Divine Kingship

Chapter 619 I laugh at Naland's lack of strategy and Vanilla's lack of wisdom
The Elf King gazed at the vanilla.

The giant raven and Nidhogg around Vanilla were both very wary.

They were on guard against a sudden attack from a powerful figure close to the Elf King.

Now, it's naturally Rand who's using the raven's perspective; Rand is watching the show remotely via the raven's live stream.

To be honest, Rand really wanted to voice this Elf King before, like, "Hahaha, (laughs three times), I think Rand is reckless and Vanilla is unwise. If they were to ambush us here, we would all be captured without resistance."

However, we still need to be careful for now, lest Vanilla actually get hurt.

The enemy is still very likely to attack Vanilla.

Because elves have longer lifespans, the number of powerful individuals they have accumulated is naturally greater.

The Elf King had quite a few top-tier warriors serving him, certainly more than the number of openly top-tier professionals around Rand, by a significant margin.

Even now, with the Elf Forest split apart, they should still be able to gather more than a dozen top-tier professionals.

If they all go together, it's still somewhat dangerous.

Of course, given that the Elf King's top-tier professionals are completely unprepared, it's impossible for them to attack all at once right now.

Even at its worst, Raven Cola is still quite powerful, and Rand can also use it to cast blessings.

In short, if you're vigilant, there won't be any problems.

A light drizzle was falling.

Such gentle rain is rare in late spring and early summer.

The light rain and gentle breeze could not stop the Elf King's equally azure eyes from gazing at the vanilla.

Vanilla is really young; among the elven race, who can live for two hundred years without illness or disaster, she is even considered young.

If Vanilla hadn't been captured, the Elf King might never have had the chance to observe her appearance so closely in his entire life.

A girl who exudes gentleness and sweetness even when she has a cold expression.

"Have you been waiting for the day you can escape from the royal court?" The Elf King was in no hurry to act.

Vanilla wasn't in a hurry: "Yes, I've always wanted to escape from here."

"Are there many elves like you from the royal collateral branches?" the Elf King asked again.

"not much."

"Who instructed you to do all these things, Nidhogg?"

"Elder Nidhogg taught me the basics, while Rand Nicholas guided me in the right direction."

"That human?" The Elf King clearly knew who Rand was.

“Yes, I work for His Majesty Rand,” Vanilla said.

Vanilla now holds multiple positions: she still holds the position of vice principal of the church school, she still has her administrative assistant's badge, she hasn't redeemed herself from her status as a female slave, she is currently the reformist leader, and also the commander of the army.

"You're about to win, and you still intend to bow down and submit to a human?"

Vanilla rolled her eyes.

It's like if you win the argument and become the Elf Queen, you won't have to go to work anymore.

She just has a boss.

Honestly, it feels really good to have someone above you to back you up.

Without Rand discussing it with her, she might not have had the courage to devise such a scheme.

"Do you have any last words? I will remember them, for the sake of our royal bloodline," Vanilla said again, seemingly calmly.

"Are you really sure you'll win now?"

The Elf King knew perfectly well that Vanilla was destined to win.

The assassination attempt, which seemed to have a chance, was clearly not going to succeed.

If he resists to the end, he, the Elf King, might be able to escape and survive, but the Royal Court faction will inevitably cease to exist. Resisting to the end now will only annoy the reformists and delay their efforts to save the Golden World Tree.

everything is over.

Because of this rebellious member of the elven royal family.

In fact, the fact that the royal power fell into the hands of vanilla is not an option that is too difficult to accept.

But vanilla was also influenced by a human.

Once Vanilla becomes queen, the elven forest will likely fall under human enslavement.

"Cooperation with humans will inevitably lead to bitter consequences, and your future may very well end up like mine."

“At least for now, you are wrong and I am right, otherwise they wouldn’t support me.” Vanilla glanced back at the elven soldiers lying in ambush on both sides of the cliff.

"They had long since reached their limit, just as I had long since reached my limit."

……

Vanilla still managed to get her uncle's head.

Vanilla knew very well that her uncle had not repented and did not think he had done anything wrong, but at least the Elf King knew very well that he had no room to resist now.

