Chapter 146: The Beautiful Creature of the White Feather
After half a day, Barbarossa and his party, led by the lizardmen, finally found the location of their tribe.
It was a natural shade area, the ground was covered with grass, and the main structure was the shack made of tree branches and unknown leaves as large as a fan, dozens of shacks were scattered in a chaotic manner, the environment was filthy and smelly, and a small river ran through this tribe of lizardmen, many of whom were half-submerged in the water, playing or catching fish in the water.
"Goo, goo!"
More than a dozen heavily armed humans suddenly appeared in front of the tribe, which immediately caused a lot of commotion among the lizardmen, and several lizardmen who led the team hurriedly rushed to the tribesmen and communicated loudly in strange language.
"Everyone, set up a defensive formation." Barbarossa's eyes narrowed slightly, but just in case, he told the rest of the people to prepare for battle, and the sound of weapons and armor clashing sounded, and the well-trained militiamen stood in their corresponding positions in a very short time.
After a while, several lizardmen who were obviously extra strong or had unique decorations followed the leading lizardmen to Barbarossa, and the lizardmen with unique decorations fell to their knees without saying a word.
The strongest lizardmen did not kneel, but bared their teeth and roared at Barbarossa.
The thick-haired red-haired war priest glared at him and yelled, "Get out!" This sound uses the skills of a knight's war cry, ordinary civilians or militiamen, they can collapse to the ground in fright under a roar, the attributes of the lizardman are also equal to those of humans, although this lizardman is strong, but he has not undergone any formal training, it is okay to scare and scare civilians, and he was frightened by Barbarossa's roar, but he was frightened to take several steps back.
Seeing that the leader was so imposing, the militiamen behind him also roared and slapped their weapons against the shields wrapped in iron sheets, and the roar and the noisy metal clashing sound were all in one, causing the lizards to stir up again.
The first kneeling lizardman stood up and jumped to his feet and screamed a few times, first quieting the lizardmen behind him, and then pulling the strong lizardman to kneel on the ground together.
The lizardmen who led the way were also nervously waiting to the side, but then they hurriedly ran to Barbarossa to show that the tribe had no ill will.
Barbarossa, who had been prepared for a long time, naturally did not care about this risk, and he carefully took out a wooden icon with a small arm length from his arms, carved with a majestic face of the god of light, wearing armor, holding a long sword and shield, and looking like a great general.
Several of the lizardmen who led the way hurriedly knelt down and shouted in the broken lingua franca: "Tonatiu, the god of light, ......"
The other lizardmen kneeling on the ground also shouted something in strange language, and Barbarossa hung the prepared magic [Fluent Language] on his body, finally understanding that the lizardmen were also shouting similar prayers.
As the lizardmen in front of him knelt down respectfully and prayed, Barbarossa held the holy icon in his hands and walked proudly towards a pre-prepared stone platform in the center of the lizardman tribe, and the militia formation that was still on guard behind him followed him slowly, which only set off his momentum even more.
As Barbarossa walked, the lizardmen knelt on the ground and prayed, and although they could not say the elaborate congratulatory words of the Church, as long as they were pious or fearful in their hearts, and could recite the correct name of the god, it would not be effective, but it could gather some power of faith.
The further he went, the more confident and fearless Barbarossa became, the icon in his hand shook slightly, and a hazy white light lit up from the icon, apparently the faith of these lizardmen had finally activated the icon, and the power of faith gathered was transformed into a part of the icon.
The holy light became more and more intense, and the effect of the divine aura was also invisibly generated, and the lizards kneeling on the ground trembled and felt swept by the divine aura, and their wavering faith was immediately firm.
This tribe of lizardmen, there are only more than 300 people in total, and at this time, both men, women, and children are kneeling on the ground, but after seeing the spectacular scene of thousands of people gathering around the main shrine to participate in the [Bright Day] sacrifice in the church city, Barbarossa will be touched by such a small scene, but his face is even more solemn, and he walks to the stone platform with the icon held high in awe and reverence, and respectfully places the icon in the reserved place on the stone platform.
