758, Dragon Slayer
Zalen's answer made his clever second son slightly startled, because his answer was obviously different from Yingdu's conjecture.
And at this moment, Gao Fei, who was floating in the universe and watching coldly, couldn't help but smile unexpectedly.
"Zaron, you're such an interesting guy......"
"But then again, what kind of obsession do the children of the earth have with slaughtering salamanders......"
Ten days later.
Zalen's son did as he requested, and he bought back six sets of fine leather armor, all made of the full skin of a salamander that had not been dead for a long time, and could defend against flames and ordinary weapons.
At the same time, Zaron has also completed the creation of the remaining five swords, which he has given to his three sons and two apprentices, who will form the new monster-killing team of the Children of the Earth. It has been 300 years since the last team that dared to challenge the salamanders was established.
Heavily armed, Zaren brought enough dry food and closed his pottery shop, but he still owed three batches of pottery to the next village that could not be fired, but he did not plan to finish it either.
"I'm the bravest hero of the Children of the Earth, how can I be allowed to burn pottery?"
Zaren didn't really like pottery, he became a pottery master purely to support his family, and he grew up admiring hunters who brandished spears and rushed at salamanders, which he felt were real manhood.
Although the hunters died tragically under the flames of the salamander, Zaron always felt that this was the way a man should die.
Determined to become heroes, Zaron and his children trekked hundreds of miles to the nearest salamander's habitat.
In fact, there are far fewer salamanders on the main road now than there were hundreds of years ago, and although Zaron doesn't know why, the truth is in front of him.
Although Zaren wanted to be a hero, he was not as presumptuous as his ancestors, and he carefully probed the salamanders before invading their habitat.
According to his investigation, there are a total of six adult salamanders and nine juvenile salamanders in this habitat, and the juvenile salamanders pose no threat to Zalen, but the adult salamanders have a certain lethality.
The Children of the Earth have a natural fear of such terrifying beasts, and Zaron is no exception, and before he could attack them, Zaron was already covered in a cold sweat......
Zaren's three sons and two apprentices were even worse than him, the second son, Ying, turned pale with fright, and his eldest brother, Bol, simply sat on the ground.
"Dad, you probably don't know how our ancestors died, they recklessly hunted salamanders in the first place, almost resulting in genocide!" Bor whispered.
"You coward! I don't have a son like you! Zaron scolded angrily, "You have no idea how long I have been waiting for this day, this is the dream of every child of the earth - to prove his courage and strength!" ”
The apprentice Vavahar said worriedly: "But teacher, are you sure that we can prove our courage and strength?" Instead of being swallowed as food by these monsters? ”
"Of course!" After Zarun calmed down, his whole person was full of fighting spirit, his determination to make a difference overcame his fears, and he also tried to infect his apprentices and sons with his fighting spirit.
"Look at the weapons in your hands, look at these divine swords made of God's bones, they can easily cut through the fur of salamanders, there's no doubt about it......"
"These fire-breathing monsters are just brainless guys, we are cunning hunters, brave and resourceful warriors, these monsters will never be our opponents, I promise you!"
Before Zaryn could finish his sentence, a salamander in the distance suddenly roared loudly, no one knew what reason it was roaring, but this roar brought fear to the children of the earth deep into the bone marrow.
It's all written in their genes, the fear that arises after being chased by salamanders from generation to generation, and this fear is difficult to overcome and cannot be shaken off.
"Damn!!"
Zaron's eldest son, Bol, was completely panicked, and despite his father's obstruction, he turned and ran down the mountain.
However, instead of making himself safer, he attracted the attention of the salamander in the distance.
These salamanders did not notice these ill-intentioned sons of the earth at first, after all, the sons of the earth are cunning, they wear salamander leather armor that emits the smell of salamanders, and they are curled up in the thick grass, they are very safe.
But when Bol nervously escaped, they were exposed.
The salamanders first tilted their heads to look at the fleeing Boul, because Boll was so strange - although this guy looked like a small salamander, the way he walked and the sound he made were obviously the children of the earth.
Then the salamanders roared again and chased after Bol, who was large but not slow at all.
"Aang!"
"Aang!"
The salamanders let out a deafening roar, each roar made Bol's legs weaker, and in the case of weak legs, Bol couldn't run far at all, plus the speed of these salamanders was not slow, which made Bol more and more panicked.
Seeing his son being hunted by salamanders, Zaren had no choice.
"Bol, you idiot!"
