Volume Three: Tumultuous Beginnings (Remastered) Chapter Thirty-Four: Kavrin the Carpenter
When Yu Bin returned to the Angfei Fortress and joined the others, it was already two weeks later.
Lei Guang and Keldila were the first to finish, but it took them a full ten days, and then Ailan's group, which only came back one day earlier than Yu Bin.
"No wonder you want us to go, those ancient trees of Aixifei are the city walls at all!" When Lei Guang saw Yu Bin coming back, he immediately poured bitter water, "The amount of blood is thicker than the dead turtle in the wailing cave, and the defense is high, it's disgusting!" ”
This is the reason why Yu Bin asked the two masters, Lei Guang and Keldilla, to collect the heart of the ancient tree of Asifi, this ancient tree that grows near Lake Faraceem, because it is close to the temple of the fallen forest goddess Eisena, so it has been affected by the remaining divine power in the temple for a long time, making these ancient trees grow particularly tall, and they are also regarded by the elves as a very good source of wood.
And Yu Bin also named the heart of the oldest Essify Ancient Tree, which made Lei Guang and Keldila have to kill a boss-level Essify Ancient Tree that had grown for nearly 10,000 years and had begun to have low-level wisdom.
It's not that there are no better ancient trees, but this one is already the limit of what Lei Guang and they can deal with.
Even so, it took Thunderlight and Keldila four days to attack with spells before they finally killed the ancient tree and dug up a large section of the entire tree heart.
Seeing the heart of the tree taken out by Lei Guang, Yu Bin couldn't help but applaud these two guys.
It is 5 meters long and almost 1 meter in diameter.
Yu Bin could clearly see that the center of the heart of the tree, about the size of an arm, had turned into an emerald green like an emerald.
If it weren't for the fact that Lei Guang and their burdens could only take away such a section, it is estimated that Yu Bin would still be able to harvest more tree hearts.
"Very good, after making the comb, the remaining tree heart can be used as a raw material." Yu Bin estimated that only a small part of this tree heart would need to be used as a comb, and the rest would at least be the same as the water elemental core he had collected, which belonged to the legendary-level material.
"Good job, Keldilla!" Alan also complimented, "But we're not bad. ”
After saying that, Alan and the Past took out a full twenty soft skins from their backpacks, in addition to two complete Shadow Leopard skins.
"Oh, it's a boss-level shadow leopard." Yu Bin is not the kind of person who doesn't know the goods, and he can see at a glance what the value of this whole skin is.
"And that's not all!" The past is like offering treasure with the wind, and then take out a whole leather from the backpack.
The whole skin looks gray and transparent, and only when you look at it carefully, you can see the light lilac lines on this skin.
"Brother Alan and I couldn't tell what it was, but Big Brother Alan said it must be a good thing, so it took us a lot of effort to peel off the skin completely." The past is said with the wind.
"You've come across the Shadow Slayer?" Yu Bin looked at Alan in surprise.
"Well, this thing almost went with the wind, but luckily we got a lot of stuff from the trolls, and we still killed it." Although Ailan said it easily, Yu Bin knew that this process was definitely not simple.
"You're in contact with those blood-topped trolls?"
"Yes, those cannibals!" Although Alan had exchanged a lot of good things from the trolls, he completely looked down on these guys with two huge fangs, "I even saw that they would eat their own kind of people raw." ”
"Kindred?"
"That's right, Suifeng and I both saw that those blood-topped trolls tied another troll to a stone pillar, and then directly dismembered the corpse with a knife, and ate it raw." Alan said as he retched, as did the past around him, "It's disgusting! ”
"I guess you're not seeing a blood-topped troll, you're a skull-splitting troll." Yu Bin was not surprised.
"Aren't the skull-splitting trolls their kind?"
"In our opinion, yes, in the eyes of the blood-topped trolls, no!"
"Ugh!"
