"A silver coin can represent everything in the world, heads and tails and essence. ”

- Rocky Valentine

There are nearly 200 large and small tribes in the Kham Mountain area, the large tribes have tens of thousands of people, and the small tribes even have only a few dozen people. Generally, the outer tribes are weaker, and the inner tribes are stronger, and the large and small tribes radiate around the "Black Axe" tribe in the middle.

In fact, the entire mountain tribe does not own the entire Kham Mountains, which run from north to south, and the higher the mountains are the further south they are, the more complex the terrain becomes. The mountain tribes are basically distributed in the northerly part of the Kham Mountains, to the north, northwest, and northeast. As for the south, the towering peaks block everything, and the Kingdom of Myne may not be able to climb the towering Black Mountain Peak to attack the mountain tribes with all its strength.

Among the many small tribes on the outskirts of the Kham Mountains, near the northeast of the Silvermoon Country, there is a medium-sized tribe that stands out from the crowd. His size is not only a medium-sized tribe in the entire Kham Mountains, but it is also the leader of many tribes in the small tribes of the entire northeast. The mountain tribes are not allowed to form an alliance, which is tantamount to rebellion, because the entire mountain tribe is a big alliance under the leadership of the "Black Axe" tribe.

Because of this, Loki is now wearing black close-fitting leather armor and leather boots, and is kneeling in front of the huge wooden house of the leader of the Black Axe tribe with his hands tied to face the judgment of the people. The aging King Baron Hudson did not want his own generation to have problems with his own generation, which had been in rule since the time of General Wharton.

Now that he had seen the boy who was said to be a threat to his position, the twenty-one-year-old Loki was indeed younger and more handsome than himself, but his thin body and handsome face without a beard made the big boy look like someone who could threaten his dominance.

"Look at this little girl!" the chiefs of the burly mountain tribes laughed and discussed the humble boy in front of them. Most of these were chiefs of medium-sized tribes and above in the Kham Mountains, and there were also many chiefs of small tribes who stood on the outermost side and looked like peasants, but they did not speak, and Loki had told them not to try to save him before he came.

King Baron smiled coldly, his expression full of mockery as he looked at Loki, who was kneeling in the middle. The pitch-black long-handled axe and scepter in his hand struck a few times on the wooden pedestal.

"Quiet!" said King Baron, and as the crowd fell silent, the King looked at Loki and asked, "Loki Valentine, you have not attended any of my meetings for the past seven years, and who has given you the right and audacity to be so disrespectful to me?"

"Actually! It's six years and three quarters. My Majesty" Loki shook his head and raised his eyebrows, "I came with my father to the last meeting, when we brought the salt and cotton that we had robbed with our lives, and wanted to follow you, with you people. ”

As he spoke, Loki looked at the big chieftains standing on both sides, and then turned to look at the dense small chieftains on the periphery: "You have the best arable land and the most abundant prey resources. We risked our lives to grab some goods in exchange for some food, because we didn't want to hunt the food that we didn't have much outside the periphery when our prey was young. ”

"But you called my father up and rebuked him, and confiscated the salt and cotton we brought, and my father argued with it, and you had your guards beat him severely. Loki stared at him with wide eyes and sneered, "He died on the way back." ”

There was an instant uproar among the crowd, including some big chiefs. Although this kind of thing is not glorious, in the mountain tribes, it is common for large tribes to bully small tribes, and more big chiefs do not think so, and even think that it should be so, after all, they are also doing it.

"Quiet!" said King Baron, pausing again with a heavy "thump" on the end of his black, iron tomahawk on the ground, the dim candlelight of the hut shining on his old face and cloudy eyes.

"The mountain people were originally stationed in this deep mountain, and there were no other tribes except for the "Black Axe" and the four major tribes. Over the years, I have graciously allowed you to allow this to exist from the very beginning when the sons and daughters of the two tribes married and moved out with their own tribes to form their own small tribes. Until now we have nearly 200 tribes, large and small. Baron said as he looked around at the crowd.

The chiefs who came into contact with Baron's gaze all nodded cooperatively, as for the little lords on the periphery, they didn't move, and Baron's cloudy old eyes definitely couldn't see that far.

"There are many sinners who have been expelled from the tribe!" Baron raised his voice, "Your ancestors either left the tribe of their own choice to go to the periphery or were expelled from the tribe!" ”

"Many of them are people who can't stand the injustice of their tribes, or who dare to rise up and rebel!" Loki said to Baron with a sinister smile.

"Shut up, Loki Valentine!" King Baron was completely enraged by Loki's constant interjection, and he didn't know why he always felt that Loki's words had a kind of charm, and he had a hunch that this terrible charm would shake his rule.

King Balon shouted, pointed his long black axe at Loki and said, "You and your father have plundered passing caravans, destroyed our friendship with the Rhine Empire, deepened the possibility of war between us and the Silvermoon Kingdom, and destroyed our hard-won peace!"

"Oh, is it, through the friendship you have gained by paying the Rhine a tribute of gold every year?" Loki still looked cynical, as if the more angry old Baron was, the happier he became.

"And you!" Baron did not reply to Loki's words, but raised his tone to interrupt Loki's words, "you bastard of humble origin! the son of your father and a Tyran woman! Look at your thin body and beardless girlish face, how dare you take my subjects with you! Unrepentantly plundering caravans! Completely do not cherish our hard-won peace and position!"

"I'm sorry, I don't have a different opinion about my origins. My father was a mountain dweller, and my mother was a Taylan man. So since you think yourselves nobler than the Tyrans, and the Tyrans consider yourselves nobler than you. That's why I'm of great nobility," Loki replied with a smile, and then his expression changed suddenly, and he roared with a hideous rage, "And we're on the periphery! Neither the Tyrans nor the Rhines treat us as human beings!"

"That's enough!" Baron slammed the axe in his hand, this axe was not actually a combat axe, although it could be used in battle, but the decoration and scepter meant more.

"Rocky Valentine, you are arrested here for treason, and I hereby announce your death sentence!" said Baron, who really didn't want to talk to the kid anymore.

"I'm afraid you won't be able to. Loki shrugged his nose and stared straight at Balon and said, "I chose to go on the path of God." ”