Chapter 3258: Elven Recalcitrance
The dwarves were not the only ones to take the new elven-human alliance seriously. Many polities began having similar considerations as they too were faced with two choices: whether to pursue war and conquest against human civilization directly or indirectly, or whether to pursue peace in the hopes that human civilization would be willing to give up a portion of its own esoteric resources of its own volition.
Many hoped for the latter while many believed the former was necessary. They each weighed the pros and cons of both options with the added deterrence of the Genora-Panama Alliance. Many nations that were too entangled with the dark elves couldn’t afford to pick a fight with the humans anymore, for they would lose far too much in an attempt to engage in military conquest against human civilization.
However, there were also those who were extremely displeased by the alliance.
Those who saw the alliance as a provocation.
’Our sisters have gone too far this time.’
In the depths of the East Genoran Flora Network, the Mothers of Nature of the light elves had convened in the depths of the network to speak with each other far away from the prying eyes of their sisters in the west.
The flora of Genora was not clearly delineated between the two halves of the continent, and the flora of both sides still maintained a rich flora network with each other, even if it had diluted over a span of centuries and millennia since water levels had risen, causing the two halves of the continent to be divided between east and west.
’First, they went out of their way to beckon the Lost Continent and the primitive savage species that resides upon it,’ one mother sneered. ’Then they went out of their way to cultivate a friendship in the hopes that they would be able to reform these savage primates into a pristine, harmonious civilization.’
’That’s not even the worst of it,’ another mother scoffed. ’They invited these humans, these so-called ’Martial Artists,’ upon their half of our continent. That, still, would have been tolerable, but that wasn’t enough. They had to go out of their way to invite that... that... thing.’
The Mothers of Nature recoiled with disgust.