When the mage, who no longer looked like a human, appeared in front of the elves again, he was still holding a living elf in his hand.
The one who was still alive was so weak that he could not speak. There were no obvious external injuries on his body, nor were there any signs of bleeding. In that case, the reason why he was so dispirited was because of the powerful magic rope that was binding him.
Holding the young elf by the collar, Lin directly placed him in front of the old king and said, "This must be His Highness the Crown Prince. After all, he is His Majesty's biological son, so I can't deal with him well. Fortunately, he is not so strong that I have to use more forceful means to capture him. Therefore, I will leave this to Your Majesty to make your own arrangements. — "
After saying this, Lin used his thumb to point at the forest behind him where the World Tree was and mentioned another matter.
"— Also, I have to complain that there are more than 400 elves inside, Your Majesty. There are 691 elves in the range of the World Tree. As soon as they saw me, they screamed and charged over, so I retaliated. Now, there is not a single one left. Your Majesty, you won't mind, right? "
From the resistance of the Divine Wood Guards in the range of the World Tree, Lin was actually hinting at two things. First of all, the Divine Wood Guards who were stationed here were immediately informed of the situation of the Yameilan Palace being suppressed. That was why when they saw a human, the elves here did not even greet him and directly charged over.
Regarding this point, if the kingdom had a reporting mechanism, as long as something happened in the palace or the capital, they would use all kinds of communication methods to inform the Divine Wood Guards stationed at the World Tree. Saying this point was more like praising the other party's appropriate response.
After all, under normal circumstances, when the capital was attacked, the Divine Wood Guards could become a strong and powerful reinforcements. Therefore, reporting was the right thing to do. However, if there was no good reporting mechanism, the intelligence of the capital would be known by the army guarding the World Tree so quickly. Then, the intentions behind this could be discussed.
However, the other point that was pointed out was purely to sow discord. As far as the king knew, there were only 400 elves stationed here, but in reality, there were 600 to 700 elves. If it was only a small difference, there would still be an explanation. However, the number was less than half, and the extra people were guarding the World Tree without the king's knowledge. This only proved that the king's authority had been isolated.
But what about the Crown Prince? What was going on?
Looking at the only living person who had been brought out of the World Tree's range, Andre Pryor's expression was rather complicated.
When he saw the rain of heads earlier, he had thought that his child's head would appear in the mountain of heads sooner or later. A sense of despair deeply corroded his soul. But when he was brought out and she saw his appearance, other than pity, she also felt an indescribable sense of disappointment.
But no matter what, he still had to give an explanation. Looking at his dispirited son, the old king pleaded, "My son's weakness should be caused by your magic, right? If you can, please do so. "
Lin Li didn't haggle over this matter, and with a flick of his finger, he removed the magic binding the Crown Prince — Immortal-Binding Rope. Freed from the restraints of the various debilitating spells, the young elf jumped to his feet and pointed at the only human on the scene as he cursed, "Butcher! Do you know who you are provoking?! Elves, my subjects, kill him! Kill this human! Whatever reward you want, I will give it to you. I am the Crown Prince of the Amelan Kingdom, I can agree to any request. Kill him! Avenge all the elves! "
The young prince looked at the pointy-eared elves beside him and subconsciously separated them from the only human, and tried to use his identity to order his "subjects." The result was obvious, no elves paid attention to this hopping young prince.
In fact, even if the wood elves who were watching had separated themselves from the enemy, they still didn't want to be enemies with that mage. The mountain of human heads was a silent reminder of the mage's threat. This was a Divine Wood Guard formed by the elites of the Elven Kingdom, and it was also a battle in the domain of the World Tree.
The miserable state of the elves of the Amelan Kingdom was a threat to all the wood elves: Even if you ran back to your tribe, you wouldn't be safe under the protection of the World Tree.
If there had been someone brave enough to go in and take a look at the mage's methods, they might have been able to think of a way to deal with him. But because of military regulations, no one had done so. It was too late for them to regret it.
Even if they knew the other party's methods, they might not necessarily have a way to deal with him. But the feeling of not knowing anything was very uncomfortable. Especially when they thought that this human was just a clown trying to please the World Tree. They didn't expect that the other party was actually a big shot who was on equal footing with His Majesty. That kind of feeling was even more uncomfortable and unspeakable.
Under such circumstances, no matter whose order they followed, provoking this mage was no different from courting death. Not to mention following the orders of a defeated soldier and challenging one of the commanders of their own allied army.
