The Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich

While Roland was busy starting a new adventure in the Chaos Abyss, the mortal plane was experiencing a huge commotion.

“The elves are formally establishing the Elven Empire? At this timing? Are the elves insane?”

While most human kingdoms were preparing to watch the show of elves vs. demons, this news truly shocked the humans.

The elves had announced that they were establishing an empire. This was no ordinary elven kingdom. This was the Great Elven Empire from the elves’ memory.

“San Hein Empire. Moon Elf Queen Afina will be elevated to become Elven Empress Afina the First. The ascension ceremony will take place one week from now. The San Hein Empire shall worship all Elven Gods. The ruler of the Order Elven Gods will be War Goddess Sonya, Guardian Goddess of Silver Elves. The capital will be the Moonwheel Capital. Twenty-seven different royal elf bloodlines have sworn fealty, including the moon elves, silver elves, wood elves… as well as the night elves. That’s right, all four Superior Elf species.”

Previously, Afina had also announced the establishment of an Elven Empire. However, there were far too many elf tribes and elf royalty that didn’t recognize the moon elves’ empire. This caused internal strife and conflict amongst the elves. It could be said that Afina’s title of empress had been only nominal.

Also, in the elves’ official announcement, all four Superior Elf species’ main ruling families’ crests were stamped upon it. Several hundred major families from the four Superior Elf species had given support to this Elven Empire, and if the Superior Elves had all agreed to submit to this new Elven Empire, the ordinary elves would obviously be unable to object. It would seem that the Elven Empire, which had been dead for several tens of thousands of years, had suddenly resurrected itself.

However, everyone soon saw the problems with this announcement.

Without even mentioning anything else, the original night elves had now transformed into the dark elves. After Lorci’s death, the great majority of dark elves should have become intimately connected to the new mega Mist Alliance in the Northlands. Why would the dark elves appear in this announcement?

All of the night elf family crests in the announcement were real. However, emblem experts and historians carefully researched them and found that these family crests belonged to night elf families that had already disappeared from history. Some of these families had died off due to elven internal wars, while other families had perished due to their refusal to follow Lorci. Perhaps these families still had a few descendants alive, but that would never be enough to be considered a major family.

But according to new information, it was indeed reported that black-skinned elves had been seen in the Moonwheel Capital. It would seem that the moon elves had long since prepared for this.

No matter if these “night elf nobles” were dark elves from the Underground or night elf descendants who had refused to follow Lorci, this still technically and legally counted as even one person could count as a “family”.

The moon elves and silver elves’ families needed no perusing. They were all real. As for the wood elves… When considering how the wood elf tribes were all scattered in the mountains and forests, it was perfectly understandable that a few wood elf tribes which were willing to support the moon elves’ rule could be found.

Then, legally speaking, this Elven Empire seemed to meet all the requirements. Meanwhile, all humans had the same opinion of the Elven Empire.

“…This? They must want to enjoy the glory before their death.”

Some people said that the elves were doing this in order to gather all their strength for a defensive battle in the Moonwheel Capital with their backs against a cliff. However, anyone who knew anything at all about the demon waves in history would know that this would be absolutely ridiculous. Currently, all the elven tribes added together still wouldn’t compare in strength to a single human mega empire. How could the elves possibly stop the demon wave, which was capable of destroying any mega empire?

Furthermore, even if the Elven Empire was revived, meaning that all elves had the duty to protect their empire… Modern-day elves might not feel much affinity towards this empire, and it was also quite obvious that it would be dragging all elves into a pitfall.

The moon elves had apparently realized their wish, truly becoming the elven rulers and unifying all the elves. However, some people… some elves were no longer able to watch this.

“What a joke. With the elves facing such a great crisis, rather than thinking about how to survive the danger, they’re doing such useless things instead. Just this alone makes us refuse to recognize the moon elves as our rulers.”

The biggest reaction didn’t actually come from the dark elves from the Underground, nor did it come from the grayblood elves who had joined the Mist Alliance. Instead, the greatest reaction unexpectedly came from the silver elves.

The anti-moon elf faction of the silver elves refused to recognize the Elven Empress and the Elven Empire. In fact, these silver elves even declared that they were still currently at war with the moon elf “kingdom”.

The next biggest reaction came from the wild elf villages and tribes. Their bloodlines were mixed and impure, so the Superior Elves had always looked down upon them. These wild elves didn’t have the inheritance that the Superior Elves did, passed down since the previous Elven Empire. These scattered wild elf tribes were quite angered after having the Elven Empire and Elven Empress nominally become their new ruler.

Most surprising of all, the Northlands Mist Alliance, whom everyone thought would say something, remained silent… when they were actually the faction with the greatest right to say something.

