Chapter 15 Weird Races and Weird Nations
Several families were happy and some were sad. Yu Gong, the Sigma Empire, which could not get reinforcements from the High Elves, cried loudly. Yu Private, after Valed left the room for a while, Ariel rolled and crawled to the silver mask he had discarded, and cried bitterly as if he was treasured. Of course, this could not affect Valed's excitement and heroic feelings at all.
In September, two good news came one after another, and the first good news was that Wusuan was attacked by the army of dark elves.
Although after this, Arrier did make some arrangements, and the high elves navy also preserved complete combat power - but under the fierce attack of the dark elves, the island defense line in the northwest of the Rosen Sea area was still declared lost. At this point, the hinterland of Usuan was exposed to the dark elves' soldiers. A fierce battle was inevitable.
The second good news is about Bartonia and the Wood Elf. With the cooperation of Valed's incarnation, his intelligence and spy departments, the foundation of faith in the Knight Kingdom was successfully crushed. After argumentation, research and research have put forward a series of facts. It proves that the so-called goddess in the lake believed in by Bartonia is actually just a conspiracy of the Wood Elf.
After the elves and dwarves fought long beard wars and were both defeated, a group of high elves refused to retreat to Wusuan. These strange guys believed that living a simple and self-sufficient life in the forest was better than enjoying the abundant material life brought by high civilization in Wusuan...
Of course, there is also a saying that these fearful ghosts had hid in the forest before and did not dare to participate in the decisive battle between the elves and the dwarves. They did not dare to return to Wusuan at this moment, but were afraid of being pursued by the same tribe. This statement is not without reason. Combined with the usual despicable performance of the wood elves, Valed even believed that this explanation was closer to the truth.
These environmental fundamentalists used a more despicable and despicable means to maintain their normal living conditions as the elves and dwarves declined and the rise of human beings.
Before the Kingdom of Batonia was established, the wood elves used their magic to disguise an elf girl, disguised her as a god, spread rumors to gain the faith of the local residents. Under the planning of their entire race, the belief that the Batonians called the "Goddess of the Lake" spread throughout the country. They were even classified as the official belief of the country by those human kings who were not good at using it.
If this is the case alone, it would be fine. Use a fake God to add a layer of superstitious color to the forest where he lives, in exchange for human awe for better seclusion. If this is the case alone, it is understandable. However, the wood elves went further and used their faith to manipulate Batonian politics and seek profit for themselves.
First of all, they chose the most believer in the "Goddess of the Lake" and the bravest and stupid ruler, helping him unify the entire Batonia and completely spread the belief of the "Goddess of the Lake" throughout the country, so that both civilians and nobles, they believe in them without exception.
Later, they used these believers to obtain the right to enthrone the king. The so-called "Goddess Messenger" they sent out to patrol, supervise the entire country, and even abolish the king, manipulate the political situation, and fiddle with the entire Batonia like a toy. They use this to seek benefits.
These wood elves advocate nature. They despise humans or dwarves that destruction of forests and mining minerals. However, they still need wooden equipment and iron products. Other daily necessities such as salt, grains and cloth, etc., and the wood elves do not produce them, but they still need them.
So they used their faith to squeeze the Kingdom of Batonia and collected all the little remaining living materials that were not wealthy in the name of "tributes" and "sacrifices" for their own enjoyment. While they were harvested for nothing, they also criticized them as a group of barbarians who destroyed the natural environment. The strangeness of these wood elves is astonishing.
What is even more outrageous is that in order to better control Batonia, these wood elves have taken a series of measures that can be called counter-involved actions. They reject all technological products, reject all technological progress, promote agnosticism, and regard all scientific research as illegal and heresy.
In order to make their tricks of pretending to be magic less well-known, they have a more repulsive attitude towards magic. All teenagers who show magic potential in childhood will be taken away by those who call themselves "Goddess of the Lake". Most children will be killed, and only a small number of girls will receive brainwashing education and then become new "messengers".
The killed children were also used. The wood elves used magic props similar to the Vampire's Blood Holy Grail to refine and condense the blood of these magical children in their bodies. They called it holy water.
