Chapter 221: Withering (I)
Caroli's inner uneasiness was verified, and she lay on top of Etter the brown bear... The sound of the forest weeping was heard.
It wasn't a metaphor, Caroli could feel the sadness and anger that the forest had sent her.
Maybe it's because she was chosen as the priest of the World Tree.
Brown bear Etter led Caroli to the square around the World Tree, where thousands of Dark Wood Elves gathered, their longbows in their hands, as if they were already in a state of combat readiness.
"Grand Elder Sephane! Flame... The trees around the forest were devoured, and I saw a monster burning with flames, a demon... It must be a demon! ”
A seriously injured young elf was supported by his companions and walked in front of several elven elders, his spirit was a little trance-like, and even out of control.
Before he was seriously injured, he must have seen a very terrifying vision.
"Demons... Why do demons attack the forest? ”
"What do they want by burning forests?"
This remark caused the surrounding elves to fall into an anxious discussion.
Today is undoubtedly a day of disaster, far more dangerous than the intrigue between the Dark Wood Elves and humans for more than ten years.
"Don't be blinded by anger, the demon's territory is in the Land of Frost, thousands of miles away... If it's really a demon, tell me... You've been attacked somewhere. ”
Standing in the center, Elder Sephaon stretched out his hand, a glowing green light overflowing over his palm, healing the young elf's wounds.
While Elder Sephaon was tending to the wounded, the other elders had already begun to plan to meet the enemy.
Demon...
As a human, Caroli should have believed what the young elf said, but during the filming of "This Demon Is Not Too Cold", Caroli spent time with the Chaos Demon named Joshy.
She found that the devil is not as brutal as the church says, on the contrary, Qiao Xiu is very humorous and talented, not only the script of "This Demon Is Not Too Cold", but the invention of the magic net alone is enough to make him go down in the history of human civilization.
Caroli jumped off the back of Brown Bear Etter, and was about to tell Elder Sephaon what she had just encountered, when Brown Bear Ette let out another angry roar.
The roar caught the eye of all the elves present, and Etter lunged at one of the elves, and when the elves thought the brown bear was out of control, the 'elf' quickly drew the dagger at his side to resist the onslaught of the brown bear.
But the slap of a three-meter-tall brown bear is enough to destroy any shield made of steel.
The 'elf' who was attacked by the brown bear Etter was overturned by the huge force of the brown bear, and after rolling on the ground a few times, his appearance suddenly changed from an elf to a figure shrouded in black robes.
"Moloca! Damn it...... What did you do with Moloca! ”
It seems that someone knows the elf who was attacked by the brown bear, but unfortunately his familiar friend has disappeared and has been replaced by a despicable pretender.
Looking at this scene, Caroli instantly remembered a book she had read in the immovable library section of the Spellcaster Forum, a book called "Diary of an Inquisitor of Heresy", and one of the contents clearly appeared in her mind.
'The Inquisitor's most despicable ability is that they can take on the form of any human or humanoid creature, a disguise that even the best mages in the world cannot see, and I used this ability to disguise myself as the wife of my target and pierce the heart of my target with a sword as he greeted him with a smile...... I don't like these memories. ’
Inquisitor... Inquisition, Church.
"Elder Sephaon! The one who attacked this forest was the Inquisitor of the Holy Cult Nation! They... Possess the ability to transform into someone else's appearance! ”
Caroli shouted loudly at Elder Sephaun, who was standing in the middle of the square.
Her voice replaced Brown Bear Etter and was once again the focus of the entire square, and at that moment Caroli heard the faint sound of breaking through the air.
A premonition of danger suddenly rose in her heart, and an arrow from a crossbow was aimed at her.
There was nowhere to hide, she closed her eyes but there was no pain in her body, and when she opened her eyes again, the brown bear named Ette stood in front of her.
"Etter, you... Are you okay? ”
Caroli saw an arrow sink into Etter's forefoot, and the brown bear let out a soft growl to indicate that there was nothing wrong with him......
The Inquisitor who had been slapped away by the brown bear got up from the ground and took out his staff from his black robes.
The tip of the staff was embedded with the pupil of an unknown creature, and the mere mere imposition of gazing at that pupil made one feel extremely disgusted.
When the Inquisitor was about to cast some kind of spell, a large number of vines and roots stretched out from the ground and tightly imprisoned him, directly incapacitating him.
"Why did the inquisitors of the Church encroach on this ancient land?"
The pale green inscription on Elder Sefan's hand was shining, and it was he who had used magic to imprison the Inquisitor, and the thorny roots cut through the hood that shrouded the Inquisitor's head, revealing his true form.
When they saw the true face of the Inquisitor, the elves present all showed expressions of disgust.
The Inquisitor had lost its human appearance, his skin began to show signs of scales, and his mouth had been stitched shut by something, making him unable to utter any words.
But before Elder Sephaon could get any information from the Inquisitor, tentacles of magical power suddenly protruded from beneath the ground... The tentacles pounced on the elves gathered in the square.
Most of the elves immediately chose to dodge, but a small number of elves suddenly drew their weapons and swung them at their compatriots.
This sudden change was not even expected by Elder Sephaun, but when he saw the tentacles made of magical power, he realized that things would not be so simple.
The light of the emerald green inscription flickered in his hand, and the other elven elders slammed their staffs on the ground.
The whole forest trembled, and Caroli turned back to find that the tree behind her had grown a face and arms, and she stood up directly from the ground, raised her arms made of trees and swung them at the elves who had attacked her people.
After a brief period of panic, the Darkwood Elves gathered in the square also began to organize a resistance to the intruder's attack.
But what really makes Caroli feel hopeless... It's the gray fog that suddenly hits in the distance, and... More and more black-robed Inquisitors appeared around the forest.
The straw that finally broke the camel was the roar of the brass dragon inside the World Tree, not an angry roar, but a hysterical roar.
At this moment, Caroli suddenly understood that these inquisitors from the Inquisition were not a surprise attack, but had been prepared for a long time, and for this attack, they might have been preparing for ten years, or even hundreds of years.
In this long time, they have not only corrupted the guardians of the World Tree by some means, but even a large number of Inquisitors have disguised themselves as Darkwood Elves and blended into the race.
A disguise that even the World Tree can't spot......
The gray mist covered the entire forest, and at this moment, the thought in Caroli's mind was that she regretted not joining the Diary of a Heresy Inquisitor.
Otherwise, she might have read from the Inquisitor Diary about the Inquisitor's invasion of the Elven Forest, but it was too late, and even complaining about the slow updating of the author of the Inquisitor Diary would be useless.