Chapter 657 - 655: Everyone Here Is Trash
"Finally still..."
Elina looked at the Royal Court Guard in front of her and sighed inwardly.
After hesitating for a long time, this step finally arrived.
These past few days, she has seen the resistance of the Royal Court Guard.
After these demons emerged from underground, they seemed to undergo some special change, forming some strange resonance with the Elf Forest and their powers strengthened.
The strengthening wasn’t that their tier became higher, they gained entirely new abilities—a rapid self-healing ability.
As long as they weren’t instantly focused down within a short time, they could quickly recover, directly catching the Royal Court Guard off guard.
The guard isn’t entirely composed of Tier Four Mages.
Tier Four already counts as a core force within the magic field, even a massive empire couldn’t specifically set up a large elite force entirely made of Tier Four Mages. Small teams might work well, but as numbers grow, interference between mages can occur, making it difficult for High-tier Mages to exert themselves.
Almost all empires choose to have one Tier Four Mage lead, in coordination with Tier Three and below mages to form a formation, letting others assist the Tier Four Mage as the group leader in battles.
The Royal Court Guard adopted this method too, initially crushing demon hordes directly.
But with demons flowing out endlessly, even employing rotational combat couldn’t resist what seemed like an infinite Beast Tide.
Even with the elite investigation team added.
Eventually, Louis with his Tier Six power had to intervene.
When Elina saw Louis act, she slightly relaxed her tense heart.
But soon after, Louis stopped, chose to lead the investigation team to retreat, leaving the Royal Court Guard to resist.
This action, if it were any other Elf Elder, Elina might suspect if they had ulterior motives.
But after contacting Louis, he didn’t trace her, letting her feel slightly inclined to believe this Elf Elder wasn’t like the Elf King.
His retreat might have been due to discovering some problem, having to withdraw.
As the Royal Court Guard’s frontline retreated during strategic adjustments, an unexpected Beast Tide invaded a village, massacring everyone, causing Elina to find this unacceptable.
Hesitation turned into decision.
Allowing the Elf Royal Court to adjust defenses like this, accidents would only increase.
She needed to share information with the investigation group, searching for a solution to the Beast Tide.
"Perhaps, ultimately I need to keep seeking solutions inside."
Elina took a deep breath, raised her hands summoning the magic puppet, which charged from the sky into the Royal Court Guard’s frontline, instantly smashing the demons rushing forward.
The sudden appearance of Elina left many mages momentarily stunned, and seeing it was Elina, their spirits lifted instantly.
"It’s Elina! The god’s lucky one!"
"Great, we are saved!"
Elina’s quiet departure didn’t stir up much commotion.
The Elf King ordered to seal the information, apart from the upper-echelon or close confidants, like Louis’s investigation team, most people knew Elina had left.
Other empires might know but didn’t publicize because they couldn’t track Elina’s movements; if she suddenly returned, it would make them look bad.
Therefore, these ordinary mages weren’t aware of Elina’s situation.
Seeing Elina arrive, they immediately showed excitement.
Even if someone knew of Elina’s ’disappearance,’ they wouldn’t speak up at this time.
Of course, upon seeing Elina, they immediately sent back the news of her appearance, informing the Elf Royal Court.
Elina glanced at their actions, did not stop them, choosing to join them to repel and eliminate this wave of demons.
With Elina joining, after she separated the life elements from the demons, the guard’s pressure greatly reduced; though not as immediate as when with Hilia, it weakened the demons’ defense greatly and their recovery ability was also much diminished.
Not long after, the guard succeeded in completely eliminating this wave of demons.
Yet by then, personnel from the Elf Royal Court hurriedly arrived.
Leading them was Elder Candia, who once protected Elina.
She hurried over, several times running into others.
Only after confirming it was indeed Elina did she breathe a sigh of relief.
Then, her expression turned stern.
"Where did you go? Such audacity, do you know the consequences?"
Upon hearing Candia’s words, Elina’s originally good mood immediately turned cold.
"So what? What can you do to me? If you can, go ahead and kill me, Candia, your foul mouth will eventually get you killed."
"You..."
"Cough cough..."
Beside them, a voice came, causing Candia’s originally rageful expression to instantly change, reluctantly suppressing it.
Elina squinted at the unfamiliar elf.
Able to make Candia behave so...
Without a doubt, it’s the Elf King.
Though he’s in disguise.
While Elina looked at him, he was also watching Elina.
He smiled, "Since Elina is willing to appear, it indicates she has decided what to do, come along, let’s go back with us."
Elina indifferently pouted, "I didn’t expect you to personally come and welcome me, fine, lead the way."
Their conversation did not let outsiders know; others only saw Elina and hurried Elf Elder speaking a few words with the support team before leaving.
Looking again, the guard commander already called for readiness to continue resisting the next wave of offensives.
"Miss Elina has a more important task; she is the god’s lucky one, needed to help us find the root solution to the disaster, don’t think she’s here to fight alongside us all the time—that will only leave us stuck in endless battles."
"These demons must be killable, right?"
"Do you know how many demons there are? How long will it take to kill them all?"
"..."
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Elf Royal City, Holy Tree.
The Elf King removed his disguise, returned to his original appearance, and with several elders and Elina, entered a meeting room.
Elina looked around, all were supporters of the Elf King.
The Elf King looked at Elina, asked calmly, "Tell us, what have you been doing during this time, and why did you leave Candia?"
"Don’t sound like Candia has anything to do with me." Elina snapped irritably, "I’m not familiar with her."
Candia frowned, about to speak when the Elf King gave her a look.
Elina glanced at Candia, continued, "With Candia around, everything becomes inefficient, she’ll always mess up something that was going well, and coupled with your own incompetence, to solve the Elf Race’s calamity, I needed to act alone."
Her words directly offended everyone present.