Some people say that time is the most powerful weapon, no matter how brilliant it is, it will eventually dim and destroy in the passage of time, until it is forgotten, and finally turn into the dust of history and completely dissipate in the torrent of time.

Walking in Zurghrab, looking at the ruins that have been held on for tens of thousands of years, the ruins of the magnificent architectural complex tell Ainam about the glory of this place.

The trolls were once world overlords, and the cities they built were no worse than Stormwind that Ainan had ever seen. It is truly amazing that a civilization of 10,000 years ago built such a city in the jungle.

No matter what race it is, no matter what form of civilization it is, it must have something to learn from if it can become strong.

Compared to human cities, the city of trolls is not as deliberately crafted, and it does not change the environment much. If humans build a city by bulldozing out the sight of the surrounding areas and then building their own on the ruins, trolls are not. They rarely deliberately destroy nature, and the walls and building complexes are built according to the terrain and are not demolished and rebuilt.

Such a city is more in harmony with nature, but the relative defense is not as tight as that of human cities. It's nothing for outsiders who are not familiar with the environment, and if there is a leading party who is familiar with the inside story, it is easy to be exploited.

Trolls are the tyrants of the Valley of Thorns, they can train poisonous insects and beasts to fight, and few dare to provoke them. Especially in this place, Zur Grab, as the royal city of the former jungle troll empire, there are not a few trolls living in it, let alone outsiders entering here, before you get close, you will be divided by trolls.

Ainan counted the beasts he saw along the way, tamed by the trolls of Zurgrab, including tigers, cheetahs, spiders, venomous snakes, bats, and even crocodiles. It can be said that those who run on the ground, fly in the sky, swim in the water, and the sea, land and air amphibious are all complete, and these beasts alone are a headache. Add trolls or patrols in the open or sentinels in the shadows, and headhunters who come out of nowhere, and it's almost impossible for outsiders to infiltrate Zulghrab.

It's too hard to infiltrate, so Ainan and Egwene don't play this, they don't infiltrate, they enter with dignity.

A small illusion trick tricks the vision, making others see that they are two jungle trolls, and if they meet the interrogation of Jindu, the leading party, it will play a role.

At first, Ainan was still guarding Jindu from ventilating his compatriots, but after entering Zurghrab for a while, Ainan was thrown aside.

If Jindu wanted to expose their identities, he would have done so a long time ago, and he would not have helped them deceive several waves of patrol teams in a row, as for why the troll demon magician tried his best to help them cover up, Ainan would not believe that the other party was just trying to survive, let alone believe that the other party was thinking of the ethereal benefits, Jindu must have worked so hard with his own little calculations.

When the water is clear, there is no fish, it is normal for Jindu to have his own little abacus, Ainan will not turn his face with Jindu because of it, as long as Jindu can help him achieve his goal, Ainan doesn't care what this guy calculates.

Having not moved her eyes since entering Zur Grab's Egwen, the mage had been staring at somewhere in the city, where a giant altar stood.

The main body of the altar was the size of a castle, made of countless stones of the same size and length, and it was no less work to build such an altar in the jungle than to build a city in the jungle. In addition to the main altar, several smaller altars were built around the city, depending on the topography. Don't look at these altars are one size smaller than their main altars, each of them would be a high-level existence if placed elsewhere.

"With so many altars, it seems that you are very devout to the gods."

Ainan stabbed Jindu, the latter is a sorcerer, if he is really devout to the gods, why not become a priest?

As he expected, when he heard this, Jin Du was angry and replied indignantly: "It is because some of us fools are too pious that the mighty Gulabash Empire will be destroyed." ”

Speaking of this, he hated, hated those of his fellow people who thought he was wise, and hated the priests who caused the empire to collapse for their own selfish desires: "When the great Gulabash Empire was at its strongest, the priests of our clan successfully established a connection with a god whose name was Haka, known as the god of blood. ”

"The deity was generous when the connection was first established, and he gave the priests great powers to make the priests who offered their faith to him terrifying. Our people are a race that believes in power, and the priests who have received the power bestowed by the Hakka have quickly gathered enough power to steal the power of the Empire. And so, disaster struck. ”

Jindu was telling the history of the Jungle Troll Empire, and Ainan and Egwene listened, a history they didn't know.

Hakka knew all this through the priest who believed in him, and the generous deity felt that when it was time for the harvest, it quickly revealed its greedy nature. Hakka asked the priests to prepare enough sacrifices for themselves to offer to him through living sacrifices, which the priests did, and they found themselves stronger. In order to get more gifts from the gods, they frantically scraped every living creature they could find, and when there were not enough sacrifices in the empire, these frenzied creatures targeted their own kind. ”

Hearing this, Ainan knew what was going to happen next.

The high-level people who hold the power of the empire regard their own people as sacrifices, and persecute their own people in order to get stronger power, so you can imagine how many trolls will be sent to the altar in the jungle troll empire.

No wonder the Gulabash Empire collapsed, and the massacre within itself was more terrible than any external enemy, not to mention that a god was involved.

Ainan sighed and said, "It turns out that this is how the Gulabash Empire died. ”

"No!" Who would have thought that Jindu actually denied Ainan's words, "If it is just like this, the empire will not collapse with the strength at that time, and the real reason for the empire's demise is a war, a war that does not belong to us but happens in the empire." ”

Ainan was stunned.

What does it mean to not belong to jungle trolls but to take place in the war of the Gulabash Empire, I don't understand.

"All those who rebelled were suppressed, and more than half of the population of the empire was sent to the altar as a sacrifice to the god of blood. While the priests were still basking in the joy of becoming stronger, Haka, who had received enough blood sacrifices, already had the power to enter this world. Just as Hakka broke through the barrier of space, a powerful being who claimed to be the guardian dragon Ysera led a group of green-scaled creatures claiming to be dragons descended on Zur Grab. ”

Ainan's eyelids jumped.

The guardian dragon Ysera, the green dragon, could it be that the strange world in the crater in the twilight forest was created by the green dragon, and its owner is a guardian dragon named Ysera?

"It was only then that we learned that Haka was not the god of blood at all, it was just an evil being called the Soul Reager, but unfortunately we knew it too late, and that war ruined everything."

"Naturally, it is impossible for an evil god like Haka to tell you the truth."

Ainan spread his hands to show sympathy for the jungle trolls, but he didn't really think so in his heart. The jungle trolls didn't end up like that because they were greedy.

I really thought that pie would fall from the sky, why did others give you strength for nothing?

If you want to take it, you must give it first.

The hand of Haka the Soul Reaver is actually not very clever, but people are greedy, and people will still be fooled by the old-fashioned tricks.