It didn't achieve the desired effect, which made Luthel a little anxious.

"Everyone be quiet and listen to me", at this time, Elder Lake on the side was no longer silent, and slowly spoke.

"Twenty days ago, Trist, that kid was here to analyze the enemy situation and propose our countermeasures," Lake said as he gathered his thoughts, "I still remember it vividly."

Luther's face was overjoyed, but he saw that his best friend nodded slightly, and motioned for him to finish speaking. Luthor said no more, quietly listening to his friend Elder Lake's analysis.

"That's a very good, not very good kid! He sees more and farther than our old men...... The trend towards tribal annexation is intensifying, and this is not subject to the will of the great chief...... In addition, the influence of the Black Blood Grand Leader is weakening...... Maybe one day, the current twelve tribes will merge into the same tribe with a 'real' big chief", Ryker deliberately accentuated the word 'real'. There was an uproar in the audience, and Luthel had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

"As we all know, since the goddess saved the world a hundred years ago, we have a total of forty or fifty tribes, but since more than forty years ago, the tribes have begun to annex each other...... Yes, I was only a teenager at that time, and I clearly remember that it was the Ice Nation, which was still the Ice Tribe, and they broke the rules first, and they went to war with the Snow Tribe, killing the Snow Tribe's leader and all the elders, forcing the Snow Tribe's people to join the Ice Tribe, and punishing those who disobeyed as slaves...... At that time, the great leader of the tribal alliance was assassinated by the mountain people, and by the time the new chief was elected to intervene with everyone, it was too late......", the old man recalled Trist's speech, repeated it little by little, and added. At the mention of the mountain people, and their flame-breathing weapons, a flash of fear flashed in Elder Lake's eyes.

"After that, the various tribes began to merge with each other, our tribe annexed the Chengguang tribe, and the Storm tribe annexed the White Gull tribe...... Even our old neighbor, the Guanghu tribe, merged with the raccoon tribe more than twenty years ago, when the raccoon tribe was besieged by the Ice Country and our tribe, and lost almost all of its warriors, and was almost taken down by us", Elder Lake pointed in the direction of the raccoon forest on the southeast side of the Red Maple Great Plains, "Because of their hatred for the Ice Country and our tribe, they joined our old neighbor the Guanghu tribe......"

Some of the more astute people have come back to the senses, and the elder who has lost his only son wants to ......

"A lot of dead relatives need to be buried, the ruined villages need to be rebuilt, we only have eight or nine hundred rescued warriors left, our farmland has been burned by the beasts of the Ice Country, and we are about to face a new food ......crisis", several neutral elders in the audience talked about this matter, and they couldn't help but feel related, and the leader of the hunting party, Sabaton, added worriedly, "Although the Storm Tribe was cleaned up by the big leader and was unable to stir up trouble in a short time, the Running Wolf Tribe has a deep grudge against us, There are also several tribes in the central part ......", his meaning is self-evident, and the diplomatic environment is not optimistic.

"The lesson of Phorus is still in front of us, he has made our tribe enemies everywhere, and he is not suitable to be our ......leader at all with strong force", and secretly apologized in his heart, Elder Lake turned to look at Sabaton and continued: "Sabaton, you are an excellent warrior, there is no doubt about that...... However, the tradition of our Red Maple tribe to choose their leaders only by force should end here...... I'm sorry, I can't support you as our new leader ...... with the lesson of Fruth", there is no doubt that it was not just the empty Sabaton who was empty of force, who was secretly changed by Lake and equated with the former leader Frus, Lake turned his head at the same time and looked at his best friend quietly, "For the same reason, although Trist has contributed to our tribe, but ......", Fruce died, and his last remaining descendants had just been expelled from the council hall, so Elder Lake became more and more careless.

Luthel reacted and opened his mouth to speak, "That kid, Trist, he doesn't just have force......

"Yes, you said that, that 'kid'", Elder Lake turned his head and glanced at everyone in the room, "Yes, Trist is very good, and he is also very smart, but, sorry, we are not a hereditary Ice Country, and we can't pin our hopes on a child!" ”

"You! Triste, he ......", Luthel blushed with anger.

Before the old friend could finish speaking, Elder Lake grabbed the conversation, "As Elder Luthor said, in the battle of Silvermoon Bay, the Light Lake tribe helped us when we needed it most...... The Light Lake tribe is not belligerent, their leader is good at dancing with long sleeves, and he has a good relationship with all the surrounding tribes, which shows that he is not a stupid person like Phorus, and their new leader Eric is also excellent! ”

"You can't let Eric be our leader, can you?" , A few soldiers in the audience who had not come back laughed and laughed, they felt that Elder Lake was definitely fainted by the pain of losing his son, so he would speak so incoherently. But they soon found that the rest of the people were not smiling except for them, on the contrary, they looked at Elder Lake with serious faces.

"Lake! You are crazy! An elder stood up in the middle of the table and pointed at Elder Lake, his cheeks twitching, as if he was a little incredulous.

Luthel on the side also looked at his old friend in disbelief.

The Red Maple Tribe was unable to elect a one-legged leader, and his old friend Lake, who had previously belonged, made it clear that he was unwilling to participate in the new leader race, and the choice of Trist was a decision made by Luthel in desperation, and he still wanted to maintain the integrity of the tribe through Trist, but at this moment, when he heard the words of his old friend, Luthor was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a while........

"I'm awake!" , Elder Lake sneered, "Why not let Eric be our new leader?" The two tribes have had a friendship for many years, so why can't they merge at this time? ”

When rescuing Silvermoon Bay that day, he vaguely promised to support the merger of the Light Lake Tribe and the Red Maple Tribe, but this was not the main reason. The men of the tribe attached great importance to honor, so at that time, he thought that his only son was still alive, so he had already committed suicide to apologize and give the Guanghu tribe and himself an explanation...... Until that night, he held the corpse of his only son, in pain, and all thoughts were lost......

After losing his only son, he did give up on himself at first, as others thought, but in the few days he had secretly observed, in the few days when he had isolated himself from the outside world, and in the few days when he had reminisced about Trist's speech, he had figured out a lot.

As Trist analyzed, the trend of tribal annexation is intensifying, and this is not subject to the will of the great chief...... In addition, the influence of the Black Blood Grand Leader is weakening...... Maybe one day, the current twelve tribes will merge into one tribe with a 'real' big chief........ And at this moment, the Red Maple Tribe has suffered a heavy blow, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is full of dangers, but these new leaders who have been elected are still intriguing, and even for two days, the number of dead and wounded has not even been counted, which is not even as good as Tristro Strong, who is still burying the dead with the soldiers of the Guanghu tribe! 'It's to prevent the plague', when asked, Trist replied without hesitation, 'For more people to survive', memory, the kid said this morning with a look on his face taken for granted.

Even if a large number of deceased relatives need to be buried, even if the ruined villages need to be rebuilt, even if they only have eight or nine hundred rescued warriors left, it is not enough to resist external threats, even if the farmland is destroyed and a new food crisis is brewing, the people of the Red Maple tribe are still obsessively concerned about the quarrel that took place in the council hall, how sad is this? Trist's kid once said that the Red Maple Tribe has never been just a name, but the people of the Red Maple Tribe, and the people are gone, is the Red Maple Tribe still the Red Maple Tribe?

Elder Lake spoke with a resolute gaze, "Since we are no longer able to survive the current crisis on our own, I propose that the leader of the Light Lake tribe Eric also serve as our leader, and the two tribes merge!" ”

"We have more than 30,000 tribesmen, and the Guanghu tribe is only in the early 10,000s, and after the merger, we will not suffer......

There was an uproar in the audience.