Chapter 24: Hab's Story

The Minotaurs expressed great disgust at Hab's joining the group, and they all hated Habu, a member of the clan who had never contributed to Bloodhoof, and considered it a shame to fight with him. Lin Yu didn't think so, when he saw Habu and knew that he was going to go with the team to the Ice Shoe Well, Lin Yu was so happy that he was about to jump high. Others may not know Habu's strength, but Lin Yu knows very well that he is a very powerful hunter, and with him, the safety of himself and Abu will be an extra layer of security. As for the disdainful eyes of those minotaurs who looked at themselves. Habu didn't care, how could Lin Yu take it to heart.

Walking at the end of the team without any suspense, Lin Yu and Habu talked in a whisper.

"Hey, old fellow, how did you find out with your conscience?"

"What conscience finds? Old man, I just go to move my muscles and bones. While Habu answered, he kicked Lin Yu's ankle hard, causing pain.

Lin Yu bared his teeth and glared at Habu, rubbing his ankle with his hand, the pain was painful, and it did not delay him from following the team. Stretching his neck and looking forward, Abu was happily sitting on the Kodo Beast and looking around, Lin Yu asked Habu in a low voice.

"I said, it's just a little fight with the terror totem, as for letting Haken go with him? That's a bit of a fuss. ”

"You know what! The Icehoof Well is the sacred well of Bloodhoof Village. If the Totem of Terror wants to pollute the Icehoof Well, he will definitely send a shaman. If Haken doesn't follow, these few small shrimps are not enough to be a spoonful of stewed totems. ”

"What's the use of the well?"

"Mogaure is a plain area with arid soil, and there are hardly any crops to grow here. The water produced by the Icehoof Well has the effect of changing the properties of the soil, and crops can grow well on the land moistened by the water from the Icehoof Well. If that well is contaminated, it will be difficult for Bloodhoof Village to feed its people. ”

"So? Nahab, do you think that once we fight the terror totem, who will have the greatest chance of winning? Lin Yu asked the question he was most concerned about, if Habu told him that the victory of the terror totem was great, then Lin Yu would definitely not hesitate to take Habu back to the village immediately.

"Well, it's supposed to be us. The equipment of the Terror Totem is not sophisticated enough for us. And just polluting the Icehoof Well, the Terror Totem would never send a very powerful shaman to do this. The most important thing is that with Haken here, we will definitely not lose. He is a very powerful wind shaman. ”

"He's so good?" Lin Yuhu glanced at Habu suspiciously.

"Of course. Being able to be the leader of Bloodhoof Village, Haken's strength is naturally unquestionable. ”

"What about Chief Hawkwind? Didn't you say he had a good relationship with Haken? Isn't he so powerful? Lin Yu suddenly remembered the Eaglewind Chief who was guarding the Nalaqi camp like a living dead, and asked Ha Pudao.

"Eagle Wind, if it was in the past, he was about the same as Haken, but now, I'm afraid he is not as good as Haken." Habu said regretfully

"Why is that?"

"The boar people have been infesting the Nalachi camp, and although they are small, they are numerous. In order to protect Naraki, Eagle Wind's old fool has been using his life to maintain the burning of the scorching totem. After maintaining it for so many years, his vitality and strength have been greatly reduced, and of course he can't compare with Haken. ”

When Habu said this, the expression on his face was very complicated, with regret and anger. Lin Yu saw that Habu's mood was wrong, and quickly shifted the topic to the terror totem.

"I don't understand what the Minotaurs who joined the terror totem are trying to do. Not to mention fighting with his own people, he is also burdened with all kinds of infamy, why bother. ”

"Strength." Habu said, staring ahead.

"What did you say?" Lin Yu didn't hear clearly, looked at Habu and asked.

"Boy, you should know what a professional is, right?" Habu turned his head to look at Lin Yu and asked.

Lin Yu nodded. Tana had told him something about the profession.

"The conditions for becoming a professional are very demanding, and many people are eliminated at the first condition."

"On what terms?"

