Released his five fingers, the crystal flying sword naturally dispersed into dots of silver light. Xuan Weizi turned around and shouted:
"No need to hide, it's time to finish reading, right?"
At this time, several people emerged from the other side of the rocky slope. Led by the strong ranger, the three members of the Green Ring looked at Xuan Weizi with surprise. However, the night was so thick that even with dark vision, they could not see anything.
To things that were too far away, they just saw the light of magic flying around.
Xuan Weizi waved his hand and created a magic light source, and came to the three members of the Green Circle with Tar Valon. When the strong ranger saw their figures, he exclaimed:
"Elder Tar Valon! You are finally here!"
Tar Valon patted the ranger's strong shoulder: "We finally meet... Didn't we agree to meet at Gray Vine Mountain Gorge? When Dr. Olenso and I arrived, we found that you were not there, and we immediately understood that you had come from somewhere else.
Go north through the gorge. The situation in the Dogtooth Mountains is bad. We went around to the south of the mountains and spent some effort to find your traces. Instead, we met a small Glenfarz pursuit team behind you, which we just cleared up."
The strong ranger breathed a sigh of relief: "Sorry, not long after we led more than a thousand people to leave Moonpool City, we were discovered by some hunters from Glenfarz. Although we tried our best to silence them, the news of the escape was still exposed.
."
Tar Valon asked: "Then how did you escape the pursuers?"
The strong ranger replied: "I will personally lead the people to lead Glanfaz's pursuers elsewhere, and at the same time, let the large army abandon Gray Vine Mountain Gorge and take this Strange Wind Mountain Gorge."
"The road here is not easy." Xuan Weizi looked around. When he heard that the Green Ring was taking more than a thousand fleeing refugees, he didn't expect that they were walking through such dangerous mountain gorges.
The strong ranger replied: "It's just because it's difficult to walk, so we chose this road. And we tried our best to clean up the traces on the road. Once we enter the Dogtooth Mountains, it will be difficult for the prediction detection spell to work."
"Indeed, the crazy magic area in this mountain range has made the prophecy spell almost useless."
I can find you."
The strong ranger looked down the slope. Although he did not see clearly the battle just now, he knew in his heart that they were the pursuers of the Aboriginal Alliance. He said: "If you hadn't arrived, elders, we would have been chasing them in the Strange Wind Mountain Gorge.
The team fought tooth and nail."
"Now that we have arrived, we must take away these more than a thousand refugees smoothly. By the way, where is your camp?"
"It's not far. Fortunately, there are druids in the team who are always on guard." The strong ranger waved to the sky, and a night owl flew down, circled twice above several people, and then flew into the night sky again.
…
The arrival of Tar Valon and Xuan Weizi finally relaxed the spirit of the members of the Green Circle who had been tense for many days. Except for a few rangers and druids who were responsible for the reporting work, Tar Valon asked others to go first.
Rest, with him and Xuan Weizi here, the ordinary pursuit team is no match at all.
"The hundreds of people who fled before arrived at Chaidui Town two days ago with the help of Sanduoli and her people, and have now been settled." Xuan Weizi said to Ta Valon and others: "And I also asked them to stay there
Keep reconnaissance on the outskirts of Chaidui Town to see if there is any movement from the Aboriginal Alliance... Ah, now it’s time to call Glan Faz.”
"I'm so grateful!" Tar Valon said with a helpless tone, "I didn't expect that this time I would be completely hostile to Glanfaz, and the Green Ring's cause would be greatly hindered."
When the strong ranger heard Tar Valon's words, he glanced at Xuan Weizi inadvertently, thinking that if he could say such words in front of him, he must be an important ally of the Green Ring. Otherwise, he would not get it in the current situation.
The support and protection of this "Doctor Olenso".
"Glenfaz suspects that your Green Ring has destroyed their important sacrifice? What is the specific situation?" Xuan Weizi and Ta Valon were busy tracking this team before and did not ask too many details in detail.
"This is all a complete fabrication!" The strong ranger slapped his thigh, filled with righteous indignation: "Our Green Ring has assisted them so much in the past, and also provided a lot of magic skills to make their soul spells more perfect. In the end, they turned against each other.
If you recognize someone, you will have to use our people as a blood sacrifice!"
Xuan Weizi pointed to the surrounding camp and asked, "Are these refugees all believers protected by your Green Ring?"
Ta Valon then continued: "When we first cooperated with Glanfaz, one of the things we did was to allow the Green Ring to establish villages and towns and recruit believers. Although the Green Ring is not as strict as the Holy Lord Church, it still has its own doctrine.
