Troll's Claw is located northeast of Baldur's Gate, and it is one of the three known tribes of trolls, along with the Troll Mountain to the west and the Troll's Roaring Forest.

Of the three, Trollclaw is the smallest and the most treacherous. Because the troll tribes in these places have never appeared in the outside world on a large scale and harassed the human cities along the coast of Sword Bay, the nearby human kingdoms also let it go, and did not organize an army to go to the mountains to encircle and suppress them, at most, when some unruly trolls appeared scattered, organize a team of adventurers to clean them up.

The world of Torrell is different from other worlds in different time and space, whether it is Karatu in the east or the continent of Faeron in the west, although humans dominate, but they have not really ruled the entire continent.

All races coexist in this world, and this has been the case since ancient times, even in the heyday of the elven race, other intelligent races also have their own place.

This is not that the human civilization developed in the Torrell world is not strong enough, compared to the human federation where Qin Lun was before, the magical civilization of the Torrell world is even more powerful.

For example: the first great human empire that appeared in ancient times - Nexner!

At that time, Nexnell was based on the color-resistant scrolls discovered by humans, and even developed a floating castle that floated at an altitude of 10,000 meters. Each color-resistant scroll is a large-scale compound magic forbidden spell that the Nexnell Empire has analyzed and developed a complete system of human magic in addition to elven magic and dragon magic.

How powerful is a large compound magic forbidden spell? This can be seen from the two forbidden curse disasters that have occurred in the Faren Continent.

The first was the border war between the Elves of Jondar and the Kingdom of Jondas, which was located in the southern heart of Faeron during the period of a thriving empire. Pressing the Char Kingdom in the south and reaching the Tesser Kingdom in the west, he almost beat the two powerful kingdoms with the strength of one country.

Due to the need for a large amount of natural resources during the development of the kingdom, Jondar cut down the Jondal forest in the territory and clashed with the Jondar Elven Court.

At that time, the elves on the continent of Faeron were in the stage of escapism, and no one in the human kingdom of the continent took those elves who only played in the forest in their eyes.

What I didn't expect was that the furious Jondar Elven Court finally launched a large-scale compound forbidden spell at the cost of the entire Elven Court's high-level elder council in the late stage of the war.

In an instant, the swarming flood engulfed the entire northern border of the most elite of the Kingdom of Jondas, forming the Vihong Sea that leads directly to the Falling Star Sea today.

Another disaster caused by the forbidden spell is more distant, and it is a typical case of the elves themselves dying. It was the latter part of the First Crown War, a civil war between the two elven courts, Erivanda and Mayerita.

The Erivanda is ruled by the Golden Elves, now the Sun Elves, while the Mayerita is a elven court dominated by the Green Elves. The Mai Yeli Tower is also the four main elven branches - the green elves, the greatest and most well-inherited elven court from ancient times to the present.

Although Erevanda was the most powerful elven court at the time, Mayerita was the center of art and advanced magic for all of the Pheren elves. When a country's force is not enough to protect its wealth, it is natural to welcome the prying eyes of robbers.

The prosperity of the Mayerita brought disaster to itself, and the Erivanda launched the First Crown War to fully occupy the Mayerita. Originally, at the beginning of the war, Mayerita still had the ability to resist, but their elven court was like death, and they wanted to use a large compound forbidden spell to directly destroy the elven army of Erevada.

It's a pity that they don't have the ability to control the violent magic element, and the power of the forbidden spell that erupts in the next moment turns the entire country, millions of square kilometers of forests, into a wilderness, which is the famous forbidden spell known as the Dark Calamity at that time.

The entire Mai Yeli Pagoda was destroyed, and the land, which is now known as the Supreme Wilderness, has not been restored to its original appearance. The Green Elves lost their inheritance origin, and the four elven branches in the future changed from de facto to three, and the green elves finally became vassals of the Moon Elves.

Even if some of the Moon Elf Court was changed in the later period, and the leader changed from the Moon Elf to the Green Elf, they still failed to obtain the inheritance, and when the World Tree is renewed, the Green Elf Court will still decline, just like the current Jondar Elf Court.

From these two famous events, it can be seen that the large-scale compound forbidden spell is more terrifying than nuclear weapons, at least Qin Lun's Human Federation has not developed a nuclear weapon that can directly destroy millions of square kilometers before Qin Lun entered the shattered starry sky.

When the Nexnell Human Empire got the Chromamore Scroll, there were eighteen different types of these compound forbidden spells! One can imagine the height of their magical civilization.

Compared to the current human kingdom on the Faren Continent, the magic civilization has not improved, on the contrary, after most of the color-resistant scrolls have been lost, there is still a different way to decline.

However, even at its peak, the Nexnell Empire had never ruled the entire Pheren Continent, and their border was almost the current Silver Moon Alliance in the Northlands, and included the northern part of the Enooc Desert.