The Northlands had the grayblood elves (gray elves were also formerly moon elves themselves), pure moon elves (the three elven kingdoms in the Northlands had also joined the Mist Alliance), wood elves (Kelly’s tribe had already immigrated several years ago), and the great majority of dark elves in the world. Imperceptibly, the Mist Alliance had now grown to have more than half of the entire Superior Elf population. Furthermore, most inconceivably of all, unlike the Moonwheel Capital elven palace where internal battles and schemes constantly ran rampant, these Superior Elves were all able to peacefully get along with each other. In fact, there were already examples of elven interspecies marriage and half-blood children being born.

Unlike traditional elven customs where half-blood elves were viewed as bastards who could only remain wild elves, the Northlands elves weren’t so hostile towards mixed-blood elves and half-elves. In fact, the Northlands government was even intentionally encouraging the birth of more half-blood elves… This unusual action made the ordinary elves and wild elves feel quite grateful to the Northlands.

As for the higher-ups, the Northlands had Kelly, the legendary wood elf teacher from the Mist Kingdom, Victoria, the first Desecration Priestess, Moon General Diana, Queen Suana, the Dove of Peace During Crisis, the grayblood elves’ Squadron of Despair, Sulfur Mountain City’s Town Security, anti-Holy Knights and regular Desecration Priestesses, and so on. These Northlands elves were quite well known throughout the entire world now.

…Sometimes, a widely spread reputation would be even more important than actual combat strength, particularly when it came to being so-called pureblood.

Perhaps, with the entire Mist Alliance supporting the Northlands elves, along with the newest magical engineering technology and the support of mixed-blood elves and half-elves, along with four powerful modern-day job classes of Law Knight, anti-Holy Knight, Desecration Priestess, and Four Elemental Swordcaster, the Northlands elves wouldn’t be any weaker than the Moonwheel Capital’s Elven Empire.

Perhaps the only part where the Northlands elves couldn’t compare to the Moonwheel Capital elves was that the Northlands elves didn’t have the support of the Elven Gods. However, when considering that the Northlands elves were supported by the Hell Gods, the Northlands elves actually had even stronger backers.

“All they need is an appropriate status…”

And before the Northlands elves said anything, this “status” arrived by itself.

Some of the younger families from the anti-moon elf silver elf faction had understood the current political situation well. These silver elves unhesitatingly chose to travel to the Northlands. Meanwhile, the human kingdoms they traveled through not only didn’t stop them, but even sent out knights or army squadrons to protect the silver elves as if the humans were worried that the moon elves would try to stop the former.

And so, this issue arrived in the Northlands Mist Alliance. More accurately, this issue arrived for the Northlands elves’ higher-ups as well as Annie, Reyne, Xueti, and the others in charge.

Silver elves, grayblood elves (moon elves), wood elves, and dark elves. Alright then, the Northlands also had the complete set of all four Superior Elf species. There was also a large number of mixed-blood elves, wild elves, and half elves supporting the Northlands elves. Since the Moonwheel Capital could call themselves the Elven Empire, it was only natural that the Northlands elves could also declare themselves to be the Elven Empire, and since the Northlands elves had a more complete Superior Elf inheritance and even more elf nobles, the Northlands elves seemed like they had a stronger right to become the Elven Empire.

Rumors instantly started spreading in the entire Northlands that a second Elven Empire was about to become a new member of the Mist Alliance. These rumors were highly detailed. For instance, rumors said that the veteran wood elf Kelly would become the empress, playing a role that was more ceremonial than authoritative. The rumors also said that dark elf Victoria would become the head priestess of the new Elven Empire, while gray elf Diana would become the supreme commander, and grayblood elf Suana (currently also a banshee) the prime minister.

Considering how some of the rumor starters were actually dark elves and grayblood elves, the veracity and believability of these rumors seemed quite high. This also proved in a way that the Northlands elves also indeed desired a complete Elven Empire.

But at this critical moment, the Northlands government continued maintaining a strange silence on the matter. All the Northlands leaders claimed to know nothing about such a thing. Their seemingly foolish acting skills made them seem like complete political novices.

The “denseness” of the Northlands government made all the other human kingdoms’ leaders anxious. Ambassadors and envoys from countless countries were beginning to show up at the Mist Alliance government’s doorstep on a daily basis.

Actually, this wasn’t because the Northlands government wasn’t worried about this matter. Reyne and the others were already losing so much sleep over it. They kept having countless conferences, but were still unable to finalize a plan. They were also unable to contact the person who could truly create a plan that everyone else would listen to.

Even more critical was that this certain person had by his side another person who had the most noble elf bloodline remaining in the world. When it came to the name of the Elven Empire, nobody would deserve to inherit this empire more than her.

Previously, she had been dead, and no longer counted as an elf. However, she was now alive again and was indeed the best candidate to make such a choice for the fate of the entire elven species.

“Gold Elf Princess Harloys, the final royal member of the former Great Elven Empire. In name, she is the ruler of all elves… All of our spy agencies and organizations, take action on this matter! Send contradictory rumors to conceal the fact that she is now alive again! This news absolutely can’t be allowed to leak, at least until we can contact Roland for his decision!”