, as well as many beliefs in gods that have been inherited from ancient times.”
Xuan Weizi just touched his chin and remained silent without showing much expression. In his opinion, the Green Ring in the past was more like a mutual aid association for spellcasters and a protector of the countryside and natural environment.
In terms of actual social relations, the Green Ring is not like the Eye of Mystery, the Tower of Pentagram and other mage guild organizations, which occupy the development and production of important resources in extremely powerful ways and means. In terms of the ideal sacred value
, the Green Ring does not provide spiritual anesthesia and comfort to the general public like the Holy Lord Church.
Indeed, Green Ring focuses its development on rural pastoral areas. By guiding agricultural production and treating injuries and illnesses, it has become an important organization that cannot be ignored in rural environments that lack effective governance. It is also a way to develop believers and expand influence.
However, in terms of the development of magic skills, the Emerald Ring is far from the leaps and bounds of progress that the Mage Arcana has made; in terms of talent training, it is not as complete and comprehensive as the Mage Academy.
In terms of organizational and mobilization capabilities, in order to obtain more industrial and commercial interests, the empire actively stands on the side of land annexation, and is destined to be the biggest enemy of the Verdant Ring. Because the basic base of the Verdant Ring is mainly rural and pastoral society, and both
There is almost no room for relief.
Finally, even though the power of the Holy Lord Church has been shrinking since the establishment of the Great Londinium Empire, there are still three pounds of nails in the rotten ship. The millennium faith heritage is not fake after all. The empire's turbulent land annexation has created a large number of poor people.
The landless peasants have turned around and become loyal believers of the church, and their situation has improved quite a bit in recent years.
Even if he is not an ally, Xuan Weizi is quite interested in organizations like the Emerald Ring and is someone he is happy to deal with. However, their approach is ultimately too fragile in this era of brutal competition.
Moreover, when individuals master powerful violence and resources and wealth are enriched by powerful individuals, the Green Ring cannot just follow the pattern of "rural surrounding the city". Rural pastoral areas are the production sites of population, food and basic raw materials. In this world,
It does not have the ability to transform strength factors unless this situation can be completely reversed!
But to be honest, although mages have powerful spellcasting abilities, they also require high costs to support and maintain. From Xuan Weizi's point of view, the natural spell system headed by druids in the Emerald Ring not only costs more
It is low, and it is helpful for ordinary people to improve their lives and even have a better form of interaction with the ecological environment - but it itself still needs to be improved urgently.
So it's no wonder that the Green Ring had previously planned to cooperate with the Aboriginal Alliance. In addition to the similarities between spirit magic and druid magic, it also included the relatively simple and close-to-nature lifestyle.
Perhaps the only remaining high-level personnel in Tar Valon hope to make the natives "identify" with the Green Ring and "resurrection" in the New World.
It's a pity that the subject of "sense of identity" is a person, a person with subjective choices and judgments. "Sense of identity" itself implies a premise, that is, "identification" through selection.
If you can agree with it, you can naturally reject it. Otherwise, it would be pure mental control - it is better to let Xuan Weizi's psychic powers do this kind of thing.
As a group with a clear goal, even the Glanfaz that intends to establish a country and unify the indigenous tribes, it is natural that the Green Ring will become a part of it, rather than the Verdant Ring dominating the Glanfaz.
Xuan Weizi recognized this, so he had long expected that the Green Ring would be at odds with the Aboriginal Alliance. As for the specific form of development, it would be a peaceful and dignified withdrawal, or forced annexation, or even no hesitation.
It depends on the situation at that time if you want to kill someone ruthlessly.
"In other words, there is an unknown person who spied on the secrets of the Ouroboros Serpent tribe, stole their sacrificial artifacts, and kidnapped a divine descendant, and framed him on the head of the Green Ring?" Xuan Wei
After listening to the descriptions of Tar Valon and the strong ranger, Zi understood that this was just the trigger of the matter.
Seeing Ta Valon's solemn expression, Xuan Weizi asked with a deep smile: "Sage, have you really never tried to spy on the secrets of other tribes?"
When Tar Valon heard this, he had a knowing smile on his face: "Everyone does this kind of thing to each other, there is nothing to say, everyone just depends on their ability. But for things like theft and kidnapping, the Green Ring is absolutely
If we didn’t do it, we are crazy to end our future like this!”
Strong Ranger asked: "Could it be Grenfalz himself? Just to drive us away?"
Tar Valon pondered for a long time, and finally shook his head and said: "Perhaps some of them have thought about framing the Emerald Ring, but that is the Holy Scale Festival of the Ouroboros Tribe, and they might be used by their enemies to desecrate the beginning.
