Chapter 58 Living Ancestor

Author: Arion's Dolphins

Chapter 58 Living Ancestor

Tang Zhao's psychic ability is not enough to support him to directly affect reality, but learning basic psychic applications can also directly enhance his combat effectiveness.

For example, a simple psychic impact can directly affect the mind of a hostile creature, causing it to fall into a sluggish state, or at least pause for a moment.

This ability is less effective against more powerful creatures, but it does not affect the fact that it is a very useful ability.

For a weak enemy, Tang Zhao can defeat the opponent in one step faster. For a strong enemy, even a moment of confusion can give Tang Zhao an opportunity to accumulate advantages. Victory is achieved by accumulating advantages in small steps. Tang Zhao

I don't mind having a few more cards in my hand.

Matters related to spiritual energy have basically been dealt with, and Tang Zhao still needs to make arrangements for matters related to the settlement before leaving.

I used thunder to kill most of the threatening creatures around me, so I thought there wouldn't be any huge threats around the settlement now.

However, the dragon beast that seriously injured the tree people before was still missing, so Tang Zhao needed to be on guard against it.

He didn't expect the goblins and kobolds to directly kill the powerful dragon beast, but at least he had to make a plan to avoid excessive losses due to the dragon beast's surprise attack.

Nowadays, the caves dug by the kobolds have begun to take shape. They can allow most people in the entire settlement to take refuge, and they have a certain use value.

Once the surrounding sentries found an enemy that was difficult to defeat, they would hide if they could, and run if they couldn't. Tang Zhao did not allow them to fight against any strong enemy. The most important thing was to preserve their manpower and labor force.

The settlement was basically self-sufficient except for food. Tang Zhao was not a master of micro-management and had no interest in intervening in the detailed planning of the settlement. After laying out the general development direction, he stopped caring about anything more.

There are people who specialize in doing their job, and if he rashly intervenes, he will just cause trouble for them.

After arranging everything for the settlement, Tang Zhao set out on his journey again with a limited number of goblins.

He does have the conditions to act alone now, and the settlement does need manpower, but since he has to contact the goblin settlement, having a few goblins around him will definitely help simplify complicated things.

Most of the fey creatures are quite simple, and having their own kind around to help them can dispel most of their wariness. At least the relationship between Tang Zhao and them will not develop into enemies due to confusion.

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At the same time, in another part of the Copper Forest, a group of dwarves were setting up camp.

They are not small in scale, and they have many livestock to carry the baggage, but the baggage is in a mess, and there are also many civilians in the team wearing "simple" mail armor and holding crude weapons such as mines. They do not seem to be a caravan, which is very common in dwarf society.

Winning is an extremely rare situation.

Except for caravans, dwarves rarely leave the city where they live. Even if they leave to perform military tasks, only fully armed soldiers will appear, and civilians will not appear on the battlefield.

There are generally two types of civilians appearing in this situation: either they are a reclamation team to open up a new fortress, or they are a fleeing team.

In this era of decline of the dwarves, the probability of the latter is much greater than the former, and in fact this is indeed the case. An extremely heated debate is breaking out in the tent in the center of the camp.

Several crates were covered with a layer of cloth to form a simple conference table, surrounded by several bearded dwarves wearing luxurious heavy armor. They formed the center of power of this dwarf team.

Dwarves live in clan units. In the dwarf worldview, the elderly have an unusually high status. The length of their beards represents their social status, the glory and military exploits they carry. It can be said that the longer the beards, the more powerful the dwarves are.

Prestige or power.

One of the dwarves among them had a significantly whiter and longer beard. Although the armor he wore was not the most gorgeous, it was obvious that the dwarves around him respected him.

You can tell by looking at the special rune battle ax he is equipped with that he is a "living ancestor" of the dwarves. Only dwarves who are old enough, wise, and have outstanding military achievements will be given this title. They usually serve as advisors to the dwarf kingdom and assist the king in handling government affairs.

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But the current situation is certainly unusual.

"King Oled Graybeard and his nephew Hader Graybeard were both killed in the battle with the orc scum. The main bloodline of the Graybeard royal family has been severed. In view of the current chaotic situation, the election of the king will be postponed for the time being. We

The parties should sit down and discuss how to proceed in the future."

Burne Silverhelm looked around with a headache at several of his kin. They are one of the few remaining leadership dwarves in the Greybeard Kingdom - there are master dwarf blacksmiths, accountants of the dwarf guild, and the Book of Great Hatred.

scribe, and himself, the living ancestor of the Greybeard Kingdom.

The only remaining mountain dwarf kingdom north of Lake Lane has been destroyed. Some dwarves managed to escape, but unfortunately they did not come together, but fled in different directions.

The team led by Bourne was one of them. They were supposed to join the team of the Greybeard King, but unexpectedly the Greybeard King was taken care of and failed to break through.

Therefore, their team had no choice but to evacuate first. Relying on the unimaginable endurance of other races, they marched forcefully all the way. After getting rid of the enemy, they ran all the way to the White Copper Forest. Only then did they have the time to stop.

It's not that the supplies and baggage are insufficient, but that Bourne understands very well that if he doesn't stop to reorganize the internal situation, the entire team is at risk of falling apart.

He is also regarded as a highly respected living ancestor in the entire Greybeard Kingdom. The surviving dwarves have great respect and trust in him. He took over the command without any doubt, but conflicts among other dwarves still exist.

Such a huge change had just happened, and it was normal for different dwarves to have different ideas about the future. Bourne could feel that all the dwarves were trying their best to suppress the confusion and anxiety in their hearts, but sooner or later they would be unable to suppress it.

Before problems really arise, they need to figure out the way forward.

"We are not many in number, and there are not many dwarves among us who can truly become dwarf warriors. Most of the warriors have died in the previous battles. Now we need weapons to arm the dwarves, and the second step is to find the next place to go."
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