Chapter 344: The Jackal Vassal

"You, are you surrendering to me?" asked Retche, pointing at himself with a smile on his face, a hint of surprise evident in his tone. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

To the surprise of the guards, the gnoll leader actually understood—he nodded and tried to give his bloody wolf tooth to Rych!

A gnoll who can understand the lingua franca of the human continent? Obviously, this gnoll is not like an ordinary gnoll, perhaps it was actually raised by a hunter when it was young, or it has some natural skills in language, and even it once traveled in human society with a mask unnoticed...... None of this matters, what matters is, why did the Gnoll Leader submit to Retch?

"You seem to understand our language?" Seeing the gnoll leader nod, Rych continued, "Then can I think that you are going to lead the whole clan to become my vassal?"

When it heard the word 'vassal', a hint of complexity flashed in the gnoll's leader's eyes, but in the end, it nodded fiercely!

At this moment, it made Leqi fall into silence, only to see Leitch's eyes far away, obviously thinking about something.

Accepting a group of gnolls as vassals is a feat in the Valley of the Dawn and even in the entire continental history of Blanca, but innovation is not the same as a good thing, just like the first person to eat crabs, if it is a barbarian who likes to eat raw food, he may even have his mouth smashed, if it is a Kanpura who likes to barbecue, it may be a mouth full of soot, if it is a self-proclaimed elegant Rolander, I wonder if their knives and forks can cut through the hard shell of crabs...... To Ryitch, the tribe of gnolls in front of him who wanted to submit to him was like a crab.

Since the time of Fast, the Valley of the Dawn has been synonymous with 'conquest' to the outside world, and even the countries that have inherited the legacy of the Fast Empire today are equally aggressive! Therefore, in a sense, subjugating a gnoll tribe as a vassal is also a kind of conquest of a foreign race, a kind of martial feat! Of course, this kind of martial feats are insignificant compared to the great achievements of conquering the abyssal plane, and even become a joke of some lords.

How other nobles would judge this matter, Leitch didn't care, what he cared about was whether he could bring practical benefits to himself if he subdued this group of gnolls?

As a traverser, Leitch's perspective is not the same as that of the natives of the continent, he is not prejudiced against the semi-civilized race of jackals, otherwise he would not have recruited demon guards in the Succubus Sea, in fact, as long as it can bring practical benefits to himself, Leitch thinks it is acceptable.

And in a way, Reich is a generalized raceist, who believes that no race should be completely exterminated, including the enemies of the Valley of the Dawn, because the existence of races can bring infinite richness to this world!

Ahem, it's far away...... In the short term, subduing a gnoll tribe can not only increase one's prestige to a certain extent, but also provide oneself with a cheap gnoll army! That's right, it is a gnoll army, similar to the alien mercenaries that once flourished during the Fast Empire - including abyss demons, vampires, half-orcs, undead, and so on! It is a spectacular scene that cannot be imagined today, and it is precisely with this massive number of mercenaries that the original Fast Empire was able to conquer these countless planes! Otherwise, even if the Fast Empire unified the Blanca continent at the beginning, it would not be able to provide that massive defender base!

As for why Reich is so sure it's cheap, it's easy to say - you think they're going to demand from you in terms of pay, living conditions, morale, rank, etc., in addition to feeding the gnolls? And you don't even need to provide them with armor other than the necessary weapons! Although the casualty rate of the gnolls army is certainly much higher than that of the human army, it's better than cheaper, isn't it? And even if the gnolls die more, it will not cause damage to their own heritage, so it can be said that this is definitely a good deal!

But if we really subdue the gnolls, it will bring about many problems -- first of all, there is the problem of communication, which is also the essence of the problem! Werewolves and human beings do not understand each other's language, and it is destined that the two races will not be able to blend together, and with the level of civilization of the gnolls, it will not be truly accepted by humans!

And in the minds of the Dawn Valley, they can't regard the hairy gnolls as their own! In fact, the gnolls are no different from ferocious beasts in their eyes—ordinary people will take a detour when they see them, and the awakened will instinctively kill them! This situation is even worse than the hatred between the citizens of two hostile countries! Because even if two human nations are at war, their citizens will not usually fight as soon as they meet, but if they meet a gnoll, only one of them will leave alive!

