Chapter 0279: Trudeau City
The Blood Clan held the fortress thanks to the presence of their allies, but the situation was also not optimistic, and when the fifth round of attacks arrived, the first four efforts would be in vain.
However, Quinn quickly made the decision to abandon the attack on the fortress himself, and the army of the Gluck clan orcs set off to the rear to support, because the second dragon eagle brought a new rear battle situation, and the empty rear was broken through by the scorpion legion, and the black iron city, the largest city of the Gluck clan, will become the next target of the scorpion.
This letter comes from Giroud's own handwriting in the Black Iron City, no one knows better than Giroud the meaning of the Black Iron City to the Gluck Clan, when the Black Iron City falls, it means that the glory of the Gluck Clan will not be there, and those orcs who were originally suppressed for supporting the Aruvik will use this as an excuse to oust the new leader Quinn, and Aruvik will be welcomed back, and he will lose control of the Gruk Clan at that time.
However, there is one thing that Giroud can't understand, the Storm Summoner, as a spiritual symbol of the orcs, is now not even as influential as Aruvik himself in the orc world, and why is that.
Years ago, he used the fake Stormcaller to oust Anduin and gain supreme power over the Gluck Clan, thinking that by mastering the Stormcaller, the orcs would be loyal forever, but this was not the case. "What the hell is wrong there?" Giroud pounded his clenched fist against the armrests of his seat.
Aruvik must not live, or he will be the greatest threat to his dominance.
Giroud issued a warrant in the name of the Storm Caller, determined to execute the old exiled leader who threatened his rule.
The sunset on the wilderness stained the sky red, and the afterglow slanted on the earth, making the ground like a red-hot iron plate, and the air also became hot, and the old leader of the orcs rode the monitor lizard to the sunset and walked through the wilderness, escaping from the Black Iron City, and the next step was to free the orcs of the Gluck clan from purgatory as soon as possible.
He had to gather his old tribes, the chiefs of the small tribes who were still on his side, which was quite a risky move, as the chiefs of the small tribes might have already been loyal to the new leader, Quinn, and Giroud, and a complex of buildings in the wilderness came into view when the sky was completely dark.
A fortress made of boulders, a tent made of huge animal skins, Aruvik rode forward on a monitor lizard, and the guards outside the complex stopped the old chieftain.
Aruvik ventured to reveal his identity, leaving the city in the dark, knowing nothing about the situation, and unable to tell which of the chieftains of the small tribes were still loyal to him, so he had to do so.
The guards informed the tribal chieftain of the incident, and soon Aruvik was warmly welcomed by the chieftain and led into the complex, where the people warmly welcomed the old leader of Gluck, who had become a fugitive, and the cheers of the people proved his luck.
After a warm reception, the small tribal chief briefed the old leader in detail about the situation of the Gluck clan and the Black Iron City, and the bloody crackdown plunged the Gluck clan into darkness, and they received a wanted warrant for the old leader brought by the dragon eagle.
"Now you can arrest me and put me at the disposal of Quinn in Black Iron City, and you will be rewarded handsomely. Aruvik suggested to the little chief.
"Then I'll be a sinner of the Gluck Orcs, and I'll never gain much and never lose much. The little chief knelt reverently before the old chief, and the rest of the guards knelt on the ground. "The people know what you have brought to us, and they know better what kind of leader they need. ”
Aruvik helped the little chief to his feet. "The fate of the Gluck Clan is in your hands, and now I need you to work with me to get the Gluck Clan back on the right track. ”
"We're here to help. The orcs responded in unison.
But the little chief was a little worried. "But we only have you, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, not as good as the Black Iron City. ”
"Justice is on our side, enough is enough. Aruvik responded. "Now I need you to get the word out that I'm here, the people who support me will come here, and we'll have a strong army. ”
"But this will reveal your whereabouts, let Quinn know where you are, and your safety is more important than anything else. "The little chief cares about the well-being of his leaders.
"If your intelligence is not problematic, Quinn needs to face an attack from the Scorpion Legion, and an old leader in exile will understand that is more important than the Scorpion Legion. Aruvik answered the little chieftain's questions.
However, Aruvik has a new mission, he has to travel to Trudeau, the second largest city of the Gluck clan on the Black Iron Continent, and he has to fight for the largest force that can support him.
There was a smell of corruption everywhere, the smell was almost suffocating, and every movement of the monitor lizard filled the air with a foul stench below the ground, and this gas usually made people unconscious and die on the land, and no life on the ground wanted to step into the rotten plains for this reason.
