possibility. If this God of Death represented the elves in the battle, then there would be no need to compete. Which young man could compete with him?
Instantly, the city lords began to discuss, and Edward came to Gervis and whispered.
"Although the elves can ask for external aid, you'd better not go on the field unless it's absolutely necessary, because you joined the human race on behalf of Stormwind City. If you participate in the competition on behalf of the elves this time, it may allow a group of city lords to secretly isolate Stormwind City in the future!"
"This will be very detrimental to the future development of your Stormwind City!"
"Yes, Duke Edward!"
When Gervis heard that he could hire foreign aid, he had already thought about it!
However, after hearing Edward's next words, he frowned and thought for a moment before nodding silently.
If Stormwind City is really isolated by these city lords in secret, it will be very detrimental to its development!
By then, Stormwind's trade caravans may not be able to enter the Holy Alliance, and this alone will slow down Stormwind's development!
Of course, Gervis didn't want to give up this channel quota, but he seemed to have thought of a better way.
It would not lead to isolation from the other city lords, and it would also allow them to successfully secure a spot in the channel.
"How about it, have the city lords thought about it?"
When Edward saw Gervis nodded, he continued to ask the lords of the Holy City.
"We can agree to this! But we have one condition that we hope Gervis can agree to!"
"City Lords, please speak!"
"That is for the fairness of the competition. Gervis cannot participate in this competition!"
After saying that, all the city lords looked at Gervis nervously, fearing that he would not agree!
"Okay! As long as the rules and restrictions are changed, I will not participate in this competition!"
Gervis smiled, without hesitation.
When the city lords saw Gervis agree so easily, they were stunned at first and felt it was unreal.
It took a moment to react, and someone immediately spoke.
"In that case, Lord Gervis must keep his word!"
"Of course, I mean what I say!"
Gervis remained calm and composed.
"Very good, since everyone has chosen to agree, then our human race has a unified opinion!"
"Prince Dosalon, do you orcs have any objections?"
After Edward got the approval of the city lords, he looked at Dosalon who still had a gloomy expression.
"Humph! I have no objection!"
Dosalon wanted to disagree, but if the God of Death participated in the competition, his son would not have any chance of winning. Besides, Olde was eyeing him covetously. He had just paid 100,000 gold coins to save his life, so he would not be stupid at this moment. He snorted coldly and expressed his opinion.
"Very good. In that case, let's restore the age limit of this competition to the previous practice! The elves can raise the age limit by 10 years."
"Well, it's getting late now! Let's start the competition!"
After Edward confirmed that the orcs also agreed to this matter, he announced that he was ready to start the competition. The previous battle had delayed him for a lot of time.
"Dean Palmer, the rest is up to you!"
Edward spoke to Palmer and asked him to host the competition.
"Yes, Duke Edward!"
The young men who participated in the competition on the human side were basically selected from the Alliance’s Higher Academy, because the outstanding descendants of various holy cities are still studying in the academies.
After several rounds of competition, the ten strongest young men have been selected from them.
As the president of the Alliance College, Palmer is the most suitable person to host this competition.
Palmer then stepped to the front of the stage and began to arrange the competition.
On his part, Edward began to deal with those city lords who were seriously injured and surrendered voluntarily with Johnson and others.
"Gervis, Johnson, I and others will take these city lords back to the base first, and then let their men redeem them themselves. You stay here and help me take care of Adela!"
"Okay, Duke Edward! I'll take good care of Adela!"
Gervis naturally had no objection and agreed immediately.
Afterwards, Johnson and his companions happily escorted a group of city lords out of the arena.
This battle was not just about preserving their status in the Holy Alliance, but also about obtaining a considerable ransom. Naturally, all the city lords were very happy.
After Edward and the others left, Gervis went straight to where Alice and Adela were.
But when Gervis came in front of the two women, he found that the two women still ignored him, but were whispering to themselves and laughing from time to time.
Gervis didn't know what the two people who met for the first time had to talk about, so he could only sit aside with little interest.
(End of this chapter)
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