Chapter 20: The Kingdom of Savoy

After more than 1,000 years of exile in the world of Lepeilian, the people of Streamer have been waiting for the day when they will return to their homeland. After Mono left the forest, they began to prepare for their journey. Fortunately, almost all of the streamers who stayed in the Western Continent were in the form of Silvin, and they were relatively concentrated, unlike the clansmen in the Eastern Continent who were scattered all over the place, so there was no need to look around.

But the only tricky thing is that not long ago, on the day of the festival, around the day, a few patrolling clansmen accidentally fell into the trap set by the Sava people at the edge of the forest, and were probably taken directly to the capital of the Sava kingdom, Solong, and by the time the Sirvens noticed that there was a difference in numbers, the festival was about to begin. Moreover, the Savoyard people returned to Suolong by boat, so even if they wanted to, it was too late to chase them. In fact, the priest originally planned to set off to rescue Suolong as soon as the festival was over, but due to the sudden appearance of Mono and the child, it was delayed for a while. Strange as it may seem, the Savoyans had been openly challenged for decades, without trapping or using any dastardly means, and therefore the Sylvens had never defended them. But for some reason, it is really puzzling that this time it would suddenly be unusual.

Although there are twelve different forms of groups in the Streamer Clan, the total number of people is not large. The Sirvins numbered only about 10,000, while the Savoyans numbered about 2 million. Since ancient times, the Savoyard people have been known as a fighting people, and they have a stronger body and more vigorous combat effectiveness than the Lepelian people in the Eastern Continent. Therefore, no matter how powerful the streamers are, once they are entangled by the belligerent Sava people, it is not easy to get out in time.

The Sirwin priests did not want to go to war with the Savoyards, especially when they were about to return to their homeland, as a large-scale war would inevitably delay their journey. It is the duty of the priest to protect the safety of his people, and in order to solve the battle quickly and avoid unnecessary wars caused by head-on conflicts, he decided to sneak into Suolong, the capital of the Saviey Kingdom, and personally rescue the trapped people. But considering that he might suddenly fall into a situation where he was lacking skills, he brought one more person. This rescue can only be successful, and there can be no mistakes, and any delay now will be very disadvantageous for the Streamer Clan.

Over the millennia, the Lepelian people have continued to destroy the environment, resulting in fewer and fewer suitable habitats for the Streamers, even if they are strong enough to easily exterminate the Lepelians, enough to create a more suitable natural environment for their survival. However, if they do so, they will violate the rules of survival of the Streamers, and they themselves do not have the consciousness of occupation, and their only thought is to return to their homeland. Therefore, more than a thousand years is already the limit of survival in this world, and there is not much time left to squander.

Forty-six years have passed since they arrived in the Western Continent, but for the first time, the Sirvens have really penetrated into the hinterland of the Savoy Kingdom, especially the priests. Because, the Streamer Clan priests usually do not leave their people easily, and they shoulder the heavy responsibility of protecting the clan, unless they encounter a last resort. In fact, whether in the Eastern Continent or the Western Continent, the Streamers have never taken the initiative to start any war, and they will never easily approach the settlement of the indigenous groups unless necessary.

Suolong, the capital of the Sava Kingdom, is located in the middle of the east coast of the West Continent, where 80% of the population of the Sava Kingdom lives. More than 1,000 years ago, before the ancient Fiji explorers discovered the Western Continent, there were no footprints of the Lepelian people here, and it was ruled by a large number of giant beasts.

Originating from the northern part of the Eastern Continent, the Savoy were a nomadic hunter-gatherer among the indigenous people of the Lepelian world, who did not establish their own nation in the early days. The Savoy were strong, brave and good at fighting, and were a veritable fighting people. When they inhabited the Eastern Continent, the population of this ethnic group was actually not large, and it was only about 100,000 at its peak. Since ancient times, females and males have been engaged in hunting and warfare, so they cannot continue to breed the population like the sedentary farming people of Lepelian, but their overall combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

Between the 1st and 11th years of the Lepelian calendar, the ancient Kir king Yiwan Sukarlana used the power of this fierce northern fighting people to help him unify the eastern continent and promised the Savoy people many benefits. As a result, the Sava people, who were concerned about profit but had no city in their hearts, followed King Hill to fight in the north and south for a full eleven years. However, in the later stages, when King Hill's army grew larger and more centralized, and the Eastern Continent was about to be completely unified, the role of the Savoy was dispensable to him. As a result, King Hill disregarded the Savoyard even more, and even failed to fulfill his promise.

