Chapter 3226 The Elder and the Appearing Demon Sword
"Snow Mountain Hall" is the main venue for the All Spirits Day soon. It is also the place where tribes at the foot of the snow mountain hold collective meetings. Other festivals will also be held here, and tribal leaders and elders are not allowed to enter here.
Of course, foreigners like Xiade were not allowed to enter the tour, but they took him to visit the old priest Kane in Kyle Todd town, but instead took Xiade to a local funeral.
Locals regard snow-capped mountains as holy mountains and do not easily bury bodies there. There is no popular burial here, but traditional water burial methods are adopted.
When Shade and the old priest Kane came all the way to the westmost dock along the town's path, they stood on a high place and watched the people on the dock solemnly bid farewell to the coffin that had been placed on the raft. The funeral was another young priest in the village, but only an ordinary person.
The form of the funeral is very similar to that of the funeral in the city. Relatives say goodbye, recite eulogies, and recall the past. After the farewell ceremony, everyone whispered a very local-style spiritual song together. The song was ethereal and graceful, but it also had the rough style of the island fishermen.
The raft was then pushed into the sea and flowed along the water, and finally disappeared into the horizon by the waves.
In general, everything here is still very interesting for outsiders. What he saw the most after coming to this world was the scenery of various steam-era cities. Although the cities were different, there were many similarities. Only the "Kyle Todd Town" visited this time seemed simple but full of vitality.
Without discussing the convenience of people's lives, everything here looks so fresh and unique. Shade feels that Dorothy will definitely like this place. The stories derived from this place are definitely completely different from the city.
The political system of the cities and villages at the foot of the snow-capped mountains is also one of the places where Xia De is interested.
There is no "village chief" here, but is jointly managed by "tribal leaders" and "elders". Tribal leaders are usually ordinary people, responsible for all political, diplomatic, economic and other management affairs in the city, while elders are generally served by ring warlocks, responsible for religion, priests, weddings and funerals, etc. They uniformly manage ring warlocks in the tribe, and the local ring warlocks are basically priests.
Of course, priests are not necessarily all ring warlocks.
So when visiting Kyle Todd town, Shade asked the old priest Kane if the mayor of the town was the leader of the tribe here, and then he got a positive answer.
However, the mayor of Kyle Todd is not on the island now. He and the mayor of Shilun City and his group went to the capital of Lomari, the capital of the Principal. Grand Duke Lagsen called for everyone to have a meeting - because of the important position of this island in the main, administrative officials at the mayor level of the important meeting will also participate.
Shade speculated that the content of the meeting might be related to the subsequent talks between Carsonrick and De La Ryan.
The two of them walked around the town. Most of the people here knew the old priest Kane, and people would greet him from time to time. The old priest Kane introduced that Shade was the "distant relative" of Elder Harald, so people were not curious about what the handsome young people from the north came to do.
When it was lunch time, the group who went to the mountains had not yet returned, so the old priest Kane hosted Shade at home for a meal. The priest did not prohibit marriage, and the older man lived with his wife and eldest son's family.
It can be seen that this family is still centered on the old priest Kane, so the family respects the guests he brought. As for the lunch content, it was just a fish meal, but it was paired with cheese and cured meat. Because it was the guest visit, there was also syrup and cooked apples as dessert after the meal.
However, the foreigner felt embarrassed to visit someone else's house with empty hands, so before entering the door, he held a large piece of fresh beef and a few carrots, and the lunch table was filled with "beef stewed with carrots".
Locals have unique cooking methods for this dish, but Xia De feels that the taste is still not as good as the maids who are familiar with him.
After lunch, the old priest Kane expected that the group of people heading to the snow-capped mountains would be coming back, so he did not take Shade around, but went with him to the pass where the mountain pass north of Kyle Todd town was waiting.
There are also wooden city walls and gates used to protect against wild animals and prevent people from hunting in snow-capped mountains.
Xia De and the old priest stood on the towering post on the side of the gate chatting and waiting for the group to return. He introduced himself as a "writer traveling on the Old Continent", talking about the northern cities he had been to, but did not mention the recent major events in the south, Moon Bay and Vesta Woodland.
The old priest Kane was basically unprepared for Xiade. When Xiade asked about Elder Harald more about him, he was willing to share with Xiade.
For example, when Xia De talked about the old man wearing a horn hat yesterday, he joked, "Would you like to play a game of Rhodes", and the old Priest Kane proved that the elder was indeed a master of Rhodes and liked to accept challenges from outsiders on weekdays.
