Chapter 26: Preface to the Party
Maple Leaf Courtyard, inside the Maple Cottage.
The girl sat at the dresser beside the bed, tending her long hair, which fell down to her waist.
First, use a comb to straighten out the long hair, drape it behind the shoulders, then pull the two bangs on the side behind the head, hold it down with one hand, and then pick up the light red headband in front of the stage with the other.
Tie the two strands of bangs with a headband, then adjust them to form a slightly larger red bow.
At this moment, a dreamlike girl is presented in the mirror, with long silver hair like a waterfall all the way to the waist, and the body is an elegant long skirt, the skirt is divided into three layers, garnet red, light red, pure white, the long skirt is also obliquely dotted with seven crimson roses, and under the long skirt is white silk stockings, which perfectly outlines the girl's slender and youthful figure.
The crimson pupils are like clear crystals, and the two incompatible temperaments of innocence and charm are perfectly unified in her.
Ever since she turned into a demon sequence, Loren Hill's pupils had turned from pale blue to crimson, which surprised her at first, but after several experiments, she found that as soon as she changed back to Natural Sequence 2 - Smoked Wind Arborist, her pupils would revert to light blue.
Today, all the Rabbit-Eared tribes in the Tisilan Mountains gather for a grand ceremony to swear allegiance to her, though she says she doesn't need to.
But the old patriarch said that without a grand ceremony, it would be difficult to change the outdated concepts and habits of many people.
Only a grand ceremony that everyone will remember will be able to break the previous habits and numbness, tear off the burden of the soul, and start anew.
At the same time, such a grand ceremony can better confirm the status and majesty of Lorain Hill.
In this era of imperfect order and lack of law, the majesty of the leader is, in a sense, a strong order.
It spreads outward from the center, and everyone obeys the same will, the same voice, and the same command, thus breaking down the barriers between the villages and merging to form a new system.
Therefore, for the needs of the ceremony, the girl had to prepare a set of dresses, and at the same time, some of the fabric was dyed red with the red madder of the maple leaf garden as a raw material.
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That evening, the grand evening began.
First of all, many large bonfires were erected on the original hills, and one by one the fires were lit, and the flames were three or five meters high, and next to the fires were circles of rabbit-eared people from all over the mountain. Some of them received the news and walked for a long time, and they just arrived tonight.
The rabbits were talking excitedly around the fire, a grand event that had not been seen for a long time, some of them singing, some of them playing small drums, and some of them were beating to the beat.
Meat skewers were grilled next to the fire, and the snake meat slowly turned brown, reflecting a faint oily glow in the firelight, and then sprinkled with some salt grains, and the tempting aroma of meat began to spread around the fire.
Many of the rabbits who came had never seen Lorain Hill had never seen them, and they were still a little unconvinced, but when they saw the corpse of the terrifying giant snake being continuously divided into meat skewers, a wave of worship slowly rose in their hearts.
Powerful and able to bring food, these two points have convinced the hearts and stomachs of many rabbits, and who doesn't want to live, even if allegiance to a human has become an acceptable thing.
Successive bonfires illuminated the mountains, and a large stone platform was erected in a clearing surrounded by five hills with a flat center.
At this time, a gray-eared old rabbit wore a white robe and climbed the stone platform, and behind him were the leaders and representatives from various villages in the rabbit ears, all of whom were uniformly dressed in white robes.
The two large drums were placed on both sides of the stone platform, and at this moment they were beaten by several strong rabbit-eared clans.
Knock –
Knock –
Knock –
The sound of the drums echoed through the mountains, startling the birds and beasts of the night.
In the pitch-black forest in the distance, there were dark shadows, and occasionally there was a sparse sound, as if a huge creature was slowly moving through it.
"Fellow citizens, I stand here today with the representatives of the various villages, and I have an important matter to announce."
Under the stone platform, thousands of rabbit-eared clans were silent, watching the leader, waiting for him to speak. There are also countless rabbits standing on the hillside next to it, looking at the high platform in the center.
"The villages and clans scattered in the wilderness and the mountains, today we will once again be united into a unified tribe."
"For hundreds of years, we have wandered from place to place, from the Mountains of Sighs to the east, over countless mountains, to this land, just to have a resting place."
"However, this dream has been shattered, the Kingdom of Zephyr is no longer the enlightened country it used to be, and the Wild Fang Empire belonging to the orcs has long been submerged in the yellow sand and dust."
"The number of our tribe has gradually decreased from 500,000 when we migrated to 200,000 now."
"Every year, you can hear that the habitats of your fellow clans are destroyed, some are destroyed by demonic beasts, and some are defeated by the capture of the Zephyr Kingdom."
"Why are we in such a difficult situation?"
"Because we are too weak to fight!"
The deafening sound of the old rabbit woke up many rabbits present who had long been numb, and the dignity and hope that had long been buried in the soil began to slowly awaken.
"It's not a sin to be weak, it's sad that we indulge in this weakness and don't have the idea of rising up."
"Constant retreat, compromise, will never satisfy the greedy enemy, who chooses humiliation in humiliation and war, and war after that."
"I know that some of my knowledgeable people remember the lost past thousands of years ago, and they don't want to mention it, and they are no longer confident."
"Well, I'll tell my young people about the history of these shames."
"In the year 8143 of the First Age, the combined forces of 182 tribes of the Wild Fang Empire, totaling 3.1 million, confronted the Mercury Empire on the long front of the Gaodan Plain. The 300,000 troops of our rabbit-eared tribe were mainly responsible for transporting grain, and in a small enemy attack, our ancestors fled shamefully, and the 300,000 troops did not resist, so the granary was burned and the empire was defeated. ”
"From now on, our clan is despised and spurned by all other orcs!"
"Shame? Yes, a great shame! ”
"If you lose your dignity, you will lose more."
"That's why we can only huddle in this forest and wait for death. From more than 60 million at the peak of that year, it has dropped to less than 200,000 people now."
"Is this the price we paid for the humiliation of the year, I think even if it is, it should come to an end."
"A week ago, a hero descended on this forgotten forest, and she bravely slain the serpent that caused the disaster, saving several nearby villages."
"Not only that, but she also told us about the practice of the transcendent sequence, teaching various survival skills, farming, animal husbandry, steel. She is a benevolent and great being. ”