"It's a long story, and I can tell it if you're willing to hear it." Yu Bin put away the materials as he walked towards the teleportation array, "But first, we have to find a good carpenter. ”
The five of them came to Gudiri, the town of the Dia Empire, and after Yu Bin stored all the collected materials in the warehouse, he came to the door of a two-story cabin with a section of tree heart that was almost half a meter long, three bottles of water from the middle of Lake Sarikene, and five soft skins of the shadow leopard cubs.
Along the way, Yu Bin had already briefly told them some of the history of the troll race.
From Yu Bin's introduction, they knew what the status of the troll race was on the Entagri Continent.
In the history of the continent of Entagre, trolls used to be a glorious race.
As the ancient creatures of the Entagri Continent gradually withdrew from the stage, the era known as the Ancient Era finally came to an end.
And under the influence of these ancient creatures, some originally weak races began to appear on this gorgeous stage.
The most successful of these were the elves, who, through their magical powers and high intelligence, eventually established the Elven Empire, ruling over large swathes of the continent of Entagre.
However, in addition to these elves, there are also some races that are beginning to rise, and trolls are one of them.
Tall, malevolent, with two huge fangs and three fingers on their palms, these tall, malevolent creatures originally survived in primitive clan form.
As the elves' desire to expand grew, the trolls' living environment began to deteriorate, and in order to resist the attacks of those long-eared people, the trolls of different clans began to unite and eventually formed the troll empire - Zandalara.
Under the call of the Zandalar Troll Empire, the scattered troll clans began to communicate with each other, and by learning the magic of the elves, they developed a special power unique to trolls - voodoo.
These voodoo spells, mixed with venom, curses, elements, souls, and other powers, flourished in the hands of trolls, and gradually became the main means of trolls against elves.
And as the great empire of the elves gradually collapsed, the troll empire Zandala, which had lost the oppression of foreign enemies, also began to fall apart.
Whether it is living habits or knowledge inheritance, there are often indelible gullies between different troll clans, which makes these trolls almost different species except for their appearance.
After the Elven Empire finally collapsed and disappeared, and the Elves split into dozens of different races, the era known to historians as the First Age finally came to an end, and the vast majority of the Troll Clans left the Zendalar Empire and began to return to their homeland.
After the development of the Second Age, different troll clans began to kill each other for various reasons.
Therefore, the scene of Ailan and the others seeing those blood-topped trolls eating skull-splitting trolls alive seemed to Yu Bin to be very normal.
Changed to a skull-splitting troll, it might be a little different.
They'll roast the blood-topped trolls before eating them.
Yes, this is the race of trolls, evil, chaotic, primitive and bloody.
And the trolls that players can choose are actually just a small clan in the large species of trolls - the Darkspear Trolls.
Compared to his other kind, the Darkspear Troll is more affected by the magical power of the elves, so his skin is darker, and his habits are closer to normal. In terms of appearance, the most obvious is that the two fangs of the Darkspear Trolls are much smaller than the other Troll Clans, which is one of the reasons why the other Troll Clans look down on the Darkspear Trolls.
Moreover, the Darkspear Trolls do not eat sapient creatures raw, they will capture other trolls and somehow, force these people to abandon their original clan and join the Darkspear Trolls.
And the creature of trolls is also very peculiar, no matter what clan they originally belonged to, when a troll gave up his ancestral spirit and threw himself into the arms of a new clan, even if he ran into the brothers and sisters of the original clan again, he would not hesitate to kill the killer.
This is also the reason why trolls were considered savage creatures by players in previous lives.
However, because of the troll's good race bonuses and some special benefits, there were many people who chose this race in previous lives.
Yu Bin introduced the history of trolls as he came to the door of the two-storey cabin.
knocked on the door, Yu Bin did not rush to push the door in, but said respectfully: "I'm looking for Master Kavlin!" ”
After a while, the door of the wooden house opened from the inside, and a dry face was revealed: "What's the matter?" ”
"Master Kavlin, I would like to ask you to work a piece of wood, and I am willing to pay 3,000 gold coins." Yu Bin said, handing over the heart of the cut piece of the ancient Ai Xifei tree from his backpack.
