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The horse's hooves were clattering, and the convertible carriage carrying three people walked along the main road, and soon arrived at the harbor gate on the other side of Goswellen.

The guards at the city gate immediately lined up next to the road, and the city gate commander was so bent that he almost pierced his head into the ground.

After passing through the city gate, the carriage drove directly to the Long Bridge of Sinnied Island.

The Sinnied Island Bridge is a completely straight marble long bridge.

The bridge is about half a kilometer long and spans the bay. One end connects to Goswellen Harbor and the other end directly into the palace gate of the Losha Palace at the foot of the Mount Sinnied Island.

From time to time, sailboats pass through the bridge holes under the bridge deck.

The slight fishy sea breeze blows on the bridge deck with a hint of coolness.

Geralt and Yennefa seemed to be worried, and the three of them were a little quiet along the way.

As the carriage drove, Sinnied Island became increasingly huge in view, and Zach's curiosity was also raised.

He took the initiative to raise the topic:

"Yenafa. I heard that this entire island was built by elves with magic."

"Ah?" The sorcerer came back from his trance: "Oh, there is no conclusion yet, but it is indeed very likely."

She flirted with her black hair that was a little messy because of the sea breeze.

"Some sorcerer studies have shown that Sinide is not a natural product. It is very likely that it was raised from the sea. Traces of large-scale spells can be found on the islands."

Zach raised his eyebrows. If that theory was true, the early elf civilization would be quite developed and powerful.

"But after the ferry of the northern ancestors arrived on this continent five hundred years ago, the elf civilization was soon destroyed, right?" Zach asked, this was a history that he didn't know much about.

"That's right, and it only took twenty years."

"Twenty years?" Zach was a little surprised.

He knew that humans replaced the elves hundreds of years ago as the ruler of the world, but he didn't know much about the details.

He looked at the huge island not far away.

The entire Sinnied Island looks several kilometers wide, and it takes at least nine rings of spells to raise such a large island.

The casters who created this island are not weak in the mage civilization. How could they be beaten by a group of humans in just twenty years? Although the spirits are good at magic and have a very long lifespan, their fertility rate is very low and they hate violence." Geralt interrupted:

"After a conflict with humans, they hid in the deep mountains and forests, trying to kill the humans outside with their longevity. However, when they walked out of the deep mountains...you can guess that the population of humans has increased several times."

"The person who writes this theory is stupid, and the person who believes it is stupid. Because I know that the elves are not stupid." Yennefa's tone was ridiculous.

"Okay, okay, say it." Geralt leaned against the back of the chair and closed his mouth.

"In fact, when northerners came to this continent five hundred years ago, the elf civilization was already in ruins." This topic seemed to awaken the academic heart of the sorcerer: "Now Novigri and Vigima are the two largest cities in the north, but they were both elves at that time..."

"When northerners landed here five hundred years ago, the elves in those two cities were already very sparse..."

"And the elves that can be seen everywhere are now recorded to have been abandoned at that time..."

"That is to say, before humans emerged, the elf civilization was already in decline, and the arrival of humans only accelerated this process."

Zach also knew that since the Ein Sheedy elves in this world lost contact with the Ein Woodod clan, the entire civilization began to decline rapidly.

Moreover, this race is difficult to compete with humans physically.

Their fertility is really too low.

Although their lifespan is very long, female elves can give birth once every ten years, and their fertility window is only 20 or 30 years.

In other words, a female elf can only have three children at most.

And they are monogamous...

"With the arrival of the northerners, the elf civilization quickly gave up all settlements and eventually contracted to the three cities in the upper reaches of the Ponta River." Yennefa continued.

"I remember these three last elves, which were finally erased from the map by a human army." Geralt finally had the opportunity to join the academic discussion.

"A normal army of humans?" Zach asked.

"That's right, no one has seen any elves that ruined the world in that war. Only humans slaughter and robbery unilaterally."

The carriage had already passed most of the Sinnied Bridge, and Yennefa said while tidying up the lace neckline and the folds of his long skirt:

"I have also heard an interesting saying that thousands of years ago the earliest residents of the north were actually humans - the Wozge people and the Doc people. The Veran lizards destroyed ancient humans, the elves destroyed the lizards, and the foreign northerners eventually destroyed the elves..."

Yennefa shrugged:

"So after a while, the land is back in the hands of mankind."