Thinking of this, the corners of Leqi's mouth couldn't help but show a wry smile, if he really subdued this Gnoll tribe, I am afraid it will bring a lot of trouble to himself!

The gnoll commander, who had been staring at the expression on Leitch's face, couldn't help but become anxious when he saw this wry smile on the corner of Leitch's mouth! Although it had no way of knowing what Reitch was thinking, it knew that its risky move to stake the fate of its own clan was going to fail in the end!

Suddenly, a gleam flashed in the eyes of the gnoll leader, and it suddenly became overjoyed! It first let out a low roar to attract Leitch's attention, then raised the wolf teeth in its hand, and then spread out its palms, and its face was extremely frenzied!

"You're saying you have a treasure for me ten times better, no, eight times better than this wolf tooth?"

In fact, in Leggie's eyes, this wolf tooth was really not a treasure except for the special meaning it represented in the eyes of the jackals, so even if it was eight times better than the treasure, Reich really couldn't think it could be any better...... However, with the mentality of taking a casual look, Leitch nodded in agreement.

Seeing Reich's nod, the gnoll leader was immediately overjoyed, and immediately stood up and made a guided gesture, apparently the treasure in its eyes was not on it.

Could it be the treasure in the ruins? Thinking of this, Leitch's heart couldn't help but have a little more anticipation.

The hall where Leqi and the others are now located is square, about 50 meters long and 8 meters wide, except for the passage where Leqi and the others entered first, there are two passages that lead to nowhere. The hall was undoubtedly abandoned, and there were no remnants of the inscriptioned tablets or stone carvings that Leitch had hoped for, but Leitch found a fixed clay pot in a corner. The earthy yellow color of the pot, smooth as porcelain, is carved with a strange pattern - a book with three intertwined gears painted on the cover. The book on the clay pot is undoubtedly related to this magical relic, but unfortunately, Leitch does not recognize the origin of this ancient book.

Seeing Leitch stop to observe the clay pot, the gnoll leader did not urge, but stood silently on one side with great interest, very like a subordinate. As for its gnolls and kobolds, they had already been sent away by it, after all, with such a large number of kobolds and gnolls following, it was estimated that this human lord would not be happy.

In fact, this detail was quite admirable to Leitch, and unexpectedly won the favor of Davis and the female guards, who had not felt it when they had been in the scuffle, but now that they had stopped, Davis and the female guards were really smoky by the strong smell of these jackals and kobolds......

Leitch looked closely for a moment and found that the clay pot as a whole had neither a mouth nor a trace of an interface or anything like that!

Could it be that this clay pot was only for ornamental purposes?, but as soon as the idea came to him, it was secretly rejected by Retch - do you think that with the urine nature of jackals and kobolds, such a clay pot would be allowed to sit here unharmed for so long?

Suddenly, a bright sword appeared in Rykey's hand, and orange-yellow flames loomed on the sword, indicating that it was an enchanted weapon. And in fact, this is indeed a silver-level fire-type enchanted longsword!

With a "bang", the flames on the long sword were sheng, and the blazing temperature made the faces of the people around them feel a burning sensation!

"Qiang—"

Immediately, I saw that with a wave of his hand, Lei Qi slashed his sword on the clay pot! But what was surprising was that Lei Qi's sword not only failed to cut the clay pot open with a single sword, but also failed to leave even a trace! Obviously, this clay pot is not simple (this is not nonsense...... ）！

However, this sword did not receive the slightest effect, and Lei Qi unexpectedly felt a trace of magic power fluctuation along the long sword into his body!

A magic item? Leitch unconsciously stretched out his hand to the clay pot, and then, the ancient book pattern on the clay pot suddenly burst into a magical light, and the gears on it even began to turn!

"Ricky!"

Davis was shocked by this scene, knowing that many people were cursed when they inadvertently touched some magical items when they explored the ruins!

Just as Davis was about to rush forward and push Leitch away desperately, Leitch reached out to her, signaling that she didn't need to get excited, which calmed Davis down. But no one noticed that at this time, in Leqi's eyes, there was a square frame, and there were eight incomparably complex magic arrays in the frame!

Yes, this is indeed a nine-square, and it is also a puzzle game that earthlings are familiar with, but the difference is that this is a magic nine-square, nine missing one, each magic array is running, and the participants can only unravel it if they deduce it according to the magic formula and a dragon completes it!

ps: Ha, New Year's greetings to everyone!