The wrong transmigrator assigned by the system

"This is the temple of a god worshipped by the elves in ancient times. Two thousand years ago, for some unknown reason, the elves suddenly abandoned their worship of this god, which is why the temple is in such a dilapidated state. However, since this is, after all, the temple of a god, mortal races have no right to demolish it. So even though no longer the elves worship this god, His temple is still here." The female knight, who had investigated the area beforehand, explained to Liu Ming why this dilapidated stone temple would appear in the bustling city of Prasius.

"My lord, the signal is coming from inside the temple." At this moment, a mage suddenly spoke up to Liu Ming.

Upon hearing this, Liu Ming immediately waved his hand, signaling the knights to dismount with him. Then he ordered, "Leave fifteen men behind, the rest of you come with me!"

The squad that Liu Ming brought consisted of thirty-two men. To prevent it from being a trap, he chose to leave nearly half of the knights outside the temple to avoid being surrounded by the enemy.

After all, the other party was a special assassination squad of the Elven race, so it was normal for them to use some tricks and schemes. No one has ever said that proud elves don't know how to scheme.

Pushing open the temple doors, one is greeted by a vast and dilapidated hall. Although there are no cobwebs or anything like that because it is a temple of the gods, it is still covered in dust, as if no one has entered for hundreds of years.

Beneath the statue in the main hall lay three dying elves, their faces pale, blood trickling from their lips, their eyes fixed on Liu Ming and his dozen or so companions, filled with hatred.

Upon seeing the three elves, the knights under Liu Ming's command intended to go over and capture them, but for safety reasons, Liu Ming stopped them and instead used magic to explore the surroundings, thoroughly investigating the entire temple inside and out.

As a result, the ground in front of the three elves who were struck by lightning spears and survived only thanks to a special device, but were now on the verge of death, contained a special mechanism. If Liu Ming and his companions approached, the mechanism would be activated, triggering a series of traps: hidden arrows, spiked boards, spiked pits, and so on. These traps would ensure that any knights sent to capture the three elves would not return alive.

"Ha! Traps!" After discovering the various traps buried in the temple, Liu Ming couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth and smile slightly. Then, he casually fired a wave missile, activating all the traps on the three elves' side. The three elves watched helplessly as their companions' carefully set traps were activated one by one, but they gained nothing!

After the last trap was activated, Liu Ming led the knights to a distance of about ten meters from the elves and laughed, "To be honest, I didn't expect them to use you as bait. But I'm not one to be greedy for quick success. You knew we had shadow creatures tracking you, yet you still came to this place and stayed here without moving. It's obvious there's a trap here, and I'm not going to be foolish enough to fall for it."

As he spoke, Liu Ming pointed the Aries Staff at the three elves.

"Besides, I don't intend to keep you around. You're a special forces unit, so interrogation is useless. I thought it was better to just kill you directly. Especially since you guys have some kind of unknown parasite implanted in your bodies."

After saying that, Liu Ming unleashed a fire elemental spell, which instantly turned the three elves into charred remains!

At that moment, a strange sound suddenly came from outside the temple. As soon as Liu Ming heard the sound, he immediately led the knights out.

At that very moment, a sharp arrow suddenly shot towards Lu Ming from outside the hall. But Lu Ming gave his opponent no chance at all, drawing his straight sword and cleaving the arrow in two with a single strike!

Seeing that their attack had not achieved its intended purpose, the Elven special assassination elite force immediately chose to retreat.

The trap failed to achieve its purpose, the mission was incomplete, and three teammates were lost—a truly disastrous outcome for the unit. While they might not have been able to defeat Yogg-Sotus in a direct confrontation, the situation would have been different with the great mage present.

Therefore, even if they feel humiliated, they will choose to retreat rather than foolishly fight to the death.

But just as they were about to retreat, Liu Ming suddenly unleashed his divine power, instantly appearing before the elves. With a swift swing of his chilling Irithyll straight sword, he decapitated one of them. Furthermore, the cold aura emanating from the sword froze the wound on the elf's neck, preventing some parasitic creature residing within their bodies from emerging.

"Aren't elves supposed to be very protective of their own? How could they implant such an evil thing into your bodies?" Frowning, Liu Ming glanced at the elven corpse, then looked at the other elves.

These elves appeared even smaller and paler than ordinary elves, but judging from the arrow they had fired earlier and the several wounded Yogg-Sotus knights lying on the street outside the temple, they were not weak. They were stronger than ordinary elven soldiers.