Despite Vanilla's wary gaze, the Elf King still did not choose to gamble everything.

The Elf King committed suicide.

Vanilla takes a deep, gentle breath.

The Elf King's death was entirely deserved; if he hadn't been so arrogant and foolish, the Elf Forest would never have ended up in such a state.

However, the fact that she had driven her uncle to his death still deeply shocked Xiangcao.

Vanilla severed the Elf King's head, held it up, ignoring the still-bleeding severed neck: "Now that the false king has been killed, surrender and come with me to save our World Tree. The World Tree is truly in danger."

The elven soldiers, too, looked on at what was theoretically a victory...

...Vanilla Moon Shadow.

They swallowed.

Not all of these elven soldiers agreed to attack the vanilla soldiers who were going to support the Golden World Tree.

No one expected things to develop this way.

So, should they turn to vanilla, the young victor who truly deserves to be the queen of the elves?

"What, do you have other monarchs you wish to serve, or are you indifferent to the current perilous situation facing the Golden World Tree?" Vanilla's clear voice reached the ears of almost all the Royal Court elves.

This was achieved using a megaphone developed by the Sanctuary and used in conjunction with the image-recording crystal.

Vanilla's meaning was clear: she might not forgive the Royal Court elves for what they had done, but she would accept their allegiance again.

Vanilla Moonshadow Queen will lead them to save the Golden World Tree.

Under Vanilla's intense gaze, the first elven soldier quickly dropped his weapon.

Many of them initially disagreed with the reformists' ideas, but they had already been defeated. Now, any attempt to resist would only result in them being ambushed and routed, or even annihilated.

Vanilla did not reduce them to slavery or slaughter them all.

Allowing them to follow Vanilla to save the elves' lives—the Golden World Tree—is already an immense act of mercy.

The first elven soldier dropped his weapon, and soon after came the second.

Several elven nobles, still unwilling to accept reality, were shouting orders, but no one paid them any attention.

The sound of weapons being dropped was like a tidal wave, overwhelming and deafening.

The vast majority of elves chose to surrender, and those who were unwilling to surrender were either subdued or escaped.

Vanilla paid no heed to these sporadic acts of resistance.

“Very good, it seems you have all made the right choice.” Vanilla’s voice was authoritative and firm. “Now, rest well, then pick up your weapons, and come with me to the World Tree tomorrow. We are not far from the World Tree.”

The giant crow, which had been on high alert to prevent assassination attempts, finally stopped keeping a close watch on everything.

A giant raven carried herbs away from the canyon.

Soon, both the reformist army and the royalist army were ordered to rest.

Both the Reformist and Royalist armies were already quite exhausted from carrying out their ambush and pursuit strategy. If they were to force their way to the rescue of the Golden World Tree, they would likely be unable to achieve their intended purpose due to low morale and physical fatigue.

Therefore, although the mission to rescue the World Tree was urgent, Vanilla still ordered a rest.

We had to wait until dawn the next day.

The army set off.

After several more days of marching.

The elven army, led by the Queen of Vanilla, had already arrived at the roots of the Golden World Tree.

Rand, Elsa, and Lysa appeared before the Vanilla Queen.

"Should I call you Her Majesty Vanilla now?" Rand joked.

Vanilla pouted: "Your Majesty, please don't make fun of me."

Rand smiled.

The situation was indeed quite urgent, so Rand stopped making jokes about it.

Little did I know that the fate of the elves would be decided like this.

If nothing unexpected happens, the position will likely be filled by the former vice principal of the Lunar Kingdom Church School.

Rand even felt that it wasn't quite real enough.

Rand stopped thinking about it. There were still many troublesome things to deal with in governing and cooperating with the Elf Forest, and many more to come, but for now, he should deal with these cultists first.

"The cultists' methods are still the same old ones: they bury many altars around the Golden World Tree, trying to attract the attention of the evil god through sacrifices, and then use the evil god's power to destroy the Golden World Tree." Rand was very familiar with the cultists' methods.

"However, because of our unconventional approach, the sacrifices of these cultists did not go very smoothly."

