When it comes to the Houpak staff, one has to mention the evolution of civilization in the world of ashes.

Long before the Imaska colonized the world of the ashes, halflings were already the vast majority of intelligent beings in this world.

Halflings are humanoids that are about half the height of normal humans, and they have developed a system of halfling civilization based on biotechnology and psychic abilities.

Like the Coptic in what is now the Medici region, which has become a "Sin City", the earliest buildings in the city are the product of the halfling civilization that was once there.

It's just that after a series of "don't do it, you won't die" operations of the Imaska, this world has become a "god's forsaken land".

The rapid deterioration of the ecological environment has made the desert cover the whole world, making it a "world of ashes", and it has also caused the fledgling halfling civilization to disappear.

However, history still extracted some "fly ashes" - some "relics" of halfling civilization were absorbed by later human civilizations, such as the "Houpak Staff", which symbolizes noble pioneers.

"All new paths need a Houpak staff", is a common saying among the halflings, which shows how much they like such handy tools and weapons.

The traditional Hopak staff is made of a single piece of elastic wicker with a sharp end and a bronze garment, and a forked end containing a leather sling.

When exploring the forests of what was once a world of ashes, halfling adventurers wield their wooden sticks to make a high-pitched noise to scare away beasts that would try to sneak up, and the willow bark used to make the Houpak staff was carefully collected, and it was said that mashing them and throwing them in a vinegar vat would make them a potion for headaches, fevers, and inflammation.

The early native human civilization of the Ashen World was built on the legacy of the halfling civilization and the Imasca civilization, and the Houpak staff was also the standard for human pioneers at the time.

Some of these pioneers later established their own chiefdoms, and the Houpak Staff became their scepter.

Some chiefdoms slowly developed into frontiers, and the material of the scepter was no longer limited to willow wood, which was a little shabby for the king. But as a symbol of continued power, most of them still retain their original shape.

The family of the Emperor of the Usang Empire, which was once deposed, also continues to have a scepter in the shape of a "Houpak Staff"!

"Catch that Waste Giant!" the Speaker of the Senate motioned for the mages to quickly grab the Waste Giant who was trying to reorganize the situation, his eyes locked on the wooden stick held by the giant, and his mood was excited, but his voice was unusually steady: "Hurry up and put the other monsters down!"

The mages who received the Speaker's orders naturally did not dare to disobey, and some people immediately used sonic spells to attack the leader of the ruined giants, this spell required a relatively long spell to be chanted, so it was just ready to be completed.

The other mages shouted at the warriors in front of them to hurry back, and together they used the "spider web technique" on the ruined giants. A mass of formless, colorless threads of spells emerged from the ground and air, tangled in them as if they were stuck in a sticky puddle of mud.

This spell usually has to be combined with the "Dark Spell" that obstructs the vision to be most effective, but because the Waste Giant has dark vision, it can only be used alone.

However, it seems to be enough: first, nearly ten mages used the "spider web technique" at the same time, and the layers of spell silk threads created a greater adhesion, and second, the ruined giants were all tortured by illusions in the battle, and a lot of strength was consumed.

The combination of the two makes it difficult for these aberrant giants to break free from the spell's effect. They could only let out a futile roar as they slowly fell to the ground as they were pulled by the threads of the spell.

The spider silk summoned by the spell is not an entity and has a limited duration. When they saw the Waste Giants fall to the ground, several warriors with the "Greasy Technique" attached to them immediately stepped forward and slashed their knives in their hands - slamming the heads of the Waste Giants with leather-wrapped blades - and quickly knocked them unconscious.

Leaving them aside, the leader of the ruined giants who had been "cared for" by the mages was feeling great pain at this time - although the sonic spell was precisely controlled, and his internal organs were not shattered by the infrasound, the displacement of internal organs was not pleasant.

He wielded the "Houpak-shaped" scepter in his hand feebly, trying to drive away the small human bugs that tried to approach him. However, the fascia in the muscles was also damaged, and the movements appeared weak.

"Sleep!"

After dealing with the other ruined giants, several mages stepped forward and cast spells on the giant leader. The repeated accumulation of magical power finally broke the dam of qi built with willpower, and sleepiness poured down like a flood, and closed his eyelids by the way.

A mage used the "Tamson Floating Saucer" to lift up the leader of the ruined giants, and the captain of the warrior of the guards served as a guard, and the two followed closely behind at the direction of the speaker, and walked towards the collapsed palace or giant camp inside. Others were ordered to stay here.

"Double arch bridge, torii corridor, and ...... in front of the Imperial Palace" silently recited these names that once existed, and the Senate Speaker strode forward past the ruins of this time. When he reached a place in his memory, he stopped and said to himself, "There is no end to it." ”

As he spoke, the Speaker was standing right in the center of the giant's camp.

Peeling roasted spider shells, some monster bones with obvious bite marks, sleeping blankets laid in rawhide...... And so on, and things that were completely unrelated to the royal treasury of the Usang Empire, were scattered everywhere.

The Speaker pulled out a small jade bowl and a jade knife, and walked over to the Waste Giant Chieftain who was in a coma.

"Tie this monster to the kind that I agree it can't break free from forever. ”

The mage nodded.

A swimming snake crawled out of the sleeve of his robe, wrapped around the ruined giant. The head of the snake also bites the tail of the snake, forming a lock in the image of a snake-swallowing snake. As the mage silently chanted a few incantations, dense runes appeared on this "snake rope".

This time it was the Speaker's turn to nod.

However, the Speaker seemed to have a sudden idea, and he turned around and picked up a piece of the gnawed monster bone from the ground, and then asked the captain of the Guard Samurai to open the big mouth of the Waste Giant Chief with disgust, and stuffed the bone into it himself.

After all this preparation, he ordered the two men who were with him to turn around, and the latter did so respectfully.

The speaker took the jade knife in his hand, aimed it at the right eye of the waste giant, and slashed it down. The body that had been nourished by the life force of the slave for hundreds of years was still so powerful, and the jade knife easily pierced the giant's eyelids.

It was only because the giant who woke up from the pain was smothering and trying to break free, and the shaking on Tamsyn's floating disc affected his wrist again - fortunately, before piercing the eyeball, the speaker used his other hand to fix the wrist of the abbot and pry out the giant's right eye completely against the eye socket.

"Turn around, don't look back!"

The pain of the loss of his eyes made the waste giant bite the monster bones stuffed in his mouth in pain, and let out a senseless roar. The mage and the Guardian wanted to look back to see if they needed help, but they remained standing in place under the angry rebuke.

The Speaker was still annoyed that he hadn't just found a harder bone, but on second thought, the roar of the Waste Giant could be used as a cover for his next steps.

"Azi Byrak Shabirak Su Tangas Miobia!" (Your voice is heard through me!) (Note 1)

An ancient murmur sounded softly in the space, and a human head in an imaginary state poked out of the ground. Its face is an angular man, but one eye is missing - this is the image of the first emperor of the Usang Empire, the "One-Eyed King".

The Speaker held the jade bowl containing the giant's eyeballs and buckled it into the eye socket of the "One-Eyed King", which was missing.

"Schlack!" (glow!) (Note 2)

A gate with a dazzling light appeared in the air, and the golden color on this door alone seemed to make this oppressive underground deserted city instantly become golden and brilliant.

As it slowly fell, the golden door slowly opened, revealing the true treasure inside—

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