Chapter 2:

The results of my first campaigns are already evident.

My subjects have increased.

However, it would be useless to try and increase anymore.

As much as I can hunt by myself, there is a limit to how many I can feed at once without using magic.

Since they wouldn’t learn it no matter how many times I used magic in front of them, this would be useless for their education.

It has come to a point where I really need those dumb animals to learn some tricks.

The True Elves are mostly gatherers. They don’t even know how to hunt properly, unless one is talking about insects or dinorats.

In fact, I would say the regular True Elf is even dumber than a dog. They can learn how to respond to simple commands, like my yells, but many can’t even remember when I call them by name.

That’s why it’s useless to try and keep the conquest of the continent at the current state of things.

If these animals can’t even feed themselves, and if I don’t bring them meat on a regular basis, then they will just desert camp.

Of course, I could just kill the deserters, but that would be to no avail.

Why kill them by hand if the other option is to let them die by hunger?

- Uuu… uuuuhhrr aaaaaah!

- Quiet Dansir.

This is the most rational amongst the True Elves. I call him Dansir, and he could be said to be my most promising “general”.

That’s because he could learn a few tricks with a wooden spear I made for him.

From what I can see, he is the most rational of this whole tribe.

Besides him there are eight colonels, twenty-three commanders and one hundred and two captains in my army’s official hierarchy.

Those are the smartest amongst this one thousand-something subjects of mine.

The general class can learn spear tricks. The colonel class can learn how to bash with a glaive and how to make those. The commander class can learn how to throw darts at the enemy with the use of a blowpipe. And the captain class can remember their own names, answering when called.

It would be useless to name any more than those three classes. I believe the other Elves have a rough instinct of hierarchy, since there are some patterns on which Elves interact with the Commanders and how they do it, but I don’t care at all.

Let them develop their own Hierarchies. This will contribute to the increase of the general levels of rationality of this group.

Not as much as my next step, however.

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I have separated the Elves in two rough groups.

For that I have first dug a big trench, and threw all the males, except those present in my Hierarchy, inside of this trench.

I thought of plainly killing them, but I felt somewhat reluctant to do so.

I may have massacred many True Elves until this moment, but killing these would accomplish me nothing.

Besides, there may be some there who eventually show a greater level of reason than the others.

Then I dug a second trench, and threw all the other Elves, that is, all the females and the males of my Official Hierarchy.

I obviously expect for them to breed amongst themselves, luckily producing more rational offspring.

The first trench has metal bars separating the low-reason males from the females and high-reason males, so the benefits of being smart will be easily noticed by the males.