"Refuse to stop?" Earl Weir's eyes widened and he shook his head: "How is this possible? Why do they refuse to stop?"
They had just come from the small village and had seen with their own eyes that Uncle Clinde and his family had already made plans in order not to be separated and to ensure that these werewolves would not cause trouble to the village because they were dissatisfied with the festival.
They were a group of people with knives and guns, and they almost had a large group of knights and elite soldiers cut off in this small village. Seeing the Clinde family crying, it was really hard for Count Weir to believe in the werewolves.
The words of the elders.
If it weren't for the sincere expression on the werewolf elder's face now, he would have suspected that this guy was joking with him.
"Princess, Knight of Light," the werewolf elder said with a wry smile: "Although we, the Yuanyue clan, have only been able to live underground for many years, we have never forgotten our identity as a member of the intelligent race on the mainland. All along,
We also adhere to the rule that intelligent races cannot harm each other without reason. If we did not encounter such a last resort reason that is related to the survival of the whole race, we would not want to cause any harm to the residents of the small village, so we made this decision.
At that time, our clan leader also hesitated for a long time."
"There are always reasons, but the results are not the same." With a prejudice in his heart, Weir was a little unhappy when he saw the werewolf elder. He snorted and said, "I think your clan leader is just as good as you."
Just be good at what you say."
"Knight of Light", the werewolf elder's voice rose a few degrees, his eyes glared with anger, and he looked at Weir: "You are the savior of the Full Moon clan chosen by the God of the Full Moon, and we should show you enough
I respect you, but you can say whatever you want, but please don’t insult our old patriarch, otherwise no matter what they think, I will not hesitate to fight you to the death!"
The other werewolves were not paying attention to the conversation here, but the werewolf elder's higher-pitched shouts attracted the attention of all the werewolves. For a moment, Weir felt that countless angry eyes were focused on him.
The burning heat of anger on his body seemed to make him feel that his temperature had risen a lot.
"We said the wrong thing." Link quietly pulled Weir, who was still a little unconvinced, and turned away. He smiled and said to the werewolf elder: "It seems that the old patriarch is a very respected elder.
We will visit his old man later."
Link understands the causes and consequences of those things in the small village better than Will. Although he has not fully understood it yet, he has vaguely thought of the reason why the annual festival in the small village cannot be stopped. Maybe this time, it will be better.
I really mistakenly blamed these werewolves, so I quickly grabbed Weir, not wanting to deepen the misunderstanding before the matter was clear.
"The old patriarch is dead." The werewolf elder shook his head and sighed: "Since deciding this matter, the old patriarch has been blaming himself. Later, another girl died because she could not adapt to the living environment here.
, the old patriarch took this matter on himself again, saying that this girl died because of the Yuanyue clan and because of this decision. He is the clan leader of the Yuanyue clan. According to the major intelligent races on the continent,
According to the rules between each other, he should be punished accordingly, so he..."
"I'm sorry." Earl Weir lowered his head and saluted the werewolf elder: "Please allow me to express my greatest apology to the old patriarch. He is a warrior who deserves the most respect!"
As a child of a knight family, the education Weir received from an early age was about the various virtues that knights should possess. One of them is to correct mistakes when they know they are wrong. And the behavior of the old werewolf patriarch is indeed quite admirable.
What's more, Link and the little princess were quietly signaling to him from behind, and those werewolves, one or two, stared at him as if they couldn't wait to pounce on him and bite him.
"When we understood that under the current environment, there was no way for the Yuanyue tribe to have offspring after they combined with the women sent by the residents, we informed the villagers as soon as possible that no more sacrifices were needed."
The werewolf elder obviously didn't want to offend the bright knight too much. Seeing that Weir had already apologized, he nodded and continued: "Of course, since the life span of the Yuanyue clan is different from that of the human race, for those in the small village,
As far as residents are concerned, some time has passed since the decision was made to implement this plan."
