Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 80 Drink
Floro left here with the archbishop of the Second Order, or the actual situation might be the other way around.
After all, it is hard to tell which side is the one being used... But no matter what, as long as the other party still holds the identity of the Duke of Holy Tree, he still holds the initiative in Holy Tree City.
But fortunately, Remedios did not come alone.
Including the Phoenix Guards who protected the Lord of Ava, an elite force of about 300 people, boarded the ancient sacred sun ship inherited from the era of the Lord of Mist, and secretly landed in the Emerald Province before the main fleet.
With the help of the teleportation beacon left by William earlier, they were teleported directly to the heart of Ravenwood, outside the Holy Tree City - although the several magicians who opened the portal fainted due to excessive consumption, this elite force composed entirely of extraordinary people finally arrived here.
As for why they were outside the city… The Holy Tree City did not have “civilized” fortifications such as gates or walls, but if outsiders did not have locals to guide them, once they stepped into the territory classified as “inside the city”, they would be hostile to the entire forest. Therefore, Remedios had asked them to camp outside the city for the time being.
When the relationship is completely broken, this will be a trump card that has been prepared in advance.
On the other hand...
"You have all seen it before. The Duke's body is now occupied by an unknown demon. Even I cannot predict what crazy things he will do next. However, the damage he will eventually cause will definitely not be smaller than the scale of the Prosperous Disaster in the past, or even the Moon Tide invaded by Lady Hunger and Corruption.
"If you still remember the history of more than a thousand years ago."
Looking at the forest druids who remained in the temple, Remedios spoke half in a threatening and half serious tone.
It didn't take much effort to convince these people. It was more like they came here to take advantage of Flora's weakness and pull her off the throne of Kuruo.
And now, although the sudden awakening of the Duke of Holy Tree was beyond their expectations, what happened just now gave these people a reason to openly overthrow the rule of the Duke of Holy Tree... and a strong enough force to back them up.
The Duke of the Holy Tree, Floral Cain, a hidden Moon Realm believer, is suspected to have been possessed by a high-level Moon Realm monster...
If these are still speculations, the fact that the other party brutally killed his loyal subordinates is an indisputable fact.
As for "it will bring unimaginable disaster to the whole Ravenwood", this statement was made by the eyewitnesses of the Prosperous Disaster and the Moon Tide of the Lady of Hunger and Corruption.
Therefore, without Remedios saying anything more, these people immediately expressed that they would do their best to cooperate with her work.
For the safety of the entire Ravenwood and the entire Jade Province, they are willing to go through fire and water!
Therefore, in the current situation of severe lack of military support, the conservatives who had been offended by Floral's iron-fisted ruling style became the natural allies of Remedios and her team. If they could mobilize the Oak Council and the warriors of the various beast spirit tribes, they would have the advantage in numbers.
It's really fate.
Of course, Remedios also knew that these people must have their own calculations, and there must be all kinds of tricks behind the so-called expedient alliance.
But she didn't care about this.
After all, she didn't expect these people to achieve anything. In the end, the outcome of the chess game was determined by the life and death of the kings. In the past, the guys who would be suppressed by Fularo alone were only cannon fodder of low level in the contest of the God Realm.
The main purpose of winning them over is to stabilize the situation in Holy Tree City in the future, and most importantly...intelligence!
"Are you asking me about the Duke of the Holy Tree... No, about the past of Floral Cain?"
After allowing the others to leave, Remedios left Enso, the leader and the oldest, alone and asked him about Floro's life experience.
Although the Chief Judge had been synchronizing the intelligence on this side through [Mirror Image], even so, it was impossible for him to explain everything he saw and heard in detail.
Enso is the most senior elder in the Oak Council. If there is anything special about Flora's identity, he is the one most likely to know.
At least you should know some clues.
Enso nodded, touched his fibrotic forehead and thought for a moment, then said:
"She is a child of the forest who is taken care of by the Great Mother. She can easily communicate with the will of the World Tree. In the past, she could even become the incarnation of the Great Mother. But because she was adopted by a human magician when she was young, she gave up her talent when she was very young. In addition, we still don't know who her biological parents are, because she was abandoned in the depths of the forest when she was born..."
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Following the network of vines that connected the trees, Captain Quill Wolfyan, with those silent and terrifying creatures behind him, came to the branch of the subtree named "Purple Shirt".
In the past, forest elves would not name subtrees, because from the Great Mother, the World Tree, the souls of every tree were equal, and once they had names, they would differentiated.
However, about half a year ago, the Great Mother gave a rare oracle - she named every subtree in the entire Ravenwood, and all of them were very common surnames among the forest elves.
There are many different interpretations of the Oak Council's oracle...
Quill was thinking about all sorts of things in his mind, and when he came to his senses, he found that he had arrived.
The door of the "Purple Shirt" treetop temple was open, and a disgusting burnt smell was constantly emanating from it.
As he expected, someone had burned all the "compost" in the temple into useless residue. If nutrients were not replenished quickly, the sapling would soon be unable to return to the embrace of the "Great Mother" as a qualified "offspring".
Who on earth did such a cruel thing that prevented those poor souls from returning to their mother's arms?
Quill punched the branch in anger, causing a cloud of black ash to rise.
He secretly swore in his heart that he would make those who committed such evil acts pay a painful price.
Before he came, he had not yet figured out the deep meaning behind Master Enso's decision to ask him to bring the Wild Hunt, the Purple Shirt Tree Spirit, and the Imperial Ambassador to capture those cruel arsonists, and he thought it was too high-profile.
But now he understood why.
The person who committed such a horrific crime must be tried by the White Bone House, the Oak Council, and the Imperial Embassy at the same time, so that everyone can despise the hateful arsonist.
So the next question is how can I fulfill my mission and find that damn guy.
The answer to this question was soon obtained.
"Captain of the Guard, there seems to be smoke coming out from the crown of the thorn tree."
A Wild Hunt warrior behind him said this, pointing to another subtree in the distance.
The thorn is the name of the tree.
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Coming out of another treetop temple, the expression on William's face became increasingly ugly .
It was almost mechanically burning all the people inside to ashes, and this time he didn't even have the interest to express his opinion.
But his trip was not without gain - in this temple, he found a forest druin who had not had time to leave. After a brief questioning, he learned some other information.
Those mothers and children were forced to drink some kind of tree sap that could cause severe hallucinations, which led them to behave spontaneously.
After pinching the man's trachea, William found half a bottle of dark green stuff in his package.
The liquid looked like spinach juice, but dreamy oil paints were constantly swirling in it, like some kind of hazy dream.
William knew this thing, or rather, he knew something similar - through it, he might be able to meet a king.
Therefore, after careful consideration, William asked Flora and Ebony to temporarily protect his body which would lose consciousness in a while, and then drank the half bottle of stuff.
Then he fell into a dream, into a place filled with fog.
