Chapter 19: The Nightborn
After drinking the pale red wine syrup in the glass in one go, the dwarf wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, leaned forward hard, changed a cheap smile on his face, blinked his eyes and whispered to Gigisa: "Hey, my dearest Excellency Gigisa, actually, this time I also brought you a ...... Well, a small gift that I prepared for you on the way here...... Hey, I hope you enjoy ......"
After speaking, the dwarf snapped his fingers familiarly, and the guards outside pushed open the door and led a pure black giant wolf with shiny hair and walked in, the pure white crescent-shaped mark as dazzling as a cloud was dotted on his chest, beautiful and eye-catching.
This is an adult female giant wolf with a fairly pure bloodline, with a strong and beautiful body, which can be said to be the dream mate of any adult werewolf of the wolf clan.
It's a pity that the dwarf is not facing an ordinary werewolf, Gigisa is definitely an outlier among the wolf warriors.
After reading a large number of books written by humans and elves, he was full of yearning for the colorful life described in the books, and was often immersed in the fantasy of the luxurious and colorful life of human nobles and elegant and noble elves, and even he was full of admiration and longing for the mysterious and beautiful human female magicians and soft and elegant elf female warriors mentioned in most books, but he had no interest in the female giant wolf like a beast.
This is a very abnormal and very strange thinking for an orc. Because as we all know, the orcs are a race that attaches great importance to the purity of blood, and even different orc races do not marry each other, let alone the same race. Of course, in addition to the main factor of difficulty in reproduction, different aesthetics also account for a large reason.
You can't expect a human to develop admiration for a horned cow or a giant wolf for discovering the beauty of its appearance, so that feelings can grow and unite with each other, which is simply impossible.
But in the bottom of Gigisa's heart, there was such a strong peculiar thought, he was not even interested in the female wolf with dazzling fur in front of him, but he still hid the strange thoughts in his heart very well, and never showed it to anyone, so at this time, he still accepted the gift carefully selected by the dwarf with a happy face.
The dwarf was secretly excited that the orcs who had been facing him indifferently showed a rare smile when they accepted the gift from him, but when they saw the strong werewolf warriors carrying pieces of gold nuggets with a charming luster, it was even more difficult to calm down, and they rushed to the side of the gold nuggets uncontrollably, greedily rubbing the heavy glittering metal back and forth.
Gigisa still looked indifferently at the faux pas of the gnome, and the disdain in his heart intensified.
"A guy who makes no secret of himself in front of others is destined to not achieve anything big......"
Gigisa thought to himself about this proverb that he had read in an unknown book, and he thought silently in his heart.
"That...... Hey...... My dearest friend, Your Excellency Gigiza, seems to ...... Looks like you have some goods for me to take with you?"
The dwarf, who was dancing and directing his entourage to carry the gold nuggets, suddenly seemed to remember something, scratched his head a little embarrassedly, and turned his face to Gigisa with a flattering smile.
"Of course, of course, those goods are now in the dungeon, ready for you to take them away at any time. ”
Gigisa said lightly, with a strange smile on his face, and asked casually, "Where are you going to transport those poor fellows?"
"Oh, of course it's transported to Wastestone City, and the warriors of the Venerable Night Clan will ......"
The dwarf seemed to suddenly come to his senses, cautiously stopped the words that slipped out of his mouth, and the expression on his face kept changing, and finally he smiled a little wryly: "Hey...... Hehe, honorable Lord Gigisa, there are some things that you would better ask the Great Temple Listener, Lord Sasa, for I am just a poor trotter......"
"Oh, of course, of course, I'm just asking casually, don't take it to heart......"
Gigisa replied with an unchanged face, calmly looking at the wary dwarf, although he was shocked and inexplicable in his heart, he still controlled his emotions very well and did not show any differences.
Gigisa's heart was stirring, of course, for the name Night Clan he had seen in a notebook of the clan whose cover was worn and barely discernible many years ago, and he remembered that he had asked the most knowledgeable witch doctor in the clan if this evil race, which was said to have been lurking in the vast underground world beneath the surface, really existed, or had ever existed. He still clearly remembered that the witch doctor, who had always been unfazed, had a sudden change in his face when he heard this name, and jumped up as if he had heard something taboo, and after looking around with a frightened expression, he told him with a complicated face that this race was an evil race, cursed and punished by the gods, a group of sinners living in darkness. Then he refused to say a word more, and solemnly warned Gigisa not to mention the taboo name until anyone else.
Gigisa also took the witch doctor's warning to heart, and hid the ancient notebook deep in a corner where no one knew about it, and only carefully took it out when he was alone, carefully pondering the profound and obscure contents of the notebook.
Therefore, when he suddenly heard the sensitive word Night Clan from the dwarf's mouth, it immediately set off waves in his heart, but seeing the dwarf's reaction so violently, he still pretended to be indifferent, perfunctory and vigilant dwarf.
Staring at Gigisa's face, the dwarf didn't see anything wrong with the werewolf's indifferent face for a long time, so he finally followed the werewolf to the dungeon to extract the goods with a wry smile.
"Ah...... Of course, of course, I just asked casually, don't take it to heart, hehe......"
"Wastestone City...... Nightborn...... What is the origin?"
Gigisa frowned quietly and muttered to herself.
There was a chaotic sound of unlocking, and the two kobolds who had been sitting at the wooden table in the center of the room and playing with a few dry bones hurriedly ran to the entrance of the stairs, and stood there with their heads bowed and flattering, and a group of tall werewolf warriors surrounded a dwarf and a plagiarized werewolf wearing black inlaid armor with pure black hair.
Suddenly, all the human prisoners were in an uproar, and everyone looked vigilantly at the group of unkind-faced guys who came down the stairs, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
"Hey, Captain Alex, look, there's a dwarf there, that's weird......"
Ite looked at the approaching orc warrior with trepidation, as if he had found something new, and whispered to Alex.
I didn't hear Alex's answer for a while, and Ite couldn't help but look up, but found that Alex was staring at the pattern on the dwarf's clothes, his face was very strange, and he muttered in a low voice: "Lily of the valley...... Black scales, sure enough, it's this group of guys......"
Following Alex's gaze, Itet looked at the strange black flower pattern embroidered on the dwarf robe in the middle of the tall orcs, and didn't know what it meant.
I saw that the dwarf looked carefully at the crowded prisoners in the cage, and roughly counted the number, seemed to be quite satisfied, smiled and nodded to the werewolf leader beside him, and whispered something, the black-haired werewolf leader raised his arm and waved his hand slightly, a group of strong werewolf warriors and kobold servants walked out of the crowd, walked to each iron cage separately, opened the cage door, and pulled the frightened human prisoners out of the iron cage roughly, dragging the dwarf and werewolf leader who were talking in a low voice, and walked to the top of the stairs。