Nash's persuasion was a success, and when Adele, Lisa, and the members of the Silvermoon Regiment entered the valley with flares, they saw hordes of gnolls stacking their weapons and armor together.

The thugs who had given up the fight would still stare at them with fierce eyes, but no one would come forward to provoke them.

More of the gnolls sat down by the rocks not far away after laying down their weapons, looking very tired, some lying down and snorting, others whispering to comfort the frightened cubs.

They told the cubs that they would be home soon, and the cubs who didn't know anything about the world cheered.

They couldn't understand why they had left their homeland and crossed half of the dark mountains to this strange place, or why they had to return home after doing nothing, their minds couldn't think of such complex issues, but it was always a good thing to be able to go home.

I've had enough of starving and being scared here.

Of course, there are some gnolls who don't believe in the ethics of humans and vampires, but in the face of the massive spread of the "Psychic Plague", they are unable to gather more companions if they want to resist.

Even the most vigilant Adele was convinced that they were no longer a threat after seeing the strange posture of these gnolls.

But what to do with such a large number of captives is indeed a problem, although Governor Murphy has reached an agreement with the wise wolves to send these old and weak women and children to the Plains of Creation, but with the current malnutrition and mental malaise of the jackals, if they are really forced to go on the road, I am afraid that a small half of them will die on the way.

Hogg is still figuring out a way to deal with this problem.

Until it comes up with a workable plan, these captives will be temporarily placed near Fort Courage, so the first thing they will do after surrendering is to build themselves a large enough prisoner of war camp, fortunately, this prisoner of war camp does not need to be maintained at the expense of the civilized camp, and Murphy does not have to worry about hostility and even war between countries because of the cost.

"Your soldiers have all been involved in this plague, and they have blood on their hands, so they will be handed over to the Bloodclaw Clan to be taken into the Filthy Swamp."

At this time, Adele, on behalf of Governor Murphy, conveyed the order to Overseer Haas's army to dispose of the prisoners, and she said solemnly:

"Your soldiers will need to help the Bloodclaw Clan build at least five towns in the Filthy Swamp before their war crimes can be paid off, at which point they will be sent back to the Gnoll Kingdom as agreed by both parties.

The old and weak women and children of the Splittal Clan were not really involved in the plague, so they did not have to endure hard labor, and after the wolf paid reparations to Transthea, they were free.

We will be responsible for escorting your people back to the Plains of Creation when everything is in order.

Do you have any objections to this result? ”

"Am I going to do that hard labor too?"

Overseer Haas asked, and Adele nodded:

"Of course, you are also one of the war criminals! Lord Haas, however, I have heard of your request from Chief Nash, and the matter of guarding the tomb of Hygson may be agreed in principle, and Governor Murphy intends to construct some buildings near the Swamp Exclusion Zone.

You can finish your hard labor there, and by the way, fulfill your last wishes.

But it's a harsh environment, and you might have to be prepared. ”

"That's good, I don't ask for anything else."

Overseer Haas bowed his head, placed his hunting helmet on the table, and handed Adele the roster of his elite warriors.

The transfer of this item represents the official beginning of the reception of prisoners.

Some of the defenders of Fort Courage had already made their way to the Valley of the Shadows to maintain order when the 100,000-odd gnolls moved, and Murphy had arrived with Maxim even later.

"Hogg is preparing for a meeting with His Highness Khufu, and I suspect that the ransom for these captives will be paid after that conversation is over."

Murphy stood in front of the temple of Avalon, which had been destroyed by the gnolls, and said to Adele:

Miriam says she will use a portion of the money to restore the town in Shadow Valley, and the Silvermoon will raise funds to rebuild and expand it.

If the Shadow Half-Elves renounce their claims, they will still receive a large sum of money from the Silver Moon, enough for Lisa and her people to build their own town near the Ancestral Glades.

Adele, your people are safe. ”

"It was the best result they themselves had won in the hard war, and I played only a minor role in it."

Adele shook her head and touched the sword at her waist, she hesitated for a moment but decided to tell her master what had happened, and Murphy frowned when she heard Adele talk about the meeting with Sarifo Shadowblade and the true identity of the other party.

"So, that guy is what Villanzer calls a 'traitor'."

The vampire said:

"Spider Niang has always suspected that the fall of Mejewa City has an inside story, and now it seems that the big boss of the main line of the shadow elf race has surfaced, and the identity of the other party's Twilight Believer can just be integrated into the main story.

But my concern now is whether what Sarifo has done to Mejewa is the end or the beginning.

If he has any ill will towards the Shadow Elf civilization, I suspect that his actions in the Eternal Rift will not stop, and one Shadow Elf family after another will suffer the same fate as Mejewa City.

