Reborn as an Extra - Chapter 222

Chapter 222: World-Lore. (Extra-chapter)(Skippable)
(This chapter has no character dialogs or other events, but it’s full of world lore, so if you are not a major fan of world lore, then skip it…)

(Those who like to delve into world lore and like to know more about world-building shall continue…)

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(Lore of the World Tree and the Elven Empire…)

‘Ryhmel’, A City built under the cool shade of the World tree, blessed by nature itself and cultivated by the elves for generations.

The elemental energies and the flow of mana are always calm here, which is extremely beneficial to all living beings in this place.

This whole continent have massively big trees due to the ‘calm’ flow of mana.

It is said that the roots of the ‘World Tree’ are spread over the whole continent and they are the reason why mana is so calm and gentle on this continent.

Practicing ‘magic’ and fast advancement in ranks can be significantly boosted with the help of a calm mana flow.

This ability of the world tree to keep the mana flow as calm as possible has always attracted the eyes of greed.

Demons, orcs, dark elves, etc. many races have previously waged wars with the Elven Empire in the hope of seizing the world tree for themselves.

Many of these races have a longer lifespan compared to the human race, and thus they have few children, their population is low compared to the humans and thus they don’t have many talented people who could ascend to rank SS.

But things become different with the help of the world tree.

The world tree makes the flow of the mana extremely calm and gentle, due to which the chances of ascension to SS-rank increase by at least 30 percent and this meager increase in chance is worth fighting hundreds of wars.

Millions have died over the past two thousand years to seize the ownership of the world tree from the Elves.

But none were successful.

Dragons might be able to pull off this feat, but they don’t really need the help of the world tree in the first place, they can simply manipulate the mana in the environment all by themselves.

Moreover, the ‘Dragon King’ himself is better than the World Tree at manipulating mana, so the dragons don’t really care about the World Tree.

In the past two thousand years, only one individual was able to force the Elven Empire to cooperate with him and lend the world tree to other races from time to time.

That person was King Allen Von Reinhart, who ‘Conquered’ the whole world and nearly caused the extinction of the demon race from this world.

During the thousand-year war, he defeated the Elf King of that time and forced him to sign a treaty.

With that treaty in place, the Elves had to work together with the humans and form the ‘World Alliance’ as one of the founding members together with the humans.

Moreover, Elves had to use the World Tree to help weaker races from time to time due to that treaty.

(This treaty is known as the biggest ‘shame’ in the Elven history books…)

Even today, elves are still bound by this treaty, not fulfilling it will make them the enemy of the whole Alliance.

It sounds like a one-sided treaty, but during the thousand-year war, this was an extremely necessary step.

The treaty was a genius move and it brought many benefits to weaker races, thus preventing their extinction in the hands of the demon army.

Elves suffered a great loss of resources during those times, but they were later provided to them by the humans and dwarves together.

Although there were some ups and downs, humans and Elves have a fairly good international relationship in today’s world.

(Yeah, you can marry yourself an Elf waifu, that if you can rizz her and make her approve of you… Do you have that ‘W Rizz’ though?)

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This is how the tournament came to be, which is held once every ten years along with the ‘Meeting of the gods’.

During the thousand-year war, there were too many races that were in need of immediate help and even though the Elves were forced to help them, they also had their own limits after all.

Even the World tree is not omnipotent and it also has its limits.

Thus to determine who would get the quota to get resources and help, the tournament was created.

All races sent their young talents to compete with each other and the winner would win the resources back home for their own race.

The competition at that time was cruel, it was a literal death match as the future of a race depended on the shoulder of the duelist.

Hard times asked for sacrifices and people sacrificed willingly.

Even with the fair and square tournament, some weak races who were not able to produce strong talents to participate never won any resources back and thus eventually perished in the annals of history.

Demon armies raged all over the world in those dark times, and no one had the time to care for the extinction of such weak races.

Seeing them perish made other races feel the urgency and the tournament became even more serious and extreme.

Sending young talents to this tournament was a double-edged sword in those times.

