The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 16 The Unlucky Dwarf
Not only could the halflings not help the dwarves, they themselves were in trouble.

Their land is soft and fertile, and has long been the fat meat in the mouth of the Northern Empire. How could humans let them go? !

Halflings are not tall, but that doesn't mean they are not intelligent. They are sentimental, but also passionate and will not surrender and become prisoners of humans.

Since the late period of the fallen Eagle Dynasty, which race in the Pan-Continent is unaware of the decadent life of human nobles?! The goblins doing business all over the map have long regarded the extravagant nightlife of the human royal family and nobles as a playful gossip story, which has spread throughout the entire Grion continent.

Among the supporting characters of these stories, there are many non-human races.

The halflings don't want the women in their tribe to become supporting roles in these gossip stories, nor do they want their people to become kitchen slaves of humans.

The goblins who were very pleased with themselves had said that the decadent lifestyle of humans was even surpassed by the "broad-minded" dragons, and the incestuous lifestyle of the nobles among them could be used as a textbook for the dragons.

The goblins speculated maliciously that although the plane war had ended thousands of years ago, there were still many dragon warriors who were willing to bear the title of dragon knight for humans. This was not unrelated to the fact that many dragon knights were of noble birth and held titles.

Nicole's face flushed red as she told this story, while Feng Yu's face was full of gossip. He wished he could have a narrative novel with millions of words and written in a sophisticated style that described something like this so that he could read it.

The Halflings moved eastwards. To their east were their good neighbors and good partners, the dwarves, an ancient race that was not even as tall as the Halflings.

According to legend, dwarves are a race that appeared in the world before elves. They live with mountains and minerals, are extremely strong, and hold two Xuanhua axes...

Something seems to be wrong, but don't worry about it.

The dwarves are good at using axes and hammers. Later, during the plane war, they invented the dwarven musket together with the gnomes, giving them long-range attack capabilities. They are not a race that is easy to mess with.

As the supplier of beverages and food for the dwarves, the halflings are absolutely the dwarves' good friends.

There is a little joke on the continent of Grion that the kitchen knives made by the dwarves for the halflings are sharper than the swords the dwarves sell, and that there is absolutely no problem in equipping the iron pots they make for the halflings with wooden handles to use as shields.

Although it is a small joke, it also shows the friendship between the dwarves and the halflings.

However, the better the innate conditions a race has, the greater the constraints it is subject to. Take elves for example. They have long lifespans, nimble hands, and outstanding magical talents, but the price they pay for this is low fertility.

Looking at the changes in the population of various races on the continent of Green, it can be seen that fertility has always been the biggest divine restriction that restricts the long-lived species who are inherently strong.

According to Nicole, when the elves were at their most prosperous, their population did not exceed three million. As for now, it is even worse. If all the elves were counted, the total population would only be one million, which is less than the population of a third-tier small city in China.

The life span of dwarves is approximately 350 to 450 years, which is considered a long-lived species in the continent of Grien. In addition, they are naturally strong and have extraordinary talents in mining and metallurgy, making them an innately powerful race.

Therefore, the small total number resulting from poor fertility and slow population growth has always been a congenital defect that limits the dwarves.

The dwarves knew that humans had begun to expel and slaughter them, the dwarf race, from west to east. In addition, there were many minerals in the dwarf territory, so they were bound to be coveted by humans.

As for the entire tribe relying on humans and providing them with minerals and iron tools, the dwarves have never thought about this issue. Even the relatively weak halflings would not make this choice, let alone the dwarves.

The only thing in common between the dwarf races, apart from their height, is that these guys are just like the elves, stubborn and obedient. It is easy to defeat them, but forget about enslaving them.

From the goblins wandering around the world and the dwarves entering the Meteorite Mountains in anger, we can see the nature of these short races. They can hide for a while, but they will never give in.

Not wanting their own people to suffer too much loss, the dwarves migrated eastwards again and entered the southern part of the Snow Peak Mountains, the largest and longest mountain range on the continent of Grion.

The Snowtop Mountains are named because the top of the mountain is covered with snow all year round. It starts from the bitter cold land in the north of the Green Continent in the north and ends near the westernmost seashore of the Elf Forest in the south. It is the longest north-south mountain range in the Green Continent, and its middle part is connected to the Meteorite Mountains.

The southern part of the Snow Summit Mountains is the birthplace of the dwarves. The ancestors of the dwarves discovered a large copper mine in the belly of the mountain, thus starting bronze smelting and entering the Bronze Age.

Part of the mountain there has been hollowed out by the dwarves, and now half of the dwarves live there. The rest, because of the mineral veins, are scattered among the various mountains in the southern part of the Snow Summit Mountains.

The Halflings could not adapt to life in the dark mines, and the cold environment on the snow-capped mountains also made them uncomfortable, so the Halflings went south along the Snow-Top Mountains and entered the northwest region of the Elf Forest.

At that time, the elves no longer had the capital to check and balance humans, and the elves did not appear at the coronation ceremonies of the two great human emperors.

Not only that, human civilization rose because of the elves, and their writing was inherited from the elves and learned the elves' magic, so it is also the elven writing. The only difference in language is that some syllables in the elven language are not suitable for human pronunciation.

But since the establishment of the two empires, humans began to consciously change this situation. They simplified and changed the elven writing to form their own writing system.

When the two empires faced each other from north to south with the Bishui River as their natural barrier, the two great empires of mankind began to tacitly de-elvify. They no longer recognized the elves as their overlord, rewrote textbooks and historical documents, and downplayed the traces of the elves in their civilization.

The elves, who are home-based creatures, are indifferent to this. They don't even care about this phenomenon at all. They still live leisurely in the elf forest which they transformed into a suitable place for survival and rich in resources.

The elven leaders showed sympathy to the halflings who came without notice and allocated a large area in the northwest of the elven forest for them to live in.

The ordinary elves living in the northwest of the Elf Forest were very curious about the arrival of the Halflings. They put down their paintbrushes and iris harps and helped the Halflings build their own homes. The Halflings also cooked all kinds of delicious food with ingredients from the Elf Forest to repay the enthusiastic elves.

(End of this chapter)