And your father

Don't you wonder why Suriv persuaded you to go back to Mejewa? ”

"I thought about it."

Adele whispered:

"It may have been a trap, but it could have hidden some deep meaning, after meeting him I realized that I knew too little about my father, that he was more complex and powerful than I had imagined, maybe I should have gone back, but not now!

Your cause still needs my dedication. ”

"After a while."

Murphy saw that Adele was in a bad mood, he stretched out his hand and patted Adele's hand, and said softly:

"We're all going to take part in that operation when Lord Pa Ying reinforces the Holy Blood Seal, and its route will pass through the Eternal Rift, and I'll accompany you to Mejewa City when the time comes."

"You don't have to, I can do it myself, it's my family business after all."

Sister E wanted to refuse, but Murphy squeezed her hand.

This action made her feel Murphy's determination, and it also made her no longer resist the decision from Murphy.

"Yo, Adele! I'm back, and I've brought you a gift. ”

Just as the two were silent, a cheerful voice sounded from behind.

Adele and Murphy turned around, and saw the eldest lady Philimis flapping her huge wings falling from the sky, and gave Adele a warm hug in a gesture of meeting an old friend.

A pampering gesture.

But Murphy looked at the unique spellcaster robe on the eldest lady with strange eyes, if he remembered correctly, this style should have come from a drama related to magical girls, right?

And what's the deal with your staff and the strange fan?

How did you change the Staff of Nightscream that the Lord gave you to look like this! Also, why carry a rose bow behind your back?

Blanch, it's really on par with the round god in all directions, right!

Has this guy who has been poisoned by horse monkey soju actually started to play such a high-end hobby as COS?

"Beware of becoming a Headless Horseman, you!"

Murphy complained a little, and then threw a look at Adele and asked her to talk to the eldest lady, who had been in Fort Courage on behalf of the Vulture Clan and Transencia throughout the war, and thanks to her scrupulous duty, the Gnoll's logistics were always under attack.

Although she did not directly participate in the final battle, the credit of the eldest lady was definitely not much less than that of the commanders who fought on the front line.

Even if this guy's immersion in otherworldly dramas has been completely abolished, her growth has indeed made Triss and Murphy obvious to all.

She's already a trusted faction leader in the Blood Vulture Clan, and the only problem is that it's hard to say what kind of bad art will develop into after her Midnight faction under the leadership of this magical girl Fimis.

After all, as a senior member of the Red Devil Pavilion, the caster of the Student Party, Che Che, had already learned the Blood Version of the Spiral Pill and the Blood Escape Blood Dragon Bullet developed by the eldest lady herself. Every time they were involved in a battle, the "hilarious" scene was so "hilarious" that Murphy didn't even look at it.

Alas, what a family misfortune.

He sighed with emotion, and after watching Adele take the bouncing Phimes by the hand and leave like a sister, he turned around and walked into the badly damaged temple of Avalon behind him.

This is the only place in the Valley of the Shadows that has anything to do with faith and gods, but don't expect the gnolls to be religious.

The place used to have a hall, but now it has been destroyed, most of the tribute has been stolen by hungry gnolls, and the wooden statue of Avalon has been carried away and split for firewood, leaving only a pedestal to make it look desolate.

Murphy was somewhat silent.

Then he wanted to contact Trith to see what his wife was doing, but if he thought about it, it was not difficult to guess that he had given Tracy the knowledge of the gods who weaved illusions left by Ao before, and the character of the scarlet witch who was a doer would probably have gone to the Plains of Creation to practice with the Broken God Kingdom of the Lord of Hunting.

This is a really good thing, which means that Murphy finally doesn't need to use the system's built-in copy snapshot mechanism to shape new copies, and with that Yunlan Fantasy in hand, the development team can finally come up with some new tricks.

"Do you want to create a scene from a remastered version of the War of the Godslayers?"

Murphy rubbed his chin and thought:

"It's a pity that such an important event doesn't feel like a team is not a drawback, Ao said that Yunshui Fantasy can shape a completely realistic combat experience according to the skills of the operator, and it is indeed a pity that such a good mechanism is not used to show the super technical strength of the development team.

And I can throw the loot directly in, so that they don't have to exchange for equipment. ”

"You must be thinking about something evil again, and I can guess from the look of pleasure on your face that it must have something to do with your foreign spirits."

A familiar voice rang in Murphy's ears, and he looked back to see the spider-lady Veranther stepping out of the shadows.

She looked dusty, and even that astringency was replaced by a tired look, but there was a smug glint in Velancer's eyes, and Murphy couldn't help but wonder if she had gone out to pick up the money.