Zach fell into deep thought as he looked at the island of Sinnied, which had occupied half of his vision.

Countless seabirds are soaring around it.

The magnificent artificial miracle is like a tombstone, silently demonstrating the great glory of that ancient civilization.

However, the glory of the past finally disappeared in the long river of time.

There were also elves in the mage civilization's mother world, but they were also destroyed by humans at the end of the Gods Era about 36,000 years ago.

The same thing is happening in this world.

"Yes, human..." the black-haired mage murmured to himself.

Humans are a magical species.

He has been to many worlds and has seen many different races.

Humans are not the strongest, nor the smartest.

Human beings are not the most selfish, nor are they the most selfless.

They will sacrifice a minority for collective benefit, but they will not easily give up on the weak.

This race always finds that relatively perfect balance between "utilitarianism" and "moralism".

It is precisely because of this that they can reproduce and grow in this cruel multiverse...

"It's endless."

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As the group got closer and closer to Sinnied Island, the appearance of the entire island was displayed in more detail before everyone.

At this distance, Zach's vision could already penetrate the green bushes, see the layers of terraces on the island, and the zigzag steps connecting these terraces with spiral kinks.

In addition to the gardens half-covered and half-exposed among the trees, the pavilions, stone bridges, and four buildings on Sinnied Island are particularly conspicuous.

Yennefa seems to have regarded himself as the hostess:

"The red-roofed palace at the foot of the mountain is the Luosha Palace, which is the entrance to the Immortal Island, used to accept visitors and guests. Except for warlocks and nobles, everyone else is prohibited from entering other areas except Locksha."

"Losha Palace is where the warlock is waiting for people in the eyes of the warlock." Geralt was a little sarcastic: "If it weren't for Ye, I wouldn't have known what it looked like in Xiannid Island in my life."

Yennafa gave the witch hunter a blank look: "Passing through Luoxia Palace, you can reach Aritusa on the hillside by walking along the stone steps and terraces. They are those white buildings. Aritusa is the former Academy of Warlock and the place where I once studied."

"And the gorgeous domes near the top of the mountain are the Gaston Palace, where the warlocks once held a meeting."

Zach looked to the heights of Sinnied Island with Yennefa's words, where there was a gathering of golden buildings, with corridors arched and the shining dome reflected the golden sunlight.

"The top..." The sorcerer's gaze looked at the top of the mountain in Sinnid Island, but her voice gradually became weaker.

At the highest point of the island, half of the white stone tower appears and is looming among the trees.

"Thor Laura, the Tower of the Seagull?" Zach asked on his own initiative.

"Yes..." Ye Naifa sighed, as if he remembered the unbearable past.

At the end of that coup six years ago, Wigofotz finally revealed his true purpose.

He did not want to surrender to Niphgad for wealth, but used Niphgad's power to capture Xiri and replaced Xiri's blood into his body, thereby seizing the ability of [Ancient Blood].

His original plan was to let Xiri join the Warlock Academy, and as a senior executive of the Warlock Brotherhood, he could naturally perform some undercover operations.

However, this coup disrupted his plan and forced him to use violent means - to directly kidnap Xiri.

He fucked all the warlocks and soldiers who were in front of him, knocked Geralt who came to rescue Ciri with two sticks, and chased Ciri into the Tower of Seagulls.

What Vigofortz did not expect was that Xili's [Ancient Blood] opened the ancient elf portal in the Seagull Tower and directly teleported her to the heart of the Coraz Desert thousands of miles away.

The unstable portal exploded directly after passing through Xili, blowing the follower of the warlock to severely injured.

He also became the target of Enhill's death after revealing his true purpose.

Since then, the "strongest on the surface" has to hide its identity and lie dormant for a while.

Geralt and Yenne Law, who did not know the truth, began their first long journey of finding a daughter.

History seems to be repeating itself. Now Xili is missing again, and the two of them are revisiting the old place, so how can they not be moved by the scene?

"Ye, we will definitely find Cirie's." Geralt, who was standing beside him, comforted him, he was always considerate when Yennefa needed it most.

The witch hunter looked at the black-haired mage again: "Zach, do you remember what I told you when we first met?"

"Of course. If I can't find Xiri, the fate will be as bad as the Fentite monster." He rubbed his forehead: "So I have to do my best for my own life, right?"
To be continued...