Green Monster Epic

Chapter 787: Preparations in the Wilderness

Hunted all the way, Allen returned to the Wilderness territory with narrow escapes. Halfway, he took the initiative to give up contacting and acting with other companions, and instead traveled alone.

Although in this operation, the powerhouses of the Church of Nature camp behaved as Gavin said, without any malice towards Allen, and even actively cooperated with Allen during the battle, Allen would not relax his vigilance against the Nature camp.

At the same time, as a member of the Assassin's Guild who made a living by accepting missions, he could not avoid being suspected by Allen, so the cautious Allen still felt that acting alone was the most appropriate.

Anyway, this mission was considered an overachievement. The ultimate goal, which was not expected to be achieved, was unexpectedly made very impressive because of the sudden appearance of the mysterious assassin.

It's just that the strangeness revealed in this matter still made Allen feel a little weird. He couldn't help but constantly deduce and think along the way, always feeling that the mastermind behind this mysterious assassin was probably plotting against the Wilderness and the Beastmen's actions this time.

It wasn't until he returned to Mansha City and regained first-hand information that Allen's feeling was finally confirmed.

"…The brutal and savage Beastmen, in collusion with the barbarians of the Mansha Wilderness, assassinated Liszt, the Pope of the Church of War, a noble servant of my human god."

"…Such despicable methods are outrageous and enrage both humans and gods. Although we yearn for peace, since the enemy is determined to fight and challenges our benevolent hearts, then we are not afraid of war and will surely let this group of evil followers know the light of humanity…"

"…For the eternal inheritance of the light of human civilization, for our human children to live happily in a beautiful and peaceful era, we are willing to offer blood and faith as sacrifices, and implore the gods of humanity to bless us, and use war to burn out a piece of land…"

"…"

A resounding declaration against the Beastmen Empire, seemingly full of justice and fairness, is now spreading wildly in the Ferman world, and even many bigwigs from other worlds who are concerned about the Ferman world have heard of this document.

Allen looked at the entire article with a solemn expression. The content revealed about Liszt's death actually had too many discrepancies with Allen and the others' actions. For example, the description of the Rose Thorns Knights of the Church of Suffering in this declaration was that they were all killed in action to protect Liszt, without mentioning that they were the main combat force attacking Liszt's team at the time.

Furthermore, regarding the mysterious assassin, the declaration stated without any evidence that he was a Saint-level powerhouse of the Beastmen Empire, which could be said to have completely blamed the deaths of Liszt, Edward, and others on the Beastmen and the Wilderness.

"Before, I suspected in my heart that the assassination of the Pope of the Church of War this time was too smooth, and whether it was being plotted against. Now it seems that the facts are already in front of us, and we are indeed caught in someone else's trap."

"But what I don't understand is, why would the other party be willing to sacrifice such a big target? Aren't they worried about the God of War behind the Church of War? Aren't they afraid that their actions will eventually lead to the tearing and disintegration of human forces?"

For this declaration to the world for the sake of humanity, several backbones of the Wilderness Alliance, as well as those power representatives with the right to speak, almost all rushed to Mansha City, and together with the Church of the Temple of Nature, temporarily convened a core circle meeting.

Allen finally digested and understood the human declaration and their subsequent actions. Among the huge round table members with more than twenty people sitting around, someone raised their own questions.

Many of the forces in the field were unaware of this assassination mission, which was brought together by the Assassin's Guild and jointly executed by several forces. However, because of the endorsement of the Church of the Temple of Nature, everyone did not question it too much, but it was inevitable that some people's eyes showed dissatisfaction.

In their opinion, if the Temple and the Beastmen had not created these incidents, humans would not have made such a fuss to issue a declaration.

It is very obvious that the purpose of the human's release of this declaration is to carry out pre-war mobilization and gather people's hearts for launching a large-scale war with the Beastmen Empire. For this reason, humans have even given up the advantage of unexpectedly striking first, and instead allowed the Beastmen Empire to prepare. It can be seen that this war is determined and confident.

The original purpose of the Temple Churches joining forces with the Beastmen and the Assassin's Guild to assassinate the Pope of the Church of War was to cause internal strife among humans and delay the pace of the other party's large-scale war. But in the end, their actions became an excuse for humans to gather people's hearts and launch a war. How could such a dramatic change not make the Wilderness forces feel dissatisfied?

