Chapter 255: I've Been a Goddess Since I Was a Child
Under the guidance of the gnomes, Rogge and the others escorted Antonio, who was carrying Tully in his arms, through the swamp all the way north, stopping in front of a wide body of water, following the direction pointed by the gnomes, they saw an island-like plateau in the middle of the lake, on which a dark dense forest grew.
"Right there?" asked Rogge, holding the gnome in one hand and pointing to the island in the middle of the water.
The dwarf muttered a few words, and Rogge nodded with satisfaction, looked up and asked, "How do we get there?"
The dwarf pointed to a large tree not far away, and chirped a few times, Rogge looked back and saw a few stake-like things tied with ropes on the branches, he motioned for everyone to wait, and he took the dwarf to the bottom of the tree, and found that it was several canoes.
"Very well, Catherine and Lisa, come and do me a favor!" Rogge beckoned back to the two of them, Catherine and Lisa came to him, and Rogge pointed to the canoe in the tree and said, "It's time to put them down!"
Lisa took the bow and arrow from her back when she heard this, and was about to bend the bow and arrow, Catherine took the first step to pull out the double guns, and fired several shots in a row to break the straw rope that bound the canoe, and several canoes fell to the ground, Catherine put away the silver gun, looked at Lisa coldly, turned around and walked away.
"She's amazing, but she doesn't seem to be happy?" Lisa said to Rogge, glancing back at Catherine's back.
"She's been unhappy for a long time, starting with the fact that we occupied the centaur camp. Rog shrugged his shoulders and called Murphy over to help him and Lisa carry the canoe to the water's edge, and he put Antonio, Tali, and Lisa in a boat, and he took the gnomes and Murphy and Catherine in a boat.
The boat soon approached the opposite shore, and Rogge looked out at the Hessian forest ahead, and said to Murphy and Catherine: "Be careful after landing for a while, pay attention to the situation around us, we must not let any one fall, otherwise the situation will become very tricky." ”
The two boats slowly docked on the shore, and Rogge escorted the gnomes to land first, and he glanced around, the jungle was quiet, and there was no shadow of any living creature in sight.
The group regrouped and entered the dense forest under the guidance of the gnomes, the jungle was dark and mysterious at night, and the rotten branches and leaves on the ground mixed with the water vapor gave off a foul smell of rotten wood.
Suddenly, with a "whoosh", a black spike flew towards Catherine from the dense forest behind the left, Murphy reacted quickly and pulled Catherine towards him, and the clothes on her body turned into a marble shell at the same time, and with a "ding" sound, the spike hit Murphy's body, but was bounced to the ground.
Almost at the same moment, Catherine raised the silver gun in her hand, took aim and pulled the trigger in the direction from which the spike whistling had come from, and the crisp sound of the gun echoed through the jungle, followed by a scream, and silence immediately returned.
"It's a dwarf!" shouted Murphy as he turned back.
Hearing this, Antonio immediately summoned a shield of holy light, enveloping everyone in the shield, and Rog told the party to stop advancing, ordering the gnomes to identify themselves and their intentions to his compatriots and make them stop attacking.
The dwarf glanced at Rogge, as if he was hesitant, but suddenly noticed that the little owl on Rogge's shoulder was staring at him with a pair of large hostile eyes, and the dwarf suddenly became nervous, opened his mouth and shouted loudly, and the shouting echoed in the jungle for a long time.
"What is he shouting?" Antonio asked Rogge, looking back.
"I seem to hear him say, Goddess ......" Rogge looked down at the dwarf suspiciously, only to see him shout twice, and the surrounding jungle began to shake, and after a sound of so, a large group of gnomes came out of the jungle and gathered around the crowd.
"Tell them, let them take us to the Great Shaman. Rogge said to the dwarf, looking down.
The gnomes muttered to the surrounding gnomes for a while, and the gnomes present invariably fell their eyes on Rogge's shoulders, and Rogge, who noticed something strange, looked back at Lilith, and the little furball glanced at the surrounding gnomes with a serious face, and suddenly shouted: "What are you looking at, haven't you seen a beautiful bird?"
I don't know if Lilith's shout played a role, the surrounding gnomes had a look of awe on their faces, and they hurriedly divided into two teams, one in the front and the other behind, the front team took a few steps forward, and found that everyone had not followed, so they stopped and looked back at Rogge.
"Come on, let's follow! Be careful, watch your step, don't step on any traps. Rogge turned back to the crowd and said.
The group followed the gnome team cautiously, Antonio always turned on the shield of holy light to prevent the gnomes from launching a sneak attack, and the team slowly advanced, slowly entering the deepest part of the dense forest, and finally came to a camp full of grass huts.
As soon as they appeared, they attracted the attention of the gnomes in the camp, especially when the gnomes saw the gnome who was caught in Rogge's hands, many of the gnomes had angry expressions on their faces, and they grabbed their weapons and made a gesture of preparing to attack, but the gnomes as hostages stopped them.
