Chapter 518

Every legendary being is a master of vast knowledge.

As for abyssal creatures, it's different—they have some hope of breaking through to Demon King status through war, consumption, and various evil means, for they are not like humans.

Princess Chenxi quickly spread the news.

"Phew, Queen, we've waited a long time for this day."

Anna, the chieftain of the Greenwood Elves, arrived.

"Yes, back then our people were too few; now we have a million elves, not much fewer than the Loki Forest—when the Loki Elf Empire was founded, it had only seventy thousand elves."

This is Lucine, the chieftain of the Sun Elves.

Elves have no desire to compete or envy, and rarely experience negative emotions like jealousy.

They are beings of beauty in both body and soul.

When Lomina once took an extreme path, made a pact with the Abyssal Demon God, gained power, and was discovered, though the Loki Elves expelled them from the Loki Forest where they had already settled, they did not kick them while they were down or drive them from their original forest.

They left only because of the curse of the Shadow God.

After they left, the Greenwood Elves spent years helping them exterminate pests, rejoiced when they purged the curse and returned to the surface.

This is the nature of elves.

For fallen kin, they grieve, but never kick them while they're down; sometimes, they even extend a helping hand.

Of course, this does not mean they are soft or easily taken advantage of.

If they are enemies, they show no mercy.

Though elves rarely seek to compete, the Sacred Flame Forest was cultivated by them with the aid of the Lord of Flame, and it is more than twice the size of the Loki Forest—they naturally hope the Sacred Flame Elf Empire will surpass the Loki Forest Empire in prosperity.

On this day, all the chieftains of the Sacred Flame Forest's elf tribes gathered to discuss the founding of the Sacred Flame Elf Empire.

The choice of queen was almost universally agreed upon.

The future queen of the Sacred Flame Elf Empire will surely be Princess Chenxi.

Lomina will serve as the Elder Elf, and the Grand Elder.

The other chieftains will also serve as elders.

Now in the Sacred Flame Forest, more than half the elves worship the Lord of Flame.

Princess Chenxi clearly stated she would not interfere with any elf tribe's faith—this was also the approach taken by the Loki Forest.

Subtle influence and forced belief are two different things.

In elf society, forced belief is impossible.

Subtle influence is voluntary.

Then came the timing of the formal founding ceremony.

It will be two weeks from now.

During this time, two or three more elf tribes can still be brought in.

But this time, only Lomina will remain behind.

Lomina is powerful; one person holding the line is not a major issue, since the flying ships fly very high and rarely interact with human realms.

In human empires, flying ships are numerous, but human flying ships generally fly low, eager to be seen, and with the sky so vast, there's hardly any major problem.

"Loki Forest probably still doesn't know we've cultivated the Sacred Flame Forest. We're all elf kin, living this close—of course we must invite them to the celebration. Who will deliver the invitation to Loki Forest?"

Princess Chenxi asked.

"I'll go!"

Wing Elf Maki volunteered: "I'm faster—I can get there in half a day."

Princess Chenxi nodded and said, "Good!"

The Sacred Flame Forest is now too vast.

Without flying ships, and if one cannot fly, elves travel through the forest at about thirty kilometers per hour—already far exceeding the speed of ordinary humans.

Of course, in emergencies, their speed within the forest increases further, since nearly all are Two Ranks or higher, mostly Third Rank.

An elf traveling from Sacred Light City to the central city of Loki Forest still requires considerable time, as it's roughly fifteen hundred kilometers—even if they hurry, they cannot arrive in less than a day or two.

But wing elves fly swiftly, much faster than winged humans; with full speed, they can reach the destination within ten hours.

Princess Chenxi nodded, personally wrote the invitation, and handed it to Maki.

Maki secured the invitation, bid farewell to Princess Chenxi, and flew toward Loki Forest with several wing elves.

Though we are all elves, this is equivalent to diplomatic protocol between nations—it must be treated with seriousness.

