Chapter 32: Bribery and Sacrifice
When the two came to the dock, the crowd of onlookers had already blocked the dock where the pirate warship docked, and the guards wasted a lot of effort to clear a way for the two.
Walking into the crowd of onlookers, Bilbo couldn't help but gasp, only to see two carriages parked in the center of the crowd, one was already full of fish-man heads, and there were a large number of fish-man heads on the ground, and a dozen sailors and oarsmen were working hard to transport the fish-man heads down from the boat.
Bilbo's rough estimate is that there are no less than five or six hundred fish-man heads piled up on the docks and loaded on horse-drawn carts alone.
He couldn't help but ask, "Lord Celtic, how many fishmen have you killed?" ”
Adrian smiled, "We have exterminated three small tribes and killed almost a thousand. ”
Bilbo's mouth was wide open for half a day, and a thousand fishmen, even the elite army of the city-state of Leoni, would need five hundred men to successfully defeat, and at least half of the casualties would have to be paid. The fish-men run extremely fast, and even if they are defeated, it will be difficult to kill them all, and in order to achieve not one of them, it will take at least three thousand human troops to besiege them.
After half a ring, Bilbo incredulously pointed to a busy group of sailors and asked, "You rely on these people?" ”
Adrian said: "Of course not, I still have two companions, one of them is a powerful warrior, the other is a priest who has mastered powerful spells, the three of us rely on guerrilla tactics, little by little, it takes many days to exterminate a fish-man tribe, because we have few people, and the fish-man tribe attacked by us will not escape, and we will be wiped out by all." ”
After listening to Adrian's explanation, Bilbo felt even more incredible, even with his combat strength, he could only deal with about ten fish-man warriors at a time, this Adrian didn't seem to be very powerful, even if there were three of them, it would be an almost impossible task to nibble up a fish-man tribe of three hundred people.
Adrian summoned Gund and asked him to take the three captives out of the cabin.
Soon, three sleeping pigs and water thieves tied up like rice dumplings were taken off the boat.
With business in mind, Bilbo did not dwell on the number of fish-man heads, he returned to the sailor garrison with his captive, and soon after, a small group of sailors arrived at the docks, perhaps Bilbo had specifically told him, that the captain of this group of sailors was very polite to Adrian.
Nearly 1,000 fish-man heads fit three large carriages.
Adrian ordered Gunder and the sailors to return to the ship and wait, and he walked alone with the sailors to the city in three wagons.
When the carriage arrived at the central temple of the city, Bai Qi and Barrian, dressed as women, were already waiting at the entrance of the temple.
After the three of them met, they asked the guards at the gate to meet with the priest of Blanca, who was in charge of recording the exploits.
When the guards saw the mountain of fish-man heads piled up on the three carriages and the group of soldiers escorting the carriages, they were surprised and did not dare to slack off, and immediately went to the temple to report.
The soldiers soon returned, telling Adrian that the priest of Blanca had asked the three of them to enter with the booty, but the sailors were not allowed to enter.
After Adrian thanked the captain of the sailors, the three of them followed the carriage into the temple under the guidance of the guards.
The guards led them to a row of stone houses on the side of the temple, these stone houses were simple and sturdy, and many of them had people coming in and out from time to time, looking at the costumes, these people were monks of the temple.
The guards parked the carriage by the outer wall of the temple, and the three Adrians waited in the courtyard in front of the stone house, and he himself walked towards a stone house where guards stood at the door.
Bai Qi looked at the monks who walked by from time to time, and he found that these monks all had more or less spiritual power fluctuations similar to those of mages, but none of them reached the level of a formal mage.
The guard walked to the door of the stone house where the guards were standing, whispered something to the guards, and turned to point to the three Adrians.
The guard nodded, knocked lightly on the door, and walked inside.
Soon, the guards walked out again and beckoned to Bai Qi and the others.
The three of Bai Qi, led by Adrian, walked into the stone house.
The layout of the stone house is very simple, a large wooden table, a chair, and a bookshelf against the wall, on which are sparsely placed a few parchment books, although simple, but very neat.
Behind the wooden table sat a meticulously groomed middle-aged priest, and his white robe was also spotless.
Hearing the footsteps of Bai Qi and the others, he raised his head, glanced at the three of them lightly, and asked, "I heard that the guards said that you brought a lot of fish-man heads?" His voice was cold and stereotypical.
Adrian said, "Yes, Your Excellency, the three of us have exterminated three fish-man nests and killed nine hundred and seventy-five fish-men. ”
Priest Blanca asked, "Have you brought all the heads?" ”
Adrian said: "Brought it, it's in the yard." ”
Priest Blanca stood up and said, "Take me to see it." ”
Bai Qi took the opportunity to use the team channel of the soldier's insignia to say to Adrian: "Don't bribe this person. ”
Adrian was a little strange when he heard this, but he obediently pulled out the hand that was stretched into his arms.
The three men followed Priest Blanca out of the stone house and to the carriage parked under the temple walls.
