Chapter 147 Moon Shadow Tribe’s decision
Like the legends said, although the elf tribe had an equal number of males and females, the ones in important positions were normal female elves.
The Night Song Tribe’s elder illusia was a female elf and the Moon Shadow Tribe had three elders who were all female elves.
Elder Lisanya Shadow Song was the eldest of the three elders, so she was the elder with the highest position.
According to what elder Illusia had told Xu Yi, she was already close to four hundred years old and she was several decades older than elder Illusia.
But just based on her appearance, she wasn’t that different from a human girl who was in her early twenties. She seemed quite close to elder Illusia when it came to age.
Because of the letter elder Illusia sent, elder Lisanya Shadow Song wasn’t as vigilant and hostile towards Xu Yi as the average elf, rather she looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with curiosity.
“Human, based on your appearance, there isn’t anything special about you. Although you are a human magician, I can tell that you aren’t that strong. I’m very curious, why does Illusia have such a different view of you?” Elder Lisanya Shadow Song’s first words directly expressed the curiosity in her heart.
Xu Yi replied with a smile, “Elder Shadow Song, I think that Agnes has told you many things about me in the past few days.”
“Yes, Agnes seems to like you very much. She has told me all about your merits, she even feels that you saved the entire elven race.” Elder Lisanya Night Song looked over Xu Yi again before shaking her head, “But I don’t see this possibility.”
“Elder Shadow Song, this matter can’t be seen that easily. Of course, I don’t feel that it’s as exaggerated as Agnes says it is. Only I feel that if the elf race didn’t close itself off and lived in harmony with us humans, there won’t be any dangers to the elf tribe and there wouldn’t be anything to save.” Xu Yi said.
“Live in harmony with humans?” Elder Lisanya Shadow Song’s expression was a bit depressed as she thought of the past, “Before the race wars, humans did indeed live in harmony with elves for a long time. But after the humans felt they were strong enough, they immediately declared war without a care. Since then, there has been no chance of humans and elves living in harmony.”
“You care too much about history.” Xu Yi said without any politeness, “Although we humans also respect history, we humans also know that history is just history. Things in the past have already passed. Now that there has been several thousand years since the race wars, the grudge between humans and elves have already disappeared. Since the Night Song Tribe elves can live in harmony with us humans, I think that the elves of other tribes can do the same.”
“I do admire Illusia’s courage, she actually conquered her heart for the sake of her tribe’s survival. But…..Our Moon Shadow Tribe isn’t facing the same dangers as the Night Song Tribe, so we can still survive even if we don’t live with humans. So, human, I have met you because of Illusia’s letter, but I feel there is no need to continue this. Please leave.”
Seeing the calm expression on elder Lisanya Shadow Song’s face, Xu Yi couldn’t help cursing in his heart.
These elves, although they seemed to be uncaring, to Xu Yi, it was clearly their pride.
The elves of the continent were clearly facing a matter of life and death, but she said that they weren’t in any danger at all.
Should it be said that the elves were too proud or she didn’t notice the issue at all?
Thinking of how the Moon Shadow Tribe had three thousand elves and how they acted with the humans of the Stantine Duchy, Xu Yi felt it was more likely that it was the latter.
After all, Xu YI knew many elves. Even if they were proud, they had the same advantage which was that they recognized facts.
Since elder Lisanya Shadow Song said that she didn’t think the Moon Shadow Tribe was in danger, this must mean that she really felt this way.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi felt that he shouldn’t beat around the bush with her. After thinking about it, he directly asked, “Elder Shadow Song, you say that your Moon Shadow Tribe isn’t in danger, then I want to ask something. May I ask…..How many elves does that Moon Shadow Tribe have right now?”
Elder Lisanya Shadow Song asked back in surprise, “What are you asking this for?”
“Because the population is a measure of the race’s prosperity. If the population of a race keeps growing, that means that the race is in the process of increasing their prosperity. If the population keeps falling, it means that the race is facing a crisis. Elder Shadow Song, has the population of the Moon Shadow Tribe increased or dropped in the last ten years or hundred years?”
Elder Lisanya Shadow Song’s expression changed slightly.
As the oldest elder of the Moon Shadow Tribe, she was very clear that the Moon Shadow Tribe’s population hasn’t changed much in the last ten years, but compared to a hundred years ago, the Moon Shadow Tribe didn’t even have 90% of the same population!
