The King's Law

Rus Wang did not interfere much with the various alliances and village mergers among the Seer Elves; his initial idea was to let these villages slowly evolve into city-states.

Therefore, just as he had when he first arrived on this continent, Rus Wang patrolled the entire northern part of the Zheer Continent. He would beat up any soul beasts that had fled there and were killing elves as if they were humans, then check if they possessed intelligence. If they did, he would clearly explain the difference between elves and humans, grant them a plot of land in the Nanshan Rainforest suitable for their livelihood, and leave them alone as long as they didn't cause trouble in the future. If they didn't, he wouldn't waste words; he would kill them outright and bring them back to feed his wife and children.

He then settled the new elves he had taken in within the Levant Region, letting the elders of the nearby village alliances send people to teach them how to farm, forge, read, and speak the Elven (Han) language. Whenever he returned, he would observe the progress of their education and reward the village alliances with good items as payment for helping him educate the newcomers.

As the days passed, more and more elves gathered in the Levant Region. With sufficient food, the various villages developed rapidly, and several even reached populations of ten thousand.

However, a large-scale bloodshed event that broke out in the eleventh year made Rus Wang realize that the hands-off approach of letting the elves develop on their own was actually repeating the old path of human history, from the era of public ownership in tribes to the era of slavery.

If he had plenty of time, Rus Wang would have tacitly allowed this to happen. But the problem was that Rus Wang had no time, nor did he have any intention of letting the elves enter a slave-owning society. Because in nineteen hundred years, the protective mechanism of this continent would vanish, and human colonial exploration ships would truly be able to reach this land.

Rus Wang was not the Silver Dragon King; his past life as a human was a thing of the past. Now, he was a Seer Elf with the word "soul beast" hanging over his head, and he could not stake his life on trust in humanity.

Therefore, within these nineteen hundred-plus years, Rus Wang had to integrate the custom-raced elves, become the leader of a nation, and develop technology and civilization sufficient to contend with humanity. He needed to protect himself and his descendants while acting as a player in a game of territorial conquest, rather than ending up as a Class-A war criminal, sliced up and studied by the humans of Douluo Planet.

The general outline of this bloodshed was as follows: a large village alliance sought revenge against a smaller one. The latter had a rock salt mine within its territory, and by mining it, the small village alliance had made a fortune in barter trade, which in turn drew the envy of other tribes.

For eleven years, the scope of every village established in the Levant Region had been planned by Rus Wang. In that smaller village alliance, there was a village where the land could not grow food at all; the entire village had to rely on the mining knowledge taught by Rus Wang to extract rock salt from their territory in exchange for grain produced by other villages.

Thus, the elven elders of other villages mostly chose to tacitly accept this village using rock salt to trade for large amounts of grain from their villages, since the other side really did rely on this rock salt resource to survive.

However, after this rock salt village joined the small village alliance, everything changed. The council of elders of that powerful village alliance did the math during the eleventh year's Corn harvest festival and realized something was wrong—this was a total loss. We work hard to farm, and while you were within your own tribal alliance, you sold a jar of salt for two bags of corn to other villages, but now that you are in our village alliance, you bastard, you've raised the price to four bags of corn—what are you trying to do?

Now that Rus Wang rarely manages affairs, you're playing favorites with us after joining another village alliance, despite our original tacit understanding of barter? Do you think my hands, having farmed for eleven years, can no longer lift a Copper Spear?

At first, the elders of the large village alliance truly had no intention of drawing blades. They sent several envoys and guards to the council of elders of the small village alliance to reason with them, intending to return the price of rock salt to its original level. But the suspicious part was that those envoys and guards died after entering the territory of the small village alliance.

Looking at the corpses sent back by the envoys of the small village and the mere few jars of salt offered as compensation by the elders of the small village alliance, the elders of the large village alliance were dumbfounded. My people were sent to your territory, and not only were they not protected, but you offer a few jars of rock salt as a perfunctory apology?

Consequently, the elders of the large village alliance decided to send another batch of envoys. The first team, with more guards, continued to seek an explanation from the small village alliance, trying to peacefully press the price of rock salt back to the same level as internal transactions. The second team went to brave the Nanshan Rainforest to beg Rus Wang to handle the matter personally, as Rus Wang, being the god-king of the elves in the Levant Region, would surely be the most reasonable.

Then, before the second team of envoys and guards could be brought back to the Levant Region by Rus Wang, the first team of the second batch, like the first batch, also disappeared on the land of the small village alliance.

This was over eighty people! And they were all wearing leather armor, not like the mere ten people in the first batch. Even if a certain village in the small village alliance had killed them privately, at least a few survivors should have run back, right? I don't believe you didn't mobilize the warriors of the entire village alliance to wipe out my team!

With over ninety people gone in one fell swoop, the elves of the large village alliance were filled with righteous indignation. Before the second team of envoys could find Rus Wang, they demanded that the council of elders immediately send troops to the small village alliance to make them pay in blood.

Some female elves who had lost husbands or sons didn't even speak; they simply took stone knives and went to assassinate the elders of the small village alliance themselves.

This caused the already tense situation to explode, like throwing a stone into a boiling copper pot of water.

The elves of this large village alliance numbered nearly twenty thousand, and the mysterious deaths and disappearances of the two groups of envoys and guards had completely enraged the entire alliance. The elders were still thinking of having the various villages in the alliance scrape together six hundred people, but the elves below were too proactive, mobilizing over four thousand people at once and marching straight to slaughter the small village alliance of two thousand.

When Rus Wang arrived with the envoys and guards of the large village alliance, the various villages of the small village alliance were literally engulfed in a sea of fire. The surviving elves of the small village alliance were thrown into the salt mines by the angry elves of the large village alliance to mine salt for them in exchange for meager rations.

Seeing that the entire process of the incident could no longer be reconstructed, and that the scale of the bloodshed had reached a point where he could no longer remain hands-off, Rus Wang personally extinguished the fires and legalized the rock salt mine that the large village alliance had effectively occupied. Then, Rus Wang provided supplies himself to allow the survivors of the small village alliance to regain their freedom. He drew a block on the original territory of the small village alliance to establish a new village, and until the Wheat harvest at the end of the year, supplies would be provided by the large village alliance. However, the village would be managed by an elder selected by the large village alliance for a term of twenty years, during which no elections could be held within the village. If the village dared to violate Rus Wang's handling of this matter, Rus Wang would personally deliver divine punishment.

After the large village alliance was pacified, Rus Wang held a discussion with their elders. Having learned about the chaotic trade and the situation between village alliances in the lower Levant Region, he decided to summon the elders of all village alliances in the Levant Region for a grand assembly. He intended to ensure that such bloodshed would never happen again, and at the same time, establish rules that all village alliances must explicitly follow, rather than relying on mere tacit understandings.