Chapter 375: The Abyssal Demon Beetle! The Situation of the Elf Empire!

"Look around, see if there are any other passages."

Princess Chenxi said.

Large numbers of night elves began rushing in all directions to search for other passages.

We're already close to the Loki Mountains!

North of the Loki Mountains lies vast, endless forest.

These forests are not like the Misty Ranges— they are not primordial forests filled with miasma.

These forests contain many tree species, tall and straight, and are inhabited by beautiful elves!

Near the Loki Mountains, scattered elf tribes live, such as the Night Elf Tribe.

There are about three or four such tribes.

Further north lies the famous Loki Forest.

There, a million elves live!

There, is a vast elf empire!

Yes, although the number of elves in the Loki Forest is only a million—less than the orc nations—it is still an elf empire!

This is because the elves' strength is generally much higher.

In the Hilin Kingdom, only two thousand-strong battalions of Temple Knights exceed Fourth Rank!

Not all warriors above Fourth Rank in the Hilin Kingdom serve in the Temple Knights; their total number is certainly more than two thousand, perhaps several thousand!

Even counting Fourth Rank mages, there are no more than twenty thousand Fourth Rank beings!

Remember, the Hilin Kingdom has over twenty million people!

But in the million-population Loki Empire, the number of Fourth Rank elves exceeds one hundred thousand!

Almost all elves in the Loki Empire are primarily Third Rank.

Elves live long lives; even without cultivation, their strength grows naturally with age.

More miraculously, no matter how old they become, their beauty never fades.

This trait makes elves uninterested in tedious magical cultivation; instead, they prefer to freely enjoy life in the forests.

Of course, their enjoyment of life differs from that of humans.

In the Loki Forest, there are virtually no male elves.

Only at the forest's edge is there a small tribe of male elves.

Elves have little interest in romantic relationships with male elves and rarely interact with that tribe.

Their reproduction is accomplished through the Life Tree.

They have low material desires but live with great refinement; their favorite pastime is strolling through the forest, feeling its essence.

The Night Elves' former forest lay near the Loki Mountains!

The Loki Mountains are a range teeming with demons; though they block humans from the south, they cannot stop human strongholds—some human elites always slip through, trying to capture elves, for elves' beauty is famed across the continent.

Of course, most of these elites never succeed; elves are not weak, their combat power in the forest is formidable, and they know the forest too well—they can always flee if outmatched, for the forest holds countless hiding places!

Precisely because of this, the Elf Empire never expanded its territory near the Loki Mountains, but instead settled deeper north, in the Loki Forest.

The boundary between the Loki Forest and ordinary forests is vast groves of ancient trees; these trees are not easily burned, their branches possess fierce offensive power, and once human armies enter, the trees can annihilate them!

This is the Elf Empire's first line of defense!

Elves deeply understand human treachery, so they never relax their defenses against humans, even though human armies are blocked by the Loki Mountains!

But now, as the Night Elves are about to pass through the underground beneath the Loki Mountains and return to their forest, they discover the passage is blocked.

Over fifty thousand Night Elves wait in a subterranean cavern, while numerous powerful Night Elves fan out to guard all directions!

"Your Majesty, the passage to the right is also blocked."

"Your Majesty, the upward path is blocked too."

"Your Majesty…"

Reports poured in continuously from the Night Elves.

The forward passage is blocked in many places.