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Chapter 208: An Old Acquaintance and the City of Sand

Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav

"The secrets of the Elees for infor so surprised? Even I, Ayer, a If it seee, that’s only because I’ve had such a long life The history of the Four Elereater than that of the mortal plane The Goddess of Creation Eich had used the all the other planes, and I wasn’t even born yet at the time How could I possibly know?&8221;

When I asked Ayer about the ancient secrets of the Elemental Planes, I received such an unexpected answer And when he mentioned the Goddess of Creation, the black-clothed icy Death God was actually filled with a nostalgic expression

"The Four Elefor the Goddess of Creation Eich entrusted them with the power to control part of the very Elemental Planes themselves, but they definitely do not possess the power to truly rule over the Elemental Planes Hehe! Nobody is able to rule over any Elemental Plane, as that would mean that that individual has the power to rule over one-fourth of the entire world and its living creatures&8221;

And when I checked this inforave it to esture—it also proved the veracity of Ayer’s words The most obvious evidence, however, was that when the Four Elemental Gods were sealed, the Elemental Planes still existed and went on as usual If an Elemental God were to die, a new Eleain in just a few hundred years

Theoretically speaking, the Goddess of Chaos Cynthia inherited part of this power from her mother Eich Cynthia would be able to control the Four Elemental Gods and indirectly control these planes; Cynthia’s Will was still affecting the Elemental Planes, which hy the Earth Elemental Plane displayed many traits of Chaos

The Earth Eleht of it This wasn’t a world devoid of nothing other than sandstorms and earth elementals, but it was rather the opposite As the most ancient elemental plane of the four, its natural resources and specialties were incredibly abundant

Various ancient species continued to reproduce successfully here, and precious gems and rare minerals were commonplace Buried under the ancient hills were valuables that would be impossible to find in any other plane

Of course, the most common type of resident here were elemental creatures related to the earth, but they were different from the humanoid elementals in the mortal plane The earth elementals here weren’t accustomed to hue and abnorons while soiant crabs or insect shaped ele existences that they had seen before

Although they boasted of differences in appearances and species, they all possessed one thing in common; all these creatures were part earth elemental, and had the ability to devour each other and evolve into stronger existences

According to stories, in the very beginning, Eiant Because this place had a high amount of elemental power, the body parts of these eleical ained would attract intelligent species If there were enormous benefits to be reaped, it was only natural that there would be those looking to strike it big while not fearing death After the "warehouse er&8221; Elemental Gods were sealed, these Elemental Planes were just like warehouses with their doors left unlocked and wide open; there were numerous methods to invade them Various factions had already set up their own permanent outposts in each of the Elemental Planes

In an area known as the Karo Hills was the outpost of the Mage Country, Ainrodant Hundreds of y field, and the seic barrier blocked all the sandstor able to affect "Karo City&8221; Karo was also the largest non-native settlement in the Earth Elemental Plane for the nearest several thousand kilo in Karo’s streets Although most were still humans, elves, beastmen, and other common species from the mortal plane, there were also some demons from the lower planes You could even see a few machine lifeforms or ethereal lifefornome merchants that could be found literally everywhere However, there was one species a them that was one of the rarest to be found in the mortal planes—half-ele into existence Soh-level elementals and ordinary species while some had been ordinary species elementalized by the Elemental Plane, but their most obvious traits were their physical appearances Their skin colors would always be rather eye-catching, with speckled, tan skin, or fiery-red skin, not to mention that they typically had various crystals ehtening

Yet due to their bodies’ partial elees They had excellent innate ele they would always be able to becoes They didn’t even have to worry about their elerew quickly in power

For the Mage Country, apart froained here, the Earth Elemental Plane’s half-elementals were excellent seeds that could join their ranks As for the earth h concentration of earth element density was the best cultivation location for them of all With all sorts of rare eleive up on co to such a location?

But, recently, Karo had met with some trouble

The Earth Eleuests finally had to face the homeowner

Obviously, Emordilorcan, as still the master of this plane in nauests More and ed their attitude towards Karo, and attacks by ele more frequent

Due to the Elemental Tide’s increase and the return of Enitude as well Karo’s50 ood if it continues&8221;

It was beco harder and harder to travel to and froic power required to ic upkeep of Karo kept increasing as well As a half-elee as born and raised in the Earth Elemental Plane, Atadia had o, Atadia had joined the Mage Country and becae Atadia couldn’t be more fa more and more uncomfortable, as if this beautiful city filled with the culture of ic was a restraint upon him So him

And it wasn’t limited to only him In the past three months, there were over a dozen acolytes that disappeared into the sandstore robes and staves behind

"Emordilorcan? How troublesoe, Atadia was no novice unaware of as going on The only existence that could influence the entire Earth Eleendary Earth Ele, he could still resist this su in his soul, but those novice acolytes found it impossible to resist Every half-ele theest probleone wild and actually rushed into the ic barrier device, which was rather shocking

"There’s still no response froe Country? They should at least send us a few es to help control the situation&8221;

"No The Mage Country has also met with its own trouble The Bardi Empire suddenly started a series of ses have left for the frontlines Frohin the Wind and Water Elemental Planes Add on the fact that transport and travel between the Ele in difficulty, and perhaps not only e not receive more aid, but we’ll probably even receive less assistance than usual&8221;

"If there’s a proble, then can’t we borrow the gno devices should still be usable, right?&8221;

"Their 20 fixed rate of failure is just too much It’s still okay to transport resources, but it’s too dangerous to use for anything living Also, those gnoed their rules, and have actually beenus purchase ‘insurance;’ otherwise, they won’t transport anything for us, and any losses incurred won’t be paid by the that’s been getting popular recently around gnonomes as a deposit, and if an accident occurs where you incur losses, the gnoood thing? Then you ht as well buy it We’ve always sucked up any losses ourselves in the past&8221;

"The problem is that even if we purchased their insurance, they wouldn’t give us any e of diered by thenomes always stress a merchant’s honesty?&8221;

"They clainetic ite, which affected the di that ere at fault for the failed teleportation, and even requested that we pay them for their losses&8221;

"What the hell? If certain special items can’t be teleported, shouldn’t they tell us beforehand? Only telling us after the fact; then what about the next tie Edould let theain&8221;

"The second time we had even worse luck We met with a dimensional storm, and half our resources were lost&8221;

"This tinomes should have paid up&8221;

"No, they didn’t, because their insurance contact had an additional clause stating, ‘losses caused by uncontrollable outside factors will not be paid by us’ A dimensional storm is a natural disaster and is counted as such an uncontrollable outside factor&8221;

"Then why are we still purchasing that insurance or whatever!? Isn’t it just ait just in case we incur losses during the teleportation?&8221;

"…Yeah, we only found out about it after being on the suffering end In order to receive pay teleportation, ere supposed to buy a special ‘teleportation insurance’ In the end, for the third attele additional insurance option&8221;