For Thousands of Years, My Weakest Brother Has Become a Demon King

   Chapter 212 Holy Communion

  In William's time, he had never heard of "Wild Hunt". In the past, the military power of Ravenwood Forest came from tribal warriors from major tribes.

   For example, tribes with surnames "Wolfyan", "Eagle Feather" and "Viper". They worship the "wilderness spirit" in the forest as the patron saint of their tribe, and turn the souls of beasts into tattoos and inscribe them on their bodies, evoking those wild powers with their own blood.

Because the power is violent and powerful, it is difficult to control. Generally speaking, those tribal warriors will only be engraved with a tattoo of a great spirit, and they will not be like these "Wild Hunters" in front of them. tattoo.

  Light is a kind of tattoo of "wilderness spirit", which will make people's spirits risk getting lost in animal nature. With so many different types of tattoos all over his body, William felt that it was a miracle that they could still speak logically at this moment.

   And as for that thin, sickly figure…

   This is the same as in the past, based on the peculiar cultural customs of the forest elves.

   A very curious custom.

   William's previous answer made the "Wild Hunt" in front of him twitch as cloudy as a wild beast. It can be seen that this person probably did not expect that the human in front of him would dare to refuse a request from a Wild Hunt.

   Immediately this person said in a low voice:

   "So you mean to refuse to cooperate with our investigation, right?"

   There was a threat in his voice.

  William nodded.

   The man squinted at William and said:

   "Then how are you going to refuse?"

   "Reject in the same way you want me to obey."

   William replied.

   In fact, William's refusal was not for any other reason, but he simply wanted to know what would happen if he refused to cooperate? Will the opponent attempt to use lethal force?

  If in front of the public, these guys with the title of "Wild Hunt" in front of them can take action on a person who has never committed any crime in the street. Then William really needs to think carefully about whether Cuiyu Province, where the law enforcement order is so "simple", is a potential ally worthy of coming to negotiate by himself.

   Or is he going to support a local power like he did in Blackwater Province?

  William's eyes swept slightly, and after William's voice landed, there were already five or six "Wild Hunters" surrounding him. As for the Wild Hunt standing in front of William, the python tattoo on his arm began to slightly reveal his soul form, struggling to take shape.

   Well, it looks like the other party really intends to use violence.

  William sighed lightly, then raised his right hand slightly.

   To deal with such a small character, he doesn't even need to come up with a spell agent. Just using some simple instant cast, or single-segment spells, is enough to make all these guys lose their combat effectiveness.

   Dense runes appeared on William's wrist. Under the superb magic control skills, several instant spells were not even noticed by the other party after they were prepared.

   A skirmish was about to break out, but it wasn't until William preemptively unleashed those spells. Suddenly, an emerald green light lit up on the canopy of a giant tree in the distance, and all the Wild Hunters present stopped what they were doing at the same time, and turned their heads to look in the direction of the burst of green light.

   "The Dryad is looking for support..."

   The "Wild Hunt" road in front of William.

   Immediately, they turned around like puppets that were suddenly lifted, and rushed towards the distant sub-tree.

   All this happened so suddenly that William didn't even have time to ask anything. Just watching the dozens of wild hunters grow translucent wings behind them, or rippling from tree to tree like apes, rushing towards the direction of the burst of light.

   After looking around for a while, William turned his head and looked at the guard who had reminded him not to make a sound.

   "Does something like this happen often?"

   asked William.

   The guard also looked into the distance with a surprised expression:

   "What do you mean? That light, or something about the Wild Hunt?"

   Immediately, he continued without waiting for William to answer:

"The Wild Hunt will only follow the orders of the Duke, and it is difficult to see them in normal times. As for the green light... that is a phenomenon that only appears when the Canopy Temple is holding a festival, but today is not the day of the festival. , Could it be that the tree spirit of that sub-tree has manifested because of something?"

   After further inquiries, William finally learned what the "Wild Hunt" was at the guard.

  The troop named "Wild Hunt" was a guard troop established by the emperor to control the entire Jade Province after Ravenwood was incorporated into the Riel Empire.

   At that time, the Star Council collected almost all the esoteric information that could be found in the entire continent, which naturally included the magic system of "Great Spirit Tattoo" unique to the forest elves. In order to convince the "Duke of the Holy Tree", which was entrusted to the empire, the Star Council at that time integrated the great spirits of the wilderness from multiple powerful tribes, and created a hunting dog that would only obey the "Duke of the Holy Tree" - named "Duke of the Holy Tree". The existence of the Wild Hunt.

   In other words, if there is a Wild Hunt here, it represents the will of the Duke of the Holy Tree.

  According to the previous wild hunters, they were sent out to capture an anti-imperialist who came here. At least from this sentence, William can get a glimpse of the position that the "Duke of the Holy Tree" upholds.

  A faction of the Empire...

   And who is the so-called "anti-imperialist"?

  Although William himself can indeed be regarded as an "anti-imperialist", he can even add the prefix "biggest" in front, but he never felt that the other party was coming to him.

  What are you joking about, as soon as you arrive at Sacred Tree City, people are staring at you? The empire's spy agency, I'm afraid it has already infiltrated its power into a sieve.

   But the place where the green light radiated just now seems to be where I told Nezemar to wait for me earlier...

  William turned his head and looked in the direction where the Wild Hunters disappeared, a trace of unease flashed in his heart, but this uneasiness quickly dissipated.

