After Andre had successfully demonstrated his destructive power with a shocking effect, the attitude of the orc cavalry on the other side towards them became much more cautious than before.

The most direct manifestation is that the condescending orc warriors who were originally sitting on their mounts turned over and stepped out of their seats in silence without any verbal communication, and each of them had serious expressions, as if they were in the middle of some wordless sacred ceremony. They stared at the topless Son of the Abyss, their right hands clenching their fists against their left chests, making a scattered, low sound of fists and flesh intersecting.

"I beg your pardon for my rudeness, dear Mr. Mephistopheles. Karl the werewolf bowed his head in respect to the Children of the Abyss, and Andre simply replied with a relaxed face, "Where, where" while waving his hand to show that he didn't care.

The young werewolf's face was gloomy but not because he was not convinced, according to the tradition of most of the tribes in the wasteland, every warrior had the right to duel against those who questioned his bravery, and if things had just gone exactly according to the custom of the tribe, Karl felt that the best outcome for him would probably be to break two or three bones.

Generally speaking, Carl felt that he should not have the cowardly idea of avoiding challenges, and that if he did not have the determination to become more and more courageous as a warrior, his own limits would have been limited by his own courage. However, if a good warrior does not have enough rational judgment, he can only charge on the battlefield in order to give birth to his own tribe, and it is difficult to be entrusted with such an important duty as a cavalry scout.

There is a clear difference between a challenge and a death to the orc scouts, the former is like a man facing three or five human slave catchers at the same time, and the latter is like fighting to the death against a group of elven rangers or feather spearmen in the middle of a dense forest.

The Children of the Abyss, with their chest thorn crest and grey serpent totem entwined, are almost equal to the mighty Elven Ranger with the title of Wind Chaser for young orc warriors.

Why didn't he believe Logia's words just now?, Karl asked himself in his heart.

Although Mr. Mephistopheles' size and age did not seem convincing, weren't trusting a fellow of the clan the basic rules that a tribal warrior should follow?

Carl had to attribute his gaffe to his lack of maturity and sophistication. But apart from Karl, including the "Nineteen" guards who had not seen Andrew's "wrought iron deterrence", the other orc warriors also did not believe that this half-elf like a half-grown boy could smash a thick iron round shield with his bare hands until they saw it with their own eyes. According to their way of thinking, since they have such a powerful force, it is the most direct and effective means to defeat those who dare to question themselves by thunder. The act of smashing steel with a fist is an incredible challenge for mortals of flesh and blood, even for orc warriors of this calibre, who would not attempt it lightly, as it can easily injure the fist used to clench the weapon.

Ishas had foreseen that it would not be long before what they had seen today would spread among the tribes, as the orcs were keen on stories and legends of warriors, young and old. For a long time, the furry children, who are always jumping up and down and never being quiet, will probably see howling and beating tree trunks or stones with all their fists as a symbol of their "bravery...... After all, the tribe's steel objects are so scarce...... I hope that ten years from now, there will not be a large number of young warriors with deformed finger bones in the wasteland!!

If the Children of the Abyss could understand the anxiety or complaint in the werewolf scout captain's heart at this time, he would probably advise the other party to add a very serious sentence at the end of the story, "High-risk actions, do not imitate".

Considering the strength of the other party and the fact that there is no vendetta between him and the clan, Scout Captain Ishas suggested to the Children of the Abyss: "There is a noble person like you, sir, who is willing to vouch for these humans, generally speaking, we should not be embarrassed by you, not to mention that you have also helped our compatriots get rid of the human cage...... It's just that today's battles are different, and not all of the warriors fighting the human slave catchers are from the Cracktooth Clan. I hope you will wait a little longer so that I can send a few chiefs to tell you what happened. ”

Under the city-state, the boundaries between the identities of slave hunters, adventurers, mercenaries, guards, and even criminals were not as clear as one might think, and although the orcs understood the simple truth that "no trade, no killing", they were not so red eyes that they wiped out all the humans involved in the slave trade. You must know that the power gap between the tribes and the city-states has been around for a long time, and the orcs are not ready to go to war in an all-out battle against the human city-states.

