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Putting aside the confusion, let's not talk about what Ivan was thinking in his heart, who made a triple jump from a criminal, an exile, to a prepared corpse, to becoming the designated first person of the church, the apostle of the goddess, and the Holy See of the Pope. Al's anger had almost subsided, and he had a flash of inspiration and found a good way to sanction and check Lilith.

Aren’t you thinking that the God in heaven is greater than the king on earth?

The economy is greater than the law, and religion is greater than the country. Ai'er wants to lay a foundation through the countermeasures he has taken against Lilith this time:

In the tribe, this doesn't work!

keynote.

When Al was competing with Lilith and all other gods for control of the secular world, his biggest disadvantage was that he could not use oracles, dreams, omens, etc., nor could he prevent others from using these methods, so he could not prevent the following:

There are two suns in the sky, and in my heart there are only two suns chosen by the goddess and the eternal god!

Then the goddess incarnation came right in front of them, the gods were near, the king was far away, Baba asked the believers to do something, and after the believers finished, it was all over, they were screwed by Al.

This is the case.

Of course, the so-called incarnations of gods, strictly speaking, the ones that Lilith appeared in the altar and the palace were not real incarnations. At most, they were projections of her power created in the mortal world. After all, this is an era when the gods are hidden, and even the very few gods who actually walk the mortal world remain very secluded and low-key. Lilith and the four mothers who were active before and spied on El's operations every day were special cases of excessive interference.

A goddess like Lilith who loves to stir up trouble also tries her best to interfere and influence the mortal world in less obvious ways, at least to prevent the spread of rumors. I wonder if she is afraid of something.

In the past, for the sake of cooperation and sincerity, Ai'er selected twelve priests from maids to religious warriors without any interference. As the main race of the tribe is beastmen, there is no way to interfere.

Now we have to prepare in advance, and if Al doesn't take action, then it will be a big deal.

"The National Church!"

When the belief in Lilith was still very weak in the Pina Forest, the main force was actually the twelve altars and the less than five hundred Knights of Baator. Among the twelve priests who had just been ordained as priests, it was not certain how many were devout believers willing to dedicate themselves to the goddess and die for Lilith.

In the name of forming a church, they concentrated their power—but not too much.

In general, from now on, all matters such as missionary work, rituals, recruiting, preaching and even the will of the goddess must be implemented by the church, and all power must be "unified".

As for specific affairs, each place will organize itself in the future, but it must also accept the supervision of the church itself to prevent things like "heresy" and "crossing the line" from happening, to restrain their brains and hands, and use the name of "orthodoxy" and "headquarters" to concentrate and control the power of the church, but not let it have absolute control over the inside, to prevent it from getting out of control in the future and breaking free from Al's manipulation, then turning into a monster of a militarized sect, just like the third of the three desert religions.

After all, with the origins of the Knights of Barto, it would be easy to set up militarized orders, holy war knights and the like. This was Al's concern.

At the same time, ensuring that the core of this church is El's own people, his puppets, and under El's control is the most important step.

This is equivalent to the Eastern Roman emperor in history sending eunuchs in the court to serve as patriarchs in order to control the church.

Al is more merciful and doesn't like to use eunuchs as tools, so he simply uses the harem... and the maids to sit in this position.

That whip did more than just leave a mark. The moment the spell was cast, Al owed a debt to the All-Knowing Mother and the Happy Lady.

The Pleasure One's request is simple, asking Al to organize a fertility conference... The debt of the Omniscient One will be recorded first, and I will come back to it slowly when I have the chance.

The mark that was branded on the woman's chest had already penetrated deep into her bones and soul the moment it was struck, completely merging itself into the priestess's body and mind, becoming indistinguishable from her.

While ensuring secrecy, Al can also completely and thoroughly control Iven's body and mind. He can kill her at any time, and even her soul will return to Al's control after death.

