.Nineteen, The Messy Counterattack Overture 4

When the dragon declined, before the rise of mankind, the elves were once the overlords who ruled the entire continent of Feren. Countless prosperous elves city-states and kingdoms rose one after another in any place where forests grew, creating countless miracles. At its peak, the elves' palaces and temples were everywhere among the jungle canopies, looking down at the barbarians in all directions, as if they were invincible in the world.

However, no matter how brilliant and brilliant civilization is, it will eventually decline. Even if this race has no foreign enemies, it will turn the target of killing to itself. In order to fight for hegemony to rule the world, the various elves city-states and kingdoms finally raised their swords to each other. Five Crown Wars that lasted for more than three thousand years immediately broke out, but no one could become the final winner. The final result of the civil war not only marked the great division of the elves-the darkness of the darkness of the darkness of the black skin.

The elves were expelled underground and continued to confront the same races on the surface in future history. At the same time, it also meant the collapse and disintegration of the ancient elves civilization - the cruel extinction war and various humane means of mass destruction that lacked humanity have caused the population of elves to decrease sharply, so that the elves could not continue to maintain the huge territory they had previously occupied. They could only give them to emerging races with strong reproductive capabilities such as humans, orcs, kowtowers, and goblins, and retract themselves to the depths of the dense forest to survive.

After this village, there was no shop. The long lifespan of the elves made their generational replacement and population recovery terrible slow. At that time, thousands of years passed, these sharp-eared intelligent lives finally barely breathed a sigh of relief. When they poked their heads out of the forest, the outside world was already changing with each passing day - the most civilized humans, their cities and villages had controlled the abundant plains, and between the sparsely populated wilderness, there were nests of low-intellectual races such as orcs, kowtowers and goblins. The glorious era of elves is gone forever.

Although in the history that followed, the elves still remained entrenched in Yongju Island overseas and established a series of famous countries such as Meszorno on the mainland. However, from a general perspective, the decline of the elves' power has never undergone a real reversal - trees are constantly cut down, forests are reclaimed, and the living space of the elves is gradually compressed.

By the "Elf Retreat" period a thousand years ago, this decline reached its peak. At that time, the population of the Feron continent was already extremely dense, and the territory of various human countries almost completely divided the surface world of the Feron continent. And the last orthodox elf kingdom on the continent, Miszorno in the Cormansso Forest, also perished under the crazy siege of the dark army at Dr714. From then on, except for Yongju Island, which was alone overseas, the Elf clan had no other decent political core.

After the collapse of Miszorno, most of the elves that barely survived were separated from each other by human farmland and villages and were trapped in small forests like islands. Not only did they have a difficult livelihood, they were alone, but they also had difficulty coping with the pair of greedy magic hands that extended towards them - the slender and charming elves slaves. They have been the most popular dream-to-player by human aristocrats since ancient times. The various rare treasures passed down by the elves over thousands of years are really touching.

In this way, the slave-catching teams of major evil forces are always inquiring about news, organizing troops, and pulling the net to search for these lonely elves tribes. Some adventurers with great skills and courage always think about getting a vote in the elves territory. Even governments in various countries have the idea that they are not my race. It is good to be able to turn a blind eye. When encountering the worst, the country will simply lead the country to clean up the elves tribes in the country.

Theoretically, the elf Wang Ting on Yongju Island has an obligation to protect all the tribes, but looking at these elves tribes that are spread across the continent as if they are sprinkled with pepper, from south to north, the elf Wang Ting is blind and unable to use them. There is only a thousand days of thieves in the world, so how can there be a thousand days of defense against thieves? Just how to get the army to pass through is a big problem that is prone to diplomatic disputes. What's more, with the manpower and material resources of a mere Yongju Island, the elf Wang Ting will definitely not support the huge expenses of a long-term cold war with the human world.

In desperation, the elf queen at that time issued an initiative of "Elf Retreat", calling on all tribesmen to retreat from the Feren continent, which has become a world-class world, and return to the place they can truly call themselves - that is, Yongju Island - to cultivate and rest on this island and avoid war. In this way, the elves transcend the frequent struggles on the continent, thus turning passive into initiative, and waiting for the next opportunity to return to their hometown.

As the initiative was unanimously supported by the elves, although many elves were dissatisfied with the act of giving up their territory on the mainland, the "Elf Retreat" was basically implemented. Most elves gave up their pastoral and poetic residences and moved to Yongju Island. Of course, there were also a small number of non-mainstream elves tribes who were no longer in the homeland and refused to move, and believed that county officials were not as good as current management and would rather surrender to their human country. As a result, while barely saving their homes, they also became standard traitors in the official proclamation of the Elf Kingdom.

