After Sevin helped Anshelin tidy up the room for the last time and personally locked the door of the data room from the outside, the elders of the Black Magic Association despicably joined forces to cast spells on the door of the data room to ensure that Anshelin could be forever sealed inside. Additionally, under the pretext of "providing a better environment for Anshelin's closed-door cultivation," the Black Magic Association deployed many guards to the entire fourth floor underground and demanded that no one approach the fourth floor without the permission of the Black Magic Association. Of course, the basis for issuing this order was also said to be to avoid affecting Anshelin's closed-door cultivation.

After dealing with Anshelin's affairs, Sevin was immediately expelled from the Blackstone Castle. He then left for a distant place, hiding his identity in the Light Elf-controlled area, and became an ordinary mining worker in the Dum Mines.

The next day, the Black Magic Association announced to the outside world that due to admitting their incompetent leadership and willingly taking responsibility for the current difficult situation of the Dark Elf tribe, Anshelin voluntarily resigned from the position of interim Archbishop nearly fifteen hundred years before the end of her tenure. At the same time, the Black Magic Association also announced that Elder Borri would succeed Anshelin and become the new interim Archbishop of the Black Magic Association. They hoped that under the leadership of Archbishop Borri, the Dark Elf tribe could overcome the catastrophic impact brought by Anshelin and regain the glory of the Dark Elf tribe.

Upon receiving the news that Anshelin had resigned as Archbishop of the Black Magic Association and had been sealed inside the Blackstone Castle, the Light Elf tribe naturally rejoiced. With Anshelin, their most dreaded adversary, out of the picture, the next steps would be much easier to handle. Therefore, after executing a new agreement to trade Amandel Flowers and Aegisian Grass with feigned goodwill, the Light Elf tribe once again reduced the supply of raw materials for various reasons, while continuing to pressure the Dark Elf tribe by increasing their military presence at the border, forcing the Dark Elf tribe to foot the bill for the increased price of raw materials for the Light Elf tribe.

Regarding the Light Elf tribe's reversal of their promises, Archbishop Borri was naturally very angry. However, since the reason Borri had initially agreed to this was to provide a reasonable excuse to expedite the impeachment of Anshelin, he wasn't particularly surprised. After all, when signing the agreement with the White Magic Association, he had anticipated such occurrences.

As the saying goes, when a new leader takes office, he is eager to make a show of strength. Unlike Anshelin, who always hoped to express her dissatisfaction with the Light Elf tribe's malicious price hikes through administrative negotiations, Archbishop Borri, who belonged to the hawkish faction, naturally wouldn't be so tolerant towards the Light Elf tribe. Thus, under his instructions, some Dark Elf soldiers disguised themselves as civilians and began to incite continued harassment against the Light Elf tribe near the border, protesting against the sudden increase in the purchase price of Amandel Flowers and Aegisian Grass, which had led to a decrease in the supply of Elven Cookies.

For the Light Elf tribe, who had long been prepared for action, they had been eager for an opportunity to confront the Dark Elf tribe. So, after the provocations and harassment from the Dark Elf tribe, they immediately dispatched an infantry combat force to suppress and expel the troublesome Dark Elf tribe under the pretext of maintaining the border situation.

Since the Light Elf soldiers were unaware that behind these seemingly spontaneous provocations by ordinary Dark Elf civilians lay a large number of well-trained Dark Elf soldiers, including some highly skilled Black Magicians, the Light Elf army sent to suppress them in what seemed like a confrontation between regular troops and ordinary civilians, suffered greatly. This also made the Light Elf tribe once again realize the truth of the saying, "A camel starved to death is bigger than a horse," and never underestimate the Elves who were once equal in all respects.

In view of the strength displayed by the ordinary Dark Elf civilians during the conflict, the White Magic Association could only urgently discuss countermeasures, reiterating that they would continue to sell Amandel Flowers and Aegisian Grass according to the original trade agreement, in order to ease the tense situation caused by this conflict.

The Black Magic Association also used this conflict to test their own combat effectiveness, with naturally pleasing results. However, they were also well aware that with their current overall strength, they could still engage in such small-scale battles with the Light Elf tribe. But once a large-scale conflict or even a full-scale war broke out between the two sides, given the current comprehensive strength of the Dark Elf tribe, the situation would definitely not be optimistic. Therefore, for the Dark Elf tribe, the immediate priority was to continue to adhere to the practice of Black Magic. At the same time, the eleven Black Magic pioneers needed to urgently find ways to break through bottlenecks and quickly find effective methods to avoid suffering backlash from practicing Black Magic.

In short, after this small-scale conflict, the two tribes, after many years, conducted a semi-formal confrontation of each other's strengths for the first time. Both sides roughly understood each other's strengths while seeing their own shortcomings. Therefore, this small-scale conflict did not escalate into a larger battle, but was smoothly passed over by the high-levels of both tribes with tacit understanding.

However, behind the surface return to non-aggression and friendly coexistence, a silent arms race inevitably broke out between the two tribes once again. For the Light Elf tribe, their immediate priority was to further strengthen the training of their people in combat-oriented White Magic, and they once again launched a long-lasting and high-profile White Magic genius selection event within the territory of the Light Elf tribe.

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"And I," Elinnana couldn't help but say with emotion as she reached this point, "emerged from a Magic New Star Challenge many years later and became the most prominent and acclaimed White Magic prodigy at the time."

"Then, you joined the White Magic Association, right?" asked Haoyun.

"Humph, impossible. It's not so easy to join the White Magic Association. Besides, if I had really joined the White Magic Association, who knows if these things would have happened afterward," Elinnana replied with a laugh. From her tone, it seemed she was quite glad she hadn't been able to join the White Magic Association.