   After all, he had repeatedly instructed Nezemar to wait quietly for him to come back. In addition, she has equipped her with a lot of powerful equipment, plus the Holy Spirit icon worn by the other party, and the magic seal rune that William gave her that can be used as a transmission beacon. William believes there is little in the city that can hurt the seasoned ex-Cult member.

   Even if there is, she can shake people.

   Because William did not intend to change his previous plans.

   "Then can I go up by myself now? I want to go to the temple of the Holy Tree Mother."

  William and the guard continued the conversation that was interrupted earlier.

  The guard looked up and down William and said:

   "Yes, sir, but please put your name on this registration form."

   "Is it okay? I almost got into a fight with the right and left hand of the Duke of Sacred Tree just now."

  William took the pen, and asked a little more worriedly.

   "No problem, you are going to the sanctuary of the eldest mother. Even the duke has no reason or power to stop any pilgrim who wishes to worship the eldest mother."

   said the man.

"Isn't it? Although the title of the title has changed, the Duke of Sacred Tree is still the 'Father of the Wilderness' who was going to marry the 'Big Mother' in the past. Whether it is at the level of belief or the level of law, he They all have that power.”

When    signed the fake name on the register, William asked a few more questions.

   And this time, it was the guard's turn to be surprised.

   "What 'Father of the Wilderness'? Lord Sacred Tree is a woman."

"what?"

  …

   Rewind time a few minutes ago.

  Nezmaar followed the two suspicious looking guys along the main road to the door of the Canopy Temple.

   hesitated for a moment at the door, but she still followed.

   Canopy Sanctuary is an altar at the top of every subtree that is over five hundred years old. It is not only a place for the subtree tree spirits to inhabit, but also a place for the forest elves to perform a very important daily ritual.

  The forest elves are the branch of high elves who left Ava during the Great Migration. According to the human calendar, they came to Ravenwood around the time of the Silver Age. Here, they helped the World Tree to dispel the curse of the Rotten Lady and drive away the Moon Worship Church rooted here, but at the same time exhausted the blessings of the Phoenix Sacred Fire.

   In return, the will of the World Tree, the being named "Mother" signed a contract with those high elves, and he re-blessed the bodies and souls of those elves and allowed them to use the power of this sacred forest.

   After that, the forest elves were born.

   made a contract with the "big mother", and the forest elves also obtained eternal life, but this "eternity" lived as a tree most of the time. With the increase of age, the forest elves will gradually "treeize", for example, leaves grow on their hair, roots grow under their feet, their skin becomes bark, and their movements become sluggish.

   And when the tree has reached a certain level, they will really become a tree and survive forever. Today, about one-third of the forests in Ravenwood are converted from forest elves.

   Since every three trees in Ravenwood may have a compatriot living in another way, it is not surprising that in the cultural customs of forest elves, the protection of forests is strict.

   In Ravenwood, any wood crafts or tools are never allowed, and all possession of wood products will be tried on the crime of homicide. At the same time, the residents here are not allowed to use flames, whether it is the flames brought by the fire or the flames ignited by magic, as long as the use of flames is a felony.

  Based on these customs, the forest elves have developed very special craftsmanship. For example, the hunting bows and arrows used by forest elves are all made of animal bones. The houses they live in are all tree-hole houses that grow from the "big mother" through prayer. And furniture, in addition to the same natural growth, are mostly stone products, or expensive metal products imported from the outside world.

   As for food, in addition to the fruits and grains that fall off automatically, many residents here mostly rely on hunting to make a living. And because the use of flames is not allowed, most of the meat of the prey is eaten raw directly with fruit juice or tree sap. Of course, in order to store food for the winter, the forest elves have also developed extremely rich drying and pickling techniques, but they are still raw food in essence.

  Because of this, forest elves always give other races a primitive and barbaric impression.

   In addition, the most important part of the contract between the forest elves and the "big mother" is to prevent the emptiness king of the moon realm, the hungry lady Camilla from returning.

  The Great Mother represents the origin of life, and there are even sayings that He is the first life to appear in this world.

Since    is life, it needs to survive and reproduce.

   And Camilla, the rotten lady, symbolizes the wear and tear of this cycle.

  No matter how perfect the cycle is, there is energy that escapes and is wasted. This waste is manifested in the form of life, that is, corruption, which can also be called the entropy of life.

   For this reason, another contract between the forest elves and the "big mother" is that in this forest, the forest elves must destroy all corruption they can see.

In this place full of vitality, only by eating all the dead things and turning them into new firewood, without leaving any room for the flies, maggots and rot fungi to breed, can Camilla’s strength be weakened to the greatest extent. strength.

   Walking into the Canopy Sanctuary, after seeing what was being done in the center of the Sanctuary, Nezemar recalled the knowledge about the customs of the forest elves that Sir William had explained to him on the way before.

   "Those who died should be eaten while the breath of life still lingers in the corpse and the corruption has not yet grown - this is their cultural custom."

   "And since the forest elves can't use fire...then they can only choose to eat raw when they deal with the corpses of friends and family members who died unexpectedly and were not fully treed."

   What did the judge at that time say.

   At this moment, in the center of the temple, a forest elf man was crying with two children, while he was biting and chewing the still warm corpse of a young forest elf woman.

   That looked to be his wife, their mother.

   It's getting worse and worse

   (end of this chapter)