"Our judgment on this matter was a mistake. We also did not expect that the God of Suffering had already reached a consensus with the Lord of Dawn, the God of Battle, and other gods, and formed an alliance. Originally, we thought that the God of Suffering had always had close relations with the God of Justice and the God of Loyalty, and the three gods had always been very dissatisfied with the Lord of Dawn's pursuit of absolute justice and the concept of human supremacy, so they were unlikely to cooperate with the Lord of Dawn."

"According to what we now understand, the Church of Suffering has hidden most of its strength in the Lionheart Kingdom, causing the previous King of the Lionheart Kingdom to mistakenly believe that the power they operate, plus the power of the Church of War in the kingdom, can compete with the Church of Suffering."

"But in fact, the power of the Lionheart royal family is completely vulnerable in front of the Church of Suffering. In just half a month, fifty-nine important cities and the capital of the kingdom have all been controlled by the forces of the Church of Suffering. The nobles and armed forces who originally supported the royal family on the surface were either flags planted in the royal family by the church, or they were cleared by the church forces."

"Now the entire Lionheart Kingdom, up and down, has returned to the control of the Church of Suffering. At the same time, they have also re-elected an heir from the royal family, who will be crowned in the middle of the Month of Flowers."

"As for the three princes and princesses of King Dazel, Fleming's life and death are unknown, and Prince Hussein and Princess Diana are under house arrest by the church, and they may never appear in front of the world again in this life."

"Among them, the most abnormal should be the Church of War, which has lost a Pope leader. We don't have detailed information about the main body far away in the Howling Wind Peninsula, but their part in the Lionheart Kingdom has unusually not expressed any attitude towards the death of Pope Liszt."

"East Bishop Glyndon, who is now staying in the Lionheart Kingdom to preside over the overall situation, has not shown his face since the kingdom's turmoil began, and the clergy of the Church of War under his command have not reacted in any way to the Church of Suffering's cleaning of the royal power."

"The Church of War can now gain a foothold and develop in the Lionheart Kingdom, the root lies in the royal family's support for them, but when the royal family needs their help, their current reaction is really unreasonable."

"Although we don't know the inside story, we can roughly guess what the situation is through deduction and analysis."

“Looking back now, our initial decision to carry out the assassination of High Priest Lis has completely failed. Instead, humanity has placed all the blame on the Beastman Empire and us…”

Realizing the significant error in this strategic decision, Bishop Magnus of the Intelligence System, sent by the Church of Nature to attend the meeting, unreservedly shared the information about the Lionheart Kingdom and the Church that their church had painstakingly gathered with everyone present.

Saint Dog-head Vinci, who was beside him, had a serious expression and continued to ask: “The humans releasing this manifesto must be planning something big. Has your intelligence system gathered any information about their troop movements?”

“That's what we want to talk about next.”

Magnus reorganized his thoughts and began to introduce the situation solemnly: “The human coalition forces have already begun to assemble. Their assembly point is in the Lionheart Kingdom, which has already been cleared once.”

“Large quantities of supplies and an initial force of over five hundred thousand troops are setting off from more than a dozen kingdoms. It is estimated that their troops will be fully assembled in no more than three months.”

“If our estimates are correct, then the war between humans and beastmen will break out completely in no more than half a year!!”

“Five hundred thousand initial troops?”

“How much total force are they planning to mobilize?”

“Based on the scale of the last war and the determination of the humans this time, I'm afraid this war with the Beastman Empire will only be larger than the last one.”

“Therefore, for the sake of the Wilderness's own survival, we must also start preparing in advance. We should provide assistance when humans attack the beastmen, or simply launch a counter-offensive from the Centaur Plains and reclaim the territories that were captured by humans in previous years!!”

“…This is a war between humans and beastmen, we…”

“No! This is not just a war between humans and beastmen, but also a war between our Wilderness and humans!!”

“……”

Allen frowned and remained silent. Although he had already anticipated the outbreak of war, he did not expect the war to break out so quickly.

Now that humans have begun to act, the elves in the north, in order to maintain a balance of power with humans, I'm afraid they will not be idle either, and will inevitably follow in the footsteps of humans and launch wars against the dwarves or the Wilderness.

