You curse a demon god??

The priest, who was slaughtering on the battlefield, suddenly turned her head to look at Yveta.

This was because Yveta was the primary culprit behind the exposure of the Children of the Forest. However, the priest couldn't reach him immediately, as three brave human knights stood in her way, intending to fight her.

The Hearthstone Great Witch said, "I think the priest's target seems to be Your Majesty?"

"We shouldn't fight someone who burns their own life force."

"As long as we delay for a few hours, she'll be unable to bear it herself. There's no need to fight her."

Yveta nodded in agreement.

Attacking an enemy's weakness was the best strategy.

The biggest problem with the priest class was their lack of endurance.

They planned to move away from the battlefield first, but the leader of the Children of the Forest, holding a knight sword and clutching his chest wound, blocked their path.

The leader of the Children of the Forest, Ji, said angrily, "Don't even think about leaving, you bastard!"

The old witch paused, then said, "Were you hit by a damage curse earlier?"

The leader of the Children of the Forest, Ji, also paused. "So what if I was!"

The old witch breathed a sigh of relief. "Then it's nothing. Your Majesty, let's go."

"The effect of a damage curse isn't like a normal sword cut. It's a very vicious spell, causing wounds to fester into a pus-like substance filled with malevolent magic. In theory, only someone filled with deep malice can cast this spell."

"But a portion of your magic power seems to inherently contain malice, even without you intending it. Furthermore, that portion of your magic power amplified the original strength of the damage curse to the intensity of a spell cast by an official wizard."

"This guy is completely useless."

Yveta finally realized that the leader of the Children of the Forest who had been hit by his damage curse was already incapable of fighting.

The two of them had reached the entrance of the hall and were about to escape. The leader of the Treant Person, who was supposed to be blocking them, wanted to sprint after them with all his might.

But the moment he exerted himself, he found that thick, yellowish-black liquid was flowing from the wounds on his body. This liquid also emitted a foul odor.

He immediately collapsed on the ground, almost being killed by a knight attendant who had seized the opportunity.

There was no other way; this was a chaotic battle.

A chaotic battle wasn't one-on-one. You could easily die from a flying rock or be killed by a sword thrust from an inconspicuous character nearby.

If the Treant Person hadn't noticed their situation and rushed over to rescue him, Ji would have died by the sword of a knight attendant.

On the other side, the Children of the Forest priest who wanted to pursue them was blocked by three knights. She smashed one knight away with her giant fist, then stomped on another. However, a third knight, using his smaller size, got behind the Children of the Forest priest's heels and began wildly slashing and stabbing with his knight sword.

He continuously made the Children of the Forest priest bleed.

The Children of the Forest priest turned and punched the knight, but it was too late for her to catch up to Yveta.

Seeing Yveta and the others about to disappear through the doorway, a look of urgency flashed in her eyes. "I prophesy that the human named Yveta~"

Yveta paused. A prophecy?

He remembered the Forest Duke he had encountered before.

No way, is this person trying to curse me to death?

The old witch also paused, then became overjoyed, almost bursting into laughter.

"Your Majesty, we have a way to deal with her."

"She actually wants to prophesy about you."

This person actually wanted to prophesy about a Demon God.

Although divination and prophecy were two different systems for the witch and priest classes.

A witch's divination was a guess about future fortune or misfortune, while a priest's prophecy was more like a curse.

They prophesied about the future according to their own desires, which was essentially a curse technique.

But one thing was the same.

One must never perform a prophecy or divination on a being with immense spiritual power.

Otherwise, there would definitely be huge problems.

The Children of the Forest priest was clearly afraid that Yveta and the others would escape, so she became anxious and directly used her curse ability.

"I prophesy~ that the human named Yveta will die before my eyes."

"His heart cannot bear the burden, his blood will begin to solidify, until it rots."

The Children of the Forest priest was actually gambling, betting that Yveta's professional level wasn't high, because this curse technique couldn't be used on beings of the same level.

Even against knight servants, it could only cause temporary illness.

However, she just needed this curse to take effect on Yveta.

Even if it only reduced his mobility temporarily, as long as he couldn't escape.

The reason the Children of the Forest priest did this was twofold: First, she felt that Yveta's future was limitless and feared that his continued growth would pose a great threat to the Children of the Forest race.

Second, it was purely for revenge, to kill him first here.

Third, it was because she had just seen Yveta and the witch beside him holding Ambrose's Forbidden Book.

That was a book that humans could absolutely not obtain.

And so, she cast a curse, or perhaps a prophecy.

In just an instant, the priestess of the Children of the Forest's malicious gaze turned to astonishment.

This was because the spiritual energy consumed in that single moment was far too great.

"No, why does cursing a mere child require such a heavy price?"

Disbelief flashed through the pupils of the Children of the Forest priestess. She wanted to stop the curse, but the spiritual energy that had flowed away in that instant was too much, too much.

It was like a dam bursting; the water flow was uncontrollable.

She couldn't stop the prophecy.

Logically speaking, the prophecy abilities of the priest profession were relatively safe at lower levels.

Because the level was too low, the price paid was limited.

There was no risk of immediate death, at most it would reduce lifespan.

But, in just that instant, the body of the Children of the Forest priestess shriveled up. Her once majestic, god-like, small giant physique had become a gaunt, withered form.

And she was becoming even thinner.

In the blink of an eye, her body had become skin and bones.

The bones were also aging, and because they were too old, they began to crack.

The priestess, transformed into a giant, now looked as if she had been drained dry, leaving only a husk.

This was the price she paid for cursing Yveta.

The spiritual mist she had summoned had also vanished.

The knights present rallied, fighting back fiercely. Conversely, the treant people, having lost the mist, became listless and their strength greatly diminished.

For a time, most of the treant people present were slaughtered.

The remaining treant people, seeing that the tide had turned, turned and fled.

The treant person who had replaced Anger secretly helped up the treant person leader Ji, and they jumped directly out of the window, falling onto the lawn below, then ran out like two stray dogs.

The female priestess, maintaining her pitiful, skin-and-bones giant form, knelt in the hall. With her head bowed, she weakly whispered to Yveta, "You are not human."

The next moment, she died.

The triangular altar beneath her feet shattered. The soul of the Ancient Tree seemed to wail for its priestess's death, unleashing hateful curses upon all the humans present. However, without a priestess there, it could not retaliate against them and could only dissipate in frustration.

The battle was over.

Many were celebrating their narrow escape from death. Some were stabbing swords into every Children of the Forest corpse to prevent any from feigning death, while others insisted on checking every human to ensure no Children of the Forest were hiding among them.

Many of the knights present looked at Yveta.

They were all secretly pondering what the giant female priestess meant when she said, "You are not human," before she died.

Yveta looked at them and shrugged. "Everyone... I have something important to tell you."

Everyone immediately became tense.

Were there still enemies here?

"Don't be nervous," Yveta said. "I mean, hurry up and find someone to put out the fire!"

"And immediately gather troops to this castle. Although the Children of the Forest have retreated, we must still guard against their counterattack. I don't know if there are large forces of Children of the Forest in the Baron Territory. But they seem particularly intent on seizing the Baron's Territory."

Yveta worried that if the Children of the Forest couldn't seize the territory through schemes, they would resort to a direct assault.

Some knights acted according to his instructions, while some old retainers of the Moro Family fell into confusion.

Why could an outsider give them orders?

Had he taken over this place?

Branton didn't say a word!