Where lies ahead, Chris doesn't know.

If someone asks his father Kafka, the answer is: Ahead lies the hope for the family's future.

As the most knowledgeable of the Eton Territory and having spent several years in the South, he has never been receptive to the future of the Eton family's migration to the South. The reason was that he had long anticipated that the family would not be able to integrate into the South, and just like the contents of Chris's letter that Sien had brought back, the Einske family would not give the Eton family extra care.

But he also had no way to refute it.

His father, Henry Sr., was a viscount, and had been preparing for the move south since he inherited the title.

Decades of hard work, combined with the stubbornness of old Henry, made Kafka know that if he raised his opinion, he would only be scolded.

No way.

The Eaton Territory has been isolated from the human realm for too long.

As a result, people have become very simple, and they all retain the concept of "kindness can usher in sincerity", but lack the prevention of sinister people's hearts and the cognition that "interests determine everything".

Now, he finally has the opportunity to change his family's plans for the future.

When the elder Henry fell silent after reading Chris's family letter, he also took the opportunity to put forward his own point - when the human demigods fell and the Holy Empire collapsed, the Eaton family can continue to protect the inheritance of the territory and family as an indispensable "broker" for the northern Bloodrock subhuman tribe and the snake people.

Yes, he wants to befriend the snake people of the terrifying Ze.

They want to use more and more powerful snake people to deter the subhuman tribes, so that they will not dare to start a war against the Eton territory in the war to return to their homeland, and force them to feel that the continued existence of the Eton family will do more harm than good!

As for how to let the xenophobic snake people protect the Eton family~

He had a reason that the snake man couldn't refuse.

He likes to wander in the sea of books, and when he was a clergyman in the south in his early years, he often used to read the Vulcan collection as a pastime.

By chance, he found a very broken and ancient codex.

It was a note written by a Vulcan Walker before the Holy Empire was founded.

The content inside is very messy, there are records of the geography of mountains and rivers, there are explanations of strange people and local customs, and there are explorations about the characteristics of various races.

One of them is the Serpent Clan.

Snake people, as the name suggests, are a race with the upper body of the human race and the torso of a giant python.

One of the reasons why they and centaurs are not classified as subhumans is that they have the trunk of a steed and the torso of a python; Another reason is that because they are far stronger than the Terrans.

The snake people, both male and female, are about three meters tall when they reach adulthood, and their tails dragged on the ground are six or seven meters long. Even the heavy cavalry of the human kingdom wrapped in thick plate armor were as fragile as paper paste in the face of their fierce blows.

And they all have thick scales all over their bodies, which are stronger than the chain mail of human knights.

Ordinary swords and crossbows could not tear through their scales, and only powerful crossbows could kill them in a single blow.

They also have poison in their blood.

Terrans' bare skin splashed with their blood will blister as quickly as boiling oil, and then decay and induce poisoning, causing symptoms such as dizziness, chest tightness, nausea, and difficulty breathing. If the eye is splashed with their blood, it can be declared blind.

At the time of the establishment of the Holy Empire, there was also a great war between the snake people and the human race.

The ratio of casualties on both sides was 1 to 10.

That's right, the Terrans are the ones who pay ten times as many casualties, and the fighters are not farmers levied by the lords, but elite and well-trained troops!

The centaurs are the most powerful cavalry in the world, and the snake men are the most powerful foot soldiers in the world.

Long ago, this is how the Terrans defined these two powerful races.

Of course, God was fair in creation.

For example, when giving the snake people a strong physique and great strength, they will not forget to put on the shackles.

The snake people have two catastrophes of life and death in their lives.

One of them is incubation.

Snake people are oviparous and can only lay eggs once in three years, but the gestation period is only four months.

It can produce three to eight eggs at a time, but the successful hatching rate is very low, usually two or three, or sometimes even none of them hatch. This is because the pregnancy period is too short, and the eggs produced are often undernourished, resulting in incomplete fetal development in the eggs and becoming dead eggs.

Another doom is adulthood.

In the early childhood, the two atria of the heart do not communicate with each other, and they belong to the ectothermic constitution, and the pupils are round.

As the body matures, the energy required is getting higher and higher, and one day at the age of fifteen, the two atria will be opened by their own blood and become vertical pupils.

And on this day, it is called the rite of passage in the snake people.

The vertical pupil is a sign of the adulthood of the snake people, and it is also the death of adulthood.

Because not every young snake person can open up the two atria through their own blood impact.

On the contrary, there are many young snake people who die painfully at the rite of passage.

The success rate of changing from round pupils to vertical pupils is less than three out of ten!

These two life-and-death calamities are the fundamental reasons why the number of snake people has been difficult to grow.

Whether or not there is war or natural disasters and epidemics, their numbers have never exceeded 50,000.

However, God is also merciful at times.

For example, after putting heavy shackles on the snake people, they will not forget to leave a key to open their fate. The sun-facing grass, which grows only in bitter cold regions, is the key given to them by God's grace.

Pregnant snake people, if they have the opportunity to insist on eating a rhizome of sungrass every day, they can delay the pregnancy period to six months, or even longer!

The hatching rate of the eggs laid has also increased to up to half!

In the juvenile stage, before the coming-of-age ceremony, the snake people insist on eating a rhizome of sungrass every day, which will accelerate the blood flow in the body, and the probability of blood impact opening the atrium will also increase significantly.

From less than three out of ten in the past, it has risen to six or seven out of ten.

It can be said that the rhizomes of the sungrass that have no effect on other races are treasures in the eyes of the snake people.

Kafka, who accidentally learned about this secret, was also a treasure.

At that time, after reading the ancient codex's record of the characteristics of snake people, he directly tore up this page.

It's not for the odds.

Rather, he wanted this secret to be controlled only by the Eton family, so that the family would have another way to survive when the demigods fell and the empire fell apart. Now that he knows the attitude of the Einske family, he has finally ushered in the use of this secret to plan for the future of the family.

Yes, he is going to provide the snake people with the rhizomes of the sungrass grass.

On the ice sheets of the Alps, there is not a lot of vegetation, but there is no shortage of sungrass.

If you collect it carefully and sow some artificially, the Eton family can provide the snake people with one or two hundred thousand sungrass rhizomes every year - which means that if the snake people are willing to accept the kindness of the Eton family, their population will grow by hundreds every year!

Kafka had absolute self-confidence, and they could not refuse such kindness!

Because for the human race, there are many things that are higher than life and death.

For example, loyalty, faith, friendship, love, family affection, responsibility, and many more.

But for the snake people, the first thing that is higher than life and death is racial reproduction! The second is racial reproduction! The third is racial reproduction!

Henry, the elder who was in charge of the family, was not without objection to Kafka's proposal to go in search of the snake man.

Because his original plan was no longer possible, and no one was sure that Chris would become a strong man, Kafka could not refuse when he proposed a new plan for family inheritance.

After all, it's better to have a back path than nothing.

It's just that he was also a little worried about Kafka's decision to go to the Terror in person.

The Terrans are on the recipe of the Snake Terrans!

His son, who has no ability to protect himself at all, went forward with full hope, wouldn't he have "entered the mouth of the snake" before he could speak?