In just a hundred years, the Moon Shadow Tribe had lost at least a tenth of their population.
Based on this trend, perhaps in less than a thousand years, the Moon Shadow Tribe would naturally disappear from the continent.
Seeing the expression on elder Lisanya Shadow Song’s face, Xu Yi knew that his guesses weren’t wrong.
Actually it wasn’t just the Night Song Tribe or the Moon Shadow Tribe, it should be said that after the race wars, the population of the elves on the continent kept decreasing.
The reason why elves were rarely seen on the Sines Continent, other than elves being unwilling to contact humans, the more important reason was that elves were becoming even more scarce.
According to this trend, in just another thousand years, the elves would become a rare race like the pandas in China on earth.
It was because of this terrifying trend that after elder Illusia met Xu Yi, she began chasing the possibility of elves living together with humans. She wanted the elves to return to the continent and give the elves a new lease on life with a new lifestyle.
Elder Illusia made such a bold choice because of the Night Song Tribe’s crisis and the Moon Shadow Tribe wasn’t facing a crisis right now, so elder Lisanya Shadow Song didn’t spare this idea a thought.
But when Xu Yi mentioned this question, elder Lisanya Shadow Song couldn’t help facing this fact.
At this time, she suddenly remembered something elder Illusia had mentioned in her letter.
In the letter, elder Illusia had said that since they started cooperating with humans, the Night Song Tribe actually had three newly born elves in just a short year!
For the Night Song Tribe with a population of less than a thousand elves, this was a birth rate that was unimaginable!
Even back before the race wars, when the elves were at their peak, the entire elf clan’s birth rate never surpassed one in a thousand. Now for a small elf tribe like the Night Song Tribe, it actually reached three in one thousand!
If adding in the fact that the elves had several times the lifespan of humans, this birth rate was close to reaching that of humans!
Elder Illusia wasn’t clear what the reason for this change was, but she had pointed out in her letter that whether it was this change in the birth rate or the change with her tribe’s clansmen, it all happened after the appearance of this human called Xu Yi.
Although she didn’t know the reason, perhaps this Xu Yi was the key.
Thinking of this and thinking about how there was the possibility of elves producing as fast as humans, elder Lisanya Shadow Song looked at Xu Yi with a friendlier gaze.
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Three days later, Xu Yi’s group returned to Samara Town.
Compared to when they left, other than Xu Yi and Agnes coming back, there were the two maids that head Wein had given Xu Yi and three female elves that had come from the Shadow Song Tribe.
These three female elves had followed Xu Yi back to the Lampuri Kingdom because of elder Lisanya Shadow Song’s orders.
According to what elder Lisanya Shadow Song said, these three female elves were envoys she sent to the Night Song Tribe. Other than giving her regards to elder Illusia, they would also be following Xu Yi for some time, learning about the human world like Agnes.
Xu Yi didn’t object to this, he didn’t have any hope that a simple meeting would allow him to cooperate with the Shadow Song Tribe.
To let elder Night Song understand his cooperation model with the Night Song Tribe with these three elves and then make her decision afterwards was also good.
But what he couldn’t understand was why elder Lisanya Shadow Song sent three elves at once and why they were all beautiful female elves.
The strangest thing was that properly speaking, she should send elves with enough experience for this, but she had sent three elves who weren’t even a hundred years old yet. 𝒷𝓮𝒹𝓃ℴ𝓿𝓮𝓁.𝓬𝓸𝓂
Changing it into human years, it meant that they weren’t even twenty years old.
Three silly girls who weren’t even twenty years old, what could they understand?
Xu Yi had many questions about this, but looking at Agnes beside him, he took back those questions.
Back then, elder Illusia had sent Agnes who wasn’t even an adult in human years yet. What elder Shadow Song was doing now was probably a simple imitation of this.
Of course, this wasn’t a problem for him.
Rather he just wanted to show what the cooperation between him and the Night Song Tribe was like to elder Lisanya Night Song. These young girls would give the most simple reports, so it would be easier for elder Shadow Song to understand.
As for the final result, Xu Yi was feeling very confident.
Especially when he saw that the road that led to the Black Rice Wasteland outside Samara Town was almost done.
