Volume 5: The Elegant Tea Party (Remastered) Chapter 36: Contaminating the Water

However, the presence of the rat alarmed the guards in the cave, and two minotaur druids soon appeared on the scene: "My owl seems to be alarmed!" ”

"It's me, both!" Karn's timely appearance attracted the attention of the two minotaur druids, "Maybe it's because of my presence that alarmed your pet!" ”

"Karn? Why are you here? Are you here again for Lord Tumoni? ”

"Yes, I'm here to ask for help from Lord Tumonny!"

"Asking for help? There seems to be a warning from the entrance just now, is there something going on outside? ”

"A group of orcs are storming the entrance, and those green-skinned beasts seem to have discovered the secrets here! The Minotaur warriors have begged me to report to Lord Tumoni, and I hope you can send a few shamans to help! ”

The two minotaur druids looked at each other, and one of them said to Karn, "You're doing the right thing! We will go out to help at once, and Your Excellency Tummoni is inside, so you can report to Your Excellency. ”

Two more! Karn couldn't help but shake his head as the two druids rushed towards the entrance of the cave in a hurry, it seemed that the life of the minotaurs was too comfortable, and they only needed to guard against the occasional raids of the Mogaure steppes by centaurs and boarmen, and there was nothing to do with this kind of important vigilance, so there were loopholes everywhere.

Continuing on a distance, Karn ran into Galkin and the past at a dark corner.

"This is not the same information you provided!" Galkin was referring to the two minotaur druids who suddenly appeared, and in order to avoid the two druids, he and the past had to find this place to hide their bodies temporarily.

"So here I am! Accidents are always inevitable, and you can't expect everything to come exactly as you want it to! Karn didn't argue with Galkin on this issue, the most important thing now was to continue with this task, not to discuss who was right and who was wrong here, "I'll go in first and find a way to reduce the minotaur inside, but I'm afraid that heroic minotaur won't leave, you have to figure it out for yourselves!" ”

With that, Karn moved on, as for how Galkin and how they could accomplish the mission in the presence of Tumoni, that was something that the two guys needed to consider, Karn had done everything he could.

"Lord Tumoni!"

"It's you! Is something happening out there? In order to keep abreast of the situation, there were props in the depths of the cave where Tumoni was located, which could receive warning signals from the Minotaur Ancestral Warriors, but he could not obtain more detailed information, so he immediately asked Karn, who had obviously entered from the outside.

"Yes. The orcs have discovered the secrets here, an elite force of hundreds of people is trying to sabotage our plans and is now fighting the warriors at the entrance, they need support! ”

"What about the patrols? Needless to say, I don't think those awesome guys will leave their posts without permission, it seems that those bastards have been planning this for a long time, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to take out all the patrols! Compared to the Bloodhoof and Horn tribes, the Terror Totems led by Magatha are more radical and hostile to the Orcs, "You go and help now, don't let those damn green-skinned beasts destroy the water here!" The warriors need this water to maintain their fighting power! Karn, you stay, it's time for you to have a conversation with the elemental spirits! ”

The six minotaur shamans surrounding Tumoni immediately got up and ran out, knowing better than anyone how important the communication circle here was to the Minotaur in the Pool of Oblivion.

"Thank you for your cultivation, Master Tumoni!" Karn didn't expect Tumoni to let him stay, and he would have been very happy if he hadn't come in for that purpose.

Tumoni looked at Karn with satisfaction, this was one of the most gifted young men of the Minotaur in recent years, open-minded, studious, solid foundation, and more importantly, willing to fight for the sake of the race, and showed no mercy to those orcs. When he heard that Karn had personally led a group of young calves to snatch the Glory Sentry from the green-skinned beasts, the heroic shaman of the terror totem began to pay attention to the young man. It was also through Tumoni's introduction that Karn persuaded the Magasa Patriarch to strengthen the determination of the head of the terrifying totem clan to wage war against the Fireblade Clan.

