Chapter 521

After complimenting Maggie, Ophelia asked with concern.

She wasn't just saying nice things—Maggie was naturally beautiful, and the way her wings and eyes fluttered together was most adorable.

Maggie said: "We encountered them—we were attacked by skeleton monsters!"

"Skeleton monsters!"

Ophelia's expression changed slightly: "Could skeleton monsters have come this far east? Are you all unharmed?"

The place where the initial thirty thousand elves were attacked by skeleton monsters was over a thousand kilometers from the western border of Loki Forest.

And the skeleton monsters' nest lay two thousand kilometers from the western border of Loki Forest.

Clearly, in Ophelia's understanding, only a few months had passed, so the elves could have expanded at most a few dozen kilometers—and naturally, no skeleton monsters would be there.

The fact that Ophelia knew about skeleton monsters showed she had considerable knowledge of the western Dark Forest.

Maggie hadn't considered this angle; she said:

"Your Majesty, we encountered skeleton monsters at a graveyard roughly thirteen hundred kilometers from the western border of Loki Forest, but under my god's protection, we've slaughtered every last one of them."

Maggie's words caused a flicker of clear confusion on Ophelia's face.

"Thirteen hundred kilometers? So you sent out reconnaissance teams into the Dark Forest?"

Ophelia asked.

As for Maggie's later words, they led Ophelia and the surrounding elves to another interpretation.

They assumed: the reconnaissance team encountered skeleton monsters, prayed for divine aid, and wiped out all the skeleton monsters around them!

It wasn't strange for them to think this way.

No matter how imaginative they were, they could never imagine that the Sacred Flame Forest had already been fully reclaimed.

Even the Sacred Flame Elf Empire had been established.

The winged elf Fanny had only sent back one message, which mentioned only that Maggie was coming to visit and deliver an invitation—nothing else.

As for what Fanny had been doing since then, and why she hadn't sent any further messages, the reason was simple.

This petite winged elf was still flying endlessly above the Sacred Flame Forest, utterly stunned, with no mental capacity left for anything else.

Hmm, she had already been spotted by the winged elves in charge of aerial patrols in the Sacred Flame Forest, who warmly invited her to be their guest.

Elves naturally had the habit of visiting friends.

In the past, some elves from outside Loki Forest occasionally entered Loki Forest to visit friends, sometimes staying for many days.

Maggie shook her head and said: "Your Majesty, no—we encountered skeleton monsters while reclaiming land."

She wasn't deliberately withholding information.

It was just human habitual thinking.

People assume what's ordinary to them is ordinary to others too.

After joining the reclamation, Maggie had moved from initial shock to gradual habituation, so she hadn't yet considered the issue from Loki elves' perspective.

This conversation was simply two old friends catching up after a long time.

She hadn't seen Ophelia in decades; a little small talk before bringing up the formal invitation seemed natural.

"While reclaiming land?"

Ophelia's expression grew even more puzzled.

"Maggie, didn't you only start reclaiming a few months ago? You didn't have many people at first—how did you manage to reach thirteen hundred kilometers from our western border?"

At that moment, an elf in the Flower Square voiced Ophelia's doubt.

"Yes, Maggie, Loki Forest is only a little over fifteen hundred kilometers wide from east to west. Oh, I get it—you didn't cut into the western Dark Forest along the southern edge of the Loki Mountains, did you?"

Another elf added.

The Dark Forest extended westward along the Loki Mountains, so its southern border naturally lay near the mountains; anyone walking westward along the Loki Mountains could directly enter the western Dark Forest.

Maggie finally understood why the Loki elves were asking this.

After thinking it over, she decided to speak plainly, to prevent their confusion from growing.

So Maggie said:

"Your Majesty, we completed reclamation nearly three months ago. We now name that forest the Sacred Flame Forest, and we will establish a new elf empire there. The ceremony will be held in two weeks. I've come here under the command of my king, Princess Chenxi, to deliver the invitation."