The Church of Nature's influence on the alliance is now far greater than that of other forces, and their focus is naturally on the human direction. Although Allen's reason does not deny that humans are more threatening, the Green Field tribe's territory is located in the north, so he certainly hopes that the alliance can invest more resources and attention in the north.

At the very least, the existing strength in the Northern Territory must be maintained and not be mobilized and weakened by the alliance in the name of pre-war preparations.

“…I don't object to the alliance starting preparations now, but I also need to remind everyone that human actions also mean that the elves in the north will definitely take action.”

“Compared to humans openly declaring war on the Beastman Empire, the actions of the Elven Kingdom are the most difficult to guess. They are more likely to directly launch an invasion of our Wilderness.”

“While everyone is paying attention to humans, I also hope that we can be vigilant about the powerful enemy in the north, and not lose sight of one thing while focusing on another.”

While the other four demigod pillars of the Wilderness were thinking and observing the attitudes of other members in the conference hall, Allen took the initiative to express his position first because of his own interests.

“Indeed, humans and elves are the two most powerful civilizations in the Ferman world. They are competitors at the same level, so the elves cannot sit idly by and watch humans continue to grow stronger. Lord Allen's considerations are very pertinent.”

Grandma Quillin, the bishop of the New Sprout Church, nodded and expressed her support for Allen.

“Therefore, I personally suggest that the Northern Territory maintain the status quo in this conscription plan in order to guard against possible actions by the elves. At the same time, on behalf of the various tribes in the Northern Territory, I hope that the drow of the Hochia Drow Federation can establish a communication and coordination organization so that our strength can be maximized.”

Seeing that he had obtained the support of the Oakwood camp, Allen cast a grateful look and spoke again.

“Why do you…”

A representative from the Wilderness was dissatisfied and wanted to argue with Allen about this matter, but before the other party could finish speaking, he closed his mouth in embarrassment under Allen's stern gaze.

“What, Clan Leader Allen, don't you want people to express their opinions?”

Marvin, a demigod of the goblin lineage, interjected in a strange tone, and his eyes were also very unkind when he swept towards Allen.

“I just don't want to hear meaningless arguments at this meeting.”

Allen calmly retracted his gaze. Since experiencing the near-death assassination incident last time, his mentality has changed slightly. Although the strength of the Green Field lineage is still not as strong as other veteran powerhouses in terms of tribal and power influence, Allen no longer believes that he is weaker than the other powerhouses in terms of personal strength after being tested in actual combat.

Only the dog-head Vinci, who is a saint-level, can still make Allen feel a little pressure.

“If everyone thinks there is a problem with my opinion, you can bring up these problems, instead of just objecting in a dry and meaningless way.”

“My judgment on the elves is based on their actions in the Wilderness in previous years, as well as the information we have collected, and is not a random guess.”

“At the same time, I believe that the representatives of the various natural temples present, as well as the drow representatives of the Hochia Federation, all have information about the elves, and they can also prove to me that my concerns are not unreasonable.”

When Allen turned his gaze to Aliana, the graceful drow elf representative who had finally joined the Mansha Alliance and officially became a member of the alliance, the drow elf raised her eyebrows and said lightly: “What Lord Allen said is indeed similar to the judgments of our federation's matriarchs.”

“As for the matter of establishing a liaison coordination organization proposed by Your Excellency, I welcome it on behalf of the Federation, and we are also willing to work with the various tribes of the Thorn Ring to jointly resist the invasion of the elves.”

“Cough cough!!”

“Although Clan Leader Allen's suggestion is very constructive, the elves are not as threatening and aggressive as humans after all, and they may not necessarily choose the Wilderness as an attack target, so I think your various tribes in the Northern Territory and the Drow Federation are working together to defend the Northern Territory, and the strength is already completely sufficient.”

“However, the Northern Territory cannot stand idly by when it comes to humans in the south, and should provide some strength no matter what.”

Vinci coughed lightly twice, and then expressed his attitude.

“That's right!!”

“That's how it should be!!”

Unknowingly, the core layer of the alliance had reached a consensus on the matter of starting mobilization preparations against humans in advance, but some differences had arisen in certain details. As the discussion continued, various forces also began to engage in lengthy consultations on the details of how many people and resources each tribe should send out.