Dozens of black bolts of lightning crashed down, reducing a small mountain a thousand meters tall to ashes. The Green Moon Empress stood amid the forest at the mountain's foot, staring furiously and indignantly at a crystal ball the size of a human head as she sharply rebuked it. "That makes no sense. I can't possibly do it!"
Within the murky gray crystal ball, a twisted ghostly face flickered, and a shrill, grating voice came from inside it.
"Suit yourself. If you can't do it, I'll stop suppressing the Elf Mother Tree. I might even help her recover all her power as quickly as possible, then directly teleport those people you fear most to this damned place to settle accounts with you!"
The voice within the crystal ball gave an incomparably cutting sneer. "You should remember what you did. You used the elf race's forbidden art, sacrificed the Elf Mother Tree's source life force without hesitation, and brought about Alandu. You even forcibly tore open the void and had Alandu descend here."
"But what you did has already inflicted tremendous harm upon the Elf Mother Tree. You are now a wanted criminal of the elf race, a sinner whom countless elf experts have sworn to kill. Even if you are an indispensable god of the elf race—or perhaps someone like their future empress—the wanted order was personally issued by the Elf Mother Tree."
"I am helping you suppress the Elf Mother Tree's power. I can slow the recovery of her injuries. Without me, elf experts might already have descended upon this place and done things to you that you would not particularly enjoy!"
"But after working with me for so many years, you should know that I have never been a kindhearted good man who helps others. On the contrary,