Using this woman as the first Pope of Lilith is ostensibly to develop the church for Lilith, but in reality it is to concentrate possible threats for Al and make them easier to control. If Lilith jumps ship and the two sides fall out, controlling the church to paralyze the other side for a short period of time, or concentrating the threats and destroying them all at once are both good options.

This time, Al suffered a loss. The anger he felt when he was pinned to the ground in the Pleasure Realm, the fear he felt when he faced the evil god and every cell in his body was fleeing, did not make Al feel as unhappy as this incident.

After all, he was still alone at that time, and a weak person might not be able to defeat a weakling. His greatest hope was to go back, and secondly, to at least give him an identity and send him to Bretonnia or the Empire (at that time he had not thought about being a serf or a labor slave in these places), after all, they were civilized cities of mankind.

Pulled over by four giants:

Kneel down!

Call mom!

This God-chosen identity is yours! And this beautiful horse guard thug or foster mother harem!

The son of the Four Gods, the eternally chosen, the conqueror of destiny, the savior... a bunch of temptations were placed in front of him, fame, wealth and beauty were within his reach, but at that time, El's obsession with maintaining his self, his fear and anger at becoming a plaything and puppet of the Four Gods overwhelmed everything, and like the Black Iron Plunderer, he said no to the evil god.

Finally, a contract was reached. Once in power, although the Four Mothers wanted to use him as a tool, after all, Al had nothing at that time, and what the Four Mothers gave him was far greater than what he paid at that time.

Lilith was a partner who had squeezed in halfway to get a piece of the pie. After reaching an agreement with the four mothers, she came to him, a manager and an employee, to flirt with him. Not only did she stuff her own family into the tribe, she also insisted on giving her family a piece of the pie in a big business that was already destined to take shape and had a high return rate. Because Al was a little more resolute—he wanted a lot, and he threatened directly:

The Vast Ocean is not covered, and the Elf Federation is right over there... You don't want the Elf fleet to come to Estalia, do you?

He pointed at Al's nose and said: "You bastard! You are just a stinking pile driver! I want to buy your shares because I think highly of you. Do you want to compete with the full-strength federal elite?

He had already given in and decided to give in regardless of Lilith's decision to act without prior notice.

This was a huge humiliation for the vengeful Al.

It is inevitable to hold a grudge. When Al had a flash of inspiration and used Ewen to deal with the National Church, he even thought about the later breakup between the two parties. He launched a purge and massacred the Lilith Sect. It was Black Friday.

Chapter 25: Asrai's Past

Leah felt like everything was just a dream.

First, she was attracted by some kind of calling, left her partner Rhine and the expeditionary force, and ventured into the dangerous Pina Forest; then she explored along the way and discovered the altar of the elven goddess Lilith, and then the goddess incarnated and came to tell her all about the Pina Forest and some information about the tribe.

The exploration could have ended here. Leia's own idea was to return north immediately to contact the elves, pass such important news back to Osun, and wait for the decision of the Citizens' Assembly.

But Lilith's oracle forced her to go to the depths of the forest, where the "tribe" was located, to meet the "Heir of Chaos" who was born from the womb of her cousin, the Imperial Knight, the Paladin of Sigmar, in the filthy and evil Chaos Tribe and was born with blasphemous magic.

In other words, the elf girl did not know El's identity. If she heard that the title that had brought countless sufferings to the mortal world appeared again in the world one hundred and fifty years after the end of the great war, unless Lilith took coercive measures, the elf girl would never risk such a terrible danger to meet El.

Demons can capture and play with souls. Even though most gods in the elven pantheon are so unreliable, they are still devoutly worshipped by the elves. A big reason for this is that they can protect the elves' souls from being taken away by evil gods and turned into playthings and puppets in the devil's realm for eternity, sinking into an endless purgatory of torture.

The one who is more outstanding in this regard is Lilith, who is like the shadow warriors of the former high elves, a group of dark warriors who will do anything to kill their opponents. They are insidious and despicable, and will not hesitate to use any effective means on the enemy, even if they are rejected and despised by both the enemy and us.