Chapter 148 A present for Vivian
The distance between Samara Town and the Voller Tribe was around twenty kilometers. When building the road, because they had to avoid some things, the distance was around thirty kilometers.
For this road, with the previous Amrit Chamber of Commerce’s speed, it could be finished in around a month at the fastest.
For Xu Yi’s trip to the Stantine Duchy this time, it took a total of ten days and this road was already close to being finished.
That meant that their work speed had increased by three times!
Why was it this fast?
Xu Yi had his doubts as he looked for chairman Cruise who was in Samara Town with several carriages of cargo that he was about to transport to the Voller Tribe.
“Of course it’s fast.” Chairman Cruise proudly said, “This time I brought out two construction teams and they worked around the clock to finish this road, so it would be strange if it wasn’t this fast.”
“Would there be problems with the quality?” Xu Yi knit his brows.
“There won’t be.” Chairman Cruise shook his head, “Actually the most important reason it was this quick was not because I brought two construction teams, rather our company used our newest technique to increase the construction speed, while guaranteeing the quality won’t drop. How about it? Isn’t it powerful?”
Xu Yi was instantly curious. Whether it was the cement, the reinforced cement, or the concrete road technology, it was all given to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce by him. Now that he could take out a new kinds of technique, it really was surprising.
“What technique? It can actually let you keep building roads in this kind of cold weather? Won’t the road crack?” Xu Yi couldn’t help asking in a curious voice.
“Want to know?” Seeing Xu Yi nod, chairman Cruise gave a proud laugh and stretched his hand out to Xu Yi, “Isn’t it easy if you want to know? Take out money to buy it, I’ll definitely tell you.”
Xu Yi looked at him, “It’s fine if you don’t want to say it. Anyway, my company doesn’t work on building roads, it’s no use even if we know.”
Chairman Cruise laughed, “Of course I know that it’s no use to your company, but you’ve always stretched your hands out to me to make me buy the technology, now I can finally do the same to you. Ha, ha, this feeling really is great!”
Xu Yi couldn’t help rolling his eyes.
“Alright, I’ll stop joking. The worker dorms near the mine have already been built, the problem is, how do we take care of the workers for the mine?” Chairman Cruise stopped laughing and asked Xu Yi with a serious look, “If we are hiring the beastmen, chairman Renersa’s worries need to be solved as soon as possible.”
“Un, I’ll look for Count Sean when I get back to Banta City and then I’ll report it to her highness Seveni. I think that her highness should agree to my ideas, but it might take some time to make a decision. Before this, keep preparing the mine and doing what you two need to do.”
“That’s easy.” Chairman Cruise looked in the direction of the Voller Tribe and said, “It is impossible for me to stay here. There are more and more people asking our company to build roads and after the City Lords of the other cities saw the Vanilla Orchid Suburb, they were very satisfied with it and were planning to build the same suburbs in their own territories. I’m mainly busy with this work right now.”
Xu Yi looked at chairman Cruise with a bit of surprise. Could it be that the real estate market was blooming in the Lampuri Kingdom?
Thinking about it, with the current population and economic level of the Lampuri Kingdom, it didn’t meet the demands of the real estate market, so there was no foundation for development at all.
Of course, he didn’t care about this. Xu Yi patted chairman Cruise’s shoulder and said, “Right now I also need you to build roads for me.”
Hearing Xu Yi wanted him to build a road from Samara Town to the Stantine Duchy, chairman Cruise wasn’t that surprised. He said with a sigh, “I knew it, you would definitely build roads wherever you do business.”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “Of course. Building roads to become rich was said by me first, how could I not follow this slogan?”
“It’s fine building the road, but chairman Xu, as for that Magic Car…..I hope that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can develop it as soon as possible. I’ve already started recruiting a large number of workers, if your Magic Car keeps getting delayed, our company will incur large losses.”
Xu Yi couldn’t only give a bitter smile, “You think I don’t want to make it sooner? Let me tell you, once the most important thing is developed, not only the Magic Car, all kinds of things that you never would have imagined would come out at once. I can say that these things can create a heaven shaking change on the continent!”
Chairman Cruise dug in his ears, “Alright, my ears are numb from hearing this already, say it when you’ve developed this thing.”
Faced with chairman Cruise’s disdain, Xu Yi could only give a shrug.
