Green Monster Epic

Chapter 667: Land of Fallen Gods

"Allen, you're not usually an impulsive goblin, so why did you say such bold things at the meeting?! Do you know that some of the representatives present now have a negative view of you because of your words?"

The meeting ended with a heavy atmosphere due to Allen's impassioned speech, which carried a rather strong threat. Subsequently, representatives from two other tribes proposed topics, but only one tribe's proposal was passed. After further discussions and coordination within their respective camps, they will begin planning.

Allen had just returned to his manor when an acquaintance came to visit—Noding, the Knight Commander of the Oakwood Church. After many years, the dwarf's once-thick beard now appeared sparse, with strands of gray. Even legendary powerhouses cannot escape the ravages of time.

After exchanging a few pleasantries with Allen, Noding spoke with a hint of reproach, saying to Allen.

"Your Excellency, you know very well that what I said were the words that several major tribes in the Northern Territory have always buried in their hearts. Although they don't dare to speak as plainly as I do, they have long resented the Alliance's unfair treatment."

"Now that I have brought it out into the open, it serves as a reminder to the leading tribes of the Alliance, and also as a way to fight for the benefits that should rightfully belong to us in the Northern Territory."

"As for the words I spoke, they don't necessarily represent my own intentions, or the choices of the six tribes in the Northern Territory."

"You understand me. If I, Allen, were to truly act according to the content of my words, I would never have said them out loud. Instead, I would have secretly started planning."

Facing Noding, although Allen's strength now surpassed his, he still maintained the respect he should have, simply because he had received favors from him in the past.

"Of course, I understand you. The Church also sympathizes with your predicament in the Northern Territory, but other tribes and forces may not understand. If your words leave a bad impression on them, your future in the Alliance may not be easy!!"

After hearing Allen's explanation, Noding was relieved, but he was even more worried about Allen's upcoming situation.

"Your Excellency, do you think that without my words, I wouldn't be ostracized in this inner circle? If that were the case, then two of my tribe's legendary figures wouldn't have been assassinated before the Alliance Assembly even started!!"

"Since some people don't want me to join this inner circle, I don't mind adding fuel to the fire in their hearts, letting them understand the dire consequences of truly angering me, and making the other representatives who sit on the sidelines wary."

Allen smiled faintly. Although he had been somewhat impulsive at the time, looking back, he didn't think it was necessarily a bad thing.

"I do hope that the Alliance can be fairer to my Northern Territory because of my previous words. That way, I'll have something to report to the other leaders when I return to the Northern Territory."

"Well, the Drow have been restless, getting heated with those guys from the Church of Nature. With your commotion this time, they should be calmer for a while, and the Church of Nature won't be able to favor them so easily. However, if the matter reaches the Drow's ears, you may face even greater pressure."

Seeing that Allen understood, Noding felt relieved.

"My words were not only for the Alliance to hear, but also for the Drow to hear. I believe that as long as they understand the meaning of my words, they won't think about dealing with me, but will be more careful to maintain our relationship."

"A group of exiles who have left the Underdark, without support or a way out. If they truly offend me, I will turn around and contact the elves, discussing a pincer attack from the north and south to wipe them out!!"

A cold glint flashed in Allen's eyes, clearly showing his murderous intent.

Noding frowned slightly, seemingly having some objections to Allen's words, but then he thought that this bear goblin couldn't possibly do that, probably just indulging in empty threats.

"You don't need to worry too much. If you have any problems that require help, just tell Oscar and the others. Our Church will definitely do everything we can to help you."

Noding discerned Allen's intentions, his worries disappeared, and his tone became more relaxed as he comforted Allen: "The legendary sword dancer from your tribe has awakened under Oscar's treatment. Although it will take some time to recuperate, fortunately, there are no lasting effects."

"Thank you!!"

Allen expressed his heartfelt gratitude.

In the following days, Allen was not idle. First, he took the initiative to host a banquet for Blicken. After in-depth exchanges, although they belonged to different camps, they reached some consensus.

