Chapter 282: Slate
That was more than eighty years ago.
Due to nearly a thousand years of fishing, it has become even more difficult to find exotic beasts and spirit plants in the empire, except for a few mountain ranges protected by the royal circle, and many people have to go to human areas such as the Kirky Mountains to obtain valuable exotic beast spirit plant materials.
It wasn't until the invention of the nautical formation that humans could avoid the attacks of foreign beasts in the sea and sail safely, that some people ventured to the open sea.
Years later, when the second beast tide came, the city of Zipewa held the "first round", and only the three of them heard the child's words again and told them to claim their rewards.
Under all the witnesses, the Transcendental Guild was established in the city of Qipewa, and the stone slab was inlaid on the flower board in the hall of the Transcendent Guild, of course, the text side was exposed, so as to prevent some people from stealing or diverting the slate for personal use, and put it on the bright side so that everyone could supervise it.
Under their push, the city of Zipewa was rebuilt again, with strong walls erected and a weapon developed to deal with the large swarms of insects.
Because according to the picture of the slate and the words of the child in the head, the trial will come again, this time everyone loses, but what if they win next time?
They explained that the beast tide was that there were too many supernatural creatures in the rainforest to accommodate it, so they rushed out of the rainforest and began to attack humans.
But all the survivors quickly agreed to keep the secret of this event together, and to share the future benefits together, without mentioning the so-called trials to the outside world, and unanimously calling it the beast tide.
However, this incident brought a huge harvest to everyone who survived, and a few half-step beast king's alien beast corpses, just the corpses of insects all over the city, could allow everyone to buy a piece of land, establish a manor, buy slaves, and become a rich man.
And the transcendents who were not chased by the alien beasts were either grandmasters, or they did not participate in the battle of defending against the swarm in the first round.
In the first round, you need to resist the attack of the insect swarm, and you can't let the insects touch the slate, and if you fail, you will enter the second round; the half-step beast that appeared in the second round of the beast king's strength should correspond to the person who heard the child's voice one by one, and the beast left after killing the target, and most of the transcendents died in the adjacent second round, and only dozens of people who fled to the sea in advance survived.
Combined with the pattern on the back of the slate again, everyone figured out the entire process of the trial:
Under the leadership of the Grandmasters, all the fortunate transcendents gathered together, and the number was small, only a hundred. Everyone shared their own experiences and experiences, and finally agreed that the root of this mutation was in that stone slab, and the whole incident was a test of some great power.
Some people told others what had popped up in their heads, and soon rumors and speculations spread among the transcendental community.
"Round 2, it's over, you've lost, your points are cleared! ”
Most of the people who boarded the ship and fled, most of them did not go far, and returned to Zipewa after the alien beast had withdrawn, but another reason for them to return was that some of them heard the child's voice again:
These strange beasts squatted on the beach for a night before leaving, during which several grandmasters joined forces to hunt and kill the two strange beasts, but everyone was injured and unable to fight again.
Then the survivors found that dozens of strange beasts had stopped their pursuit and were stationed on the seashore, where they would not be attacked if they did not come near it, but the poor coastal houses had been destroyed by them.
Due to the chaos in the city, many people fled to the ships in the harbor, and after boarding the ships, they sailed out of the harbor and fled to the sea.
It soon became apparent that some of the beasts had killed their pursuers and then returned to the depths of the rainforest without looking back.
The half-step beast kings that appeared in the rainforest were dazed, only attacking those who stood in their way, but occasionally they would pursue some transcendent ones relentlessly.
These half-step beast kings have long surpassed humans in wisdom and experience, and although the grandmaster can be defeated, he cannot easily take them down or kill them, so the aborigines will choose to avoid conflict with them and stay away.
There was a grandmaster who had just traveled deep into the interior of the New World, and had some communication with the aborigines, and knew that the aborigines would call the powerful beasts the beast kings, and worship them as gods. However, there are many alien beasts that are also extraordinary, but they are still at the level of the Shaper, and the aborigines believe that such alien beasts are half-step beast kings.
The defense line was quickly torn apart, and hundreds of powerful alien beasts rushed into the city of Qipewa
Experienced adventurers immediately discovered that the strange beasts that came this time were no longer weak insect beasts that could be killed with a single blow, they exuded a powerful coercion. There were grandmasters who fought against them, and found that although they were slow, they were powerful, and they were by no means ordinary shaper-level beasts.
The harvest carnival did not last long, and after only half an hour, all kinds of powerful beasts appeared in the rainforest outside the city, and they looked blank and headed straight into the city.
Then the siege of the swarm died at the same time, and those who heard the sound were at a loss, while others who did not hear the sound fell into a carnival, rushing into the insect corpse with tools to collect useful materials.
"Second round, begin!"
When everyone was amazed, the child's voice sounded again:
"The first round, it's over, you lose. ”
Then many people became clearer and heard a child's voice say:
Just as they were making a deal and moving the slab out of the house, a mutated tarantula jumped over and landed on the slab in full view of everyone, and a burst of golden light flashed on the slab, and the tarantula dissipated with the light.
However, more and more insects broke through the fence and rushed to the location of the stone slab, which frightened the adventurers, and threw the hot potato out at a reduced price.
Not many people knew the news at first, and the adventurers who owned the slate immediately sat on the ground and raised the price, increasing the asking price of the slate by a hundredfold.
