Before the werewolf chief could say anything more, the high priest couldn't bear it anymore and coughed heavily. Among the werewolves, the high priest still had some prestige, even though he didn't have bright feathers on his head. The chief glanced at the high priest's face and said nothing.
He sat back down angrily.
Qianye pondered for a long time and then said: "We will discuss the equipment production matter later. First, take out the batch of valuable jewelry from the warehouse and ask Zining to help us replace a batch of equipment. The ratio of humans to werewolves... is two to one.
purchase."
This ratio made the mercenary general and Xu Jingxuan slightly dissatisfied, but they didn't say anything. The werewolves were happy. The number of werewolves was several times greater than that of the human race. This ratio was still extremely low, but Qianye was willing to arm werewolves.
It means that his commitment can be expected.
Logistics and military supplies are a complex project, and there is still a lot of follow-up work. Qianye temporarily put aside the discussion of details, glanced at the werewolf nobles, and said: "I already know the reason why Eskar surrendered. What I want to know now is,
Why are you willing to accept me as your king?"
"You are the son of darkness..." The high priest was halfway through his words. Looking at Qianye's face, he immediately stopped. He understood that Qianye's sudden question at this time had its own profound meaning, and he would never accept excuses, let alone
lie.
The chief priest didn't think about how to word it. He didn't know whether he should say some words at all, and the other chief priests were even more afraid to speak out.
Eskar hesitated to speak, scratched his head and leaned back in his chair. After all, he represented the werewolves of the Grand Corridor. Not long ago, the Grand Corridor and the Emerald Sea were hostile. He really had no position to smooth things over.
.
"Because you avenged us!" A sudden voice suddenly sounded, startling everyone.
It was the chief with the bright feathers on his head again. He was also startled by everyone's huge reaction to this sentence, but then he raised his head and said with a pinched neck: "There is nothing bad to say! We have already thought about it."
The Duke of Bones was cut into pieces and fed to the fish, but no one dared to say it. Among our larger tribes, which family did not have ancestors, brothers, sisters and even children who died at the hands of the Duke of Bones? You, Priest Aos, last month
Didn’t he just send his youngest son to the Duke’s Palace and never show up again?”
The priest who was named lowered his head and sighed heavily.
"What's going on?" Qianye asked.
The high priest sighed, and seemed to have aged dozens of years in an instant, and said: "Every year, the Duke of Bones asks each tribe to send the most outstanding young people in the tribe to the Duke's Mansion to participate in a ceremony. After the ceremony, many people disappear forever.
disappeared. The Duke said that this was to select strong men and send them to the secret realm for intensive training. Those who can pass the trial and come back will get more powerful power. But we know that it was actually a sacrificial ceremony, and the young disciples who disappeared were actually sacrifices.
."
"You won't resist?" Xu Jingxuan asked.
The high priest smiled bitterly, "Who can resist the power of the Duke? In the early days, some tribes resisted, or hid their most outstanding children. But all the tribes that resisted were slaughtered, and there was no need for the Duke himself to take action, just his immediate family.
The guards and other tribal troops mobilized are enough to wipe out everything
.As for the tribes that hide their children, they all have a bad end. The Duke does not know how to use some means to identify whether the children sent are the most outstanding geniuses of this generation. If not, then that tribe will be equally unlucky. After doing this several times,
No one dares to resist the Duke, and no one dares to deceive the Duke."
Qianye said calmly: "They don't dare to resist the Duke, so they dare to resist me? It seems that we can't be too kind to these tribes in the fringe areas. Let's just kill them all."
The high priest hurriedly said: "It doesn't have to be like this! After the meeting is over, we will go to those tribes separately and persuade them to submit to Your Majesty! If you really don't want to listen to your advice, we will kill them later."
Qianye nodded and said, "Okay, then you have to move faster. In addition, even if they are willing to submit, they will have to act as slaves. Only after they have made meritorious deeds will they have the opportunity to obtain status."
"Yes, Your Majesty." All the werewolf sacrificial chiefs agreed in unison, and their attitudes became more respectful.
Qianye nodded and said, "Where is the place where the Duke holds the sacrificial ceremony? Take me to see it."
The high priest said: "The altar is in the mountains in the north. I only know the general range. During the Duke's lifetime, no one was allowed to approach the altar. The tribal children were placed at the foot of the mountain there, and the Duke would personally take them up the mountain."
"Then take my battleship over there. You will show the way."
The high priest leaned down, respectfully agreed, and followed Qianye towards the top floor of the Duke's Mansion.
Song Lun had already sent a signal, and when everyone reached the top floor, the huge battle cruiser appeared in the sky above the Duke's Mansion, slowly descending, and only stopped when it was less than ten meters away from the top floor.
At such a close distance, the sense of oppression brought by the battle patrol's huge hull is unparalleled. Even the werewolf nobles had long known about the existence of the Qianye Battle Patrol, and now they all lost their voices when they saw it with their own eyes. The city was boiling, and countless
Werewolves poured into the streets, looking up at this huge ship that they had never seen before.
Qianye stood up and jumped onto the battle patrol deck. After receiving permission, the werewolf nobles immediately rushed to board the ship. As soon as they boarded the ship, they looked around and their eyes were straight.
