However, as the Age of Exploration drew to a close, fewer and fewer people crossed the Xena Forest to reach the Great Glacier. During the first two centuries of the First Era, a few adventurers still occasionally went there to try their luck, but as more and more people disappeared, the Great Glacier, together with the Heather Hills, gradually became synonymous with a land of death.
In Duke Schoffman's memories, the last time adventurers had appeared at Far Eagle Castle was around the Year of Frog Croaks. After that, no one ever came here again, and Far Eagle Castle gradually became a desolate borderland that no one visited.
Thus, he could not help but wonder what those Elves had gone east to do, and whether it had anything to do with the treasure supposedly buried in the Great Glacier.
Driven by this curiosity, he ordered his men to keep watch at the forest entrance day and night, wanting to see when those Elves would return.
But no one had expected the Elves to be gone for three whole months, with no news whatsoever afterward. The Ten Cities Region passed through a brief summer and began to enter the bleak late-autumn season. Before the snowfall, both beasts and humans had to stock up on food, while the residents of Far Eagle Castle also had to prepare for the annual festival. As all sorts of mundane affairs grew busy, he naturally forgot about the matter.
After all, whether the Elves had been wiped out in the Great Glacier or had brought some treasure back from there, it had nothing to do with the residents of Far Eagle Castle. And although Duke Schoffman was the lord of this place, there was little he could do about the Wild Elves, especially since the Sanctuary