559 Swamp Plague
After months of tossing and turning, when Sheng Xuan and his cronies entered the swamp day and night, they saw a desolation, and the tenacious wild grass had withered, not to mention the fragile moss and low shrubs. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"How could this be?" he couldn't help but ask when Sheng Xuan found an orc tribe.
"Not a drop of rain has fallen this year, this is God punishing us, what have we done wrong?" a thin, skeleton-like old man lamented.
I thought that war was the root of all suffering, but in the face of natural disasters, war was like a child's game.
The orcs experienced an unprecedented crisis, not only in the drought, but also in the hundreds of millions of refugees who had arrived from the Far West, where a massive plague had broken out, killing everything quickly, including the barren grass.
Dragons, who had not been born for many years, flew in the sky but did not dare to touch the ground, and they tried to stop the spread of the plague with ice and fire, but to no avail, and in the end they could only drive away the orcs and monsters stationed there, and burn all the plants to slow down the spread of the plague.
But alas, the plague was still brought to the frozen swamp, and the drought almost broke the will of the orcs. Several major orc races such as the wolf clan and the bear clan almost caused a civil war, but finally miraculously subsided.
The reason is the return of a man, wood, this strong man who has been asleep for many years before coming out of the brink of death. To be exact, it should be called Tiger Menggo, and Wood is just his pseudonym, but it doesn't matter what it's called, because he is Shengxuan's best brother.
Finally hearing a piece of good news, Sheng Xuan's heart widened slightly. When he heard that Wood was holding back General Agris's elite army alone, he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Is he already strong enough to be this extent?" Wood was certainly not that strong, perhaps because of the civil strife in Calais, perhaps because of the plague in the swamp, or both of these reasons, so that Calais, the legendary general, could no longer sit idly by, and decided to no longer care about the Tiger Clan, who had been watching for many years, and led his troops to withdraw from the swamp.
As a result, he happened to encounter the wood that had awakened and returned on the way, and the enemy naturally had a fierce battle when they saw each other, but Agris did not want to be contaminated with the grievances of the orcs, so he did not dwell too much, but just waved his sword to block the wood, and led the army away.
But this scene fell on the eyes of the following orcs, hundreds of years of detention made Calais, the army guarding the swamp of one arrow, an undefeated myth, but now this mythical army has retreated because of one man, plus this person is the son of the chief of the Tiger Clan.
With his appearance, the orcs barely suppressed their respective grievances and did not really break out into civil war. But the problem ahead remains unsolved, and that is food. At the same time, there is the faith, which has now begun to falter due to the absence of the totem.
If you want to dominate the entire orc clan, it is no longer enough to rely on the identity of Shengxuan, the divine envoy, you must find the totem of the tiger clan, otherwise not only the status of the tiger clan will be threatened, but even the identity of the divine envoy of Shengxuan will be difficult to keep, after all, he is not an orc.
When the army was defeated, in order to prevent the totem from falling into the hands of the Calais, the Tiger Clan selected one hundred of the strongest warriors in the clan to carry the totem into the depths of the Tiger King, where there were many dangers, and various elements were extremely active, and if you were not careful, you would be swept into the elemental group and die.
This time, the Tiger people had to get the totem back in person, and the heavy responsibility fell on the wood. The Tiger Clan Chief looked at this lost son with mixed feelings: "Menggo, are you really willing to take on this heavy responsibility, tell me how many people you need?"
"Father, my name is no longer Meng Ge, my name is Mu, I am a servant under Lord Sheng Xuan, but I am still a descendant of the Tiger Clan, so leave this matter to me alone. ”
There was a lot of discussion in the clan about the scar on his face, but after all, Mu Tou was a servant of the divine envoy, and it was not a shame, so this matter was suppressed, but today Mu Tou said this in front of the leader of the entire orc clan, which still made the Tiger Clan Chief unable to hang his face.
Just as he was about to have a seizure, Sheng Xuan stood up: "Everyone, since it is an orc matter, and it is related to the beast god totem, then it is my duty to go down, I am willing to accompany my brother to go for a while, please rest assured, we will definitely welcome the tiger totem back." ”
With these words, everyone shut up, and the Tiger Chieftain also had a lot of face on his face, because the divine envoy personally admitted that he was a brother to his son. Even unpretentious orcs can be troubled by their faces.
When the two of them entered Huwang Mountain, they really felt how dangerous it was here, the seemingly harmless grass suddenly turned into a vine and entwined it, and the seemingly quiet river suddenly turned into a monstrous wave, all of which were full of dangers.
But for Sheng Xuan, this is a treasure place to understand natural magic, he felt the various magic elements around him as he walked, and he actually entered a wonderful cultivation state, and the magic elements in his body also became active, and finally reached a magical resonance.
In this way, the two walked in all the way, and finally saw a virtual elf ancient tree, this elf ancient tree was not tall, but it was full of weirdness, as if it was the soul of an elf's death, and scattered various emotions with the swaying of the leaves.
The tiger totem lay quietly under the tree, but the wood did not dare to come forward to pick it up, while Sheng Xuan sat quietly under the tree and carefully experienced the harmonious symbiosis of the magical elements on the ancient tree.
Time passed, and the two of them didn't feel anything, but the orc leader outside was already very anxious, like ants on a hot pot.
