Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 115 Reinforcements and Illusions
The chaos in Holy Tree City continued, and gradually began to develop in the most uncontrollable direction.
The excited people took to the streets, waving bone weapons to attack the guardrails outside the Bone Palace. Occasionally, translucent beast spirits would emerge from the crowd, roaring and scratching, gnawing at the translucent barrier outside the palace, making the originally stable barrier look shaky.
Inside the barrier, the guards trained and organized by Floro according to the empire's military standards, although wearing enchanted armor sent from the Platinum Province and holding magic swords engraved with magic runes, were still trembling as they looked at the endless crowd outside.
With the absolute numerical advantage, if it weren't for the barrier set up by the Duke of Holy Tree himself to keep the crowd out, they would probably be torn to pieces by the rampaging people in an instant, even if they were well-equipped and well-trained - in fact, those members of the staff who had relied on their identity as magic chanters to step out of the barrier and restore order had already been torn to pieces.
"that……"
Seeing dozens of beast spirits constantly hitting the barrier, with cracks extending like spider webs, a young guard recruit trembled slightly and pulled the arm of the guard captain beside him and said:
"Captain, the so-called speech was just a smear campaign by the opposition in order to overthrow the Duke's rule... These people were just being used and didn't know what they were doing... Right? We are the ones who are right, right?"
Upon hearing this, the captain of the guard
At this moment, it was not just the new recruit in front of him. Facing the imminent threat of being torn into pieces, and the speech of the Duke of the Holy Tree that just suddenly echoed throughout Ravenwood, even he, who had loyally served Flora for many years and felt that he could clearly understand the lofty goals of the first female duchess in the history of the forest elves, could not help but begin to feel a little shaken.
Therefore, he shook off the recruit's hand, and then looked at the man and the other people around him who were also looking around with sharp eyes, and said sternly with the last of his strength:
"Don't think about those unnecessary things! Our only mission now is to protect the Bone White House behind us, wait for the Duke to come back, and regain control of the situation!"
That's right... As long as the Duke comes back, with her supreme power, it will be effortless to suppress the riots in front of her. Those conspirators who used evil means to imitate the Duke's voice and speech, incited the people to besiege the Bone Palace, and killed the staff members, one by one, will be liquidated.
but……
Turning his gaze back to the angry people outside the barrier, under the gaze of thousands of angry eyes, the captain of the guard felt as if he was tied under the World Tree at the Holy Leaf Festival, waiting to be offered as a sacrifice to the Holy Tree Mother, without any power to resist.
But...if the previous speech was indeed spoken by the Duke of the Holy Tree, to whom they were loyal...if the Duke, who was willing to do anything to achieve reform, was really uniting with external forces to "cleanse" his sins and make the entire Ravenwood "atone" for him...
What should they do then?
Did he really choose to commit suicide as the Duke said?
"boom!"
A loud roar brought him back to reality from his temporary trance. The battle-hardened captain of the guard almost subconsciously grasped the magic sword, activated the sealed spell on it, and at the same time turned his head to look in the direction where the sound came from.
"How……"
After he saw clearly the source of the loud roar, his mind went blank.
How could it be that thing...
A corner of the barrier outside the Bone Palace had been shattered to pieces—not even a slag was left. And the one who shattered the barrier was neither the forest elves holding bone weapons, nor the hunting clans controlling beast spirits, nor even the tree spirits that could mobilize the power of the forest.
The one who broke the barrier was a tall giant wearing clothes made of straw ropes and animal skins and a deer antler helmet on his head.
She was emitting a pale white halo, holding a primitive spear made of flint and wood in her hand. Her face was hidden under a helmet made of antlers and a mask made of deer bones, and her amber eyes burned with wild anger.
She used her spear to break the impenetrable barrier as easily as breaking an eggshell.
"Father of the wilderness..."
With a tone of reverence and fear, and a hint of confusion, the captain of the guard and several people around him could not help but call out the title of the giant. The existence before them matched the description of the god in all religious books and legends.
God of hunting, Lord of beasts, Husband of the Great Mother, Transmitter of skills, Eternal winner of the Blood Moon Game...
In the traditional beliefs of the forest elves, he is one of the only two gods who can truly perform miracles.