They all pray to Lilith on a regular basis, hoping that this goddess who stands in the Pantheon as a protector, guide, and giver of hope will forgive their sins with her mercy on behalf of the gods. In this way, the souls of the shadow warriors will be accepted by their own kingdom after death, and will not fall into the control of Slaanesh.

However, an "Eternal Chosen One" who has no division into chaos, has united the four evil god camps, surpassed the Great Demon, and stood above the demigods, is fully capable of causing the souls it has targeted to fall into any state.

Especially when this person comes to you on his own initiative.

Leah may be religious, but she is not superstitious.

In the Elf Federation, this attitude has been widely recognized with the victory of the Great War and has become a common attitude towards gods and faith.

After all, the unreliability shown by the elven gods is even more deeply rooted in people's hearts than their miracles of repairing the world and snatching back the souls of billions of spirits and returning them to the mortal world.

Leia is a young elf who has not yet accomplished enough achievements to leave her own legend, and has not even found a suitable partner when she reached age, although from the perspective of humans, she is already "mature" enough.

The memories of hundreds of years were very fragmented. The elven gods did a pretty good job in this regard. They took advantage of the victory of the great war and the ebb of chaos to counterattack (sneak attack) the realm of the four gods, rescuing many souls that had fallen from the material world into the realm of chaos over the long years and allowing them to return to the mortal world. At the same time, they also erased their memories of what they had experienced. Otherwise, it would have been destined to be a large-scale scene of a ruined king.

Leia's last memory of her previous life was of a woman who pushed her away and swallowed her into the belly of a fat and swollen Great Unclean One, whose hand reached out to her at the last moment.

She was then sucked into the long tongue of the Nurgle apostle, which was covered in mucus and plague.

From then on, her memory was disconnected until she opened her eyes in the sacred forest of Avalon like countless resurrected tribesmen, and looked at her long-lost home world with unfamiliar eyes.

In fact, most people can easily accept falling into the hands of Nurgle. Being a dirty, mindless walking corpse in pain but immortal existence, eternal stagnant decay is better than sinking into the Palace of Slaanesh with a clear consciousness, suffering endless torture and manipulation.

The kind of people who found themselves killed by the Slaanesh camp and whose souls would most likely fall into the hands of Slaanesh after death - the fear of the dark past that sprouted from this made many people feel deeply painful about the unknown, so they specifically requested to erase their memories of how they died and at whose hands they died...

Precisely because of her experience, Leia cherishes her life in this life so much. Although with the decline of the Chaos Demon Tide, there has not been a real, large-scale vicious incident involving Chaos Demons in the mortal world for a long, long time, as mentioned before, the biggest headache for the White Tower Magic Swordsmen (the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Elf Federation, whose members are all geniuses who practice both magic and martial arts) is to find those that are truly involved in demons and corruption from tens of thousands of messy groups under various banners. This is a long process.

Sometimes, even an entire cult team is arrested by the elf warriors who kick the door open during a blood sacrifice or demon summoning ceremony, only to find out that the entire cult organization only consists of the leader, and even the leader may not be a real cultist, but most of them are fucking insiders.

Such ridiculous stories that one of us is not a traitor have happened many times, and they are indispensable in the Elf Federation jokes counted every ten years.

If possible, Leia doesn't mind dying and sacrificing herself heroically in battle, but she must, must let her soul return to Aisolo normally... Now this is impossible, but another possibility has emerged!

She accepted Lilith's instructions, took the initiative to reveal her identity and asked to see El, as a secular messenger, to act as Lilith's pioneer and initiate a diplomatic game with El.

Then Lilith personally came down to negotiate with Al, and finally the two sides reached a consensus.

It seems that the tool man's task ends here.

The follow-up was as usual: return, report, and wait for communication from the elves.

This achievement alone is no less than the great feat of discovering the New World for the Elf Federation, at least for the Aslem Elves!

The development of the New World only provided many Asrai who were tired of their native life with a nice place to go, with water, trees, wild beasts, and some dangerous but not very deadly enemies.