Maggie's words instantly stirred up the surrounding elves.

"Maggie, are you serious? I heard you only started reclaiming over half a year ago—how could you have finished already?"

"Yes, Maggie, how could your reclamation speed be so fast? Did you reclaim just a tiny forest?"

"I remember Loki Forest took a full sixty-eight years from start to finish, reclaiming only this forest one thousand five hundred kilometers wide and over two thousand kilometers long. Maggie, you've only been reclaiming for half a year—your area can't be more than one percent of Loki Forest's, right?"

"..."

The surrounding elves began murmuring among themselves.

It was no wonder they thought this way.

The time taken to reclaim Loki Forest was right there as a reference.

In fact, even one percent of Loki Forest's area was substantial.

The Sacred Flame Forest covered 7.13 million square kilometers, while Loki Forest was about 3.4 million square kilometers—less than half of Sacred Flame Forest's size.

One percent of the Sacred Flame Forest was over thirty thousand square kilometers—equivalent to the area of Taiwan before Lin Yan's transmigration.

Seeing so many elves asking questions, Ophelia said nothing, but looked calmly at Maggie.

Clearly, the thoughts of these surrounding elves were also Ophelia's own thoughts.

Maggie said:

"No, Su Fei, the Sacred Flame Forest is vast—nearly two thousand three hundred kilometers wide from east to west, and over three thousand one hundred kilometers long from north to south. The area we've reclaimed is nearly twice that of Loki Forest."

Maggie's words instantly silenced the surrounding elves.

Judging by their expressions, Maggie knew they didn't believe a word of it.

Even if they believed Maggie wouldn't lie, how could they ignore how astonishing her words were?

Two thousand three hundred kilometers from east to west!

Three thousand one hundred kilometers from north to south!

Multiply the two, and the entire Holy Flame Forest is more than twice the size of the Loki Forest!

Merely these comparisons alone wouldn't cause such a reaction from these elves.

The key issue is:

Reclamation time.

Holy Flame Forest: a few months.

Loki Forest: sixty-eight years.

With such a contrast, how could the elves of the Loki Forest believe it?

"Maggie, I heard humans have a holiday called Fool's Day, just for tricking people—could today possibly be that day?"

Finally, an elf who knew Maggie spoke up.

Elves rarely lie.

But Maggie's words were simply too astonishing, making these elves feel utterly unbelievable—yet they couldn't believe Maggie was lying either, so a strange feeling settled in their hearts, and naturally, no one spoke.

And the elf who knew Maggie stepped forward to break the silence.

Maggie produced an invitation and said:

"Su Fei, I am not lying; Her Majesty the Queen, this is the invitation issued by my sovereign, Princess Chenxi. We have already gathered numerous elf tribes from across the continent, and the number of elves in the Holy Flame Forest has now surpassed one million. Therefore, my sovereign has decided to formally establish the Holy Flame Elf Empire in two weeks, and a grand celebration will be held—I sincerely invite you to attend."

Maggie's words, like a depth charge, stirred a storm of shock in the hearts of the surrounding elves!

First, the Holy Flame Forest was more than twice the size of the Loki Forest, and they had reclaimed it in just a few months.

Then, they were actually going to establish the Holy Flame Elf Empire?

And within such a short time, the Holy Flame Forest had gathered a million elves?

No matter how you looked at it, this didn't seem real.

No matter how you listened to it, it didn't sound real!

In just a few months, they had reclaimed a forest in the Dark Forest twice the size of the Loki Forest!

And gathered a million elves!!!

To the surrounding elves, this sounded like a fairy tale.

At this moment, these beautiful and intelligent elves began to doubt their own ears.

In fact, if someone else had said these words, these elves might not have believed them at all.

But Maggie, as a Winged Elf, was known to many among these elves.

She was lively, cheerful, honest, kind, and upright, and her reputation had spread across many elf tribes in the Loki Forest.