The werewolf clan looked at each other at the princess's words. According to their original characters, if someone insulted the pride of the Yuanyue clan like this, one or two of them would have been furious and attacked in groups, but now this sentence happened
It was said by such a cute little girl in such a cute tone that they really couldn't get angry.
"Princess", the werewolf elder thought for a moment, stepped forward and saluted the little princess: "We, the Yuanyue clan, are heroes who guard the peace of the earth. We are also for the peace of the earth and the reproduction of intelligent races.
That’s why we ended up in this situation. I don’t know why the princess would give such a comment. Please give us an explanation.”
"I admire the behavior of the ancestors of the Yuanyue clan very much. They risked their lives to fight against the demons. They are the real heroes." The little princess said with her big eyes widened and said, "But what about you?! One of them has been around for who knows how many years.
How could an intelligent race of an intelligent race, a descendant of a true hero, do something like cannibalism that would be despised by all intelligent races?! Do you still have the nerve to claim to be the darlings of gods and the descendants of heroes?!"
"Yes." Link shrugged helplessly at Will, reminding him to prepare for the battle, and then walked to the side of the little princess and said: "This is what we came for today. We hope that we can
Get a reasonable explanation."
He originally wanted to send the little princess away first and then talk about this matter, but now that the little princess has spoken out, he has no choice but to solve it now. He has already seen clearly what the Earth Wolf is capable of just now.
, except for the werewolf elder who is a bit interesting, these other guys should not be too much of a threat.
"What? Cannibalism?" The werewolf elder was obviously stunned for a moment, and finally recovered, stroking his forehead and smiling bitterly: "Your Highness, the God of the Full Moon, princess, where did you hear this news?
No matter how unscrupulous our Yuanyue clan is, we will never do such a thing."
With a "buzz" sound, the group of onlookers' werewolves also screamed, and each one spoke angrily to support the great elder's conclusion. Some of the more violent ones had already started to yell and curse at Link and the others.
"Great Elder, we came from a small village." Link looked at the innocent expression on the werewolf Great Elder's face, and after praising the old guy's acting skills, he said: "If I hadn't witnessed the villagers' big sacrifice with my own eyes, I would have witnessed
After seeing the painful situation in which Uncle Clinder's family was almost separated, I almost believed what you said."
"If we hadn't chased her in time," he stretched out his hand, pointed at the little princess, and said to the group of werewolves, "Caros almost became your sacrifice this year, but you wouldn't have become her so quickly.
Nothing happened just now, right?!"
"Uh, that's what you're talking about." The great werewolf elder actually laughed, with a look of relief on his face, and nodded repeatedly: "That's what happened. Every year at the festival of the God of the Full Moon, we invite neighboring villages
A girl from there is back..."
"Is this also called inviting?! You are robbing, killing, and..." The little princess clenched her fists tightly. She just saw the appearance of the magic wolf revealed when Riodo transformed, although
She was very courageous and had long expected that she would be in danger if she took the place of the girl from Uncle Clinder's family as a sacrifice. But when she thought that she was almost eaten by such a monster, the little princess also
She was still frightened for a while. After all, she was just a little girl, so now she was extremely angry and stared at the elder.
"No, how could it be murder?!" The elder was full of confusion and said to the little princess: "Those girls we invited here are still living well here with us, even the sick ones
None."
"Ah!" Now it was the little princess and the others who were stunned, and Count Weir blurted out: "How is this possible?! Why did you catch them if you don't want to eat them?!"
"Eat them?!" The great elder of the werewolf was startled, his eyes swept over Count Weir's faces one by one, and then he seemed to understand what they meant, and laughed: "God of the Full Moon
On top, cannibalism?! Eat them?! Hahahaha, hahahaha!"
The werewolves around them also seemed to have heard some good jokes, and they laughed one by one. For a while, in the entire open space, only Link and the three of them stood there like fools, looking at each other.
I don’t know what kind of nerve these werewolves suddenly got collectively.
"Little princess, Knight of Light." After a while, the werewolf elder stopped laughing, saluted Link and the others and said: "We, the Yuanyue clan, are a wise race inherited from ancient times.
As for the barbaric act of eating the same intelligent race, I think you have misunderstood. Please invite those girls over, we don’t mean any harm!"
"Call them all up and bring them out to the distinguished guests." Without waiting for Link and the others to speak, he waved his hand proactively and shouted at the werewolves first, then turned to Lin Ke and others.
They explained: "I thought it was too late and they were asleep, so I didn't ask these guys to bring them out to meet a few people. I didn't expect it to be such a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding."