Many of the colonies established by the Asrai are nothing more than advanced primitive tribes. They generally refuse to allow ships from unfriendly forces to come ashore for supplies, even for shipwrecked people. They turn small islands into unsinkable tree forts on the sea for them to live in and keep watch.

But this is far from enough. The memories and nostalgia for their former home, the Great Forest of Athel Loren, have always been deep, just as the World Tree is rooted in the earth, it is rooted in the soul of every Asrai.

For thousands of years, or perhaps even longer because of the strange environment there where even time is thrown into chaos, the Asrai people have been bound to this forest planted by the ancient saints in ancient times.

The forest spirits accepted the wood elves, and the wood elves did not let them down. They truly regarded this place as their native home that they could not leave. Over the long years, Asrai lived, hunted, fought, and died in it. His corpse turned into nutrients and returned to nature. Even his soul was buried in this mysterious and magnificent land.

It was not until the flames of the End of Time reached the World Tree that the united Elves gave up Athel Loren and launched a fatal attack on the forces of Chaos. In the end, all mortals won a great victory, and the terrible prophecy of "The End of Time" became a glorious commemoration of the "Great War".

But it’s not without cost.

For the wood elves, they have lost almost everything, their homes, their spirit allies who fought together, their once independent status, and the days when they were lonely watchers in the dense forests and accompanied the earth and nature. Gone forever.

For unknown reasons, corruption gathered in Athel Loren in large numbers. Thrall once told Aiur about the history of the Beastmen of the Shepherd God. He mentioned that the earliest Beastmen of Order were guided by the Shepherd God of All Things at the End of Time, and entered Athel Loren after passing through the ruins and mountains of the Human Empire. When they walked out of the home of the Asrai, their mortal enemy, they defeated them, they gave up corruption and became part of Order.

But how was the corruption eliminated and where did it go? How many of the Chaos Beasts that were so numerous that they overran the forest were transformed into followers of the Shepherd God, and how many... stayed in that big forest, multiplying and fighting non-stop. Until now, it is still unknown.

The Wood Elves once organized an expeditionary force, attempting to establish a stronghold in Athel Loren as a base to gradually restore the Great Forest, but they soon failed under the seemingly endless tide of beasts.

The terrible beast tide comes almost every few years, attacking Bretonnia outside, or crossing the mountains to attack human fortresses.

Judging from this situation, the number of chaotic beasts in there is a terrifying number.

Chapter 26: Leah and the Tribe

The fall of Athel Loren became an unhealable scar for the Asrai race, like a scar rotting in their hearts, which could not be healed or repaired, and they could only endure the stench and pain brought by its decay.

Now, although a much smaller forest, the Pina Forest, which can replace the Great Forest of Athel Loren, appeared in front of Asrai. It is not difficult to imagine what those wood elves who have been driven crazy would think.

Leia, who brought back such important information, could have earned the honorable title of "Discoverer of a New Home" and ushered in a glorious life.

But just as she ventured deep into the tribe to meet El, the "request" from the goddess forced Leia to stay in the tribe with an extremely complicated mentality.

Just as Lilith promised Al, he would not agree to set aside a large area of ​​land in his core area, the Pina Forest, to provide for a group of strange and hostile aliens before he occupied the south.

When Ai'er took control of the South and initially integrated millions of southern Estalia humans under his command, he had the confidence to open the door and accept the entry of the Wood Elves.

So just in case, it would be better for the female elf Leia to stay in the forest for the time being.

Lilith had no intention of breaking the contract at this point, and she did not hide it from the elf girl. She revealed part of the conditions she and El had reached to Leah, and used her sincerity - an attitude that made Leah feel terrified - to convince the latter to stay.

If Leia is allowed to leave at this point, it will be difficult to ensure that the direction of events is still under the control of all parties.

The fragile relationship between the petty, vindictive and overthinking stepson () and his scheming stepmother who is busy planning some kind of world-saving (or world-destroying) plan cannot be damaged any further.

Leia has been in the tribe for a full half month.

