Chapter 198 Knife
Flames raged in the forest, and the forces of nature tried to fight back, but once the vines and tree branches were exposed to the sunlight, they seemed to lose their strength, began to dry up, and then turned into dead things.

“Let the sun shine here.”

The crusaders of the Sun God are unscrupulously borrowing power from their own god and using it to bombard the living trees, vines, and animals filled with magic around them.

They successfully established a foothold at the edge of the forest and began trying to advance deeper.

"Do you need to intervene?"

Deep in the forest, the elves' forest rangers were also paying attention to the actions of the crusaders.

"The damage to the forest is still within the repairable range, and our compatriots have been rescued. The order from above is for us to continue to stand by."

The offensive of the Crusaders has not yet reached the critical point where the elves need to take action, but they have indeed caused the greatest loss to the elven forest in recent hundreds of years.

But for this forest, this loss is far from being serious.

"They can't hold out much longer. This is just the final madness."

The elves fell silent again.

The Crusaders paid a heavy price for these strongholds on the edge of the forest.

After the Principality stopped providing supplies to these Crusaders, they could only rely on the small amount of supplies they carried with them and the small amount of support occasionally raised by the underground church. They could not use the long-range bombing tactics they had before, and time was obviously not on their side.

Now they can only use the simplest and most brutal way to advance into the forest, that is to fill it with human lives.

"They are really crazy."

The elves could only sigh as they watched them gradually expand their control over the forest at the cost of human lives.

"They are just influenced by the gods they believe in."

A gentle voice sounded around these elves, and the high priest appeared beside them.

The Church of the God of Life is different from the churches of other gods. There is no position like the Pope or the Pope to lead the church. The high priest is already the highest position in his church.

The elves are the main body of the faith of the God of Nature. The God of Nature has little interest in expanding the scale of faith. She only maintains a small amount of faith in the areas around the elves' forests.

They do not need a large church to manage a large number of believers, and naturally they do not need a church leader like the Pope.

"His will is for us to keep observing. As long as those followers of the Sun have not reached the point of irreversible loss, we do not need to take any action."

The elves had no objection to this order. They never had any objection to the will of the god. If it were not for this god, the elves would have disappeared like those declining civilizations, and would not even leave a single word in the history of later generations.

The elf high priest took a last look at the "battlefield" not far away. The believers of the Sun God once again repelled the invasion of the forest. They cheered and celebrated that they had opened up a new territory for the sunlight in the forest.

They seemed to be completely unaware of how many lives of believers were lost in their victory.

"If this continues, these crusaders can be completely eliminated in less than a month." These crusaders have not received any reinforcements from the church for some time. The high priest who was responsible for selecting church personnel who were extremely xenophobic to foreigners and had them join this so-called expedition has been arrested by the church.

After having made it clear that they were heretics, the church no longer intends to use such a gentle method to consume the lives of those extreme priests.

Their approach now is more direct, and anyone associated with those underground churches will be arrested and interrogated.

If these crusaders had not already formed their own organization, it would have taken a lot of resources to eliminate them. And the church couldn't spare too many people right now, otherwise the church would have taken action personally to eliminate these crusaders.

For the church, the best outcome would be for these people to waste their strength like they are doing now, and eventually become fresh fertilizer in the forest of the elves. And these fanatical heretics are also willing to use their lives to implement their beliefs.

However, this is only the wish of the church, and the realization of all wishes requires a price.

A diplomatic team of elves is leaving the forest of elves. Their destination is the sun god church in the capital of the principality. Archbishop Leming is there now, investigating heresy lurking in the church.

"We can get rid of those crusaders as you wish, but the Sun God Cult also needs to show enough sincerity."

This is the mission of this small delegation, to reach a deal with the Cult of the Sun.

In the eyes of the elf forest rangers, the forest that was ready to try to expel the invaders again calmed down. The religious guards of the Sun God Cult got a chance to catch their breath.

“Lord, is this really okay?”

The high priest stood not far from the mother tree. The tree people were busy, although even the elf high priest didn't know what they were busy with.

The Mother Tree was a miracle created by the elves in ancient times with all their strength, and it was not something that the elves, who had long lost their civilization, could understand. They only knew that the elves were born from the Mother Tree and died in the Mother Tree. If they lost the Mother Tree, the elves would face the end that had been delayed for a long time.

"No, that's not what I meant."

The high priest shook her head in panic. She was listening to the voice from God, and next to the mother tree was the place where the voice of the God of Nature was clearest.

"You are definitely not being selfish. We are all just trying our best to survive. He will definitely understand."

The Elf High Priest finally calmed down.

“Hopefully He will be spared as well.”

Finally he bowed and hurriedly left the area around the mother tree.

“His light will dispel the darkness of the world.”

After a period of calm, the forest started moving again, rushing towards the Skitarii not far away. The Skitarii had experienced similar things several times before, and they quickly responded accordingly.

But this time, the sunlight did not ignite the attacking vines. Instead, a hint of divine aura emerged from the vines. Then, this stronghold that was built with great difficulty was rolled up by these vines, and then, together with the crusader soldiers in the stronghold, it was carried out of the forest.

The elves showed their attitude. If the Sun God Cult wants to kill someone with a borrowed knife, it will have to pay a heavy price.

(End of this chapter)