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After obtaining a myriad of new Divine Abilities and powers, the day continued as usual. We went to have breakfast with my friends, and then after that, our work healing the elves continued. We healed their Spirit Orbs using the methods we did before. Slowly, their Spirit Orbs regained their Spiritual Energies, either becoming Majin-type or Nephalem-type.
This created a huge surge of new types of spirts, and several scholars started studying them, many elven scholars came rushing to the manor, asking us questions about them that we might have known. We spent a nice evening talking with these smart elves, old magicians that placed their very lives into research.
They were often ignored in this society as of late, mostly because the King stopped investing into research of magic, magic artifacts, monster, and spiritual biology, and so on. We couldn't reveal everything right now though, but we did help them in anything else.
With my friends and Rosenheim, later, we had a conversation about the future of the Elven Continent and its unified nation.
Apparently, in the past, the elves were separated into different nations, but after a unification crusade thousands of years ago, the entire continent was unified below the power of the old Elven King, known as the Hero King of Spirits, Elvenisious VI, who was the King of the Alfheim Kingdom, the name that this continent takes as well as the entire kingdom that encompasses it.
However, this conquest and unification was done poorly and rushed, also with brutish violence, making the relationships between all the assimilated nobles very bad even when they were forced below a single ceiling. The King distributed territories mostly to his children, marrying the other nobles to his own kids, creating an even larger difference that has lasted upon this day.
"Every noble family has some level of rivalry between each other, as they all descend from different Kingdoms of the past and their hatred remains even now," said Rosenheim, drinking tea as she explained us a bit about this continent's complicated political situation.
"My family, the Rosenheim family which my name is based on, once heralded from the Rose Garden Trade Union, mostly made of merchants that held a peaceful relationship with most kingdoms and nations."
"Meanwhile, my family descends from the Ice Fairy Queen's Nation, the Queendom of Niflheim," said Elfriedden. "In our family, the bloodline of the ancient, now extinct Ice Fairies rushed, albeit thinly. This has given us the ability to mostly develop the rare Ice Element amongst elves, and also to mostly have ice-attribute spirits."
"Our Niflheim family has been renamed many times," sighed Everfrost. "It has taken the "Crystal" name nowadays, mostly done by the old king as a mockery of the ice elves, who he called frail little beings made of crystal..."
"Yikes, you elves sure don't get along as I imagined..." Erdrich said. "At least humans are... Well, a bit more unified? You show to be unified, but the truth... Is much more different."
"Of course, let's make the Soul Oath right now," I nodded.
"W-Wait a second Rosenheim, are you truly going to forfeit the sacred lands to a human?! Blake is my friend and I love him as a family, but this is too much!" Elfriedden's elven pride was taking over his judgement again.
"Elfriedden, you dare interrupt my conversation?!" Rosenheim roared, with a domineering aura. "If you have no idea about politics, sit down and behave, stay in silence! I know much better than you about this, and even your mother agrees! Elven Pride has no place in the future. If we want to survive and regain the prosperity we once had, we need to make sacrifices! Look at what our continent has become!
I am offering Blake lands that had already become barren and contaminated with miasma! Do you think they even have any value anymore?!"
"T-That's..." muttered Elfriedden. "But if...!"
"But if they win and heal Yggdrasil, the lands regain their luster and health, right?" asked Rosenheim. "But who do you think would do that? It's them! It's Blake! If they don't receive a part, they are not going to help us. As simple as that, we have to do an equivalent exchange.
We sell them land and they give us the power to heal all of it... Can't you understand?"
"I-I do..." Elfriedden sighed, sitting down, and remaining in silence.
"Then remain in silence if you don't have anything else to say," Rosenheim said. "Anyways, Blake, very well, let's do it."
Rosenheim... She was sure a different type of woman.
Perhaps the only person that could tame the unruly Elfriedden at that.
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