After that, he brandished his sword and ordered loudly: "Follow me to charge!" Kill all these evil monsters! ”
Zaren stepped forward with his sword, but his apprentices and sons hesitated in place, not because they didn't want to save their brother, but because their legs were weak.
Of all of them, Zaron was the only brave warrior who aimed his sword at a smaller female lizard standing beside him, and the lizard's attention was all drawn to Bol, so he didn't notice Zaron's arrival.
"Suffer death!!
With his sword in both hands, Zaren stabbed hard at the female lizard's neck, only to hear a "poof" sound, and the long sword stabbed into the female lizard's neck, splashing puffs of blood.
"Hmm......"
The painful female lizard softened on the spot, she didn't even have a chance to spew flames, and Zaron couldn't hide the excitement on his face when he saw that he had successfully slain the dragon.
"I killed the first salamander!"
"I killed the first salamander!"
"I made it! Children of the Earth have succeeded! I am the hero of the Children of the Earth! ”
Seeing Zaren heroically slaying the dragon with the God's Bone, his sons and apprentices finally gained confidence, and instead of hiding behind their backs to watch, they prepared to enter the battlefield.
Heroes of the Children of the Earth, they want to do it too!
But at this moment, Bauer's screams were heard not far away.
"Oh...... Father, help! Help me! ”
Zaron looked up and saw that Bol had been pounced on by two salamanders that had stepped on Bol's chest, tried to bite his neck, and breathed fire at his body.
Bol's body is fireproof, but his head is not, and if his head is sprayed with flames, then he will definitely die.
"Damn it, Bol, you're fighting back! You're fighting back! Fight back with your sword and the bones of the gods! ”
Zaren ran in the direction of Bol with his long sword, and commanded him loudly, and Bol was also inspired to be ruthless at the moment of life and death, picking up the long sword in his hand and stabbing it wildly in the salamander's stomach.
"I've fought with you!!"
Bor roared loudly, the long sword in his hand stabbed the salamander's relatively weak stomach again and again, and blood flowed down the salamander's stomach, and one of the salamanders was almost unable to bear it.
But this did not save Bol's life, he could only fight back, but he could not dodge.
Another salamander spewed fire directly at his skull, scorching his skull.
"Ah!!!!h
In pain, Bor let out a hoarse scream, and then lost his voice completely.
The poor boy's worst fears finally happened, and he became food for the salamander, which burned his head and swallowed it in one gulp.
"Gaba, Gaba......"
Zaren's eyes were already red when he was chasing after him.
"You damn brute!"
The long sword stabbed out, and Zaron killed a lizard again, and the salamander next to it had already been stabbed in the stomach by Bol, and it obviously couldn't survive.
Bol's death became a crucial sacrifice, which not only activated Zaron's anger, but also made the other children understand their situation.
Cowardice and running for their lives can only lead them into the abyss of death, and only by taking up arms and resisting can they save their lives!
So under the leadership of Zaron's second son, Yingdu, the rest of the children joined Zaron's ranks, waving the god bones in their hands and angrily pounced on the salamanders that were spewing fire.
The apprentice Vavahar was wearing leather armor on his body, which was able to withstand the burning of the flames, but his hands were not protected, and his hands were burned by the flames.
But for a pottery apprentice, the scorching of flames was the most inconspicuous injury, and even when his hands were swept by the flames, Vavahar did not let go of his sword.
"Die, you wicked monsters! Go to hell! ”
Vavahar fought alongside his master, stabbing two salamanders to death with his sword, followed by a lizard in the hands of Yingdu, thus slaughtering all the adult salamanders.
The remaining juvenile salamanders are barely combative, and handling them is like clearing the battlefield.
A fierce battle has finally ended, and the pottery master Zaren has become the first child of the earth to kill a salamander on the continent.
But there was no joy in Zalen's heart at this time, his heart was already filled with pain, and he looked back at the black, black, headless corpse lying on the ground, which was his son, the child he had once regarded as the pearl of his palm.
To prove his mettle, to kill the evil salamander, Zaron paid such a heavy price, is it really worth it?
Zaren was in no mood to weigh it up, he just knew that his current mood was complicated, indescribably complicated.
At this time, Zarun's second son, Yingdu, walked up to his father and gently hugged his father's shoulder.
"Father, your wish has come true, we have killed the salamander, we have proved our mettle, we are the heroes of the children of the earth."
Youngdo was not immersed in grief like his father, and he still kept his sanity.
