[Alice still thought of things too simply.]

[While they were waiting for the teams from the Daylight Church and the War God Church to arrive, Aina was attacked by a group of people.]

[Aina, with her strong abilities, managed to drive them away.]

"Are you okay? Who were they?" Alice quickly inquired about Aina's condition.

Aina shook her head. After inheriting her mother's position, she received the blessing of the Sacred Tree, which further increased her strength and made her more than capable of handling this level of attack.

"It's the Natural Association," Freymia told Shen Sui.

"Followers of the Goddess of Nature?" Shen Sui was visibly taken aback.

In the era to which his game save belonged, the Elf Race were also worshippers of the Goddess of Nature, so logically, they shouldn't be enemies.

"Yes," Freymia replied, "ever since that incident, the Elves and the Natural Association have been divided."

Shen Sui immediately understood what event Freymia was referring to.

The Freymia becoming a god incident.

Freymia risked conducting the Becoming a God Ritual to maintain internal stability within the Elf Race.

However, the ritual ultimately failed due to the appearance of Vivian.

Nonetheless, Freymia achieved her goal of breaking the Elves' illusion about the Goddess of Nature, thus stabilizing the Elves internally after a brief period of chaos.

But in the eyes of extreme nature worshippers, the Elves' actions were undoubtedly a betrayal of the Goddess of Nature.

To even consider replacing the goddess?

To them, this was more unforgivable than being a heretic.

Because of the division within the Elf Race, even though the Goddess of Nature was the first deity to recover, the Natural Association still couldn't compete with the other Main God Churches.

To know, the Elf Race was the most powerful component of natural faith.

"The Goddess of Nature..." Shen Sui reminisced.

Freymia immediately grew wary: "You wouldn't have a thing with the Goddess of Nature too, would you?"

"In your eyes, does every woman have something to do with me?" Shen Sui cried out in injustice, "How are you just like Alice?"

Freymia rolled her eyes, "From my past life's memories, it's not entirely impossible."

Shen Sui's actions in the first playthrough were nothing short of reckless and unruly; in Freymia's eyes, this guy having an affair with the Goddess of Nature wasn't entirely impossible either.

"Don't falsely accuse me," Shen Sui immediately said. Considering the appearance of the Goddess of Nature, he was afraid that if he delayed saying it any further, Freymia would start questioning his preferences.

The Goddess of Nature was indeed beautiful, Shen Sui agreed on that point.

But damn it, the biggest problem is, she's a tree!

In terms of species, the Goddess of Nature and the Natural Holy Tree of the Elf Race were of the same kind, essentially sisters.

However, the Goddess of Nature didn't want to just be an immortal tree, so she stole the world's consciousness of nature and ascended to become the Goddess of Nature.

Yes, originally, the Natural Holy Tree worshipped by the Elf Race consisted of two trees.

Her chest was wooden! Even in battle, they wouldn't jiggle. When I was fighting the BOSS back then, I was even running all over her.

Because of this, Shen Sui really had no interest in the Goddess of Nature.

Even less compared to the Natural Holy Tree.

At least it's purely a tree.

Being of the same species, the Goddess of Nature naturally had abilities similar to the Natural Holy Tree.

Aina was a Holy Child Elf, the fruit of the Natural Holy Tree.

And the Goddess of Nature, of course, has similar offspring, which are the Divine Children of the Natural Association.

The one who clashed with Aina was one of the Divine Children of the Natural Association.

Similar beings are naturally attracted to each other.

Even though Aina disguised herself, the other party saw through her identity at a glance.

However, in terms of strength, Aina still had the upper hand and managed to drive the opponent away.

Clearly, the opponent's presence in Elm City indicated that the information about Twilight Bishop's treasure had already reached the Natural Association.

Why does it feel like all these churches have become like sieves, why don't you just set up intercommunication of intelligence.

[Alice, following the plan, began intermittent attacks on the Thunder Church where the treasure box was stored with Aina's cover.]

[In her encounters with the Thunder, Alice deliberately made comments suggesting that the treasure box was about to be unsealed and opened.]

[Since the South Roland rebellion, Hozerville has appeared inextricably linked with the Twilight Bishop in the eyes of the Church of the Master of Thunder.]

[From their investigations, the treasure boxes in Lake Paiyiga and Anlud City were likely opened by Hozerville.]

[She's in such a hurry, perhaps her words aren't baseless.]

[Then... that legendary Divine Sword is about to see the light of day again.]

[Klei entered a state of heightened vigilance.]

[With each passing day of confrontation, his wariness of Witch Hozerville grew.]

[This young witch possessed the power to ignite Divine Power.]

[She could easily burn through his domain and thus escape the Thunder Knight Order's pursuits and obstructions.]

["Excellent," Alice remarked as she looked at herself in the mirror, nodding with satisfaction, "Your skills are truly impressive, Aina; I wouldn't recognize myself."]

["My mother taught me this," Aina replied with a sweet smile.]

[Alice looked at the puppet on Aina's waist and bent down to greet it, "Good morning, Sister Freymia."]

[The puppet patted its head and nodded at Alice in a very cute manner.]

["Are you really planning on doing this, Alice?" Aina asked, looking somewhat worriedly at Alice.]

[Alice nodded slightly, "Yes, in order to destabilize the Church of the Master of Thunder, this is something I must do."]

[She understood well that while the South Roland rebellion was massive, it was ultimately just the marginalized people's dissatisfaction with the church and the nobility's oppressive rule, forced into uprising, lacking high-end combat power. If the Church of the Master of Thunder fully committed to suppression, this rebellion would inevitably end in failure.]

[Alice wasn't strong enough, nor did she want to involve Claude, who had yet to fully recover, in such a dangerous business.]

[However, it wasn't always necessary to rely on high-end combat power.]

[There was still another way to create space for the Twilight Legion's survival:]

[Entangle the Roland Empire's high-end combat forces with other matters, leaving them with no time to deal with the Twilight Legion.]

[Alice had never known how to accomplish this, but this time the Twilight Bishop's treasure gave her the opportunity.]

[Today, Alice was going to bring this idea to fruition in her heart.]

[She was going to solidify the belief, in front of the elites of the Daylight Church, War God Church, and even the Natural Association, that the Church of the Master of Thunder possessed the potent power capable of banishing gods.]

[Upon seeing a power capable of threatening their own deities being controlled by their competitors,]

[Can you still sit back and relax?]

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