The dwarf led the crowd through the low huts, and came to a large hut surrounded by clay pots and herbs, as well as many animal bones carved with strange characters.
Hearing the dwarf's shout, a dwarf wearing a feathered headdress taller than his body came out of the hut, holding a cane of animal bones in his hand, a rope of animal skin tied to the head of the staff, his face painted with colorful oil paint, and many rings made of animal bones on his lips and eyebrows.
As soon as the dwarf hostage saw him, he immediately turned back to Rog and pointed at him, and then shouted something, and Rog looked at the gnome on crutches, and asked tentatively in dwarven language, "You are the great shaman of the dwarf?"
The Great Shaman looked at the human in front of him vigilantly, glanced at the people behind him, and muttered something, Rog nodded slightly, turned back and pulled Antonio to his side, pointing at Tali to continue the conversation with the Great Shaman.
At first, the great shaman kept shaking his head, as if he would not help, and Antonio on the side looked at Tali who was breathing weakly in his arms, and was worried that he would immediately force him to agree, but he was worried that it would make things more stiff.
After some negotiations, Rogge turned around and shook his head at Antonio and said, "This guy doesn't eat hard and soft, and refuses to help, what an old stubborn!"
"Then what should we do, we must find a way to force him to agree!" Antonio said anxiously.
Before Rogge could answer, Lilith on his shoulder suddenly landed next to the big shaman, turned into a little Lori, picked up a big stick bone from the ground, and hit the head of the big shaman, the big shaman was defenseless, and screamed when he was beaten.
Lilith held the big stick bone, grabbed the big shaman with one hand and hit him on the head is a fat beating, the big shaman covered his head and screamed, the surrounding dwarfs saw this and grabbed the blowpipe on their bodies and prepared to shoot at Lilith, but Lilith dodged and hid behind the big shaman, and continued to knock the big shaman's head with the big stick bone, and the gnomes threw rat traps and became helpless.
"If you don't save Sister Yu, if you don't save Sister Yu, kill you, kill you!" Little Lori shouted while fighting, the feather headdress on the big shaman's head was beaten in a mess, and the head was full of bags, and the screams were not stopped, until Rogge stepped forward to persuade him, the big shaman covered his head and lay on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of Rogra to open Lilith, the dwarf who was taken as a hostage came to the great shaman, and said something to him, and the great shaman looked at the angry Lilith in surprise, and nodded while listening to the dwarf.
Suddenly, he shouted, beckoned to the surrounding gnomes, and knelt down in front of Lilith with a plop, and the surrounding gnomes all knelt on the ground together, shouting some slogans, this sudden sight made Rogge and the others confused the second monk.
"Don't move, I'll ask what's going on. Rog comforted Lilith, stepped forward and asked the great shaman what he meant, and the great shaman told Rog for a long time in fear, then looked at Lilith with a reverent face, and fell down again.
"Looks like you're a lucky little villain!" Rogge said, getting up and touching Lori's head.
He turned back to Antonio and the others, and the great shaman told him that the gnomes could not touch the sun, so they hid in the grass hut under the cover of the dense forest during the day, which was very similar to the living habits of owls, so the gnomes revered owls and believed that owls were messengers of the night god.
After Lilith had beaten the Great Shaman by turning into an owl in human form, the hostage gnomes told the Great Shaman about Lilith, which led them to believe that Lilith must have come down to give them blessings, but they had hurt the Goddess's followers and became terrified.
"I don't see it, people have been goddesses since childhood!" said Rogge, glancing back at Lilith with her little head tilted.
"Hmph, I told you a long time ago to treat people well, and invite the goddess to eat turkey!" said little Lori proudly with her little head up.
"It's the first time I've seen a goddess like you!" said Rogge, giving her a blank look.
Seeing that the Great Shaman finally relented, Antonio hurriedly asked Rog to tell the Great Shaman to help Tali detoxify immediately, and the Great Shaman agreed and asked everyone to take Tali into his grass shed.
Antonio carried Tali into the hut and made her lie flat on the mat, and the great shaman, after checking on Tali's condition, paced back and forth beside Tali with his chin on his sad face, and everyone looked at him and then at Rogge worriedly, not knowing what the outcome would be.
Suddenly, the great shaman stopped and turned to the corner of the hut, rummaging through the jars he had placed there, sniffing them and looking at the contents, and after a tossing and turning, he shook his head in disappointment, and turned back to Tali.
He raised his head and muttered something to Rogge, who, after asking a few times, looked up at Antonio with a worried look and said, "The Great Shaman said that this is a mixed poison, and they are generally only used against the most dangerous enemies, but they don't have an antidote in their hands, and they need to collect materials to prepare it." ”
"Then let him tell him what he needs, and we'll collect it at once!" said Antonio anxiously.
"The other herbs are easy to say, but there is one ......" Rogge looked at him with a frown, and said worriedly, "He needs a heart......"