"Come, Karn, and fear not! Elemental spirits are very kind, and they are willing to respond to any call to love nature. Come here, sit down, remember the shamanic teachings you studied? ”

Tumoni taught Karn how to enter a meditative state, how to sense the presence of elemental spirits, and how to call them, even though Karn was absent-minded and never succeeded in establishing contact with elemental spirits.

Every shaman is not born with this talent, and it takes more effort, more pain, and more responsibility to become a shaman than those who fight on the front line!

"Now I'll show you myself, you follow me into a meditative state, don't worry, I'll guide your spirit and establish a stable connection with the elemental spirits. You have to feel the process, because I can't guide you personally every time, you have to learn to communicate with the elemental spirits on your own. ”

Sitting cross-legged beside Karn, Tummoni quickly entered a meditative state, guiding Karn's spirit to the other side of the world, where all the elements seemed to have a physical body, floating in the air. The earth element is mature and steady, down-to-earth, the fire element is irritable and irritable, enthusiastic as fire, the wind element is agile and quick, and is a little mischievous, and the water element is gentle and considerate, but very shy.

The past, who had been waiting in the dark for their opportunity, knew that their best chance had come! The two looked at each other and nodded silently, and according to the duties assigned early in the morning, Galkin did not hesitate to reveal his figure, and stretched out his weapon to Karn, who was sitting on the ground, who had just successfully established contact with the elemental spirits under the guidance of Tumony.

"Intruder, you damn it!" As a heroic shaman, Tumoni immediately sensed the appearance of Galkin. Of course, he could have killed the troll assassin when Calgin attacked Karn, but his love for Karn's junior and his confidence as a heroic minotaur made Tumoni choose to stop him. And in order not to disturb Karn's communication with the elemental spirits, Tumoni subconsciously weakened the power of his shot, preventing Karn's communication with the elemental spirits from being interrupted due to the catharsis of his own power.

Karn, who was immersed in observing the world from another perspective, sensed that Tumony's spirit had disappeared from his senses, and was keenly aware that it was the past that Windwind and Galkin attacked, forcing Tumoni to withdraw from meditation. In his original plan, if this infiltration sneak attack was unsuccessful, then he used this excuse to ask Tumoni to teach him the skills of communicating with the elemental spirits, once Tumoni agreed, he could take this opportunity to find a way to provoke the elemental spirits, and then secretly pour the poison he prepared into the water source while Tumoni and the shamans appeased the elemental spirits, and complete the contamination of the water source.

He didn't expect this opportunity to come so suddenly, and the situation was better than he expected, and now even if he used some drastic means, he could completely blame the cause on the invaders like Galgin, and he would not be suspicious of himself.

As soon as he thought of it, he transmitted his malice to the elemental spirits floating beside him through his spirit, and at the same time turned his spiritual power into a big hand, imprisoning the elemental spirits one by one.

Shamans communicate with elemental spirits, figuratively like conversations, shamans first make themselves good friends with elemental spirits, and then use this intimate relationship to ask elemental spirits to do something for them, while shamans give their own spirit and a part of their magic to fill the bellies of elemental spirits.

Some particularly powerful shamans can use coercive means to drive elemental spirits to serve them, such as the legendary orc shaman Naozu, the great shaman of the Shadowmoon Clan, who is best at using his powerful power to drive those elemental spirits into his weapons, so that he can shoot thunder, fire, frost, and other spells to attack his enemies.

But elemental spirits don't like to be tied down by nature, and the more oppressive they are, the more fiercely they will resist. Karn suddenly turned his spirit into a large hand and imprisoned the elemental spirits, which clearly angered them.

Tumoni originally thought that he could easily clean up this troll assassin, but he didn't expect that Galkin's skills and just the right amount of troll sorcery, as well as all kinds of not powerful, but very effective props, made it impossible for Tumoni to accomplish this purpose for a long time. Just when he lost patience and no longer cared about Karn, and was about to kill Galkin in one fell swoop, suddenly, the entire communication circle glowed with a strong light.

