Chapter 578 - 576: Leaving
The chaos accompanied by a large number of third-tier elves unable to withstand the invasion of pollution, returning to the Holy Tree to recuperate, has become more frequent.
Hilia slowly walked down a street, where a third-tier wolfman emerged, his eyes red, already affected by the pollution.
However, Hilia could sense that he wasn’t actually affected that much, more so, he was stirred up by the malice in his heart brought on by the pollution.
So he slaughtered the elves, humans, and beastmen who were walking towards him.
Suddenly, he noticed Hilia coming over, immediately turned around, and the claws on his hands were nearly a meter long.
"Ow!"
The wolfman howled and rushed towards Hilia.
His speed was very fast, but when he reached about three meters away from Hilia, he fell to the ground, already turned into an ice sculpture.
Bang!
The ice sculpture was fragile, and upon hitting the ground, it shattered into pieces.
Its blood had frozen, and an unharmonious scene did not appear.
Of course, nothing was more disturbingly disharmonious than the people it brutally murdered.
This was the fifth mage whose inner wickedness had been stirred up by pollution and executed by Hilia.
There were beastmen, elves, and humans.
He would not be the last.
Hilia’s direction was towards the outside of Elf City.
Along the way, she didn’t do anything, yet always someone would foolishly attempt to attack her, only to be frozen into ice sculptures and smashed to pieces.
Bam!
Another ice sculpture shattered.
The guard team entangled with the opponent breathed a sigh of relief and came forward to thank Hilia.
Hilia could see that when the other party was expressing gratitude, suddenly they paused and asked in surprise, "How come you don’t have the blessing of the Elf Forest? Are you an elf from outside?"
With this remark, many in the team had a change in their gaze.
Even if Hilia was stronger than them.
Rose looked at the elves whose gazes had shifted, and chuckled softly, "Classic, even if your wealth is in the billions, you’re still just a smelly outsider begging for food."
Hilia secretly rolled her eyes in her mind.
On the surface, she had a cold and indifferent expression, only nodding slightly before continuing to leave.
She didn’t want to talk to a bunch of elves who discriminated against ’outsiders.’
Their pathetic arrogance only amused her.
Slowly, Hilia arrived at the entrance of the Elf Royal City.
At this time, the gate was already closed, the entire array of the Elf Royal City was operating at full capacity, although it couldn’t prevent the pollution from entering, at least it demonstrated their attitude of trying.
This was somewhat troublesome for those who wanted to enter or exit the city.
Hilia looked at the closed entrance and frowned.
After thinking for a moment, she walked forward to a small tree house beside the entrance and knocked on the window of the tree house, asking, "Hello, can you open the door? I want to go out."
A voice from inside responded, "Sorry, you can’t enter or exit the city now. It’ll only open once the Royal Court clears all the pollution."
By the time the Royal City clears all the pollution, who knows how long it will be.
Hilia frowned and asked again, "Can’t you really open it?"
The voice inside replied helplessly, "I don’t dare, I really don’t dare to leave now, even without orders, I wouldn’t dare go out to open the door for you."
After a pause, the person added, "Moreover, now that the array is activated, the activation of the array closes the entrance, my authority is not that high. Go back, miss, once the Royal Court resolves the filth, the city gate will naturally open."
"Alright, thank you."
Hilia pursed her lips.
It seems that she’ll have to resort to old methods.
Hilia came to the barrier of the array and looked up at the sky, where no one was making futile efforts.
However, occasionally a high-tier mage would fly back and forth in the sky.
Their primary duty was to patrol the outskirts to see if anyone was tampering with the array at this time.
Of course, they were flying so high that they couldn’t really see clearly what’s happening below.
Moreover, there weren’t enough personnel to patrol, giving Hilia an opportunity to exploit.
Hilia carefully observed and found a tree to climb up, sensing that every tree in the Elf Royal City was part of the array.
"The Elf Race’s array is really peculiar, feels ancient, but it isn’t easy to break. I wonder if my current mastery can break the array of the Royal City, not asking for much, just open a small door."
Hilia murmured to herself, while Mage’s Hand probed into the tree, first quietly feeling the structure of the array before looking for key nodes outside the Royal Court to start with, making breaking it easier.
Of course, breaking it all at once isn’t impossible, just need to pray for the help of Gods...
The thought of praying to the Gods flicked through Hilia’s mind, but she quickly dismissed it.
"For such a large array, especially an ancient one, no one knows how many years it’s existed, and it’s already accumulated a lot of useless runes, containing various vulnerabilities. Finding a vulnerability to open the door isn’t that difficult, and doesn’t require God’s help."
Hilia mumbled, immersing herself in the sensation.
The sky slowly dimmed.
The chaos of the Elf Royal City continued into the night, accompanied by everyone outside gradually being polluted, from having some rationality to completely losing rationality, the probability of chaos reaching its peak and then slowly subsiding.
When the starry sky cast starlight onto the earth, the whole Elf Royal City slowly quieted down.
Only the dense pollution continued to flow, constantly washing over the Elf Royal City and Holy Tree.
The glowing trees that should have appeared at night were now all extinguished.
Only the light on the Holy Tree remained.
At this moment, Hilia had already left her original location, arriving outside the Holy Tree.
She looked up at the Holy Tree, and although the light remained, Hilia could feel it was dimming.
Inside the Holy Tree is the only area unaffected by pollution, still maintaining fresh air.
But it couldn’t last much longer.
"At most three days, if no measure is found, the inside of the Holy Tree will also be impacted by pollution."
Hilia shook her head, ignoring the Holy Tree and starting a slow intrusion.
With the array operating at full power, intrusion became extremely difficult.
The situation in the Elf Royal City was different from other cities; in Southern Border City, it was Rose who invaded, while in Letes City, the array had long been infiltrated into a sieve by the Deep Sea Mutual Aid Association, so whether Hilia was there or not didn’t make much difference.
However, in the Elf Royal City, without external enemies disrupting the array’s operation, the time spent for a silent invasion was elongated.
It wasn’t until the morning that Hilia quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Finally created a small opening, let’s see the Elf Royal City from here. Next, continue looking for what Lord Rose spoke of. After Lana is sent out, then change the itinerary."
Though she said this, Hilia felt that with such a major event occurring in the Royal City, Lana’s situation might be indefinitely postponed.