Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored: Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 4] by rarutori

Author:rarutori
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2 — Execution

After the northern continent had been saved, the two dragons returned to their slumber. About another thirty years passed...making me three hundred and twenty-eight years old. To be honest, keeping track of my age was starting to become a hassle. But I felt like if I stopped counting, my sense of time would grow even more vague, and I’d end up losing track of many more things.

Airena and I were living on an island off the southern coast of Vilestorika. You might think we were spending all our time fishing and watching the sunset while enjoying the sea breeze, but our lives weren’t quite so relaxed. Okay, that was how I personally spent about half of my time, but Airena was still as busy as ever.

The island of Pantarheios had become a midway point for trade ships traveling the ocean, and so had developed rapidly over the past few decades. The elven caravan had expanded its operations out from the east-central region, making maritime trade on the northern continent grow significantly. After all, a ship was much faster and safer with an elf on board.

Being able to see spirits of the wind meant elves could see storms coming far sooner than humans could, and they could find the quickest sea routes with ease. On top of that, the greatest difficulty most ships faced at sea was access to fresh water, something that an elf could resolve handily by themselves. Though most elves lacked the physical strength expected of any human sailor, most captains went far out of their way to find some other role for them to fill so that they could have even one accompany them on their voyage.

Unfortunately, life so far from the trees of the forest was exceptionally stressful for an elf, so there were few who desired such positions. The few who did were managed by a certain trade organization known as the elven caravan. Becoming enemies with the caravan meant losing access to the power of the elves. As such, the caravan began to hold a tremendous amount of influence with the merchants and sailors of the northern continent.

Of course, this increased demand for elves meant we needed to work harder to protect them as workers. If some merchant attempted something like the West once had in enslaving elves to work on their ships, the caravan would spare no effort in crushing them.

Airena had relinquished her position as head of the caravan, but she was still deeply involved with it. Her expertise and connections as the one who had led the caravan since its inception were second to none. Most humans would lose a lot of their connections after a few decades, but as an elf who dealt often with other long-lived races, Airena’s were still going strong. There were many elven forests that still held a deep trust in the caravan because of Airena specifically, and her name still carried a lot of weight when it came to dealings with the dwarves.

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