But in order to find new allies to join, Tang Ning had to endure such an environment and give the refined potion to the rest of the people. "If you take the medicine, you can avoid getting sick. ”
The rest of the people took the potion as the young man asked, and the foul smell disappeared, but Hilbert was now quite disgusted with the young man, and he had his own way, and as an alchemist, he also concocted a potion that could be used to avoid being stunted by the smell.
"Mr. Hilbert, you are no stranger to this place, the fog has made it impossible for us to tell the way, and you must have a special way to solve this problem. Tang Ning asked the old man in the team, the diffuse gas blocked his vision like a fog, and he couldn't tell the direction at all, but the old man must have his own way.
Hilbert's experience of studying the languages of some special species in the Rotten Plains gave him a solution to the problem of direction and vision, coming down from the monitor lizard, stepping on the soft ground, and using his toes to test the ground within a radius of ten paces.
"We've got to go in this direction to get to the Nakamba Mountains and see those abominable bugs. "Now Hilbert knew that the young man's next target was those scarab beetles in the Nakamb Mountains, these damn giant bugs were a force to be reckoned with in the Rotten Plains, and only the disgusting bugs lived here.
The soil where the insects live will be softer, so you only need to go in the direction of the softer soil after testing with your toes, which is the only way to determine the direction.
"You wouldn't mind telling us a little bit about the habits of these scarabs, there's always no one on the road who is too bored to talk to. Downing intended to liven up the gloomy atmosphere.
Taylor and Cybertron need to take care of Selena and don't have the energy to add fun to the team, and the orcs hardly need the fun, so it's the linguist.
Hilbert was an expert in this area, and of course he was willing to answer his academic questions, riding a monitor lizard and swaying his body as the monitor lizard walked. "These scarabs like damp places, and they are more unacceptable than those poisonous scorpions. ”
"Why do you say that?" asked Downing.
"Because venomous scorpions like to be dry, and they are usually relatively clean, but these insects don't care about that, they are always moving around the rotting corpses or vegetation, so they have a very bad smell, and their language can hardly be called language, more like the simple communication of some kind of animal, such as a cat or a dog, with a poor vocabulary. ”
This is extremely important information, which means that the negotiation to find those bugs should be as simple as possible, too complicated remarks will be incomprehensible to the bugs, and Downing will analyze and write down useful notes from this information.
"And the population of these bugs is much larger, unlike those poisonous scorpions, they are just poisonous scorpions, but there are too many types of these bugs, they are either close relatives, or variants, and they always have very low requirements for reproduction, even cross-species reproduction is very common. ”
This means that these bugs are not like the scorpion that only has one leader, Oguta, and the diverse races must have different leaders, and it seems that negotiations require communication with different bugs.
"By the way, the most important thing is that they usually let their saliva be eaten by guests who think they are friendly, which is their etiquette, and if you refuse to take it, then they will become quite irritable, and then you will become their food. Hilbert's expression changed to horror.
Downing's stomach felt uncomfortable, such a ritual was indeed unacceptable to humans, Taylor was finally attracted, turned around and frowned: "I hate these guys, I won't enter this time, that feeling is quite bad." ”
Cybertron also wanted to refuse, but Downing shook his head in advance and interrupted. "Cybertron, you'll have to follow a piece in, because the key items to heal Selena are there. ”
"Don't try to lie to me, you just want me to protect you. Cybertron had lost much hope in the young man's integrity through his own experience and Hilbert's experience, including the trust that Red Moss had accumulated on the only time he hadn't cheated on him.
"Frankly, I do need you for protection, but I really don't lie to you. Downing looked at Hilbert. "You wouldn't mind explaining it to me. ”
Hilbert knew about Selena's condition, and as an alchemist, of course knew what would be useful to the girl, and although he was reluctant, there seemed to be no reason to refuse, otherwise the young man would have a more despicable way for him to explain, such as giving him as an accessory to the bugs for dinner later.
"Those scarab beetles have a very strange magic, they can wash away some bad memories from people's minds, this magic is different from the holy light, it can act on others, I once communicated with a bug, they said so. ”
Hearing Hilbert's explanation, Cybertron didn't refuse again, but Downing still had a question. "Mr. Hilbert, what does that saliva smell like?"
"It's a little sour, but whatever it tastes like, it always doesn't feel good to think that they're from dirty bugs. Hilbert shuddered.