Upon hearing Liu Ming's words, the elves did not respond. Instead, after exchanging glances, they all drew their bows and arrows, preparing to shoot Liu Ming.

Seeing this, Liu Ming was taken aback and muttered to himself, "How is it possible that their companion's death has no impact on them at all?"

Before Liu Ming could make any move or react, those seemingly frail elves shot out their arrows without a word!

Unfortunately, their archery was of little use against the six Ming, who possessed divine power and high mobility.

With a swift movement and a few slight flickers, Liu Ming easily dodged their attacks and then closed in on the elves, killing three or four of them with a single sword strike.

No matter how many of their companions died, the elves remained expressionless, even somewhat vacant in their eyes, as if they were puppets. This piqued the curiosity of Liu Ming and the knights of Yogthotus.

After quickly dispatching most of the elite elven assassins, Liu Ming gave a look to one of the Yogg-Sotus knights, a magician, signaling him to use magic to create a temporary barrier to shield the elves from their mysterious connection with the outside world.

As a result, the moment the barrier was established, the elves suddenly collapsed, convulsing violently, as if they were having an epileptic seizure.

Suddenly, after the elves twitched on the ground for a while, one evil plant after another burst out from their bodies, blooming with bewitching and eerie flowers!

"My lord, these guys aren't the Elven special forces at all! They're Phantom Archers chosen as sacrifices!" Upon seeing the parasitic plants composed of vibrant blood-red petals and sharp teeth, the mage among the Yogg-Sotus knights immediately shouted.

Phantom Archers are similar to assassins among the elves, but unlike assassins, these elves are parasitized by a special parasitic plant from childhood. This parasitic plant allows these elves to be controlled by certain priest-like elves among the tree elves, enabling them to carry out assassination missions.

Although these parasitic plants don't usually harm the spirits, once their connection with the tree spirit priest is severed, they immediately burst out of the parasitized spirit's body and begin devouring large amounts of flesh and blood to reproduce.

Moreover, even without severing the connection, the tree spirit priests can command these parasitic plants to burst forth from their bodies and devour their enemies.

"Damn tree spirits! You really did resort to using something like this!"

Chapter 54 - Tree Spirit

Gazing at the twinkling stars in the sky, with only a crescent moon remaining, Strychilla Magkara, a general from one of the Elf Queen's two guards, waited anxiously outside a palace of moderate size.

After waiting for some time, a tree spirit suddenly emerged from the palace. It had leaves growing from its head, green skin, and an appearance that was strange to humans, beastmen, and elves alike. This spirit wore the robes of an elven priest, possessed a noble bearing, and held a high position among the elves.

Upon seeing the tree spirit priest emerge from the palace, Strylisa immediately went over and asked anxiously, "How is it?"

Unfortunately, the tree spirit priest shook his head and said, "My phantom archers did not do what we wanted them to do."

"How could this happen?! Didn't you say you could definitely turn the tide?!" Strysa grabbed the tree spirit priest's clothes and shouted excitedly.

The tree spirit priest she had captured smiled slightly and said, "I never said such a thing. I said I did my best. Besides, you should know that the people of Miracaissa are not fools. Since they were able to think of using the area on the other side of the Dragonspine Mountains to defend against our attack, they probably already knew what kind of response we would take. It is normal for them to be on guard in advance."

"You mean your tree elf phantom archers can't even defeat human and beast-eared soldiers!?"

The tree spirit priest shook his head and laughed, "Judging from their achievements, they have proven that they are more than twice as strong as ordinary soldiers! Just one hundred phantom archers killed a full four hundred and fifty-seven Miracaiser soldiers. This is something that ordinary elven soldiers would find difficult to do!"

“But they didn’t complete the mission!! Didn’t they!?” Stellaris demanded angrily.

However, the tree spirit priest didn't care about the mission Strisley mentioned. Instead, she advised, "General, you must understand that the Miracaesar's counterattack this time is meticulously prepared. Their weapons, equipment, horses, and provisions are the best in the entire Miracaesar Kingdom. They will naturally guard against any possible counterattack from every angle, and they won't give us a chance to retaliate. Forcing it is impossible. Moreover, the current situation doesn't allow us to fight on two fronts. Before eliminating the troublesome Darkness, any illusion that we can divide our forces to defeat the Miracaesar Kingdom's army is unrealistic! Think about it, if we divide our forces and give Darkness an opportunity to assassinate the Queen, wouldn't we become Darkness's accomplices?"

"You're just making excuses!"

