Chapter 504: Snowy Snow
Milna's eyes widened as she stared at the rabbit ear headdress that Mintae wore on her head. For a moment, she burst out laughing, and her actions made Mintae blush and bow his head. This made the poor 16-year-old girl think that her decoration was ridiculous, but Mirna actually liked the rabbit-eared tiara so much that she would have snatched it and put it on her head if she could.
Uma smiled awkwardly and looked at Mirna, who was almost glued to Mintae, he really couldn't figure out where the attraction between girls came from. It seems that they can become friends for any trivial thing, or they can become enemies for any trivial thing. It's incredible just to think about it, at least that's what Uma thinks.
Freya and Aunt Barrena had a friendly conversation, but in order not to wary the other party, Freya still did not choose to ask sensitive questions. Throughout, she maintained a friendly attitude and exchanged ideas about life with Barrena. Indeed, Barrena's cooking skills are probably the best in the entire camp, and you certainly can't expect those who spend all day thinking only about fighting to study cooking.
Of course, in the end, the conversation will inevitably return to the ice dragon Skasa. Because the Bantu tribe plundered the borders of the principality and the Delos army, and left their hometown of Amros, the snow capital, was all due to the awakening of the ice dragon Skasa. Even if the brave warriors of the Bantu clan could not defeat an opponent when they joined together, Freya did not know whether to say that the ice dragon was too strong or that the warriors of the Bantu tribe were not strong enough.
"Ever since the ice dragon Skazar awoke, my people have lived in fear every day. Every day there were young Bantu warriors who wanted to challenge it, but each time the lads never returned. We all know that they sleep forever on the snowy mountains. Although it is reluctant to say this, at the moment we Bantu do not have the strength to defeat Skasa. Barrena's tone was reluctant and angry, and she was definitely not the only Bantu who hated the Ice Dragon Skasa.
"Doesn't it have any signs before it wakes up?" Freya asked, not believing that such a terrifying ice dragon had no warning before it woke up.
"No, it woke up without anyone expecting it. Many were buried alive by the avalanche before they could even escape from their houses and tents, and many more died under its breath. It is a terrible enemy, but that will not break our confidence in destroying it. "Barrena is obviously not very willing to recall the events of that day, which would have been terrifying for anyone who lived through that disaster.
"If that's the case, it makes sense, after all, the ice dragon Skasa is the product of the apostles......" Freya muttered to herself.
Maffeo and Schultz sat by Renault's stove to keep warm, seemingly casually browsing Renault's items. In addition to sword oil, which they had never seen before, some of the unique knife sharpening tools of the northern snowy regions also caught their attention. What is certain is that the two will have an argument over the usefulness of an item, and whenever this happens, Renault will come up to the two with a smile and persuade them, and then the two will almost be smoked by the overwhelming smell of alcohol on Renault's body, so as to stop the argument.
It is unclear how skilled Renault is, but Maffeo's greatsword does need to be repaired, and the maintenance he has done on his greatsword is only to keep it sharp. What's more, although he doesn't trust the blacksmith very much, it is better for him to talk less in this strange and hostile place. After all, Reynaud has always been neutral to outsiders, and he is neither repulsive to outsiders like most Bantu people, nor wary of outsiders like Barrena and Mintai.
Renault laid Maffeo's sword flat on a simple wooden table, which was its equipment, and it has to be said that it disappointed Maffeo a little, he had thought that the drunken blacksmith had more equipment. But he was wrong, this is the northern snowy region, there are not too many resources allocated to blacksmiths, and the Bantu people are not good at gathering resources, so it is naturally impossible for Maffeo to see the sophisticated equipment of the blacksmith shops in Delos here.
"Do you really believe that this drunkard can fix your weapons?" Schultz whispered, leaning his head into Maffeo's ear.
"It's better than fighting a monster with a worn weapon. Maffeo shrugged his shoulders indifferently, but he was more anxious than Scholz in his heart.
Maffeo saw Renault put his greatsword into a vat filled with a special liquid, and to be honest, he couldn't remember any blacksmith who had such a process when repairing weapons, so he hurriedly asked. "Uh...... What is this doing?"
"Young man, I promise that your greatsword will refresh when it comes out of the vat. Renault laughed, not answering Maffeo's question. Perhaps in his eyes, this question is really not worth answering. So, as most of the time, Renaud picked up the sac and began to pour mare's milk wine into his mouth. Maffeo and Schultz stared at him blankly, as if the next second this guy would die from excessive alcohol intake.
Umma, the only one who wasn't interested in everything here, walked around the camp, he wasn't afraid of the cold, so he could focus his full attention on observing the things here. The Bantu people have no obvious objects or decorations to signify class status, so all the tents here are constructed identically. He figured that he couldn't guess where their leader was based on the appearance of the tent, and he didn't think Orka would talk to him.
In addition to these, three totems are erected at each exit of the camp, and the animals on the totems are wolves, rabbits, and cows. Uma knew that these animals represented a further divided small group within the Bantu people, and he believed that the Bantu people had their own culture. But in the eyes of the Delos and Belmar, they are barbaric and have nothing to do with culture. Far away in the east of the continent, the Void Ancestor has rarely participated in the disputes on the continent, so few people know their views on other forces.
The things that those Bantu people do every day are honestly not much better than the outsiders who come here, and the boredom accompanies everyone here. Uma suddenly found it difficult to find something interesting to do in this place, where there seemed to be nothing but cold winds, snow and snow-capped mountains. Exploring in an ice cave? That's not a good option, you could freeze to death in an ice cave before you can find something interesting. Moreover, those eerie and cold ice caves are not even easy for the Bantu people to set foot in, let alone outsiders.
When Uma thought about it, he realized that if he wanted to get out of his current predicament, it was really like Orka said - either leave or prove his ability.