"Great Elder, can you tell us what is going on?" Link looked at the reactions of these werewolves and the Great Elder. Although he had not seen those women yet, he already believed those who were sacrificed.
It is a fact that none of the girls sacrificed here are dead. After all, the werewolf clan is also famous for its rough type. Even if the werewolf elder was born with a talent for acting, then it is impossible for all the werewolves watching.
They were all picked out, and the relaxed expressions on their faces now could not be faked, so Link had no choice but to shake his head and ask the elder: "How do you bring those girls from the small village?"
What are you doing here?"
"Princess, Knight of Light." The great elder had now basically identified their identities, and his expression became much more relaxed. He led them back to their seats: "Let's sit down and talk!"
Some werewolves tidied up the things on their respective tables. Link thought for a moment and motioned for the little princess and Will to sit down. After this, Link and the others have now eliminated a lot of their wariness and hostility towards these guys.
, but there were still many things they couldn't figure out, so as soon as they sat down, they all turned their doubtful eyes to the werewolf elder.
"This matter", the great elder twirled his beard, regained his inscrutable and profound look, and sighed: "It's a long story."
"Yes, yes, I know this best!"
"What do you know, Princess, Bright Knight? If you want to know the reason, you should ask me. I tell you, my grandfather's uncle's brother-in-law is..."
At this time, the werewolf elders quickly forgot the unpleasantness just now, returned to their talkative appearance, and started arguing again. It seemed that these werewolves really had no plans.
"Ever since the ancestors of our Yuanyue clan fought against the devil, our Yuanyue clan has been cursed by the devil. From then on, we can only live in the dark ground forever. We can even enjoy bathing again only one night in a year.
Power under the light of the full moon.”
"We all know this," Weir couldn't help but interrupt: "Can you just get to the point?!"
These werewolf elders probably have no one willing to listen to their nagging. They have been lonely for too long. Every time they talk about something, they always have to start from the beginning. I really have to wait for them to say it.
It's probably daybreak by the time we get to the topic.
"The life and strength of our Yuan Yue clan come from the gift of the God of the Yuan Yue." Fortunately, the great elder spoke more directly and clearly, saying: "After losing the power to bathe in the light of the Yuan Yue, we
Although the Yuanyue clan has found several places that can barely contain the same energy light, some bad changes cannot be stopped."
"Can't you still use the form of the magic wolf to go to the ground?" Link frowned, raised his head and looked at the women who had been led by some werewolves to walk over from a distance, thinking thoughtfully.
Said: "The bad changes you mentioned are related to these girls?! What are the changes?!"
"Well, it can be said that it is related, but I can't say that it is very related." Link then discovered that although the werewolf elder did not have the bad habit of talking from the beginning, this kind of pretentious way made people more likely to collapse.
The great elder ignored Link's question at all. After saying something to himself, he pondered for a while before continuing: "It should be said that there was some relationship at the beginning, but then it didn't matter."
"Oh my God", Link patted his head, groaned, turned his head and enthusiastically took the hand of the original werewolf elder and said: "I think what you just said is better. Why don't you tell us from the beginning?
Get up!"
So, after a long period of repetition, Link and the others finally understood what the bad changes that the great elder was talking about were.
Not only do these werewolves have physical advantages that are unmatched by people on the mainland, but their lifespans are much longer than those of people on the mainland today. Among the many intelligent races that lived on the earth before the war of the ancient gods,
It can be considered a relatively powerful category.
However, according to these werewolf elders, most of the energy of the werewolf clan comes from the light of the full moon, and the vicious curse of the devil is not actually imposed directly on the head of each werewolf, but since the war of the gods.
After the devil issued such a vicious curse, the energy contained in the light of the full moon became different from before. Except for a fixed day every year, the energy contained in the light of the full moon became no longer relevant.
Werewolves are beneficial, but they have an invisible and harmful effect, and the violent sunlight during the day has become something that can cause direct harm to the originally strong werewolves. Therefore, from that time on, the werewolf clan has paid for it.
After paying a heavy price and suffering countless lives, they finally found a temporary gathering place like this. They finally survived for the time being, but they spent countless years looking for a settlement here.
Within a few years, the Yuanyue clan had changed from a large ethnic group that once occupied a land of thousands of miles to a small settlement of less than ten thousand people.
This kind of settlement is not easy to find. The outside environment has become unsuitable for the survival of the werewolf family, and the dark red light here can provide the werewolf family with the kind of light contained in the full moon.
Although the energy was much weaker than before, it still managed to ensure that their physiques and abilities did not suffer too much, and this was how the werewolf clan was able to survive in this place deep underground.