During the initial period, Leia was used to lurking in the delegation. The latter accepted Rhine's orders and was not very enthusiastic about the mission. She mainly tried to delay time and stayed as long as possible. On the one hand, she collected intelligence on all aspects of the tribe, and on the other hand, she wanted to protect the female elf Leia.

The second one was a secret message, and only the team leader and deputy team leader knew about it. However, as Leah received Lilith's revelation and took the initiative to reveal the secret, this one became invalid. But they were still carrying out the first thing very seriously.

Including but not limited to: contacting prominent figures, privately recruiting people from refugees, trying to go to military camps under the pretext of condolences and visits, and visiting places that are more important to humans...

The means were simple and crude. Perhaps they felt that the beastmen were more rough and would not care about these trivial details, or perhaps they were generally so simple in this regard?

Leia scoffed at the methods of the expeditionary envoys, saying they were far inferior to the elves' art-like skills.

But she still had a lot of advice on this. After all, they were subordinates of her partner Rhine, and their main purpose of coming here was to cover her. They were on the same front.

Later, after being cooped up in the room for a long time, and the envoys could not stay for long, he might not be able to do things conveniently after they left, so he became active, exploring and wandering around, and even ran into Ai’er who was traveling in secret twice on the road. However, the female elf did not notice the latter, but the boy followed the female elf with great interest... Agent, tailing, infiltration investigation...

But there was nothing special about it. Leia was self-aware and she knew clearly that the tribe would definitely monitor her. Even with the elves' keen perception, she could not tell where these came from. But this just showed that the tribe valued her so much that they took very clever measures.

So Leah has always been very well behaved.

Same as El, but El's disguise is magic, while the female elves disguise themselves through makeup.

She changed her clothes, used special methods to hide her very recognizable ears, disfigured her features, and made up to look like an ordinary human woman with some looks. She wandered around the tribe, just like Al did when he was slacking off, walking through the streets, stopping to watch anything she came across, eating and drinking without restraint, drinking and gambling, and even participating in a hunting competition organized by the tribe. While intentionally hiding her abilities, she still managed to get second place and was rewarded.

Then he bet all his winnings on competitive ball and lost it all in one go.

At that time, no one knew who among the supporters of the two teams took the initiative to attack amid the boos, which led to a small-scale group fight. The female elf joined in angrily, and her identity was exposed. She quickly ran away and returned to the delegation to lie dormant for two days.

Al was aware of all these situations. He also asked Misha to calm the crowd who were making a commotion because of the appearance of a strange elf, saying that it was a guest of the northern delegation.

It doesn't look very reliable, but precisely because it seems unreliable but has no loopholes, El feels that this female elf is very unusual. In addition, Leia is the one chosen by Lilith, so she may cause a big disaster for the tribe at the critical moment.

As a result, surveillance on Leia was intensified, and three ceratosaurus spellcasters were assigned to keep an eye on Ms. Asrai.

However, for Leah, this period was quite happy.

She did not need to pay attention to her identity and remained mysterious, which created a barrier between her and the outside world. In the expeditionary force, Rhine was the only one with whom she could communicate normally.

And now, perhaps because after being in danger, she found that this place did not seem so scary after the initial tension, Leah relaxed and let go of a lot of burdens. Before the turmoil on the court, she disguised herself and wandered around the streets, experiencing tribal life without the pressure of survival. After her identity was exposed, she simply did not hide it.

When walking on the streets in formal attire, although sometimes one would face a lot of strange attention and curiosity, generally speaking, there were many beastmen from various small tribes in the tribe itself, and there were many strange humanoid creatures. An elf would only attract people's occasional attention.

However, the identity of a special envoy brought Leah a lot of conveniences in the tribe. She benefited from wandering around and even went to El's fish pond to fish. With Misha's arrangement, she ran there that afternoon. Not long after Leah had just put away her rod, El, who was about to cast two rods, wondered why the fish didn't bite the hook today and had to take action directly.

The experiences during this period also gave Leah some insights.