He turned to look at the militiamen and said with a smile on his face, "Remove the defensive formation, and then we will stay here for a while, supervising these lizardmen to build our lord's sanctuary." ”
The militia selected by him were the most firm and bold group of people, and at this time they did not have the slightest fear, but laughed and shouted: "Yes!" ”
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With the supervision and guidance of the militia and Barbarossa, and the interpretation of the lizardmen, the lizardmen were finally able to pray in one prayer, and then build a rudimentary sanctuary out of stones and rattan leaves, so that the altar would not be placed in the open air.
Singled out some lizardmen as guard training, although these lizardmen civilians are almost the same as human civilians in attributes, but they have amphibious talent and natural advantages with scales, although they are restrained by snake people is very inconsistent with the laws of the animal kingdom, but they have a few more advantages than humans in the environment on the south bank of the Yangtze River.
A number of militias were transferred to this tribe one after another, because it was only half a day's journey from the trading point of the watchtower, where twenty-four militiamen and Barbarossa were stationed, and several more militia teams were transferred from Nokhan on the north bank to guard the trading point.
Thirty-six lizardmen guards and twenty-four human militiamen, these sixty people are all the weapons in Barbarossa's hands, he asked Nokhan to bring a batch of militia equipment to the lizardmen to change clothes, leaving most of the humans in the lizardmen tribe, with the rest and all the lizardmen guards to sweep around, clear the nests left by the snake people, and look for other forces belonging to the [Ionian Kingdom].
Ionia, which is called a kingdom and is actually just a tribal confederation, has a total of four most powerful tribes, two lizardmen, one human and one white-feathered witch tribe, and the remaining small tribes and villages are scattered across the land on the south bank, just like the lizardmen tribe where Barbarossa has settled.
This first tribe inspired by the glory of the true god was named [Sain] by him, these lizardmen are not even mature in their own language, where can they have the ability to name the tribe, the four tribes are located in a plain area that walks south for seven days, and they have been communicating with each other for hundreds of years before gradually having the rudiments of the organization, the so-called civilization, only a trace of slave society can be seen in humans and white-feathered witches, and the lizardmen are still not much different from the primitive tribes.
Thirty-six lizardmen had almost wiped out all the young men of the Sain tribe, but fortunately, the snake people in the vicinity had been wiped out, and there were still some fierce beasts in the water forest and dense forest that did not threaten the survival of the tribe, and with this group of new guards who were very convenient for amphibious operations, Barbarossa quickly found his target.
"Your Excellency, we have arrived at the place."
In a slightly dry area, a team of forty humans and lizards stopped, and a lizardman who seemed to be much smarter than the rest of the tribe approached Barbarossa to report.
Barbarossa walked back and forth with four militia guards before looking at the lizard and said, "Gollum, are you sure the place where they found those feathers is here?" ”
Gollum said in a hoarse voice peculiar to lizardmen: "Your Excellency, please rest assured, the place I found with them was full of the corpses of those white-feathered tribes, but now I don't know where the corpses have gone, you see, there is a pit there, which we accidentally fell into and smashed out." ”
Barbarossa was relieved at this time, he walked back and forth a few steps, frowned and stopped in a place where it was obvious that there was a heavy accumulation, looked left and right, and prayed in a low voice: "Guide, Apche, please give me eyes to find the dead......
As a follower of the main god of the god of light, all the slaves of Tonatiu will have one or two divine skills shared with the followers of the main god, and Barbarossa uses the two-ring magic technique unique to the giant dog Apche to find the undead.
A gray mist suddenly appeared in Barbarossa's sight, faintly spreading in a certain direction, and the gray fog that was obviously gathered by a dozen separate mist gave people an extremely ominous feeling.
Barbarossa made a move and led everyone to chase the mist first.
After chasing them for nearly two hours, a strange roar gradually sounded, and as soon as Barbarossa raised his hand, everyone immediately changed from a fast step to a slow progress, as little as possible to reduce the sound of the action, especially the lizards with webbed feet, walking on this road full of grass and dirt is really not sound at all.
Picking up a bush, everyone set out early in the morning, it was noon, but at the limit of sight, many shadowy figures gathered together strangely, and occasionally there was a strange and chilling cry when he raised his head.
