Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 949 - 669: God of Dusk and Sunset

What is the difference between an Evil God and a True God?

Some say Evil Gods are minions of the abyss, delighting in luring wise beings into degradation.

Some say Evil Gods are adversaries of realms, bringing war and destruction, eventually dragging the whole world into the abyss...

These are all true.

However, there is one major difference between Evil Gods and True Gods, a trait that makes them similar to the Ancient Barbaric Gods of the Ancient Era, a trait that causes all current living True Gods to be wary and hostile, making all wise beings shiver at the mention of an Evil God’s name—

Evil Gods are unrestrained.

They proceed without any hesitation, and are not bound by the balancing rules between the Divine.

They act solely based on their preferences, and to achieve their goals, they will not hesitate to strike against beings much weaker than themselves...

January 1071 of the Eternal Era.

The Holy Mania Empire’s force of a hundred thousand troops marched against the Fengye Territory rebels, engaging in a decisive battle in the southwest of the Fertile Plain, unfortunately suffering slaughter at the hands of an Evil God...

Including Duke Rosen, one of the Empire’s seven Electoral Princes, a total of 216 Imperial Nobles perished in battle, and the entire army of eighty thousand Guards and over twenty thousand recruited mercenaries were annihilated.

Nicholas, the Cardinal of the Western Empire Diocese at the time, returned to Heaven Mountain, and three thousand Church Trial Knights vanished in an instant.

Among all participants in the rebellion suppression, only Condra von Rosen, a Legendary Mage of the Rosen family who was stationed at the rear and had not yet fought, luckily escaped...

When this news reached the Imperial center, it caused a great upheaval.

It is said that, upon hearing this event, the then 82-year-old reigning Empress Maria II fainted on the spot in the Imperial Palace, bedridden unable to rise...

The entire Imperial leadership was thrown into chaos, and the Imperial Council convened overnight. According to a decree by the Founding Emperor Carl I, the Empress’ only bloodline, her thirteen-year-old granddaughter Princess Theresa, was urgently brought to the Regent King’s throne, with Wenster Feudal Bishop, one of the seven Electoral Princes, appointed as Regent Minister...

However, this was not the most shocking event.

The most shocking was a piece of insider information from survivors who had the distant luck to witness the earth-shattering battle three days after its tragic conclusion...

This message, though heavily suppressed by the Eternal Church, still spread within the entire Empire, causing terror and confusion among people, from penniless street performers to pleasure-seeking nobles in castles—

In this battle, the great Eternal Lord sent down fifteen Judgment Angels to punish the wicked.

However, the Judgment Angels, never before defeated, also fell one by one under the massacre of the Evil God...

As this news spread, the entire Empire was gripped by enormous panic, with rumors of the apocalyptic Evil God’s invasion swirling, residents neighboring Fengye Territory fell into fright, starting to migrate and flee inland with their families...

The situation in the Western Empire was in chaos.

Especially several days later, yet another bombshell message arrived, raising people’s fear to a new height.

The previously unanimously declared by the Imperial Nobles Council, deprived of title by the Empress herself — Lord of Fengye Domain, Border Count Otto von Cappadocia boldly announced the establishment of the Red Maple Kingdom using Fengye City as the capital.

Not only that, Otto, self-proclaimed as Red Maple King, declared his conversion to the God of Dusk and Sunset, Anos, establishing the Twilight Church as the state religion, and announced a holy war against the Holy Mania Empire and the Eternal Church!

By this moment, the rebellion in Fengye Territory could be said to be entirely out of control.

The mysterious terrifying Evil God resurrection, the Human World in turmoil, these messages continuously spread across the continent, even reaching the players in Elf Forest.

No, it’s more accurate to say players probably received the news even earlier than the higher-ups of the Holy Mania Empire.

Because players also participated in that war.

Not only that... even after the war, many players still blended in as mercenaries in the armies recruited by the "Red Maple Kingdom," passing on information.

As for the center of the whole event, the terrifying Evil God that annihilated the Imperial Expedition Army, HD photos already flooded the entire official forum under the fearless filming of the participating players...

It was an image taken from the Earth’s surface.

Above the sky, clouds rolled, a cold, unfeeling visage gazed down at the land.

A golden monocular eye glimmered with a frenzied light, and a terrifying giant hand descended from the sky...

Of course, the latter was a video, in high definition without watermark.

"The God of Dusk and Sunset, Anos, huh..."

As she watched the video shot by players, Eve, sitting high on the Divine throne, squinted her eyes slightly.

"Titan King? He’s still alive? Wasn’t he already driven mad and eventually fallen during the Titan and Dragon War?"

A trace of doubt floated in her gaze.

The mythological existence known as Anos, there was only one in the long history of the Segis Universe, Titan King Anos, the dominator of the Titan Era.

However, just as the doubt arose in her heart, Eve gently shook her head:

"No, if the World Tree can summon my soul here despite its fall and revive me in another form, then the same could be true for Anos, also an Era Dominator..."

Mythological existences each have their own horrors and trump cards.

Especially those old folks who have lived for long.

Recalling the last undiscovered Titan Tomb in Fengye Domain, Eve’s mind wandered...

"If it really is him, it would make sense why upon revival, he announced the establishment of a church and declared a divine war against the Eternal Lord so ostentatiously, after all... according to records, one of his godly domains was the Sun, which is now the primary divine power of the Eternal Lord, but... the Eternal Lord’s Sun is the dawn, while Anos’ Sun is the sunset."