My Weakest Little Brother Has Become A Demon King After Being Sealed For 1000 Years

2022-09-08

Chapter 26: Shadow of the Conspiracy

880 years of the platinum calendar, which is Two years after William’s departure, Ravenwood had undergone a huge change.

The one-time father of the wilderness was pierced in the throat by a pale deer during the hunt; and on the same day, the listener of the Holy Tree Mother was also in a divination, because she mistakenly accepted the rotten root tree. Poisoned and died.

The best hunter among the forest elves was killed by the prey, and the High Priest, who was familiar with all kinds of witchcraft knowledge, was poisoned to death by himself. And with these two things happening on the same day, it’s hard not to think that someone was behind it all.

However, for the forest elves at that time, compared to tracing the possible existence of the secret mastermind, a more urgent matter was imminent – how to choose their successors.

The “bride” needed by each generation of ‘wilderness fathers’ to carry out the ceremony of God’s marriage needs to be confirmed through the prophecy of the big mother’s listeners. And the listeners of each generation of the mother need to pass the test of the father of the wilderness before they can get the final recognition.

This is essentially a chicken-and-egg problem. If the “Father of the Wilderness” and the “Big Mother Listener” both need each other’s help to inherit, how did they initially appeared?

In fact, the answer is very simple. The essence of their appearance is the product of the “first contract” signed by the ancestors of the forest elves and World Tree. In other words, they are the symbol of contract maintenance.

Therefore, this is not the ceremony that needs to be carried out when the secular kingship is replaced, and it only has a symbolic meaning, but it is part of the contract signed by the ancestors of the forest elves and the will of the World Tree.

And without them, the way of life that the forest elves relied on in the past will collapse completely, and the various blessings they have received will also be invalidated.

In the past history, there has never been a situation where these two leaders died on the same day, so the entire Ravenwood also fell into a state of suspension without a leader.

Perhaps it was because the increasingly tense continent situation at that time put pressure on the old stubborn gang. All in all, the Oak Council and some of the representatives of the major tribes have come up with a solution – they want to re-sign the contract with the World Tree.

In this way, they can re-select the original “Big Mother Listener” and “Wild Father” as the witnesses of the new contract, just like their ancestors in the past. It is also possible to take this opportunity to revise some contract terms that are outdated and no longer in line with the development form at that time.

This is actually necessary, because since the departure of William Kane, The Last Watcher has been unable to maintain the peace of the entire continent, the major kingdoms have continued to expand their military power, and the Holy Spirit Church is also seeking to recover past political status. In contrast, Ravenwood couldn’t even form a normal army because of the tradition of “can’t produce rot”.

In an era when the Moon Realm threat has been eliminated, many old contracts should actually be amended or repealed long ago, and this time both leaders died, for those reformers An excellent opportunity.

In order to increase the chips in their hands, the reformers found the third seat of the tribunal with deep roots in Ravenwood, Frost Witch Neh, and hoped that he could come forward to help the implementation of this proposal. .

Therefore, unlike the news that spread to the outside world later, Neh did not seek to restore his identity as a forest druid, but was invited to Holy Tree City by the reformers of the forest elves at that time as a consultant. At the same time, the reformers may promise that as long as they make a new covenant, although Neh cannot regain his Druid status, he can also get the reward of making his soul and fleshy body rest in the arms of his mother.

After a long period of discussions, games, plots, and exchange of interests, the Holy Tree City finally came under the pressure of learning that Blackwater Kingdom had re-enabled “The Tide of the Rotten Moon Undead”. A decision was made to re-contract—the entire Vic continent at that time had almost become a powder keg that burned at one point, and the major kingdoms could do anything to expand their military strength. If they don’t resume the contract with World Tree, I am afraid that in the all-out war that will break out in the future, the entire Ravenwood will only be a mermaid.

As for Neh’s role in the renegotiation – it can be said that he alone bridged the huge power gap between conservatives and reformers.

Since even the most stubborn people have let go, the next thing is to just make a new covenant.

However, the bad thing happened in this step. When the high-level forest druids went to the secret room where the core of the World Tree was kept, they found that the acorn that was the core of the World Tree had already been Missing.

The guard is missing, and there is no sign of a fight at the scene… Needless to say, the druid who guarded the acorn stole it.

So far no one knows why they did this. According to Ebony’s speculation, they should be deeply hidden ultra conservatives, and finally chose to use this extreme method to prevent the establishment of the new covenant.

But the impact of this matter is extremely huge – bringing the core of the World Tree away from the interior of the World Tree is definitely not a place to save such a simple matter. This will cause the tree of the entire world to be deactivated, the entire Ravenwood forest will begin to wither, and the souls of all the elves will begin to wither as well as the fleshy body.

Fortunately, however, they had the top five magic casters in the entire continent to help out. After going through a series of incidents, he finally got the acorn back before things deteriorated irreparably. And the protective Formation, which was redesigned by Neh himself, uses [Anti-Entropy], which can reverse the time, as an absolute defense measure, and only leaves a key that can directly pass through the Formation, which is kept by someone who absolutely trusts it.

It is also because of this incident that the popularity of the entire conservative faction has fallen to the bottom, and the reformists have redrawn the content of the new contract without any resistance. Under the new covenant, the entire forest elves will also be able to put aside the historical burdens of the past and move forward towards a kingdom that is more adaptable to the times.

So the last thing to do is to renew the covenant itself. Once this is done, Neh can also, as he desires, rest completely in his hometown of Ravenwood.

“Wait a minute, what do you mean by complete rest?”

On the way out of the underground root system, when listening to Ebony’s story about getting here, William couldn’t help asking.

He felt a tinge of unease from this statement.

(End of this chapter)