"General, think it over carefully. Is it more important to take back those lands that can be reclaimed at any time, or to take back the entire country? I believe you know the answer to which is more important." The tree spirit priest smiled slightly, easily freeing himself from Strylisa's hands, bowed, and then left.

Watching the retreating figure of the treant priest, Strelisa was furious and couldn't help but say, "Agomelas, don't think I don't know! You were one of the elves who agreed to let Eldridge come to our Aifa Empire! Now that the Darklands aren't listening to you treant elves, you want to use our power. Let me tell you, one day, I, Strelisa Magkara, a general of the Empire, will wipe out all of you treacherous treant elves!"

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The next morning, the Aifa Empire was occupied by the Kingdom of Miracaiser. In the region on this side of the Dragonspine Mountains, almost all cities with teleportation magic stations used special magic devices to inform other cities and troops about the Phantom Archers.

Sitting in a secret underground room in the mansion, Winslant and Chimera were watching 6 Ming and several magicians study the plant that was parasitizing the Phantom Archer's body.

Phantom Archers have appeared in every city with a teleportation magic station. If there isn't a way to identify these elves as enemies beforehand, then we should research a way to find this plant.

Now, relying on the seeds blessed by the god Kaiya, one can generate a special sense to find this hidden plant.

However, this approach is not very effective, as the effective range is very limited. The plant can only be detected within a range of 20 meters, so more methods must be developed.

And now we can only use this simple method.

Watching the plant struggle and wail under the magic of Liu Ming and the others, Winslant and Chimera gradually grew bored. But soon Liu Ming froze the plant with ice magic and walked over.

"How is it?" Seeing Liu Ming approaching, Winslant immediately went over and asked.

"It's not good. We have no other options besides those seeds," Liu Ming said, shaking his head.

"How can you say that we can only rely on these seeds?"

“Yes. Now we can only rely on these seeds.” Nodding, Liu Ming casually took out a very twisted fruit from his clothes, handed it to Winslant, and said, “This is the fruit of a tree blessed by the god Kaiya. It can be used to hold a ceremony for the god Kaiya, thereby obtaining more seeds to sense those evil things and find the Phantom Archers hiding in the areas we occupy.”

Taking the twisted fruit, Winslant examined it carefully before saying to Liu Ming, "I'll go find the priest now and start making these seeds."

After saying that, Winslant hurriedly ran out.

Seeing this, Liu Ming naturally took Chimera and left the basement, intending to rest and listen to the report from the Yugsotus Knights who were patrolling the city with the seeds.

However, before leaving, for safety reasons, Liu Ming instructed the magicians who were acting as his assistants to place the frozen parasitic plant into a special barrier to prevent any unforeseen problems.

The mages thought he was being overly cautious with his orders. But they still obediently placed the parasitic plants inside the barrier. After all, Liu Ming was their superior.

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Sitting in his office, Liu Ming listened to the knights' report and looked at a patrol map in his hand. After a while, he looked up at his knights and said, "You mean you didn't find any other Phantom Archers or other parasitic plants in the city, so you think they must be hiding?"

“Yes, Your Excellency! The Phantom Archers’ mission is to activate the teleportation magic station, so they haven’t completed this mission yet. They should be hiding somewhere in the city, waiting for an opportunity. As soon as we let our guard down, they will seize the chance to activate the teleportation magic station and catch us off guard!” The captain of these knights was the kind of person who was cautious and careful, so her answer was full of worry.

Hearing his knights say this, Liu Ming pondered for a moment, then said, "Go and inform the mages in the army to set up barriers at all the intersections in the city. Also, set up a barrier at the teleportation magic station in the city! Once the plants on the bodies of those phantom archers are disconnected from their masters, they will go berserk. So this is a passive way to find them."

Upon hearing this, the knights immediately saluted Liu Ming, shouted "Yes!", and then strode away to complete the task Liu Ming had given them.

After the knights left, Liu Ming immediately climbed onto the table. He had barely slept for the past three days and was exhausted. Now, all he could think about was lying in bed, holding his wife, and getting a good night's sleep.

Unfortunately, reality is just that cruel.

Before Chimera could help him back to his room, a knight arrived at his temporary office with a child wearing a cloak.

"Your Excellency, this child wants to see you. She says she has a way to find the Phantom Archers hiding in the city!"

The knight's words instantly energized Liu Ming, who was exhausted. He quickly sat up straight and looked at the child in the cloak.

Out of politeness, the child lowered the hood of his cloak, revealing his face.