Although it was just a phantom, how could the Father of the Wilderness suddenly appear here?
You know, a thousand years ago, she fell into a long sleep because she tried to stop an evil god from entering Ravenwood. Even though her remaining power has been protecting every ruler of the forest elves, and the forest elf rulers have maintained the belief in the "Father of the Wilderness" through rituals to maintain their existence, no one has ever seen a god like her descend!
No... there is another possibility...
Recalling a certain rumor, the captain's heart sank.
It is said that the "Father of the Wild" will only return in the future when the forest elves are in great danger of extinction - but this legend does not actually have much market. After all, when the invaders of the Riel Empire wanted to set fire to the forest, this god did not appear to destroy the empire's magician group.
But now she was here.
And it happened shortly after the Duke finished his speech.
Is this also a coincidence? It's impossible, right?
Flora Cain, the first female forest elf ruler in history, this radical leader who constantly pushes for the secularization of Ravenwood and hopes to integrate the entire forest elf race into the empire... Could it be that her real purpose is, as she said in her previous speech, to seek to make the entire forest elf race complete its own atonement through self-destruction?
"The beast master is with us!"
After the shadow of the "Father of the Wilderness" appeared, there was a brief silence outside the barrier, and then accompanied by a roar of a bear, the crowd became excited again.
Amid the wave after wave of shouts of "Death to the Duke", countless forest elves followed the god and passed through the broken barrier.
At this moment, the captain of the guard didn't dare to think any more. He pulled out the magic sword in his hand and threw it directly to the ground, then unfastened the buckle that fixed the armor.
"Surrender."
He said calmly.
The people he had scolded earlier looked at him with mixed expressions. They also understood that this was a battle they had no chance of winning. But one of them still asked:
"Didn't you just say that we were waiting here for the Duke's help..."
"It's too late. There won't be any help coming back, and there won't be any..."
But before the captain of the guard could finish his words, several intertwined lightning snakes suddenly flashed between them and the "Father of the Wilderness".
The lightning snake coiled out of the space crack, and then several people with gorgeous clothes and slender figures walked out slowly from it.
Those people had long pointed ears like them, but their skin was much whiter than theirs.
The leader, wearing golden scale armor and carrying a blood-red sword, walked up to them and picked up the magic sword that the captain of the guard had dropped earlier.
"We are here on the orders of Lady Remedios and entrusted by the Chief Judge of the End Watchers to fulfill the sacred covenant with Lady Flora. Before everything is settled, the fate of the White Bone House is equal to our fate... I would also like to ask, do you have the courage to face the projection of a god right now?"
…………
William picked up the bronze guy who looked like Neh and threw him onto the Kurong throne, and then he thought of it.
I shouldn't have missed something, right?
Previously, in another timeline, the "Neh" born by the Mother Goddess of the Earth only had a soul body. But now, the creation of the mysterious Moon Realm organization "Tower of Annihilation" in the Empire can perfectly replicate the body of "Neh".
As the offspring of the Mother Earth, the offspring and the mother are one; for this reason, Camilla made the incarnation give birth to only a soul body, in order to ensure that she is the only candidate for the rebirth ceremony.
And now, the bronze statue that could replace Neh's physical body just "happened" to be delivered to his hands. It was hard not to guess that this was the intention of another Void King - this was also very much in line with that guy's style of doing things in a detour around most of the world.
But her motives are still very suspicious. Could it be that she just wants to replace the reborn "Neh" and snatch the Moon Realm throne from Lady Hungry and Corrupted?
Although the result might be good, William still didn't dare to gamble. What kind of will was controlling the reborn soul of "Nehe"?
+Boss, I've seen that arrow miss. Plus the wound on the other person's neck, and the mark you left on the wound, I can bring you here through "trading", but the chance is only once, and the reward you have to give afterwards is also terrifyingly high. Are you sure you want to continue this deal? +
At this time, relying on the connection of the contract, the voice of "greed" once again echoed in William's mind.
+Stop talking nonsense+
And this was William's answer.
It’s better not to care about any ceremony or not. As long as I can go to another timeline and kill all the people who hold the ceremony, then any conspiracy will be just an illusion like a mirage.
+Let’s Get Started+
