CHAPTER 1524: CHAPTER 774: CONQUEROR SPEED_3

The long-lived beings have a different concept of time compared to the short-lived humans. A period of time for the Fae Race often spans a whole lifetime for humans. Many return to the human world after decades, transforming from young boys and girls into gray-haired elders, giving one a sense of being caught in time magic, where everything outside has long turned unrecognizable.

Passing through Battle Valley, Rosaville Road, which connects the East Road and Moon Sea Road, exemplifies this situation.

Three hundred years ago, it was aggressively developed by the Sambiyan merchant Rosaville through force. During this process, countless trees were felled, and numerous Fae Race members and beasts fell under the swords and magic of Sambiyan mercenaries, until the Elf Royal Court, hidden deep in the Comanso Great Forest, intervened again to restate the sacred contract before the Standing Stone, reaching a consensus.

The elves allowed the road to pass within sight of the Standing Stone, implying that their human friends should not resort to violence to achieve their desires.

Humans must not stray from this path; if they desecrate the sacred souls in the forest, they will bear the consequences themselves.

In this regard, Gaven is always very cautious, as the Conqueror Army includes a significant number of natural races, who have played crucial roles throughout. Whether the Fae Race or the Treants, some have migrated over three thousand kilometers, a rare feat among their companions, particularly for the Treants.

The presence of the Fae Race provides them with more options, utilizing awakened plants and curved wood spells to move these trees to more suitable locations or open up necessary paths.

This relatively gentle approach has slowed the construction progress tenfold, but it has gained the acquiescence of the natural races. No Fae Race members stepped up to obstruct or complicate matters deliberately.

Turning onto Rosaville Road from Moon Sea Road signifies entering Battle Valley, nearing the end of the Conqueror Army’s long journey, just a step away from their destination.

This time, Gaven is not rushing ahead to the Conqueror Army’s front to meet with Lord Ilmet of Battle Valley to discuss matters concerning the current relocation. Instead, Lord Ilmet proactively arranged to meet Gaven, although the meeting would take place neither in Battle Valley’s capital, Esebra, nor in Weizemay Manor of the Three Rivers Region, but at the Standing Stone.

Mentioning the Valley, the Standing Stone is an unavoidable presence.

Even for the entire Felen Continent, Valley Standing Stone is a significant event.

The Valley Calendar currently used in Felen began from the Standing Stone, marking the first year on January 1st. On that day, the Elf Royal Court signed the Valley Covenant with the new immigrants of the Valley.

In this covenant, both sides made promises and concessions.

The Elf Royal Court allowed the new immigrants of the Valley to settle and live on the vacant lands in the Comanso Great Forest, in exchange, the new immigrants must jointly protect the Comanso Great Forest from more evil forces, and would not allow unchecked deforestation.

This covenant symbolizes the Valley officially stepping onto the historical stage as a power, engraved on a stone monument and standing in the center of the Comanso Great Forest as a symbol of the vows.

This has led to the saying of Standing Stone as an alliance, later extending to Standing Stone as the boundary.

Initially, the Standing Stone was not open to human visitation. However, over time, more merchants from Tumis and Qiondas Kingdom saw the business opportunities in the Comanso Great Forest and started a new wave of immigration.

This time, the immigrants were no longer impoverished farmers but merchants, who did not come alone. They brought caravans, mercenaries, and axes with torches, openly disregarding the so-called Valley Covenant, trampling it underfoot, and embarked on a frenzied deforestation of Comanso Great Forest, recklessly harvesting the forest’s wealth accumulated over thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

This granted them more wealth, allowing them to hire more loggers, shipwrights, and mercenaries from Tumis and Qiondas to come and establish their gathering points, villages, and towns on the newly cut open lands, ultimately developing into a Kingdom.

Countless big and small wars erupted because of this, with blood dyeing every tree plundered and every inch of land taken by the merchants.

However, supported by the old Empires of Tumis and Qiondas, and the resources continuously plundered by the merchants from Comanso Great Forest for sustenance, these natural guardians were slowly bled dry, retreating step by step.

This reached a peak following Mystorno’s fall, allowing the evil merchant state to act wantonly, even taking Moon Valley from the Valley Alliance and building its own capital there.

From the beginning, the Sambiyan Kingdom was built upon the bones and blood of others, with aggression and plunder ingrained in their bones, as it was then, so it is now.

Ironically, what curbed this mad expansion of the evil merchant state was neither the kindhearted people in the entire Comanso Great Forest nor interference from the Komeer Kingdom, but another more evil power rising in the Moon Sea area north of Comanso Great Forest, who also valued the forest’s inherent worth and did not want the Sambiyan merchants to monopolize it, thus secretly intervening and obstructing.

This new force does not need much explanation, being none other than the Santarin Association, dubbed as the Dark Intelligence Network.

Comanso Great Forest hasn’t entirely turned into wasteland, with two evil forces and the kindhearted Komeer Kingdom mutual checks and balances being a crucial factor.

Of course, the indomitable resistance and tenacity of the natural forces in Comanso and the Valley people are also essential factors that cannot be ignored.