"How did even the confession come out?"

"I don’t trust them."

Louis said calmly.

He didn’t have any illusions about the elves.

A group capable of sacrificing many of their kin, letting them fall to become ogres, and after leaving the Underground City, they shifted the blame onto the ogres.

At that time, nations really believed that the elves had internally dealt with the pollution of the Underground City.

And what happened next?

This group began attacking various countries not long after they emerged.

It can be said that these long-eared folks acted with organization, premeditation, and even with the help of some insiders outside of the Underground City.

In the early days, the Eternal Blade madly maintained justice across the continent, and you might say those elves were noble.

But you must also understand one thing...

What exactly did they do to need to consume the lives of many compatriots just to gain a good reputation among many races?

You should know that they were already the dominating power of the era at that time.

So it can only show...

The methods of these elves were dirty.

Not just ordinary dirty.

To the victor belongs the spoils, and the loser is the villain.

With the elves’ means, did they really willingly invest vast human and material resources just to suppress the Golden Land?

Don’t make me laugh.

You should know that the term ’elf’ was initially a title given to the Elf Race.

But somewhere along the way, the pure and kind fairies in the fairy tales lost their name.

And the elves took over this title and never returned it to the fairies.

"Olivia, have you digested the books I gave you?"

"Hmm? Almost done digesting them."

The Desire for Nobility could share its knowledge with Olivia, and now Olivia’s knowledge system was immensely comprehensive.

Looking across the entire Empire, she was one of the most learned people.

Moreover, she could continuously develop new things based on this knowledge.

The various configurations of magic spells and focused-functioning equipment of the [Rainbow] team were mainly created under her guidance.

It could be said that among his lovers, the Swan was the one with the strongest research capabilities.

Thus, Louis said:

"Do you remember that there was once a ritual called the [Substitute Ritual]?"

"Oh, you mean the ritual magic developed by the Heart Stealers back in the day?"

"Yes."

The [Substitute Ritual] was a magically cruel ritual developed by the Heart Stealers to help young Heart Stealers through their most dangerous phase.

This magic ritual could transform Heart Stealers into untouchable mental projections, implanting them into the brains of other races.

From the moment they were implanted in the brain, those who were parasitized were already dead.

The ones truly ’alive’ were the dolls controlled by the Heart Stealers.

In fact, young Heart Stealers implanted in other races couldn’t even realize they were Heart Stealers.

This was a very advanced means of self-protection.

To use a metaphor.

To put it bluntly, even if a mind-reading big shot came, they wouldn’t be able to detect the true identity of these Heart Stealers.

Because the Substitute Ritual would truly make the Heart Stealers young lose their memories of being Heart Stealers.

They might become heroes of other races or infamously notorious villains.

They stole the lives of others, continuously accumulating credentials until one day...

With a bang.

Those credentials would turn into a resource, detonating the seed of spiritual ability within them.

At that moment, they would realize their true identity.

The experience accumulated from taking over other people’s lives would become the nourishment for advancing the rank of Soul Mage.

Some Heart Stealers could even use this to ascend to a legendary status.

"Are you suggesting that the way the melody of the fairies seizes others’ bodies might be an advanced form of the Substitute Ritual?"

However, what greeted her was a long silence from Louis.

Moments later, Olivia also fell silent, her expression becoming grave.

"Could it be..."

"Who knows?"

Louis understood that Olivia had already guessed his thoughts.

He whispered, "During the Elf Era, the elves did the most by burning any records about the fairies, right?"

Olivia nodded:

"Yes, for thousands of years, many people have only heard of fairies in fairy tales, even believing that such a race doesn’t exist in reality."

"So you see," Louis said with an air of mystery, "Olivia, humans rose too late and have very few records about the era when fairies were active, as you know."

"Yes." Olivia’s smile became increasingly forced, "Did you receive some information from elsewhere?"

"Yes, the Dragon Empire told me that the Jade Dragon God allowed me to go to the Jade Dream Realm and gain the dragon’s legacy."

The dragon legacy is undoubtedly a precious treasure trove of knowledge.

The vast majority of races with Dragon Blood were not qualified to enter the Jade Dream Realm, which housed the dragon legacy memory.

But Louis was different.

With his current status, even the Jade Dragon God had to specially seek him out to sell goodwill.

He didn’t refuse either.

As a race that had been dominant powers before the Elf Era, their accumulated knowledge was even more plentiful than imagined, greatly satisfying his greedy thirst for knowledge.

Among them were more complete records about the Elf Race than humans.

Louis squinted and said:

"In the time when fairies were still called elves, the ancient World Tree nurtured them.

Elves, born from the buds of the World Tree, flapped their wings, making flowers, grasses, and trees more lush.

Little elves flew to the farmlands, heralding a bountiful harvest.

They flew to the tree trunks, urging the growth of abundant fruits.

The wings behind them glimmered with the power of the elf corridor, and even some powerful elves naturally possessed wish spells.

Even the little dragon hatchlings occasionally fantasized about a fairy with the power of wish spells flying into their caves to fulfill their dreams of growing fast.

This was the innate mages, the little fairies under the World Tree."

Olivia broke into a cold sweat:

"The most famous thing about the long-eared ones back then was their archery, right? The tremendously far-reaching elf archers were terrifying."

"Yes, at least one thing is certain, when each nation first warred with the elves, the elves did not use magic.

Until one day, they suddenly showed extremely strong magical abilities, and the situation began to turn one-sided."

Olivia wiped the cold sweat off her forehead and said, "In later generations, the most obvious labels for seeing elves were proficient in archery and magic, loving the environment, and even many wild legends circulated that elves initially were also born under the World Tree."

"A race that doesn’t even have a home anymore, still hoping for a miraculous thing like the World Tree? If they had this item, they wouldn’t have drifted in the astral plane back then."

"So they stole the power of the fairies?"

"Probably more than just stealing."

The myth that long-eared fairies were born beneath the World Tree spread among various races, but the elves always denied it.

Yet those myths were so widely circulated among the major races that they at least reflected one thing: at a certain period, the elves once made strong claims to this effect.

Although most races don’t live as long as they do and no one remembers their forceful claims of the past, the things they said and did back then also spread through the legends.

The most visible piece of evidence...

Many civilians believe that elves are the fairies in the fairy tales.

"With some form of the Substitute Ritual, they stole the fairies’ power, name, and even origin, taking away the strength of the World Tree and the power of the God of Growth and Forest?"

Olivia sighed.

If it’s really as Louis speculated, then what the long-ears did goes beyond a matter of being dirty or not.

Genocide or extinction wouldn’t be any less.

Even the thought of a terrifying idea rose in the little swan’s mind.

"Suppose, just suppose if the Golden Land is in this situation because of the elves, what would we do?"

Then she saw Louis’s deep eyes and that slightly curling corner of his mouth.

"Then don’t blame me for stepping in personally, putting all the elves’ main forces into the front line."

He actually had even darker thoughts.

Could the Giant Race alone absorb the desperate wails after the world ends?

If the giants were just the lizard’s tail, the pollution forces after the world’s destruction might very well have been dispersed elsewhere.

...The nearly insane and fallen Elf Main God, and the strange existence in the Golden Land.

He took a deep breath and said:

"Olivia, you need to be prepared."

"Hmm?"

"I might use the Crown of Desires to directly teleport to your side, to personally communicate with them."