For the city-state, this was not so much a war that the orcs had been planning for a long time, but rather a test of the tribes of the wasteland to unite and express their toughness. Those who had a certain status and were widely involved in the power of the city-states had been instructed by the chiefs from the beginning not to put them to death. However, this did not mean that the orcs would let them go easily, so the chiefs improvised the tradition of war between human city-states, and decided to trade the life-hungry captives for ransom - food, metal, and other necessities that some tribes were in short supply.

The earth goddess's thorn god pattern Ishas is naturally recognized, and most of the orcs' first beliefs come from their own bloodline, while the belief of the earth mother goddess is second only to the orcs' worship of ancestors, and is widely spread among all tribes. The gray totem is just as rare among the tribe but more well-known than the coat of arms of the goddess of the earth, and most of the bloodline warriors protected by the ancestral heroic spirits have similar beast totems on their bodies, and the powerful shamans and prophets who inherit the wisdom of the ancestors have the same gray left eye as the powerful half-elf named Mephistopheles.

There were less than thirty humans in total, and only a handful of them seemed to be worth a little, even if it was only for the sake of them bringing back the chief's daughter intact, it was only natural to forgive them the ransom. It's just that although this war is faintly dominated by the Splittooth Clan, they are not easy to do too much, and the thoughts of the other chiefs still have to be taken into account, otherwise how can the various clans in the storm be closely and long-term united?

Although the Scout Captain didn't know which ancient and secret lineage the "Underworld Law Enforcer" originated from, nor did he know which powerful force the fist mark called "Company" by the other party represented, he could see that the Children of the Abyss did contain some extraordinary powers, and if he knew that the words about more than a hundred "legendary heroes" were just Andrei's serious nonsense, maybe he wouldn't be as easy to talk about as he is now. After all, most people are like him, and they all feel that such an amazing strong man should disdain to lie when he is not necessary.

Who would have thought that such a "strong man" does not have a clear purpose in every sentence, and sometimes it is just to express his loneliness and melancholy as a traveler in another world...... Of course, we can also simply summarize it as a cheap mouth, or intermittent non-blowing B discomfort syndrome.

Just as Isas was about to assign his boys to deliver the news to the chiefs, "Nineteen", who had been standing quietly behind Andre, suddenly stood up and handed the scout captain a palm-sized old wooden box that was not very inconspicuous.

"Please pass it on my behalf to your Excellency the Chiefs. "Nineteenth" said.

Ishas looked at the box in his hand in bewilderment, he felt that no chief would have formed a friendship with a human good enough to exchange tokens.

Whatever it was, it was up to you to make sure that what you handed in was safe and harmless, that it was not some shoddy and sinister conspiracy.

So Isas pinched the box in his hand and asked, "Can I open it and see?"

"Please. ”

It turns out that the scout captain has once again thought about it, because the contents of the box are like the divine pattern on Andrei's chest, and many people with a little knowledge know it, at least Andrei has seen the same thing on the illustrations of the elves' books more than once, and is impressed by it.

A piece of the shape of a flare wafer disc lies in the middle of the box, and in its center is a circular emboss, less than half the diameter of the entire disc, surrounded by an irregular radial line, symbolizing the light emitted by the circle in the center. The fine lines and the flawless and endlessly close to standard round patterns that even werewolves with little knowledge of jewelry can see something extraordinary in them, and the evening sun sprinkles into small boxes, dyeing the crystal clear and almost flawless Shine Crystal into a brilliant crimson.

It is an emblem that represents the Radiant Church, and there are even more people on this continent who know it than the emblem of the Earth Maiden. The material of transparent gemstones is not a valuable thing in itself, but it is a rare craft to engrave a delicate sun coat of arms on a crystal that is so hard that it is difficult to scratch any iron. In fact, the children of the abyss, who have read the relevant literature, know that this thing is almost impossible for the human city-state to produce under the current level of craftsmanship. Not to mention human beings, even the dwarves with countless jewelry masters want to polish such a piece of jewelry that is close to perfection, not to mention that such a piece of Yaojing without impurities and cracks is very rare, even if there are perfect enough raw materials, the desperate polishing process can be calculated in years or even ten years. Such a beautiful enough thing that contains magic but is not outstanding should theoretically be considered a treasure according to the value of ordinary jewelry, but it is a pity that the principle of rare things is expensive almost works anywhere.

