The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 14 A Brief History of Humankind

The combination of human art of warfare, the destructive power of dragons, the magic of elves, and the expertise that each race is proud of, allowed the intelligent life on the continent of Grion to ultimately win the war.

In the later stages of the war, all races suffered heavy losses. The total population of the best among them dropped by more than half. Many small races were even uprooted and wiped out by roaming foreign races while they were hiding in the mountains.

Later on, even some highly intelligent monsters joined the war. They also got the opportunity to learn the diverse magic of the elves and were supported by the coalition forces. The price was that they had to fight with their lives to ensure that their homes would not be occupied by enemies from another world.

Many monsters also learned from dragons, signed contracts with humanoid intelligent creatures, formed combat partners, improved together, and fought together, because no one wanted to be exterminated.

Although the races that participated in the war suffered terribly, they all survived and continued to exist. In fact, they used the technology they learned to live better after the war.

The representative of them is the human race. Although the human race contributed two-thirds of the total population in a hundred years to this unprecedented war, even many women went to the battlefield to the end.

The wounded humans who were left behind and unable to fight again could even marry four or five wives without any effort, because almost all the adult men were killed in the war.

But humans still managed to survive. Relying on their excellent learning talent, they learned magic, forging, primitive mechanical manufacturing, and rich agricultural knowledge.

Of course, King K'Eagle, the first human king of the Green Continent, the first human warrior to be favored by the dragon clan and to sign a contract with the dragon, died in battle with his dragon partner less than twenty years after the war began, but he also left behind an immortal legend that has been passed down to this day.

The title of Dragon Knight was tailor-made for him by his proud descendants.

Because when I first heard this word, I didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but when I savored it carefully, I found it to be extremely domineering, so much so that from then on all humanoid creatures who signed contracts with dragons and high-level monsters called themselves knights, among which the title of dragon knight was the most domineering and loud.

After the war, the entire continent had a chance to breathe. The intelligent beings on the continent of Green worked hard to rebuild their homes using the knowledge of various races learned from the war.

One thousand years after the Plane War, the continent of Grion was thriving, all races were friendly and helpful to each other, and business was developing rapidly.

The Eagle Royal Family, whose reputation exceeds that of the Elf Royal Family and is known as the first royal family of the Green Continent, has lost all the good qualities of its ancestors after seven generations of inheritance and began a life of extravagance and luxury.

The palace complex, eight hundred miles west of the Elf Forest, is known as the number one palace in the Green Continent and even in the entire Green World. The magnificent palace complex with dazzling gold and gems even makes the dragons flying over the palace complex jealous.

However, the Eagle Royal Family and their dynasty were destroyed, and buried along with their thousand years of glory was the magnificent palace complex.

Of course, this was not the work of a jealous wealth collector dragon, but a coalition of humans who joined forces to overthrow the Eagle King family with a glorious history.

Several grand dukes of the Eagle Kingdom could not stand the royal family's ever-increasing taxes on them in order to afford a luxurious life.

Not only that, in order to consolidate their rule, the Eagle King family also asked the powerful grand dukes to send their children and most of their families to the royal city. Their children received royal teachings and their families received royal support as a reward for their guarding of a region.

Of course, even the dumbest rats on the continent of Grion knew that this was a nice way of saying it. To put it bluntly, the royal family asked the grand dukes to mortgage their families and children.

Feng Yu curled his lips and thought that this routine was just something left over from our ancestors.

However, even this kind of "mortgage" could not win back the royal family's true treatment. The princes, who had long been inflated to the extreme, competed to humiliate the duke's son all day long, and even the women of several dukes' families could not escape their clutches.

It is conceivable how deep the hatred of the dukes, who hold heavy military power, towards the royal family is.

They secretly united, secretly met with concubines in their fiefdoms, gave birth to their own bloodlines, and then, with a mentality of destroying themselves and their families in the royal city, they destroyed the Eagle King's royal family with tremendous anger, wiped out the entire family, and did not leave any bloodlines for the Eagle family.

Because they knew that as long as their soldiers were abnormally mobilized, the kingdom's spies would report the news to the royal city, and then they would either retreat to the original place and accept the royal punishment, or they could only head all the way to the royal city.

They were not afraid that they could not capture the royal city, because the soldiers of the royal guards had already been rotten to the point where they could not be rottener. Apart from the shiny armor and gleaming weapons maintained by slaves, they were useless.

The dukes knew that as long as they reached the royal city, a volley of arrows from the archers would cause the king's guards, who were protected by armor and could not be harmed, to cry for their parents and abandon the city walls.

Unfortunately, if they did not obey the king's order to withdraw, their rebellion would be discovered by the king, and their families would die before they reached the royal city.

You know, their families are all supported by the royal family, which means that the guards of the Duke's Mansion in the royal city are all absolute confidants of the royal family.

In the years when there was no external threat, the royal family put all their energy into guarding against these dukes who had heavy troops under their command.

Eventually, the Eagle Royal Family was destroyed.

The dukes let their troops slaughter the royal palaces, and the royal family's treasures accumulated for thousands of years and the royal palace complex were looted by the dukes' troops. Finally, a huge fire was set, and the bodies of the Eagle royal family members and their extravagance were burned to ashes.

At this point, the bloodline of the first human king, along with their glorious royal court, disappeared from the continent of Grion.

Humanity entered the era of principalities, and many small nobles on the fringes of human kingdoms also became independent. After thousands of years of recuperation, humanity fell into chaos again.

This era of warlordism lasted for nearly four thousand years. After continuous annexation and division, humans finally abandoned the inherently flawed aristocratic recruitment system and switched to a kingdom recruitment system.

Nobility became an honorary title, and one was only allowed to own castles and nearby lands of a size corresponding to the size of the title, as well as a corresponding number of guards with the title of knight to maintain security.

Eventually, the only humans left on the fertile plains were the two great empires of the north and the south and countless small countries around them. The kings of the two empires were also conferred the title of emperor.

Humanity was able to catch its breath, and the population began to surge to over 100 million in just a few hundred years, and with it came the need for living space.

(End of this chapter)