"What the hell is going on?" "yes, why haven't you come back yet?" "How many days have it been?" "Nothing has happened!"
"Everyone, be quiet, please listen to me," finally the Tiger Clan Chief stepped forward, "Maybe you don't believe in my son, but I don't think you will doubt the oracle, no matter what, they will welcome back our totem, this is their promise." ”
Before the words fell, a three-zhang strong man snorted coldly: "Hmph, it may not be owned by your clan when the totem comes back, it was your tiger clan that was weak back then, so that the whole orc clan would suffer, I think this time the totem should be handed over to our dragon clan." ”
"Dragons, I've never had a dragon tribe among orcs, you're just a little ground lizard, and you dare to call yourself a dragon. ”
"You, there's a kind of heads-up!" The strong man who claimed to be a dragon suddenly became furious, but he didn't dare to act rashly in front of all the leaders, so he challenged.
At this moment, a voice suddenly appeared outside the account: "I'll fight you alone!" The person who spoke was Mu.
I saw that he was holding the tiger totem in his hand, this totem was obviously much larger than the other races, and the patterns on it were more complicated, which should be the token left by the beast god to rule the various races.
The strong man was challenged and immediately rushed out of the tent, and the two couldn't help but say and immediately started to move. But as soon as he fought, the strong man knew the gap, and before he could speak, a wooden punch had already rushed straight to his chest.
With a bang, the giant-like strong man was thrown out, and blood oozed from the corner of his mouth. The wood stood proudly and snorted coldly: "Hmph, it's vulnerable!"
Seeing this, the chief of the Tiger Clan also turned pale, and immediately raised his totem staff high and knelt down to worship when he looked at the wood. Seeing this, all the leaders also bowed down one after another, but they recognized the status of the leader of the wooden orcs.
Food is still the biggest problem that plagues the orcs, and even if all the bitter wheat in the Tagu Desert is harvested, I am afraid it will not be enough for such a number of orcs to distribute.
Moreover, there is also the spread of the plague, and there are already some small tribes on the edge of the epidemic that have infected orcs, and the tribesmen cannot cure them, so they can only drive them out of the village, and even brutally kill them and burn them with fire.
Under the double blow of disease and starvation, the orcs are rapidly attributing, and if this continues, I am afraid that it will not be long before the danger of extinction. The immediate issue is to solve the food problem.
Then there is only one way to war.
The army is rapidly assembling, with the addition of the tiger totem, the orc totem is basically gathered, and Shengxuan has once again opened his awakening, so that more orc warriors can feel the glory of God.
Then the army peaked and pointed directly at the city of Gangsas, which is the largest grain-producing area in Calais, even if it has experienced the consumption of the war, but at least there is a lot of grain in stock, and this year's grain is also in the harvest season, and the orcs must take Gangsas before they harvest.
Besides, the orcs did not have large engineering equipment, and the casualties were too large to rely on the pile of people alone, so Sheng Xuan remembered one person, and that was Julio.
After this cut, Julio's power has not decreased as before, but his ambition has not diminished in the slightest, and if he is allowed to join and promise benefits, I believe he will agree.
Sure enough, Shengxuan simply said what he thought, and Julio clapped his hands in agreement, and promised that he would rush to help with Mandel and Loren.
The arrival of millions of troops in Gangsas immediately made Calais nervous, but now they are in a difficult situation both internally and externally, although Agris's has returned, they still can't calm the **** in the country in a short time.
At the court meeting, Agrice even threatened to return the land of the orcs to them, which immediately caused an uproar and almost turned into a mutiny, and was finally suppressed by Agris.
When the army entered Calais, it was met with a series of stubborn resistance, and the descendants of the orcs who had been ruled by Calais for thousands of years pounced on the army desperately.
provoked Shengxuan to be furious and waved his army to destroy the three towns in a row, which completely destroyed their psychology, and then the army came all the way to the city of Gangsas, and Julio and the two families finally broke through the dark canyon Calais and rushed to converge.
The war did not break out, but the city lord of Gangsas City took the initiative to come out and sacrifice the city. And behind the city lord, Sheng Xuan saw a familiar figure, Fred!
The two sat in a humble tavern in Gangsas City, and for the first time they didn't use swords to fight each other, but they were a little unaccustomed to it.
Fred spoke, "I know that a city will not stop you at all, so I advise the lord of the city to sacrifice it, not for you but for the people of Calais. ”
"I don't want to kill, I just want to live. Sheng Xuan said, holding up his wine glass.
Hearing this, the former was stunned for a moment, and then sighed: "Hey, what a great meaning to live, toast to live." ”
Putting down the wine glass, Sheng Xuan said, "What have you been busy with lately? Why don't you come and help me?" "Helping you?" Fred shook his head, then said, "I'm no longer a warrior, and I don't want to pick up a butcher's knife anymore, I'm just Lord Upton's grave keeper now." ”
"Goodbye!" After a glass of wine, the two parted indifferently, and just as Fred went out, Shengxuan said: "Goodbye my friend, I hope we can raise a glass again when we really let go of each other's mustard." ”
This sentence lingered in Fred's mind, and he remembered a sentence from Lord Upton's life: "The one who knows you best is always your enemy, and perhaps he is more like your friend, who knows your heart." ”