Chapter 40: With the Mountain God

The biggest problem with this incident is that even if the truth were revealed, it would all be meaningless.

The Mountain God was simply ignorant of its own nature, harboring no malice, and had faithfully protected the elves for hundreds of years.

Meanwhile, the elves, with their homeland reduced to ashes, were wandering mountains teeming with magical beasts. They were in no mental state to make rational judgments.

No one had abused the elves.

If anyone had abused them, it was none other than themselves.

It was the elves who didn't refuse when told to offer sacrifices, who passed the selection of sacrifices onto the Pina clan, and who actually offered the sacrifices.

If they were to blame anyone, they could only blame themselves, but that would lead to nothing but destruction.

That's why I sought to resolve this issue by creating someone to blame.

This figure would be an absolute being, one who couldn't be found out, with no worry of lies being exposed, and no need to lament being fooled by such a person.

"You've all been deceived by Bel Zuma!!"...