Because of their close relationship with the Oakwood faction, Allen and his tribe were considered to be part of the neutral faction in the eyes of others. However, after the decline of the Oakwood faction in recent years, their actions have changed somewhat. For example, they are staunch hawks when it comes to humans and elves, after all, the fall of the Father of the Oak Tree is closely related to the human gods and the elven pantheon.

Allen and his Northern Territory also have a common enemy with Blicken, a pillar of the hawkish faction, due to the direct conflict of interest with the Drow and the threat posed by the Elven Kingdom. Therefore, Allen and Blicken can cooperate and work together on many things.

However, after meeting with Blicken, when Allen wanted to invite other familiar tribal representatives to a gathering, except for the original members of the Thorns Ring, the others basically chose to decline politely. It seems that everyone is still watching, or they are worried and dissatisfied with Allen's performance at the 'Outlook Conference' in the inner circle.

Allen was not in a hurry. Although the goal he hoped to achieve when preparing to attend the meeting fell through, for Allen, who is now advanced to demigod and has a lifespan of nearly a thousand years, he still has enough time to plan and break the current balance bit by bit, so that he can occupy a more important position in the Alliance.

"Teacher, when are we going back to the tribe?"

Cole was a little bored. With Allen watching by her side, the legendary high-level powerhouse, whose injuries had basically recovered, could only stay obediently in the manor and couldn't go anywhere.

"Has the injury on your body healed?"

Allen put away the account book in his hand and looked up at Cole.

"It's almost healed."

Cole patted her chest lightly, trying to look healthy.

"That's good. You take the others and send back the materials and funds accumulated and purchased over the years. After you go back, you replace Svara and let him go to Green Lake Town to improve his strength..."

Seeing this, Allen smiled and instructed Cole.

"Then what about you, teacher?"

Cole asked curiously.

"I'm also going on a long trip to find something."

Allen originally planned to return with Cole, but the images of devout prayers from believers in his sea of consciousness became more and more frequent. After trying countless methods to block the images and sounds of believers' prayers, Allen finally decided to try Figglas's method: searching for a crystal with the "Dual-Minded" legendary feat.

The Adventurers' Guild and Assassins' Guild in Mansa City, places where information converges, might have information about the "Dual-Minded" legendary crystal. However, Allen didn't even dare to inquire at the Oak Church, the most likely place to find such a crystal, let alone inquire about it at these two guilds.

Better safe than sorry. After all, he had established a virtual Food God persona. If the all-knowing churches of the Natural God Temple were to find out, Allen couldn't guarantee what actions they would take. However, he believed that it was highly likely they would cooperate, like when they assassinated the ogre demigod Blackhand, and quietly eliminate Allen, uprooting his established faith and tribes.

Therefore, to maintain secrecy, Allen felt that heading to the Ice Kingdom, a country on the southern border of humanity, was more suitable for the current situation.

At least, from what Allen knew, apart from the Ice Queen's Church, which still persisted in preaching in the kingdom, the evangelists of any other god had abandoned that land, including the churches of the Natural God system.

After arranging everything and seeing Cole and his group off, watching a group of goblins slowly heading north with dozens of carriages full of supplies, Allen also quickly disguised himself. On a dark and windy night, he quietly left Mansa City.

On his way south, Allen passed many of the roads he had traveled during his adventures. Looking at the geographical coordinates that vaguely remained in his memory, Allen felt somewhat emotional.

Nagen Hills, the Corrick kobold tribe that was almost wiped out by the remnants of the demons, still stubbornly lived in this mountainous area. Although Allen didn't visit the town of the Corrick tribe hidden deep in the mountains, he could roughly guess the kobold tribe's reproduction and development by looking at the kobold teams that occasionally appeared in the high and low mountains. They should have recovered from the Demon Disaster.

Further south, after crossing the territories of several large tribes and skirting the eastern border of the Centaur Grassland, was soon the former site of the Spring Kingdom, which had been destroyed.

The human kingdom, which had been almost completely devastated by the Demon Tide and subsequent demon invasions, now had human towns reappearing. In just over a hundred years, humans, with their mediocre reproductive ability and ordinary construction skills, had once again begun a new round of expansion of human civilization on this devastated land.