"But, we don't understand what's going on." The werewolf elder scratched his head, as if he still couldn't figure it out, and said: "When we just asked the residents of those small villages to sacrifice, they cried
They cried and refused, but when we asked them not to sacrifice anymore, they still cried and refused. Even if we told them again and again that they didn't need to sacrifice anymore, they still refused.
It’s really strange that people are carried to the woods on time every year, but no matter how many times we say it, there is nothing we can do.”
"There's nothing strange about this." Link smiled bitterly and said, "Elder, do you still remember what the residents were crying about when you told them that they no longer need to sacrifice?"
"Well," the werewolf elder thought for a while and then said, "It seems to be telling the God of the Full Moon not to abandon them, and asking us not to bring disaster to them, but to continue to protect them."
"Haha," Link shook his head and said, "After you decided to let the residents of those small villages sacrifice, you must have helped them a lot."
"Yes," the werewolf elder nodded and replied, "Our Yuanyue clan has always had a clear distinction between grudges and grievances. The old clan leader said that we can't bear to let the villagers offer sacrifices to others, so we should help them make up for it on weekdays."
"Although we, the Yuanyue clan, cannot move above the ground for too long, we can still do many things with our abilities." The werewolf elder said proudly: "As compensation, what did those villagers encounter in the mountains?
When they are in danger, our tribesmen will always help, and when they are affected by seasonal weather changes, we will always find ways to allow them to obtain enough prey."
"That's it." Link shook his head and sighed: "In the minds of the villagers, these cares are obtained by their annual sacrifices, and they are used to enjoying your care.
, now that I am unwilling to give up these things, of course I dare not stop this sacrificial ceremony."
"Oh!" The werewolf elder nodded somewhat understandingly and didn't ask any more questions.
"Just because of this benefit," the little princess found it a little unbelievable: "Are those villagers willing to let their own flesh and blood live and die, rather than stop sacrificing? This is too..."
Link remained silent, but secretly sighed in his stomach.
In the past few years, he has been living with those mature guys in the Mage Tower, and his understanding of human nature is better than that of the Yuanyue people who have stayed underground for many years, and the little princess and Weir who have stayed in the imperial capital for many years.
Guys who have no worries about food and clothing from the beginning may have to go deeper.
What the werewolves have done for the villagers may not be as easy as the little princess said.
There are wild beasts everywhere in the mountains. Even the best hunter will inevitably have unexpected situations. With the protection of these werewolves, the hunters in the small village have a few more lives when hunting, and hunting relies on
There are many unpredictable factors for eating every day. In order to compensate for the losses caused by the villagers, these werewolves help them drive away prey when the seasons change. Their significance to these villagers is sometimes even related to their relationship.
Whether they can eat, run, and survive.
Although the Sakala Empire is also one of the big countries on the mainland, due to the tradition of the imperial royal family, it restricts commerce and does not allow excessive development of trade in other places except for a few fixed and open distribution centers. Therefore, this small village is not
It can be regarded as being on the border between the two empires, but the life of the residents in the small village is really much harder than the small town of Coloburg where Link was born.
And Link knew in his heart that the reason why the residents of the small village did not agree to stop the sacrifice was probably another more important reason, which was that the villagers who had already made sacrifices were unwilling to stop. In this case,
They will feel that they have paid in vain, and those who have unmarried girls at home who have not yet taken the turn to sacrifice have earned in vain. In fact, this feeling is actually at Uncle Clinde's house when Link just came from the small village.
I've already felt it.
This was also the reason why he didn't want to say more. Before they chased them into the mountains, they had imagined the Yuan Yue clan to be extremely vicious, but now it seems that the problem lies with the residents of the small village.
The race that was forced to live underground forever after the war of the ancient gods seems to have a much nobler character than most people on the continent.
"In this case," the little princess thought of other places and said, "What should we do with those girls who were sent into the woods?!"
"What else can we do?" The werewolf elder spread his hands: "Since those residents insist, we have no choice but to let their sacrifices be passed down year after year, from generation to generation, until the princess and the Bright Knight appear.
."
"Then we can't send them back?" The little princess tilted her head and said, "It's very pitiful for those sisters who can't see their parents and relatives."