Those stupid knights of Batonia have an ultimate goal, which is to prove their bravery and their piety to the goddess in the lake, and then obtain the so-called "holy water" sent by the "Messenger". These knights who absorbed power are the ultimate weapons that Batonia is proud of, and are enough to prolong life for hundreds of years and are much stronger than ordinary knights. They will never know what kind of dirty drink they actually drank to gain this superhuman power.
Poverty, dirty, sick, hunger.
Under the manipulation of wood elves, all the residents of Batonia lived like animals, and had to work hard every day for a bite of garbage-like food. This country, which was established almost at the same time as the Sigma Empire, and had a territory and population, has almost become two completely different worlds after thousands of years of development.
The Sigma Empire gradually embarked on the road of modernization. The emperor and the dukes began to centralize power, forming relatively powerful principalities. They established professional and large-scale armies equipped with gunpowder weapons. Their agricultural level, industrial productivity, science and technology level, education, and average life expectancy have been greatly improved. Its territory doubled and its population tripled. It became the largest and most powerful country in the old world.
But the Kingdom of Batonia is still the same, maintaining the most primitive feudal system. Every village and even every field has different feudal lords - they call the kingdom knights. The military organization is also purely feudal, mainly recruiting peasants and knights. The combat effectiveness can be imagined. Its agricultural level is maintained at an extremely low level, without ox plowing, and even with very few iron farm tools, without fertilizer, and without magical means to promote crop yield. Industry is maintained at the level of small workshop handicrafts, with a scientific and technological level close to green skins, without education, and the average life expectancy is about thirty-five years old, and its territory and population are basically unchanged. It has fallen from the pole of the old world to a second-rate country similar to Skiev.
These are all in the wood elves' plan, and they expect the people of Batonia to live in this situation forever. In this way, they will not open up wastelands and forests because of population reproduction. They will not threaten the wood elves because of their increased national strength, nor will they doubt their deceptive tricks because they have become smart and knowledgeable.
"It's really terrible. While claiming that they advocate nature and the way of heaven, they use such terrible means to manipulate the human kingdom. Are these wood elves schizophrenics? Or do they just take their wood elves seriously and don't treat other humans as things?"
At that time, Vared thought that the Wood Elf race was very strange. Or, it was extremely selfish. Of course, under the secret control of such a strange race, he could still survive such a life that was worse than pigs and dogs for thousands of years. The Bartonians were indeed a strange country that matched the Wood Elf.
Of course, it is indeed funny to put these two weird things together. But Vared had enough reason to make their relationship unable to maintain - he had to make sure that Batonia was also in turmoil and could not send reinforcements to the Sigma Empire... Although the quality of their reinforcements was so terrifying that the mosquitoes were small, it was still a piece of meat. The knights of Batonia were not good at doing anything else, and being cannon fodder was still qualified.
So, after more than half a year of planning, in the face of sufficient evidence that could not be sufficient, the Batonians were all angry from top to bottom. The nobles and the King of Batonians were angry that these bastards dared to act arrogantly on their heads, while the civilians hated them for taking away the grains, woods and metal minerals they had worked hard to harvest. Both the nobles and the civilians were crazy about being fooled.
Under extreme anger, the Kingdom of Batonia destroyed all the temples of the goddesses in the lake, demolished all the statues and the places defined by the wood elves who were pretending to be ghosts as "holy lands". The messengers of the goddesses in the lake who were walking outside were tortured.
The King of Batonia tore up the armistice agreement signed with the wood elves and ordered to march towards the Asoloren Forest. The dukes and nobles, whether they had good or bad relationships with the king, carried out comprehensive mobilization in the shortest time. The civilians who should not have participated in the war, the elderly, weak, women and children, spontaneously organized themselves, armed with farm tools, kitchen knives, and even wooden sticks, and marched towards the Asoloren Forest.
The army destroyed wildly along the way, burning all the trees, killing all the wild animals and eating them. All the rivers were polluted with poison, feces and corpses. The forest elves scattered in the forest suffered the most cruel treatment. The male elves were castrated and then rinsed, and the female elves were raped by the wheel and then chopped into meat sauce.
Chapter completed!