As in the legend, although men and women are generally equal within the elves, important positions are usually held by female elves.
Elusia, the elder of the Nightsong tribe, is a female elf, and there are three elders of the Moon Shadow tribe, all of whom are female elves.
Elder Lisanya Shadowsong is the oldest and most qualified among the three elders, and is naturally the elder with the highest reputation.
According to Elder Elusia's description of Xu Yi, she should be close to four hundred years old this year, dozens of years older than Elder Elusia.
But if you just look at her appearance, she is not much different from a young human girl in her early twenties. She looks very similar to the youth of Elder Elushia.
Because of Elder Elusia's letter, Elder Lisania Shadowsong's attitude towards Xu Yi was not full of vigilance and hostility towards him like ordinary elves. Instead, she looked at Xu Yi with curiosity.
"Human, from the outside, there doesn't seem to be anything special about you. Although you should be a human magician, I can see that you are not powerful. I am curious why Elusia looks at you differently. What?" Elder Lisanya Song expressed her curiosity very straightforwardly in her first sentence.
Xu Yi smiled and replied: "Elder Shadow Song, I think Yanis must have told you a lot about me in the past few days."
"Yes, Yanis seems to like you very much. All she described to me are your advantages. She even thinks that you can save the entire elves." Elder Lisanya Shadowsong looked at Xu Yi again. He shook his head slightly. "But I don't see the possibility."
"Elder Shadowsong, you can't tell this kind of thing just by looking at it. Of course. I'm not as exaggerated as Yanis described it. But I think that as long as the elves don't lock themselves up, they can interact with us humans normally. If we get along with each other in a friendly manner, then there is actually no crisis for the elves, and naturally they don't need any rescue." Xu Yidao.
"Do you get along normally and friendly with humans?" Elder Lisania Shadowsong's expression was a bit sad, and her thoughts instantly returned to a long time ago. "Before the racial war broke out, humans did live in friendship with us elves for a long time. But when humans felt that they were strong enough, you immediately started a war mercilessly. Since then, humans and elves have been fighting each other for a long time. There is no possibility of normal and friendly relations.”
"You care too much about past history." Xu Yi said bluntly. "Although we humans also respect and value history, our human creed is that history is history. The past has passed. Thousands of years have passed since the racial war, and the hatred between humans and elves has long since disappeared. . Since the elves of the Night Song tribe can get along with us humans normally, I think the elves of other tribes can do the same."
"I must express my admiration for Elusia's courage. She conquered her heart in order for the tribe to survive. But... our Moon Shadow Tribe does not face the same crisis as the Night Song Tribe. Even if we do not get along with humans, we still Can survive. So human beings, although I met you because of Elusia's letter, I don't think it is necessary for us to continue communicating. "
Looking at the calm expression on Elder Lisania Shadowsong’s face. Xu Yi couldn't help but cursed in his heart.
Each of these elves seemed to be very heartless. But in Xu Yi's opinion, this was clearly tsundere.
It is clear that the elves on the entire continent are now facing a major problem of racial survival, but she is still here saying that there is no crisis.
Should we say this is the arrogance of the elves, or should we say that she really didn't realize the problem
Thinking about the size of the Moon Shadow Tribe, which has more than 3,000 elves, and how they get along with ordinary humans in the Principality of Standing, Xu Yi feels that the latter possibility is mostly the case.
After all, Xu Yi has met so many elves. They may appear arrogant, but they have one common advantage, that is, they are honest.
Since Elder Lisania Shadowsong said that she did not think that the Moon Shadow Tribe was facing a crisis, it meant that she really thought so.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi felt that it would be better not to go around in circles with her. After thinking about it, he asked directly: "Elder Yingge, you said that your Yueying Tribe is not in crisis, so I want to ask a question. Excuse me... the current status of the Yueying Tribe. What’s the total number of elves?”
Elder Lisanya Shadowsong asked in shock: "Why do you ask this?"
"Because the total population represents the prosperity of a race. If the total population of a race is growing steadily, it proves that the entire race is in the process of rising prosperity, and if the total population is always declining , it proves that this race is facing a crisis. Elder Shadow Song, has the total number of elves in the Moon Shadow Tribe increased or decreased compared to ten or a hundred years ago?"
Elder Lisanya Shadowsong’s expression changed slightly.
