CHAPTER 556: CHAPTER 491: EXTREME NATURALIST

"I’m sorry, sir, what did you say?"

In front of outsiders, John referred to Lin Ke as "sir."

Of course, he should have addressed him as Master Lava, but Lin Ke found that unpleasant to hear.

"Nothing." Lin Ke slowly shook his head and said, "Leave someone to clean up the battlefield first, and let’s move forward, to the heart of the Forest Hut... Bring those captives up."

Before long, the captives were brought up.

Once controlled, even gods and legends pose a certain level of danger.

Unfortunately, inside the aircraft carrier, there was no such thing.

Now, the group was on the "horseback" of Lin Ke’s mount.

Not to mention, if the whole army’s power was gathered, Lin Ke could even, like Garoce did before, have a strike against the Moon Goddess.

The aircraft carrier of the Great Wilderness continued to sail, only now with many more captives.

The ordinary captives were guarded on the spot, in this blood-soaked post-war wasteland.

And some special, important, powerful, or those who had these characteristics were held in a well-equipped aircraft carrier cell.

At this moment, the most important captives were brought up.

Capturing a legend or a god is a difficult task.

Unless you have overwhelming power.

Legends and gods have countless ways to save themselves, especially those from the Main Plane.

Capturing beings above level twenty-one requires a certain amount of luck.

As for capturing the level twenty-five Naseng God or the powerful Forest God, it’s even harder.

But Lin Ke did it.

At this moment, he was right in front of him.

Sathir, in front of him, reverted from a woodpecker back to an elderly human form, standing in front of Lin Ke with eyes closed, resting.

And behind Sathir were two other gods, the Twin Gods—the Stream God and Spring God.

Aside from this, other legends and gods affiliated with the Forest Hut were either severely injured and fell into slumber or were directly killed.

For instance, the Goddess of Archery and Hunting had been severely injured and fallen into a long slumber by Xiangnai and the hidden Sky God.

"Forest God... Forest God Sathir, I never thought your true form is really a woodpecker... Let me guess, would you have your subjects believe that the woodpecker is a completely ’beneficial creature’?"

Lin Ke sat on the Lava Throne, a temporary piece crafted on short notice—not as good-looking and imposing as the Great Wilderness Tower, but sufficient.

And the Forest God Sathir still kept his eyes closed, without any reaction to Lin Ke’s words.

"A bloodline of enchantresses, achieving faith through violence and pain via woodpeckers, tsk tsk, is everyone in the Forest Hut a Stockholm case?"

Lin Ke chuckled and shook his head.

Not a word...

This Forest God’s mouth was quite obstinate, both literally and metaphorically.

Not even opening his eyes a crack.

So, Lin Ke had no choice but to continue provoking.

"To be honest, I’ve always been blank on why we’re adversaries."

"The only reasons I could think of are greed and stupidity... But from what I know, your closed-off nature doesn’t breed much greed, or do you also covet the Great Wilderness’s advancements?"

Somehow, something worked, and Sathir finally opened his eyes.

"Advancements?" Sathir sneered disdainfully, "The Great Wilderness City only brings pain and suffering to nature."

Nature?

Pain?

Suffering?

Lin Ke seemed to grasp a bit of what this Forest God was thinking, finding it somewhat amusing.

"Are you talking about... environmental issues?"

Lin Ke found it laughable but not unbelievable: "Isn’t it the Holy Life Alliance colluding with you? Or the urging of the Eternal Dusk Church?"

"Holy Life Alliance? Those Elf King’s descendants have completely betrayed nature! As for Eternal Dusk? Just a bunch of foolish outsiders." As if opening a floodgate, the Forest God Sathir’s emotions changed.

Lin Ke raised an eyebrow: "Because of nature, you let your Forest Hut citizens, your followers, face death?"

"The bloodline of the Jade Tree Court merely turned into nature’s nutrients and fertilizer." The Forest God snorted coldly and said, "Do it, Lava, I will not become your slave, I will also embrace nature’s tranquility."

Understood.

Extreme environmentalist.

Lin Ke rubbed his forehead in slight annoyance.

What the hell.

A bit of a wrongful situation!

Lin Ke had initially thought there was some conspiracy behind it, only to find it was merely a war driven not by interests, but by personal inclinations.

How is this any different from those stupid nobles in the Black and White Kingdom starting wars over a tasty bunch of sweet peach fruits?

No, at least those nobles had a somewhat justifiable cause, considering it involved interests and glory, no matter how trivial the benefits or how utterly false the glory.

Perhaps, to the Forest Hut, environmental protection was their glory?

"Forget it, seems like I overestimated, turns out you’re not greedy, but foolish."

Lin Ke couldn’t be bothered to argue with the Forest God anymore and said, "Li Guan Mobai, please keep an eye on Sathir... Yes, he might be in violation of the latest laws of the Magma Territory, with a series of punitive measures to follow."

Before Li Guan Mobai could speak, the Forest God’s mockery came through: "You want to execute me? Or put me on a gallows or guillotine? I will not yield..."

"Enough, old relic, you’re talking about the Middle Ages, right? What time do you think it is now!"

Lolita couldn’t help but interrupt the Forest God’s speech; the Forest God’s earlier words had a melodious tone as if relaying an outdated, godly hymn.

This made everyone realize that the Forest God might have been in isolation for a long time.

"I will not surrender, no matter what means you use." The Forest God didn’t even glance at Lolita, even though he wasn’t up-to-date on human forces’ latest punitive methods, thinking they’d only be a few anyway?

To make him a slave to nature’s destruction was simply impossible.

Thus, the Forest God was taken away, leaving the other two.

These were...

Two young boys.

Or rather, the twin gods, appearing as young boys.

These two also looked at Lin Ke with defiant eyes, their lips unmoving, yet the sound of water flowed with a "ding dong."

"Centuries-old children, so cute, yet they can’t even speak... This Forest God is truly cruel."

Lin Ke also had data on these two gods, knowing the Twin Gods were considered foster sons of the Forest God; their true form was the spring water and stream worshiped day and night by the succubus and enchantress races, which ended up being controlled by Sathir after gathering divine fire, becoming gods.

Such pure and easily deceived blank slates, Lin Ke could try to convert them.