Later, legendary strongmen began to be born among the three major tribes, namely the first three storm queens.
These three strong men stopped the bloody conflict between the tribes, and they made an agreement to go to the distant sea together on a bright moonlit night.
Three days later, the three storm queens returned.
In addition to bringing back scars all over their bodies, they also brought back an agreement.
An agreement between the three major tribes to jointly rule the Haworth Islands.
With the help of this agreement, the three major tribes began to integrate with each other.
The chanting tribe moved its main village to the center of Haworth Island, where it became the venue for all Amazon tribe's rituals and ceremonies.
The Sea Spear tribe dispersed their settlements to small islands outside the Haworth Islands. They used the shipmaking skills passed down from their ancestors to create a large number of single-sailed clippers.
The Sea Spear tribe relied on these fast boats to form a maritime patrol and guard force to guard the waters off the Haworth Islands. At the same time, the Amazon tribe's main source of food, fishing, was also completed by members of the Sea Spear tribe.
The String Song tribe occupies other areas of Haworth Island except the central area. They converted most of these areas into training grounds, and took on the task of teaching all young members of the tribe the fighting skills passed down to ancient times.
At the same time, the Storm Valkyrie Guards, an elite legion of the Amazon tribe, were also formed by the Xiange tribe. They are the most important external force of the female kingdom on the Haworth Islands.
In each generation of the three major tribes, there will be at least one person who is qualified to inherit the title of "Storm Queen", and the three Storm Queens form an elders' council to decide on events of great significance to the Haworth Islands.
What Xue Hua and the others are going to now is the seat of the Presbyterian Church, the great altar of the Singing Tribe in the center of Haworth Island.
The three Storm Queens have arrived there, and at the same time, the promotion ceremony will begin there.
The Amazons of the Storm Valkyrie Guards led Xue Hua and the others through the forest paths with ease, and soon another large Amazon village appeared in front of them.
This village is much larger than the village of the Xiange tribe that Xue Hua and the others passed by before. It can be called a small town.
According to the accompanying Amazons, this village is the only one with a formal name among all Amazon villages, and it can also be regarded as the capital of the Amazon Kingdom of Haworth Islands.
It's called "Yukeson", which means "City of Women" in ancient Amazonian language.
This castle with walls built of giant trees is the settlement of the chanting tribe and the political and cultural center of the entire Amazon tribe.
There were 600,000 people living in the city, half of whom were men working as slaves.
The other half of the women formed a large-scale ritual team and sacrificial group, as well as a "punisher" army dedicated to safeguarding the Storm Goddess's faith.
At this moment, the lights in Yuxon City are brightly lit, and a giant wooden tower more than thirty meters high can be vaguely seen in the center of the town.
This wooden tower was filled with a large number of torches, and the whole thing was like a huge torch, lighting up the entire city as bright as day.
"What is that for?" Xue Hua couldn't help but asked curiously.
"That is the first challenge of the promotion ceremony." An Amazon standing next to him said proudly.
"First challenge? What do you mean?"
"The ceremony for a mercenary to become a professional is not that simple. All participants must first pass three challenges to prove that they indeed have the strength to surpass their current status.
The first challenge is ‘Huo Mu Mountain’.”
Amazon turned his head and blinked at Xue Hua, and then continued: "Huo Mu Mountain is a forty-meter-high giant wooden mountain made of flammable oil wood. All participants in the promotion ceremony must climb to the top of the mountain together.
climb.
Five seconds after everyone climbs up the Firewood Mountain, the priests will light the entire Firewood Mountain from the bottom of the Firewood Mountain. The flames will quickly jump up along the Firewood Mountain. If they want not to be burned by the fire, the participants must be in the flames.
You have to climb to the top of the mountain before catching up with them and touch the teleportation talisman to pass this challenge.
If you are burned by fire while climbing, you will be disqualified.
Of course, you can use all the methods you can think of to avoid being burned by the fire, but you can only use your own skills and cannot rely on the help of external objects.
Before climbing Huomu Mountain, all participants' equipment will be removed and replaced with a set of standard equipment provided by the ceremony priests, thus ensuring the most basic fairness and justice."
"That's it." Xue Hua nodded, not expecting that there was such a way for the promotion ceremony.
This so-called "Huomu Mountain" is obviously a challenge set up to test the climber's speed, agility, and emergency response capabilities. These abilities are in line with Amazon's professional characteristics.
"What else are there?" Xue Hua continued to ask: "What are the other two challenges?"
"There are two more challenges... Just go and observe for yourself~" The female Amazon turned her head and smiled at Xue Hua, then quickened her pace to keep up with the sisters in front.
"Um..." Xue Hua was speechless and held his forehead, but had no choice but to follow the women in front of him and walk quickly towards Yuxon City.
More than ten minutes later, they entered the city through the main entrance of Yuxen. Xue Hua looked around and found that the buildings here all had unique features that he had never seen before.
He didn't know how to describe these wooden buildings, because in his eyes, the shapes of these buildings were really strange.
In the village they passed by before that belonged to the Xiange tribe, the buildings in the village were just ordinary wooden houses, but the buildings in Yuxon City were completely different.
These wooden houses, which are densely packed with planks and logs, have a very slender height and a peculiar structure with a wide top and narrow bottom. Their tops are uniformly crossed spires, and there is usually a huge wooden basin placed in the center of the spires.
In addition, these strange-looking wooden houses also have two doors, one door is wider and is at the bottom of the front of the house.
One door is relatively low and is located on the wider second floor of the house.
Those low doors are connected to a narrow suspension bridge woven with rattan. These suspension bridges are connected to all buildings, almost becoming the second-level access corridor of Yuxon.
Walking in the shadow of these suspension bridges, Xue Hua didn't quite understand what these suspension bridges were used for at first.
It wasn't until he realized that all the female Amazons walked on the suspension bridge, while all the low-status men walked on the ground below the suspension bridge, that he suddenly realized.
Is this the reason why the houses here were built like this?
But why do this?
Is it because they are afraid that these men will launch a rebellion?
Or... is it just to highlight the status of women? (To be continued)
