Volume 6: Turmoil (Remastered) Chapter 36: Who is the Hunter

"The army of men?" Karn commanded a group of players to surround the centaurs, waved them to do whatever they wanted, and then turned around and asked in a slightly surprised tone, "Are you right?" ”

Banora nodded: "Definitely not!" The Terran regular army that came out of the Thunder Cliff teleportation array, seeing that the number was at least tens of thousands, and the teleportation array was running at full power to support the movement of this group of troops. ”

"It's so fast, why are those humans so decisive all of a sudden? I thought the kings would at least be on the same page for a while. Karn was a little surprised, but he didn't really care, he had already taken into account reinforcements from other orderly races when he made his plan. So far, only human reinforcements have appeared, which is much better than the most troublesome situation planned.

"What's wrong? Do you think there's something wrong? Seeing Banola's expression, Karn couldn't help but ask, knowing that his right-hand man rarely thought about anything other than combat, so it was certainly not a trivial matter for him to show his appearance.

"Maybe I'm overthinking, but I always feel weird," Banora said. The vast majority of the human armies I saw were mostly low-level troops, halberdiers and archers made up almost eighty percent, and the rest were a few crusaders and priests. ”

"Didn't you see griffons and cavalry?"

"Nope!" Banora shook her head.

Karn narrowed his eyes, "It's a little strange, but it's good news for our plan, those low-ranking soldiers alone can't turn the whole situation around." ”

From the time the Minotaur civilians were attacked throughout the Barren Lands, the situation deteriorated at a very rapid rate, and in just three days, all the settlements set up by the Minotaurs on the Barren Lands were completely destroyed, and then even the eastern gate of Mogore, the Aparayeh Camp, was lost, and now, the trolls and orcs have stationed troops in the Aparayeh camp, although the majority of them are players, but the huge number still puts a heavy pressure on Thunder Bluff.

However, the worst is not the east, as the sworn enemies of the Minotaur, the wild boar and the centaur have been fighting with the Minotaur for thousands of years in this land, and many Minotaurs become their meal every year, similarly, the Minotaur will regularly organize armies to attack these two barbarian races, due to the huge disparity in combat effectiveness, in addition to the centaur can also rely on the habit of hunting to make the Minotaur throw a rat bogey, the Boar Man is completely in a passive state of beating, and will lose a lot of territory every year.

But now, the Minotaurs have discovered that these guys, who have not even had a concept of race, and have been living in their own scattered tribal form have united for the first time, and these two races are more wary of the Minotaurs than the trolls and orcs.

Now, in order to protect their people, all the Minotaurs have returned to Thunder Bluff, where the Minotaur army is on the lookout and Karn and the players form a squad to hunt down the small bands of centaurs and boar people who have broken through to Mogore.

"Now it seems that Chief Kane is preparing for a defensive battle at Thunder Bluffs." Karn thought for a moment and said, "The terrain of Thunder Cliff is not suitable for a large army to attack, as long as those few suspension passages and elevators are stuck to death, no one can threaten the safety of Thunder Cliff, with the strength of centaurs and wild boar people, even if they are all dead, I am afraid there is no way to break the gate of Thunder Cliff." ”

"So, the next phase of the plan will continue to be postponed?"

"Defensive battle is a good idea, as long as the teleportation array is not completely destroyed, it is impossible to trap Thunder Cliff, we can still get supplies through the teleportation array, in this way, relying on the fortifications of Thunder Cliff, in this war, the casualties of the minotaurs can be reduced to a minimum, and if it were me, the same decision would be made." Karn said, "As for the orcs and trolls, I didn't expect them in the first place, and it would be nice to be able to draw a small army with a few small actions in the early stages, and I wasn't stupid enough to expect the orcs and trolls to go to war with the minotaurs." However, if the plan is postponed any longer, the danger is too great, and the batch of materials that we secretly transported into Thunder Cliff cannot be concealed for too long, or in a few days, the Council of Elders will probably issue a mobilization order, and the first step must be to count the materials of Thunder Cliff. ”

