Chapter 2590: The Hidden Truth

Subsequently, Xia Duo adjusted his Scrying perspective, starting from this small plaza and continuing to explore outward bit by bit.

There were passages on all sides of the small plaza, but three of them were already sealed; to explore them, he would need to re-position and project his Perception Field, as moving directly was not possible and might result in colliding with certain Protection mechanisms.

Thus, Xia Duo controlled the Perception Field to enter through the remaining passage, and the first thing he noticed was the traces of dust on the ground.

Countless years had passed, and it seemed no outsider had ever entered here; from the plaza to the open passage on one side, the dust distribution was extremely uniform, and even where there were slight undulations, it perfectly matched the state characteristics of the stone walls above.

If there were carvings, there would be more dust; the more complex the carving, the more dust would settle. The flatter and smoother the surface, the less dust would fall, but no matter how much, there was always some.

Entering from the only open passage and passing through a not-so-long corridor, what Xia Duo saw was a place similar to a living area, with rooms built into the rock on the left and right, and a street in the middle.

One of the room doors was open, and Xia Duo moved his perspective to see various armaments scattered on the floor, long since having lost their former luster.

Most of these armaments had archaic, or even one could say crude, designs, but a small portion already featured the complex and exquisite decorations of "later" Elves!

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo felt a shock in his heart!

He thought of the origin legends circulating in the Northern Elf Kingdoms, which said that Elves were not native creatures of the Main Plane, but came from a more mature world, and it was only because a disaster occurred in that world that a small portion of Elves escaped, then gradually multiplied to the present.

But judging from what Xia Duo discovered in this ancient Midi, this legend indeed contained elements of truth, but the ancient Elves likely also hid a piece of more critical information, which was—

It was highly probable that native Elves also existed on the Main Plane, and the native Elves of that time had already begun to resist the dragons.

Perhaps it was with the help of the foreign Elves that the Dragon Madness Mythallar was established, ultimately leading to a successful resistance. It is also possible that the fusion of both sides led to a breakthrough in some key technology, which ultimately resulted in the establishment of the Dragon Madness Mythallar and the end of the Dragon Era.

But regardless of which it was, the existence of native Elves should be an indisputable fact!

Yet in "later generations," the Elves all became outsiders; this might be the arrogance of the outsiders, completely ignoring the survival strategy under normal circumstances—disguising their origin as being from the local plane to avoid being excluded by native creatures.

This might have been necessary for resisting the dragons at the time, but completely erasing the achievements of the native Elves after the resistance succeeded is indeed something the current Elves could do!

Of course, this could also be the price of the fusion.

However, Xia Duo did not delve deeper into this issue; after all, this matter had passed for countless years, and he himself was not an Elf, but as he continued to explore, a thought inevitably popped into his mind—

Could it be that Wu De Elves are the native Elves? Perhaps this is the fundamental reason why Wu De Elves are universally discriminated against in Elven society!

And Druids, who nurtured the entire Elf World, are still heavily discriminated against; perhaps the supernatural power originally mastered by the native Elves was Druidism!

Xia Duo could not help but associate this with the Druid Elder Yatewude of his Territory; previously, the other party had Natural Holy Power only because he believed in the Elf main god, and after abandoning his faith, he immediately lost his Holy Power, but under his guidance, Yatewude found the true Natural faith.

That is, perceiving the Natural Will and obtaining Holy Power directly from Nature, rather than from a god.

Perhaps the earliest Druids were born this way too!

Xia Duo thought again that in Elven society, perhaps there were Moon Elves who became Druids, but the vast majority were Wu De Elves at the bottom, simultaneously stacking the double-layer buff of 【Wu De Elf】 and 【Druid】, no wonder they could never turn things around.

And Gold Elves almost never produced Druids; it's not that they couldn't, as many Gold Elves were Priests of the Elf main god, and they could easily master Druidic power.

But they simply chose not to, in order to highlight their unique status.

Even in Yinerfalan, where almost everyone was a Gold Elf, very few Gold Elves were willing to be Druids; it was mostly fixed non-Gold Elf Druid families, which really gave a feeling of being eternal servants.

Furthermore, Yinerfalan also imported Druid Divine Magic Scrolls from other Elven Nations to make up for the shortage in the number of Druids, and those non-Gold Elf Druid families were mostly "imported" in this way.

After all, being a dog for a great power might be more comfortable than staying in a small country as a king~

"That really is dark!"

After sighing, Xia Duo in the Laboratory could not help but sneer; if this part of the truth were made public, would future Wu De Elves gain some political correctness privileges in the Elf World because of it?

It is possible; after all, Wu De Elves are not few in number, especially in countries other than Yinerfalan, where large numbers of Wu De Elves almost always exist.

In future civilization competition, population will become a huge factor affecting development; compared to humans, Wu De Elves are at least more approachable.

After all, they have already been used for countless years and are easy to work with; in order to continue to maximize their utility, raising their status and granting them (to a certain extent, privileges exceeding ordinary Moon Elves and Gold Elves) is not unimaginable.

Anyway, no matter how great the privileges are, they can be ignored by the true rulers.

Xia Duo suddenly had a premonition that the future Northland would likely be very lively, and in this situation, he must increase his investment in Plane Exploration even more.

……

Passing through a living district, the Perception Field that Xia Duo projected from the Main Plane into the Folded Space had already moved to another small plaza.

Arriving here and seeing a scene different from the clean one he had seen before, Xia Duo could not help but feel a lift in his spirits; he realized that he might have found the location of the Midi core, or at least was near the core.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be even a speck of dust; the entire plaza was as clean as new, and the ground was no longer the pattern of piercing dragons he had just seen, but had been replaced by Magic patterns that clearly had the style of "later generations," or more accurately, foreign Elves.

Xia Duo carefully distinguished, combined with the Magic Net and elemental state information fed back by the Scrying Spell, and determined that the Magic patterns here were just decorations and did not have any actual function.

What they reflected was not a specific Spell, but a collection of many elements, outlining an imagery of slaughter; it seems that even if there were differences in style, the hatred of foreign Elves and native Elves toward dragons was similar.

Perhaps this was also the reason they were initially able to fuse, but after the resistance succeeded later, the foreign Elves jumped above the native Elves, and this continued for countless years.

"It's a pity there is Magic Protection in front!"

Xia Duo did not control the Perception Field to enter the plaza area, but only passively received a portion of the Scrying information from the outside, and looking from the position he had reached now, the plaza only had two passages facing it, and the other one was also sealed by Magic.

And in the other two directions outside the two passages, one side was a rock wall that also had Magic Protection, and the other side was a building shaped like a palace.

A massive torrent formed by countless Magic Net Strings surged from underground into that palace, and then scattered toward the surroundings like a canopy.

Noticing this scene, Xia Duo immediately realized that even if that palace was not the Mythallar Control Center of Feres Fortress, it must have a great connection with the Main Plane Magic Net!