Chapter 352: Blade Tail: Gray Claw
Green fireflies blaze in a brazier made from the skull cannon of the Rhinohorn Inhumans.
The pungent smell indicated that the fuel inside was not a good thing, and the smoke gradually swirled around the cavern, accompanied by a gloomy firelight, reflecting the entire cavern as terrifyingly as a netherworld.
However, the Bladetail and Gray Claw in the smoke did not feel the slightest discomfort, still waving the strange magic weapon made of elderwood and Inhuman bone fragments in his hand, muttering indescribable words in his mouth, and constantly jumping around the brazier.
This place is called the Cave of Yingjie, and it is a sacred place for the Greyclaw tribe.
Or rather, what was once a holy place.
In the past, once a new chief of the Greypaw tribe was born, the old chief or shaman of the previous tribe would be brought into this cave of heroes to carry out the custom of 'bone-eating ritual', which represented the supreme power transfer of the Graypaw tribe and inherited the power of the ancestors.
To put it simply, it is to eat the bone fragments left by the ancestors that have been sacrificed and worshiped by the Graypaw people here, so as to gain extraordinary power that can resist the magic or magic of other races.
If you look at it from a more rational point of view, it is actually just a ritual to awaken the ancient bloodline in your body through the body remnants of the ancestors as a medium.
In addition, because these bone fragments were constantly worshipped by the Greyclaw people outside as a substitute for the ancestors, they were actually impregnated with a considerable degree of faith power, and the great chief who ate the bone fragments would also obtain a status similar to the 'Holy Son' of other churches, and continue to absorb the faith power of the clan to strengthen himself.
In fact, other Inhumans also have similar customs, but the last time the gods fought in the dark, many of the Inhuman traditions were missing in that disaster, and the surviving Graypaw tribe was the most well-preserved, which directly led to the fact that the Graypaw tribe was able to dominate the Fairlin Plains for nearly a thousand years.
But that's a thing of the past.
At this time, the bone fragment of the ancestor, which had been regarded as life by the great chieftains of the Greyclaw Tribe, had been strung with the tail of the knife on the elder's wizard's staff, and made into a ritual item that would make a sound when it shook like a musical instrument.
I saw that the flames in the brazier suddenly jumped to a height of more than two meters, and the color changed from light green to dark green like a pool of stagnant water, the smoke became thicker, and the smell escalated directly from pungent to choking.
But Dao Tail was not surprised, he stopped singing, changed back to the common Humen language, and began to chant Lang Lang:
"Collapse and Baana, collapse and Baana...... Believer Swordtail Greyclaw offers you the most precious thing of our people, and ask for your protection to make me stronger and able to defeat the Mane Eyes who seek to usurp my throne! ”
Knife Tail has always been unaccustomed to seeing his brother's mane eyes, and he has been like this since he was a child.
Admittedly, Mane Eye is the bravest and strongest of the tribe's younger generation, but Bladetail feels that times have changed.
The humans in the outside world are getting stronger and stronger under the protection of the gods, and although they have no intention of crossing the Philin Mountains and entering the plains for the time being, even the Greyclaw clan, which is known for their martial bravery, and the people in the tribe except for the chiefs and shamans are almost no match for the humans who have mastered the divine arts.
The protection of the ancestors is outdated, and the only way out for the Inhumans is to believe in those gods!
He shared his thoughts with the chieftain at the time, the father of the brothers, and was beaten by the other party.
Knife Tail will always remember that day, and his usually kind father has a cold face that makes people want to tremble, and warns Knife Tail word by word not to have such thoughts, otherwise he will replace the ancestor to clean up the unworthy descendant of Knife Tail who has forgotten the kindness of the ancestors.
And the day after that day, the Great Chief, who was still vacillating among the two heirs, did not hesitate to choose Mane Eye as the new Great Chief.
After a series of blows, Bladetail left the Greyclaw Tribe, and then he received an oracle from the gods in the swamps of a valley in the Phillin Mountains.
So he began to practice witchcraft according to the words of the self-proclaimed 'God of Justice', the god of Justice.
Sure enough, compared to the combat skills passed down from generation to generation of the Greyclaw Tribe, the cultivation speed of witchcraft can be called a thousand miles a day, and it didn't take long for the Blade Tail to gain enough strength to return directly to the Greyclaw Tribe, defeating the Mane Eye who had not yet inherited the power of the ancestors, and almost killing it directly.
After that, he began to win over other fierce Inhumans, suppressed the weak Inhumans with absolute power, and ruled all the Inhuman tribes with high pressure, intending to eliminate the useless weak Inhumans and increase the average strength of the Inhumans as much as possible, so as to develop the entire Inhumans into a state of national power.
At first, Daowei really wanted to work hard, so that his deceased father could see in the ancestral hall that he was wrong, and he was the most suitable candidate to become a chief.
However, the materials needed to practice witchcraft are becoming more and more rare, and if you use more common materials, you must prepare a considerable amount of continuous refining, which makes him start to become a little tired in order to collect materials, and many times he even has to destroy an Inhuman tribe to barely collect enough materials, not to mention hard work, and even maintain normal rule is a little difficult.
Fortunately, he still has the strength, and looking at the entire Fielding Plains, there is no one who is his enemy! It doesn't make sense for all the Inhumans to be dissatisfied with themselves, they can't do any harm to themselves at all!
Knife Tail thought that this kind of rule would last for a long time, after all, the now wiped out Inhuman tribes were just some 'old, weak, sick and disabled' in his opinion, and they were branches that the Inhumans didn't need, and the entire Inhuman race as a whole was still thriving - at least the number of gray jackals under his command seemed to have increased a lot......
However, this seemingly 'stable' situation came to an abrupt end.
His brother, Maneeye, who had escaped from a cliff and had escaped for his life, had returned to the Fairling Plains and began to lead the weak aliens who had been driven to fend for themselves in the desolate barren lands, and began to rebel against the rule of the Greyclaw Tribe.
At first, Knife Tail was quite comfortable with this, after all, no matter how you look at it, his side is more powerful, and the Inhuman tribe is also stronger.
As a result, the encirclement and suppression again and again not only failed to eliminate the Inhuman army led by Maneeye, but the fierce Inhumans on their side were like embroidered pillows, which were blown up one by one, and some even defected directly to the other side......
The uncontrollable Blade Tail personally appeared a few days ago to attack, wanting to directly kill the mane eye as the commander, so as to end the rebel general trend.
As a result, although he is indeed stronger than Maneeye, his strength is quite limited, and there is no way to kill the opponent quickly, but there are many strong people on the side of Mane Eye who are about the same level as Maneeye.
As a result, Bladetail not only failed to achieve his goal, but was almost killed, causing him to flee back to the Greyclaw Tribe in embarrassment.
After that, he made one last trick - to sacrifice the most precious thing in the clan and beg the gods he believed in to obtain the protection of the other!