Chapter 1818: Demon Descendant Elves and Past Events of the Northland

Emerging from the strange Elf's laboratory, Xia Duo saw Xierdalanna dismantling an altar in a potion manufacturing room nearby!

It stood to reason that she realized the mysterious organization was unlikely to keep the formula for the 【Light of Inspiration】 potion in such a secret production base.

Dismantling a few altars and taking a batch of semi-finished potions back would always yield something worth studying; if that wasn't enough, the mysterious organization had more than just this one secret base, and there would always be opportunities to destroy more later.

Seeing this, Xia Duo followed suit and dismantled two altars, stuffing them into his Personal Space along with the accompanying diamond-shaped crystals used to store Faith Power, as well as the pipes connecting the altars to the Purple Qi Pool in the center of the outer hall.

Although he knew the 【Light of Inspiration】 potion might have certain hidden dangers, so what? As an Arcanist, one must always have some confidence in oneself.

A potion capable of stably stimulating inspiration was simply too tempting for a researcher; even knowing there might be hidden dangers, he did not want to let go of any opportunity to study it.

As a member of the Seven Towers, Puman naturally would not let such an opportunity pass either.

For a time, within the mysterious organization's secret base, only Andaluosike remained idle; of course, he was not entirely idle, but rather stood guard near the entrance passage of the base with his sword drawn.

One must know that this base was inside a mountain underground, and outside there was a valley, as well as a supply stronghold of the Lier Chamber of Commerce!

Although Xierdalanna had previously mentioned that the Lier Chamber of Commerce should have nothing to do with the mysterious organization, the mere fact that the mysterious organization built its secret base beneath the Lier Chamber of Commerce's supply stronghold meant their suspicion could not be entirely ruled out.

Furthermore, although the battle at the base ended very quickly, whether the upper echelons of the mysterious organization had already noticed was an unknown.

Having a Sword Dancer Master specifically on guard could still serve some purpose, at least.

……

"It's over!"

Looking at the base, which had become a mess due to the previous battle and the dismantling, Xia Duo could not help but sigh; come to think of it, he had just forgotten to have the Divine Envoy Taide leave behind a complete corpse.

The mysterious organization that assassinated the Elder of Aifuruisi had ties to the Abyss; in Xia Duo's view, it would be best to make this public. Even if not announced under their true identities, at least it should stir up some commotion to attract the attention of the Northland Alliance.

But now, this base was "clean" to an excessive degree. When it came to clearing away Abyssal residue, the Divine Envoy Taide and his companions were undoubtedly professionals, but this also made it difficult to form any strong persuasive power for the Northland Alliance here.

Based on one-sided words alone, even if they came forward to report it themselves, it might not necessarily attract attention, not to mention that coming forward personally involved many inconvenient things to explain; it was too much trouble.

Since the Abyssal residue had been completely cleared, Xia Duo and his party simply wiped away the traces of the existence of the two of them and the two Elves as well.

Of course, Xia Duo remained skeptical about this for the time being; after all, the mysterious organization had once demonstrated what true professional Trace Erasure was—that was something that could even erase traces from the memories of High Mages.

He wondered how much of an obstacle their amateur efforts could actually pose to the mysterious organization.

……

Upon leaving, Xia Duo and his party returned the way they came, first going to the Shadow Plane to erase the contingency plans that had not been used because Xia Duo summoned the Divine Envoy Taide, and then detouring through the Ether Plane until they reached the temporary stronghold controlled by Xierdalanna before returning to the Main Plane.

In the stronghold's Xiu Xi Shi, Xia Duo brought up the previous topic again, asking Xierdalanna for more information about the mysterious organization, and also asked Xierdalanna to explain in detail what relationship it had with the war a thousand years ago.

This time, Xierdalanna did not make any excuses to delay, but readily explained from the beginning:

"Just as Lord Xia Duo said earlier, that war back then was indeed initiated by Siluwende, but there were indeed hidden circumstances involved."

"The reasons for this are a very sensitive topic even now. In the thousand-plus years from that war to the present, although the Upper Families have never forgotten, very few have actively brought it up."

Speaking of this, the expression on Xierdalanna's face became complex, but the narration continued:

"This matter can initially be traced back to Jielunsita in the Listar Forest. Yes, Keman had not yet been born at that time, but some families inherited from Aryvandaar already existed."

"Among them was a family—I don't want to say its name, but what I can say is that they did something that almost all Elves hated immensely!"

Seeing Xierdalanna's tone pause again, Xia Duo could not help but feel anxious and hurriedly asked: "What did they do?"

"Haven't you realized it yet?" Xierdalanna asked in return.

"Realized what? It couldn't be that the mysterious organization was created by them, could it?"

"Not the mysterious organization, but that kind of strange Elf you just saw in that base. At the time, we called them 【Demon Descendant Elves】. Look, what does that make you think of?"

"Demon Descendant Elves?"

Except for Xia Duo and the narrator Xierdalanna, the remaining Puman and Andaluosike both showed expressions of extreme shock, especially Andaluosike; he found it truly hard to imagine what kind of experience it was for an Elf and a demon to produce offspring.

"Could it be—"

"Just as you think, that family created the Demon Descendant Elves, or chose to become Demon Descendant Elves."

Xierdalanna sighed slightly in her heart and continued: "At that time in the Northland, although the Listar Forest accepted most of the Upper Families among the survivors of Aryvandaar, more commoners of Aryvandaar established another country."

"Siluwende?"

"Yes."

Xierdalanna nodded. Actually, strictly speaking, Yierlan can also be traced back to Aryvandaar. After Aryvandaar won the Crown War back then, its ruling family wanted to obtain higher power, so they began to secretly purge the High Mages of other families.

But doing this occasionally might have been fine, but doing it frequently made it too easy for word to leak out. The result was without doubt: even a ruling family as strong as Aryvandaar could not withstand the alliance of all the other families, even with their allies included.

Thus, Aryvandaar, which had won the Crown War and almost completely unified the Elf World, collapsed with unprecedented speed under the will of numerous High Mages after briefly reaching the peak of its power.

Yierfalan, which had originally been annexed by Aryvandaar, re-established its nation during this period, and a portion of the upper Elites moved to the Listar Forest in the east to avoid the purge.

A small number of them established Siluwende in place with the original Aryvandaar commoners. Later, due to the ideology of Great Elfism and Golden Elf Supremacy, Moon Elves and a small number of Gold Elves went to the southeast to establish Shaerwen.

And Yierlan was established by some Upper Families of Shaerwen, initially existing as a buffer zone to resist the invasion of Siluwende.

More than two hundred years after the founding of the nation, it suffered a large-scale invasion by Siluwende. Afterward, with the full support of Shaerwen, they fought for another two hundred years before completely defeating Siluwende.

Of course, in this process, Yierlan's comprehensive national strength expanded rapidly, to the point that it surpassed the Shaerwen of that time, and in the thousand-plus years that followed, it left them far behind—but that is another story.