Chapter 217 Betrayal
"The blockade has been lifted."

Lysabel was not surprised by the news.

Morari and she had a different stance, but the principality was still under his rule and was slowly recovering. It was difficult for the resistance fighters to recruit new personnel in the territories of the newly ennobled nobles. As long as the blockade was maintained, in a dozen years or so, the resistance fighters probably wouldn't be able to operate in most areas of the principality.

The newly crowned nobles will be able to control their territories, and without the assistance of local civilians, the resisters will be easily caught by the duchy's troops.

But now the rising sun has changed the situation, and the Principality troops will no longer have the energy to blockade them.

"Let's set up camp in the village ahead today."

A village appeared on the horizon.

"But sir, there is still a long time before nightfall."

The sergeant at the side questioned.

"There are only a few militiamen on the low walls of their village."

Lisabel and her group had seen many villages being evacuated on the way. With the assistance of the Principality's troops, the villagers were evacuating towards the center of the Principality.

With the assistance of the Principality's troops, even at night, these evacuated troops were still able to resist the attacks of the monsters to a certain extent.

But the village in front of us is different. It seems that their lord is unwilling to give up his heritage and leave the territory.

Even for those monsters who only wanted to vent their anger, such a target was still much more attractive than the evacuation team protected by the Principality's troops. As long as they were rational creatures, they knew that they had to pick the weak ones.

"I understand."

The sergeant hesitated for a moment, but still rode to the front of the team and conveyed Lysabel's order.

The holy emblem of the God of Nature was soon hung on the low wall. The monsters were still a little afraid of it. At least for now, they did not regard the humans who believed in the God of Nature as enemies.

But this situation probably can't continue forever.

As long as the newly rising sun in the sky is still emitting sunlight that is poisonous to aliens, hatred will continue to grow. In the end, as long as you are a person, no matter what your beliefs are, you will probably be regarded as an enemy by those monsters.

Whether or not one can survive in the sunlight will eventually become the only criterion for distinguishing between friend and foe.

Speed ​​up a bit, we need to know the attitude of those elves.

"What's the attitude of these elves?"

In the distant forests of the rebellious noble territories, the resistance here can no longer hide their anger.

"We will discuss this with Lysabel."

The elf messenger always gave him this response. He tried several times to start a conversation with the elf, but no matter what he said, the elf would only give this reply.

"I am the leader of these resistance fighters, not the one who is being chased by the Principality's troops, Lysabel."

On paper, the resistance fighters in the forest are stronger than the one led by Lisabel in terms of both number and weaponry.

"Lord Karnke, how about it?"

The resister next to the muscular man scratched his throat with his thumb.

"That elf has a lot of good things on him."

In the eyes of these resistance fighters, the elves' longbows and magical quivers can all become their property.

"Bullshit." Kank slapped the resister next to him and sent him flying.

He didn't need the magic items on the elf, what he needed was the elves' recognition.

Now he holds most of the resistance's power, but even among his own resistance fighters, there are still some who believe that Lisabel is the real leader of the resistance.

This made him angry.

He hopes to be recognized by the elves, to be recognized as the ruler of the resisters and the only one qualified to represent the resisters.

With the elves' support, he would be able to strip Lysabelle of all her power over the resistance once she arrived.

But it seemed that the elves had no intention of doing so. They seemed to only want to talk to Lisabel. Even now, the elf was in a tree house far away from the resistance camp, and was not even willing to live in the room that Kahnke had prepared for him.

"Sir, there is a new situation."

A resister ran up to Kahnke.

"There's a new sun rising outside, and the light from that sun is poisonous to all that is not human."

Kank soon learned from the resistance fighter what was happening outside.

“The wind has changed.”

There were some small-scale clashes between the nobles' troops and the regular army of the principality on the border. They were trying to prevent the principality's troops from entering the territory and evacuating the civilians here.

It seems that the principality is going to withdraw from this area, and the noble troops are obviously unable to deal with both the resistance troops and the monsters that appear from all over the territory every night, both in terms of quantity and quality.

Kahnke now saw an opportunity.

"I'm going to give you a secret mission now."

Kahnke pulled the resister in front of him to his side.

This resistance fighter was recruited by him after he arrived at this noble territory. He was once caught by the town militia for petty theft, and when he was about to be executed, Kank happened to lead his team to attack the town.

So the thief took the opportunity to join Kank's team.

"Go find those nobles and tell them that Karnke wants to negotiate a deal with them."

If the elves are unwilling to acknowledge him and let him control all these resisters, Karnk is not without other options.

If the elves couldn't even move on their own in the sunlight, their actual threat to Karnke would be reduced, and Karnke would have every opportunity to find those nobles.

Those nobles were the local bosses in this area. If he could get their support, Kahnke could completely rely on his own power to rule the mountain. As for the elves, as long as he found an opportunity to kill the elf messenger not far away and then find a way to destroy the underground tree root network in this forest, the elves would not even be able to figure out what happened in this forest, and there was no way to influence these resistance.

After clearing out the resistance fighters who supported Lisabel, Kahnke would be able to completely control an armed force that belonged to him alone. Whether it was robbing houses or forming an alliance with the nobles, he could become a big shot in this area.

As for resisting the invaders and restoring the Wind Whispering Kingdom, it had nothing to do with him.

The only reason he joined the resistance was because he didn't have time to surrender to Lania before the war was over.

For an officer like him, even if he surrendered, there was no way for him to get a noble title from Lanya. So, in his hesitation, he lost his last chance to surrender and could only become a rebel and remain among the resistance.

But now, there is a new opportunity for Kank.

(End of this chapter)