Tier Sandelius!
"If I can't have this cake, then nobody else can!"
The Golden King and the Insects are bound together, and the Decapitator has dragged the Desert Empire into the fray, making the situation even more chaotic.
With the three forces simultaneously surrounding Sacred Tree City, the world map of the Golden King has expanded a little further.
Looking at the route on the map, the Golden King smiled faintly, referring to his starting point as Rome.
The Insects once asked him why he had this name.
The Golden King replied that the name had a good meaning, "All roads lead to Rome, and all rivers flow to the sea."
Once the mainland map is illuminated and the roads are opened, the next step is to expand sea routes.
As for those five crowns...
According to the Golden King's estimate, if they continue in this stalemate, neither of them will be able to obtain the five crowns.
So the Golden King came up with a solution: to divide the five crowns into three parts.
The Ocean Empire and the Decapitator's Empire each take two crowns, while the Desert Empire and the Golden King take the extra one.
This allocation is very reasonable and can perfectly resolve the current situation and break the stalemate where neither side moves.
But humans are insatiable; greed knows no bounds.
The decapitator believed that he was the one who started the war and the one who first discovered the Elven Kingdom.
If it weren't for the Ocean Army, he would have already claimed those three crowns.
These words made even the Ocean Army laugh in anger. "Are people on land all like this, trying to be reasonable?"
The decapitator refused to back down, insisting on having three crowns, with the other two to be shared equally between the Golden King and the Ocean Army.
Upon hearing this, Atlas thought, "Ha, they really think they're easy targets?"
"Then stop talking nonsense and go find your three crowns in hell!"
Atlas bluntly said, "If you don't back down, I'll kill you first!"
The decapitator, equally defiant, declared, "Come on then, let's see who has the last laugh!"
Seeing the situation develop to this point, the Golden King couldn't help but shake his head.
"Why..."
"To put it bluntly, it's all about profit, and they're determined to push things to the point of mutual destruction."
The Golden King summarized all the laws of the world with a theory: all 'initial motives' are based on self-interest.
The military and force are the capital for gaining benefits and the source of authority.
War, on the other hand, is a means to gain benefits.
War serves interests; if interests are abandoned, war is nothing more than a simple and meaningless killing.
Since everyone is in it for the benefit of the people, why not compromise and everyone can have a piece of the pie? Why make things so bad that no one gets anything in the end?
The Golden King, representing the Desert Empire, acts as an intermediary, observing the stalemate between the two sides, the escalation of conflict, and finally, the formal outbreak of war.
Solar Calendar year 64.
Two neighboring countries went to war.
The Golden King witnessed this from the sidelines, noting that each nation had its own civilization and calendar.
The Desert Empire did not originally have a time calendar; the earliest time calendar was derived by the Star Empire through observation of celestial movements.
People initially believed that the sun revolved around a planet beneath their feet, but this was later corrected by the gods.
So they began to develop Solar Calendar based on the cycles of the planets revolving around the sun.
However, the Star Empire once called it the Unification Calendar.
Later, the Solar Calendar was inherited by the Desert Empire and gradually spread to countless surrounding countries, adopting a unified Solar Calendar.
The Ocean Calendar of the Ocean Empire was slightly different; it recorded the cycle and pattern of the moon's rotation around the planet.
It will change with the phases of the moon.
Of course, this is not difficult for modern people to understand, because this is the difference between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar.
Just as the two countries were about to engage in a large-scale war, a major problem arose on the Five Gods Alliance side.
The king under Zhang Yuanqing's command is dead.
He was killed by an elf, and his crown was taken from his hand!
This change astonished the gods, and overnight the city was filled with turmoil, with all the blame pointing at the Tir, the Elf God.
However, Til appeared before everyone with the crown in such a grand manner.
Then, in front of everyone, he directly used the crown to obtain the evolution potion.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Till ascended the fourth step.
No one expected that the sequence potion that Till obtained was actually a derivative potion of the Sequence 008 True Ancestor!
His elven body dissolved, blood rained down from the sky, and he rebuilt his body amidst the blood.
His skin turned pale, his blond hair became dull, and his pale green eyes turned blood red.
This is a potion that is completely opposite to the spirit, and their properties conflict with each other, so it should be impossible for them to be fused so perfectly.
To everyone's surprise, the elf perfectly absorbed the Blood Clan's power.
Because the elven potions are made by fusing Dark Elf and ordinary elves, and Dark Elf are compatible with the Blood Clan.
But for some reason, Til couldn't unleash the abilities of the Dark Elf.
It wasn't until recently that Thiel finally understood why.
Because the dosage of medication can change depending on the user's subjective reaction.
This potion has two sides, one good and one evil. If it leans towards evil, it becomes the power of Dark Elf; if it leans towards good, it becomes the power of an ordinary elf.
If a true balance between good and evil can be achieved, then the abilities of both can be used simultaneously.
The night before the assassination attempt, the first Dark Elf appeared.
Til activated the power of the Dark Elf within her.
That night, another ordinary elven soldier transformed into Dark Elf and assassinated King Zhang Yuanqing in the dead of night.
Even Zhang Yuanqing was caught off guard. Why would the usually kind elf suddenly change his expression at this moment?
Of course, he wasn't the only one who couldn't understand it.
The centaur angrily rebuked Til, "Do you even know what you've done?!"
"If it weren't for the gambler's ability to point out the positive aspects of survival, we might have died long ago!"
"Now that the gambler is dead, how can we contend with the three great empires?!"
Till Sandius chuckled softly, "I just suddenly realized something: everyone wants the crown, and if it weren't for the crown, there wouldn't be this conflict."
"What if there's only one crown left?"
The centaur was taken aback. "Even if there's only one left, they won't let you go!"
Till Sandrius nodded. "That's true, so I didn't expect them to let me go."
"After all, didn't we all agree that it would be a fight to the death?"
With that, Til Sandius clasped his hands together, and all his Elf Dependents were transformed at that moment!
They became like Til Sandlius, the last vestiges of tenderness in their eyes gradually fading.
"We are not weak, we just dislike war. We are not cruel, because our enemies will be more cruel than us."
"Everyone is eating people, how can we stand idly by?"