I wanted to enjoy a slow life while exploring the territory with a secret gift [craft skill], but I was intentionally banished to the frontier by pretending to be incompetent.

Volume 5-: Lesser Elf Village

Chapter 7-: Let's hear the secret of the Lesser Elf!

(TL By GUST)

Huh?"

My age. How old do I look?"

"is that so……"

　Assuming that he is a normal human, the village chief looks more than 60 years old.

　Kieda must have been 60 years old, so it must be older than that.

　So I'm about seventy.

　But he's an elf.

　Speaking of elves, I hear that they live several times longer than humans, and spend a long period of their lives in the same way as when they were adults.

　So, if that was true, the old man in front of me should have already reached the end of his life.

　If that's the case, then 200... no, 300 years old...

“In terms of humans, they appear to be around 60 to 70 years old, but the elves seem to live very long, so I don’t know how long they live.”

"Hahaha. Only pure elves live that long."

"Really?"

"Yes, by the way, my age is sixty-six, as Rest-sama predicted."

　I was a little surprised by the village chief's words while laughing like a good-natured old man.

"You look surprised, don't you? The lifespan of Lesser Elves is the same as that of humans. By the way, my age is――"

"Holy Beast-sama, I'm talking to Mayor Imamura, so can we talk later?"

"……Hmmm……"

　Thanks to Holy Beast-sama's needless interjection, we calmed down a bit and looked at the village chief's face while sitting back on the chair.

　The old man's face had a happy expression as if the prank had succeeded, and there were long pointed ears attached to the side of the old man's face, indicating that he was an elf.

　It shows that he is indeed an elf.

　However, they only have the same lifespan as us.

"Is that true?"

"Yes, of course"

“Is it possible that you are suffering from some kind of disease that speeds up aging?”

"Disease... No, this is not a disease."

The meaning of inferior to Lesser Elf's  Lesser.

“Of course, I heard that we used to have the same long lifespans as the elves. Or rather, our ancestors were pure elves.”

　And the village chief talks about the history of the Lesser Elves, which has been passed down from successive village chiefs.

　The country of elves is said to be the Luart Continent, which is quite far away from this island, and apart from the coastal areas, it's mostly forests and mountains.

　One day, a problem occurred in an elf country deep in the continent.

　It was a violent childhood.

　For the elves, who have long lifespans, having few children was not a big problem.

　For this reason, it took a considerable amount of time to realize the fact that the species could not continue to produce children.

　The race of elves will perish at this rate.

　Some people who sensed this were pushing for marriage with other races.

　Children that are not easily born among elves are relatively easy to be born among other races.

　Proponent elves argued that the survival of the race should be multiplied by it.

　However, it is a story that pure elves who have persecuted such children as lesser elves and kicked them out can not accept it at all, and the proponents are banished from the elf forest called the world of elves. It seems

And the pure elves began to call the children of elves born to other races "lesser elves," a degraded species of elves.

Looking at the results, I can't say which one is better.

　At first, the power of the elves didn't decline that much even after crossbreeding with other races, but over time, their blood gradually weakened, and now most of them can only use "elementary magic".

　And their lifespans are getting shorter and shorter, and now they're on par with humans.

“Mysteriously, the descendants of Dwarves and Halflings, who have longer lifespans than humans, also have the same lifespans as humans.”

"What's going on?"

"I don't know. Maybe it's the result of my body trying to balance because the magic of the elf's blood is too strong."

　Eventually, they were driven out of the elf forest and wandered around the Luart continent in order to increase their offspring.

　Since pure elves basically do not come out of the elven country and forests in the forest, the proponents tried to leave their descendants on the plains where they were not.

　As a result, there were quite a few people with elven blood, but the pure elves who knew about it started to move.

　Recognizing only pure elves, they carried out "power diplomacy" on the Luart continent and surrounding countries with their powerful magic.

“We must not increase the number of lesser elves who are not pure elves.

The Lesser Elves abandoned the Luart Continent and traveled all over the world to escape persecution from such pure elves.

　It seems that it was a coincidence that one of the departed couples ended up on this island.

“Perhaps the purpose of the pure elf diplomat I saw in the royal capital was also the purpose of his visit…”

"That's definitely the goal. We've already taken control of the neighboring Luart continent, and then started to reach out to the rest of the world.

"..."

"Even though we said that, we have never seen a pure elf."

　When the village chief said so, he whispered, "Now that I've heard about my ancestors, I don't even want to see them."

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