To let the people of the continent understand the life changing revolution brought by the engine, it really wasn’t realistic.
But if the engine was developed, Xu Yi could let everyone be shocked by the changes it brings!
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Xu Yi only had time to take a look at the Voller Tribe and then have a simple talk with chief Voller, further confirming the plan to hire beastmen workers. Then he brought Agnes and the three Moon Shadow Tribe female elves to the Falling Rain Forest.
After meeting elder Illusia and giving her a simple description of his meeting with elder Lisanya Shadow Song, Xu Yi left the Falling Rain Forest.
The three female elves from the Moon Shadow Tribe arrived at the Night Song Tribe under elder Lisanya Shadow Song’s orders, so there must be some secret elven information they had to discuss and it wasn’t convenient for a human like Xu Yi to be there.
The more important thing was that he had left Banta City for half a month and he missed Still.
“Ah, Xu Yi, you’re finally back….Wu…..”
When Still saw Xu Yi, she had just called out in surprise before her mouth was forcefully covered by Xu Yi’s lips.
She didn’t know what to do at first because of her pleasant surprise, but she passionately replied afterwards.
When the two got engaged at new years, Xu Yi had left for half a month, so Still already missed him.
Now that Xu Yi was this enthusiastic and passionate in seeing her, it instantly let her feel Xu Yi’s feelings for her and filled her heart with joy.
The two kissed for several minutes before finally splitting apart. Still’s face was covered in a strong blush and her hands covered her eyes, but she could see through her fingers that Vivian was secretly spying on them. She stopped the blush of her face and hit Xu Yi as she reprimanded, “Vivian is here, stop ruining kids like this.”
Xu Yi laughed, “Is Vivian still a child? She’s already sixteen, she’s a big girl now.”
Vivian put down her hands and with a blush, she gave a strong nod, “Un, I’m already grown up.”
Still’s eyes passed over Vivian’s chest that was growing with each day and found that she had made a mistake.
When Xu Yi had bought Vivian, she was a frail and thin child, but after a year, she had become a beautiful young girl.
“Vivian, for your sixteenth birthday, I brought you a gift.” Xu Yi suddenly said with a smile.
“Gift?” Vivian and Still watched as Xu Yi walked out in confusion. He brought in two beautiful girls who were a bit bigger than Vivian with darker skin, but also looked healthier than her.
“These two are…..” Still looked at the two girls who suddenly appeared in surprise.
“Oh, I’ll tell you where they came from later. Liz, Linda, this is Still, she is my fiancee…..”
When Xu Yi introduced Still, the two girls immediately kneeled down in front of Still and Vivian’s shocked gazes. Their heads were very low as they said in a respectful voice, “Greetings to the madame.”
Still was shocked, but she reacted after thinking for a bit.
“Hey, Xu Yi, you bought two slaves after going on a trip? And they’re both beautiful young girls? You…..Are you a pervert?”
“How am I a pervert?” Xu Yi snappily looked at her. He pulled the two girls up and said to them with a serious look, “You don’t need to act like you did with head Wein at my place, there’s no need to kneel. Look, she is called Vivian, she is my slave in name, but she definitely won’t bow to others easily. Isn’t that right, Vivian?”
Vivian looked over at the two girls before asking Xu Yi, “Master, you bought more slaves?”
“Un, how about it? I found two companions for you. Their age is around the same and they have the same status, so you should have common interests. Other than that, the two of them came from the Stantine Duchy, so you can talk to them about the Stantine Duchy. That place has many interesting things, you will definitely be interested.” Xu Yi said with a smile.
“Really? That’s great!” Vivian immediately broke out with a smile. She pulled Liz and Linda away as she kept asking them questions.
Perhaps it was because Vivian was also a slave, so while Liz and Linda were cautious at first, they relaxed not long after and began chatting with Vivian.
Seeing the three young girls happily chatting, Still turned to ask Xu Yi, “What did you gain from the Stantine Duchy this time? Don’t tell me that you only bought these two beautiful young girls back, right?”
“What if I said I didn’t buy them and people gave them to me?” Xu Yi continued with a smile, “Alright, other than them, I didn’t get much this time from the Stantine Duchy. But I saw through a person and this person…..can very likely help me control the entire Stantine Duchy in the future…..