The simple and straightforward Savoyard tasted betrayal for the first time, and could not bear it, but did not have enough strength to contend with King Hill, so in anger he decisively parted ways with King Hill, and vowed never to die for Lepelian again. After eleven years of warfare, there were only about 80,000 Savoyard people left in the Eastern Continent at that time, and it was impossible to get any benefits from King Ciel, who already had an army of millions.

Fortunately, in the latter stages of the War of Unification, King Hill was busy figuring out how to deal with Mingu, the last great power in the south, and ignored the Savoyard for the time being. And the southern seafaring people, the Fitan, happened to discover the existence of the western continent during that extraordinary historical period. It's a pity that their joyful voices have not yet spread throughout the Eastern Continent, and the raging flames of war have already burned to their doorsteps. As a result, the Fiji people, who were deceived by King Hill to go to the East China Sea in order to save their homeland, lost the opportunity to occupy the Western Continent in that way.

The words "simple and rude" are the most appropriate words to describe the temperament of the Savoyard people. They don't really have any deep scheming, but that doesn't mean they're stupid, they're just too reckless and not very good at tricks. Of course, the Sava people also understood that after King Hill completely unified the Eastern Continent, they would definitely not simply let them go.

As it turned out, King Hill had intended to leave the Savoy until after the war was over. After all, it could be a scourge for his new empire to save this unruly people, who had a small population but a fighting power that could not be underestimated, until peacetime. Unless King Hill continues to give them favors, constantly grants them what they ask, and patiently assimilates them. However, after the war, King Hill, who was in great power, was obviously unwilling to invest more time and money in the Sava people, who had lost their usefulness, and it was better to simply wipe them out than to spend energy to tame and assimilate this fierce people.

However, King Hill underestimated the Savoyard and their determination not to bow to death. Since he can't get the benefits and equal status he deserves, and he can't fight King Hill, he can only choose to flee. The Savoyard people in the north and the Fidian people in the south had no intersection and had never dealt with each other head-on, but the Savoyard people, who were in a hurry to run for their lives, inadvertently learned the news that the Fiydiers had discovered the existence of the Western Continent. In fact, for a nomadic hunter who is not good at seafaring, the risk of aimlessly drifting on the ocean is tantamount to dying. But the Savoyards also had their own pride, and they would rather die in search of life than bow down to the treacherous Lepelians.

Therefore, during this important historical period when King Hill was busy reorganizing the pattern of the Eastern Continent and was tired of dealing with the last tenacious Minggu Kingdom, and the strong explorers of the Fiji tribe sailed to the East China Sea in order to save their homeland, the Sava people took advantage of the chaos to take away some of the ships anchored in the southern ports of the Fiji people, ventured across the West Sea, and left the Eastern Continent without looking back.

About 80,000 Savoyards, with their riding beasts, hunting beasts, were crammed into more than thirty old ships of various sizes, overcrowded, hungry and cold. In the midst of storms and disease, the Savoyard people, who had no sailing experience, endured unspeakable hardships, and finally after a little more than a year, probably in the 13th or 14th year of the Lepelian calendar, they were fortunately sent by the waves to the east coast of the western continent. There were about 80,000 people at the time of departure, but just over 10,000 remained at the time of landing.

Although they are far away from the war in the Eastern Continent, it does not mean that the Sava people can enjoy peace in the Western Continent from now on. Since the Western Continent was ruled by a large number of giant beasts, the Savoie people had to fight against and win life from the beasts that were far more ferocious than King Hill's army if they wanted to settle down in the Western Continent. The only thing to be thankful for is that the beasts of the Western Continent are not as scheming as the Lepeilian people of the Eastern Continent, as long as they compete with them in an upright manner, they will not lose the title of "Fighting Nation".