Elinnana continued, "I was born long after the two tribes began their arms race. I remember when I was very young, the two tribes had already begun frequent localized small-scale wars. So, relying on my extraordinary talent in white magic, I did indeed become a reserve member of the White Magic Association. And as long as I grew older and could fulfill my magical talent, I would join the White Magic Association and become a key force for the Light Elf tribe to resist the Dark Elf tribe."

Elinnana took a deep breath and said with emotion, "There was a time when I thought I would grow up to be a mage with extraordinary talent in white magic. Then, I would join the White Magic Association and lead my people to defeat the powerful Dark Elf tribe. I thought I would bring honor and fame to my family in the future. But who would have thought that I would only bring disaster to my family. Ah! These memories are really too painful to recall!"

Haoyun knew that in Elinnana's phrase "too painful to recall," there must be a lot of information. However, at this moment, he didn't remember to ask further questions and continued to ask questions about the information involved in the topic in sequence. After all, there was so much he wanted to ask.

So, Haoyun asked, "So, before you were born, the Dark Elf tribe and the Light Elf tribe were already fighting? How did they start fighting?"

"Humph! What else could it be? These two elven tribes, one claiming to love peace and the other claiming to love studying magic. But in reality, one is very bellicose and ruthless, and the other is willing to do anything for wealth. However, these two races also have something in common, which is they both love to take advantage and belong to the type that always pushes the boundaries," Elinnana said disdainfully.

Then, after drinking another glass of wine, Elinnana continued.

It turned out that not long after the Dark Elf tribe and the Light Elf tribe had temporarily restored peace, the Light Elf tribe discovered that due to Archbishop Anshelin's resignation, many orders previously issued by her had been either modified by the new Archbishop Ruibo or directly revoked by him. Among the revoked orders was a special supervision order for the Light Elf tribe's previously privately dug tunnels into the Dark Elf tribe's territory for clandestine mining.

Actually, there was nothing wrong with Archbishop Ruibo revoking this special supervision order. After all, it had been hundreds of years since the Light Elf tribe had stolen minerals from their own territory. The underground tunnels used to smuggle minerals had either been blocked off or collapsed long ago, and had long lost their value.

In addition, in the hundreds of years of intensive supervision by the Dark Elf tribe, the Light Elf tribe had never again entertained the idea of engaging in such activities, making the significance of this supervision increasingly insignificant. So, at a meeting, Archbishop Ruibo officially announced the cancellation of this supervisory order and transferred all the nearby supervised Dark Elf soldiers to work on the border.

However, Archbishop Ruibo clearly underestimated the greed of the Light Elf tribe. When they learned that the Black Magic Association had canceled the special supervision order specifically for the tunnels dug near the border, some Light Elf tribe members once again set their sights on this trade. Upon confirming that the Black Magic Association had indeed canceled this supervisory order and was not fishing for information, they immediately organized manpower again, used the original tunnel routes, dug tunnels again, and resumed the clandestine mining of minerals from the Dark Elf tribe's territory.

Unfortunately, the Light Elf tribe's selfish act of secretly mining minerals from the Dark Elf tribe's territory was soon exposed again when a mining team from the Dark Elf tribe accidentally dug through the tunnel dug by the Light Elf tribe and once again exposed it. However, unlike Archbishop Anshelin, the Dark Elf tribe did not handle the Light Elf tribe's unauthorized mining the way it should have been handled and instead strictly negotiated with the Light Elf tribe.

With a strong wrist, Archbishop Ruibo directly ordered the Dark Elf tribe's army to enter the Light Elf tribe's territory on the grounds of capturing those who entered the country illegally to steal minerals and completely surrounded a tunnel entrance less than a kilometer from the border line. At the same time, all personnel involved were detained on the scene, and the Light Elf tribe was demanded to compensate with irrefutable evidence in hand.

Although the Light Elf tribe knew they were in the wrong, faced with the sudden invasion of their territory by the Dark Elf tribe's army, they naturally would not tolerate it. After another long period of preparation and once again full of confidence in their battle with the Dark Elf tribe, how could the Light Elf tribe miss such a good opportunity to start a war? Thus, for the first time in history, the two sides engaged in a formal military confrontation near the border line, and the conflict between the two tribes escalated irreconcilably.

Although both tribes were hesitant about a full-scale war, since the war had suddenly erupted, there was no longer anything to hold them back. Given the undisputed victory of the Dark Elf tribe's army in the battles near the border, the infuriated Light Elf tribe directly declared the cessation of the supply of raw materials to the Dark Elf tribe.

Unless the Dark Elf tribe's army withdrew from the Light Elf tribe's border and provided sufficient compensation to the Light Elf tribe, they threatened to permanently halt the supply of Amande flowers and Aegis herbs. In order to demonstrate their stance, the Light Elf tribe deliberately piled up large quantities of Amande flowers and Aegis herbs, originally intended for delivery to the Dark Elf tribe, not far from the border line, and then set fire to all these raw materials, causing great distress to the group of Dark Elves.

The current situation was somewhat embarrassing for the Dark Elf tribe. Because the Light Elf tribe controlled the necessary raw materials for making Elven biscuits, but in a sense, they themselves did not possess anything essential to the Light Elf tribe.

Once the shortage of Amande flowers and Aegis herbs led to a decrease in the production of Elven biscuits, their own people, especially those addicted hedonists who now relied solely on consuming Duma energy, would inevitably start causing trouble. And once they started causing trouble, it would affect the ongoing conflict between them and the Light Elf tribe. The cunning Light Elf tribe might even use the addicted hedonists of the Dark Elf tribe as their weapons, inciting discord within the Dark Elf tribe, forcing them to fight on two fronts amidst internal strife and external threats.