"He just stepped foot into his grave".
Perhaps, he said it to console themselves of this humiliation but none of the worshippers of the Blackfire doubted the words of the Priest in Black.
They all dreaded the Great Forest of Elias and this fear was for a valid reason.
After the age of awakening, human civilization was hit hard as they had to relinquish control over most of their territories to the mystic beasts. Holed up in their shelters, the mystic beasts got to control every other part of the planet.
Some of these parts that now roamed with beasts were once great human nations, but they were now reduced to nothing more than beast settlements.
Most of the relics left by these nations were already reduced to nothing more than rubble over the years as outside the shelters of human civilization were mostly deserts, forests, and ice planes.