But when the young prince saw that the elves were unmoved, it was as if he had shifted his resentment and started cursing at the elves. How could they not be angry at such a turn of events? But among the elves who joined the allied army and had the qualifications to command the frontlines, none of them were young and frivolous. How could they bicker with a defenseless child?
But even if these outsiders could tolerate it, how could the father? This stupid son of his was humiliating him. Andre Priel landed a solid punch on his own son's chin, knocking him out with a single blow.
Tidying up his sleeves, the old king said without losing his composure, "May I ask if anyone has ropes or vines? Help me tie up this stupid son of mine. When we return, I will properly discipline him. "
In the end, it was a request from a king. Naturally, someone from the wood elves stepped forward and used vines summoned by Druid spells to tie up the fainted crown prince. At the same time, they also stuffed the crown prince's mouth shut. It was easy to imagine how much resentment this prince had incurred for speaking without thinking.
At this moment, the old king lowered his head in a rare sight and greeted Lin, "Your Excellency, thank you for your magnanimity and for sparing my son's life."
Lin, however, turned to the side and modestly declined this bow, saying, "I've already said that I'm not here to kill. I'm only here to retaliate against all unfriendly behavior. Alright, I've also found the location of the heart of the World Tree Klowe's tree. Let's quickly liberate this one's consciousness so that everyone can return home and rest. Apart from Your Majesties, everyone else can rest and recuperate where they are. "
After saying this, a certain someone placed his hand on the old king's shoulder, saying, "Since this is your family's World Tree, it's better that you're present as well. Let's go together. "Without waiting for the old king's response, a certain someone flashed away with the king, who had no time to refuse.
The heart of the World Tree Klowe's tree wasn't like the heart of the Farnars, which was hidden in an area that used spatial folding technology. This place was similar to the heart of the Lahti Tree that Lin had visited before. Everywhere he saw, there were magic formations used to slay gods. Evil spirits full of resentment floated everywhere, constantly wearing down the weak consciousness in the heart of the tree.
Judging from the intensity of the resentment, a blood sacrifice had been held not long ago. After all, he had been by the Lich's side for several years. Even if Lin didn't know how to use necromancy magic, he still had some basic eyesight. In addition, this magic formation used to slay gods had been used on the World Tree before, so Lin Youqian went to learn more about it.
Taking a closer look at the six blood pools around the heart of the tree, as expected, there were still severed limbs and remains floating on them. As for where the people who had been sacrificed came from, Lin didn't want to delve into it. After all, he had already slaughtered the Divine Wood Guards before seeing the scene here. He couldn't kill them again to avenge the dead here.
It didn't seem like the old elven king's first time seeing such a scene, so his expression was far calmer than when the king of the small kingdom, Ridan III, had seen the heart of the World Tree Lahti. However, compared to the situation in the heart of the tree, he was more concerned about who had been sacrificed by the members of the Divine Wood Guards.
If the members of the Divine Wood Guards had already escaped his control to such an extent, then it was debatable whether the people who had been sacrificed were the ones they had told him about. Thus, he tried to identify the identity of the deceased, or rather, the race, from the remaining remains.
Only the 21 holy envoys holding the avatars of the World Tree and the other king who had come with the army followed a certain someone in. The tragic situation in the heart of Chloe's tree couldn't move these experienced elves. The World Trees would not have any special emotions because of how their own race had been treated.
If they were really concerned about the situation of the other World Trees, all the wood elf tribes would have fallen out with the elven kingdom long ago. However, the truth was that before a certain someone proposed the plan to transform the maze, all the World Trees did not care about each other, even if there was a turtledove alliance that became the link between all the trees.
However, since they wanted to release the World Tree Lahti, the scene before them had to be dealt with. It was just that … everyone had thought of many ways to restore the consciousness of the World Trees, but none of them were about "what should they do after the blood sacrifice ceremony". Thus, all the World Trees remained silent, and the elven holy envoys, who were not involved in the situation, could only look at each other.
As the Mage who was most familiar with the god-slaying magic array among everyone present, Lin was pushed out to solve the problem at hand. Compared to communicating with people, fighting, and solving magic problems, a certain otaku Archmage was more interested in this, so he accepted this temporary task without hesitation.
According to Fen, the god-slaying magic array was very old. Thus, the array patterns were not as organized and standardized as they were in the era when all kinds of magic knowledge was more complete. Thus, it was more difficult to decipher it.
However, with the support of the computing power of the 21 World Trees, all the magic arrays in the maze, according to programming terms, were plain-coded and had not undergone any encryption, so the work of deciphering them was not as difficult as imagined. In addition to the preparatory knowledge he had obtained from Fen, Lin soon understood most of the operating principles of the god-slaying magic array.
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