Chapter 458: Elven Royal Treasury

Hearing Elas’s suggestion, Zayne shook his head, "We can continue with the trade, but my lover and I have no plans of staying here for that long."

"If there will be plans for continued communication between both worlds, the spatial gate in my world that leads to this world has already been occupied by me. For your end of that spatial gate, you all can send someone to guard it."

Listening to Zayne’s words, Elas wasn’t surprised. After all, Zayne didn’t show any interest in dominating their world or making it a vassal territory of Zayne’s world.

Of course, if Zayne were to show interest in doing so, Elas wouldn’t be completely against it. Not only would he be unable to stop a World Class Mage from doing so, but he also knew the strength in numbers.

The dark monsters spawned by the Perpetual Darkness were the common enemy of all races, and against those dark monsters, Elas wouldn’t mind forming an alliance with Zayne or being his vassal.

After Zayne and Elas came to an agreement, Elas used teleportation magic to teleport all of them to the elf country’s royal treasury.

In this case, Zayne and Jade didn’t resist the teleportation. Due to their Malice Perception acquired skill, they knew that Elas didn’t plan to harm them.

Moreover, the two of them could see through their intentions and also possessed a hint-type talent, so they weren’t worried about being schemed against.

Not only that, with Zayne and Jade’s vision as an Initial Divine rank powerhouse, they could already perceive the destination of the teleportation magic spell before it was even completed.

Knowing that it indeed led to the royal treasury that was located below the Elf Royal Palace, Zayne and Jade merely held each other’s hands and even assisted Elas in hastening the casting of the teleportation magic spell.

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In the blink of an eye, Zayne, Jade, Elas, and the others found themselves under the royal palace, located within the royal treasury.

The royal treasury was filled with a lot of valuable resources. It was separated into the outer area and the inner area.

The outer area was where all the valuable resources related to the Perpetual Darkness World were stored.

As for the inner area, all magic and elf race-related resources and treasures were placed there.

It could be seen that the Elf Race valued their own world’s resources, especially those that were related to the Magic Path, compared to the resources brought by the Perpetual Darkness.

After all, it was mostly Light Bearers who could make use of the resources from the Perpetual Darkness. Since there weren’t many Light Bearers within the elf race, they didn’t place much importance on such resources.

Although Elas is the World’s Strongest and those following him were Magic Council Elders, that didn’t mean that the elven royalty didn’t exist.

Aside from a few exceptions, most of those who were talented in magic were those from noble and royal elven bloodlines.

In fact, Elas was even the granduncle of the current royal princesses and princes of the elven royal family. Due to the long lifespan of the elves, Elas still looked like a handsome youth despite being several thousand years old.

Those Magic Council Elders beside him were even way older than him, being at least a few thousand years old. In other words, Elas had reached his current mage rank due to his talent, while the Magic Council Elders had reached this level due to their age.

Of course, it wasn’t that they weren’t talented, but they were merely ordinary geniuses while Elas was truly exceptional, which allowed him to achieve what they couldn’t achieve even at their old age.

In other words, Elas was already the World’s Strongest before the Perpetual Darkness had arrived.

After all, unlike humans who had explosive growth and talent due to their short lifespans, Elves like Elas would use their long lifespan to reach that level.

Due to short life not being an issue for elves, they didn’t have the sense of "time running out" that causes humans to do their best to achieve something before they die.

It eventually led to them remaining complacent and stagnant. A human with a talent equal to theirs would have already achieved a much higher mage rank at a younger age.

However, it was natural, as they didn’t possess that desperation driven by a short lifespan.

Furthermore, there had been only two years since the Elf World experienced the Perpetual Darkness. Although they’ve become even more desperate than before due to external forces, those two short years weren’t enough for a young prodigious elf to dethrone Elas’s status as the World’s Strongest.

All of the elves who were Ten Circle Mages were only those elves who had lived for several thousand years like Elas, with Elas being the youngest among them.

Observing these elves secretly, Zayne sighed, ’In the end, if a human soul and spirit were to gain the same lifespan as them, they’d achieve something far higher than elves who had become complacent and stagnant due to their long life.’

’Of course, it’s also dependent on that person, as those who were given the same lifespan might also fall into complacency and stagnation. But in my case, I would have achieved a much higher rank, given the same resources and talent.’

In the end, what separated them was determination, drive, and perseverance.

Aside from his talent, the reason why Elas had become the youngest but strongest mage in the Elf World was due to his not only possessing superior talent, but also his single-minded devotion to the Magic Path.

As for the Magic Council Elders beside him, their pursuit of the Magic Path was no longer as pure as Elas’s. Their minds were muddled with politics and superficial power brought by their position as Magic Council Elders.

However, despite this, the Magic Council Elders weren’t completely stupid and hadn’t gone senile. Faced with a situation that was no longer within their capabilities, they merely followed silently and trusted Elas to handle it.

After all, despite being younger than them and relatively hands-off in his duties, Elas was the undisputed Magic Council President!