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Chapter 320

Dark City

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[You arrived at Dark City.] [Dark City was an underground city beneath the plateau permafrost in the northwest of the Star Spirit World, divided into four levels by depth.] [Buried deep underground, this place never saw sunlight throughout the year. Its only light sources were countless fluorescent stones embedded in the rock overhead and large numbers of artificially crafted Sunflower lanterns. Looking up, you saw what resembled a permanently glittering starry sky...] [Dark City was the main city of the Dark Elves. The Dark Elves had once been fallen members of various elven tribes who had committed crimes. Abandoned by their people, these sinners bore the curse of "never seeing sunlight for all eternity" and were driven underground to live. Over long years, they gradually formed their own underground civilization. Prolonged contact with an underground mineral called "amethyst stone" turned the skin of most Exiles dark gray or purple, earning them the name Dark Elves among outsiders.] [Precisely because it had once been a city of exiles, Dark City had a relatively open culture. Unlike the Forest Elves and Sunlight Elves, the Dark Elves were not xenophobic, instead actively embracing the cultures of other races. Apart from the roughly 80% Dark Elf population, Dark City was home to 10% humans, 3% Dwarves, 2% Orcs, and 5% assorted other races, including vampires and werewolves. Rich in underground minerals and the specialties of various races, it was a resource-based city with flourishing commerce...]

Mu You had arrived in this underground city for the first time through the Forest Elves' Teleportation Array.

Judging from the description, the Dark Elves had not originally existed as a race. They were a civilization that had gradually formed as elves expelled from the major elven tribes banded together.

Even the Dark Elf queen still had

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