"Not good!" As the shaman who had personally arranged this magic circle, how could Tumoni not understand that it was the elemental spirits who had gone wrong, and subconsciously, he thought that Karn had angered those elemental spirits after being stimulated by the outside world. He had to reduce the intensity of his attack on Galkin and dedicate some of his strength to manipulating the communication circle. The elemental spirits can be slowly pacified after this, and it doesn't matter if the matter of pumping water is temporarily interrupted for a day or two, but the communication circle must be saved, otherwise it will not take a day or two to rearrange another one.

At this time, Galkin realized that the time had come to fight hard, gave up all protection against himself, and frantically attacked Tumony, wanting to stop the other party's actions, which made Tumoni feel extremely depressed, and he would be confused and disgraced by a waste that was not even a third-order!

While Tumoni was concentrating on protecting the Circle of Communication and fending off Galkin's attacks, an almost transparent figure was approaching the spring that was gushing out of the groundwater not far away.

As Tempest had told Galkin at the beginning, he only needed five seconds without any distractions. The ghostly figure looks slow, but in fact it is not much worse than normal. He quickly approached the spring, then raised his hand and threw the bottle of undead venom that Yu Bin had given him.

Almost instantly, a rich force of death gushed out of the spring, and the clear water immediately turned pitch black, looking like venom from the abyss. Obviously, the bottle of poison given by Yu Bin is not a simple commodity.

Tumoni, who finally noticed that there was an intruder, was stunned when he saw all this! It had taken a great deal of effort to extract the living water from the ground, but now the entire spring was polluted, and there was a high probability that it would be traced back to the underground veins, causing a bad effect on the entire barren land.

Tumoni didn't want to think about the damage to the barren land caused by the contamination of the underground water veins, but the pressing question before him was, what would happen to the war that was about to start without this water source? You know, because more and more minotaurs come here every day, the soldiers don't have much drinking water in their hands at all, and the sky can only ensure everyone's needs for a day. Without a source of water, even if Tumoni ordered the soldiers to retreat immediately, the compatriots would not have been able to make the five-day trek back to the Mogaure steppe in a lack of water (the wells of the Glory Outpost could not meet the needs of more than 30,000 minotaurs).

Tumoni could already see that a crushing defeat was about to befall those compatriots, and all this was caused by these two invaders!

A troll, an undead! Damn chaos camp!

Extremely angry, Tummoni finally no longer retains his strength, there is no water source, and the communication circle naturally has no meaning to exist, so he took back all his strength, an instantaneous powerful lightning arrow, followed by a powerful fire strike, the lightning arrow directly broke the small round shield in Galkin's hand, and the troll assassin was paralyzed, and the next fire blow burned Galkin to ashes, and even the equipment on his body was not left.

As for the past, it didn't end well with the wind, after cleaning up Galkin, the angry Tumoni turned around and smashed a frozen cage totem on the ground, and the frosty breath quickly turned the ghostly past into a piece of ice with the wind, and then Tumoni smashed it into ice slag with the totem pole.

"Mistress Tumoni! It's all my fault! If I ......" Karn confessed his mistake as soon as he exited his meditative state, looking remorseful.

"Say no more! It's all a conspiracy of those damned orcs! Now we need to think about how to bring those brave lads back to the Mogaure steppe alive! Tumoni stopped Karn's self-blame, he thought that the young minotaur shaman was not wrong, he had just offered to teach him to communicate with the elemental spirits, and if it wasn't for his own initiative, this little guy would not have been able to arouse the wrath of the elemental spirits, which eventually led to him not discovering the undead who sneaked in in time in order to protect the communication circle, causing the water source to be polluted.

"You go and inform Overseer Carol Bloodhoof now, tell him everything that is happening here, and ask him to think of a way to do it, and I will stay here and see if I can purify the water and re-pump the groundwater." Thomoni is worthy of the heroic Minotaur Shaman, and he made his decision without delay.