The announcement drew mixed reactions when it was released.
Those in favor felt that King Trutz was absolutely right. Since humans were already the rulers of this continent, they ought to be more tolerant, give other races room to live, and coexist peacefully.
Those opposed felt that anyone of another race would inevitably have different loyalties.
No matter how well humans treated the other races, those races would never truly live alongside humans in friendship and peace.
When the elves had ruled this continent, they had not exterminated the other races, but neither had they treated them particularly kindly. At the very least, when humanity began to rise, the elves had suppressed them on several fronts.
Had humans not developed so quickly and established their control over the continent through the Race War, no one could have predicted how things would have turned out.
But neither opinion could truly affect King Trutz's decision.
The formal establishment of the Elf Race Special Zone in the Rulson Kingdom's Southwestern Province was actually an opportunity for many ordinary people.
In the past, elves had rarely appeared in the human world, to the point that rumors had spread in many places that they had vanished from the continent entirely.
Later, with the emergence of the Xinfei Merchant Guild, the elves had begun cooperating with humans through the guild. When humans learned that the elves had not disappeared and were still active on the continent, the vast majority reacted not with alarm, but with delight.
There were so few elves left now, and humans had held complete control over the continent for thousands of years. Were they really supposed to fear an elven counterattack?
Thus, most humans felt curiosity toward the elves more than anything else.
That curiosity was precisely why Anise had caused such