Chapter 904

"Hostages?"

When Lidas and Anima said this, Shien was stunned for a moment.

Then, Shien reacted.

"Are you talking about Elise and the others?"

Shien quickly asked.

"That's right." Anima nodded and said with a serious expression, "Elise and her clergy, as well as the goddess who went to support the Beastmen with them a month ago, were all captured by the Beastmen traitor tribe led by Guula. We finally found their whereabouts."

Speaking up to this point, Anima's emotions were very complicated.

Anima wasn't unfamiliar with Guulla at all.

He was indeed capable and had potential. He could have received her blessing, and it wouldn't be surprising if he became the true ruler of the Beastmen.

His existence itself was very special. He didn't belong to any type of Beastman, but he had all of the Beastmen's specialties. To Anima, it was a miracle that such a special lifeform with the characteristics of the entire Beastman race could be born in this world.

Originally, Anima was quite surprised by Guulla's birth.

However, Guula's personality was very violent, and he didn't respect life at all. He was also very dark and cold. He even dared to kill his own father, and his goal was to take over his tribe chief position and become the leader of the tribe.

This kind of personality wasn't what Anima liked.

Therefore, not only did Anima not give Guula her blessing, she even gave him a harsh evaluation.

Now, Guula actually suppressed the entire Beastmen Tribe and betrayed the Protoss and the Humans, and joined the new [Original Devil]'s camp. From a certain point of view, Anima was shocked, but it didn't surprise her at all.

She already knew that this Beastman hybrid would do something wrong one day.

However, she didn't expect that his mistake would be so serious, and it even involved his true blessing.

Indeed, Anima had mixed feelings about this matter.

Shien didn't think that much.

"Since you found out where Elise and the others are, why didn't you rescue them?"

Shien frowned.

In this month, the betrayal of the Beastmen and Dwarves was already a fact, and everyone in the world knew about it.

But under such circumstances, Lidas and Anima did not take any action for a long time.

No, it should be said that they didn't do anything against the Beastmen and Dwarves.

It was clear that these two tribes had betrayed them, so why didn't they just wipe them out?

Even if they were merciful and wanted to give their children a chance to turn over a new leaf, shouldn't they?

The Beastmen and Dwarves weren't like the rest of the new [Original Devils], and they couldn't be found at all.

Their tribes were in the Human World, and their territories were in the Human World. It should be easy to find them with the power of the Protoss, right?

However, Lidas, Anima, and even Nadia had yet to attack the Orcs and Dwarves, which was puzzling to many people.

If they were guarding against the two demon-level beings of the new [Original Devils], they would love for them to jump out and stop hiding.

If they were worried that there was a trap, Anima was indeed a little worried. Lidas, on the other hand, had been running around without a care, and she didn't encounter anything.

Therefore, the actions of these two goddesses were a little suspicious.

Actually …

"There's a reason for this."

Anima began to explain.

It sounded simple, but it was actually very simple.

The reason why the Protoss and the Kingdom didn't attack the Beastmen and Dwarves was that these two tribes' territories were special.

Not to mention other things, the habits of the Beastmen were already known to the world.

"The Beastmen don't have a fixed territory, and they don't even gather together. Instead, they are scattered around the world as tribes, and they often migrate."

Anima said.

"Although Guula is said to have suppressed the entire Beastmen Tribe and led the Beastmen to rebel against the Human Race, in reality, other than a small portion of the Beastmen, the rest of the Beastmen tribes were under his control only because the important figures of the tribes were taken away by him."

Among these important figures, some were the leaders of the tribes, some were the children of the leaders, some were the highly respected elders of the tribes, and some were the future heirs of the tribes.

After Guula took these people away, the Beastmen tribes were naturally reduced to a state where they were controlled by others, and they had no choice but to obey Guula's orders.

In addition, the Beastmen tribes were scattered around the world, and it was difficult for them to gather together. After Anima understood the situation, it was difficult for her to attack the Beastmen.

The territories were scattered, and even Anima couldn't take care of them all.

The various Beastmen tribes had their own problems, and it was even more difficult for Anima to convict them.

In the end, many of them were just victims.

The population of the Beastmen was second only to the Human Race, and their faith in Anima was also very strong. It was impossible for all of them to choose to rebel, and most of them were just helpless.