On one hand, you could win and get the support of other races, but if you lose and the young talent dies then there would be one less pillar of support for your race in the future.

All due to the premature death of a great talent in the tournament’s deathmatch.

But times changed eventually.

The thousand-year war ended and the demon armies were pushed back to the demon continent after the death of the demon king and the royal demons.

A thousand years of peace arrived after the war and the tournament lost its meaning, thus the rules of the duels were changed.

Killing your opponent was banned and solid rules were established.

The tournament became more of a show-off method for races and worked as a friendly exchange method for the members of the alliance.

With time, things changed, and all the surviving races became more self-sufficient and advanced, thus the tournament became a way to show your strength to other races and intimidate them.

Nowadays, times are peaceful, there are no major wars going on in the world and the demon race has been kept at bay for a long while now.

Peace has given the world a chance to heal, the scattered corruption caused by the demon armies has all been extinguished now with the combined effort of all the members of the Alliance.

In today’s, world everyone is busy cultivating more talented children for the future of the race and improving their technology by leaps and bounds.

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(More details about the Alliance.)

There were five ‘founding members’ of the ‘World Alliance’ during the thousand-year war.

Humans, Elves, Dark Elves, Dwarves, and Fairies, are the five founding members of the alliance. (Yes, fairies exist in this world…)

Each of them was a strong race with the power to rival several different races alone.

But the thousand-year war changed many things.

As the whole world knows, in an unfortunate event, the Dark Elves went extinct under the scheme of the demons. Thus excluding their name from the alliance.

Fairies used to be a race that was governed by three Fairy lords together at that time, but due to various reasons, all three of them ended up dying and the race regressed in strength by a lot.

The whole world knows about the amazing elemental capabilities of the fairies and it is said in records that Fairies are the greatest masters of the healing magic.

Healing magic itself was invented by the Fairies after all.

Today, they live in the ‘Garden of Fairies’ and have secluded themselves from the rest of the world. There’s only one way to enter the garden and that is by getting permission from the ‘Dragon King’ himself.

(Yes, the fairies are living under the protection of the dragons nowadays…)

After losing all three of their Lords, the fragile society of the fairies that were over-dependent on the power of the three lords collapsed quite fast and what followed afterward was a hundred-yearlong fairy hunt by the demon race.

Even after the combined effort of the alliance, it was impossible to save the whole population of millions from the crazy pursuit of demons.

Fortunately for the fairy race, the Dragon King of that time took pity on the Fairies for some reason and took them under his own protection.

Once the Fairies entered the protection of the Dragon King, the demons dared not pursue them anymore.

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As for the dwarves, they used to be more technologically advanced than any race in the whole world, they already had small spaceships a thousand years ago, but the war cost the dwarves a lot.

Millions of lives were lost and many cities were slaughtered overnight, overtime the technologies were lost to time and the whole race regressed by a lot.

With enough time Humans became much better than dwarves in the field of technology, thus overshadowing them even more.

Once upon a time, the dwarven-made equipment used to be famous all over the world, and the major income of the dwarves used to come from the sale of these equipment.

But now that humans are far ahead of them in terms of technology, the sale of their equipment has reached rock bottom, reducing their revenue by a lot.

Now they are just a husk of their former self, not much better than other weaker races.

All in all, in today’s world, only humans and Elves reign supreme, they are the ones who are subtly controlling the world in their palms and are enjoying the most benefits.

We can’t blame them for looking for more opportunities either, every race wants to advance after all, and no one can blame them for seizing the market for themselves.

This is all just a play of Dirty ‘Geopolitics’.

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Author’s Notes.

Yo! It’s your beloved author here! It’s been a while since I last wrote such a massive lore chapter, this chapter is a treat to those who are dedicated to knowing more about the world lore.

Question of the day.

How much do you like reading massive world lore’s?

1. Medium (Just enough to understand the world building… not much…)

2. Very much (I like reading lore a lot…)

3. Extreme (The author himself is a big fan of world lore’s and the amazing history of fantastic worlds, are you also as big a fan of lore as me?)

4. Others (Tell me in the comments.)