Thranduil knelt heavily on one knee on the paved ground in front of Anna with a thud, ignoring the astonished gazes of the many elves, and declared loudly:
"Your Highness! It was Thranduil who was ordered to hunt you down that day! I was also the executioner who carried out the Elders' orders and made you a wanderer!"
"The Elven race has strict rules and orders, and Thranduil dared not disobey his duty to guard the city! But today he learned that the order was given by the elder for his own selfish reasons, and it was a wrong order!"
“I carried out the wrong order, this is a grave mistake! Thranduil is willing to take full responsibility for hunting down the princess! I beg Your Highness to grant me death, to uphold the clan’s rules, and to appease your hatred! I only ask… I only ask that you return to the royal court, wield power, and protect my people!”
After she finished speaking, she suddenly drew the dagger inlaid with emeralds from her waist, held it up with both hands, raised it high above her head, and lowered her head deeply, as if she were offering her neck to be slaughtered.
Anna looked at Thranduil kneeling before her, a complex emotion flashing in her shadow eyes.
She didn't harbor any deep hatred for her cousin; Thranduil was merely a pawn carrying out orders. The real culprits were the three old ghosts who sat behind the scenes manipulating everything.
Moreover, it was Thranduil who just led the rebellion against the elders to protect his mother.
"I have no interest whatsoever in the throne of the Elf Queen." Anna's voice remained cold, but it lacked the sharpness directed at Thranduil.
Her gaze swept over her mother's hopeful eyes, over Thranduil's resolute posture, and finally, her swirling shadow eyes locked onto the leading white-haired elder once more, her killing intent bursting forth like a tangible force.
“I don’t like your choices either! Dragging your feet, looking back and forth, forever stuck in this rotten mire!” Anna’s voice suddenly rose, carrying a resolute coldness. “For the sake of the Eldrinval blood flowing in my veins, for the sake of the forest I once called home…”
She suddenly raised the Shadow Longbow again, and the bowstring was instantly drawn to its full length!
An arrow, more refined than before and imbued with destructive shadows and the power of nature, appeared out of thin air, its tip aimed directly at the white-haired elder's heart!
This time, there was no more hesitation or pause!
"Let me make the decision for you! It's best to get rid of the bad apples as soon as possible!"
Before the words were even finished!
"Boom!"
The bowstring twanged!
The Shadow Arrow tore through the air, carrying Anna's years of resentment and utter disillusionment with the corrupt royal court, and shot toward its target as if by teleportation!
Almost the instant Anna raised her bow, Eileen ripped her hands apart to the sides!
The starry black gold burst forth with dazzling light!
The spatial rift, which was already churning with demonic energy, was forcibly widened several times over!
Mark's eyes blazed with a seven-colored black light, and a will carrying the "chef's" power surged through the passage: "Dinner's ready!"
"roar--!!!"
A deafening roar of the demon god, filled with greed and excitement, erupted from the expanding abyss passage like a tsunami!
The Ice Crystal Giant Lizard's frost-covered, ferocious head was the first to emerge, its deep blue vertical pupils locked onto the white-haired elder.
Next came the Poison Ivy Withered Tree Demon, who brandished countless poisonous vines.
The giant octopus lord's tentacles thrashed wildly, stirring up the demonic clouds...
A dozen or so projections of lower-level demon gods, brimming with the ferocity of a promised feast, surged out of the passage in a frenzy.
Like a swarm of sharks that have smelled blood, they pounced on the three elven epic elders who exuded the aroma of delicious food!
They want to prove their sincerity to the head chef through concrete actions!
Anna's Shadow Arrow tore through the air, carrying years of pent-up, chilling killing intent, aimed straight for the white-haired elder's heart!
"No! I am the Epic of the Elves—" The white-haired elder's shriek came to an abrupt halt.
The breath of the Ice Crystal Giant Lizard condensed into a pale torrent of billions of ice shards, instantly engulfing the white-haired elder's raised withered claws and half of his body!
The extreme chill carried an annihilating quality. The elder's remaining natural shield shattered like thin paper. His arms, shoulders, and chest were covered with spiderweb-like cracks the moment they came into contact with the shield, and the next second they turned into falling ice powder!
"Ugh—!" The shrill, short scream only made halfway through.
The vines of the poison ivy, like a swarm of enraged venomous snakes, pierced through the ice crystals and dust, stabbing into the elder's chest and abdomen, which were gaping open in excruciating pain!
Puff puff puff puff!
The rapid, piercing sounds were chilling.
The dark green poisonous miasma was injected wildly, causing the mangled body to swell like a balloon. The veins of venom under the skin bulged out menacingly, the cloudy eyes bulged out, and emerald green poisonous blood mixed with fragments of internal organs sprayed wildly from the mouth and nose!
The Abyss Octopus Lord's attacks are the most ferocious.
A dozen thick tentacles covered with sucker-like bone spikes ignored spatial distance and instantly wrapped around the white-haired elder's neck, waist, abdomen, and remaining limbs!
The tentacles suddenly contracted forcefully!
Snap! Pfft!
The crisp sound of a cervical vertebra snapping and the muffled sound of flesh and bones being crushed erupted simultaneously!
Half of its body was annihilated by ice crystals and swelled up by poisonous vines. Under the immense force, it exploded like a tattered sack full of filth!
Frozen blue chunks of meat, dark green venomous blood, and stark white bone fragments...
Accompanied by a pungent, fishy stench that radiated outwards, the charred pillars and mottled floor tiles of the Eternal Rest Hall were stained with filthy paint.
Only now did Anna's shadow arrow, imbued with all her resentment, pierce through the blood and flesh like a calm executioner, and "plop" embed itself between the eyebrows of the head that had been pulled into the abyss's maw by the octopus tentacles.
The shadow power within the arrow suddenly erupted!
Bang!
That head, filled with fear, arrogance, and decay, exploded completely with a muffled thud, like a rotten pumpkin falling to the ground!
"The first one."
Anna's icy voice pierced through the demon god's roar and the lingering echoes of flesh and blood exploding.
She slowly moved her longbow, her Shadow Eyes locking onto the next pale-faced elder.
The remaining two elders, witnessing their companion's horrific and swift demise, completely lost their will.
"Escape! Quickly escape into the Hall of Eternal Rest! Activate the Root of Eternity!!"
The emaciated elder, as thin as a skeleton, let out a scream that sounded inhuman, his withered claws flailing wildly in an attempt to trigger the defenses within the hall.
However, the dim green light at the fingertips was like a candle flickering in the wind in the space where the abyssal demonic energy and the star and moon chains intertwined, failing to even stir up a ripple.
"It's too late."
Enzo's roar was like a burst of lava.
His imposing figure had already appeared like a ghost beside the skeleton elder, his rune-forged hammer wreathed in boiling dark lightning, pure violence, without any fancy moves, aimed straight at the elder's jaw from below!
"Ascend to heaven, you bastard!"
The withered wood shield hastily conjured by the Skeleton Elder shattered inch by inch the moment it came into contact with the hammer.
The terrifying force was transmitted to his emaciated body without reservation.
"puff--!"
The cracking sound of the jawbone breaking was clearly audible.
His head snapped backward at an eerie angle, and the blood spurting from his mouth mingled with the cracked teeth, tracing a gruesome arc.
His emaciated body, like a kite with a broken string, was blasted off the ground by the force of the hammer, spinning and crashing into the cracked walls of the Eternal Sleep Palace!
boom!
The walls shook violently.
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