It took nearly a thousand years to finally conquer the Western Continent and establish their first country, the Kingdom of Savie, and the population of the entire nation has increased to about two million today. Of course, this number is still not worth mentioning compared to the Lepeilian people in the Eastern Continent. However, due to the aggressiveness of the Savoyard people, the high mortality rate, and the relatively poor medical technology, the population growth rate has been low. The population growth rate of the eastern continent has remained high for many years, such as the rapid development of medical technology and the conscious breeding of the population in order to improve competitiveness.

When the various giant beasts of the Western Continent were almost extinct, the warlike Sava people began to feel a little idle and panicked, and finally forty-six years ago, that is, in the year 1307 of the Lepeilian calendar, the first alien people of the Western Continent were ushered in.

The group of tall, super-combative aliens soon aroused the warlike nature of the Savoyard people. So, after conquering the giant beasts, the Savoyards began to try to conquer the aliens again. But unfortunately, aliens are obviously not as easy to conquer as beasts. In the past forty-six years, there have been dozens of battles, but the Savoyard have never really won a single one. On the surface, the two sides appear to be evenly matched, but whenever the Savoyards thought they were on the verge of victory, they invariably returned defeated. In short, there was no big defeat, but there was never a victory.

This kind of painless fighting was a serious blow to the self-confidence of the fighting people, especially after the aliens took over the Sirwinian forest. Unwilling to be defeated, the number of challenges of the Sava Edicts became more and more frequent, and it was necessary to distinguish the winner from the loser. The aliens, on the other hand, always dealt with it calmly, and when the Savoyard people were in trouble, they came out to deal with it reluctantly, and sometimes they didn't even bother to pay attention to them, and let them fight alone outside the forest, which was like teasing children. Perhaps, this is the main reason why the Savoyard people are more and more unwilling and persevering to go to the challenge.

The earliest civilization in the world originated in the central region of the Eastern Continent, and it was the Lepeilian people in the central region who created the current common language, writing and chronology in this world, especially after King Gushir unified the Eastern Continent. The Sava people, who fled to the Western Continent at that time, still use the same language and chronology.

From the first year of the reign of King Ivan Sukarana of Gushir, the year of unification has been 1,353 years. Nowadays, the Lepeilian language has undergone a lot of changes in the Eastern Continent, mainly in some pronunciations and new words. However, in the western continent, the Savoyard people still use the ancient Le Pelian language of more than 1,000 years ago, and except for a few new words, the pronunciation and accent have hardly changed compared to more than 1,000 years ago, because their way of life has not changed much.

In the Lepelian language, "Savoy" means rude, barbaric, uncivilized. In ancient times, this was actually the name of the Lepelian people in the central region of the Eastern Continent, and even in various historical documents, it was called so by the Lesserian people in the central region of the Eastern Continent. This is not surprising, because the Lepelians are accustomed to arrogantly treating other creatures as inferior beings, inferior people. Although the ancient Savoyard people also had their own language, they never created their own script, so most of the early Savoyard people could not read and hyphenate, and naturally there was no objection to this scornful title.

Later, in the process of King Hill's conquest, he gradually assimilated many ethnic minorities and gradually unified the language and writing of the Eastern Continent. Therefore, the Sava Edicts, who had followed King Hill in the southern and northern wars for eleven years, also had the opportunity to receive various knowledge, generally learned the common Lepelian language, and began to revise their own history books, but this also led to the gradual loss of the ancient Sava Edict. It was then that they finally understood the true meaning of the word "Savoy". However, the careless and open-minded Savoyard did not care about this, and just laughed it off. As far as they are concerned, as long as they are different from those sanctimonious Lepeilians, they do not find it difficult to accept. As a result, this derogatory term has been used as their family name to this day.

The distance from the Sylvenian Forest to Solong, the capital of the Savoy Kingdom, is equivalent to three times the distance from Limbo to the Sylvenian Forest. The Savoyard took about thirty days to travel overland from Solong to the Sylvenian Forest, and it was much faster to travel south along the coastline by boat. But at the speed of the streamers, it would only take about ten days at most to get to Suolong City by land, and it could even be even faster.