But this kind of light is different from the energy contained in the light of the full moon that were familiar to werewolves in the past. Although it allows these werewolves to maintain extraordinary physiques and long lifespans, after a period of time, the wolves
People discovered that the reproductive capacity of the entire werewolf clan seemed to have gradually declined. In just a few generations, the number of members of the Yuanyue clan, which had already lost most of its members, actually dropped a lot.
Since werewolves have a very long lifespan, by the time the werewolf clan realized this problem, they had actually spent a long time in this settlement, and the remaining clansmen had become accustomed to the living environment here.
, are also used to absorbing the energy here, and the number of werewolves now does not allow them to have another big adventure of finding a settlement, so how to continue to stay here has become the most critical issue for the werewolves to solve
problem.
Moreover, with the decline in the reproductive capacity of werewolves, a more terrifying problem has also arisen, that is, the ratio of men to women in the werewolf family has shown a serious imbalance.
Originally, the physical constitution of female werewolves was much worse than that of male werewolves. Female werewolves accounted for the majority of those who died while searching for settlements. Later, when the fertility of werewolves declined, those who were born occasionally were basically the same.
They were all male werewolves, so after going back and forth, by the time the elders of the werewolf tribe discovered this problem, there were not even a few young female werewolves left in the entire werewolf tribe.
then……
"So you came up with the idea of asking the villagers to sacrifice girls?" Count Weir said: "But have you considered that in this way, the captured girls will be separated from their families?
, and you still want to let these girls reproduce with wolves... and your people? My Lord, have you ever thought that love is sacred, you..."
The existence of the Yuanyue Clan is rarely mentioned in legends on the current continent. It was not until today that Count Weir truly saw this race that existed in ancient times. Unlike Link, he had not been baptized by the Mage Tower.
He is not very receptive to this ancient intelligent race. He always feels that these guys are more like monsters like demon wolves in nature, and the aristocratic education he received makes him feel that love should be
It was a sacred thing, so he felt that forcing the girls in the village to marry these half-human, half-animal guys was an intolerable thing. He now stared at the werewolf elder with an angry expression on his face.
"We only know that living is sacred." But before he could finish speaking, the werewolf elder had already spoken and cut off his words. The old werewolf elder's face did not have any fluctuation, but his tone was full of sadness.
Meaning: "Our ancestors sacrificed their blood and lives for this earth. For the peace of the earth and the survival of the human race, we, the Yuanyue clan, have been burdened with the most vicious curse for generations, but what have we got?!
"
"Come and take a look." The werewolf elder stood up and pointed at the werewolves. His fingers were trembling with excitement: "Here are all the warriors of our Yuanyue clan, and the youngest standing here is
Warrior, you are almost a hundred years old. A hundred years old, do you know what the concept of a hundred years is?!"
Earl Weir opened his mouth, but no words came out.
Among the human race on the continent now, only the high-level strong men can live to be over a hundred years old, but they must be considered old guys. Although the life span of werewolves is much longer than that of human race
They have come a long time ago, but a hundred-year-old werewolf has already passed the growth stage. The youngest guy is close to a hundred years old. This only proves that the reproduction of the werewolf family is really a problem. If this continues, I am afraid that
After a while, the fate of the Imminent clan will be destroyed.
Even a young man like Weir, who has received aristocratic education since childhood, can't really say anything to express his opposition to the werewolf clan's actions in such a scene. Even if he knows it is wrong, under such a scene
, I’m afraid no one else would have done anything but this.
But what about the residents of those small villages?!
"Huh!" Link let out a long breath and was about to speak when the werewolf elder over there spoke first.
"But in fact, this method failed." The werewolf elder sighed and sat down slumped: "In the original history of our Yuan Yue clan, there were also cases where the Yuan Yue clan combined with the human clan to give birth to offspring. In this way
Descendants generally contain common materials between the human race and the Yuanyue clan. After appropriate stimulation, they can awaken and become warriors of the Yuanyue clan. That’s why we came up with such an idea. But in fact, after
After several experiments, we have discovered that it may be because the Yuanyue clan’s physique has changed after being cursed by the devil. After our Yuanyue clan people combine with the women of the human race, there is basically no possibility of producing offspring.
possible……"
"Then why do you still let the villagers continue to offer sacrifices?!" the little princess asked with her eyes wide open.
"Alas, Princess, Knight of Light," the werewolf elder sighed feebly and said, "It's not that we want the villagers to continue sacrificing, it's that they don't want to stop at all!"
