So, after discussions ranging from how much gold to provide support to how much to pay the Aruru mercenaries each month, and then to not revealing that the elves were secretly supporting Serena, etc.
The two sides finally reached a detailed, albeit somewhat verbose, agreement.
In short, the elves will financially support Serena's rule over the territories of Donic and the Lunlang family. All expenses will be covered by tax-free trade, with the elves covering the costs of accompanying the army's merchants, and the initial debt of 10,000 gold coins will be repaid over three years. Any further financial investment will be discussed later.
Meanwhile, the elves were also responsible for sending people to help Serena investigate the origins of the dark magic, and for cooperating with Yun Zhe to trick the Lunlang family into giving up their land.
The word "deception" was something Yun Zhe insisted on himself. Although the others weren't vampires, they could guess a thing or two of Yun Zhe's inner thoughts, so they went along with Yun Zhe's insistence.
The agreement signed by elves and humans that year is known as the Donic Accord. Its content was so advanced and its concept so novel that it surpassed all other agreements between nations at the time. However, the Donic Accord was also a highly secretive agreement. Twenty-six years after the death of Empress Serena, its contents were discovered by a historian by chance and secretly hidden in his home. But this historian never had the chance to reveal the secret, as the document mysteriously disappeared, and the historian subsequently contracted a serious illness and died less than a day later. This was the only ripple the Donic Accord caused in history. Afterward, it completely vanished from the annals of history.
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