For most elves today, these past events from centuries ago only represent a few boring records in the yellowed pages.

Marshal Kruze has a completely different profound meaning - he was in the most beautiful period of his life, at that time of his life, and was in the most tragic era of the elf race, and as the first person involved, he personally experienced all kinds of tragedies in that period of decline.

In his youth, Kruze, because he needed to launch the "Elf Retreat" land, he once left Yongju Island alone and traveled around the mainland for years, looking for the isolated elves tribes of elves. He also persuaded them to migrate to Yongju Island.

In addition, he was often ordered to raid slave caravans and noble mansions, and even sneaked into the church of evil gods to rescue his compatriots in the captive areas. To be fair, his special combat capabilities were really not very good. It was much worse than the famous semi-dark elf double-sword ranger of his contemporary era.

During his long adventure career, Cruze was deceived many times. He let the slave-capturing spies trapped the whereabouts of the migrating tribe, resulting in hundreds of land elves being captured or died; he was also betrayed by his colleagues or allies, and sold as goods to those perverted rich people who like male style. He was tortured to death in the secret room. In the most unlucky time, he fell into the hands of the necromancer with several companions. He almost became a zombie or a death knight...

In short, when all these nightmares ended, Cruze had been trained to have an extremely perverted subway heart. He always kept saying "the dead alien race is the good alien race" and was very happy to put it into practice - catch people, kill people, beat people, abuse prisoners, and decorate the corpses soaked in formalin...

However, these extremely cruel and violent acts were actually just to vent and cover up the fear and cowardice hidden in Kruze's heart - he was always willing to use violence to solve all problems, but he only had the courage to torture prisoners in his heart, and he never dared to step forward to the battlefield again; he was not smart enough, so he did not allow his subordinates to be too smart, and would rather paralyze the entire department than let his side be filled with waste and flatterers; he used rotten corpses to decorate his residence into a demon cave, enjoying the fear of everyone, but was extremely afraid of death, and he had to arrange strict guards wherever he went...

In a sense, Marshal Cruzer, an old pervert who likes to skin humans alive, is the same type of guy as Sofialiaton, the "ghost rose" who is determined to be a butcher (see Volume 2, Chapter 18). After suffering extremely terrible injuries, they completely lost the courage to return to normal life, and only thought about how to transfer their suffering to others and anesthetize the pain in their hearts through the pleasure brought by violence.

A pitiful person must have something hateful; and a hateful person may have a reason to be pitiful.

It is precisely because of this distorted character of cowardice, tyranny, ambition and timidity, and among Marshal Cruze's direct descendants, there are no talented and stubborn guys. The many rebel forces lurking in the Elf King have unanimously agreed to temporarily elect Marshal Cruze as a nominal monarch after he drove Akdina, who was determined to gather the throne, after he drove Marshal Cruze off his throne. Such noble blood, corrupt reputation, and timid and incompetent guys are not suitable for being puppets or scapegoats. Who is more suitable for being puppets and scapegoats to be pushed to the front desk?

What's more, Marshal Kruze still has a huge army and huge resources in his hands. Although all this comes from the gift of the queen, not from the source of his own business, his loyalty is not very reliable. But as long as a few churches fully utilize their own functions of deception and brainwashing and spend more money to manage, it is not impossible to win over some of the morale of the army... So, all forces hit it off, and another new rebellious group took shape quickly.

Although the entire preparation process seemed a bit ridiculous, at least until yesterday, all preparations for the coup were still in an orderly manner: to win a brilliant victory and improve the prestige of the coup leader at home; to incite soldiers to dissatisfie with the royal family, identify and clean up dangerous elements; to hoard military supplies, and try to stabilize the indigenous uprising army in front of them; to disperse and plant the armed forces of the church in the army as the leadership basis for launching the mutiny...

According to the optimistic estimate of Marshal Cruze and his flatterers, at most, he could lead this army back to the rear for about two weeks, and easily seize the colonial cities that did not have much armed forces. With the response of major churches, Queen Akdina could be forced to rebel in all directions, and eventually had to hand over the crown to himself. Next, it was the turn to wipe out the many warlords in the occupied area of ​​the Feren continent and to wipe out the remaining parties of the old regime of the Chevrolet Church, which was still in the east...

Before the rebellion was launched, the old marshal was immersed in the dream of dominating the world.

Unfortunately, ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

The Elf Queen was not obliged to wait for them to prepare everything, and there were many people in the rebellion group who were ulterior motives. A sudden catastrophic roar immediately knocked down this group of ambitious mobs back to their original form.
Chapter completed!