In a newly built wooden house on the west side of Port Carlil, Williams couldn't help but smile when he saw Sylvia and Victor walking in together. They are dressed in ordinary clothes, holding fishing rods and baskets in their hands, and their manners are casual and intimate, like a newly married fisherman couple.

"You guys like it too...... So?" Williams asked with some surprise as he lowered his hand to salute. He also often takes his wife and children to experience different lives and takes pleasure in it.

"Why not?" said Victor with a smile, putting down the rod and pouring the live fish from the basket into the water tank in the house, "It's like a vacation in a fishing village, and the room and board are all free." ”

"Free?" the regent asked, confused, "Does it cost money to spend money on a vacation in the Centaur Hill?"

Sylvia smiled, pulled out the chair at the head of the solid wood table, and sat down, and greeted the hostess in the tone of a hostess: "Gentlemen, please sit as you like, but don't expect me to prepare cheese and fish soup for you...... Also, why didn't Roland come?"

She boarded the Golden Fleece, which departed for training in the morning and returned in the afternoon as planned. But so far, they have not returned to Hong Kong...... Don't wait for her, the princess explained before leaving, and the results of our discussion can be reported to her. The Marquis of Goron pulled the chair to the left of the table and sat down, pointed to the place at the bottom of the table, and commanded a middle-aged nobleman in a clerk's uniform: "Valen, that is your seat." ”

"Thank you, sir, I'll just stand. ”

Waiting for Victor and Williams to take their seats, the middle-aged nobleman stroked his chest and took a deep breath, "Your Royal Highness, please allow me to introduce myself first, I am the second court clerk of the Kite Castle, Viscount Valen Leopold. It is a great honour for me to be able to report to His Highness the findings of the Secretariat. ”

"My colleagues in the Secretariat and I spent fourteen days carefully studying the information provided by His Highness Randall, and had in-depth exchanges with Clark scholars from the Borui Kingdom, and initially came to several conclusions that need to be verified......"

Viscount Valen is articulate and coherent, and the process of narration is very rhythmic. However, the conclusion of the Kite Castle staff was nothing new for Victor, and he even deduced the encounter of the barbarians in the southern continent and the contradictions and entanglements with the orcs based on the materials presented by Andrei and Tammor.

The literature of the Church records the stories of the gods of the northern barbarians.

One day in ancient times, the god Donalfu incarnated as the first barbarian in history, and he married the first beautiful female half-orc as his wife, and evolved the barbarian race. He opened the light of wisdom of the barbarians, distinguished them from the beasts, taught them the use of fire, and taught them ancient knowledge.

Donal tells his barbarian descendants that their mother is actually the embodiment of Mother Earth. Mother Earth is the mother of all things in the world, representing silence and chaos, in charge of reproduction and death, and treating all living beings who walk on the earth equally, whether they are tiny mice or huge mammoths, wise or ignorant.

Therefore, the barbarians claim to be the son of the heavenly spirit, the daughter of the earth spirit, and the barbarian royal family is the direct descendant of the heavenly spirit Donal, representing the guidance of the father. Due to the two different cults, the barbarians followed the natural cycle of Mother Earth and opposed changing the original appearance of the earth, did not grow crops, did not graze cattle and sheep, and lived by gathering and hunting. At the same time, the barbarians also revere the light of wisdom of the heavenly spirits, and fear the authority of the barbarian royal family, believing that the earth mother will not respond to the barbarians' prayers, but the royal members of the barbarian tribe can communicate with the god Donal, and convey the will of the gods through divination.

Whether the barbarian myth is true or false, whether it was deliberately made up by members of the barbarian royal family in order to maintain their dominance, or whether it was imposed on the barbarians by the wizard of the Chosen One, Victor does not know. He was sure that although the northern barbarians of half-nature worship and demigod bloodline worship belonged to a centralized civilization, they did not pose a direct threat to human city-states. On the contrary, the barbarians who lived by gathering and hunting were very dependent on the supply of human city-states. The barbarian royal family relied on divination prophecies and the food support of the El city-state, and was able to firmly control the large and small barbarian tribes, and it was inevitable that they would become a vassal race of the wizard city-state.

