Chapter 37: Trading and the Werewolf Clan
The elderly werewolf orc's name is Kapushkin, the father of the werewolf boy orc Bucklev, and the other young werewolf orc named Pushko is the younger brother of the young werewolf Bucklev. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Compared with the young werewolf orc Bucklev, Pushko is already an adult, and a werewolf orc like him has participated in several raids on human villages, and he is very disdainful of the weak race of humans.
This time he came with the transaction, but because of the insistence of the old werewolf orc Kapushkin, according to his opinion, it would be good to go directly to the human village to grab it, why should it be so troublesome to exchange the flock for sheep?
"Pushko, my dear brother, I am not deceived by the psychic magic of that human magician, and my two cattle slaves can testify to it!
The werewolf orc boy Bucklev respected his brother very much, and in order to prove that what he said was not a lie, he called the two minotaur orcs who were captured with him that day to speak.
"Yes, my esteemed master, Master Baklev is true, Master Pushiko, we were there at the time, right next to Master Bakrev, and we saw with our own eyes that the magician who knew how to do psychic magic really shot down two goshawks at once. ”
The minotaur orc named Zahetai walked up to the three werewolf orcs, performed a master-slave etiquette, and told the truth truthfully.
The Minotaur Orc, as a pariax among the steppe orcs, can only tell what he sees, because there is no possibility of avoiding the dispute between the two masters of the upper clan, if he does not tell the truth, Baklev will whip himself, and if he tells the truth, Pushko may also whip himself, he is ready to be whipped.
"Yes......" In the eyes of the Minotaur orc Zahetai, Pushko has always been a very brutal image, but this time Pushko unexpectedly did not whip Zaktai in anger, but on the contrary, he held his chest with one hand and touched his chin with the other hand and fell into deep thought.
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When Ziggy and the bearded Biden and the handsome swordsman Lawrence cautiously came to the ruins of Beihe Village, the Beihe Village in front of him was already a dilapidated scene, for the sake of safety, Ziggy asked the stealth assassin Ian to investigate around first, and then walked into this deserted village that seemed to be haunted with peace of mind, even before walking in, he first looked at the way to escape.
Ziggy is a man who is very afraid of death!
Just kidding! The other party is a werewolf!
Werewolf orcs!
The fur-covered orcs are the overlords of the steppe known for their ferocity.
The young werewolf named Bucklev had been fooled by himself, but the other werewolves might not have been......
When Ziggy landed on the north bank of the Salmon River, he kept reminding himself that he must be careful, he must be careful, the werewolf orcs are likely to have evolved from the steppe wolves, don't look at their beautiful hair, the wolf race has always been subservient to the strong and hunting the weak animals.
Nowhere is this more evident than in wild animals!
No matter what kind of wild carnivore, when they hunt, they give preference to young, or thin, or old prey, and never provoke strong prey in the prime of life, which is the habit of wild carnivores, and wolves follow this habit of carnivores.
Ziggy speculated that since werewolf orcs may have evolved from wolves, carnivores, they probably inherited wolf habits.
When dealing with this race, you must not show any weak behavior, or they will treat you as prey!
Therefore, be careful in front of these werewolf orcs, but you must not show cowardice, and you must behave a little stronger when trading with a race like werewolf orcs...... As he walked, Ziegy imagined how he should be when he traded.
Walking into the dilapidated Beihe Village, there are broken door panels everywhere, blackened walls, broken windows, and the wooden planks of some windows have not completely fallen off.
The houses have not collapsed yet, and from the watchtower of Grizzly Village it really looks like a complete village, maybe in a few decades, these abandoned houses will gradually decay and collapse if no one repairs them, until you can see from a distance that the village is an abandoned village where no one lives.
But now, Beihe Village is more like a deserted village in a horror story, thanks to the raiding of the steppe orcs, and I don't know what happened to those Beihe villagers, Ziggy remembers that Blacksmith Finn once told him that Daddy Chuck's eldest daughter, that is, Belinda's sister, married into this village, and since Beihe Village was abandoned, Daddy Chuck has never seen his eldest daughter.
The life of the inhabitants of the empire who live on the northern border is really miserable!
Ziegy couldn't help but sigh.
But just as Ziggy sighed and turned around a dilapidated stone house, he saw three humans on the deserted village road in front of him!
Zig couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva nervously, there was obviously no one in Beihe Village! Could it be haunted?
Ziggy plucked up the courage to take a closer look, not floating, not wearing a cape, not wearing a white coat, the three humans he met on the deserted village path were all male, and there were shadows.
Let's call them three men.
The three men were dressed like humans from the Holy Odin Empire...... More like a primitive tribe of humans, they wore animal skins, fur hats, and a scimitar around their waists, and then there were three steppe wolves not far from the three men.
Steppe wolf!?
Could it be ......