Attacking in the name of the spirit is not something to be joked about... Moreover, I also took the opportunity to cast a prophecy spell before, and found that the interior of Glanfaz seems to be unstable recently, and I guess something is really missing."
"Sacred Scale Sacrifice? What is that?" Xuan Weizi asked.
"That is the inheritance ritual of the Ouroboros tribe, similar to the giant spirit rituals of other indigenous tribes, but it is more special, more rigorous, grander, and more bloody." Ta Valon said.
"Bloody? Human sacrifice?"
"Each Holy Scale Sacrifice, the living hearts of nine hundred and ninety-nine people must be sacrificed to the Ouroboros Serpent." Tar Valon said: "The corpses of the sacrificed people will be stuffed with a kind of scale heart fruit.
A special plant replaces the heart, and under the influence of magic, it is transformed into the Scale Heart Guard - a physical golem similar to a mage. It is a very effective warrior on the battlefield, has good spell resistance, and can be driven at will."
"Haha." Xuan Weizi laughed, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry. He said, "I remember Wolf mentioned that the Green Ring has also engaged in human sacrifice before, right?"
"Yes, it has been done. There is nothing to cover up." Tar Valon frowned and said: "The Green Ring tried to reproduce the ancient druid's magic and tried many methods, and human sacrifice was one of them. There is right and wrong in this.
, is indeed worthy of discussion, and I will not defend it.
Besides, these days, mages buy and sell slaves in batches to extract souls alive and make undead creatures. Is it possible that life is lost just because they are slaves with collars or sacrifices wearing clean clothes?
Is there any essential difference?"
"Sage, don't be nervous, I'm not here to make any moral criticism." Xuan Weizi said: "I have also heard that there is a group of soldiers in the Aboriginal Alliance who are not afraid of death. It turns out that they are this kind of magical creation? But
With nearly a thousand people at one time, isn’t this too big a scale?”
"Of course it's impossible to successfully transform them all, and the production of scale heart fruits can't keep up," Tarvalon said.
"Oh~ It turns out that the secret you are spying on is the scale heart fruit." Xuan Weizi said it clearly.
Tar Valon curled his lips and said nothing. The little kingfisher on his shoulder called out: "Big bad guy, big bad guy! Why did you say it!"
"Ahem, I understand." Xuan Weizi twirled his eyebrows and said to ease the embarrassment: "Now that there is something wrong with the Holy Scale Festival, Glan Faz is equivalent to losing a source of soldiers. The problem is indeed not a small one."
"More than that!" Tar Valon said: "The Scale Heart Guards are just a by-product of the Holy Scale Festival."
"Damn! Can this be a by-product? Don't tell me that the main dish is some old guy's soul being reincarnated into a baby!" Xuan Weizi cursed.
"Ah? Doctor, you actually know?!" Tar Valon was also surprised.
Xuan Weizi was also stunned on the spot. He was originally just slandering the reincarnated soul boy's nonsense in his heart, but he didn't expect that similar things actually existed in this world!
"What the sage means is that the Holy Scale Festival is to reincarnate the soul of an important figure in their tribe?" Xuan Weizi asked in surprise.
Ta Valon said: "According to them, the spirit of the primordial world, the Ouroboros Serpent, left five holy scales in the world and became the first descendants of the Ouroboros Serpent, the ancestors of the Ouroboros tribe. Although the Saint
Sons of Scale will be limited by the lifespan of earthly creatures, but their souls are eternal. The Holy Scale Festival is to enable these Sons of Saint Scale to successfully reincarnate their souls."
"Like a snake shedding its skin?" Xuan Weizi suddenly asked.
Tar Valon laughed out loud after hearing this, and then nodded: "Probably."
Xuan Weizi said as he thought: "Assuming these statements are true, then passed down from generation to generation, these sons of the Holy Scales must be very powerful, right?"
Tar Valon said: "Their abilities grow very quickly, and they reach high levels after adulthood. The power of their spells may not be as powerful as the totem masters I saw before, but they have many unique abilities, and they are also the mentors who guide the spirit messengers in the tribe."
Xuan Weizi's curiosity was aroused by these words: "How many sons of the Holy Scales are there in Glanfaz now?"
"There are only two left, and the other three have been nowhere to be found as the years have passed." Ta Valon shook his head and said: "So I say that the Holy Scale Festival is very important to Glenfaz and the Ouroboros Serpent tribe.
, none of them dare to take risks on this matter, especially in this era."