The death of the Divine Envoy not only made Magic Spider City lose its last trump card but also completely shattered the morale of the Dark Elf army.

With just one charge, the Dark Elf army fell into chaos, which quickly evolved into a one-sided massacre.

The battle is decided!

Regaining their senses, the Dark Elf Matriarchs immediately ordered a retreat, but under the pursuit of the Golem Legion and the Demon Pattern Knight Order, the retreat swiftly turned into a rout. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

In the end, only a small number of remnants returned to Magic Spider City.

This battle left Magic Spider City devastated beyond measure.

Having lost the Goddess Queen’s favor, Magic Spider City no longer held value. Sunan planned not to linger further and directly ordered an attack on Magic Spider City.

The Golem army set off that day, and within less than an hour breached the city gates, invading the city.

Thus, Magic Spider City fell.

The last territory in the southeast region fell into the hands of the Star Alliance.

In the underground world of the southeast region, the only ruler was officially born.

...

Dragon Remains Tower, laboratory.

After bringing back the corpse of the semi-Spider Divine Favor, Sunan immediately extracted the divinity energy.

Just as he expected, the divinity energy contained in the semi-Spider Divine Favor far exceeded that of Spider-Elves, totaling 213 standard units.

To Sunan’s surprise, the display on the cube showed that the divinity energy was not only polluted by faith but also contained a kind of soul toxin.

This soul toxin would curse a wizard’s soul, causing damage.

Once afflicted, even if one could endure, the soul would suffer irreversible damage, requiring a substantial amount of time to recover.

"That cunning spider has hidden such a trick."

Sunan sneered.

Clearly, the Spider Goddess Queen had guessed his purpose for collecting divinity energy, and thus slipped something into it, intending a secretive betrayal.

Were it not for the cube, he might not have discovered this trap.

"A god known for cunning, even considering a counterattack after defeat."

A different wizard might have genuinely fallen for the Spider Goddess Queen’s trick.

Fortunately, such tactics were ineffective against Sunan.

As for the previously implied threatening words of the Spider Goddess Queen, Sunan didn’t take them to heart.

Though it was unclear how the Spider Goddess Queen managed to infiltrate the Starlight Continent, from the previous set of actions, she evidently was still restricted by limitations of the Starlight Continent, unable to infiltrate with too much power.

Especially having lost the faith of the Dark Elf race, lacking offerings and mediators, making further infiltration of the Starlight Continent even more difficult for her.

And when the barriers of the Starlight Continent begin to restore, wizards will return again.

By then, giving the Spider Goddess tenfold courage would still not make her brazenly infiltrate or descend upon the Starlight Continent.

Her last words were merely the barking of a mad dog; Sunan only regarded her as blathering.

Perhaps due to all energy being focused on creating Spider-Elves, Magic Spider City couldn’t discover a single Holy Artifact, only a few statues of the Spider Goddess Queen contained a thread of divinity energy.

Sunan extracted all of it and fused it with the cube.

Synthesis could eliminate faith pollution and naturally purify soul toxins.

After purifying the divinity energy using the cube, Sunan immediately absorbed it. After digesting all the divinity energy, the spiritual refinement level grew by 17.57%.

[Gasification: 40.19%]

Looking at the data on the panel, Sunan breathed a sigh of relief in delight.

This round can be said to have filled him up, directly saving decades of cultivation time.

Even if no more divinity energy can be absorbed, just regular cultivation would require around two hundred years to breakthrough to first-level liquefaction.

Not to mention, without divinity energy, there are still other means to expedite cultivation speed.

Sunan didn’t forget the initial purpose of attacking Magic Spider City.

One of the twelve families in Magic Spider City, the Philier Clan, possibly held clues to one of the three major wizard inheritances, the Black Forest.

As long as the Black Forest is found, it might be possible to find something inside that enhances spiritual refinement level.

For this reason, Sunan specifically instructed Sherman to interrogate the Philier Clan immediately after capturing Magic Spider City.

In a few days, results should emerge.

...

The result came faster than Sunan anticipated.

The day after capturing Magic Spider City, Sherman delivered what Sunan wanted.

"So you’re telling me that it was that Dark Elf who voluntarily provided the clues?"

In the study, Sunan raised an eyebrow in surprise, looking at Sherman.

"Yes, Master."

Sherman’s expression was also somewhat odd.

"The day Magic Spider City was captured, I seized all members of the Philier Clan, including the matriarch and martial master of the Philier Clan, and immediately handed them over to the human-faced lion for interrogation. But every female Dark Elf kept their mouths shut, while the male Dark Elves were willing to cooperate, yet unfortunately they possessed hardly any valuable information."

Dark Elves revered females, a tradition initially influenced by the Spider Goddess Queen.

This female deity favored female Dark Elves more, often granting them more blessings than male Dark Elves, leading to the inferior status of males within the Dark Elf race.

So, it’s normal for male Dark Elves to be disconnected from upper-level matters and unaware of Black Forest clues.

However, these female Dark Elves being this stubborn was somewhat unexpected.

It seems the Spider Goddess Queen must have employed some method, intensifying the faith erosion in these female Dark Elves.

Only in this way, can it be explained why those female Dark Elves would rather die than speak.

Yet, this highlights the uniqueness of the female Dark Elf who actively disclosed clues.