Raven really hates the light of destruction, but I believe that this is caused more by what it represents than a kind of natural reaction against its opposite element, and I don't say this simply as a relationship between light and shadows, but because of the difference between offensive and defensive.
Raven's shadow element has unusually high defensive capabilities and that's why she ends up using it as a cover both to defend herself and to tie her opponents, in my opinion a light with characteristics completely focused on the offensive aspect like the destruction light and the opposite of Raven.
But according to Raven's rude comment when I asked her about her opinion on the light of destruction, she hates the elf god because he's an idiot asshole who not only hates all other intelligent races but believes that only elves have the right to do so. live as they can live in harmony with nature.
And even among the elves he only believes that the elves of the 'pure' ethnicity that by the way and his have the right to reign this world, the forest elves, blacks, the small and the sea elves that live in the sea are mestizos that barely has the right to live. After this answer I understand why she hates the elf god Saelanor so much, which by the way is not so well seen even among pure elves or elves, most elves of this ethnicity do not use the word pure to describe themselves as the god Saelanor and your reapers do.
I was very happy to learn that the reason I have never heard of the elf god Saelanor is why most elves are ashamed of him, but unfortunately there are still some elven tribes around the world who share the values of this extremist cretin.
But that's not relevant to our current mission, I don't think anyone in the group right now doesn't know how weird the fact that I found remnants of the light of destruction is pretty weird. It makes no sense at all for an elf follower of Saelanor to try to rescue slaves or work with other cultists, Saelanor has a clear hatred against any god of another race and some elven gods he deems traitors.
"Now do you understand why a Saelanor-follower trash would never be involved in this quest, Wolf?"
"Yes, but we still find the mark of that god in the area where the slavers were attacked."
"It is most likely an artifact of Saelanor that was stolen and distorted by other evil gods, only they have the audacity to steal the artifacts of other gods. So, all of you must be careful, a divine artifact is not something we can easily handle."
"Is the power of a divine artifact that high?"
"With the right artifact, someone with your level of strength can be a deadly threat to an orange-core defensive warrior. Divine artifacts serve as common sense-destroying objects because they have the ability to bend reality, but as always with the side effects of using them, the one wielding the Saelanor artifact must be nearly dead after using it a few times."
"So, think the idiot who is wielding this divine artifact is a walking bomb, when it goes off it will hurt any of us but will end up dying after using it. Even with enough preparation he should be able to use the artifact around three times or so before reaching the limit, perhaps less considering the light of destruction and extremely violent energy."
Unfortunately, I feel we won't be able to see this divine artifact, the signals I used to try to find the cultists ended up in a failed quest. After finding a few more signs and doing a wide area search I couldn't find the trail of the cultists or slaves, the one that concealed their tracks really did a great job.
Apart from the signs of unnaturally moved plants and grasses I haven't found any more walks, maybe I even wasted our time following red herrings, but I can't be sure.
'Did you really not find anything, Wolf?"
"Sorry, I couldn't find their tracks."
"This is too bad; I don't think this is your fault. Obviously to a very skilled cultist hiding the tracks of the slaves, this tells us that this operation and well planned they must have assembled a very competent team to operate in this region, our job gets more and more difficult."
"Maybe it is divine interference, in the information I received from your team the Lobo tracker was classified as extremely competent for its level and uptime, but it only takes a little divine power for a mortal to fail in a task like this. And it's pretty obvious that these evildoers carry artifacts with divine power—they're no ordinary cultists."
I didn't expect to be greeted with such a considerate comment from Little Flame, she's already proven herself to be quite easy to work with, but I thought she'd blame my lack of skill first rather than blaming it on an evil god. Or should I expect her to attribute any mission problems to the interference of an evil god, after all many religious people love to blame their failures and mistakes on the evil gods.
"That's a possibility, Little Flame, but I have to remind you that it's difficult for low or medium rank cultists in their cults to use a divine tool, I thought it likely that they have a divine tool modified by the existence of the light of destruction and the fact that a tool like this is something expendable for any cults."
"A divine tool of the concealment type would be a very valuable treasure, even if it has various flaws and side effects it would be a tool of great importance for any cult. It's probably just one or several mages skilled at hiding tracks, Lobo is a good tracker, but he's young, against a team of specialized and normal that he fails."
I feel a little hostility between the two of them, but I feel quite comfortable being complimented in this roundabout way. Although I don't like it, I don't think I can win in a tracking contest against several competent opponents, my eyes are special but not omnipotent, but losing still leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
"What do we do now? Do we return to the city or continue exploring the area on the trail of slaves or cultists? moving so many people or bodies is not easy."
"Let's go back to the city, the cultists should have a transport ready to take the slaves away. To think we can reach them just because we believe they are making the slaves walk to their base is a very obvious mistake."
During the way back Little Flame began to show concern about the artifact that must contain a considerable amount of light of destruction, according to her this mission should ask for reinforcements from the temples. It used to be just slaves disappearing during the early stages of the conflict between realms, but now it's about obviously higher-level cultists, any divine artifact that appears is a matter of great importance to any temple.
But that didn't make Raven happy, and it's pretty obvious that she wants to face the god Saelanor's divine artifact. Raven normally doesn't let her ambitions or personal agenda interfere with missions, but now she clearly has no intention of letting such prey escape, she will hunt down and take down the cultist who is carrying the divine artifact.
The argument between the two didn't last long because soon we arrived in the city, we spent a lot of time looking for the trail but we didn't cover a very long distance. Neither one of us thought that upon arriving in the city we would discover that the divine artifact would no longer be a secret, during the time we spent looking for the trail of the cultists they made their move and it was not common.
During that afternoon the kingdom's army camp was attacked directly by the cultists who should have been hiding, but that's not the strangest part of the event. The slaves they acquired were the ones who led the attack, I can't understand why the cultists would attack the army base pretending to be slaves.
And from Raven's lack of reaction, she must not understand this movement either, the cultists must be hiding their presence and even if they have decided to use the slaves to deceive the soldiers and slavers of the Mirue kingdom, they must not reveal the existence of an artifact. divine by sweating it out in such an open attack.
The account says that a swordsman cloaked in black wielded a sword that unleashed attacks of the element of light that disintegrated the bodies of the soldiers who faced him. He didn't even try to disguise his attacks as his victims' bodies were torn apart and only ashes were left of them.
But because of this the city is going into battle mode to fight the slaves that are revolting, this mission is getting out of control.