The biological level of the Faren Continent is too high, and the urban civilization developed by humans currently occupies the dominant position on the continent, but the wilderness outside the city still belongs to all kinds of wild demonic beasts that have bred from ancient times to the present.

The humans of the Faeron Continent have now learned their lesson, and in the absence of a life-and-death crisis, they will not provoke other intelligent races again.

This includes not only the surface elven court where the magic is still strong, the well-equipped dwarven tribes in the mountains of the Northland, and the drow cities in the dark regions, but also some small races and tribes, and the troll tribes that occupy the claws of trolls are in this range.

The high-ranking shamans and chiefs of the troll tribes also understood this, and for a long time they had restrained their tribes and entered the domination of human cities on a large scale. They live in treacherous mountainous areas where they are habitable, following ancient traditions, and they never leave their territory except for the annual festival of sacrifices, which require the provision of large numbers of living creatures.

In a troll tribe that was only a few dozen miles away from Qin Lun and the others, the trolls were about to hold a large-scale sacrificial festival.

Their shamans and chieftains were very satisfied, and they were lucky enough to have not only obtained a large number of sacrifices from the swamps to the south before the day of sacrifice, but also to have caught some living human sacrifices that did not know whether they were alive or dead.

This time, there is no need to send the warriors of the clan to venture out of the mountains and attack the merchants. Such attacks often result in some brave troll people falling under the butcher's knives of human adventurers, and humans are truly terrifying!

This tribe of trolls occupies a small valley southwest of the mountain range, with a population of between two and three hundred. Contrary to the imagination of humans in the outside world, they already had a primitive civilization, and a few wise people even learned the continental lingua franca of Faerun.

The blood of the trolls is derived from the giants of ancient times, and is purer than their close relatives, ogres. Each adult troll is mostly over five meters tall, and its rough green skin has good physical and magical resistance.

Trolls have a low reproductive rate, which makes them not conjugal, and both males and females have several mates. As long as the sexual interest is, they can mate ~ at will, and the ethical concept is very weak.

The village is surrounded by a tall fence wall, and there are pens for Jurassic beasts in all directions of the village, which are the main source of food for the trolls.

There are probably hundreds of stilt houses in the village, and these stilt houses are made of thick taiga trees, strong enough to carry the weight of a troll.

The stilt houses are evenly distributed around the village, and at the heart are the residences of the chiefs and shamans of the higher ranking of the clan. In the middle of the village is a clearing with a semi-permanent grill for trolls to celebrate or feast.

At this time, in the northwest corner of the village, a string of bamboo baskets like chicken coops are hung on the horizontal log between the two flagpoles, and a huddled figure can be faintly seen inside each bamboo cage.

Compared to the trolls, these skinny captives were not all humanoid creatures, among them were the demonic beasts that Qin Lun and the others had seen in the Land of the Dead.

To the left of these cages were several humanoids, and judging by their ragged clothes, they seemed to be humans or elves. It's just that after being trapped for a long time, my spirit is a little sluggish, and I don't know life or death when I lie in the cage.

"Elistin, how are you?" In a bamboo cage on the far left, a soft cry of a human female suddenly sounded.

"It's nothing, I can't die yet!" In addition, in the bamboo cage close to her, a tired voice came from the figure sitting cross-legged.

She was wrapped in a coarse cloth cloak, and her sloppy silver hair obscured her face, and judging by her withered demeanor, it was hard to believe that this was the naturally beautiful elven druid she had been.

"Has your magic been restored?" The human woman who first called out to Illistin was no better at this time.

The leather armor on her body could barely cover her body, and her partially exposed limbs were covered with thick blood eggplant. The bright red hair had lost its former luster, and his bare feet were covered with blisters and fouling pustules. If the trolls hadn't smeared some herbs on her a few days ago, I'm afraid she would have died a long time ago.

Of course, the trolls didn't have any good intentions, they were just afraid that these living sacrifices would not survive and die before the sacrifice day came. Dead creatures can still be eaten, but they can no longer be sacrificed.

"It's only two percent of what it used to be, and most of the mana is used to maintain the body's functional consumption." Elistine remained motionless and sat still, and said softly, "This is still with the energy of the moonlight, otherwise with my injuries, I would have died a week ago." I had never thought that trolls would have such a high level of intelligence. ”

"Me too, if it weren't for my faith in Lady Laureta, I would have been half-dead a long time ago. And we have to act, Mason despite being healed by the troll shaman. But he is too old to bear it now, and he has not woken up from a coma last night. Idria whispered.

"Wait a little longer, wait until the evening!" Elistine whispered to herself, "For the past two days, I have had a wonderful feeling, which, though I don't know where it came from, has made me feel very comfortable, as if some empty corner of my heart has been filled. ”