Ziggy then remembered that werewolf orcs are a very special race among orcs, they can freely change werewolf form and ordinary human form, which also makes werewolf orcs, an orc race, more mysterious in the eyes of ordinary humans.
Werewolf orcs are not uncommon in human society.
After the destruction of the forest orcs, a large number of timberwere orcs were sold to the arena and gladiatorial arena, and the slavers let the timberwerewolf orcs fight to the death in the arena.
In order to increase the entertainment, the slave traders often let the werewolf orcs appear in normal human form, and after a period of fighting, let the werewolf orc gladiators change their werewolf form in public.
This often makes the atmosphere in the arena particularly hot, and many spectators are willing to watch this kind of bloody gladiatorial match, but whenever there is a gladiatorial match with werewolf orcs, the ticket alone is enough to make the slave owner who runs the gladiatorial arena make a lot of money.
Because there are werewolf orcs gladiatorial tournament ticket prices, often double or triple the price of the rise.
After the werewolf orcs change their werewolf form during the gladiatorial fight, their strength will often be greatly improved, and they will suddenly reverse and defeat the opponent who has just gained the upper hand!
While the aristocratic audience was getting carried away by adrenaline, the slave owners who ran the gladiatorial arena made a lot of money on the gambling money, which was only a little more than the ticket revenue.
However, there are not many timberwewolf orcs, far less than the population of the steppe werewolf orcs.
After defeating the last tribe of forest orcs forty years ago, the total number of werewolf orcs captured was only more than 1,000, of which the number of prime-aged timberwere orcs who could serve as gladiators was less than 300.
In recent years, in the gladiatorial arena, there will only be an occasional gladiator of the werewolf orc in two or three years, and it is said that these occasional werewolf gladiators are actually not forest werewolf orcs, but steppe werewolf orcs.
It is precisely because of the scarcity of werewolf gladiators that in recent years, whenever there are werewolf gladiators in the Holy Odin Empire, gladiatorial competitions can often become a cash cow for slave traders.
Thinking of this, Ziggy couldn't help but be a little speechless, and he didn't know whether the steppe orcs who repeatedly plundered the northern villages and towns were more ferocious, or the humans who liked bloody gladiatorial battles were more vicious, and those humans who watched the gladiatorial games were so excited to see blood......
It is said that when an orc gladiator is seriously injured or killed, and blood is spilled all over the ground, many spectators who watch a gladiatorial match will excitedly throw gold coins into the gladiatorial arena!
And this is not an uncommon case!
So...... The three werewolf orcs came to see themselves in human form, and this was for the sake of ......
Ziggy guessed correctly, the three "humans" dressed in animal skins on the path of the deserted village were indeed the young werewolf orc Bucklev, and his father and brother three werewolf orcs.
The shortest boy was supposed to be Bucklev, who looked like a hairy boy.
Bucklev also saw Zieg's group, but none of the three on the other side moved.
On the contrary, the two groups of people stood in place and looked at each other for a while, and then walked towards the middle of the deserted village path at the same time.
It seems that everyone is very careful in the first transaction...... Ziggy muttered silently in his heart.
"Baklev, why don't you introduce your two companions first!" After a distance of about ten meters between the two sides, the two groups stopped at the same time.
Obviously, while Ziggy was guarding against the three werewolves, the three werewolf orcs were also guarding against them, and the scene was both weird and a little dull and a little embarrassing, and in the end it was Ziggy who broke the silence first.
The young werewolf Bucklev in human form was a hairy boy with a bit of plateau red on his cheeks, and he was about to continue with Zigger's words, but was stopped by a strong werewolf orc youth beside him.
"Human ...... My dear brother told me that you are a Que who surpasses our werewolf Que, and I want to see your magic skills, I don't know if I can!"
Ziggy glanced up and down at the werewolf orc youth who spoke, as he expected, the werewolf orc would never easily convince Zigg based on Bucklev's words alone, the only thing Ziggy didn't expect was that his method of separate interrogation had been regarded as mind magic by the old werewolf orc.
Werewolf orcs, like many martial barbarian peoples, advocate bravery, not to mention doing business with them, just want to associate with such a race, without a little ability to do it.
Ziggy just wanted to say "yes", but before the good word could be spoken, the old werewolf orc on the opposite side held down the young werewolf.
"Pushko, this human is here to make a deal with us, you can't be so rude!" Compared to his two sons, Kapushkin, an elderly werewolf orc, is more calm, and it is the safest way to maintain enough respect in the face of a human magician who may use mysterious psychic magic.
Although Kapushkin didn't quite believe the description of his youngest son Baklev, the seemingly weak human in front of him did indeed catch his reckless and impulsive youngest son, and did not do any harm to him after catching him, and released him back to the steppe, according to the custom of the steppe orcs, the captured upper orcs must pay a certain ransom to return to their tribe, but this human did not ask for a ransom.
On the contrary, a small cake pot was given to Baklev to bring back to the tribe.