On the long sword in his hand, the blood of the salamander was still ticking and ticking to the ground.
Zaren glanced back at his second son, then nodded slightly, "Yes, my child, we are heroes now. ”
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Three days later.
Zaron returned to their village, the village of the mountain breeze, with the surviving children and the remains of the salamanders.
At this time, the people of the village are looking for them, because Zaren has disappeared for no reason, especially if he has defaulted on orders from the next village.
When Zaren returned to the village, the elders and villagers immediately came to his house and surrounded him.
Before everyone could ask, the body of the salamander that Zaren had dragged back made everyone stunned.
"Zaron, this is ......" The Great Elder looked at the body of the salamander thrown on the ground in shock, the corpse did not look like the remains of a salamander that had died of natural causes picked up by ordinary hunters.
The body was in good condition, and there were long and narrow wounds on the body - this was obviously a hunted salamander, and it seemed that the one who hunted the salamander was Zaren, the pottery master who had been unknown in the village.
"Zaron, you killed these salamanders?" The second elder was a little clever and hurriedly asked.
"Yes." Zaren doesn't deny it, "These salamanders were killed by a few of us. ”
"It can't !!" Among the villagers, there was a negative voice, "It is a recognized fact that the children of the earth cannot defeat the salamanders!" ”
"That's right, salamanders are the toughest creatures on this continent, and no one can defeat them......" was the second villager's denial.
Instead of getting angry, Zaren calmly walked to the middle of the crowd, raised his sword in the air, and kicked the body of the salamander on the ground.
Immediately after, he raised the sword in his hand and poked it hard at the salamander's stomach!
Poof!
The sword pierced through the salamander's body, and the already sticky dark black blood flowed out slightly.
"Say the sons of the earth can't defeat the salamanders? That was a long time ago, and I can tell you now that the sons of the earth can defeat the salamanders! And I'm an example! ”
"I've wanted to prove my courage and strength for a long time, and now I've proven it, now, bow down to your heroes! You slaughtered the heroes of the salamanders!! ”
Seeing that Zaren was really able to pierce the heavy skin of the salamander, the villagers at the scene were all shocked.
Several elders looked at each other even more, as if they couldn't believe the facts in front of them.
Everyone didn't rush to bow down to Zalun, because Zaren was just an inconspicuous potter in their eyes, and even if he came back with the body of the salamander now, he was still an inconspicuous potter in everyone's eyes.
The Second Elder was well-informed and intelligent, and he carefully observed the weapon in Zalen's hand, a material he had never seen before.
It stands to reason that Zaron was not the first child of the earth to dare to provoke salamanders, nor was he the first hunter to try to hunt salamanders, but why did Zaron only succeed? Is it just because he's more brave and good at fighting, or maybe he's luckier?
Neither.
The reason why he was really able to defeat the salamander was probably the sharp sword in his hand.
"Wait, Zaron, this weapon is...... Did you build it yourself? Why haven't I seen it before? The second elder looked at Zaren with a smile and asked.
"Oh, it's the bones of the gods." Zaren said bluntly, "It's a new ...... I've discovered."
"We defeated the salamanders, we are the heroes of the Children of the Earth, and as long as you follow us, there is nothing to fear!" - Before Zaren could tell the secret of the God's Bone, the clever second son Yingdu immediately interrupted the second elder's temptation, he raised the long sword in his hand high, and said, "My father will lead the son of the earth to glory again!" ”
"Oh, Yingdu, you have too many mouths." The second elder glanced at Yingdu, shook his head and said, "Didn't you see that I was talking to your father about something important?" I'm asking him about God...... God's bones? Something about these weapons. ”
Ying didn't pay attention to the second elder, but just turned around and looked at his father wildly, but fortunately, Zaren was not a stupid person, and he immediately understood what his son meant.
He regretted that he had not colluded in his confession before returning to the village, so that now he was being questioned by his neighbors, and he was quite caught off guard.
But fortunately, Zaren was in a hurry, and immediately coughed, and said loudly: "This is the treasure that my ancestor, the fire god Quart, told me a few days ago, and this treasure is buried in the deep mountains not far away. ”
"My ancestor Quart told me - son, I have prepared for you six treasures that can kill salamanders, and I hope that you will be able to take these treasures and lead the children of the earth to prosperity again. Son, our children of the earth were once the greatest species in the land, and the appearance of the salamander brought disaster to us, and now I have brought down my protection, and you will regain your prestige under my protection! ”
After listening to Zalun's "sincere" narration, the villagers were stunned, and the Great Elder looked at Zaren in disbelief and asked in a low voice, "Zalun, are you really ...... Is it really a descendant of the Vulcan god Quart? ”
"Of course, I'm the seventh-great-great-great-grandson of the Vulcan God Quart." Zaren swore an oath, "Otherwise, how could I make a living from fire?" What about pottery burning? ”
Hearing Zaren say this, everyone began to believe a little, plus the weapon in Zalen's hand could easily cut through the skin of the salamander, which was indeed completely different from the previous weapons.
