Chapter 218 Clearing the Shooting Range
The elves sensed the approach of the resistance fighters around them.

As a natural child of nature, the trees, flowers and plants in the forest are the eyes and ears of the elves. He already knew when the resistance fighters gathered in their camp and then moved towards him fully armed.

But trees have no wisdom after all, and the conversation they had in the camp could not be conveyed to the elf by the trees, flowers and plants alone.

The elf was in the branches above their heads, watching the resistance members searching around the tree house.

"Boss, there is no trace of that elf."

These resistance fighters were newly recruited by Kank in this noble territory, and their loyalty was to him. The original resistance fighters were excluded from this operation.

"Keep looking."

Kank didn't feel good. These elves usually stayed in their tree houses when they had nothing to do.

Although things may have changed after the recent rise of the new sun, it is not impossible that the elf was recalled by his tribe.

"Keep looking. If he still doesn't show up, we'll go to the exit of the underground root network."

The reply from those nobles came quickly. The noble alliance was willing to exchange the position of the second-in-command of the noble army and a piece of territory close to the size of an earldom for Kank's allegiance.

But Kank needed a token of his allegiance, which was the head of an elf.

After breaking with the elves who believed in the god of nature, Karnke and those who were loyal to him would no longer be able to get any help from the elves, and would also break with other resistance groups.

Even if he had other ideas, he could not threaten the nobles' rule in this area.

"It looks like things have changed again?"

The elf did not stay in the forest doing nothing during this period. He knew the surrounding situation through the underground network of tree roots.

The troops that the principalities had deployed around the sphere of influence of the noble alliance had been withdrawn. It seemed that the nobles had some new ideas in the face of this situation. So much so that they recently withdrew the troops that surrounded the forest where the resistance was located and placed the troops on the border.

As long as the Principality's army continued to retreat, they would move forward, entering these areas under the pretext of "receiving a distress message and rescuing the people of the Principality who were attacked by monsters." Of course, these were all excuses.

During this period, these nobles did not even strengthen the defenses of the villages in their own territories. In just a few days, several villages had been destroyed. The surviving villagers could only flee to the nearest towns and set up simple tents outside those towns.

Hunger and disease are spreading in these refugee camps. Although the nobles cannot be said to have done nothing, their actions have only made the refugees' situation worse.

They drove the refugees further away from the towns.

Last night, the monsters, who had no more vulnerable targets, began to try to harass these towns.

The monsters killed as a result of these attacks were still temporarily out of the range of the heavy enchanted crossbows on the city walls, but the refugees who were driven far away became the best targets for these monsters to vent their anger.

The noble troops on the city wall watched the refugees being slaughtered in the distance without taking any action.

"Are we really just going to leave it like this?"

Many of these nobles' troops were also recruited from the civilians in those villages. Seeing the refugees in the distance being slaughtered by monsters, it was inevitable that many soldiers would feel dissatisfied.

"At least let them stay under the city wall, so that the monsters won't be able to kill them so easily." The soldier did not seem satisfied with the order from above.

"Don't think too much. This is the order from above. Clear out those refugees and create a clear firing range in front of the city wall."

In the eyes of the nobles, these refugees were nothing more than obstacles in the firing range of the crossbows and crossbows on the city walls. They should be eliminated immediately. They were merciful not to let their troops kill them directly, but to drive them away.

"We need to be prepared for sudden attacks from those monsters at all times, and we need a clear shooting range."

The killing in the distance stopped. The monsters seemed to have received some kind of order and stopped their actions. Then soon, they disappeared from the sight of the soldiers on the city wall.

Immediately afterwards, two suns jumped out of the horizon together.

The sun shone on the earth, and the soldiers on the city wall saw corpses in the distance. The few survivors and the wounded were wailing and crying. Most of them had lost their relatives, friends, and even their own limbs, but thanks to the sun shining on the ground, they were at least alive now.

"What should we do now? Should we rescue these people?"

The soldier looked at the sergeant beside him, and the sergeant was also hesitating whether to give the order to open the city gate and rescue the wounded.

But soon, a guard from the lord's mansion arrived at the city wall on horseback.

"Lord Ghost, no one is allowed to open the city gate until the Lord gives new orders."

The sergeant seemed relieved. At least no matter what happened to the refugees, it had nothing to do with him. He was just following orders. He didn't need to bear any moral burden.

But what the sergeant did not notice was that there seemed to be a flame being ignited in the eyes of the soldiers around him.

Regardless, the order was carried out and the city gates remained closed.

"That sun has gotten a little bigger."

The elf glanced at the sun above his head. The dense tree canopy blocked most of the projected sunlight, but there were still some spots of light reflected on the branches. He needed to be careful to avoid these spots.

The elves have already done some tests on this sunlight. For an elf of his strength, if he is exposed to this sunlight for more than one second, the damage he suffers will be irreversible.

Even if he was separated from the sunlight, his body would continue to collapse irreversibly. It seemed that there was some kind of power in the sunlight remaining in his body, continuing to tear and destroy the basic structure of his body.

Finally, the body turns into a pile of flesh and blood and skeleton that cannot be formed into a shape. Even with the use of healing spells, the flesh and blood will only grow wildly and irregularly and become tumors, and it will be impossible to restore the original shape.

"Are we really going to do this?"

A resistance fighter poured grease toward the exit of the underground tree root network and turned to ask.

Kank had a lit torch in his hand. Without answering his men's questions, he was about to ignite the grease at the exit.

However, he felt a chill approaching from behind him.

(End of this chapter)