She turned her gaze to the Shuitian Kingdom guards and Louhanze Kingdom Asuras still lying on the ground and added,
"Then let's also disguise these remaining guards and Asuras to make it look like they killed each other."
If they were going to put on a show, they needed to do it completely. Anyway, both Shuitian and Louhanze had shown greed and desire for the divine items, so it would make sense if they turned on each other after snatching the treasures. With the white fog surrounding everything now, no one would know what really happened.
As soon as Elara finished speaking, several guards came over and dragged the corpses from Shuitian Kingdom and Louhanze Kingdom together, then stabbed their weapons into each other's bodies.
After carefully disguising the scene, the group looked up at the thick white fog that now almost completely covered the cave. Elara took antidotes and pills for restoring energy and inner strength from her medicine pouch and gave them to the others.
After taking the medicine, Prince Leland laughed heartily.
"Good! Then let's go find those two unlucky scapegoats first!"
They had originally planned to use the Blood Garment Tower and the Kingdom of Edelweiss as scapegoats.
But just as she carried someone and stepped out of the stone cave entrance, Elara's heightened senses instantly detected a gaze coming from the northwest.
She stopped and gestured to the group.
The others immediately restrained their movements and quietly followed Elara toward the source of the gaze.
As expected, they found the culprits behind their siege squatting there and watching from afar.
Jingshi, Salvia, various kingdoms, Narcissus... Tch, not a single one was missing.
The one leading Jingshi's team into the hidden realm this time, according to Prince Leland's introduction, was a general with high status and power within the Salvia Kingdom.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him the emperor's right-hand man, representing a significant part of Salvia's military strength.
The ones sent by Salvia, the other kingdoms, and Narcissus to follow Salvia's lead were also powerful and influential generals from within their nations.
Looking at these people, a thought suddenly surfaced in Elara's mind...
If they could eliminate these people right here, then pin the Louhanze incident on them, wouldn't that kill two birds with one stone?
Not only could they directly weaken Salvia and its allied forces, throwing their external strength into disarray, but they could also shift Louhanze's focus onto them, which might help in Elara's northern campaign later.
They were still underground.
Salvia and its allies were cut off from the surface forces.
All the divine vein blessings had already been taken by Elara's side.
In such an isolated and weakened state, even if they had more people, they weren't a match for Elara's group.
The major forces inside the cave were still in chaotic battles.
As long as Elara's group acted cleanly, who would know what happened here?
Thinking this, Elara looked back at Prince Yu and Prince Leland.
She didn't need to say anything.
As fellow members of the alliance against Salvia, they had the same idea the moment they saw Salvia and its allies.
After a brief exchange of glances, they immediately understood one another.
Carrying the barely breathing leader of Louhanze, Prince Leland walked over and gestured to Elara.
The group slowly set down the items they were carrying, drew out divine artifacts and weapons suited for swift kills, waited for the right moment, left behind guards to watch the "bodies," and vanished like shadows to assassinate the forces of Salvia and its allied nations.
"You! Who are you people?"
"Damn it! Who the hell are you?! Why ambush us?!"
Before the attack, Elara's group had changed clothes and covered their faces.
The forces from Salvia had been lying in wait here, furious over losing their divine vein blessings.
They had lured multiple forces to jointly besiege Prince Yu and Prince Leland.
They waited here, expecting the two to turn into corpses.
They had planned to identify them from their corpses, and take the bodies back to the surface to report.
At the same time, they wanted to see who ultimately obtained the divine treasures so they could plan their next move.
They intended to steal back the artifacts or seize other benefits.
But before the battle inside ended, they were the ones attacked first.
The people Salvia and its allies brought were strong, but unfortunately, not strong enough.
Elara and her group had multiple divine vein artifacts, had trained their strength, and were no longer what they used to be.
Split from the main forces on the surface, Salvia and its allies were simply outmatched.
Within just two minutes, several teams from Salvia, Narcissus, and the other kingdoms were quickly wiped out.
They fell under overlapping attacks from items like "gravity suppressors," "wind fighters," and "jade flutes."
After eliminating part of the enemy's strength in advance, Elara and the others were in better spirits.
Prince Leland once again hoisted the unconscious leader of Louhanze, who had only a breath left in him, and threw him in front of the Salvia team leader.
Then he grabbed the Salvia leader's hand and weapon and deeply stabbed it into the Louhanze leader's chest.
"Urgh... cough..."
In the final moments of pain, the Louhanze leader woke up.
But his heart had already been pierced.
He only woke up for a second and couldn't even see clearly who had killed him before taking his last breath.
Prince Leland then had the other Louhanze corpses staged to look like they had been caught in mutual slaughter with Salvia, Narcissus, and the others.
Once the scene and wounds were convincingly arranged, anyone who found them would believe that Salvia and its allies had ambushed Louhanze and both sides perished.
With this staged setup completed, Prince Leland clapped his hands in satisfaction and left with Elara and Prince Yu.
Their next scapegoat was the Blood Garment Tower.
Elara originally intended to dump the body of the Shuitian Kingdom leader into the Blood Garment Tower's branch within the Geranium Kingdom's imperial city.
After all, the Blood Garment Tower was an assassin organization with many enemies.
It wouldn't be strange for them to have killed anyone.
If the body was quietly placed there, the tower would have no way to defend itself.
However, while carrying the body back, they unexpectedly ran into several Blood Garment Tower assassins on the road.
Though the tower had faced harsh criticism and attacks due to the hit list Elara exposed earlier, they had already entered the hidden realm.
There was no way they would back out so easily.
Even though the Nether Palace had sent another of its groups, the Blood Garment Tower still entered the hidden realm.
The assassins they brought ranked between 13th to 25th on the Blood Garment Tower's top-tier assassin list.