Thousands of elves passed through the outpost, flew over the outskirts of the forest, and landed near the city gates.

After landing, Jia Zhengjin let the fake dragon return to the mine where he was stationed to rest. In the past few days, the giant bee Ruruto, who had been carrying the elves to the road, also let them return to the hive.

The gates opened.

Dolma, Alvin, Buddy, Worf, Karl, Vera, Leo, Michael, Rabi, and Amber greeted them side by side, while kobolds, town guards, city guards, and new crossbowmen lined up on either side, while more villagers watched from behind the walls and the army.

Jia Zhengjin led thousands of elves into the city, and the surroundings were full of curious eyes and discussions about the elves.

The elven race is not very common in the first place, let alone thousands of them coming at once?

After only six or seven days of going out, Jia Zhengjin found that the city had changed a lot.

First of all, there are city defenses, and a lot of arrow towers have been built near the gates of the outer city, and most of them have been upgraded to level six or seven. It seems that after their departure, they have been carrying out the order!

The second is the originally empty area of the outer city, which is now occupied by dense simple residential stone houses.

"Lord Keane!" Dolma came over and explained, "After the families of the city guards are brought back, a lot of housing will be needed. In addition, there was a group of soldiers from Mangar City, so we had kobold craftsmen build more dwellings as quickly as possible. ”

"Hmm!" Jia Zhengjin nodded, "Let the kobold craftsmen build more, and these elves will all live tonight!

"That's reassuring!" Dolma replied, "We've been expanding our neighborhood all this time, and now there are plenty of vacant houses. Even if there are three or four thousand people, they can still live there! And the number of stone houses continues to increase every day, just because of this situation!"

Jia Zhengjin froze for a moment, and said in his heart that the living area was enough, why did he desperately build so much? But he didn't say it to his face, he just nodded: "Okay, you take someone to arrange these elves! Also, tomorrow I will send someone to escort them back to the Elven Forest......

"Master Keane!" Before he could finish his sentence, an elf suddenly walked out of the crowd, "I have no shame to return to the Elven Forest, and I have no way to return to that pure world! You are my savior and the savior who led me out of the sea of suffering." I beseech you to let me stay in your city!"

"Philip, are you crazy?" Hearing this, Singier's face suddenly changed, "Without the blessing of the Tree of Life, your lifespan is only 1,000 years at most! You are 527 years old, which means that you can only live for more than 400 years at most!"

The elves are largely immortal under the protection of the Tree of Life. But once they leave the Tree of Life, they will only live for 1,000 years at most!

The problem is that Jia Zhengjin wanted to scold his mother when he heard this.

At most, you can only live for more than 400 years? Are you kidding me? Do you think that more than 400 years is very short, have you considered that we human beings have not lived a long life after a hundred years?

"Your Highness Princess!" the elf, Philip, looked back at Singill, "You can't understand my current mood. During the period of being enslaved by those human nobles, every day I lived a life that was worse than death! Not to mention 400 years, even 4 days was extremely torturous and long for me! After going through so many things, I could never return to my original heart, and I could not become the pure spirit I used to be. I can't go back to the Elven Forest, I can't face the pure people. Please forgive me for being selfish!"

"Philip ......" Sengil tried to dissuade him, but he didn't know how to speak.

Jia Zhengjin felt that this elf's thoughts were normal, he probably felt that he really didn't have the face to go back to face his own people, after all, when they were used as slaves, they suffered all kinds of humiliation. Not to mention them, anyone with a little self-esteem and shame would probably be afraid to go back. Therefore, he agreed to the elf's request without even thinking about it: "If you want to stay voluntarily, of course I will not refuse! But if you stay in my city, you are my people." You must obey my laws and follow my commands!"

"And rightfully so!" Philip nodded.

"Okay then!" Seeing this situation, Sengil nodded helplessly, "Philip, since this is your decision, I respect you! Tomorrow I will return to the Elven Forest with the others, if you figure it out then, you can tell me!"

"Your Highness Princess!" however, as soon as she finished speaking, several more elves came out.

Sengil turned his head away, a puzzled expression.

The elves looked at each other, and after hesitating for a moment, one of the women spoke, "Your Royal Highness......, forgive your sins!" On the way back, we had already secretly discussed. All the people here are slaves and humiliated. Just like Philip, we are all afraid to return to the Elven Forest, afraid to face the strange eyes of our people!"

"How so?" said Sengil hurriedly.

"Your Highness," said the female elf, "there have been elves who have been treated as slaves by humans or other races have returned to the clan, and we have seen with our own eyes the indifference, coldness, and disgust of the people! Although you did not discriminate against us, princess, you were even better to us than before. But we know that our own people don't like unclean things the most! and now we are one of them! We don't want to live forever in the same way as those who have returned to our people, and live forever in the discrimination of others. Therefore, please forgive us, Your Highness the Princess, even though you have come to our rescue in person, despite the danger. However, none of us want to go back to the Elven Forest, preferring to spend our lives in a strange place!

"W-what......," Sengil froze, "you're all leaving?" listen to me, though discrimination does exist. But there are still a lot of companions waiting for you to go home! don't be impulsive, think through it......

"Your Highness Princess!" Philip stepped forward and sighed as he looked at her, "this was decided by all of us, not impulsively. Please forgive us and let us do what we want!"

"This ...... As a princess, I will let my people be kind to everyone! You are outside, without the protection of the tree of life, there is an end to life!calm down, will you come home with me?"

"I'm sorry, Your Highness the Princess, but we've all made up our minds!" Philip knelt down on one knee, "I beg your pardon!"

"Whoa!" Although the other elves did not speak, they all knelt down with Philip to Singier.