Not only in the Academy, but also at the trial meeting, and even the troops who had been fighting with my tribe, were mostly female elves.
“You have noticed. Actually, the reason is not complicated at all, it is just there are too few elven men.”
“How could it be just a few? i feel like i haven’t seen a male elf yet.”
“In this college, there are about 500 students, and there are only ten male students. As you are not in the same grade and branch, so basically you don’t see them. And there are no male teachers in the Academy. In fact, the ratio of boys to girls in the entire country of Saidian is now seriously imbalanced. Now, even in the army there are mainly female elves soldiers.”
“How can this be possible?” i was surprised.
“The main reason is the Abyss war. As you probably know, the demons and orcs commanded by the Abyss demon had almost swept the entire continent. In order to fight against the Demon King, the country of Human, Dwarves and Elves formed an alliance. We, Saidian, also got invaded. The war was so tragic that many young male elves died in that war. At the end of war, we had to send female elves and underage male elves into the battlefield.”
“But….Ma’am. It’s been decades since the war happened.”
It was understandable that the war led to a sharp decrease in the population of a certain generation of young and middle-aged men.Even my tribe that also got slaughtered by demons and was almost exterminated because of the pursuit of independence in that war,but already three generations have passed, and the population has largely recovered.
“Have you forgotten our elves’ greatest characteristic?”
“Uh… long life?” I had a vague sense of what she was trying to say.
“Yes, we elves have a long life, but correspondingly, the growth cycle is also very long. It takes 150 years for elves to grow from birth to adulthood. Even relatively long-lived dwarves, only take 50 years to reach adulthood. For your short-lived races, war is a matter of a few generations ago, but for us, it is still the problem of this generation. Not to mention, the fertility rate of elves is very low. The next generation with a normal male to female ratio that will reach the age of enrollment into college, will probably take another ten years. ”
“Then why didn’t you see this coming sooner? Sending the underaged male elves into the battlefield before sending the female elves?” i was puzzled. “In my impression, unlike the other races, the fighting ability of your female elves is no less than that of male. There was no need to insist on forming an army with only men. If enough troops had been put in at the beginning, the casualties could also have been greatly reduced.”
“It is true that elves are not a race that relies on physical strength to fight. Both male and female elves have talents for bow and magic. However, the reason we didn’t put the female elves in the early stage? If you think about it carefully by combining today’s experience, you should be able to imagine it.”
I thought about it for a while, and my cheeks twitched unconsciously: “ could it because of the demon’ king’s army…”
Rolanna stretched out her hands at me: “Yes, because the main force of the Demon king’s army were orcs.”
“….” the answer made me dumbfounded.
So , these elves, because of the fear that women on the battlefield will be disgraced by the orcs, insisted on only letting men go on the battlefield until a whole generation of men almost died out?
This is so fu*king stupid!
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