Unexpected Turn of Events

Just as Solam was about to make another move, the female elf's body suddenly turned translucent, then slowly vanished!

"Aunt Elaine! Kill him! Avenge Marco!!! Kill him!!!"

The female elf had actually appeared behind everyone, completely leaving the area where the conflict had erupted!

"Phantasmal Master's Escape?"

Solam immediately recognized the spell she had just used. It was an extremely rare spell, one not even recorded in Queen Laeral Silverhand's Book of All Spells. It was unique to elves—a rare composite spell with both illusion and spatial effects. It could allow its target to escape a fatal attack and flee a certain distance away.

This spell was an elf secret, and no one other than elves had any chance of learning such knowledge.

The elves' attitude toward knowledge was vastly different from when they had still been the dominant race. In the beginning, although elves looked down on other races, they did not overly restrict knowledge. Humanity's earliest magical knowledge had come from the ancient elves. It was only after Netheril emerged that humans began forging their own path in magic.

But after the elves lost their hegemony, they became increasingly petty. Not only did they refuse to let their knowledge spread, they even haughtily rejected human magic, believing it to be vulgar, backward knowledge unworthy of study.

In truth, that was merely slander. Many of Netheril's breakthroughs in magic could rival those of the ancient elves. There was only one reason the elves refused to let human knowledge spread among their kind: they could not face humanity's development. They remained immersed in their former glory and stubbornly rejected every fact concerning their decline.

Humanity's rise was undoubtedly proof of that decline, so they refused to communicate with humans. They would rather let that knowledge be completely lost than share