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Chapter 204: The Goal That Has Never Changed

Translator: imperfectluck Editor: iless Battle&8221;—nobattle, which had lasted from autumn to winter in the Year of the Griffin, was destined to leave itsof yet another Holy War, this battle’s influence would last for dozens, hundreds—even thousands of years

The Elven Gods’ plan had immediately met with a hard wall and the beastmen’s southern invasion would have to wait for the next Holy War Due to a certain ex-lich’s plotting and taking advantage of their weakness, I was able to plant visitors froround World in both elven and beastmen territories

When the afterround Lords would establish several dozens of satellite cities in these two areas, which would becoround world Naturally, there were plenty of dark elves living in these cities, and no matter whether they wanted to or not, they would becodo that Annie, Centaur Anya, Little Red and various other factions had all already applied to join the Mist Alliance, this could be said to be a new series of military outposts for the newly established alliance

As for the terrible natural environ? To be honest, it wasn’tas they prepared beforehand, with the new Mist Alliance’s full support, the Underground World’s residents had full confidence in creating new livable cities in this frigid land

Taking the Tassel elves who ht want to return to their horound residents leave a sufficiently large piece of land that included Tassel’s capital, Tassel City, for the elves; they could still retain a small piece of homeland to return to

Of course, if ray elves would lead a nice life in East Mist and wouldn’t even want to return to the north where it was no and ice year-round and much more desolate

As for the beastmen from the plateaus, they may seem difficult to deal with, but due to the serious losses taken by the beastmen coupled with an ancient custom of theirs, it was actually quite easy

"When a tribe suffers serious losses, the tribe shall join a stronger tribe—and be annexed by it—in order to ensure the survival of the tribe&8221;

When the plateau beastle faround beaste numbers into their territory, they were unable to stop thehted to see the annexed, as they lackedthe battle to such a degree

"If hatred is a dark ink that’s ie amount of clear water to dilute it Even if pain is difficult to bear, ti of the Underground and plateau beastmen would require several dozens, even several hundreds of years But when the Underground beast war, according to round beastmen, both them and the beasting and getting along with each other was always ainto another cycle of ith the beastmen, I would also inject other species’ members into this area in order to dilute its one-species makeup and create a balance between various species

This may seem to be an underhanded move, but it was also the only marvelous move that would truly break the cycle of battles between us and the beaste southern invasion every few decades, even if I ht never see the effects of this move of mine in my lifetime

"…War is bad, but if war really does break out, then at the very least I need to grab the opportunity and change so the foundational reason for having the next war&8221;

And so, this hat I said next

"Beastmen countries? Elven countries? Hey—hey—hey—why do we need to make such distinctions? Henceforth, all borders shall be eliminated between every member country of the Mist Alliance Only the simplest of procedures will be required for anyone to travel or move as they please within this entire area&8221;

This was doubtlessly a groundbreaking proposal for this feudal generation where land was at the center of everything and population was considered an iing their citizens and census; allowing citizens to travel as they pleased was basically unheard of

Just this suggestion that went against the times caused an uproar and even fierce opposition frodoreed to join the Mist Alliance, was even now intentionally slowing down the official process, thinking of backing out

"I object! If we give them freedom, those bastard citizens will just all run off, and nobody will plant crops in the fields! Our territories will become desolate and useless This definitely can’t be allowed!&8221;

"That’s because you’re far too harsh on your ordinary citizens, which is the only reason you’re worrying that they’ll all leave I feel that this is an excellent suggestion Under this system, only territories under wise and well-reputed lords will flourish more and more, while unjust lords like you will be much worse off!&8221;

"…There’sThis old one [1] 1 and reat effort, but my territory naturally has a hostile terrain that’s ie amount of my citizens run off, this old one would be too asha that East Mist’s reputation was quite high and that Sleuas currently undergoing reconstruction during its weak period, I believed that I could borrow the renown gained from the battle to forcefully push this idea of mine Yet the forceful opposition from the other local countries’ leaders caused me to be unable to pass it in the end

Well, since free moveer a possibility, I tried for the next best thing—I passed a movement policy between countries Of course, the procedures required would be incredibly co was also quite limited in number But if someone chose either the beastmen or the elves’ territory, there were no lie number of benefits for free

"…I had wanted to truly unify the Mist Alliance and completely eliminate racial prejudices within, so this freedoe, is so I absolutely have to realize It seeeneration’s adherence to their outdated ideals In that case, I’ll just bide ood, then I’ll wait for the second, and if the second’s still no good, how about the fourth or the fifth? Then, fro to use the Church of Law to deal with those that are a bit overboard&8221;

My goal had never changed I wanted to have Sulfur Mountain City’s flourishhts drink together in bars, to have "evil&8221; dark elves also able to have holy jobs, to have everyone live in a way that wasn’t detered to, to live instead in a country where they would be judged by their personal qualities rather than their species This was my dream, my wonderful dream that I had had for half ether under a blue sky, the first thing I need to do is to hbors without bias&8221;

Only by acco this would I be able to truly destroy this so-called concept known as a Holy War Otherwise, the loser species froain in the future, and nobody would ever win unless they exterminated an entire race—yet was that possible? It was never possible to kill off an entire species! Hatred would only beget new chains of revenge, and the snowball effect of battle would only keep increasing What awaited in the end would only be total destruction with no winners on either side

"True peace can’t be accomplished without an accumulated buildup of thousands of years In that case, while I’o for peace on the surface…&8221;

I had already created the standard known as law for judging people individually The next step was to i thehbors weren’t born evil, that their neighbors didn’t need to drink blood and eat human meat every day

Bias was always born out of a conness, and fear Many countries also used the popular and effectivecountries or other species in order to turn attention away froreements Not to mention that there would always be those with no sense offalse ru there be always those who believed that other species ate humans for food It was only natural that there would be bias

In the eyes of most people, when all these stories and ru wild animals, the Shawen halfbloods were deht, and the northern barbarians were an undeveloped, illiterate tribe incapable of proper speech In the eyes of those major human countries in the central plains, our People of the Mist was also no better than a bunch of poor savages that lacked culture

Just as how rumors would always become more ridiculous as they spread, biased people would always become more and more biased, which would further increase the conflicts between species, with even a se one