As the oldest elder in the Moon Shadow Tribe, she certainly knows that compared to ten years ago, the total population of the Moon Shadow Tribe has not changed much. However, if compared with a hundred years ago, the current population of the Moon Shadow Tribe is The total number of elves is only less than 90% of what it was at that time!
In just one hundred years, the Moon Shadow tribe has lost one-tenth of its population.
According to this trend, I am afraid that within a thousand years, the Moon Shadow Tribe will naturally die out on this continent.
Seeing Elder Lisania Shadowsong's expression, Xu Yi immediately knew that his guess was right.
In fact, it is not just the Nightsong Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe, it should be said that since the race war, the total number of elves on the entire Sainz Continent has been declining.
The most important reason why elves are rarely seen on the continent of Sainz now is that, in addition to the elves being unwilling to get along with humans, the most important reason is that the elves have become extremely rare.
If this trend continues, in another thousand years, the elves will become a rare race even rarer than the pandas in the heaven on earth.
It was precisely because of seeing this terrible trend that Elder Elusia met with Xu Yi and began to seek the possibility of peaceful coexistence between the elves and humans, trying to bring the elves back to the entire continent, allowing the elves to rely on A new way of life comes to life.
Elder Elushia was forced to make this bold choice because of the crisis in the Nightsong tribe, while the Moonshadow tribe did not face such an urgent crisis, so Elder Lisania Shadowsong dismissed it. .
But when Xu Yi raised this question, Elder Lisania Shadowsong had to face this reality.
At this time, she suddenly thought of something mentioned in Elder Elushia's letter.
In the letter, Elder Elusia said that since they chose to cooperate with humans, three new elves have appeared in the Yesong tribe in just one year!
For the Yege tribe, which has a total population of less than a thousand, this is simply a birth rate that far exceeds imagination!
Even before the race war, during the most glorious period of the elves, the birth rate of the entire elves never exceeded one in a thousand. But now the Yege tribe, a small elf tribe, has actually reached three thousandths!
If you compare the lifespan of the elves, which is several times longer than that of humans, then this birth rate is almost close to that of humans!
Elder Elushia didn't understand the reason for this change, but she pointed out in her letter that whether it was the change in the birth rate or the various changes in the people within the tribe, it all happened after the human named Xu Yi appeared. of.
Although I don’t know the specific reason, this Xu Yi may be the key.
Thinking of this, and then thinking about the possibility that the elves could reproduce as quickly as humans, Elder Lisania Shadowsong's eyes instantly became friendly when she looked at Xu Yi.
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Another three days passed, and Xu Yi and his party returned to the small town of Samara.
Compared with when they went, in addition to Xu Yi and Yanis, there were two more maids given to Xu Yi by the Wei Lun clan leader, and three more female elves from the Yege tribe.
These three female elves followed Xu Yi back to the Lampali Kingdom because of the order of Elder Lisania Shadowsong.
According to Elder Lisania Shadowsong, these three female elves were her envoys to the Nightsong tribe. In addition to bringing her greetings to Elder Elusia, they also had to follow Xu Yi for a period of time. Time to learn about the human world like Yanis.
Xu Yi had no objection to this. He had no hope of convincing the Moon Shadow Tribe to cooperate with him through a simple meeting.
It would be good for Elder Shadowsong to understand the cooperation mode between himself and the Nightsong tribe through these three elves, and to experience the changes he has brought to them before making a decision.
But what he couldn't understand was why Elder Lisania Shadowsong sent out three elves at once, and they were all extremely beautiful female elves.
What's even more strange is that she should have sent some mature and prudent elves with sufficient wisdom for this kind of thing, but the three female elves sent this time were all less than a hundred years old.
If put into the corresponding human age, that would be less than twenty years old.
They are just three yellow-haired girls under twenty years old. Can they really find out anything through investigation
Xu Yi had doubts about this, but looking at Yanis beside him, he shrank the doubts.
Elder Elusia originally sent out Yanis, who was not yet an adult according to human age. Now Elder Shadowsong is doing this, probably just a simple imitation.
Of course, this is not a problem for him.
Anyway, he just wanted to show the cooperation between himself and the Night Song tribe to Elder Lisania Shadow Song. Such a little girl would hand over the most intuitive report, which would make it easier for Elder Shadow Song to make a judgment.
As for the final result, Xu Yi is still very confident.
Especially when he saw that the road leading to the Black Rice Wasteland outside the town of Samara was nearly completed. (To be continued...)