Volume 7: The Chamber of Secrets in Blackstone Mountain (Remastered) Chapter 7: Soul Eater (3)
"Patriarch Magatha, I heard that the culprit has been caught?" Ganak, the Minotaur of the Terror Totem Clan, asked happily, "Great, this war is finally over!" Can I go see the betrayer? I heard that he is a Shuharu like us? Can I torture him myself? β
"You're right, we did capture him. To be exact, he was found in the ancestral cemetery of Thunder Bluff! There was not the slightest smile on Margatha's face, and there was no sign that this incident was completely over, "But alas, your wish cannot be granted, Garnak, my child!" β
"Why, patriarch? Could it be that Chief Kane is going to continue to shield that sinner? β
Magassa shook her head, holding the Ancestral Staff in her hand and slowly walking towards her big tent: "It's none of Kane's business, it's the traitor named Karn Black Horn himself, in fact, when we found him, he was already in a deep coma, and his soul power was draining rapidly. β
"You mean?" Garnak is also a heroic minotaur at the end of the day, what does the passage of the soul power of the Path of Nature mean.
"That's right, if the current situation continues, in less than three months, the sinner who betrayed Shuharu will be completely dead due to the dissipation of his soul, and we will not be able to find the truth about this war from him!" Magassa said disappointedly, "Although I had some vague premonitions, what I didn't expect was that the black hand behind that sinner would be so decisive, I knew that when I drove them out of Mogaolei, I shouldn't have stayed at Thunder Bluff to guard against accidents!" β
"That's terrible!" Garnak said dejectedly.
"That's terrible!" The Great Elder of the Minotaur, Minoras Horn, lowered his hands and maintained the barrier for a long time, which was not easy for an elderly shaman like him, even though he was the most powerful shaman in the entire Minotaur.
"It seems that we are one step too late!" Kane Bloodhoof looked at Karn Blackhorn lying on a rudimentary bed made of hay, "Can't even the Ancestral Spirits save this child?" β
"You're still so kind! Kane! Minolas said with emotion, it was precisely because of Kane's character that the leader of the Horn Clan would willingly give up the position of the Minotaur Chief to Kane, and had done his best to assist him for decades, suppressing the radicals of the Terror Totem, "The venom in this child is the venom of the Soul Eater Spider, it is not poison in the ordinary sense, neither the natural power of the druids nor the soul power of the ancestral spirits can prevent those venoms from dissolving the soul of this child." β
"Ifarahi has taken control of all the freshman Shuharu with the help of the Druid Order, and I believe that the vast majority of them are innocent, and these poor little ones can't be driven out of Mogaure because of this incident, and Shuharu can't be divided anymore!" Kane said sadly, "This war has caused us a lot of damage, but it has also taught us the power of these children, and over time, I believe that Shuharu will be able to restore the glory of his ancestors with the help of these little ones!" β
Minoras nodded in agreement, "But first, we'll have to identify the diehards among them!" It's not an easy thing to do, Kane! β
"Yes! I've got some ideas, though! Kane's face grimaced, "Minolas, I want these little ones to participate in the reconstruction of Mogore, to bring them closer to us, what do you think?" β
Minoras looked up at Kane and sighed, the patriarch of the Bloodhoof tribe had always been so selfless, even if the "outsiders" hurt his feelings, the powerful Minotaur chief was still willing to open his heart to them and sincerely accept them as a member of Shuharu.
