Chapter 17 Declaration of War
Returning to the palace and looking at the bloodstains in the temple of the Sect, Sistaer's heart turned into anger.
He rushed forward and grabbed one of the church priests who were held in the hall and shouted; "Does the Holy Empire and the radicals of the church like war so much? Well, I will war for you. I will continue to prepare for war across the country, and gather all the troops that can be mobilized, including the Allies, to Farian and Bai Rose as fast as possible. Since the Holy Empire and the Church are going to tear up the truce agreement, I don't need to worry anymore. Split the troops and attack Loud and Guriev!!"
"Your Majesty?!" Lan Yasi stepped forward; "His Highness Moya just didn't want another war to start, so he ignored the elders of the clan who asked for battle many times. If she was willing, she had conquered the Arctic Crystal hundreds of years ago, why should you..."
"I am so accommodating to her that I have fallen to the point I am now!" Turning around angrily, the elves were frightened by the expressions on his face. They had never seen the elf king who had always been elegant and cold and arrogant, so indifferent.
"The unattainable throne, the noble identity... If it weren't for her, why would I give up my original identity? But now... it's all gone to a bubble." Realizing that he had lost his composure in front of his subjects, Sistaer threw down the priest in his hand and walked back to the throne side by side in the hall.
Looking at the vacant crystal throne beside him, thinking that he would have lost the woman he was thinking about forever from now on, he fell on the cold throne, allowing his inner regret and pain to eat himself.
"Is there no room for maneuver?" Thorne hopes that the supreme master of the night elf will change his mind and take back what he said just now.
But he also knew that the possibility was almost zero.
Due to the assassination, the goddess was unable to continue to stay in the earthly realm. I am afraid that even the major families and temples in the clan would support Sistaer's approach.
Since Bilfit's death, Thorne has resigned from the sacrificial ceremony and took over as prime minister.
He knew that judging from the current situation, without the Goddess of the Night, the war was obviously not as easy as before.
"No!!" Almost gritted his teeth, Sistale glared at the church pastors and nobles who had been trembling with fear by the declaration of war; "They took away my most precious things, and I will naturally make those guys lose everything they love. Territory, family, status, glory... I want to make them nothing!!"
"Oh... convey the king's will." Thorne ordered the dazed guards behind him, and then they woke up from the hall as if they had just woken up.
War, the real war is about to begin.
Following the wishes of the night elves, the entire Eastern Continent will be involved in this chaos that has been delayed for five hundred years.
Sistaer knows what it means to declare war.
However, the anger of revenge has already made him unable to stop.
A sad heart is desperate to find a cathartic object.
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"The night elves declare war on the Holy Alliance!!"
The people of Dethumb were stunned by what they had just seen and heard.
The light of the crystal ball that teleports magic images gradually dimmed, and the scene at the other end of the distant continent also dissipated.
People were talking about and accusing the church in the streets and alleys. The empire sent assassins to assassinate without authorization despite the lives and death of the common people.
With the strength of the Night Elf Empire, if this battle is really fought, it will definitely last for a long time and suffer heavy casualties.
"His Excellency Yizhak, the magical message of the Emperor!!" A guard ran over and told Yizhak and Roland who were not good-looking.
When they returned to the meeting hall, the Golden Elder, the Noble Luo Lian and the generals who returned had already gathered together, and even the sacrificial sacrifices in various temples that were rarely seen on weekdays were coming.
The magic crystal placed on the stone table in the center of the chamber reflects the haggard figure of the French Emperor Defik.
"This is the purpose of the Death Leader. On the surface, it is to usurp the throne of Luo Lian, but its actual goal is to assassinate the Night Goddess." The Great Elder of the Golden Tree spoke first.
When the war broke out, the first one was the Golden Tree. He didn't want to experience the Battle of Kanamara again.
Three hundred years have passed, and the golden tree's losses in that overwhelming war have not yet fully recovered.
"I don't think it's that simple." Yitzhak raised objections.
Since the giant magic crystal in the square uses the same teleportation spell, Dem can see it, and several other cities where crystals are installed can also be seen.
I specially saw images of the assassination of the Night Goddess for the countries in the Southern Continent. This alone shows that this is a long-planned conspiracy.
The purpose of the Death Corps may be more than just assassination.
"Your Majesty, I want to know... why as a god, the goddess of Dark Night was assassinated without resistance. She is a god. No matter how weak she is, at least she was already a world-renowned wizard before she became a god. It is impossible for people to hurt herself so easily."
Yizhak's words also won unanimous approval from everyone in the chamber.
That's right, this is also their biggest doubt.
The magical image could not be faked, but they also saw the assassination scene. The goddess had no power to resist, which was simply inconsistent with her personality.
"This matter involves the realm of God, so I can't say much..." After a moment of contemplation with a serious expression, the Emperor finally decided to reveal the inside story.
"In the late Chaos Age of the Ancient Times, after the first war of the gods almost exterminated the creatures on the continent, the second rule that was proposed by the goddess of light, Tillian, and gained recognition from the gods clearly stipulated that gods cannot stay in the upper realm in the first posture.