At the suggestion of the city administrator, the transcendent who obtained the slate moved the slate, and the bugs immediately followed, and the truth was revealed, and it turned out that the bugs were indeed coming for the slate.
However, this haphazard defense allowed some insects to enter the city, and then it was discovered that the insects that entered the city would gather in one place, and there was a wooden house with stone slabs waiting to be sold.
A few grandmasters, five hundred transcendents and thousands of ordinary people resisted the swarm three in this way, and they hunted a lot.
On the first night, a few ordinary people broke through to the transcendent due to the use of the energy-rich organs of the hunted insects, which made people's blood boil even more.
Then the second wave of insect swarm attacks came, this time the transcendents of Zipewa City fought the insects more enthusiastically, and even some ordinary people took weapons to hunt mutant insects by the fence. You must know that these insects are all walking silver coins, the value is not low, the key is that they are easy to kill, much easier than killing an awakened beast, even ordinary people can do it.
Later, when they cleaned up the trophies, they found that although these mutated insects did not have the strength of alien beasts, they also contained source energy in their bodies, and some transcendents who were proficient in pharmacology and alchemy immediately discovered that some parts of these insects had value to use.
The guys who came to the New World in the early days were worthy of the title of adventurers, they were bold and tenacious, and they fought separately, and even withstood the first wave of attacks from mutant insects.
The adventurers who encountered the mutant insects were unable to defeat them, so they had to escape from the rainforest, but they did not expect the mutant insects to chase them out and start to attack the city of Qipewa, which was only protected by a simple fence.
Adventurers who went deep into the rainforest found that many huge mutant insects appeared in the rainforest, and although their strength did not reach the level of alien beasts, they were strong and numerous.
Everyone agreed that the slate had the magical ability to dispel strange beasts, and that they were going to sell it to the city administrators, and while the two sides were still trying to negotiate with each other, a mutation occurred.
The adventurers tried to move the slate, but found that it could be moved from the pedestal, and finally they took the slab with it, and left under the resentful gaze of the beast, and made it all the way back to Cipeva safely.
The stone slabs, more than a meter square, look unremarkable, with some illegible text on one side and several drawings of unknown meaning on the other.
But just as they were about to leave disappointed, an accident happened, and the members who were searching around the palace provoked a powerful beast, and when they fled, they would retreat when they found the beast near the slate, and they did not dare to approach the slab even if they were angry.
This stone slab is standing at the main entrance of the palace, they dug three feet in the palace and did not find anything valuable, perhaps this empty shell palace was left by the aborigines in the early years, but after many looting, it is worthless.
According to the group of adventurers, they found a ruin deep in the rainforest, an ancient palace covered in green vines that had survived thousands of years of wind and frost.
Had it not been for a band of adventurers who came out of the depths of the rainforest and removed a stone slab from their wagon, Zipewa might have been a seaside town, perhaps more prosperous than the town of Quindo where Jacques had been, but would never have been one of the main cities of the three northern regions of the New World.
As the number of settlers grew, a group of adventurers who had been active in Cipewa all year round got together and proposed to establish a town, build a fence to protect the town, and establish a market to facilitate trade, and the original city of Cipewa was established.
Although the main force of the adventure is the transcendent, there are still many ordinary people who have also come to the New World, some people have found their own opportunities here, and have broken through the bottleneck and become transcendent with the energy of the alien beast spirit plant, and more people have earned silver coins by providing services to adventurers, and have obtained an income that is unimaginable in their hometown.
The only attraction is the proximity of the abundant rainforest, and the fact that there are no indigenous people nearby, so there is no need to fight to the death with uncivilized savages. So in the past two years, thousands of adventures have come to Zipewa, sporadically building huts along the coast, and then teaming up into the rainforest to hunt valuable beasts.
For the first two years of the development of the New World, Chipewa was a medium-sized settlement of little name, and although there were ports convenient for large ships to berth, there were no other special advantages, and the places with deep-water ports abounded along the eastern coast of the New World, which abounded for tens of thousands of miles.
Some of these settlements are becoming increasingly popular due to their geographical conditions, such as Yorktown's estuary of the Leichardt River, which allows boats to go inland along the river, or the sheltered harbour of Rio City.
Adventurers who came to the New World established many settlements along the eastern coast of the New World, where they could huddle together for warmth, protect themselves from foreign beasts, repair and build ships, go out hunter-gatherers, or trade with the natives.
As a result, more people began to sail far away, and in those days there were even young people in many places who left their homes to venture into the New World, leaving only the old ones to stay at home.
Accompanying the adventurers are countless priceless materials for the Beast Spirit Plant, as well as a large amount of precious Mithril ore.
Then the news came back, and the adventurers found that there was a vast land to the west of the sea, and that land had countless alien beasts and spiritual plants, although there were also human beings, but there were no obelisks, and although there were transcendentals, they were weak.
Ironically, the team of adventurers who found the ruins all died in a neighboring beast tide, and no one knew where they found the slate, let alone where they received their rewards.
In the end, the city of Zipewa still got the corpses of tens of thousands of mutant insects, and everyone made a lot of money.
As a result, the Beast Tide is no longer a threat to the destruction of Zipewa City, but has become the driving force for the prosperity of the city, and the secret of the trial has been buried in the transcendent Xin Zheng who survived the first Beast Tide
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