Chapter 367 [Something Wrong]
Something is wrong, something is very wrong! This is what He Ping thinks now, he came to the territory of the Flame Demon Tribe, and it has been a few days since he lived in the settlement area of the Flame Demon Tribe, and in the past few days, what he has seen and heard here has made him a little shaken by the common sense about the half-orcs he has mastered before, which is completely different from the half-orc tribe he knows, completely different from the Black Falcon tribe he stayed in before, and completely different from what he heard from elves and half-orcs.
The first is the temperament of the half-orcs, compared with the elves, the half-orcs are a martial race, which means that most of the half-orcs are more aggressive, easy to get hot-blooded, a little bit of something, always like to use fists to solve, and even between friends it is very popular to use fights instead of greetings, He Ping has seen countless fights between half-orcs in the days when he stayed in that marginal settlement of the Black Falcon tribe.
Like a fight between two half-orcs, it is commonplace, the other half-orcs are not surprised, no one watches the battle, no one to stop it, and generally nothing major happens, if many half-orcs get together to fight, then the management of the settlement may bring some people to stop it, but as long as no one is killed, they will not be too careful to stop it, if they really can't stop it, then just leave it alone.
It is not uncommon to be injured because of fights, and even half-orcs are seriously injured, the most serious one, He Ping has also seen a few times in the group fight, there are half-orcs because they rushed too forward, they were beaten too much, and they were seriously injured, and they were not sent to the place for treatment, they didn't have time to use the soul lamp, they didn't have time to let He Ping make a move, they had already died because of their injuries, and in the face of such a situation, the half-orcs didn't have anything special to say, just bury it, and even the murderer was not sanctioned.
In the half-orc tribe, not to mention the young half-orcs, even the old people and children are all people with strong blood, and they speak and act very aggressively, but in the fire demon tribe, everyone speaks softly, without the boldness of the half-orcs.
If the temperament is still only superficial, then after He Ping stayed for a few days, he also found a deeper wrong, that is, living habits, when he was in the marginal settlement area of the Black Falcon tribe, He Ping found that the living habits of the half-orcs are basically still in the primitive stage, the living utensils used are very rough, and the food they eat has not been processed much, just like meat, five maturity is already good, and many young people only eat three or four mature.
The same is true for other living habits, the half-orc dwelling is very simple, the better one has a stone house, the worse is only a wooden plank or thatched house, the dress is the same, there is no style to speak of, they are directly wrapped in coarse cloth or animal skin, like a half-orc child, they are all running around in the settlement with their bare butts, and only when they reach the level of a warrior, will they have some decent clothes.
But in this Flame Demon tribe's settlement, all the orcs have a fairly good set of clothes from childhood to old age, and they are mainly made of fabric, and the houses they live in are obviously specially designed and built, not simply piled up with materials, and the materials are mainly wood and stone, there are no simple thatched houses, and the food they eat is obviously more fine, and they are all fully cooked.
If these still don't explain anything, then the other biggest difference is enough to make He Ping feel that something is wrong here, the status of shamans is very high here, and the warriors are very ordinary, which He Ping already knew before coming here, and after coming to the settlement here, he realized how high the status of shamans is here, simply put, it is almost the same, even He Ping, an outsider, has a higher status here than the warriors.
And what led to all this was another problem that He Ping discovered, that is, in this half-orc tribe, there is actually a religion! The reason why shamans have such a high status is, of course, because shamans are very powerful, but that will only bring fear, and there will not be much respect, after all, orcs have been dominated by warriors for so many years, so most of the status of shamans is actually given by this religion.
There is no clear religious belief in the elven world, and there is no belief in a certain god in the civilization of the elves, strictly speaking, the belief of the elves should be the eternal land where the elves were born, for example, the Noldor elves believe in the Eternal Tree Merione, and the belief of the Vanya elves is naturally the eternal light Amasasia, as for the orcs, according to the information obtained in the Black Falcon tribe before, and the information obtained from the elves, the half-orcs do not have any faith, Naturally, there is no religion.
But in the Flame Demon Tribe, He Ping found that in this tribe, there is a religion called the Demon God Sect, and the power of this religion is very large, it can be said that all the orcs in the Fire Demon Tribe are believers in the Demon God Sect, therefore, the Yan Demon Tribe can be said to be ruled by this religion, basically in a state of theocracy, there is no strict distinction between theocracy and political power, and the shamans are all clergy of this religion, so they are also the leaders of this tribe, so they will have such a high status, Respected by the orcs of the tribe.
According to He Ping's understanding, in the doctrine of the Demon God Sect, the main god of belief is the Great Demon God Baal, and under the Great Demon God Baal, this Demon God Cult also believes in many other demon gods, these demon gods represent different realms, and the fire demon tribe needs to go to the temple of the Great Demon God Baal, as well as the Demon God Temple in charge of the relevant field to carry out prayer and sacrifice activities, and then carry out related activities.
For example, when waging a war and going to conquer other half-orc tribes, they go back to worship the war demon god, and when they go hunting, they will also sacrifice to hunt the demon god, all the demon gods add up to a lot, and the average half-orc can't remember all the demon gods at all, but among them, the great demon god Baal is high, and all activities need to sacrifice to the great demon god Baal first, and then go to sacrifice to other demon gods.
As for the half-orc heretics who are unwilling to convert to the Demon God Cult and are believers in the Demon God Sect, they will be expelled from the tribe at least and directly executed at the worst, which can be described as an absolute iron-blooded method, but for the believers, the Demon God Sect is also quite merciful, just like the houses, clothes and food that He Ping saw in the settlement, as well as some other life skills and good living habits, these are all favors given by the Demon God Sect to believers.
It is under the offensive of such a big stick and dates that the fire demon tribe has become a tribe ruled entirely by religion, and the orcs in the tribe are very united, and they also respect the shamans from the heart, because these shamans can communicate with the various demon gods led by the great demon god Baal, get oracles from the demon gods, learn new knowledge, make appropriate decisions, and lead the tribe to prosper.
In fact, it's not just that, although the Demon God Sect is only spreading within the Yan Demon Tribe for the time being, and the believers are only people from the Yan Demon Tribe, but after He Ping summarized what he saw in the Black Falcon Tribe before, he found that the influence of the Demon God Sect is likely to have extended to other surrounding tribes, maybe there are no believers and temples and priests on the surface, but there must still be some influence in secret, otherwise, it is impossible for the surrounding tribes to indulge the Fire Demon Tribe so much.
The emergence of religion, the change of living habits, and the improvement of living conditions, all of this shows that the civilization level of the orcs is improving, and it is this Demon God Sect that guides all this, it seems that there is nothing abnormal, for the half-orcs, the Demon God Sect is not harmful, but He Ping always feels that there seems to be something wrong with it.