Chapter 611 - 610 – Where are the elves?

<<Things were still calm somewhat… Maybe I think I know why.>>

<<Difficulty.>>

<<We are strong like hell, yet we struggled a lot.>>

<<Thanatos and Maparapara are not only extremely high level, but they are armed with legendary rarity equipment AND they also have shit tons of powerful classes.>>

<<They also have countless number of titles with all shorts of effects.>>

<<They are OP.>>

<<Yet, they struggled….>>

<<…I think the developers made the divinities not something for "this stage of a game", but for the end game.>>

<<However, they probably didn't expected for all hell to let loose this quickly and with many players becoming "monsters".>>

<<I don't think nobodies or strong nobodies will be able to clear the trials.>>

<<…However, let's not forget two things.>>

<<First is that not all of the trials are combat based, meaning if you get lucky AND you know what to do, you could clear the trial.>>

<<From what I understood, Arthur must had faced some kind of similar trial himself, since he held divinity for the longest.>>

<<Second thing is to consider is the "monsters" in form of a players.>>

<<Powin, Thanatos and Maparapara are the good example of that.>>

<<Well, I don't really know IF she gotten combat trial or not… But again, she is strong like hell, meaning that she could clear the combat type trial.>>

<<There is also another thing to consider.>>

<<Difficulty.>>

<<According to Thanatos, her trial was extremely difficult on the very first run, since each enemy was unique in their own way.>>

<<However, even if she failed the final battle, she could easily on the second run defeat all of the bosses she encountered.>>

<<But Maparapara was different, since her enemies were "smart" and they could not only learn about her weaknesses, but as she can learn about their fighting style, they too could do that with her.>>

<<Meanning that each time you would fail the trial, it would be harder and harder to beat bosses you had already beaten before.>>

<<In short.>>

<<If somebody encounters by any chance a temple that holds mythical rank divinity, then it WON'T BE EASY TO GET!>>

<<…>>

<<Hm… Then again… No. They wouldn't have any idea.>>

<<The shady shadow mastermind wouldn't….>>

<<…>>

<<Then again, if the whole theory about the culprit HAVING a divinity that allows one to control time, it would suggest that they indeed obtained some records about older gods.>>

<<And if they found out about some of the elder gods that stood out the most, then they could conclude that they are mythical rarity divinity….>>

<<…Oh shit.>>

<<If that is the case, then the it wouldn't be surprising if the shady shadow mastermind had several mythical rarity divinities.>>

<<…>>

<<Okay, now I really have they just have that ability to just walk through the solid objects instead.>>

<<Anyway, where the hell are elves?!>>

<<I should be gotten attacked by now!>>

<<Hell! At this point Thanatos and Maparapara will get here!>>

<<Even that penalty that I've given Orion will be up!>>

<<So why the hell they are not here?>>

<<…I don't like this.>>

<<I really and I mean REALLY don't like this.>>

<<I took a gamble and told the stealth aircrafts to go and look around, but ordering to not be anywhere near anything they had spotted, since there is a good chance that they may encounter enemies who are on guard.>>

<<And it didn't took them long to report to me the situation.>>

<<The enemy is here.>>

<<They have set up an camp in the forest, which was outside of Ice Mountain territory.>>

<<However, something isn't still adding up.>>

<<According to them, the camp is mid-sized.>>

<<They couldn't obtain a good look at it since it was in the forest, but still, they said that the camp is NOT large-sized!>>

<<What is going on?>>

<<I get that they could open up spirit gate, but they should at least bring that large army of elves or the fully manifested spirits.>>

<<Heck! I know that spirit faction produces special elemental type monsters that are not something like temporarily soldiers.>>

<<This camp should be large!>>

<<This doesn't make sense.>>

<<Did they given up?>>

<<I mean, OUR camp is still on the top, that means the divinity is still here.>>

<<….Ahhhhhhhhh.....>>>

<<This is fucking annoying.>>

<<Are they going to fucking attack or not?!>>

<<…I COULD go and raid them myself.>>

<<But then again, somebody may had seen my chimeras and said that "Doctor" is here… Meaning that the fucking moment I go and raid that camp below all by myself, it could end up with somebody seeing this as opportunity and raiding our camp on the mountain.>>

<<That was the main worry I've had.>>

<<…>>

<<Still, there was nothing.>>

<<The stealth aircraft did not reported existence of another camp… And there was only this forest in area.>>