Even when Shilun City applied for the "Big City Player" in 1856, Elder Harald also made efforts.
"In fact, locals generally call him the "Great Elder". The "Snow Mountain Hall Assembly Hall" composed of five high-ringed elders is the real political core of the local Fatu tribe. The experience of the Great Elder Harald is also a legend. He was born in an ordinary local family. When he was young, he left this island to travel around the old continent, and even went to the archipelago kingdom and the new continent.
After returning from the age of twenty-three, he became a ring warlock by the Holy Mountain. He then experienced tribe division and civil war, war with foreigners, alliance with the Principality of Lagson, and finally found out today's situation."
"It reminds me of an old priest I met on my trip. He never married for the church. Although he was just a priest, he was very respected in the local parish."
Xia De said with a smile, but the old priest Kane shook his head:
"Then the Great Elder Harald is not comparable to the old priest. He was married when he was young and had three wives, which are the few flaws he had. However, the Great Elder's family is quite happy. Among the three sons and two daughters, one of them awakened the talent of the Ring Warlock and the other granddaughter."
He hesitated for a moment, wondering whether this kind of thing is appropriate to say, so Xia De shook his head:
"It's okay, you don't have to tell me the secrets of your tribe."
"Actually, there is no secret. The Great Elder has a granddaughter who is very talented. It can even be said that he is the most talented young man born on this island in five hundred years. If there is no accident, she is likely to become the next Great Elder after she is forty, but she is unwilling to stay on the island and has basically never lived here after she becomes an adult."
"Young people want to see the outside world?"
Xia De understood this, and the old priest Kane held the windowsill of the outpost and looked at the downhill path outside:
"It's probably true, but it's also related to her fierce teacher. In fact, when the girl was born, the previous elder had a prophecy that she would be attracted by the glow of the sun and would be left with the moon. But she might come back this year. Do you know our All Spirit Day? She might come to participate in this All Spirit Day."
Last night, Elder Harald told him to test the attitude of the young man who came from a foreign country but was accepted by the snow mountain toward the All Spirit Day. Although it is not really necessary to ask a foreigner to help on the All Spirit Day, it is always right to have more helpers.
Xia De is also interested in the topic of All Spirit Day:
"I heard from the people in the city talk about the All Spirits Day, and I will definitely come to see it when the time comes. The people in the black market told me some ways to celebrate the festival, and also talked about the spirits and elements on the island during the All Spirits Day."
Boom!
The loud noise in the distance covered Xia De's second half of his words. The shocked two people looked at the direction of the snow-capped mountains from the window, but there was no abnormality from here.
"Avalanche?"
Xia De, who has no experience in living in the snow mountain area, asked, but the expression of the old priest Kane was very ugly:
"It's not an avalanche. Can you follow me into the mountain to see it? It seems something happened."
He did not set off with Xia De immediately, but asked the young people guarding the door to send letters to the town, and then entered the mountain with Xia De. In this way, even if they could not come back, or if the matter was caused by young people from other places, someone would continue to investigate.
Although the old priest who was familiar with the snow mountain of Fatumonster was only low, he did not walk slowly in the snow mountain than Xiade's. He could find the way in many places where there seemed to be no road. The two of them were speechless all the way, and they arrived at the mountainside in more than twenty minutes.
This is indeed not an avalanche, or such a loud sound did not cause an avalanche in the Snow Mountains of Fatumonster.
The cave at the destination is located on the slope of the snow-capped mountain. When I left the trail dug out in the mountains and climbed the snow, before the two of them could actually arrive at the scene of the accident, Xia De felt the powerful whispering elements:
"Be careful, I'll go ahead."
The old priest Kane was guiding the way behind and approaching the cave on the mountainside in the snow, a figure flew out of the cave directly. Elder Harald, who was on the eleventh ring, rolled on the snow for several times before stopping. When he got up, he covered his left chest with his right hand and leaned on his own long stick with his left hand to stabilize himself.
He spitted blood directly on the snow surface, staring at the entrance of the cave with his eyes tightly. The long sword, wrapped in black light, could not see the shape of the sword, appeared first, and then the sunlight in the winter afternoon illuminated the middle-aged woman holding the sword.
Her face was pale, but her eyes were pure black. She was over two meters tall and she looked like an ordinary housewife, but her skin seemed to be embedded in steel plates, with a strange metallic color.
Chapter completed!