Banora nodded, the huge amount of goblin explosives was not an ordinary thing, once discovered, a fool could see the problem: "Then do you want to activate the people left in Thunder Bluff?" As long as you are taken by surprise, grabbing an elevator should do the trick. ”

"That won't solve the root problem!" Karn shook his head, the group of players had already killed the centaurs and were now clearing the battlefield, "What's more, what are you going to do with the Council of Elders?" Although the number of minotaurs is small, the Council of Elders still controls most of the heroic minotaurs, including Chief Kane, and there are at least twenty hero-level combat power on Thunder Bluff, and I don't think our numerical superiority can offset this gap. ”

Banola also had a distressed look on his face, he was only interested in fighting and fighting, and in other respects, he didn't have much patience.

"Don't worry, Banola, I've been mentally prepared for this situation for a long time!" Karn smiled faintly, "Why did I choose this time to launch Project Mobile?" It was to force the minotaur to go to the field for a decisive battle. ”

"Forcing them to fight? Those guys can't wait to turn Thunder Cliff into a big hedgehog, how can they be willing to go to the wilderness for a decisive battle! ”

"Have you forgotten what season it is?" Karn said, "Chief Kane can buy supplies from humans and elves through the teleportation array, but he can't make Mogaure overgrown overnight, the early sudden attack has already caused the Minotaurs to lose a lot of livestock, if the pastures of Mogaure are burned down due to the war, unless Chief Kane is willing to make the entire Minotaur a vassal of humans and elves, he will have to fight to defend Mogore." ”

"Centaurs and boar people alone can't do it, can you? Even if they set it on fire, it wouldn't be long before those minotaur druids were able to grow grass again. ”

Karn picked up the totem pole and said, "So I let the undead and demons sneak into Mogore through Razor Canyon yesterday, and if all goes well, it's already on the Red Cloud Terrace side." Chief Kane could sit back and watch the destruction of the centaurs and boarmen, but I don't think he would want to see the tragedy of the Sweetwaters Oasis repeat itself in Mogore. ”

In fact, what happened in the Red Cloud Terrace had already been sent to Kane and the Minotaur Presbyterian Church last night.

The Minotaur Sentinels in Razor Canyon spotted an army of the undead and asked the Naraki camp stationed on the Red Cloud Plateau to help destroy the undead, however, when the Minotaurs blocked the undead in Razor Canyon, a group of demon players attacked the Narach camp and burned it to the groundOnce polluted by the power of demons and undead, it is undoubtedly an extremely bad result for the Minotaurs.

"I didn't expect this to happen!" The Minotaur Chief Kane Bloodhoof sat on an old tree root, scratching his horns in distress.

In front of this powerful legendary hero sat six Minotaur Elders, debating how to deal with it.

A whole night has passed since he heard the news, but the Minotaur Elders still can't come up with a suitable response plan, which can't help but give Kane a big headache.

"We can't afford to wait any longer! We have already paid too much price to find out the thief, should we continue to endure at the risk of the destruction of the Caohai Plain? A female minotaur shaman said loudly, her mane had turned white, meaning she was even older than Chief Kane.

The minotaur druid sitting next to her spoke comfortably, "Magatha, didn't you send Alista and Kessel to guard the Grass Sea Plain last night!" With them, and Bajir Furyhorn, who was in charge of guarding it in the first place, those skeletons and demon cubs didn't have the ability to destroy the Grass Sea Plains. ”

Magasa Terror Totem, one of the three major shamans of the Minotaurs, stood up suddenly, and the staff of the Ancestor in his hand slammed to the ground: "Ifarahi, I think you've been messing around with those long-eared people for too long, and you can't even tell whether you're a noble Shuharu or a lowly Nasfa!" Look at the reinforcements sent by the humans. Do you still expect those long-eared ears to be kind enough to help us? ”

Although the Minotaurs are called Minotaurs, in their own culture and language, they have always called themselves Shuharu, which means children of the earth, and in their opinion, the race of elves who have deviated from the true way of nature is not worthy of being the guardians of nature, so they call the elves nasfa, which means selfish people, and many times, this title represents an insult.