The town of Angelo, the heroic human commander of the Spring Kingdom that Allen had encountered when he risked his life to break through the demon defense line and transport supplies to the remnants of the Spring Kingdom, was now just a pile of ruins. About a dozen miles east of these ruins, a new human town was thriving, with merchants and adventurers traveling along the open roads and through the vibrant wheat fields.

Further south, the former Spring Kingdom's royal city, Mingxi City, was now shrouded in团团black mist, and strange, eerie wails could be heard from the black mist from time to time.

As the place where a great god had fallen, this land within a few hundred miles had become a forbidden area that no one dared to set foot in.

Allen had only stayed on the edge of this black cloud-covered area for a little over an hour before being discovered by more than a dozen teams of wraiths and skeleton soldiers, who took the initiative to launch fearless attacks.

Although the dark creatures on the edge of this black cloud couldn't pose much of a threat to Allen now, through this layer of black mist, Allen's strong wild instinct constantly warned him that there was something inside that was enough to threaten his life.

Landing from the sky, Allen lifted the felt hat on his head, revealing his original appearance. He took out a bottle of delicious wine and a portable wine glass from his dimensional bag, and according to the ritual of offering sacrifices to the spirits of the deceased that he had learned from his dreams in another world, he bowed respectfully to the core of this forbidden area, solemnly performed three grand salutes, and poured three glasses of wine, solemnly sprinkling them on this land.

If there was any being in this world that Allen could sincerely admire, then the Father of the Oak Tree, who voluntarily gave up his ancient life and kingdom of God for the sake of the entire Fayman world, would undoubtedly be at the top of the list.

Allen only regretted that he had not personally experienced that mythical war, to follow in the footsteps of the great and benevolent Father of the Oak Tree, even if the threat of this matter itself was likely to cause Allen to perish as well.

Also, because he admired the Father of the Oak Tree, Allen had always existed as a shallow believer of the Father of the Oak Tree over the years, although he had basically never prayed to the Father of the Oak Tree.

“Roar!!!!!”

Deep in the black clouds, a powerful dark creature seemed to have sensed Allen's aura, and while letting out a terrifying roar, it made a dull tremor on the ground, rushing towards Allen's location.

“Truly courting death!!!!”

Allen's heavy mood was interrupted by this sudden roar. His eyes narrowed slightly, and with a flick of his hand, the dark golden Bonesplitter appeared in his hand.

“Roar!!!!!”

The powerful dark creature arrived quickly. In just a few breaths, the black mist in front of Allen was stirred up, becoming chaotic, pouncing towards Allen, and bringing with it a cold, decaying aura.

“Scram!!!!”

The dark golden Bonesplitter suddenly burst into a dazzling light. Allen was now in a forbidden area, and he was not afraid of exposing his whereabouts. He directly activated the rage and the 'Dragon Power' enhancement effect on the black dragon scales, and slashed out that faint ray of light with his strongest posture.

The light penetrated the black mist and instantly appeared in front of a giant undead skeleton, more than ten meters in size, pieced together from various bones, in the abdomen. The giant undead skeleton was first stunned, and then, deep in the huge skull, the cluster of ghostly green soul fire suddenly emitted a violent wave, and then drove the body in an attempt to escape this land.

After the faint ray of light hit the target, it seemed slow but in fact spread like lightning. The orange-red light directly tore apart the forbidden area shrouded in black mist. The阴腐land, which had not been nourished by sunlight for nearly two hundred years, finally felt the warm light after a long absence.

Boom!!!!!

In the forbidden area with a radiation range of more than three hundred miles, the jet-black, opaque black clouds continued to roll, and then a cluster of orange-red light suddenly shot out from the inside of the black clouds. The huge black cloud was immediately divided into two clusters, and a dark abyss, leading to an unknown place, was finally revealed to the world.

Following closely behind was a series of violent ground tremors, extending into the distance, and finally stopping more than a thousand miles away.