Doomsday Code

Chapter 628: The Elves in Decline

Of course, the premise of all this is that the glory of the empire still exists, rather than the current situation where the emperor is in exile and the empire is torn apart.

On the outskirts of the Moonlight Forest, many elves gathered here at this time, but there were only a few dozen people who were dressed like Feisili.

Chen Cheng couldn't help but frown when he saw this situation, because according to Feisili, today is the elves' coming-of-age ceremony. It can be said that all the elves who are over 18 years old and have not completed the coming-of-age ceremony will come to participate today.

There are not only people of the same age here, but also those who failed in the previous attempts. There can't be just a dozen of them.

You have to know that the elves are not a small tribe. Their territory, the Moonlight Forest, covers an area of tens of thousands of miles, and all the members of the tribe are immortal. The population is definitely not less than tens of millions.

But since Chen Cheng came to Moonlight Forest, he has seen fewer elves.

Of course, all this can be explained because other elves live in other places, but now this is the most important moment in the elves' lives, and this is the only place where the coming-of-age ceremony is held. However, it seems that there are only a few tens of thousands of elves at most.

There were only a dozen people attending the coming-of-age ceremony, and this population number seemed strange no matter how you looked at it.

Just as Chen Cheng was thinking about it, Feisili and Sifit came back after showing off the Luanniao No. 1 in their hands.

She looked at Chen Cheng and said with a smile:

"Brown, what are you thinking? I just showed it to the head sister of Softfit and the others. Didn't you see the envy in their eyes?

And you know what? Big Sister Sifut actually fixed the Skynet I had prepared earlier. Now I have two coming-of-age gifts. I must win the championship this time."

Chen Cheng looked at Fei Sili, and then tried to ask:

"It should be starting soon, but why are you the only ones here? Are there other places having their coming-of-age ceremonies going on?"

When Fei Sili heard Chen Cheng ask this question, she was a little confused at first, and then said with a somewhat lonely look:

"No, this is the only place where the coming-of-age ceremony is held, and this is where all the elves who will be attending the ceremony are."

Chen Cheng didn't expect the result to be the same as he thought. So, the current elves are completely strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

No wonder the elves failed to maintain the ancient road after the collapse of the empire.

At first, Chen Cheng thought it was because the elves were indifferent by nature, but after interacting with Gen Feisili and the others these days, he found that the elves also yearned for a better life. They also liked beautiful and soft silk, and liked human legends and creative tools.

There is an absolute need for trade between the two ethnic groups.

However, the reality is that elves appear cold in the eyes of humans. It seems that they will not go anywhere except the Moonlight Forest, and at most they send some elves who have completed their coming-of-age ceremony to travel to the human world.

It turns out that the real problem is that the elves have actually been declining for a long time.

Herlous walked over to Chen Cheng, then looked at Fei Sili and said:

"Hurry up and get back to the team! Sifeite is about to start the game. Be careful or she'll judge you as late and admit defeat."

When Melos reminded her, Feisili thought of Silfit's aloof look, and she was so scared that she returned to the team.

She didn't want to be unfairly judged as a failure just because she was happy and couldn't return to the team immediately.

Then she would really cry to death.

After Fei Sili left, Chen Cheng looked at Herlous and said:

"Elder, you are so funny. Is it okay to deceive your Saint like this?"

Chen Cheng could see that these seemingly weak and harmless elves had no fewer ulterior motives than humans.

But they won't do evil because of this.

But it would be absolutely foolish to think of them as naive.

"Your Majesty, why do you say that? Sifeite is truly a strict captain. Although she can be harsh at times, she is still very disciplined, and that is one of the beautiful qualities of us elves."

As he spoke, Melos glanced at Chen Cheng meaningfully.

When she looked at him like this, Chen Cheng felt creepy all over, as if he had done something wrong to them.

"Why, elder, is there something on my face?"

Chen Cheng reached out and touched his face.

“Nothing, your Majesty’s coming-of-age ceremony is about to begin.

Your Majesty, do you know why our tribe requires each member of our coming-of-age ceremony to craft a magical weapon of their own?

"I heard from Feisili that this is a test for them, and it is also a test of their control over their own power."

“It seems that Your Majesty understands it very well, but this is not the only reason.

Many of the magic weapons made for the initial coming-of-age ceremony were not for combat. Most of them were chosen based on what they were interested in. Less than one-tenth of them were used to control power for combat.

Even if those magic weapons do not have offensive power and their control over their own strength is not very strong, our elf race can still allow them to exist.

However, all this changed more than a thousand years ago. The number of newborns in our tribe dropped sharply. Although all of us are immortal, this has been the case for hundreds of years, and we realized the danger.

So from then on, the only criterion for all coming-of-age ceremonies is weapons, and we need enough warriors."

"If we continue with the previous tradition, it is very likely that before our tribe can solve the problem of declining birthrate, the powerful tribe of the time, the Barbarians, will have discovered our true intentions and exterminated our tribe."

Listening to Melos telling this secret, Chen Cheng thought, no matter how much you acknowledge me as the emperor, how could he listen to such a secret? He felt like he had fallen into a trap.

Seeing Melinda staring at him, Chen Cheng smiled awkwardly and said:

"Then I really admire the foresight of the noble predecessors."

Herlous looked away and said:

"Your Majesty, please look, the competition has begun. Their goal is to annihilate all kinds of monsters that sneaked in from the outskirts of the forest."

"Oh, there's one more thing I forgot to mention. We limit the weapon types each year for another reason. Once she completes her coming-of-age ceremony using her own weapon, her future strength training will have to revolve around her coming-of-age weapon.

If Fei Sili approves of the Luan Bird that Your Majesty has designed, then her future cultivation will truly depend on Your Majesty's help."

Chen Cheng was completely stunned when Herlous said this. Feisili had never told him about this. No wonder Feisili was anxious before. It was because if the magic weapon she used in the coming-of-age ceremony broke, she would have to start all over again by herself.

Otherwise, if she could ask other people for help, then the problems that Fesilie had encountered many times before could be solved by finding Melos and others to help her before the coming-of-age ceremony.

This also made Chen Cheng understand what the indescribable feeling in his heart had been.