Yes, this is not an ambiguous sentence left by the author's negligence, and you are not mistaken, readers and friends, although this glorious emblem is beautiful and precious enough, it is not so rare in quantity. There are at least a hundred similar items of similar or even better quality in the entire human city-state. Why is there such a large number of such things that have reached or even exceeded the limits of civilization's craftsmanship?

Since the dawn and the Lord of Radiance spread their light over the earth, the Chapel of Dawn in each Radiant Sanctuary has been deliberately built in a circular structure, with an open skylight at the top of each circular sanctuary in the middle. The divine power of the sun god Herrera prevented the wind, frost, rain and snow from penetrating the interior of the temple through the dome, and under his divine power, a holy light would pass through the dome to illuminate the center of the temple every day after sunrise and before sunset. This vertical downward light is not skewed by spring, summer, autumn and winter, nor does it change with dawn and dusk, and whenever the first rays of the sun illuminate the portico of the temple, it will inevitably appear there, whether cloudy or cloudy. And in the center of the main hall, under the shroud of holy light, is the location of the Radiant Altar, on which the Shining Crystal is placed as a holy relic of the Glorious Church all the year round.

The newly mined Yaojing is actually no different from ordinary natural crystal. But under the baptism of the Holy Light, the impurities and imperfections in the crystals will be sublimated and purified in a period of time long enough for mortals to forget many things, and the angular and irregularly shaped crystals will slowly turn into the shape of a disc over time, and slowly emerge as the emblem of Sacred Errella, which represents the god of the sun.

Honestly, when André read this account of the Radiant Church in Garlanord's library, he thought it was nothing more than the boasting of Herrera's brainless believers, and it wasn't until the Earth Goddess performed miracles in front of him again and again that he realized that many of the things that seemed strange to him might actually be true. It wasn't until today, when he happened to see this object that had different strengths from the high-precision craftsmanship products under the industrial civilization, that he once again realized that the common sense in the other world could not be simply applied to this wonderful and extraordinary land.

Ishas stared at this small and delicate crystal with a faint holy light with a complicated expression for a long time, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

The intrigue between human city-states is far more intense than the existential friction between tribes, and the entire alliance of city-states can be seen as either a whole or a piece of sand. But among the many city-states, even the most powerful of them could not compete with the Glorious Church, which spread throughout the city-state.

From a standpoint, the church that brought the entire human city-state together on the surface was undoubtedly the number one enemy that would make every orc grit their teeth and hate it. However, in fact, the Church has never specifically targeted any orcs, and even Herrera's canon clearly records the doctrine of fraternity such as "under the morning light, all beings are equal". However, nine out of ten of the devout disciples of the Lord of Radiance are humans, and it is also an indisputable fact that the humans have united to fight against the invasion of the Demon Realm, but they are still powerful.

Whatever the grim past was, at least the current Cracktooth Tribe certainly doesn't have the strength to compete with the Church. So the scout captain prepared to return the box in his hand to the human in front of him, although the value of Yaojing itself could not be compared with those legendary mysterious and strange things, but as a radiant emblem it represented a special meaning that could not be underestimated.

The three gods of the earth, Huangquan, and Huiyao, all have various connections with this group of people, even for the sake of the gods, their group of people is not something that a few tribes in their own can force to stay.

Unless the chiefs were given something early on that would be enough to make them reckless.

It's just that this kind of situation may happen like meeting a beggar on the side of the road just after going out, only to find out that the other party is actually a city lord or a messenger of the gods, which is a kind of bloody episode that is only common in third-rate stories. (So this story about the children of the Abyss is not much higher...... ）

To Ishas's surprise, the other party did not take the box he handed back with a proud face, but pushed the box into his arms again.

"This is a gift from the Church to the chiefs, and I am sure that you will be able to use it in the near future. "Nineteen" said something with a cautious face that made the orcs feel inexplicable.

However, the werewolf warrior, as the captain of the scout, couldn't figure out what kind of effect the emblem of the Shining Church would have for the chiefs in the wasteland, so he had to hand over the box to the messenger warriors, and in a daze, he left the matters he couldn't figure out to the wise chiefs to decide.