3000 gold? Although the past has followed Alan with the wind in the past few days, and he has seen a lot of winds and waves, he was still shocked to hear that such a large sum of money was used to find someone to make a comb.
But he turned his head to look at the others, whether it was Boss Alan or the other two seniors, they all had a natural expression, and they couldn't help but make the past feel that they were still lonely.
Well, anyway, the thoughts of these bosses are not something they can figure out.
As soon as the dry face saw the wood handed over by Yu Bin, his face immediately changed. A dry palm stretched out from behind the door, and quickly snatched the heart of the tree from Yu Bin's hand: "This is the heart of the ancient tree of Aixifei, and the growth year is at least tens of thousands of years, how did you get it?" ”
"Master Kavlin, I just wanted you to process this piece of wood, not sell it."
"30,000 gold coins!" Kavrin hugged the heart of the tree in his arms and offered.
"I'm sorry, Master Kavlin, I don't sell it, I just want you to process it." Yu Bin still maintained a respectful posture, "Of course, if you don't want to, master, then I have to find someone else." ”
After Yu Bin finished speaking, he was about to reach out and get back the heart of the tree.
However, Kavrin took a sharp step back as if he was holding his own life, lost the door that blocked him, and was immediately opened.
"No, you can't, it's mine!"
"After processing, the remaining wood is yours, Master Kavlin." Yu Bin stepped into the door and said to the thin old man in front of him. "I think that the remaining wood is enough to protect you for a long time, and you will not become a lowly zombie because of the passage of life."
That's right, this withered old man named Kavrin is not an undead, but a real human being, and an expert carpenter.
"Okay, okay, damn undead, you win, you're going to get what you want, say, what am I going to do with this damn piece of wood? A hammer? Or a wooden nail to pierce my heart? As if his face had changed, Kavlin, who was originally holding a treasure, instantly slammed the heart of the ancient tree of Esifi in his arms to the ground, and used all his strength to roar foul language and wave his hands, as if he wanted to drive away the filthy existence in front of him.
Yu Bin also sighed secretly in his heart.
Kavrin Merar was originally an expert carpenter in the human kingdom of Oberline, but during the last faction war, this expert carpenter was recruited by the kingdom of Oberline to maintain the war equipment on the front lines of the war.
Unfortunately, during the undead's counterattack, Kavrin was captured by an undead lord.
Taking a fancy to Kavlin's talents, the undead lord did not kill Kavrin immediately, but forced him to serve the undead, promising to let Kavrin return to his homeland as soon as the war ended.
In order to return to his hometown and see his family, Kavrin did his best to serve the spirits of the dead, but as time went on, Kavrin became more and more disappointed.
Living on the land of the undead for a long time almost destroyed Kavlin's body, and in the eyes of the undead lord, even if he didn't need to do it, it wouldn't be long before this human being was transformed into an undead by the power of death.
But unfortunately, as a carpenter, Kavrin learned to absorb the remaining vitality from these woods through his ignorance through contact with various woods, and survived miserably, becoming the half-dead existence he is now.
Kavrin is an undead in appearance and breath, but in reality, he is a human being.
Therefore, when Yu Bin took out this extremely rare heart of the ancient tree of Acefi, Kavrin saw the hope of continuing to maintain his human identity and wanted to buy this heart from Yu Bin.
Although thousands of years have passed, Kavrin will not give up his wish to return to his homeland no matter what.
This is also a poor man!
Although Yu Bin felt very sorry for Kavrin in his heart, he had to refuse ruthlessly for the sake of his task.
As for bringing this half-dead old man back to the Oberline Kingdom, Yu Bin didn't even think about it.
Only Kavrin himself is still dreaming of returning to his hometown, with his current appearance of not being human, not a ghost, not to mention returning to his hometown, as long as he sets foot on the territory of mankind, he will be wiped out by those human beings who talk about mercy and light all day long, and it is also called "purification"!