At the beckoning of the priest of Blanca, seven or eight monks stepped forward to unload the fish-man heads from the carriage, place them in the courtyard, and count them.
Adrian wanted to bring the coachman up to help, but instead he was reprimanded by the priest Blanca, as if he was afraid that they would cheat.
The three of them could only stand from a distance and watch the excitement.
The monks worked silently, and seemed to be very afraid of the priest of Blanca.
Seven or eight monks wasted a long time, and finally counted the fish-man heads, the number was correct, the priest of Blanca nodded in satisfaction, ordered a monk to take care of the fish-man heads, and he returned to his stone house with Bai Qi and them.
Walking into the stone house, Blanca's attitude seemed to be much better, but it was still so rigid, he asked Bai Qi very carefully about the process of their extermination of the three fish-man nests, and carefully scrutinized and interrogated the reasonableness of their descriptions, and interrogated for half an hour, just talking made Bai Qi's three mouths dry.
In the end, he seemed to be sure that the three Adrians were not lying, and let them wait in the stone house and leave in a hurry.
Half an hour later, Priest Blanca hurried back.
He returned to his office, and without stopping for a moment, led the three Adrians towards the depths of the temple.
The deeper they walked into the temple, the taller and more majestic the buildings on both sides became, and when the three of them walked past a majestic stone hall with a height of nearly twenty meters, they couldn't help but look up, and the three of them really couldn't imagine how such a tall stone hall could have been built in this era.
Looking at the shocked expressions of the three of them, Blanca said proudly: "This is the main hall of the Senate of our city of Leony, and all the important decisions of Leony City are made in this hall. ”
Bypassing this hall, entering the eyes of Bai Qi and the three of them is a taller stone hall, the height of this stone hall is even more than thirty meters, a row of stone pillars in front of the main hall, each with a diameter of more than three meters, the stone pillars are covered with rough and rough style, majestic reliefs, under the eaves, the temple door is dotted with many statues of the same style.
Blanca pointed to the shocking large stone hall and said; "This is the temple of war in the city of Leony, for for your great high priest will summon you because of your outstanding deeds."
Bai Qi and the three of them followed Blanca into the main hall, and in the center of the empty hall stood a statue more than twenty meters high, which was a middle-aged man wearing full body armor and a majestic appearance, holding a shield in one hand and a spear in the other, looking into the distance.
This is the god of the Leonids, the god of war "Leonidas".
The three of them followed Blanca to the statue and followed him through the main hall and into a small door on the back wall of the main hall.
It is said that it is a small door, but compared to the tall walls, in fact, this door is more than three meters high and more than two meters and a half meters wide, which is definitely not small.
Behind the small door is a much smaller stone hall, on either side of the stone hall kneeling two rows of nuns who are silently praying, at the bottom of the stone hall there is a stone platform, on the high platform is covered with a red carpet, a woman in a golden priestly robe is sitting majestically behind a fine table, with her eyes closed and her hands clasped in front of her chest, also praying.
Blanca lightly led Bai Qi and the three of them through the stone hall, came to the stone platform, bowed to the woman on the stone platform, and waited quietly.
Seeing this scene, Bai Qi and the three of them could only wait quietly.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the woman opened her eyes.
This is a woman who does not see her age, her skin is smooth, her hair is jet black, there is no trace of old age, but her eyes are full of vicissitudes and wisdom.
This woman's facial features are very marked, if you look at it very openly, both eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth are very exquisite, but the combination of these beautiful Peugeot facial features on her slightly narrow face actually combines a look that only shows majesty, but has no trace of beauty.
This woman exuded the aura of a mage mixed priest at the same time, very powerful, so strong that with Bai Qi's strong will, she had to lower her head the moment she opened her eyes.
If he still has the determination to fight in the face of a strong man like Captain Will, in the face of this woman, maybe he will lose even the confidence he desperately has.
Bai Qi couldn't judge how strong this woman's strength really was, but he believed that her strength had definitely surpassed the E level.
Sensing that the woman opened her eyes, Blanca bent down deeply and said, "Your Majesty, these three are the citizens who exterminated the three fish-man nests and killed thousands of fish-man warriors. ”
The high priest glanced at them lightly and said, "I heard that one of the fish-people tribe you exterminated not only has a Chosen Warrior, but also a priest?" ”
Adrian said, "Yes, Your Excellency. ”
The high priest added, "The fish-man tribe with priests will go into the depths of the Sara River to collect the Sara pearl, have you found this blue pearl in this tribe?" ”
Adrian was slightly stunned when he heard this, Bai Qi's heart moved, he took a step forward, turned his hand and took out the melon-sized Suluo Wang Zhu from the storage space, held it up with both hands, and asked, "Your Excellency, are you talking about this thing?" ”
Seeing this Sura King Bead, a flash of brilliance flashed in the High Priest's eyes.
When Priest Blanca saw this huge pearl, his face was shocked in disbelief.