<<The other territories were the long plain and a small hills and small mountains, which were neither any good hiding spots to hide entire camp.>>

<<….>>

<<I've went to the camp alone.>>

<<Obviously I wasn't a stealth specialist so it didn't took them long to find out about me coming their way, but still, I've confirmed it.>>

<<Elves.>>

<<…And that was pretty much it. Elves, few elemental monsters And… Just… That?>>

<<I mean the numbers. Their numbers were fucking low.>>

<<I've destroyed them all without any trouble and used necromancy to raise up the elves as undeads to help me out in hunting the remaining forces who were trying to escape.>>

<<Pretty much? Wipe out.>>

<<The entire camp and all people that were in it were destroyed.>>

<<Obviously I've captured few elves.>>

<<…Well… I "did".>>

<<The moment I've tried interrogating these elves, they just died.>>

<<Spirits really do sees elves as nothing more than expendable slaves.>>

<<Still, I was at least able to figure out what they were doing based on their equipment.>>

<<Spying and information gathering.>>

<<By the looks of things this camp main purpose was a suicidal spy mission.>>

<<They were trying to gathering information about the mountain and they were using communication devices to rely anything they found.>>

<<And that was it.>>

<<These guys were MEANT TO DIE!>>

<<The forces they had here were minimal to just maintain their base.>>

<<The lack of the fully manifested spirits means that they didn't wanted to "send their owns to their deaths"… But they are fine with elves dying.>>

<<Just the hell is going on?>>

<<There are not even a single spirit gate here.>>

<<Based on what I've found out, it looks like they just given up on this place? Why?>>

<<Every faction is AIMING for the divinities right now.>>

<<Why not spirits? Again! Their situation is most fucked since they have a time limit over their heads that once it hits zero, the crumbling spirit realm will just die!>>

<<So why?>>

<<…>>

<<I've found out soon.>>

<<The spirit factions had dealt devasting blow to both the organization and the hell faction at once.>>

<<Reason?>>

<<Their new forces.>>

<<Or more exactly, their new "Dragons".>>

<<This wasn't right.>>

<<There were dragons that were part spirits and part dragons… Spirit dragons.>>

<<They looked like a mix of fairies and dragons… But that shouldn't be possible!>>

<<True! There are traitor dragons who became demon dragons or angel dragons after they switched sides.>>

<<But it is physical impossible for the dragons to become a spirit dragons.>>

<<Spirts, just like the dragons are elemental beings.>>

<<However, spirits use spiritual energy, while dragons use mana!>>

<<When it comes to demonic or holy energies, mana can work with that stuff.>>

<<BUT NOT WITH SPIRIT ENERGY!>>

<<…>>

<<However, in the past there was once… A situation.>>

<<There was once an incident, a war, which I and the earth dragons took part in.>>

<<The dragon eggs were stolen and it was a doing of elves.>>

<<Dragons were at that point extremely busy, so only earth dragons could wage a war against the thief.>>

<<I've joined the dragon's side since I wanted to secure materials from the World Tree.>>

<<However, when we won the war and got to their laboratory, we freaking found nothing.>>

<<If anything, the elves themselves didn't knew what was going on.>>

<<Here is the overview.>>

<<The elven queen? She disappeared in the middle of the war.>>

<<The elves were trying to create a brand-new race of dragons. Spirit dragons.>>

<<And there was a hidden teleportation device that nobody knew about, which was probably used by the queen to take all of the dragon corpses and new eggs with her.>>

<<…That was the story….>>

<<Spirit dragons… Honestly speaking, we only encountered the research about them ONCE!>>

<<The dragon clans found about that inhuman research that was conducted on their eggs, causing the dragons to become enraged even more at the elves.>>

<<However, there was nothing.>>

<<I mean it, the World Trees were cut down and some major elven bases were conquered by the organization as well as other factions, which then organization infiltrated the destruction to look for that mysterious research… But nothing.>>

<<No matter where they had looked, there was straight up nothing about the spirit dragons.>>

<<It was suspected that the research itself might failed.>>

<<The researchers from the dragon clans suspected the same thing.>>

<<…But they were wrong.>>

<<The spirit dragon research was not discarded away and considered a failure.>>

<<No.>>

<<The spirits had succeed in creating the spirit dragons.>>