"Kane, have you ever thought about the reaction of the Terror Totem?" Minolas, as the Grand Elder, thought that Kane's idea was very good, but he had to consider the relationship between the three major tribes within the Minotaurs, "Do you think that after this war, Magasa will agree to you doing this?" β
"I'll go and convince Aunt Magatha!" Kane said firmly, "I believe in Aunt Magatha, although she and we are not the same in some ideas, but Aunt Magassa loves the whole of Shuharu no less than us!" β
"I hope so!" Minoras said helplessly, for the sake of the future, he had to let Kane try it, "I will stay here and try to take care of this child, I hope there will be some good news from the elves, soul eaters rarely appear, and I don't know if those long-eared people still have the potion to eradicate this venom!" β
Minoras continued to stretch out his hands and unleashed a barrier on Karn Blackhorn's body, which could not remove the toxins from Karn's body, but could greatly slow down the flow of soul power. Whether it was to save a life or to get more information about the war from the "leader", Minoras didn't want to watch Karn die like this.
"Garnack! You immediately set out with our soldiers and destroy those damned betrayers! Magassa walked into the tent and said without hesitation, "I know Kane's character too well, he will never drive those dangerous people out of Mogore, I can't let him be naΓ―ve any longer!" β
Garnac hesitated, "But, Patriarch, our people have suffered a lot of losses on the Razormarsh, and the soldiers who can be dispatched now may not be able to compete with Elder Ifarahi and those Druid Order." β
"Idiot! Who told you to deal with that rubbish in Ifarahi! Didn't we surround a group of foreigners? Open a gap in the encirclement and let them get Ifarahi's attention! Remember, don't let those betrayers stay in Mogore, and drive them away, if you can't kill them! β
The encircled foreigners that Magassa was talking about were the hunting regiments summoned by Karn, how could the terrifying totem, one of the three major clans of the Minotaurs, be so easily broken by a few hunting regiments. In fact, it was in order to use Karn's bait to catch a bigger fish behind him, that Magassa sat back and watched Karn, who was hiding in the razormarsh, merge with the hunters.
After making sure that there were no more reinforcements to reinforce these betrayers, the hidden terror totem soldiers immediately surrounded the tens of thousands of hunters and the minotaur players, both to catch them all and to prove with facts that these betrayers were in collusion with foreign enemies.
But that wasn't enough, as the number of these betrayers was far fewer than Magatha had expected, and it was clear that there were still many more betrayers still hiding among the Minotaurs.
Just as Garnack was on his way, Kane arrived just in time.
"Aunt Margatha, you can't do that!" Kane stopped Garnack, as a legendary hero, Kane was far from being able to compete with Garnack, so he had to obediently walk back to Magatha's side, "The terror totem can't do this kind of thing, it will cause the division of the entire Minotaur race!" β
"If that's the case, then what you're doing now will have the same consequences, if not worse!" Magassa was so angry that she slammed the ground with the Ancestral Staff in her hand, "One day, the whole of Shuharu will be killed by those insidious and despicable betrayers!" β
If it were Kane in normal times, facing the furious Magatha, the kind-hearted chief would generally choose to back down, because he knew that Magassa was also for the good of the entire Minotaur race, but this time, Kane decided not to let the terror totem play freely!