"A tree spirit? Interesting!" Seeing that the child's head had many leaves and that his head and skin were green, Liu Ming couldn't help but become interested.

"Child, what is your name?" Liu Ming glanced at the knight who had brought the tree spirit in, gestured for him to bring a chair, and then asked the tree spirit.

After sitting down in the chair the knight had brought and thanking him, the little tree spirit girl said to Liu Ming, "I am Rukana Mandela, the priestess of the Mandela tribe among the tree spirits. I have come to see the Viscount because of the appearance of the Phantom Archer."

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“As a human, you may not know much about us tree elves. After all, even our fellow elves don’t know much about us. But I can tell you that not all tree elves like to use such cruel methods as phantom archers! At least our Mandela tribe strongly opposes it.”

"Just because you oppose the use of Phantom Archers, the tree elves of your Mandela tribe have decided to help us Miracais, who have occupied the lands of the Aifa Empire?" Liu Ming asked with a frown and some doubt.

"We tree elves are not part of the Aifa Empire, and the Aifa Empire has never considered us tree elves as a part of this country. In the eyes of those white elves, we tree elves are similar to the Dark elves. It's just that we are more easygoing and non-aggressive, so there's no need to eliminate us." Rukana smiled faintly and explained to Lu Ming, "This situation is similar to what happened before your country chose to accept those nomadic tribes. We received no assistance from the Aifa Empire, and we would not do anything for the Aifa Empire either. Except for the Mandragora tribe."

"The Mandala tribe?"

"Yes! The Mandragora tribe. They are an anomaly among the tree spirits, showing little interest in peaceful life but instead showing great interest in war. To achieve their goal of participating in war, their entire tribe swore allegiance to the Empress of the Aifa Empire and encouraged her to attack neighboring countries. Furthermore, it was they who persuaded the Empress of Aifa to initiate the Aifa Empire's invasion of your Miracaissa!"

"Among the tree elves, is the Mandala tribe the only one working for the Aifa Empire? And what is the attitude of the tree elves of this tribe towards evil things like the Phantom Archers?" After frowning and thinking for a while, Liu Ming asked Rukana.

"As far as our Mandragora tribe knows, this evil tribe is the only tree elf that works for the Aifa Empire. The other tree elves who work for the Aifa Empire do so out of their own individual will, not the will of this tribe. As for the Phantom Archers, in fact, this evil thing was developed by the Mandragora tribe!"

Upon hearing Rukana's answer, Liu Ming paused slightly. Then, as if remembering something, he pulled out a notebook from the drawer and began flipping through it page by page, finally stopping at the page that described a white flower he called Datura.

Looking at his research notes in the book, Liu Ming frowned and thought for a moment before saying to Rukana, "Since your tribe is willing to help us, then please have all the elves of your tribe stay in the city for the time being. After all, we Miracaisar people must be careful during this time of war."

“Our Mandela tribe has no reason to misunderstand this. But seeing your actions just now, it seems you have thought of something. Could you tell me?”

"Actually, it's nothing. I was just wondering what that evil thing inside the Phantom Archer really is." Liu Ming smiled slightly, picked up a pen, and started writing and drawing in a blank notebook before finally handing it to Rukana.

Although Rukana didn't recognize the script of the Kingdom of Miracaisa, she could tell from the two very direct pictures what the plant implanted into the body of a normal elf by the tree spirit of the Mandragora tribe looked like inside the elf's body and what it originally looked like when it grew in its natural environment.

Why are you researching this?

"In Miracaissa, this flower is used as a painkiller and anesthetic. It's quite strange that the tree spirits of the Mandragora tribe could transform this poisonous plant into that monster. However, now that we know what it is, we should be able to find a way to suppress it and thus remove this plant while preserving the Phantom Archer's life!"

Seeing the hint of excitement in Liu Ming's eyes, Rukana asked with slight concern, "Viscount, are you really going to suppress it, instead of using it like the Mandala tribe? And what do you want those Phantom Archers to do alive?"

“We Miracaisar have far more advanced puppet soldier technology, and we recently acquired golem technology. What use do we have for something as inhuman and evil as the Phantom Archers? In the end, the only reason we keep those Phantom Archers alive is to gather intelligence.” Liu Ming glanced at Rukana with some confusion, unsure of her meaning, but still answered her next question.

Chapter 55 - The Filth Within the Elves

A few days later, Strylisa commanded the Afar army against the Dark army near the capital of Afar. Relying on the healing abilities of the tree elves who were favored by the queen, her army suppressed the Dark rebels with a great advantage.