Chapter 444

Chapter 444: Karoso’s Scheme

Anwen saw the line of words with Messiah’s name on the Tree of Life fade, and she gasped in shock.

She quickly called her prophecy hero to help her understand what was happening.

Once Anwen got the answer, she became completely furious.

"Vereesa!" Anwen shouted, "How dare you!"

She never expected that the traitor was not Malfurion, but the very Vereesa who had always acted so well in front of her!

This woman, how could she betray the entire race!

Although elves do not worship only one god, in this area, there is only the Church of the Forest of Elves!

Heresy is already serious enough, but she also thinks the elves are traitors!

And Malfurion, he did not kill the traitor but instead joined the enemy with Vereesa.

These two creatures, cursed be they!

"Hoo…"

Anwen waved her hand, "All troops, listen up!"

The three-headed Green Crystal Dragon lifted its head, and the tree sprites rose up one by one, while the unicorns kicked the ground a few times with their hooves.

The archers and Sword Dancers jumped up and down in the trees, forming a group.

The flower fairies and flower demons flew out from the trees, and the Druids looked serious.

They knew that something truly important was happening.

The other two heroes, a prophet and a Druid, stood behind Anwen.

"Our race has traitors, and this brings shame to all Elves!" Anwen looked around at her army, "We are proud elves, and we will not allow such elves to exist."

"We will not fight this war anymore."

"We no longer want Dawn City!"

"Now, the entire army will move out, and we have only one goal: to kill the traitors!"

"Even if I bleed to my last drop, I will skin them and hang them on the World Tree."

"They should be despised by all Elven."

"As long as there is one Elven person alive, we must remember their names!"

"Their names will be written forever on the Pillar of Shame of the Elven!"

"All troops, move out!"

All the Elven soldiers, including the heroes, felt nothing was wrong, and decisively launched an attack to cleanse the traitors!

……

Anduin arrived near Gabriel once more and forced down his anger, "My lord, it seems you do not truly accept them."

"These traitors who even betray their own race want me to use them more? I leave them in your hands; don’t bring me more trouble." Gabriel was clearly getting impatient, "We of the Church of the Goddess of the Night will not accept such beings."

Even though the gods are fighting for belief, they also care about their pride.

It’s very embarrassing when one’s own followers are taken away by others.

If a god loses face, the consequences can be very serious.

At one time, a church was destroyed by a god because one person betrayed the faith. That god even followed the traitor to another place, getting seriously injured while battling another god, and finally killed that traitor.

During the battle between the two gods, the church that accepted the traitor also suffered greatly.

After this battle, the outer god was never seen again, clearly angry and no longer wanting to play.

Luckily, the Goddess of the Night became a deity early, or the outer god might have been so furious that it would have destroyed the whole race.

Other outer gods might not protect their followers; they are more likely to just watch the chaos unfold.

It’s not that all outer gods are childish or can’t take it, but this does show that they don’t really see humans as important.

So, in this era, betrayal is a very serious matter, especially betrayal of one’s own race; one’s own church will relentlessly hunt down traitors.

What people fear is this kind of collective punishment.

In theory, to conquer this dungeon, it is impossible to escape unharmed if the people are spread across different factions; this is a bloody lesson learned by the players.

"Got it," Anduin thought to himself. Thankfully, he had been warned before; otherwise, he would have put these two elves in danger.

If the two elves died here while the humans escaped, it would definitely become a racial issue.

Anduin would also lose his future because of this, likely ending up like Celica, a powerless figurehead.

After stepping back, Anduin contacted Karoso directly, "Master Null, I believe you; I’ll leave the rest to you."

……

Upon hearing Anduin’s explanation, Vereesa felt a chill run through her.

The judge here sentenced him and even killed an eighth-tier hero. Anduin actually told her that Gabriel only agreed on the surface but would not truly agree at all.

Vereesa questioned Anduin about why he didn’t ask more clearly before, and Anduin surprisingly replied that he did ask clearly; he just didn’t expect Gabriel to be that kind of person.

I can’t believe he is that kind of person!

Damn, this puts the lives of two eighth-tier experts at stake based on the character of one high-ranking person?

You have no absolute certainty; it’s just a guess, a possibility, and you want us to gamble with our lives?

Although everyone knows that clearing a dungeon is not a 100% success, sometimes you just have to take a risk.

But when you see the data or gamble with someone else’s life, it doesn’t feel as real; you only really understand fear when it falls upon you.

Like the train problem and the situation where Kiritsugu’s father had to send down forty-nine people on a ship to ensure that fifty-one people survive, everyone has their own understanding from an observer’s perspective.

But when it really comes down to you, everyone hopes to be the one who survives.

As the saying goes, the older we get, the more we fear death. The elves, especially the high-level ones, are definitely old enough.

In an instant, Vereesa’s feelings for the Church of Dawn Goddess dropped to freezing point!

If she survives, she will certainly tell all her kin to never get involved with the Church of Dawn Goddess.

In fact, she deeply hated Anduin.

She had not been angry for long when she received a message from Karoso.

Karoso seemed like he was perfectly timed, offering help just as Vereesa began to feel hopeless, "You two, if I hadn’t reminded you earlier, you would have likely died here. After this, I can guarantee your race will hunt you endlessly."

"So we won’t die now?" Vereesa interrupted Karoso harshly, "Whether we betray early or late, aren’t we still going to die?"

"Damn it, I shouldn’t have betrayed. If you all had fought a bit more before, we would still have a chance, I shouldn’t have trusted humans!"

"No, no, no, humans are still trustworthy, you just chose the wrong person… I can help you now, or rather, there is someone who can help you, but this help is not free. We’re not here to solve the dungeon." Karoso said.

"Who?" Vereesa asked, feeling like she had found a lifeline. "Who can accept us, Church of the Lord of Eternity?"

"No… it is the Church of the God of Wisdom," Karoso smiled and said, "God of Wisdom, personally."

"The only ones who dare to accept you are the gods themselves!"