The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 15: Evil Humans

Due to the reduction of human living space, the two empires went to war again. The Northern Empire forced the Southern Empire to retreat nearly a hundred miles southward, all the way out of the Fertile Plain. Finally, in the south of the Fertile Plain, it relied on the Green River to block the Northern Empire's offensive.

The Bishui River originates from the Elf Forest on the east side of the continent, flows westward along the south side of the Fertile Plain all the way to the sea. Because the Elf Forest where it originates and the Fertile Plain where it flows through are both covered with lush vegetation, the water of the river is deep and green, hence the name Green Water River.

River crossing operations are still a difficult problem on modern Earth, because no matter how advanced the river crossing tools are, it is still easy to be attacked on the wide and unsupported river surface.

Because of the obstruction of the Bishui River, the war between the two empires entered a stalemate, but the demand for land brought about by the rapid population growth pushed the two empires to continue to expand.

Putting aside the continued expansion of the Southern Empire to the south, the Northern Empire seemed to have no room for expansion, because Fang Nan could no longer fight southward, and further north, he would reach a place with distinct four seasons, which was the territory of goblins, gnomes, halflings and dwarves.

Then, these short races, whose height was only as high as that of humans' armpits, were in trouble.

The Northern Empire, with a population that exploded and a total population of over 70 million, finally turned their swords against these short races.

These goblins, a race of dwarfs, love to do business all over the world. This is their hobby and life's work, so they are at home everywhere.

In addition, the total population of the goblins is not large, and most of the goblins and their fighting forces have been wandering with the caravans all year round. So after only a slight resistance, the goblins gave up their homes, which they were not very attached to, and broke up into small groups to wander around the world.

The dwarves living next to the goblins had defensive weapons such as ballistas and various combat equipment, but these became their death warrants.

Because of constant wars, human civilization began to slow down a lot a thousand years after the Plane War, but the ability to wage war has greatly improved.

The Northern Empire took a fancy to the dwarfs' machinery. Because of their interest and hobby, during the thousands of years of recuperation and development, not only has the dwarfs' population grown, but the development of their machinery has also made great strides due to the recovery of the population.

Among them, the crossbow carts that caused huge casualties to the army of the Northern Empire made the emperor of the Northern Empire particularly jealous.

It takes two people for a short dwarf to string the crossbow, but only one person is needed for a human to string the crossbow. With the elastic metal and bowstring, plus the gear winding system, dozens of crossbow arrows can be fired at a time. The crossbow cart with a range of more than 500 meters is so great that the emperor of the Northern Empire, who led the army in person, could not take it out when he saw it.

You have to know that the effective range of excellent human archers is only one hundred meters. If the distance exceeds this, they have to use projectiles. But the accuracy of projectiles does not depend on skills, but on life.

That's it, the farthest they can shoot is about 300 meters.

The effective range of the elven archers is close to two hundred meters, and the projectile can reach nearly four hundred meters, but the elves rely on the rare bow and arrow materials produced in the elven forest and the intricately hand-made fine bows and arrows, as well as the more intricately hand-carved and polished aerodynamic arrows.

If the bows and arrows were not recovered, the elves would go bankrupt after a battle. This was known to all the races during the Plane War.

At that time, the elves used standard arrows made by dwarves and humans, whose effective range was only 150 meters, only 50 meters more than human archers, but their accuracy was still commendable.

The dwarves not only have ballistae, but also other life production equipment and primitive machine tools that the dwarves regard as life.

As long as the dwarves are captured, the Northern Empire's military manufacturing industry and productivity will be greatly improved.

Faced with such temptation, how could the emperor of the Northern Empire let the dwarf go?

To the north of the dwarfs' territory are the Meteorite Mountains, to the west are the extinct goblins, and to the east are the halflings who have basically no fighting power and have been partially expelled by humans. The dwarves have been surrounded by humans and have no way out.

Finally, the dwarfs had to abandon their beloved machines and baggage and climb the Meteorite Mountains.

The Meteorite Mountains are very high. Although they are rich in resources, the living environment is harsh and it is the territory of monsters.

Many of the peaks are higher than the snow line and are covered with snow all year round. Some of the peaks even have giant dragons living in the caves, which shows how harsh their living environment is.

However, according to Nicole, in history there was a great dwarf sage who participated in the plane war and won the favor of an ice dragon, and became her fighting partner.

This dragon who lived in seclusion after the war once gave the dwarf sage a communication scroll that could be used to contact the giant ice dragon.

The dwarfs who retreated to the Meteorite Mountains were protected by the giant ice and snow dragon and found a place to stay, so their race was saved.

Snow dragon is the name of female ice dragons, while male ice dragons call themselves frost dragons.

Feng Yu also confirmed it with Nicole, and Nicole told Feng Yu with certainty that it was a female dragon who became a fighting partner with the male dwarf sage.

Feng Yu couldn't help but sigh, thinking that there were awesome Dragon Knights everywhere!

Nicole seemed to see through Feng Yu's little thoughts and told Feng Yu that the friendship between them was just a simple fighting friendship. Feng Yu's face turned red and he quickly said that he thought so too.

Nicole covered her mouth and chuckled, ignoring him.

From the different ways in which male and female ice dragons addressed themselves, Feng Yu discovered that the pursuit of beauty seemed to be not only the instinct of female humanoid creatures in the multiverse, but even non-human intelligent creatures could not escape this law of true fragrance.

Nicole told Feng Yu that not many female dragons participated in the war. Even if they did, they would form partnerships with non-combat professions such as the dwarf great sages among the humanoid races. Their main task was to protect them from harm because they played a huge role in the war.

Feng Yu felt that this was also a deliberate arrangement by the cunning elder of the Dragon Clan, because this way, the ladies of the Dragon Clan could be better protected.

After all, even though men can conquer the world, they cannot pass on their family line without women.

If there are fewer men, fertility will not be affected as long as polygamy is practiced. But if there are fewer women, the efficiency of childbirth will drop directly.

It seems that the old dragon has understood this principle very thoroughly!
Dwarves are masters of mining and forging, that is, miners and blacksmiths. They do not engage in farming, so they have a good relationship with the halflings who live next to them.

The halflings' western neighbors, the dwarves, were attacked by humans. Except for the goblins who always looked forward to everything, the other dwarf races had a good relationship with each other. They usually supported each other and were friendly and helpful.

The dwarves had a bleak future, and the sentimental halflings shed many tears of sympathy. Unfortunately, their tears could not become a weapon against evil humans, otherwise the dwarves might have been saved.

(End of this chapter)