In the next second, Murphy noticed a black pocket hanging from Velanther's waist, which seemed to contain something, and a strange shape protruded from the surface of the pocket.

It's like putting a figurine in your pocket

"Wait!"

Murphy is a spirit.

He reacted immediately, took a step back, and said:

"Did you find the Spider Lady's Primordial Shrine in Mossy Valley?"

"It's worthy of being a powerful master, and you can guess the truth at once."

Veranther brushed his hair with two hands, and with the remaining four hands he quickly removed the pocket from his waist, took it out in a gesture of sharing the treasure, and handed it to Murphy.

It was indeed a shrine.

But it has no majesty.

It was carved out of some kind of wood similar to stone, and it should have been gorgeous when it was first made, but unfortunately it had weathered over time for a long time, and I couldn't even see the honor that belonged to the Spider Lady on the shrine, and even a few of my arms were broken, and there were even traces left by years of burial in the soil in the crevices of the shrine.

It didn't look like anything closely related to the gods at all, but rather like Willanther randomly found an abandoned thing in a roadside garbage heap to make up for it.

This seems to be what Verancer's eccentric personality is capable of.

But Murphy is the caretaker after all, and he can peel back the surface of the objects and see their true interiors, such as the dilapidated shrine in front of him, which weighs significantly more than its size, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is much heavier than even the same volume of high-density metal.

"Is this the weight of faith?"

The vampire asked softly as he stroked the dilapidated Primordial Shrine.

Velanther replied with a strange look in his eyes:

"Of course not, my master, faith has no weight, though it does weigh a lot of the time. The reason why this shrine has a weight that does not match its size is because of its material.

According to the cryptic sources of the Abyssal Sisterhood, the shrine was made by the Shadow Elves who had secretly removed branches from the branches of the Mother Tree before they left the Kingdom of Castile, and that the Mother Tree of the Forest Elves came directly from Avalon's gift, so it possessed all sorts of magical properties.

High density is just the most inconspicuous of all.

After the Shadow Elves left the kingdom of Castile, our ancestors made a rather difficult journey to settle in the Eternal Rift, and it was during this journey that the shrine was carved by the priests of the Abyss Sisterhood.

It was housed in the Temple of the Abyss in the Mossy Valley until the Gnolls took the Holy Land from us during the Third Black Plague.

It is said that one-third of the members of the Abyss Sisterhood died in that war, but they were unable to bring the Spider Lady's Primordial Shrine back to the Eternal Rift.

But now, I'm done!

Master, relying solely on my exploits in recovering the Shrine of the Primordial, I will be rewarded by the Abyssal Sisters when I return to the Eternal Rift, and with their help, the rebuilding of Mejewa will be easy and easy. ”

"Where did you find it?"

Murphy stroked the shrine in his hand, and he whispered:

"I released the Scepter of God with my own hands, I know very well the destructive power of that thing, the entire mossy valley has been razed, I don't think such a shrine can survive such a scene."

"Of course not in a random place in the dirt."

Velencher showed a coquettish smile, she crossed her waist, and said proudly:

"If this were that simple, then the priests of Lady Spider would not have been able to take the Gnolls for hundreds of years. In fact, during that battle more than two hundred years ago, the priests of the Abyss Sisters hid the shrine of Lady Spider in a place where no gnolls could find it, before the temple was destroyed.

Time!

They artificially created a time-warping place, hiding it in the cracks of time.

It was only after the wrath of your Creator destroyed the wicked place that the rift of time was opened, and you see, this shrine has only been lost for more than two hundred years but has been weathered so badly because it is hidden in time and constantly being washed away by time.

So, at the end of the day, you have made a great contribution to my dedication to Lady Spider. ”

"Well, I'm so honored."

Murphy smiled, returned the shrine to Veranther, and said:

"Now take it with you to meet Chuchut, it's what I promised Lord Kulkan, to learn from the story of Lady Spider's split from the face of God Avalon that is forbidden enough to help Quetzalcoatl.

Then it's up to you to decide what to do with this shrine, after all, this is your shadow elf's internal affairs, and I, a vampire, can't interfere. ”

"Here's why I showed you the first thing I found it, my master."

Willencer lowered her eyebrows and stroked the shrine in her hand obediently, and she said:

"I hope you can do me a favor."

"Oh? You say, what's busy? ”

Murphy asked.

And the next moment, when Villanzer looked up again, Murphy was greeted by a pair of eyes as deep as the abyss, and she did not say:

"Please help me with that fateful freedom, Your Excellency Administrator, I've waited too long."

(End of chapter)