2022-08-11

Chapter 212 Communion

In William’s day, nothing was heard “Wild Hunt”, the military power of Ravenwood Forest in the past came from the tribe warriors of the major tribes.

For example, tribes with surnames “Wolfyan”, “Eagle Feather”, and “Viper”. They worship the “wilderness spirit” in the forest as the Guardian God of their tribe, turn the wild beast’s soul into tattoos and inscribe them on their bodies, and use their bloodline to evoke those wild powers.

Because the power is violent and powerful, difficult to control, generally speaking, those tribe warriors will only engrave a kind of tattoo of a great spirit, and will not be like these “wild hunters” in front of them. Painted like a painting full of tattoos.

Just being a tattoo of a “wilderness spirit” will make people’s spirits run the risk of getting lost in the animal nature. With so many different kinds of tattoos all over his body, William felt that it was a miracle that they could still speak logically at this moment.

As for the thin and sickly figure…

This is the same as in the past, based on the strange 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.

Then the man said in a low voice:

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

His There was a threat in his voice.

William nods.

The man squinted his eyes and looked towards William:

“Then how are you going to refuse?”

“In the same way you want me to obey Rejected.”

William replied.

Actually, 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 try to use lethal martial power?

If these guys with the title of “Wild Hunt” in front of them could take action on a person who had never committed any crime in the street. Then William really needs to think carefully about whether Emerald Province, with such a “simple” law enforcement order, is a potential ally worthy of coming to negotiate with him.

Or is he going to support a local power himself, as he did in Blackwater Province?

William’s eyes swept slightly. 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 reveal his soul form, struggling to take shape.

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

William lightly sighed, then raised his right hand slightly.

He doesn’t even need a spell to deal with such a small role. Just a few simple instant casts, or single-barre spells, is enough to make these guys all lose their battle strength.

The fine rune appeared concealed 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.

Seeing a skirmish about to break out, but not waiting for William to pre-empt those spells. Suddenly, a beam of emerald green rays of light lit up on the canopy of a giant tree in the distance, and all the Wild Hunters at the scene stopped what they were doing at the same time, turned their heads and looked in the direction of the burst of green light.

“The Dryad is looking for help…”

The Wild Hunt in front of William said.

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

It all 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 towards the guard who reminded him not to make a sound.

“Does something like this happen often?”

William asked.

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

“What do you mean? That light, or a ‘Wild Hunt’ thing?”

Immediately, he continued without waiting for William’s answer:

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

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

The unit named “Wild Hunt” is a Guard unit established by the Emperor of the Empire to facilitate control of the entire Emerald Province after Ravenwood was incorporated into the Riel Empire.

The Star Council of that year collected almost all the mysticism information that could be found in the entire continent, which naturally included the spell system of “Great Spirit Thorn Green” unique to the forest elves. In order to convince the “Duke of Holy Tree”, which was entrusted to the empire, the Star Council at that time integrated the wild spirits of multiple powerful tribes and created a hunting dog that would only obey the “Duke of Holy Tree” – named “Duke of Holy Tree”. The existence of “Wild Hunt”.

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

According to the previous Wild Hunt, they were sent out to capture an anti-Imperial who had wandered here. At least from this sentence, William can get a glimpse of some of the positions that the “Duke of Holy Tree” upholds.

A faction of the Empire…

And who is that so-called “anti-imperialist”?

Although William was indeed an “anti-imperialist” himself, and could even add the prefix “biggest”, he never felt that the other party was coming to him.

What are you kidding me, when I got to Holy Tree City, people were staring at me? 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 Nezmaar to wait for me earlier…

William turned his head and looked towards those “crazy” In the direction where the hunters disappeared, a trace of unease flashed in my heart, but this uneasiness quickly dissipated.

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

Even if there is, she can shake people.

Because William has no plans 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. topic.

The guard looked William up and down and said:

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

“Are you okay? I almost got into a fight with the left and right hands of the Duke of Holy 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.”

The man said so.

“Isn’t it? Although the title of the title has changed, the essence of the Duke of Holy Tree is still the ‘Father of the Wilderness’ who was going to marry the ‘Old Mother’ in the past. Whether it is at the level of belief , or on a legal level, he has this power right.”

When he 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 Wild’? Lord Holy Tree is a woman.”

“What?”

…………

Rewind time a few minutes ago.

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

After hesitating for a while at the door, she went in anyway.

The Canopy Sanctuary is an altar at the top of every subtree over five hundred years old. It is not only the place where the subtree tree spirits inhabit, but also the place where the forest elves carry out some extremely important daily ceremony.

The forest elves are a branch of the high elves that 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 Hungry Lady, drive away the Moon Realm worship church rooted here, but at the same time exhausted the blessing of the Phoenix flame.

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

After that, the forest elves were born.

Having made a contract with the “big mother”, the forest elves also obtained eternal lifespan, but this “eternity” lives 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 reaches a certain level, they will really become a tree and live forever. Now in Ravenwood, there are about one third of the woods, which were converted from forest elves.

Since every three trees in Ravenwood may have a compatriot living in another way, then in the cultural customs of the forest elves, no matter how strict the protection of the forest is Not surprising.

In Ravenwood, no wood crafts or tools are allowed, and all possession of wood products will be tried for 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 skeletons. 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.

For this reason, forest elves always give other races the impression of primordial savagery.

Apart from this, the most important part of the contract between the forest elves and the “big mother” is to prevent the Moon Realm’s Void King and Hungry Lady Camilla from returning.

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

Since it is life, it needs to survive and reproduce.

The Hungry Lady Camilla 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 life force, only by eating all the dead things and turning them into new firewood of life, without leaving any space for those flies, maggots and rot fungi to breed, can we live here. Minimize Camilla’s power.

Walking into the Canopy Sanctuary, after seeing what was being done in the center of the Sanctuary, Nezmaar recalled what William had explained to him about the customs and knowledge of the forest elves. .

“Those who die, eat them while the Life Aura is still 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 them raw when dealing 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 looks to be his wife, their mother.

I’m getting more and more Yin Sector

(End of this chapter)

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