The entire atmosphere of the tribe grew tense like she had never experienced before.

An emergency meeting was held as a messenger from a nearby clan passed on that the Evergreen clan had ordered the tribe to send a detachment of their best warriors to join the defence of their territory at the borders.

Her Father, Xandas had a serious look on his face as he visited her and her mother for the last time before leaving to follow his duty.

From what she heard from listening in on the elves an Empire to the West had finally set their sights on the elven territory.

This was an Empire made up of humans, they were war-like and had already annexed all of the nearby human kingdoms.

The only options they had left was an Empire on par with them, if not stronger to the east therefore they decided the elves were the best option to continue expanding their territory.

It turns out the Evergreen clan was one of the four clans serving under the Royal Family of the elven dominion. These four clans ruled large territories and were responsible for ruling over the tribes including her Fathers within.

Due to her Father being a capable warrior at the fifth tier, he was considered a senior warrior among the elves and a valuable war asset.

He was tasked to bring a detachment of the tribes most capable warriors to join the Evergreen clans army to defend against the encroaching army of humans.

The majority of the small amount of Mages the tribe had were also told to leave with the Warriors.

Only a few remained such as the young lady following the old herbalist. Turned out she was a Tier 3 Water Magus capable of casting recovery spells.

She was actually stronger than most of the Mages going with the detachment of Warriors, only weak Mages with low potential would stay in a small tribe like this one, they were Tier 2 and at most Tier 3 likely to remain at that Tier for the remainder of their lives.

Turned out the old herbalist had done a great service in the past allowing her to avoid being called upon.

Her Mother was distraught seeing her Father leave beside a detachment from the tribe heading to a war it was hard to determine he would return from alive.

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Hoatan who was surprisingly a Tier 4 Warrior would remain to protect the tribe in her fathers stead. He was old and had answered the Evergreen clans call many times, he was allowed to remain to provide the tribe some protection with most of the tribes combatants leaving.

Standing alongside her mother, Ava was apart of the group of the tribe who had come to send her Father and the tribes combatants off.

Ava couldn’t help but say with a tear into her eyes as her Father knelt down to say goodbye, “Please return home safe”

Xantas had a brief look of surprise at how much awareness his daughter was showing. He had left the tribe many times on errands, none being as dangerous as this one but to his daughters outlook this should be the same as last time, just longer.

Judging it was a just child’s sense of knowing when something is wrong with a heavy heart he lied, “Of course your Father will return back in no time, this will merely be like the other times Daddy has had to leave”

And with that Xantas turned to leave, he had already said his goodbyes to his wife and child many times.

He knew if he continued to stare into his daughters big blue eyes his resolve would waver from what needs to be done.

Heading out the tribe followed by his fellow tribesman who had accompanied him since he was a young elf he shouted, “Let’s show those damn humans they made a grave mistake thinking they can shed blood on elven lands!”

His tribesmen roared with triumph as they started marching towards the meeting point of the elven army.

Staring at the faces of passion and determination beside him he knew grimly they may never return to the tribe.

A Kingdom of humans was enough, but an Empire made up of multiple human Kingdoms could be the end of them.

Either way even winning this war will cause a huge amount of damage to the elves like never before. They have remained isolated in their territory for thousands of years, never thinking of expanding or clashing with the humans or other races.

They had grown arrogant thinking no one would ever dare challenge them since they had remained closed off from the outside world.

However they had let a force outside grow strong enough to threaten them.

It was predictable that fighting with humans was always going to be inevitable, they were a greedy race, never satisfied with what they have and having far shorter lives than elves there would eventually come a ruler with a drive to conquer, setting his eyes upon the rich resources of the elven territory.

The only reason it had taken this long for action was the nearby Kingdoms of humans never possessed the strength to go up against the unified elves as a whole.

However now a mighty human emperor has arisen, one who has subjugated every kingdom around his own until he had built a mighty Empire that had unified the human nations in the Greenlands for the first time in history.

For the first time since the elven coalition was founded they have been forced to act as one to fight an enemy in a fight that would determine if they will remain the unopposed force of the Greenlands.

Xantas hoped the Royal Family does not underestimate the humans and goes all out on this one.

Otherwise he was concerned it may be too late if they fail to bring out the ancient weapons of their ancestors in time.