Mist Empire’s Rise: Fake Noble to Fog Queen

Chapter 347 Mist Empire’s Rise:- 345: The Song of Aldrich

A homecoming celebration? Luo Wei smelled conspiracy in the air.

Just as she expected, what the dark elf told her next was indeed a massive conspiracy.

Aldrich told the elven chiefs that humans had been recovering on the Magic Beast Continent for many years. The fires in Paradise had long since died out—it was time for them to go home.

Back then, the elves had helped negotiate between humans and beasts. Under elven witness, humans had promised the beast tribes they were only borrowing that land. Now that they were about to return to Paradise, they hoped the elves could come witness their departure.

Aldrich's invitation made perfect sense. After discussion, the chiefs of the five elven tribes—Flower Elves, Water Elves, Stone Elves, Wind Elves, and Fire Elves—decided to each send three envoys to represent them at the celebration.

To help humans rebuild their homeland, the fifteen elven envoys brought gifts and headed to the Western Plains.

What the five elven chiefs never expected was that soon after, they received news that all fifteen envoys were dead!

The Flower Elf and Wind Elf chiefs personally went to the Western Plains to investigate.

From the humans, they learned that on the day of the celebration, several beast tribe members had gone berserk and eaten over a dozen human children.

Driven by grief and hatred, the children's parents poisoned the wine and killed those beast tribe members.

The other beasts flew into a rage. They not only slaughtered the humans present but also took their anger out on the innocent elves, believing that if the elves hadn't helped humans negotiate, the beast tribe wouldn't have been poisoned.

The fifteen elven envoys had been torn to pieces by the savage, brutal beast tribes.

Learning the truth, the Flower Elf and Wind Elf chiefs were furious. With Aldrich's encouragement, the two chiefs gathered elven armies to demand justice from the beast tribes.

Not only did the beast tribes refuse to admit they'd killed the elven envoys, they accused the elves of colluding with humans to invade beast tribe lands.

Just as war was about to break out between elves and beasts, Aldrich's youngest daughter, Philomena, secretly came to the Flower Elf chief's tent and told him the truth.

It turned out the humans who came to the Magic Beast Continent never planned to return to their old Paradise. After living here for fifty years, they'd long since made this place their home.

Besides, the Magic Beast Continent had flat terrain, pleasant weather, and fertile soil. Compared to the scorched ruins of the Wastes, this place was way better for human survival.

They'd never give up this continent. To that end, they'd been plotting since the day they landed. After fifty years of planning, they finally had the strength to fight the beast tribes.

Philomena also told the elven chief that humans had chosen two new gods as their supreme deities—the Sun God and Moon God.

They'd secretly formed a church for the Sun and Moon Gods, with the goal of avenging those who'd been driven out and killed by the beast tribes fifty years ago.

Philomena urged the elven chief to take his army and leave immediately. With the Sun and Moon Gods' help, Aldrich had already reached the Saint Archmage level—they were no match for him.

Most importantly, the masterminds behind the War of Gods in the Wastes were the Sun and Moon Gods.

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The Beast God had already fallen under their siege. Without the Beast God's protection, the beast tribes wouldn't last much longer either.

Persuaded by Philomena, the elven army withdrew from the Western Plains overnight and returned to elven lands.

Before leaving, the Wind Elf chief went to the dragon caves and told the dragon chief the truth, hoping the beast tribes wouldn't fall for Aldrich's tricks.

But after learning the Beast God had fallen, the beast tribe members became demoralized and their morale plummeted. Aldrich's army slaughtered them until they retreated to the eastern mountains, where Aldrich and several other Saint Archmages sealed them inside.

The elven army was also ambushed by humans on their way back. Nearly all were wiped out—only a small squad of elves escaped back to elven lands with the help of Jörmungandr, the World Serpent.

It turned out this was all part of Aldrich's calculations. He'd seen that the elven chiefs didn't want war with the beast tribes, so he used his daughter's soft heart and deliberately let her tip off the elven chiefs.

Actually, the Beast God hadn't fallen yet at that point—he was just badly wounded and couldn't respond to his followers.

But as beast tribe members died in huge numbers, the Beast God soon exhausted his divine power and faded away.

Later, the Goddess of Life was also severely wounded in the War of Gods. Before falling into slumber, she sent down a divine decree telling the elves to forget their hatred, forget the war, and return to their lands to live in peace.

The elves accepted the goddess's will. To prevent Aldrich from taking advantage of their weakness, they asked Jörmungandr—who coiled around the world's edge—to help separate the Misty Plains from the other two continents.

Jörmungandr agreed to the elves' request. He swam from the world's edge to the center of the ocean and circled around the Misty Plains and the other two continents.

When Aldrich prepared to attack the elves, Jörmungandr made thick fog rise from the sea, blocking his army's advance. He also turned the area around his body into a magic-dead zone—no mage, no matter how powerful, could cross it.

The human army got lost in the fog. After one night, over half of the three thousand elite soldiers were dead. Aldrich had no choice but to abandon the attack and retreat with his remaining troops.

After returning to the Magic Beast Continent, Aldrich made two decisions.

First, he renamed the continent. Since it had changed hands, calling it the Magic Beast Continent didn't fit anymore. He adopted the elves' name for it and changed it to the Western Plains.

Second, he rewrote history, erasing the elves' existence and hiding all his schemes and calculations. He only recorded the process of humans heroically fighting off magic beasts.

Oh right—before the Wastes people migrated to the Magic Beast Continent because of the War of Gods, there were already humans living in the Western Plains.

Along the northern coast of the Western Plains lived many red-haired tribes. These people had survived for generations by hunting and fishing.

Actually, the red-haired people's ancestors were also from the Wastes. They'd been blown to the Western Plains by strong winds while fishing at sea and eventually settled there.

Originally they had all kinds of hair colors, but for some reason, after going to the northern lands, their hair turned red.

The north was bitterly cold—even magic beasts didn't want to hunt there. So these red-haired people built homes there and lived peacefully with the beast tribes for many years.

After Aldrich took control of the Western Plains, he discovered that the red-haired people didn't hate the beast tribes like other humans did.

They didn't worship the Sun and Moon Gods either. Instead, they mostly worshipped the Fire God, because fire let them survive in the frozen wasteland and kept them from cold and hunger.

The red-haired people's existence was a threat to Aldrich. So he ordered the Church to quietly eliminate the red-haired race after they finished hunting down the beast tribes.

And so, beast tribe members and red-haired people became fewer and fewer, until the entire Western Plains fell into Aldrich's hands.

After hearing all this, Luo Wei couldn't help but sigh. So that was the story behind "The Song of Aldrich."

What "Aldrich, son of the God of Wisdom, came to the Western Plains on an adventure, drove out the brutal magic beasts, and established a new kingdom for humanity"—it should've been called "The Great War Between Humans, Beasts, and Elves."

But honestly, from a human perspective, Aldrich really was a brilliant and ambitious ruler.

He'd led humans to defeat the powerful beast tribes and secured new, fertile lands for humanity to thrive.

Too bad the Church he established later became a tool for oppressing humans. Look at the Western Plains now—how many people were starving and freezing under the Church's oppression?

If the Church and the Sun and Moon Gods weren't such cancerous tumors, and if she weren't labeled an "evil god follower," Luo Wei thought, she might actually support Aldrich's suppression of other races.

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