"What's so pitiful?" A female voice said: "It's because we don't want to go back!"
"From the moment we were chosen as sacrifices, the uncles and uncles who watched us grow up, and even our biological fathers and mothers, did not regard us as human beings."
Among the girls who came out, a woman in her twenties came out and said to the little princess: "Even if we want to go back, we can't go back at all."
"What's more," the woman smiled, but it always made people feel like she was crying: "After experiencing the kind of being tied to a chair and carried to the woods by the villagers, no matter how you cry, they will not
After paying a little heed to it, we won’t want to go back again.”
"But...but..." It was really difficult for the little princess to understand this mentality. She frowned and wanted to say something.
"Actually," the woman turned back, glanced at the werewolf elder, and said helplessly to the little princess, "it's not like no one has ever gone back."
"Oh, yes," the werewolf elder slapped his head and said, "When we first wanted to stop the sacrificial ceremony, one year ago, we watched them carry the little girl into the woods again, and we had a terrible headache.
, we sent the girl back before dawn."
"Isn't that good?" Earl Weir said in surprise: "We have already sent people back, and those guys in the small village still don't understand what you mean?! Could it be that they are sending people back to the woods again?!"
"It will be good if it is sent back." The woman who just spoke shook her head: "The person who was sent back was my cousin. I was still young at that time, but I still remember the situation very clearly.
"
"When my cousin aunt returned, the villagers were scared at first. They were so scared that they didn't even let her in her original home that night." The woman raised her head with a look of reminiscence: "Then they began to doubt whether my aunt was
The clean people said that she must have had something inappropriate with someone before, so she was abandoned by the God of the Full Moon. Then they were worried because she had offered an unclean sacrifice.
Giving it to the God of the Full Moon would bring disaster to the entire village... In the end... I actually thought of burning her to death..."
Link and the three of them looked at each other, speechless.
Although they already have some understanding of the thoughts of the residents of the small village, they did not know until now that the residents of this small village would be so stubborn about this kind of belief.
In this way, these girls settled here, and finally most of them married into the werewolf clan. After all, in this environment with energy that can replace the light of the full moon, the werewolves can maintain their current status.
They are in a form that is no different from humans, and in every aspect, the warriors of the werewolf tribe are actually much better than the best hunter boys in the small village, and in such an environment, these girls are not
There may be some other options.
"You also know what happened next." The werewolf elder shrugged: "The cause and effect of this incident are just like this. From now on, we will not dare to send people back to the small village casually, so we will have to
By default, this annual sacrifice will continue like this year after year. We also found a place close to the ground where they can see the sun for them to live on weekdays. Anyway, there is food and clothing here, but one cannot come in and out at will.
It’s hard for these girls.”
Link and the others nodded silently, unable to say anything else.
These girls were abandoned by the village. Although they were also the daughters of hunters, they had been abandoned deep in the mountains for so many years. If it were not for the werewolves who took them in, they would have been given away by the beasts in the mountains, even their bones.
Chewed it all.
As for not being able to come in and out casually, this is what it should be. How can we say that the werewolves, an intelligent race that existed in ancient times, are relatively mysterious existences to the people on the mainland. If they are revealed by Sakala
The empire discovered their traces and wondered what else would happen. Although this settlement had brought serious negative effects to the werewolf clan, it had also become the last place that the werewolf clan relied on for survival.
Place, for werewolves, is something that must never be lost.
Although in such a place and such a life, I am afraid that it will inevitably have some bad effects on the health of these girls, but under the current situation, the werewolf clan can still make such arrangements for these girls.
It can be considered very kind.
"Great Elder", the little princess is still easily moved by others. Now listening to the woman's words, her little eyes were already flashing with light again. She turned her head and said to the werewolf Great Elder: "You said you
The oracle said that we can allow you, the Yuanyue clan, to start living above the ground again, is it true?!"
"Yes." The werewolf elder's eyes also lit up: "The oracle of the Full Moon God is not wrong!"
"Then how can we help you?" the little princess said firmly: "Just tell us, as long as we can do it!"