This is also why Princess Chenxi did not use the Life Tree to notify them.

Loki Forest is relatively isolated.

With the Loki Mountains standing between them, human kingdoms have virtually no chance of invading.

Thus, the elves of Loki Forest have lived carefree lives.

Since Loki Forest was cultivated over a thousand years ago, its trees are generally taller than those in the newly cultivated Sacred Flame Forest.

In the un-cultivated regions of the Dark Forest, trees average about sixty meters in height.

After Lin Yan's divine rain, trees in the Sacred Flame Forest reached an average height of about seventy meters.

One divine rain raised the average height of all trees in the Sacred Flame Forest by roughly ten meters.

Of course, this also owes much to the title Civilization Fire.

The bonus of Civilization Fire benefits not only the Flame Empire.

It benefits all of Lin Yan's realms.

The Flame Empire, the Sacred Flame Forest, even the Abyssal Succubi.

But when Civilization Fire acts upon the Abyssal Succubi, its function is entirely different from that on the Gods' Continent.

The Abyssal Succubi have not cultivated land, planted crops, nor established their own Succubi Dynasty.

So the bonus effect of the Civilization Fire is that it allows them to get double the results with half the effort when searching for Demon-Hunting Ants, and to achieve better results when raising them.

And recently, the elves' cultivation has once again caused the trees in the areas where the elves live to grow considerably taller.

In fact, whether it is Loki Forest or Holy Flame Forest, the closer one gets to the Tree of Life, the taller and more luxuriant the trees grow.

If these two forests were shrunk countless times, one would discover that the trees in both forests resemble an umbrella.

The very center is the Tree of Life, the tallest Tree of Life, and then spreading outward from the Tree of Life in rings, the trees grow shorter and shorter.

Living closer to the Tree of Life is also better.

However, the area close to the Tree of Life within a single forest is limited.

That is why there is a question of first come, first served.

The first three hundred thousand or so elves to participate in the reclamation certainly occupied the best areas.

Those on the outside will be slightly worse off.

But it won't be much worse — far better than the forests the elves originally lived in!

Moreover, they no longer have to constantly worry about being discovered by humans!

Winged elf Maggie and the eight winged elves did not fly too fast; flying too fast would make them appear flustered or cause their aura to become unstable, so they flew for over six hours before reaching the border of Holy Flame Forest.

There were rapidly growing ancient trees, whose defensive power was terrifyingly formidable — unafraid of fire, unafraid of ice, a nightmare for ground troops!

Then they flew another distance of over two hundred kilometers.

Of these two hundred-plus kilometers, over a hundred kilometers were left by Holy Flame.

The other hundred-plus kilometers were left by Loki Forest.

Immediately after, they flew into Loki Forest.

At the edge of Loki Forest, at regular intervals, elves were naturally also on alert.

Not long after they flew into Loki Forest, a winged elf flew up to them.

Yes, there are also winged elves in Loki Forest, but these winged elves joined the reclamation of Loki Forest relatively early, unlike Maggie's tribe, which came from very far away.

By the time they arrived, there was no longer any space left in Loki Forest.

"Oh, it's Chief Maggie from the Eastern Tribe. Chief Maggie, why did you come from the west?"

That winged elf asked.

Although this winged elf could fly, she normally did not fly around aimlessly, generally just enjoying a peaceful and beautiful life within Loki Forest.

Once a year, they might fly once around the entire border of Loki Forest to inspect the border conditions.

The elves' long lifespans also cause their pace of life to actually be relatively slow.

Of course, they are absolutely not lazy — they simply focus on one thing for a long time.

For example, some winged elves enjoy planting flowers; they will spend a very long time planting flowers all over the ground beneath the entire forest, and they will not overuse magic to force growth — at most they use magic to eliminate pests, improve lighting, and the like.

Other elves enjoy cultivating a type of vine flower on the trunks of the great trees; when this flower blooms, the forest becomes incomparably beautiful, like a dream.