"Such a big thing can really fly!" a werewolf chief said subconsciously.
The priest next to him said: "This is an aerostat, what's so strange about it being able to fly!"
The chief stared back and said, "Have you ever seen such a big aerostat? It's bigger than the Duke's demon elephant! All the houses in your tribe put together are not as big as this, right?"
A series of questions immediately stopped the priest.
At this moment, the ship's body shook slightly, and the battle cruiser jumped into the sky in an elegant manner, then adjusted its course and flew towards the north.
Qianye stood on the bow of the ship, overlooking the mountains and rivers below, and quickly retreated.
To the east and south of the Emerald Sea are endless grasslands, with slightly undulating ground, and werewolf tribes scattered among the grassy hills. To the north of the Emerald Sea, the terrain begins to undulate, and gradually takes on the shape of a mountain range. Further into the distance, the mountains become more and more
It is steep, and the tops of several towering peaks are already covered with ice and snow.
Between the mountains and the emerald sea, there are fields scattered like a green carpet, just like a fairyland on earth. Those fields are growing extremely well, which is both gratifying and surprising at the same time.
Qianye didn't expect werewolves to be able to grow such a field, so he asked about it. The high priest next to him was a little embarrassed and said: "That is a land given by God. No matter what you plant, it will grow very well, and there is no need for extra care.
The field is sown with cloud wheat, which can grow except in winter and is harvested twice a year. Once the wheat is mature, you only need to harvest it and don’t need to sow it again. It won’t take long for the new wheat to grow on its own.”
Song Hui next to her heard this, and there was a faint light shining deep in her eyes.
Qianye nodded and said: "Yes, it is indeed a God-given place."
The high priest said: "It's a pity that only that area is a God-given place, and other places don't have this kind of magic."
After sighing, the high priest pointed to the snowy peak in the distance and said: "The Duke's ceremonial altar should be on that snowy peak. The terrain there is extremely dangerous, and there are many deadly beasts at the foot of the mountain. Even we usually can't.
Hard to climb.”
The high priest is also the Earl of Garter, which means that the Duke of Bones has created a natural line of defense that can resist the powerful Earl. He chose this place as the altar, probably out of this consideration.
In Qianye's eyes, the natural dangers that the werewolf Earl couldn't overcome were no different from the plains. He didn't even bother to pay attention to what dangers there were on the ground, and directly commanded the war patrol to fly over the snow peaks.
The top of Xuefeng was artificially flattened, and a dark red light shield covered the entire peak.
The peak is extremely steep, the mountains are filled with snow and fog, and the wind is fierce. There are also several gray shadows walking through the wind and snow, moving like lightning, and their speed alone is not ordinary ferocious beasts. Generally, when the Baron Viscount arrives here, he is completely beaten.
They add meals.
The Duke of Bones has been dead for so long. No matter how sinister the arrangements he left behind were no one to preside over, Qianye would not take them seriously. However, to be cautious, he still called Carol, and the two of them flew down from the battleship.
, falling towards the peak. The two great generals join forces to suppress the Duke of Bones' arrangement.
As if he saw them falling from the sky, the gray figures in the wind and snow approached the top of the mountain and made a sharp cry as a warning. However, Qianye released dark gold blood energy and struck the head, and those gray figures immediately disappeared.
He became ferocious, screamed in terror, turned around and rushed into the wind and snow, never to come out again.
Qianye hovered above the defensive shield, and a few force bombs popped up and landed on the shield. The shield immediately fluctuated violently, and there were signs of collapse under the attack of Qianye's finger bullets. It seemed that the defense was extremely limited.
Its function is only to block wind, snow, and some birds that accidentally sneak nearby.
Those gray shadows seemed to be the Duke of Bones' last defense.
After the test, Qianye no longer hesitated and went straight through the defensive barrier and landed on the top of the peak. Carol was slightly behind. After waiting for a moment and seeing nothing unusual, she followed and landed next to Qianye.
The top of Xuefeng Peak is like a huge smooth stone surface, with pillars of different shapes standing around it. These black and red pillars with mottled colors are constantly spitting out the force. This is the support.
The source of energy behind the defensive shield.
As far as the eye can see, there are at least thousands of pillars standing on the entire peak. Although the force released by each pillar is not much, it is considerable when added together, forming a defensive shield covering the entire snow peak.
This kind of technology has never been seen by either Qianye or Carol.
Carol was extremely curious, "What are these?" She walked over, rolled up her thunder whip, and pulled out a pillar from the ground, and then let out a exclamation. The pillar came out of the ground and fell into pieces of darkness.
The unknown red substance revealed a section of white bones!
This scene was so unexpected that Carol, who had seen many bloody scenes, was shocked. She calmed down, carefully looked at the bones and the cross section where they fell, and suddenly let out a sigh and said: "
I know, these are the missing werewolf children!"
"What?" Qianye was also surprised. He came over to take a closer look, and finally made out that the thing wrapped around Carol's thunder whip seemed to be a leg, but the extra part was cut off, and the thin parts were covered with meat.
, made it look like a regular cylinder, and then buried it in the ground.
Looking at the thousands of pillars around them, Qianye and Carol were both secretly shocked. How many werewolf geniuses were planted here who would not rest in peace?