Chapter 30: The Gods and Their People

Bright sunlight from Galandia shines through the cracks in the heavy clouds around Andrari, and the warm gold of this time of day in the morning always makes people lazy.

Curani sat on the bridles, and the simple leather saddle on top of the bough, which was twice as tall as he was, and had become accustomed to their nests in the middle of the camp, and even if the cowardly took his big bird alone to go around the edge of the swamp, it wouldn't take long for them to miss the day's hearty lunch.

The mother grey goose was lying on her stomach in the warm sun, and the model mother added a new member to their family, a nest of ivory goose eggs. The father goose went with a flock of half-sized poltergeists to catch small fish and snails near the swamp, and even without Andrari's protection, he and his children would not go hungry. But with André and his tribe in the presence, predators like echinoderm crocodiles simply don't dare to approach their young.

Charlotte's belly looked very obvious, in order to repay the succubus for providing milk to the three black hairballs, Lothar often saddled up and served the increasingly inconvenient mother-to-be, and at the same time had to take care of three big black-haired dogs who had combined to weigh more than two cowardly demons, Lothar's life was very fulfilling.

Marcellion felt that if he could get more profound information from Andrari's custom of domesticating wild beasts, which was very different from other demons, he might be able to infer some subconscious attitudes of this group of demons towards their neighbors, or some clues.

André goes about his daily routine, using processed bones with some minced flesh to deal with coyotes who are good at seeing the seams. In recent days, the number of coyotes roaming around Andrarui has increased again, perhaps because they have discovered that as long as they don't provoke other creatures in the camp or steal the fresh ingredients that are clearly piled up, the demons in the camp will turn a blind eye to these outsiders at the behest of the children of the abyss.

"Your Highness, what exactly do you want to domesticate these coyotes for them?" Seeing Andre unruly and racking his brains many times to get close to these suspicious predators, the old druid finally couldn't help but ask.

"Their sense of smell and hearing is much sharper than that of most demons, and if I can get them to join Andrari, then my hunting team will be greatly improved in terms of tracking prey and warning of large beasts. "The Son of the Abyss did not hide his intentions, compared to the hunting instincts of the coyotes, the hunting ability of his subordinates was basically based on the number of people and the fact that the large prey near the Shattered Sky Mountain was not very wary of the demons. And those small prey that were alert enough, Andrari's hunters simply couldn't track the trails they left behind.

In fact, elves have a much longer tradition of using abilities like animals, and the druids and rangers even have a secret technique that allows elves and their animal companions to share five senses for a period of time, or to improve elves' sight or hearing to the level of eagles and wolves.

"Isn't your tribe still rich in food, and Andrari's feasts are more frequent and popular than those of the lively Greystone Clan. ”

"That's just a way for our friends like the dwarves and elves to show their kindness. In fact, the herd of deer near Shattered Hollow Mountain has consciously moved away from our camp, and as the hunt progresses, it may take more effort to find these prey later than to capture them. ”

"With a prophetic leader like you, I believe Andrari will become stronger and stronger in the future. "Masserien's heartfelt blessings.

"The Great Abyssal Will once told me that if one is not accustomed to thinking about the future, one is likely to be in immediate trouble. Although the idea that the children of the abyss have no foresight and have near-term worries does not originate from this world, it does not prevent André from pushing the origin of this sentence to those mysteries that mortals cannot guess.

"Is this really the will that the Abyss conveyed to Your Highness?" the druids still lingered over the source of the Abyssal Child's knowledge.

"Who knows? I know these things in the dark, if it wasn't for the great will of the world telling me, could it be anything else?"

"If every child of the abyss will be endowed with such extensive wisdom by the great will of this world, I am afraid that the day when the will of the abyss will condense the godhead will will not be far away from the unification of all beings in the demon realm. ”

As soon as he talked about the most unpredictable mystery in this world, Andrei's curiosity instantly swelled. In order to let the old druid, who believed in Garlandia, the goddess of the earth, reveal more information about gods and magic, the children of the abyss inevitably continued to make up stories to fool the elven elders.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple, as far as I know, I myself must be a very special one in the abyss bloodline. Even if there are siblings like me, there won't be too many. In conclusion, André felt that he had not deceived the old elf, and if it was as common as crossing the crowd, the Children of the Abyss felt that the shortcut in his life was probably to team up with his peers and drive the world together......

"Compared to such an indescribable great being as Abyssal Will, I am actually more curious about what the goddess of the other world is. ”

Myths and legends about the demon world are familiar to almost every demon who was born in a tribe.

In the undocumented era, there were many powerful lords who continued to expand their territories, and gradually, the great lords could no longer be satisfied with the speed of territorial expansion - he wanted to find the boundaries of this vast world and set himself an insurmountable goal!