The members of the barbarian royal family were eradicated by the wizards of the Pantheon, and the barbarian civilization immediately collapsed. The barbarian survivors who have been displaced in the Southern Continent have never been able to rebuild their civilization, and they have to cling to their stronger, uglier Southern Continent relatives, the Orcs.

The half-orcs and barbarians look different and look down on each other, but the number of barbarians is too small, and the individual strength and ferocity ratio are not as good as the half-orcs, and they have become the target of oppression by the half-orcs. Fortunately, the barbarians have a tradition of divination, and the barbarian shamans have gained a certain right to speak in the orc tribe, spreading the primitive beliefs of the heavenly spirits and the earth mother. But this does not fundamentally change the weak position of the barbarians.

In the process of trying to assimilate the half-beasts, the barbarian shamans must accept the half-orc shamans and teach them the methods of divination and prophecy. They burned the skulls of their prey or enemies in the fire, and interpreted the results of divination based on the cracks in the bones.

The key lies in whether the answer is accurate, and if the interpretation is accurate, the prophecy will be effective, and all kinds of private goods can be mixed in the prophecy; if the interpretation is wrong, the shaman will be overwhelmed, and maybe he will be beaten into a dog by the tribe members. Obviously, the barbarian royals have a talent for accurately deciphering bone cracks. There is no essential difference between ordinary barbarian shamans and their orc apprentices. The half-orc shaman relied on his numerical superiority and the success rate of the prophecy overwhelmed the barbarian shaman teacher, and gradually became a privileged class in the tribe.

Whether it is a barbarian shaman or a half-orc shaman, in order to maintain their privileges, they must affirm the greatness and sacredness of the heavenly spirits and the earth mother. However, the orc shaman hated the idea that the Celestial Spirit Bloodline was the king of the barbarians. If this statement is admitted, it means that the barbarians are closer to the gods than the orcs, but to completely deny that the god Donal is the father of the barbarians and the half-orcs is equivalent to denying divination and the meaning of the shaman's existence.

As a result, the orc shaman strengthened the worship of Mother Earth, admired the natural way of the jungle, did not recognize the so-called king of the barbarians, and adopted the chieftain challenge system that respected the strong, and eliminated the hereditary system of chieftains from the root. The lack of a power core passed down from generation to generation certainly enhanced the shaman's right to speak, but it also made the ethnic group split into large and small tribes, and after thousands of years, the orcs and barbarians failed to form a strong regime, and it was still a scattered primitive tribal civilization.

Victor argues that the attempt of the northern barbarians to assimilate the southern barbarians was a failure, and that the belief system spread by the barbarian shamans was shifted, but it was compatible with ordinary barbarian members. The tribe pursues a fist with the final say, and the barbarians are inferior in strength and number to the orcs, and they deserve to be oppressed by the orcs.

The barbarians were actually assimilated by the orcs, and unless the royal members of the barbarians reappeared, it would be difficult to reverse this situation!

The barbarian kingdom on the south bank of Dahewan is a human being, and she still implements the chieftaincy system where the strong is king, and the full name should be the alliance between orcs and barbarian tribes, referred to as Gaogen.

About 120 years ago, the Borui people perfected the manufacturing technology of large flat-bottomed sailing boats, which has the advantages of large cargo capacity, smooth navigation and shallow draft. The innovation of shipbuilding technology made it possible for the Borui Kingdom to break through the blockade of the fishmen in the shallow waters and land on the south coast. Thirty years later, the flat-bottomed warships of the Borui Kingdom were reloaded, and the ambitious Borui Lord led 42 new warships, starting from Nanfeng Harbor, and sailed mightily into the shallow waters on the south shore of the Great River Bay, and the battleship ballista longbow covered the entire shallow.

