Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint.

Chapter 585 Beneath the Elf Forest
The Temple of Resurrection.

Celia crouched in a corner, holding a small twig, counting the petals and seeds that had fallen to the ground.

Ross didn't tell her to carry out the operation; he just told her to stay put. She didn't know what to do, so she just found ways to amuse herself out of boredom.

There's nothing more to pay attention to regarding Lana's side.

After Ze Lissalind received treatment, Lana, like the other injured elves, was placed in her original room for observation.

The observation period lasted about two hours, after which the elven elder and his accompanying elves took them back.

The secret observation ended as the elves left, leaving Celia to count the ants.

On Ross's side, after the elven elder led Lana and the others away, Celia finally gained a shared perspective—after Ze Lissolin saw the elves off, she finally began to enter the secret area hidden in the warp.

The gaze follows Ze Lissolin as she leads the puppet to a peculiar place in this subspace.

This place is neither inside nor outside the Temple of Resurrection.

When Ze Lissolin arrived at the Temple of Resurrection, in a corridor at the back, she moved forward with a rhythmic gait. Then, the entire corridor suddenly stretched out, until it seemed to be infinitely long.

She continued moving forward in accordance with the rhythm, and Celia felt herself momentarily disoriented before the image shared by Ross immediately underwent a dramatic change.

In the shared field of vision, a dark area suddenly appeared.

In the entire dark space, only the hemispherical area where Ze Lissolin was located, with a diameter of no more than 10 meters, was not dark, but was shrouded in a faint light.

The faint light source is a floating point of light at the center of the sphere.

At a glance, Celia recognized it as the heart of a magic puppet.

Moreover, it is the same life element Puppet Heart as the Puppet Heart I am currently using.

"So, Lord Ross's goal is this puppet heart?"

Celia thought to herself.

Suddenly, she noticed something unusual about the place.

Using the faint light emanating from the Puppet Heart, Celia noticed that the dark space outside was not a void of darkness, but rather—

Darkness caused by heavy pollution and smog.

"Is this the subspace that the Temple of Resurrection uses to hide the contamination?" Celia exclaimed in surprise.

“No.” Ross shook his head: “This is not warp space.”

"what?"

Celia was taken aback.

"The way she walked just now was a special way of escaping from the subspace and returning to reality. In other words, the Puppet Heart here and the surrounding pollution are both in reality."

"what?"

Celia was stunned.

If that were reality...

Celia immediately thought of the contaminated fissure that had suddenly spewed out outside.

"Could it be that……"

Ross nodded: "It seems so. Like the Golden Apple Stone Forest, this place is filled with massive amounts of pollution. The difference is that the pollution in the Golden Apple Stone Forest is on the surface, while here it is hidden underground." Celia looked at the floating fragment of the divine essence representing life, separated from the divine essence of the God of Life and Death, and slowly said: "And this life-attribute puppet heart serves as the cornerstone for controlling all pollution, binding it underground."

"In addition, the rich vitality of the Elf Forest also provides the Heart of the Puppet with extra control efficiency, allowing it to continuously control the pollution underground, which is even more concentrated than the Golden Apple Stone Forest, for such a long time."

"Pollution even more concentrated than in the Golden Apple Stone Forest... Is the entire Elf Forest filled with pollution?"

Ross shook his head slightly: "We lack crucial information and don't yet know how far the controlled magic circle extends."

He watched Ze Lissolin, who was channeling life elements from the Sacred Tree into the fragments of divinity, with an expression of great interest.

"The Temple of Resurrection seems to be a mysterious organization that exists to maintain this control array."

"Hmm, so the Temple of Resurrection isn't another name for the Twilight Cult, right?" Celia breathed a sigh of relief.

She really didn't want to fight the heretics anymore.

"Maybe, maybe not," Ross said noncommittally.

Whether someone is a heretic or not makes no difference to him.

He was more interested in the nature of this mysterious organization's existence.

Is it truly there to maintain the magic circle beneath the Elf Forest?
Were these hidden contaminants beneath the Elf Forest present before or after the Elf God departed?

Does the Elven Royal Court know about this?
The resolution of one question often leads to the formation of many more.

But for Rose, these were just minor questions.

What he was more concerned about was whether the pollution of the Elf Forest was also caused by the God-King.

What role does the god of life and death play in all of this?
Based on what we see so far, it seems that the God of Life and Death was killed by the God King, who shattered his divine essence into fragments of two attributes: life and death. The death attribute fragments formed a youthful version of the 'Underworld,' and the life element was used as the foundation of a magic array to control the area affected by the pollution.

Just as the pollution and chaotic magic of the Golden Apple Stone Forest are intertwined, the pollution here is also mixed with the elements of life, forming a combination of pollution that cannot be dispelled by conventional means.

This is even more serious than the Golden Apple Stone Forest.

Ross thought to himself, "If the God of Life and Death were simply killed by the God King, the fragments of godhood here should be complete fragments of life attributes, or at least fragments of godhood with half of the life attributes. But here, it's only one-tenth, equivalent to one-twentieth of a complete godhood."

"Does this mean that the God of Life and Death, like Ethel, also absconded with most of the fragments of his divine essence, while the rest were used by the God-King as the foundation stones of the magic array?"

The difference is that Ethel's divinity was not used as the cornerstone of the magic circle.

Perhaps it's because Ethel is associated with water, and the God-King was too lazy to want it.

Ross approached the fragment of the life-attribute godhood, reached out to touch it, and then withdrew his hand.

Seeing his actions, Celia couldn't help but ask, "If you want to collect this Puppet Heart, do you have to solve the pollution problem here, just like you did in the Golden Apple Stone Forest?"

Ross shook his head: "You can take it anytime. The Golden Apple Stone Forest requires you to control the magic circle to move the Golden Apple within it in order to obtain it. But this one can be taken down directly. However, once the Heart of the Puppet is taken down, the pollution here will quickly dissipate."

"Anytime?" Celia's eyes widened. "What if we encounter a thug who's determined to wreak havoc on the world? Wouldn't that be the end of us?"

Ross said calmly, "When I said 'anytime', it's because I am a god. Even a Saint-level mage wouldn't find it easy to obtain this Puppet Heart."

There was one more thing he didn't say.

Taking this fragment of divinity will surely alarm the God-King.

(End of this chapter)