"Qualifications. If you want to become a professional, you must have excellent qualifications. Take the warriors, for example. If you want to become a warrior, you must first have a strong physique, excellent combat perception and tenacity. It is good to say that physical fitness and quality can be obtained through acquired training, but it is difficult to cultivate combat understanding through acquired training. Lohaku of Nalaqi's camp, he is a minotaur with the qualifications to become a warrior, the most important of which is his understanding and understanding of combat is superhuman. But alas, he gave up a rare opportunity. ”

"What does this have to do with the Totem of Terror?"

Habu glanced at him dissatisfied, slapped his head, and said.

"I haven't finished speaking, what are you doing? The biggest difference between a professional and a regular warrior is that a professional can learn powerful skills, using a hunter as an example. There are three types of hunters. Beastmaster, Survival and Shooting. Ordinary hunters can only reach a maximum of 60% fit with pets, but Beastmaster Hunter is different, their fit with pets can easily reach more than 80%, and even some powerful Beastmaster hunters can fit perfectly with pets. The Beastmaster hunts on its own with inferior abilities to survive and shoot. But in terms of the degree of tacit understanding with the beast, the beast king hunting should be the first. Habu raised his eyebrows a little proudly, seeing that Lin Yu was confused, he didn't understand what he was doing at all, he was annoyed in his heart, kicked him in the calf, and roared in a low voice.

"Idiot! To put it simply, survival hunting and shooting hunting with their own pets, one plus one equals two, and the beastmaster with their own pets, one plus one is greater than two, do you understand! ”

Lin Yu was still at a loss, and when he saw Habu's unhappy face, he immediately nodded violently and said.

"I understand this, but what about survival and shooting?"

"Survival Hunters are good at setting all kinds of powerful traps, and they are better at jungle combat than Beastmaster Hunters. As for shooting hunting, I personally think that there is no need for such hunters to exist at all. Although survival has a unique advantage in setting traps, in the final analysis, you still have to rely on your own pet protection and attack. Shooting hunting is different, their own ability is the most powerful of the three series of hunters, so strong that they don't need the help of pets at all, and they can do everything by themselves. This hunter has lost its most primitive essence. Among the three series of hunters, only the Beastmaster Hunter is the real hunter, and the remaining two lines are not good. ”

Habu pouted and said to Lin Yu with a look of me looking down on shooting and hunting.

"Hab, what kind of hunter do you belong to?"

"Me?" Habu pointed to his proud face and said arrogantly.

"Of course I'm a true hunter, the Beastmaster Hunter."

"Damn! I don't brag about it, I don't take you to be such a bull B. Always praising the Beastmaster Hunt, belittling survival and shooting, and co-authoring yourself is the Beastmaster Hunter. Shameless. Lin Yu scolded Habu's shamelessness in his heart, and reminded him.

"Hab, I digress, I'm asking about the Totem of Terror."

"I know!" Habu stretched out his foot and was about to kick Lin Yu, but he had already taken precautions, and he had already opened the distance between himself and Habu, so he reluctantly put down his foot, and Habu continued.

"It is very difficult for ordinary warriors to become professionals. But adding the terror totem is different. The Terror Totem is generous to its members, and anyone who joins the Terror Totem organization can easily learn the powerful skills of professionals, and it is also for this reason that many Minotaurs with poor qualifications choose to join that terrorist organization, thinking that after learning powerful skills, they can be comparable to professionals. But what they don't know is that with their qualifications, even if they enter the terror totem, they can only learn some skills that are too basic to be rudimentary. In order to become a professional, people who join the terror totem are actually deceiving themselves. ”

"But they're a lot stronger than they were, aren't they?" Lin Yu asked.

"Yes, but that strength comes at a price. After adding the Terror Totem, these people will be engraved with the imprint of the Terror Totem. Once the mark of the terror totem is on his back, then he will not be able to wash it off for the rest of his life, and he will be abandoned by his clan in this life and become the enemy of the whole continent. ”

Habu sighed, Lin Yu found that there seemed to be something more in his eyes? It seems to be tears.

"Hab, you seem to know a lot about the terror totem." Lin Yu said tentatively.

Habu froze, he stood still, his eyes hollow. It wasn't until Haken's team almost disappeared into Lin Yu's eyes that Habu spoke.

"yes, I know the terror totem very well. Because I used to be an instructor there. ”

"Instructor!?" Lin Yu shouted in surprise. Habu turned his head, looked at Lin Yu with a lost expression, and said with a bitter smile.

