Chapter 628: Beast Spirit Walker
The fire reflected the outline of the creature that broke into the cave on the stone wall at the corner of the cave, looking like a lone wolf.
Just as Kahn was about to get up and drive him away, the outline of the fire suddenly changed drastically, and then he turned into a tall figure.
"Werewolf?" Kasha asked quietly with a serious expression, while Kahn shook his head. "It shouldn't be."
"I'm sorry, can I let me come in to avoid the wind and snow?" Then a rough voice sounded from the cave. A tall and strong man appeared in front of the three of them. His naked upper body was covered with a whole wolf's skin, and his eyes looked more like a wild beast than a human. He looked a bit like a savage.
Perhaps because of the language they used to talk, the man actually used the language they could use. Kahn and Kasha looked at each other, not seeing too much resistance in their eyes, but were curious.
"We also discovered this cave by chance. It's okay if you come in and sit there." Kahn nodded.
The man was covered in frost and snow, trembling and moving stiffly, as if he was trying to wake up his uncontrollable joints. If he drove him out, he might freeze him to death.
"Thank you." The man sat down on the spot, standing at least three meters away with the campfire, maintaining a distance that both of them were at ease.
"Are you a werewolf?" Kasha asked while fiddling with the bonfire. The food they brought was cooked and they could eat it as soon as they were hot.
"Is werewolf the name you Gentiles call us?" The man smiled: "I am actually a beast spirit walker. I can communicate with beast spirits and change back and forth between various beast forms. Wolves happen to be just one of them. They have a sensitive sense of smell, have a long endurance, and run fast. If they hadn't become a wolf, I wouldn't have found it here."
On the harsh land of Frelljod, there is a group of people born with deep connections to spiritual magic. These combat shamans are called "Beast Spirit Walkers", who serve in various tribes and exchange their abilities for a community that can live and train.
"Oh, I misunderstood, sorry."
The sound of speaking became silent, and only the crackling sound of bonfires and the sound of chewing food were left in the cave.
Kahn noticed that the man's breathing gradually became as slow as a turtle, the ups and downs of his chest also became still, and a layer of frost formed on his eyebrows. He guessed that the beast spirit walker was using the turtle's breath to hibernate the cold and hunger.
"Do you eat?" Kahn handed over a piece of jerky meat, because it was no longer so dry and hard after baking, and exuded a strong meaty aroma.
The man immediately opened his eyes. He took the dried meat and put it under his nose to smell it. Then he bit it in big mouthfuls, his movements as rude as a wild beast. If it weren't for the human physiological structure that could not allow him to swallow a large piece of meat directly, he might have swallowed it in one piece with just a few bites.
"Thank you for your food. If you have any questions, please ask me. I can answer some of you who are not secret."
As time spent together for a while, the beast spirit walker had already inferred from the details of all aspects that the three of them had been the first intention of coming to the ice field for less than a month, and they still had a lot of common sense not to understand.
"Why do you have to act alone in the snow? Do you have no tribe of your own?" Kahn asked.
"There are not many tribes that can accept beast spirit walkers." The man looked at the beating bonfire and replied: "If you see beast spirit walkers suddenly roaring, barking, salivating from the corners of their mouths, and constantly turning their eyes up, please don't be afraid, that's a sign before transformation."
After hearing these words, Kahn looked at him specifically. The man did not show the signs he mentioned now. Kahn really wanted to witness a transformation with his own eyes.
"It's just a little weird. It sounds like an epileptic attack, but it's not as scared as if it's enough to scare people away." Kahn replied.
The man suddenly showed a bitter smile: "But if you see the beast spirit walker lost in the true beast spirit, run away or kill him. Because he has completely turned into a beast."
Kahn nodded thoughtfully. It turned out that it was the instability of the beast spirit walker itself, which led to some tribes being unwilling to accept these powerful shamans. Otherwise, this ability to communicate with animals alone would bring a lot of convenience.
To Kahn's surprise, the reason for this was not only that simple. The man said again: "And a considerable part of it was infiltrated by the Frost Priests. We would not consider joining the tribe that worships the Frost Priests."
"Is there a hatred between you?"
The man nodded: "This grudge has begun since the wilderness era and is derived from the hatred between Wallybel and Lisanjo."
"The power of the bear spirit is silently and domineeringly above other beast spirits. Once it arrives, it will overwhelm the self-consciousness, but the threshold for summoning it is extremely low... Therefore, many beast spirit walkers who have gone astray fanatically believe in the Lord of the Bear Man Demigod, willing to become the loser for the Bear Spirit to drive it, and destroy human civilization on a large scale."
"In order to prevent the bear spirit from being out of control and destroying order, the Frost Witch asked her vow followers to slaughter the tribe of the beast spirit walker, and also specially eliminated those who showed signs of spiritual magic. Some children were ruthlessly killed before they even embarked on this path."
"Bearmen and Frost Guard are not good birds. Icemen and Beast Spirit Walkers are just victims." Kahn said in a deep voice.
Lisangrao's invisible threat is also the reason why these beast spirit walkers cannot find the tribe to join and can only wander like savages.
The man nodded and agreed with Kahn's opinion, saying, "We can not only hear the voice of the beasts, but also the voice of the humans. The heart of the Frost Priest is dark, full of an unknown strange roar. It does not belong to any kind of beast spirit, so we avoid it."
Kahn nodded, some things could not be hidden.
"What about you? Gentiles, why did you come so deep into the North?" the man asked.
Kahn and Kasha looked at each other, then he shrugged: "Unfortunately, we are going to Frost Guard Fortress to find the Frost Witch."
The man was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "Another poor man who wanted to kill the witch, brave and stupid. Many people tried to kill Lisangzhuo, but in the end they all failed and turned into one of the countless ice sculptures in the witch's exhibition hall..."
"Wait, why do you feel this way, instead of thinking we are going to surrender to her?" Kahn interrupted.
"Lisanzhuo only accepts the Iceman's surrender. Don't you know this?"
"..." Kahn was silent, he really didn't know. But they didn't count as seeking refuge, it should be said that they were working together.
Chapter completed!