As one of the three major tribes of the Minotaurs, the Terror Totem Tribe has been competing with the Bloodhoof Tribe and the Horn Tribe for the leadership of the Minotaurs, the leader of the former is the chief Kane Bloodhoof, and the leader of the latter is the Minotaur Elder Minoras Horn, as the spiritual leader of the Minotaurs, Minoras has always supported Kane, which is one of the reasons why Kane can become the Minotaur chieftain.

As the most radical tribe of the Minotaurs, the Terror Totem has always adhered to the purebred theory of the Minotaurs, and Magassa believes that the Minotaurs should not pay a huge price for the interests of the order camp, but should be independent of the two camps and rely on their own strength to fight for enough benefits for the race, in her opinion, whether it is the order camp or the chaos camp, it cannot be trusted.

This racist perception also extends to the player, as Magassa and her horde of terror totems have become more and more radical since the appearance of the Minotaur player, on the one hand, Magassa believes that these "foreign" minotaurs cannot be trusted and should be denied entry into Thunder Bluff, while on the other hand, Magassa believes that these "foreign" minotaurs can be used in warfare, so that they can gain enough soldiers to conquer more land and reduce the casualties of their clan.

The minotaur druid Farahi glanced at Magassa helplessly, and kept silent, he didn't want to quarrel with this stubborn old fellow, the minotaur of the horror totem tribe was notoriously dead-headed, and it was even more difficult to turn their minds around than to give birth to a Kodomon.

Grand Elder Minolas, who was sitting next to Kane, spoke, "Magatha, of course we know how bad the situation is now, but that doesn't justify us in driving out our people! ”

"Clansmen!? Do you regard those despicable and shameless beasts who do not even respect the ancestral spirits as clansmen? They are nothing more than demons in the skin of the Minotaurs, and they don't even deserve the name Shuharu! Magassa was so angry that she smashed the Staff of the Ancestors in her hand with a clang.

"Calm down! Magatha! It is true that they have many shortcomings, cowardice, hypocrisy, calculating, and irritable, but this does not mean that they cannot be changed! Every minotaur will go through a frivolous fight, and when the tender skin fades, the hard horns will grow! Minoras said in a calm tone.

"I see in them as obvious as the shortcomings, Aunt Magatha!" Speaking of seniority, Kane also called Magassa his aunt, and when he was a child, the terrifying totem shaman even taught him shamanic ways, "They are impulsive, fearless, brave, strong, I have seen Shuharu who is so weak that even a jackal can beat him, and I have seen the minotaur who is so brave that he charges against the boar man, and now, we can't drive those children away because of a handful of black sheep, that's not fair!" ”

Magassa sat down angrily, "You want to give them fair power?" I'm afraid that until then, the entire Minotaur will have to pay for your naivety! ”

"Magatha, have you forgotten? This is not our hometown in the first place, and in the worst case, it will just be another migration of the entire Minotaur! Minoras smiled and said, "The elves have promised that whether we survive this crisis or not, they will hand over the Tatrajit steppe to us, where our people can live a carefree life!" So I agreed with Kane's plan, once successful, the noble Shuharu will rise again, and fresh blood will be led by us to bring Shuharu back to the ancient times. ”

"May your wish come true, Minolas! I'll see! Magaza stood up and left the chieftain's tent without looking back, "The Terror Totem will exercise restraint, but if the situation continues to deteriorate, I will not sit idly by!" ”

"She's still so stubborn!" Watching Magassa leave, Minoras shook his head, "I thought that after I returned to the arms of the ancestral spirit, Magassa would be able to take on the duties of the Great Elder, but now it seems that I have to find another suitable person." ”

"I'm sure Aunt Magassa just didn't figure it out." "She loves Shuharu more than any of us!" ”

Outside the chieftain's tent, a stout minotaur walked beside Magatha carrying a totem pole depicting war motifs: "Patriarch, chief, and elders, have they made a decision?" ”

"We can't wait any longer!" "Kane and Minoras' naivety will bring all of Shuharu to a dead end, Arnack, inform all the people to get your weapons and food ready!" ”

"Is it war?"

"The war has begun, Anak! The only thing we can decide is to smash the weapon on whose head! ”