Unlike Andrei's hometown, which consisted of continents and oceans in his memory, there is no sea at the end of the Demon Continent, and the edge of the land is a deep and unfathomable pitch-black abyss. Even the most powerful Winged Demon Lord could not explore the boundaries and bottom lines of this void! and under the exploration of many lords, the borders of this vast land in different directions presented an endless dark world, which was called the "bottomless abyss" by the sages of that era without words.

Unable to explore worlds beyond the continent, there are many lords who have set their sights on the mysterious underworld.

Unlike the vast surface of the earth, the exploration of the underground is severely limited by the environment. But the end of all exploration is the same - a stream of lava heat that glows reddish. Ordinary demons didn't need to come into contact with the incomparably mysterious red fluid at all, just the unspreading high-temperature poisonous gas released from the lava was enough to kill them.

Perhaps because of the unchangeable fate, like the bottomless abyss, the most powerful fire demon cannot explore the source of any of the scorching magma. And the rock formed after the lava cooled made them believe that there was an incomparably huge heart in the bottomless abyss, which would gush out incomparably hot blood in a steady stream -- that is, the crimson lava! The huge "wound scab" formed by the coagulation of these powerful magical blood was the land where millions of demons had lived for generations! This heart, which provided the demons with only a home in the bottomless abyss that people imagined, was called the heart of molten fire, and was regarded by all the fire demons as the source of their fire magic.

The indescribable Bottomless Abyss and Molten Hearts blocked the way for the sages to explore the world, and almost all of the high-level Winged Demons pointed their gaze at the heavy clouds of the Demon Realm that had not dissipated for thousands of years that enveloped the entire Demon Realm sky. I don't know how many powerful Winged Demons have fallen from the powerful flashing electricity between the heavy clouds, and countless charred black Winged Demon corpses have fallen from the heavy clouds with white fireworks. Finally, a few fallen Winged Demons still had a trace of breath left, and in their descriptions, in the sky beyond the heavy clouds, there was a dark red fireball in the unreachable distance, constantly releasing light that was enough to burn the skin and scales of the high-level Winged Demons. Since then, the boundless barrier of heavy clouds and the powerful and irregular lightning in it have been regarded as a protective barrier against the burning of the fiery red balls.

Along with the Spirit of the Desolate Beasts, the Barrier of Heavy Clouds, the Heart of Molten Fire, and the Will of the Abyss are worshipped by all demons as the greatest beings in the Demon Realm. However, Andre felt that such a belief was more akin to the primitive worship of the totem of heaven and earth, thanks to the ancient demons who were extremely yearning for the mysteries of the world, they were able to rely on the power of their flesh to complete such an exploration of this world that was completely different from the knowledge system of the children of the abyss. This may also be one of the reasons why the demons can't suppress their yearning and possessiveness for the rich land of Garlandia after learning that the space in the demon world is limited.

"In our world, the vast land that gave birth to elves, dwarves, orcs, and mortals is the true form of the goddess Garandia. In addition to Garandia, the goddess of the lush earth, there is also Abis, the goddess of the endless sky, and Vantiny, the goddess of the blue sea. The other two of the three creation goddesses are identified as the creators of the Feather Clan, the Naga, the Merfolk, and the Fish-People. Outside of these races, there are bloodlines like the Slime and the Scale, which are believed to have been created by the Earth Goddess and the Sea Goddess. There is even a widely circulated theory that mortals are actually a race created by the combined efforts of three goddesses, but some kind of shackles make them able to adapt to the vast majority of the environments in the vast world without any outstanding ability, and multiply in them at a speed that no other race can match. ”

"What kind of race are the sticky and scaly tribes?" it turned out that there were still places that were different from the classic settings in his memory, and the curious Andre asked inappropriately.

"Just like the slimy frogs and salamanders in the swamps, most of the slime people with the same blood line live in the swamps. As for the scales, they are mainly composed of snake people, lizard people, crocodile people, and turtle people, and most of them also live in hot and humid climates. Because some of the Scales also live in the sea, and some of them also belong to the kingdom of the sea, so they do not have a clear blood boundary with the Sea Clan. ”

"Aren't snake people and salamanders subordinate to orcs?"

"Although their bloodline seems to be the same as that of the orcs, they are in fact far from each other's homelands and customs, so we mean the hairy hoofers and claws. ”

"Are female orcs hairy too?" The question of the Children of the Abyss irreversibly deviated towards the realm of the unspeakable absolute.

"Female orcs have far less vigorous hair than men, and their faces are more like mortals. In the years when they fought together against more than 100 lords and hundreds of thousands of armies in the Demon Realm, there were many heroes and warriors among mortals and orcs who intermarried with each other, and the sons of half-beasts born inherited the bloodline advantages of the two races, and there are probably fewer and fewer pure-blooded orcs in today's orc tribes. ”

While the racial divisions are different from most of the "classical settings" known to André, they are at least biologically correct...... But that's not the "biology" of this world, what are those peculiar races based on to rule the land!?

The child of the abyss, whose mind was in a mess, felt that there were too many secrets in this world waiting for him to discover......