Faced with the behemoth approaching from the rear, the fish-men in the shallow waters of the south bank panicked and fled from the river beach one after another. Without the resistance of the fishmen, the landing craft of the Borui people successfully rushed onto the river beach, and for the first time in thousands of years, the army of the human kingdom set foot on the land of the southern continent.

The commander of Borui's army, Duke Christopher, organized forces to build docks and fish-proof walls, while sending elite scouts to reconnoiter the surrounding situation. The scouts found a land suitable for settlement, with abundant water and grass, fertile land, large areas of dense primeval mountain forests, and a mixed tribe of orcs and barbarians.

For the sake of the land, for the sake of safety, the pioneers of the human kingdom must set foot on that barbarian tribe.

How powerful can a barbarian tribe that follows the way of nature and lives on gathering and hunting be? Their population does not exceed seven thousand, and the barbarian warriors use stone axes and stone spears, and the orc warriors prefer to use their own claws. Their enemies were sixty thousand well-trained, heavily armed human warriors, as well as more than 300 knights and 2,000 clerics.

This battle of disparity in strength started at noon, and the result was without suspense, the main force of the barbarians was completely annihilated, the army of the Borui Kingdom broke through the barbarian camp, and the rest of the barbarians fled in all directions.

The Borui seized the first strategic location, and the commander, Duke Christopher, was not carried away by the easy victory, knowing full well that there was a barbarian tribe, the second and the third, and they must not be allowed to unite and attack the human frontier.

Rivers breed civilizations, and barbarian tribes must have been built near rivers and lakes. The Borui Expeditionary Force advanced along the river, destroying 18 barbarian tribes in succession along the way, opening up 700 kilometers of defensive depth. Only then did the expeditionary force turn around and concentrate its efforts on building a pioneer fortress in the frontier area.

It should be said that Duke Christopher's strategy worked very well. The barbarian tribes of primitive beliefs did not have the belief to stick to their homeland, and it was not uncommon for them to choose to flee when they encountered a strong enemy. The fleeing barbarians spread the terror and power of the Tin to the more distant barbarian tribes.

For the next four years, the pioneers of the Borui Kingdom were not harassed by the barbarian natives. They built pioneer forts, cultivated farmland and pastures around the area, planted wheat, raised cattle and sheep, and even dug an open-pit mine.

If it weren't for the barbarian shaman Gruna, the kingdom of Borui might have been successful.

The female shaman, revered by the Gaugen barbarians, gathered dozens of barbarian and orc chieftains to convince them to unite against the expeditionary forces of the Borui Kingdom. No one knows the details of the chieftains' meeting, but Gruna left three prophecies, which roughly mean that the iron-clad humans came to exterminate the barbarians and orcs, and that they would dig them out and kill them wherever they hid in that hole, and that the barbarians and orcs must elect the Great Chief of Gaugen, under his leadership, defeat the humans, occupy the stone houses they built, learn their techniques, and finally bury the tin men once and for all.

The third prophecy is that she will go to the leader of the Tin Men and offer the blessings of the Father of Heaven and Mother Earth, and then she will be burned by the leader of the Tin People with a white-gold flame that will not be quenched even by the thunder and tears of the Father of Heaven, and that the warriors of the barbarians will send the enemies who burned her into the arms of Mother Earth in the heavy rain.