The Goddess of Dark Night is the Dark Lord God who succeeds the two gods, Haas and Garcia, who rises. No matter whether she is stronger or weak compared to other main gods, she cannot violate the laws of God in the end.
It is recorded in classical scriptures that once selected and approved to join the gods, this lucky person will ascend to the heavenly realm of the gods after receiving the light of the summoning, which is the star-sided realm we know."
"What does this have to do with assassinating the Goddess of the Night?" The great elder Zeta didn't understand why the Emperor emphasized the theory of the main theology.
"This is the key... After becoming a god, the memory of the body and body will be erased, and through the transformation of the divine nature, it will become a true god. For relatives and friends who are still staying in the earthly realm, obtaining the divine nature means that the soul they are familiar with will completely die and transform into another new spiritual body."
"Could it be..." Yizhak suddenly realized that the Emperor was right, and this was indeed the key.
The Night Elf King and the Night Goddess are a couple, how could they easily give up their memories?
"With his own power, the goddess of Dark Night has been resisting the summons from the Star Ghost Realm for hundreds of years. Doing so is just destroying the lifespan and magic she has." Defik always knew what will that woman was resisting the summons from the gods, and he could also understand Sistale's mood to declare war.
"As the magic power is becoming more and more exhausted, the Dark Night Goddess stays in the earth world less and less. The group of assassins just picked the monthly summoning time. This is also why the Elf King insisted on opposing the assassin Shin-mikan at the beginning. He used all his strength to resist the summoned Dark Night Goddess, who naturally had no power to resist the sudden assassination of himself."
After the Emperor explained this, everyone understood why the assassins in the name of the church and the empire could easily kill the goddess of the Dark Night.
"This is an extremely powerful double conspiracy." Roland, who had been silent, spoke at this time.
Immediately, all eyes gathered on her.
"Because His Majesty the Emperor and the Goddess of the Night tried their best to maintain the truce agreement, the two most powerful empires were able to stay in peace. But once this situation is broken, it will trigger a full-scale war in the entire Anesia." As an outsider, Roland saw it thoroughly.
"No matter whether the identities of those assassins are true or false, everyone, think about it carefully. Who will be the one who can really benefit from this battle?"
"Death Corps!!"
Everyone said the organization that hated all living things, and they also understood the meaning of Roland's words.
"That's right, it's the Death Territory. The more chaotic the earth's realm, the more beneficial it is to them. If the Holy Empire fights with the Night Elves, they can open the gates of the Underworld in chaos." As the undead, Roland has a deeper understanding of the purpose hidden behind this conspiracy than anyone present.
Death God Mora, the ultimate goal of the Death Leader is to release the God of Death who is imprisoned in the underworld.
The current civil strife of the gods has closed the connection between the Star Ghost Realm and the Earth Realm. If the only Dark Night Goddess who stayed in the Earth Realm is removed, you can easily obtain the key to the underworld that was sealed in Meili.
"The words are right, but the error has been caused, and we cannot make up for it now. The night elves do not expect peace talks. The angry elf king will not stop his revenge. The upcoming war will swallow the entire empire. If the Holy Alliance splits, it will just tunnel the wish of the Death Leader." Defik of course understood how unfavorable the situation was for them. The Death Leader has not settled yet, and the Night elves declared war again. According to his understanding of Sistale, he must have devoted all the troops of the entire Eastern Continent to destroy the Holy Alliance.
"Your Majesty...you seem to have forgotten the escaped daughter of Ain." Roland's words undoubtedly caused a loud noise in the chamber.
"Daughter of Iron?" the nobles screamed. As a vassal of the Holy Empire, they naturally knew what this identity represented.
"Even if the Emperor of the Phantom and Luo Lian, headed by the Golden Tree, try their best to stop the war, as long as this heir of the throne with noble blood returns to the Holy Empire, as long as she insists on fighting, His Majesty the Phantom and the Emperor will have nothing to do with it."
Looking at the helpless look on the face of the Emperor, Yitzhak understood why Roland said so.
So that's it...this is called a double conspiracy.
While triggering war, it caused chaos to occur within the already divided and civil strife.
The emperor was old and had no children, and his only princess was still young.
The great nobles in the empire had long fought to the death for inheritance. If they returned to a direct heir with such a noble status, it would only cause the empire, which was already on the verge of division, to stir up trouble again.
"So, from this perspective, the Lich Igvizi is also a cover. It attracts our attention so that the Holy Empire and the Church think that the purpose of the Death Territory is to usurp the Rolian regime. In fact, their goal is to trigger war from the beginning." After carefully analyzing the words of Roland and the Emperor, the Great Elder came to the above conclusion.
"Yes." Roland nodded; "The Death Corps had no intention of overthrowing King Rolian from the beginning. What they wanted was a total war. They did not see a vassal state of a sacred empire. After planning for so long, the Death Corps was waiting for this opportunity."
"Then what should we do now?" Zeta asked everyone's thoughts.
"Take one step at a time, first eradicate the power of the Death Leader in the Southern Continent, and then...there is only a battle." Since war is inevitable, we can only follow the choices made by fate.
Defik closed the magic messaging, staring at the already dark sky, unable to help but sigh in his heart.
Moya, the war you don't want to come... eventually broke out because of you.
Chapter completed!