Barbarossa quietly took a few steps back, and several small leaders of the lizardmen and their own soldiers came over, and Gollum was the first to ask, "Your Excellency, there are so many undead." ”
Barbarossa glanced at him and said unconcernedly, "It's only more than two hundred, and it seems that the plague of the undead on the south bank is not very serious." ”
It has been a long time since the Dawn Kingdom has been resurrected from the dead, so much so that many people have even forgotten that just a few years ago, there were terrifying figures of the resurrected dead in the foggy forest, and now when they go to the south bank of the Yangtze River, they see these almost extinct figures in the kingdom, which makes Barbarossa feel very delicate.
One of the soldiers came up and said, "Didn't you say that lizardmen and banshees are cannibals?" How can there be corpses that have become sinful spirits? ”
Barbarossa sneered: "Normally, naturally not, even if there are some battles, the corpses are mostly pulled by both sides as food, but this time it is obvious that someone is deliberately creating corpses, and when the undead come back to life, they will be guided here, and the place that is being surrounded in front should be their purpose." ”
Gollum was indeed much more clever than the other clansmen, and he asked tentatively, "Your Excellency, could it be the Harpy?" ”
"They seem to be the only ones who have the ability." Barbarossa's chanting of the prayer unleashed several divine spells, giving everyone a temporary protection to keep the undead avoided, and said in a deep voice: "We have found so many places, and now it seems that only those harpies can gather the corpses and pile them up, and attract them when the undead come back to life...... To make the Harpy spend so much effort, there should be a tribe of white-feathered witches in front of it, right? ”
He held the weapon and shield in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "No matter what those evil creatures want to do, the undead are beings who violate the will of our Lord and the law of death, and it is our duty to destroy them and let the soul sleep in peace, but there are only more than two hundred undead, you follow me, let you see the power of my Lord!" ”
He led everyone silently behind the undead, until the breath of the living and the divine power stimulated these immortals, and then he rushed forward with a roar.
These enemies, who were extremely difficult for primitive tribes and intelligent beings who had no restraint power, could only cut down two pieces of garbage with a single knife under his hands, and in less than five minutes, more than a dozen undead were already beheaded and chopped off by him, and they could not stand up again after falling to the ground.
Seeing that this human priest was so powerful, the lizardmen in the back finally boosted their morale and raised their spears and iron swords to kill the undead.
In less than a meal, a team of forty people cut through the encirclement of the undead and wiped out most of these things, and the place surrounded by the undead finally appeared in everyone's sight.
A small tribe built on the topography came into view, dozens of women with wide white wings on their backs, and their bodies were completely naked human beings looking at the strange team rushing towards them in surprise and nervousness, five humans were surrounded by a large group of lizardmen, a combination they had never seen before.
There is no need to introduce them, Barbarossa also knows that these people are the White Feather Witches, so she hangs a [proficient language], and communicates with the other side: "I am Barbarossa, the official pastor of the Church of Light!" Who are you, beautiful beings besieged by the undead? ”
He originally thought that the communication with these white-feathered witches would be very troublesome, but who knew that after many witches looked at each other, a clear female voice suddenly replied in a lame and stumbling lingua franca: "We are the people of the [Tikal] tribe, humans, are you the people of that powerful tribe in the north?" ”
Barbarossa was stunned when he heard this, and immediately understood that the other party was referring to the Dawn Kingdom, and he said in a loud voice: "That's right, I am the commander of the [Dawn Kingdom] under the Church of Light, you wait here, wait for me to destroy all the undead." ”
He shouted, and the magic technique of exorcising evil was released again, and the lizardmen behind him followed him and pounced on the other undead, forty people faced more than two hundred undead, and it was not much difficulty in the case of almost crushing strength, especially these undead although they came from different sources, they were all just newly revived.
After all the undead were cleared, he led his men to approach the White Feather Witches, and when he reached a certain distance, he stopped, looking at these strange races that were all very beautiful and very close to positive energy, and suddenly understood in his heart why Klute risked committing a great sin to find them and sacrifice them to His Majesty Shepard.
"Beautiful Tikal people, why are you besieged here by the undead?" Barbarossa put away her weapon and shield and asked bluntly.