"Yes, the instructor. I used to work as a Hunter Instructor at Terror Totem and was responsible for teaching Terror Totem members hunter techniques. ”

After speaking, Habu slowly took off the shirt on his body, and under Lin Yu's surprised gaze, he pointed to the mark of a sharp blade on his left chest.

"This is the mark of the totem of terror, and the shame of my life."

"Hab, how could you be someone from the Terror Totem Organization! That's impossible! Lin Yu shouted, he couldn't believe that this minotaur who had the best relationship with him in Bloodhoof Village was actually a terrifying totem person.

Putting on his shirt, Habu said to Lin Yu with a smile.

"I used to be a totem of terror, but not anymore. I'm just an old fisherman in Bloodhoof Village now. It has nothing to do with the terror totem. ”

Hearing this, Lin Yu calmed down and patted Habu's back, Lin Yu asked.

"I'll just say it. How could the terror totem be blind to you. Oh, by the way, didn't you say that the terror totem is not accepted? Why are you still living in Bloodhoof Village? ”

"All these things are due to the leader of Haken." Habu said abruptly and began to tell Lin Yu his story.

"That was 10 years ago. Haken and I, Eagle Wind, are the same group of minotaurs who have undergone the trial of the Thunder Cliff Professionals, and we are very lucky. We both succeeded, Haken and Hawkwind became shamans with elemental soul communication, and I, the Beastmaster hunter.

After the Thunder Bluff Trials, new professionals will need to be assigned to different camps. Most of my friends left Mogaure. Some went to the barren land, and some went to Stonetalon Mountain. I, Haken and Eagle Wind did not want to leave home, so I stayed in Mogaure. At that time, only Bloodhoof and Nalachi camps in Mogore's camp lacked leaders. The leader of Bloodhoof Village was killed in battle with the Terror Totem, and the Nalachi camp was too far away and too small for anyone to go to that place. Hawkwind made a decision that was incomprehensible to me and Haaken at the time, and he was going to take up the position of leader at Camp Nalachi, and he was very adamant. Savin, who was in charge of assigning the camp, agreed to Hawkwind's request. Haken chose to go to Bloodhoof Village, the largest camp in Mogoray outside of Thunder Bluff. Because Bloodhoof Village is much larger than Camp Nalaqi, Saven sent me to Bloodhoof Village as a hunter instructor. After the assignment, Haken and Hawkwind had a big fight. Believing that Bloodhoof needed a powerful flame shaman to sanction the Terror Totem, Harakon resolutely rejected Haaken's idea and set off for Naraki's camp that day.

The day after Hawkwind left, Haken and I went to Bloodhoof Village as well. After arriving at Bloodhoof Village, Haken did not allow me to make a move, and he used powerful and violent means to subdue all the minotaurs in Bloodhoof Village, and claimed to make the Terror Totem pay for it with blood. That night, Haken called me to his tent, and he wanted me to join the Terror Totem as an internal response, and learn about the Terror Totem's strength so that I could better fight the Terror Totem. I promised him. Life in Bloodhoof Village was too boring for me, I needed a challenge, I needed to fight. Late that night, I escaped after killing seven Battle Kodormon from Bloodhoof Village, seriously wounding a dozen of the guards. In order to make this scene more realistic, Haken even burned part of his life force and summoned the air element to chase me down. In the battle with the air elementals, I was victorious, but I was also mortally wounded and fled to the jungle on the edge of Mogaure. It was also there that I met the leader of the Mogaure Terror Totem, Zankin. He saved me and brought me back to the stronghold of the Terror Totem.

In the stronghold of the Terror Totem, he asked me why I had been hit so hard. I deceived him and told him that I was not happy with Thundercliff assigning Haken to be the leader of Bloodhoof Village. I told him that I was a hundred times better than Haken in every way, so why should I be an ordinary instructor and he should be an admired leader. Zamkin believed me, because this kind of thing is a common occurrence in the Minotaur race, and he asked me if I would like to be a member of the Terror Totem and take revenge on Thunder Bluff, Bloodhoof Village, and Hakon. I agreed to him and stayed at the Terror Totem as a hunter instructor. When I said yes to him, I was branded with the mark of the Totem of Terror.