The journal of Cardinal Laszlo of the Kingdom of Borui describes it this way:

"This morning, the Vanguard Fortress welcomed a special visitor, a barbarian female shaman named Gruna, or Grand...... The name of the barbarian is awkward and stupid, and everything is called a lowly barbarian. However, this shaman is not bad-looking, even according to the eyes of the knight, she is also an excellent beauty, especially those black eyes like the eyes of a hind, clean, docile, and timid, but as soon as she opened her mouth, I smelled the stench of the evil god! She stumbled to greet me in human language, saying that she had been given an oracle by the Father of the Heavenly Spirits to submit to mankind on behalf of the Gaugen tribe, and that the barbarians were willing to pay tribute every year in exchange for the more than 2,000 barbarian slaves captured in the Vanguard Fortress...... The true God has no desires, no desires, no desires, no supreme supreme, and does not need to issue oracles to the believers, and the so-called oracles are either the whispers of the evil gods or the sinners who claim to be gods! Whatever kind of female shaman she is, she should be purified...... Well, I should talk to His Highness Christopher and wipe out the god-worshipping Kogen tribe. Barbarian and orc captives are strong laborers, and I will purify the evil god's female shaman, Gruna, with the Holy Fire of the Most High Lord, in their presence. ”

What happened later is recorded in the memoirs of the commander Duke Christopher.

"She was premeditated, and Laszro made a mistake. There were no Gogan barbarians, no tribute, and my fierce warrior had no premonition of danger approaching, which was not normal! The barbarian shaman's sorcery blinded the ferocious warrior's instincts of danger, as the subsequent encounters confirmed. Razro had to perform a purification ceremony in front of the barbarian captives, which not only cost him his life, but also brought great trouble to our descendants...... The rainstorm obscured our vision, and the rain-soaked leather armor slowed down the soldiers' marches, leaving the shirtless barbarian captives unaffected...... On the way back to the Vanguard Fortress, endless barbarians and orcs killed from all directions, they tore through the rain curtain, surrounded us, and shouted 'Gaogen' and 'Gaogen'....... and later I learned that Gaogen is the son of the heavenly spirit, the king of the barbarians, and in the era of the Chosen One, Gaogen represented the barbarian royal court. But at that moment, I didn't care too much, we first killed all the crazy barbarian captives, and then led the army to break through...... It would be a nightmare to hope that the Vanguard Fortress does not send troops to support. ”

"Thirty-five thousand elite soldiers and 800 paladins were wiped out, and Laszro died because he didn't come back. The outside of the Vanguard Fortress is full of barbarians and orcs, at least 200,000. His Highness Viorito himself went out to scout the enemy, and he said that there was a steady stream of barbarians who had taken over our farms, pastures, mines, and blacksmith shops to try to produce food and equipment. The Vanguard Fortress has enough food to eat for four months, and there are not many arrows and crossbows, so you have to save some money."

"I now think that Laszlo is right, that neither we nor the Church can allow a second faith to emerge in the human kingdom, that we cannot coexist with the barbarians. Although at first, I was not prepared to exterminate the barbarians, and only regarded them as primitive intelligent species like centaurs. In fact, they possess a transcendent power for divination and prophecy, and are convinced that it is a gift from the spirits of heaven and earth. That is, Gruna foresaw that we could not accept the offerings of the barbarians, and foresaw that she was destined to be purified by Laszlo. Her third prophecy came true, convincing the barbarians and orcs of the first two...... Specific hatred, hostility, and primitive beliefs prompted the barbarians to change their way of life, and tribes large and small gathered near the vanguard fortress to defend the court of Gaugen. The Great Chief of the Vanguard Fortress was given a lifetime system, and after its death, the chiefs of the various tribes competed for the position of the Great Chief by force. But the Great Chief is not Gaogen, and the king of the barbarians is waiting for him...... I'm very confused about this. ”

Victor was also puzzled, the Gorgen Kingdom played the banner of the king of the barbarians, and claimed to be orthodox, which could attract the barbarian tribes to take refuge. However, the Great Chief cannot ascend to the throne, and he changes the lifelong system to a hereditary system, and the other barbarian chieftains will never tame it, which will lead to the collapse of the Gaugen Kingdom. But if the god Donal really issued an oracle to Gruna......

The empty barbarian throne, for whom is he prepared?