Although the Queen said, "The forest will thank you in the end," her face was full of guilt and pain. The gentle power in her hand slowly surged towards the wind beetle that was enveloped in the life essence.
The wind beetle finally saw what was inside the other green fluorescent pillars around it.
They are bodies, vibrant lives!
The creatures trapped in the life essence all huddled towards the wind beetle, pounding on the transparent pillar in various ways, trying to tell the wind beetle to escape. However, they could not break free from the cage-like pillar, and their voices could not be heard.
The wind beetle suddenly felt a sense of crisis, realized that something was wrong, and tried to escape.
"No...no need, Your Majesty, let me leave! I want to leave!!!"
It desperately tried to use the elemental power of wind to escape this predicament, but under the Queen's power, it seemed so insignificant and unable to break free.
The Elf Queen's eyes were filled with tears: "I'm sorry."
In an instant, the wind beetle, like other creatures, was imprisoned inside the pillar.
It pounded frantically, but couldn't break free. It could feel a constant influx of life force, but its own energy was constantly flowing down the pillar.
However, as long as life continues, energy will continue to be replenished, especially when one is in the state of being within the source of life.
The wind beetle was in despair, but in that instant, it also lost the ability to speak.
It watched helplessly as the queen, who had apologized to it, left the Tower of the Holy Spirit.
No!!!
The scene shifts rapidly.
Endangered creatures are repeatedly lured into the Tower of the Holy Spirit by the Queen, using the same tone and the same language.
The wind beetle wanted to warn these creatures not to be deceived by the queen and to escape quickly... but what could it do inside this pillar of green light?
The number of green pillars inside the Holy Spirit Tower increased, and the wind beetles became increasingly numb.
It cannot save itself, nor can it save other living beings; it can only watch as these living beings become "nourishment" just like it.
It grew increasingly desperate and panicked.
Every day, all I see are cruel scenes, the same landscapes, no interaction between living beings, no sound of the wind, no warmth of the sun, endlessly immersed in the essence of life, immortal and eternal.
The wind beetle, whose lifespan was originally only five years, has lived for an unknown amount of time. Here, it is dark and sunless, and apart from the different creatures that the queen brings each time, everything is the same. How can it tell when a day is?
Until one day, the wind beetle watched helplessly as a long-extinct lizard next to it gnawed on its own tail.
It was thinking, "Has this lizard gone mad?!"
Sure enough, the bitten tail will quickly grow back!
However, the wind beetle never expected that the lizard would start gnawing upwards again, breaking off its hind half!
Unfortunately, this time, the life essence still managed to complete its body.
The next second, the wind beetle watched helplessly as the lizard bit into its own heart!
Instantly, the heart exploded, and the lizard died on the spot.
This scene was forever etched into the wind beetle's mind, unforgettable.
It still doesn't understand why it should give up hope.
If one day, a righteous and powerful being were to see the Holy Spirit Tower, which the elves hailed as the "Eternal Land," in such a state, all of them would be liberated!
Later, the wind beetle saw other creatures also committing suicide.
Long-necked creatures bite off their own necks, fish frantically ram their own brains, even powerful crocodiles, once the overlords of the swamps, tear at their own flesh, and birds sever their own wings.
Living beings committed suicide and perished one after another.
This situation is becoming increasingly severe.
Like a fire that cannot be extinguished, it cannot be contained.
Until the Queen discovered it.
As she watched the creatures perish one after another within the life essence, she was filled with both sorrow and tears, and uncontrollable rage.
"This is an expression of gratitude to the forest."
"Why do this... why destroy the forest's eternity!"
This time, the Queen used her energy to forcibly restrict all the actions of all living beings in the Tower of the Holy Spirit.
Living beings can only remain in this life-source substance in a fixed posture, like living specimens.
Suicide was contained.
The beings within the life essence were even more desperate.
Is this eternity?
Eternal loneliness, despair.
The wind beetle finally understood why those creatures had given up hope.
Because... they've had enough of living.
They had had enough of this life, where every day felt like a thousand years, yet every year was like a thousand years.
Loneliness, despair, solitude, sadness, anger.
All the emotions at this moment were completely reduced to two words.
--numbness.
That seemingly grand eternity now appears as a merciless shackle, restricting and tormenting them.
Even the wind beetle wants to die.
But it couldn't move at all, so how could it die?
It stayed desperately in the life essence, day after day, year after year.
The souls of the dead in the Tower of the Holy Spirit are trapped here forever, unable to be purified, because their physical bodies are still continuously supplied with energy by the life essence.
The Queen was "merciful" and did not want the creatures to simply vanish, so she imprisoned them in the Tower of the Holy Spirit.
The resentment of all living beings toward the Queen continued to grow.
Whenever the Elf Queen arrives, the undead will riot and tear her apart.
But the Elf Queen's power was simply too great, and with the help of the Tree of Life, the souls of the dead were completely unable to touch such a powerful life force.
The wind beetle hates it too, but what can it do?
All it knew was that the elves, as the guardians of the forest, possessed all the power related to the forest.
Such guardians pursue eternity and immortality.
They are not protecting the forest, but protecting eternity.
In the end, the wind beetle was beyond desperate.
It committed suicide in an absolutely fatal and painful way—it piled up its life force and energy, letting the energy stretch its meridians day by day, becoming more and more uncomfortable and painful each day.
Finally, one day...
Bang--!
The wind beetle's body finally burst from the pent-up energy.
It was freed.
However, its soul can never be freed.
It could only retain its anger and hatred, wandering within the Holy Spirit Tower that had imprisoned it for its entire life.
...
The image finally faded away.
The elves were the most affected, especially the elven princess Sophia.
Her face was deathly pale, and she felt as if her world was collapsing.
Her belief in eternity and life, as well as the benevolence of the elves, collapsed completely at this moment!
She took two steps back in disbelief, then staggered and fell to the ground.
"No...this isn't real, this isn't real!!!"
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