You know, about 80 percent of the Savoyard people are active in and around the city of Solong. The Streamers, who were two or three times taller than the Savoy, would be quite conspicuous if they suddenly appeared near the city, and it was likely that the news would have spread throughout the capital before they reached the center of Solong City. Therefore, this rescue operation required great risk, which is why the priest Sirwin had to come in person.

Xiliu and Xiluo are the only two Streamer Silven people born in the Lepeilian world in more than a thousand years. In terms of the time in the world of Lepeilian, they are all about 100 years old, but for the streamers, they are still very young. Xiliu once single-handedly repelled a 100-strong Saviere reconnaissance team from the edge of the Sylvenian forest to the outside of Solong City, and took the opportunity to explore around Solong City, and was familiar with the geographical environment of this area, so this time the priest took him along.

The terrain around Suolong City is relatively flat, and there are not many woods and hills for them to hide. Priest Sirwin and Sylvian were standing on the outskirts of the city of Solong, when the sun was about to set, but the sky was still clear, the night had not yet fallen, and the first moon was unusually bright against the blue sky.

"Priest, shall we move on?" asked Syliu, after all, time was of the essence.

"No, wait until after nightfall before you go into the city. ”

Now, where they landed was a sparse grove, with only a dozen or so trees swaying in the wind. Although it was a bit reluctant to call it a woods, it was the last barrier they could hide from before dark. It was still some distance from the real city, and in front of it was a vast meadow, and there was nothing left to hide their tall bodies.

Although the streamers are equally eye-catching both day and night, after all, after dark, there are relatively fewer Savoyard people who are outdoors. In this way, even if they can only barely rely on some buildings to cover their bodies after entering the city, it is much better than being directly exposed to the blue sky and white sun in full view. No matter how powerful the streamers were, it would take a lot of time to be besieged by the Sava Clan, who outnumbered them, but time was the most precious thing now. The most important purpose of this trip is to safely rescue those trapped tribesmen, and the later they are discovered, the more time there will be to rescue and escape.

The vast meadows surrounding the city are full of pastures of the Savoyard people. This nomadic hunter-gatherer people live on animal meat, and although they now rule the entire Western Continent and have settled in Suolong City for thousands of years, their habit of being surrounded by pastures has not changed.

Looking at the empty suburbs, Xiliu couldn't help but sigh regretfully: "The Sava people have cut down all the trees around Suolong City. ”

"The Savoyards don't care about the forest, because their livestock only eat grass, and they think that without the woods, the meadows can become more extensive and luxuriant......" The priest was as indifferent as ever, and it was difficult to catch his emotional fluctuations in his tone.

With the exception of the cold mountains of the north, the deserts of the west, and the wetlands of the south, the forest cover of the western continent is becoming thinner and thinner, especially in the city of Solong, where the Savoyard is inhabited by a large number of Savoyants, who treat the forest so crudely that almost all of it has turned into meadow as far as the eye can see. But this poor meadow did not show its original verdant and luxuriant, but gradually thinned and withered yellow.

More than a thousand years ago, the Sava people, who first landed on the Western Continent, had to fight many giant beasts in order to survive and gradually wipe them out, coupled with excessive hunting, the number of many large and medium-sized beasts was drastically reduced. I don't know that the abundant species that took millions of years to evolve were eaten and extinct by the Savoyard people in a few hundred years. Later, as the number of Savoyard people who ate meat as their staple food increased year by year, in order to satisfy the appetite of so many people, they continued to cut down forests, open up pastures, and even set fire to forests to promote the growth of new grasses, which again led to the extinction of many wild birds and animals that had lost their habitats. Therefore, in today's Western Continent, the most abundant animals are probably the livestock of the Sava people. The presence of these large numbers of livestock requires the consumption of more forage, as well as a large amount of fresh water resources. However, the Savoyard people did not realize that without the barrier of the forest and the nourishment of the water source, the meadows would sooner or later become deserts.