"Aunt Magatha, I know what I'm doing, I know what I'm going to do, I'm willing to pay for the decision I made, and the Ancestral Spirits will understand me!" Kane stomped the bull's hooves on the ground, and the powerful power of the legendary hero made the ground tremble throughout the tent, "Now, in the name of the Minotaur Chief Kane Bloodhoof, I order you, Elder Shuharu, High Shaman, and Terror Totem Patriarch Magassa Terror Totem, to obey my orders and those of the Elders!" β
"You've grown up, Kane!" Magassa smiled with relief, as if she had seen the little calf that had been frolicking and playing in her tent since she was a child finally grow up and fight off the murderous predator with the pair of sharp horns on her head, but soon, that smile of relief disappeared completely, replaced by indifference and persistence as the Terror Totem Patriarch, "Chief Kane, I will obey your orders and those of the Council of Elders, and the soldiers of the Terror Totem will stay where you are until your guard takes over, but what I want to tell you is that Chief Kane, Totem of Terror will no longer participate in the Council from now on! β
"Are you going to divide Shuharu? Magatha Totem of Terror! β
"You forced me, Kane Bloodhoof!" Magaza stood up suddenly, his drooping old body exuding an aura that people couldn't look at directly, "I'm not going to watch Shuharu completely perish in your hands!" Rest assured, the Terror Totem will leave Mogore, and this is still your domain, my chief! β
"Are you forcing me to make a choice? Aunt Magatha? Kane asked sharply, "Don't you understand the implications of this decision?" For the second time in history, the Minotaurs will be divided, and we will no longer be able to maintain the peace of our race! β
Magassa looked at the angry Kane and said coldly: "No, it seems to me that I am saving the whole of Shuharu!" A new storm is coming, and what you do will only make the whole Shuharu fall with the wind and flow with the waves in the face of the storm! β
"As long as we are united, we will be able to survive the storm, the home will be full of tender grass again, and the newborn calves will continue to thrive under our care! It has been so before, and it will always be, there is no storm that will not stop, Aunt Magatha! β
"No, you don't understand, Kane, it's not just you, Minoras, Ifarahi they don't understand!" At this moment, Magassa sat back in his chair as if he had suddenly grown old, "This storm is different, it's different, Kane, he's too powerful, it's too terrifying, not only our Shuharu, but the entire Entagre continent will be swept in, and when the time comes, Shuharu, who is still neutral, will be crushed under the storm!" β
"Aunt Magatha, do you see anything?" Shamans are both the spokesmen of the ancestral spirits and the closest beings to them, and powerful shamans can often get some inspiration from the spirits of these sages through communication with them. And Magasha Terror Totem is undoubtedly a powerful shaman, something Kane never doubted, even though she was too old to fight.
Magassa shook her head, she couldn't say any more, although the shaman could get a revelation from the ancestral spirit, but this revelation was not clear, it was more akin to prophecy, with some specious words to reveal the future direction, therefore, Magassa was not 100% sure that the path she had chosen was necessarily the right one, and she did not want to use her understanding to influence Kane's judgment.
"Kane, the Terror Totem will leave, this is what I decided, and it is also the decision of the Ancestral Spirits of the Terror Totem!" Magatha's voice grew deeper and deeper, "Now, please leave, my chief! β
When Kane returned to Minoras's tent with Magatha's decision, the Grand Elder of the Minotaur sighed heavily, and the light in his eyes dimmed a little.
"Sure enough, did she make that decision anyway?" Minolas said, with a hint of wistfulness in his tone, "Actually, I've seen this day for a long time, and I've seen the whole of Shuharu split again. β
Kane is a powerful minotaur warrior, but he is not proficient in the shaman profession: "What else have you seen, Grand Elder Minolas, can't you tell me now?" β
"What if you tell you? Kane, the Ancestral Spirit has only shown me a possibility for the future, but that doesn't mean we have to follow the path that the Ancestral Spirit has shown us! Nothing is predestined, Kane! Minolas reached out and took Kane's hands, "Remember, do what you think you should do, do what you think is right, even if we still fail in the end, at least we can have a clear conscience!" β
Seeing Kane regain his determination and walk out, Ifarahi, who pushed the door in, asked worriedly, "The matter of the horror totem, did you really decide like that?" According to Magatha's temper, I'm afraid he will join the chaos camp! β
"Yes, Ifarahi!" Minoras nodded, looking at Karn lying on the ground, "Maybe it's a good choice, at least if we fail, Shuharu can still survive in this world!" Through this war, you should also see the advantages and disadvantages between the two camps. β
Ifarahi smiled bitterly and nodded: "It's a pity, I'm a druid, and you're an old stubborn, we're all misers who hold on to the ancient custom of Shuharu and refuse to let go, so we can only lead our people all the way to the dark." β
"The ancestral spirits will understand!" Minoras clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, and said, "This is also what the Ancestral Spirits mean, the old traditions always need to be upheld, and the new forces must prove that they are stronger than the traditions!" β