Yelena lowered her head, not knowing if she had understood Menshak's words or had other ideas.

"Don't fight...... "The old man in the middle, Moros, said slowly. He looked up at the statue of the Lord of the Mountain People, and the wrinkles on his face that crisscrossed like ravines became more and more profound.

"Yelena is right, this statue is only a symbol of the Lord of the Mountain People, a spiritual sustenance for Lord Colf, and nothing else. ”

Moros turned his head and looked at Yelena, who was looking up in surprise, and Menshak, who was a little unconvinced but unable to argue, and continued: "But Menshak's statement is completely correct, but if you want to inherit the spirit of Lord Korf, you don't want to come here to look at the statue, and you can feel it by thinking about the glorious achievements of the beginning. ”

"Actually, Master Colf has already passed on his faith to the hearts of all the mountain people......" The old man put his left hand on his chest, closed his eyes and said, "It's just that we have all neglected, including me, and only thought about whether it is possible to feel his spiritual guidance in difficult times, but we forgot to ask ourselves if we are ready." ”

"Do we still hold on to the beliefs of our ancestors in our hearts, and do we still have the spirit of mountain people?"

"And...... Have we done what we should have done? We ourselves were not even prepared at all, and even if Lord Colf had left a rich gift for the mountain people, what ability and shame would we have to accept?

The old man sighed and looked at the blue sky on the big forest, "For so many years, our homeland has been in good weather, food is abundant, there is no difficult environment, and we will not face the threat brought by powerful creatures, we ...... It's been so long that the beliefs that Lord Colf has placed in our hearts have been worn away by a comfortable life, and we can't get it back......"

Speaking of this, his originally stiff body was slightly rickety, as if he couldn't withstand the pressure brought about by the existential crisis of the mountain people.

When Moros spoke, Menshak and Yelena did not interject, as a sign of respect for the grizzly bear leader, but Yelena saw Moros's appearance, and felt a little emotion in her heart, in fact, the other party was just in his early sixties, although the life expectancy of the mountain people was generally short compared to the people outside, but his sixties were just past the prime of life, so Moros's drooping old appearance can only be said to be his usual psychological pressure is too great.

The Grizzly Bear Department is not only the largest group among the mountain people, but also the direct inheritance of Coulf for a hundred years, and Moros is one of the descendants of Coulf for many generations, just this meaning makes the head of the Grizzly Bear Department bear the pressure of ordinary people who can't imagine, and he ages faster than ordinary people, so that today he looks like a centenarian.

Yelena also sighed secretly, she felt that the atmosphere between the three of them was too oppressive, and decided not to continue the topic just now, but to turn to the current crisis.

"Let's talk about the front first......" Yelena looked at the busy figures not far away, with helplessness in her eyes, "In the two battles that happened before, our clansmen lost nearly six hundred people, although the losses of the night wolf pack are similar, but their number is too much, and this loss is not trivial for them, so the next shape is not optimistic." ”

As soon as he heard that he began to talk about the situation in front of him, Menshak did not dwell on the topic just now, and continued to follow Yelena's words.

"Yes, we still have less than two thousand people, excluding the old and weak, women and children, and the wounded, no more than fifteen hundred people can fight, and it is not a big problem to repel them again, but who knows how many night wolves are hidden in the great forest. ”

"Actually, it's okay to be a night wolf pack," Moros regained his feelings a little, and began to say, "Do you think...... There have been a lot more rotten wolves and demonic rotten wolves lately than before?"

The two leaders were silent for a moment and nodded solemnly.

"There are too few of our strong men...... Menshak said in a muffled voice, "There are only nine people above the third order, and no more than fifty people in the second order, and many of them are injured, so they are really powerless in the face of those mutated wolves." ”

"For so many years, there has never been a strong man as Lord Colf, and as you said, we mountain people have been at ease for so long that in the face of the crisis in front of us, we cannot find anyone who can lead us out of the predicament. ”

"Blue Bird ......" Yelena had just said three words, but when she saw the expressions of Moros and Menshak, she closed her mouth again.

They had already discussed the matter of the Blue Bird Division's overtime many times, and although they didn't say it explicitly, the three leaders knew in their hearts that this group might have had an accident.

Together with the destruction of the porcupine tribe, the number of the entire mountain tribe was nearly halved in two months, which was the most severe loss since the "march of the mountain people" one or two hundred years ago, and it was also the most terrible crisis.

Yelena bit her lip, "I have built a plan to let the children under the age of sixteen withdraw from the battle and climb the Sage Peak with the old man, they are our hope for the future, and we can't die in the battle with the night wolf!"

"No, Yelena," said Moros, "you still don't understand what I mean, it is precisely because we have so many worries now that we have lost our courage, and the spirit of the mountain people has been worn out little by little, think about the plight of the mountain people in the Pale Mountains, and think about why less than a thousand mountain people can follow Korf all the way from the Pale Mountains to their current homeland?"

"The more we gain, the more we lose," Moros's gaze swept over the white-haired old men and immature-looking teenagers farther back, and it was clear from his eyes that the leader was not really making this decision.

But after a while, he still said: "Boys between the ages of ten and sixteen also need to fight, and if we can win, these children who survive will be the pillars of the future of the mountain people, and sooner or later they will grow into towering trees!"

There was silence, and Yelena and Menshak were shocked by the Grizzly Bear's Chief.

"I don't agree!" Yelena said, "They are all too young to adapt to this kind of battle intensity! After going up, they will die in vain! Why don't we just give up the mountain in front of us and retreat to the Sage's Peak, with those mountain paths, we can hold on for a little longer!"

Moros didn't speak, and after a while, Menshak's voice rang out, "Moros is right, we have lost so much, and now we don't have the courage we had back then. ”

"Think about it, for more than a hundred years, we have been retreating, from the plains to the mountains, from the mountains to the forests, and today from the forests to the Sage's Peak...... Do you want to retreat now, and you still want to abandon this mountainous land that we have always regarded as a sacred place?"

"No, that's impossible," Menshak took out an iron sword behind him and said, "From today onwards, the Lynx would rather die than retreat!"

Yelena's brow furrowed in the middle, she bit her lip, her plump chest heaving and undulating, as if she was not angry that her own construction was ignored by the other two. But in the end, the female leader of the cunning fox tribe took a deep breath, and slowly spit it out, and her expression began to calm down, only showing a helpless smile, "The three of us may be the only remaining leaders of the mountain people, since you have decided, what can I say?"

"Although the mountain people are divided into different groups, they are actually as close as a family, if you want to fight to the death, how can my Yelena's cunning fox be willing to be the queen?"

After a moment, the three iron swords were raised at the same time, the tips of the swords pointed straight to the sky, and then the three swords clashed together with a crisp sound that attracted the attention of all the surrounding mountain people.

"Moros, the descendant of the Lord of the Mountain People, the leader of the Grizzly Bear Division, swears here......"

"The descendant of the Lord of the Mountain People, the head of the Bobcat Ministry, Menshak, hereby swears......"

"Yelena, the descendant of the lord of the mountain people and the head of the cunning fox tribe, swears here......"

"Today, at the foot of the Sage's Peak, under the gaze of the Sage Statue, the descendants of the Lord of the Mountain People will fight to the death with the enemy of their homeland with three swords!"

For a moment, the entire mountain people at the foot of the mountain raised their weapons, and recited this sentence in their hearts, although their faces were full of fatigue, but at this moment they became solemn and calm.

This is the "Oath of the Three Swords" that can be compared to the "march of the mountain people", they do not know what the future holds, but at this moment, the mountain people seem to have regained their faith and their courage.