Therefore, Anima didn't attack the Beastmen, and only focused on finding the location of Guula and his tribes. She planned to rescue the hostages from his hands, and then liberate the Beastmen.

The Dwarves, on the other hand, were in a different situation.

"The Dwarves are different from the other races." Lidas continued Anima's words, and said, "Their territory is not above ground, but underground."

"Underground?" Shien was startled.

"That's right." Lidas confirmed Shien's words, and said, "They built a steel city underground, and formed a Dwarven Kingdom there. Other than a very limited number of passages, it is very difficult to reach their underground kingdom."

After the Dwarves decided to rebel against the Human Race, they completely sealed the passages that led to their kingdom.

This made it so that even if the Protoss Kingdom wanted to attack the Dwarves, they couldn't send out a large army.

Lidas, Anima, and the others could use various methods to reach the Dwarven Kingdom, but if they attacked in the bottomless underground, the entire underground would collapse, and the entire Dwarven Kingdom would be buried alive.

This was not what they wanted to see.

After all, there were a lot of innocent civilians in the Dwarven Kingdom.

Those civilians couldn't decide anything, and maybe they didn't want to betray the Human Race.

They could only listen to the orders of the Dwarven King, and even if they were angry, they didn't dare to say anything.

Because of this, Lidas and Anima were naturally limited by the safety of the civilians, and they didn't dare to attack the Dwarves.

"Especially Nadula, she always wanted to know why the Dwarves would want to betray us." Anima said, "I'm not surprised that Guula would betray us, but Nadula didn't expect the Dwarves to betray us."

The dwarves and the elves were both led by Nadia.

Since that was the case, Nadula naturally wanted to know the reason behind this.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Goddess had to watch over the Elves, she might have already gone to the Dwarven Kingdom.

In summary, the complicated situation between the Orcs and the Dwarves caused the Protoss Kingdom and the Dwarven Kingdom to feel restrained, and could only wait and see.

"So troublesome."

Shien couldn't help but scratch his head.

If they didn't have to worry about this, they had to worry about that, and they had to think for others. Perhaps this was the sorrow of the righteous?

Evil would never prevail over good, and justice would always prevail over evil. That was just a nice slogan.

In reality, when faced with unscrupulous and unscrupulous villains, the righteous were often very passive.

Even if they won in the end, it was because of many factors, or it was simply a happy ending deliberately set by the author of the story, and not because evil could never prevail over good.

This was also the reason why many people in his previous life hated the Virgin Mary and were unhappy with the actions of the main character.

At the end of the day, it was because the protagonist was often too passive, and the villains would take advantage of them in all kinds of ways. That kind of reading experience was simply terrible.

This even led to many people liking some villains more.

Because when the villains showed off, it was much more interesting than watching the protagonist run around passively all day.

Unfortunately, that could only be seen in the novel.

In the real world, situations like this were very common.

This was also why Shien always insisted that he wasn't a hero or protagonist, but just a normal person.

He really didn't want to be placed on a chessboard and be forced to move around passively. He wanted to not be noticed by anyone and do what he wanted to do.

"What about the hostages?" Shien could only ask, "Since you found them, why didn't you directly rescue them?"

Anima answered this question.

"Because they were brought to the crack of the world by Guulla."

Hearing this, Shien was shocked.

"The crack of the world?"

Shien looked at Anima in shock.

"Do you remember how Lilith was sealed?"

Anima reminded him.

And Shien naturally remembered.

"Lilith was sealed in the Darkness Temple by you three goddesses when she was out of control, and then banished to the crack of the world …"

Shien subconsciously said the answer, and then he immediately understood.

"Could it be that this so-called crack of the world is …"

Shien thought of it.

Lydas confirmed Shien's answer.

"It's there, the place used to exile Lilith's temple."

Lydas said it word by word.

"We originally entrusted that place to the orcs to watch over the Darkness Temple where Lilith was sealed."

"A thousand years ago, when the Demon King destroyed the world and divided it into three, there was a problem there, causing the Darkness Temple to escape."

"But the orcs have always known the situation there."

"Guulla, known as the orc king, used that place to transfer his army and even himself, along with all the hostages."

"And because of the seal, there is an environment that can suppress most of the power of the Protoss."

"We can't do anything, so we came to discuss with Rosie."