I've been in the Totem of Terror for over three years. Over the past three years, I've seen countless minotaurs fighting, fighting, and dying. I also participated in the battles, fighting my people. Before Hamburg, I had four pets, all of whom were my most loyal and reliable companions, but all of them died in the battle between me and my people. By the end of the day, I had begun to become numb to death, to fight calmly, to accept the death of my people calmly. I have trained many capable hunters for the Terror Totem, and they are all excellent hunters of the Terror Totem, and their prey is my people.

Later, by chance, I found an opportunity to break away from the totem of terror. On that day, most of the members of the Terror Totem participated in and harassed the operation of Thunder Bluff, and only me and Tuna were left in the stronghold, a newcomer who had only been a few months after joining the Terror Totem. ”

When he said Tuna, Habu's eyes were confused, Lin Yu guessed that this Tuna must have an unusual relationship with Habu, he didn't speak, Habu needs a quiet listener now. Lin Yu knows this very well.

Habu paused, exhaled softly, and continued

"Tuna is a very weak female minotaur, but she is beautiful. It was the first time I met Tuna, and she was from another location. The first time I saw her, I fell in love with her. I talked to her. During the conversation, I learned that Tuna had been lured into the Terror Totem, that she wanted to escape, that she wanted to go back to Stonetalon Mountain, where her home was. Tuna's thoughts coincided with mine. I told her that if she wanted to get out of here, today was the best time because it was just me and her in the stronghold. Tuna agreed, and she was willing to escape from this filthy place with me. I led her through the jungle, and although I met a few patrolling guards along the way, I easily killed them and made it all the way back to Bloodhoof Village. At the first moment, I went to find Haken, the leader of Bloodhoof Village. ”

As he spoke, Habu stopped suddenly, his eyes filled with hatred, and his whole person exuded a palpitating horror. After taking out the bow and arrows from his body and shooting them into the sky with all his might, Habu felt a lot more comfortable and put the bow and arrows away again, and Habu said with a sigh.

"I went to find Haken. He was also glad that I was back, because my return meant a lot of useful news for him. His strength is much stronger than when I left, and I can feel from my breath that he is much more powerful now than before. I briefed him on the Terror Totem's strength and introduced him to Tuna, hoping that he would allow Tuna to stay here. However, Haken rejected me. He told me that the people of the Terror Totem were not eligible to stay in Bloodhoof Village, and that Tuna had to leave.

I was furious and I demanded that Haken must allow Tuna to stay in Bloodhoof or I would leave with her. Haken still rejected me, he summoned the wind elemental to try to trap me, I couldn't break free from the wind elemental, and then I realized that Haken's strength had far surpassed mine. He called the guards, dragged Tuna away, and threw her outside the village. In order to trap me, Haken unleashed his life force and made a deal with the wind elemental. The wind elemental trapped me for one day, and the next day I broke free, and I ran to Bloodhoof Village to find Tuna, but I couldn't see her for a long time. When I returned to the camp in despair, the camp guard told me that the Terror Totem had given me a gift, right at Hakon. I felt something was wrong in my heart, and I ran to Haken's tent, and it was Tuna who was lying on the ground. Her whole body was covered with horrible wounds, and she was no longer breathing.

Haken handed me a note telling me that it was given to me by the Totem of Terror. I opened the note, and there was only one sentence written on it.

"Betrayer, you will be punished by the same terror totem as Tuna"

I tore the note to shreds, and I carried Tuna and buried her in the grave in Bloodhoof Village. Haken told me to take revenge on the Terror Totem, and I didn't say yes. I don't hate Terror Totem, and after three years in that evil and terrible organization, I know very well what Terror Totem does. Although Tuna was killed by the horror totem, in my opinion, the real murderer is Haken, and it was his refusal to take Tuna in that caused her to lose her life and make me lose the person I love the most. I hate Haken, I hate Bloodhoof Village. But I can't betray Bloodhoof, it's my home, I can hate it, but I can't hurt it. I shot Haken through one of Haken's arms with a bow and told him I would never fight for Bloodhoof Village, ever! From the time Tuna died, I knew that I had lost the glory and faith that belonged to the Minotaurs. Every day for the rest of my life will be spent in endless pain. ”

After Habu finished saying this, he took a long breath and said to Lin Yu with a reluctant smile.

"Human, that's my story."