Chapter Thirty-One, The Chicks Spread Their Wings 5
Where is ahead, Chris doesn't know.
If someone asks his father Kafka this, the answer is: The future lies ahead for the family.
As the most knowledgeable person in the Eaton territory and having spent several years in the south, he has never approved of the Eaton family's future plans of moving to the south. The reason is that he had long expected that the family would not be able to integrate into the south, just like when Sion brought Chris back
The content of the family letter is the same, and the Einske family will not give the Eaton family any extra care.
But he had no way to refute.
His father Henry Sr. was a Viscount, and he had been preparing to move to the south since he inherited the title.
Everyone's decades of hard work, coupled with Henry Sr.'s stubborn character, made Kafka know that if he raised any opinions, he would only receive a scolding.
no way.
The territory of Eton has been isolated from the human kingdom for too long.
As a result, people have become very simple and retain the concept that "kindness can usher in sincerity", but they lack the awareness of guarding against the sinister human heart and the understanding that "interest determines everything".
Now, he finally has the opportunity to change his family's future plans.
When old Henry fell silent after reading Chris's family letter, he also took the opportunity to put forward his own point of view-when the human demigods fell and the Holy Empire collapsed, the Eaton family could serve as the northern blood rock demihuman tribe's inevitable battle with the snake people.
He is an indispensable "broker" to continue to protect the inheritance of the territory and family.
Yes, he wants to make friends with the snake people of the Terror Swamp.
They want to intimidate the demihuman tribes with more numerous and more powerful Snakemen, so that they will not dare to start a war against the Eaton territory when they launch a war to return to their homeland, and also force them to feel that the continued existence of the Eaton family will do more harm than good.
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As for how to let the xenophobic snake people protect the Eaton family~
He had a reason that the Snake Man couldn't refuse.
He likes to wander in the sea of books. When he was a clergyman in the south in his early years, he often used to read the books of the Vulcan Cult as a pastime.
By chance, he found a very damaged and ancient manuscript.
Those were the notes written by a Vulcan traveler who traveled to various places before the Holy Empire was established.
The content inside is very messy, including records of mountains and rivers and geography, descriptions of peculiar people and customs, and explorations of the characteristics of various races.
Among them, the snake people were mentioned.
Snake people, as the name suggests, are a race with the upper body of a human and the torso of a python.
Neither they nor centaurs are classified as demihumans. One of the reasons is that one of them has the body of a horse and the other has the body of a giant python; the other reason is because their strength is far stronger than that of the human race.
Both male and female snake people are about three meters tall when they reach adulthood, and their tails trailing on the ground are six or seven meters long. When fighting, they can use the power of their tails to rise up and use their weight to deliver powerful blows. Even those in the human kingdom
The heavy cavalry, wrapped in thick plate armor, were as fragile as paper in the face of their vigorous blows.
Moreover, they have thick scales all over their bodies, which are stronger than the chain armor of human knights.
Ordinary swords and crossbows cannot tear through the defense of their scales. Only giant crossbows with very strong penetrating power can kill them with one blow.
Their blood also contains highly toxic substances.
If the exposed skin of the human race is splashed with their blood, it will quickly bubble like boiling oil, and then rot and induce poisoning, leading to symptoms such as dizziness, chest tightness, nausea, and difficulty breathing. If your eyes are splashed with their blood,
Then you can be declared blind.
When the Holy Empire was established, a war broke out between the snake people and the human race.
The ratio of casualties to both sides was one to ten.
That's right, the human race was the party that paid ten times the casualties, and the participants in the war were not farmers recruited by the lord, but well-trained elite troops!
Centaurs are the most powerful cavalry in the world, and serpents are the most powerful infantry in the world.
A long time ago, the human race defined these two powerful races in this way.
Of course, God was very fair when creating creation.
For example, when giving the snake people a strong body and great strength, they would not forget to put on shackles.
Snake people have two major catastrophes of life and death in their lives.
One of them is hatching.
Snakes are oviparous and can only lay eggs once every three years, but their gestation period is only four months.
Three to eight eggs can be produced at one time, but the successful hatching rate is very low, usually two or three, and sometimes none of them hatch successfully. This is because the gestation period is too short, and the eggs produced are often insufficiently nutritious.
This causes the fetus in the egg to be underdeveloped and become a dead egg.
Another fate is coming of age.
When Snake people are young, the blood in the two atria of the heart does not communicate with each other. They have a body temperature change and their pupils are round.
As the body matures, it requires more and more energy. One day at the age of fifteen, the two atria will be opened by the impact of its own blood and become vertical pupils.
And this day is called the coming-of-age ceremony among the snake people.
Vertical pupils are the symbol of adulthood for the Snake people, and are also the sorrow of adulthood.
Because not every young snake man can open the two atria through the impact of his own blood.
On the contrary, many young snake people died painfully in their coming-of-age ceremonies.
The success rate of changing from round pupils to vertical pupils is less than 3 out of 10!
These two life and death catastrophes are the fundamental reason why the number of snake people has been difficult to grow.
Regardless of whether there are wars or natural disasters and epidemics, their number has never exceeded 50,000.
However, God is also merciful sometimes.
For example, after putting heavy shackles on the snake people, they would not forget to leave a key to their destiny. The sunflower that only grows in bitter cold areas is the key given to them by God.
If a pregnant Snake has the opportunity to insist on eating a sunflower root every day, the pregnancy can be delayed to six months or even longer!
The hatching rate of the eggs laid is also increased to as high as half!
As for the young snake people, before the year of coming of age, if they insist on eating a sunflower root every day, the blood flow in the body will be accelerated, and the chance of the blood impacting to open the atrium will also increase significantly.
From less than three out of ten in the past, it has risen to sixty-seven out of ten.
It can be said that the rhizome of sungrass, which has no effect on other races, is a treasure in the eyes of snake people.
Kafka, who accidentally learned this secret, also felt like a treasure.
At that time, after reading the ancient manuscript's record of the snake-men's characteristics, he tore up the page.
It’s not about living in a rare place.
But he wanted this secret to be controlled only by the Eaton family, in order to give the family another way to survive when the demigods fell and the empire fell apart. Now that he knew the attitude of the Einske family, he finally ushered in the opportunity to use this secret for
The family is planning for the future.
Yes, he wants to provide the snake people with the roots of the sunflower.
On the ice fields of the Alps, although there is not much vegetation, there is not a shortage of sunflowers.
If they carefully collect and sow some artificially, the Eaton family can provide the snake people with 10,000 or 20,000 sungrass rhizomes every year - which means that if the snake people are willing to accept the goodwill of the Eaton family, the number of their tribe will increase by hundreds every year.
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Kafka has absolute self-confidence and they cannot refuse such goodwill!
Because for human beings, there are many things that are higher than life and death.
Such as loyalty, faith, friendship, love, family affection, responsibility and many more.
But for the snake people, the first thing that is higher than life and death is the reproduction of the race! The second is the reproduction of the race! The third is the reproduction of the race!
Henry Sr., who was in charge of the family, did not object to Kafka's proposal to go find the Snake Man.
Because his original plan was no longer possible, and no one was sure that Chris would become a strong man, when Kafka proposed a new plan for family inheritance, he could not refuse.
After all, having a way out is better than none.
But he was also a little worried about Kafka's decision to rush to the Zeal of Terror himself.
The human race is on the snake-human race’s diet!
My son, who had no ability to protect himself at all, went with full of hope. Wouldn't he have already "walked into the snake's mouth" before he could even speak?