The Great Elder was a little shaken, looked up at Zaren and asked, "Then Zalun, are you ...... What exactly do you want to do? Do you want to lead us all to kill the salamanders? ”
Zaren shook his head and said, "No, I won't take you to hunt salamanders, but if you give me the village, I will make the Children of the Earth stronger!" ”
The elders thought for a moment and deliberated for a while, and instead of making a decision for the time being, they dismissed the crowd first.
Zaren also returned home with his children, and when he returned home, his second son, Yingdu, told his father that if the elders did not hand over the ruling power of the village the next day, they would take weapons and kill them all.
Zaron's suggestion frightened him, and he was reluctant to turn against his own villagers and even kill the former village administrator.
Yingdu told him that it was only their only chance, and if they didn't, they would end up in a very miserable end.
With such apprehension, Zaren couldn't sleep well all night.
Fortunately, the next morning, the difficult choice question did not arise - the village elders, after a night of heated discussions, decided to let the descendants of the god of fire, Zaren, who had killed the salamanders, lead them.
Although many people question the identity of the descendants of the god of fire and the identity of the descendants of the god of fire, after all, the orthodox descendants of the god of fire are now worshipped by the sons of the earth, but after seeing that the son of Zaron has the ability to slaughter salamanders, everyone is still willing to be taken over by him, and he will lead everyone to prosperity.
That's exactly what Zaron did, and after becoming the head of the village, he began to plan to expand the village's territory.
Originally, there was a very fertile land on the west side of the river, which was rich in delicious fruits, but because it was the habitat of salamanders, the children of the earth had to stay away from it.
Zaron took his son and the bravest hunter in the village to infiltrate the salamander's habitat and slay the terrifying monsters once again, and they also made the lizard skins they caught into leather armor and wore them on their bodies to improve their combat effectiveness.
In secret, Zaren created another batch of god bones, but this time he did not make the god bones into weapons, but into farming tools, so that the village not only improved the level of hunting, but also greatly improved the ability to farm......
Under the leadership of Zaron, the village became richer and stronger, and the number of villagers increased, and finally they directly named the entire village after Zaron, this whole tribe, and called it the Zaron tribe.
However, the greatest prosperity of the Zaren tribe was not given by Zaren himself, but by his son Yingdu after Zalen's death.
By the time Yingdu ascended to the throne, the villagers' loyalty to their family had reached an unprecedented level, because everyone had experienced the transition from poverty to prosperity, and everyone knew that it was the Zaren family who gave them the good life they have today.
Therefore, Yingdu no longer hid the secret of the god's bone from the villagers, and he began to teach the villagers how to forge the god's bone, and Zaren's apprentice Vawahar was in charge of the production, leading the villagers to mass-produce weapons made from the god's bone.
In this way, Yingdu soon assembled a powerful army, wearing armor made of salamander fur and armed with weapons made of god bones, and they rapidly expanded to the four corners of the continent, swallowing and absorbing other villages, absorbing those who had no use value, and killing or using them as slaves......
In just fifteen years, the British capital unified the entire continent, and he built a powerful and prosperous empire, which he called the Empire of Fire.
The expansion of the Fire Empire was unusually rapid, and soon the Sons of the Earth appeared on the plains of every continent.
The salamanders were eventually driven back into the mountains by the brave and powerful Children of the Earth, whose army made it all the way to the edge of the forest.
Further on, there is the dense rainforest, where the environment is not suitable for the children of the earth to live, and there are many wild beasts and poisonous insects.
However, the trees and fruits in the forest were very much needed by the Children of the Earth, so although the Children of the Earth did not invade the forest, they also sent a team into the forest to pick fruits and cut down trees.
The axe made from the bones of the gods cut down trees so quickly that the outer part of the forest was cut bare in just a few months, and one day, a lumberjack found that the tree was actually making painful noises under his felling.
"You are destroying nature...... this is the painful protest of the lumberjacks against the felled tree.