"However, these cultists also have the assistance of the Restorationist elves, so war is inevitable."

The number of Restorationist elves was much greater than expected, and their army had already appeared before Vanilla's army.

A very classic cult strategy.

war.

War itself is a sacrifice to the god of struggle.

The elves who died in the war were either from the Restorationists or under the command of the Queen of Vanilla.

These deaths are also offered as sacrifices to attract the attention of evil gods.

This part of the sacrifice could not be stopped no matter what.

After all, it seems there is no way to persuade the revivalist elves to abandon their so-called plan and surrender.

"The Restorationist elves are about to attack, but they are outnumbered by us and did not expect that we could integrate the Royal Court elves so quickly to come to the aid of the Golden World Tree."

"What we need to do now is very simple: defeat the elven army of the Restorationists, then defeat the demons summoned by the cultists, and then dig out those buried altars as soon as possible to prevent the evil god from really turning his attention here."

Vanilla listened to Rand's explanation very quickly.

After understanding the situation, Vanilla immediately gave the order: "Ahead are the so-called Restorationist Elven traitors. Let us defeat them and protect our World Tree."

Both the reformist elves and the royal court elves obeyed Her Majesty Queen Vanilla's orders and charged against the evil elves of the restoration faction.

War is nothing but the destruction of flesh and blood by swords.

War is a product of struggle evolving to its extreme, and a gamble only chosen when political actions fail to solve the problem.

When both sides decide to fight to the death.

The catapult's boulders thundered across the sky.

Arrows rained down.

When the earth is covered with corpses.

Death comes in this way.

With the death of the revivalist spirits.

Soon, some products of cults also appeared on the battlefield.

Giant monsters of the God of Struggle's sect.

The fleshy, deformed monsters of the Dark Abundance Goddess Cult.

Undead monsters of the Scourge Order.

These monsters would be a morale blow to the soldiers of the elves, a race that knew very little about cults.

Rand was somewhat surprised that the Revivalists could bring so much evil power to cultists.

Although the Elf race does not have an official church like the Torch Church of humans.

Elves generally have varying degrees of faith in the Elf God.

Rand probably figured that many elven villagers were corrupted by evil because they could no longer make a living.

Or perhaps the revivalist elves genuinely believed that cooperating with evil was merely a means to an end.

All of this was a small sacrifice made so that the Elf God would finally pay attention to the elves again.

Rand had no time to discern the specifics.

He is searching for two of his own people, Morin and Dazhuang, who are lurking among the cult members, through the perspective of Crow Cola.

Morin and Dazhuang have completed their mission, proving their choice, and naturally, Rand has come to regard them as his own people.

Therefore, if possible, Rand will still try to get the two of them out of this war, and the Sanctuary will have more valuable work to give them in the future.

Activate [Blessing 6: The Favor of the Torch Goddess].

All they could see was gray and black, with no sign of the fiery red that represented Morin and Dazhuang.

It seems that these two people are not here at the moment.

……

Morin and Da Zhuang were sent into the forest on an evil mission.

They watched in terror as tentacles, seemingly capable of drawing out inner desires, clung to the roots of the Golden World Tree.

The cult's stronghold's son arrived in the Elf Forest with them.

This divine being is drawing a terrifying and vast power to the vicinity of this golden World Tree.

The Golden World Tree is the embodiment of life force.

The small golden World Tree that grew from the seed given by Lysa in the upper realm can heal the injured with its branches and leaves.

And the vitality of this golden world tree of elves, which has grown to seem to reach straight to the sky and whose roots can penetrate deep into the netherworld, is only more terrifying.

And such vitality is just what one would offer as a sacrifice.

Unfortunately, they couldn't directly offer the Golden World Tree as a sacrifice, because it was difficult to define it as an irresistible life form.

Therefore, the only way is to attract God's attention.

Morin and Da Zhuang were eager to leave and inform His Majesty Rand.

Moreover, in order to keep their plan from being exposed, they had remained at the cult's stronghold, but now that they have come here, they have discovered an even deeper secret.

(End of this chapter)