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"You..." Xian Lan was about to speak again when Hades beside him suddenly changed his expression and asked sharply, "You said the three elven races have unified? So now the mages from the other two elven races are also in that city?"

Aflanni did not speak, but Hekler laughed and said, "You're sharp, human. You guessed right. Behind us in the city, there are sixty thousand mixed elven mages gathered from the former High Elves, Wood Elves, and Moon Elves, now launching a second 'Six-Star Demon-Slaying Array.' So, victory in this war is already assured."

As he spoke, six colored beams of light suddenly rose again from the distant elven capital. In response, the silver starlight in the sky flared brilliantly, converging into countless streams of stars that poured down, causing the nearly depleted star-force cocoon to swell once more.

Heroic Werewolf Scroll, Chapter 71: Golden Purple Sky Mourns the Red Lotus

"Looking at the scene before us, it feels like we're dreaming."

When Queen Rolantia of the Elves stood atop the palace tower, watching elven mages from different regions harmoniously casting spells together, she couldn't help but utter these words.

Yes, after millennia, the elves could finally unite and cast spells together once again.

Of the sixty thousand reinforcements, thirty thousand were High Elves, though their millennia-old elven mages had already been depleted earlier. The other two races sent their strongest mage forces, comprising all their millennia-old elven mages. Although the Wood and Moon Elves' mages numbered less than a fifth of the High Elves' mages, having avoided the forbidden spell disaster four hundred years ago, they retained a high proportion of elite millennia-old elven mages. Thus, upon uniting with the High Elves, they quickly formed a complete magical formation. Although their "Six-Star Demon-Slaying Array" was far inferior in strength and speed to the first wave of the High Elves' well-trained mage corps, thanks to the existing magical structure and mana channels, they could still gather eighty percent of the star-force of the previous array.

And that alone was enough to shift the balance.

If it were a forbidden spell, there would be no possibility of merging two spells' mana, and even ordinary magic would struggle to achieve this. But for the elves, who had nearly exhausted all magical mysteries, achieving this within the vast "Six-Star Demon-Slaying Array" was not difficult. Thus, the star cocoon in the sky swelled rapidly as new energy surged in, finally ready just as the forbidden thunder spell neared the capital's edge.

"Today, here, under the gaze of the Primeval Golden Tree, we will finally put an end to our race's centuries-long nightmare!"

With the queen's declaration, the star cocoon unleashed a vast and mighty surge of star-force. The forbidden thunder spell, "Rhapsody of Ruin," lasted only a moment before being overwhelmed by the fully activated star-force tide.

On the distant mountaintop, the last forbidden spell mage finally perished. The empty platform was left with only three Forbidden Spell Mark Crystals, flickering faintly on the dimmed magic circle.

Thus concluded the largest magical battle in four centuries.

The elves secured a monumental victory, not only successfully repelling the combined assault of three forbidden spells but also reclaiming their lost capital and the Primeval Golden Tree. With the birth of the elven queen, the three surface elven races were unified, greatly enhancing their strength. Additionally, the return of tens of thousands of millennia-old elven mages and hundreds of thousands of underage elves from another dimension significantly replenished the elven population. Although over seventy thousand elven mages were injured by mana backlash during the magical battle, with the support of the Primeval Golden Tree's power, most of them would gradually recover, unlike three thousand years ago when dealing with the Great Demon King Bato, where eighty to ninety percent of the elves either died or permanently lost their magic.

Human losses, however, were difficult to estimate. Although only three doomed forbidden spell mages perished in the direct magical confrontation, the elves' successful restoration of their capital and the unification of their race would undoubtedly have a profound impact on the future war situation in the southern continent. Thus, the broader losses were only beginning to show and were impossible to estimate. The key issue, however, lay with the forbidden spell mages. As long as the Forbidden Spell Mark Crystals were in hand, there would always be tenth-level mages willing to train in forbidden spells. How soon new forbidden spell mages would emerge would be a critical factor in future battles.

However, not everyone was willing to let humans reclaim the forbidden spell marks so easily.

Take Chen Xuanfeng, for example.

During the magical confrontation, Chen Xuanfeng had been held at the foot of the mountain by four saint-level youths. Although he had found opportunities to charge toward the mountaintop, the overwhelming forbidden spell mana enveloping the peak drained too much of his energy, and he was repeatedly forced back down by the pursuing human sword saints.

Now, with the clouds dispersing and the light fading, the massive magical battle had ended. Knowing this was a rare opportunity, Chen Xuanfeng swiftly maneuvered, breaking free from the encirclement of the four youths and making a dash for the mountain again. Tan Yueer and the others quickly moved to intercept, trying to form a formation to block him. Unexpectedly, Chen Xuanfeng suddenly retreated, using the "Magic Aura" to accelerate several times over, instantly creating a hundred-meter gap that the four could not close.