In the dense forest, a sweaty, dusty teenager held a long sword firmly in his hand, and his flexible eyes looked around vigilantly through the faint light that filtered down through the gaps in the branches and leaves. The young man’s whole body was tense, but his expression was indescribably tired.
It was Jem. Three days and three nights of sleepless tracking had tortured him to the brink of collapse. Shooks seemed to be deliberately playing a joke on him, drifting around him like a ghost, appearing in his vicinity whenever he wanted to stop and rest, leading him to exhaustion.
“Absolutely not give up.” Clenching his teeth, Jem dragged his heavy steps forward, “Even if I take my life, I have to save Miss no matter what.”
“Kah,” something tripped over his foot, and Jem staggered and stumbled a few steps forward, no longer able to keep his balance, and fell heavily to the ground, only to feel a blackout before his eyes.
“Damn!” It took all his strength to barely get up, the bones of his whole body were as sore and painful as if they were scattered, and he couldn’t help but feel a pang of sadness welling up from the bottom of his heart, “Is it really …… no longer possible?”
A dark figure floated noiselessly out of the bushes and landed silently behind Jem, a pair of reddish eyes glowing in the shadows.
“It’s time to end ……” A low, eerie voice rang out, and Jem turned around with a huff. Everywhere his eyes looked, a man wearing a wide black robe with a pale face stood ghostly in front of him, with a shadowy aura shrouding his body.
“The Ghost Count” Shookus!
“You finally showed up,” slowly raising the longsword in his hand, which seemed to weigh several times more than usual in his senses, Jem’s right hand gave a slight shudder and hastily gripped the hilt with both hands, “Shooks, release the lady.”
“What an ungrateful brat,” Shookus said, ignoring the longsword in front of him, “You’re in a state worse than a common man, and you’re trying to get your lady back from me.”
“But,” looking Jem up and down for a few moments, a red glint flickered in Fixx’s eyes and he opened his mouth slightly, revealing two pairs of sharp fangs, “you can’t afford to waste your life energy when it’s so vigorous.”
With a sharp shiver, Jem only felt a chill rise from his heart. With a fierce cross heart, he swung his sword and charged.
The longsword drew a marvelous trajectory in the air, and in its slight trembling, the sword vaguely enveloped the vitals of Shux’s upper body, including the Undead Clan member’s greatest threat place – the head.
The sword skills of the swordsmen of the Elasia Empire had always emphasized the use of techniques. Under Gelu’s guidance, Jem’s sword dribbling skills had added the unique spirit of the Elves, which was particularly powerful.
Sword blade everywhere, XiuXi’s body seems to be like a formless body without reality, do not see any action, JieMu this full force of a blow but completely fell short.
“Ya …… hey!” Exhaling, Jem flipped his wrist, and his falling longsword conjured up a row of sword shadows, launching a second attack without pause.
A trace of surprise swept across his face, XiuXi’s robe sleeve flipped, a pair of long and dry ghost hands abruptly handed out, one hand without fear to meet the long sword, the other hand toward Jiem’s neck a grab.
There was a muffled “pfft” sound as the sharp sword slashed at Shookus’s hand, but it had no effect at all, and was instead grasped tightly. A strong force came from the sword, and Jaime threw himself forward to meet the grasping hand.
Not estimating that his painstaking attack would end up like this, Jiem hastily let go of his long sword, but ultimately unable to stop his body’s forward momentum, and in a panic, he violently tilted his head, and opened his mouth to bite down on the ghost hand that grasped in front of him.
“Ka”, teeth biting on the ghost hand, only to feel cold and hard as ice, hit the bed of teeth vaguely painful. Then a powerful shock came, Jiem a dizzy, the whole person will be thrown up, fell far away.
With a “pong” sound, the flying body fell to the ground, rolled slightly, and then fell silent.
Easily shocking Jem away, a sardonic smile flew up on Xux’s face as he lightly moved towards Jem, who was lying on the ground, a pair of ghastly white ghostly hands slowly extending out.
The sharp fingertips were still a little short of touching the teenager’s body, when Jem, who was lying on the ground, suddenly jumped up with a jerk, and a thick tree branch brought up a strong wind and smashed at Shooks’ head.
“There was a loud popping sound, and the hard branches of the tree shattered as soon as they were grabbed by Shooks’ ghostly hands. Jem only felt a flash before his eyes, and then he felt a sense of suffocation. A cold ghost hand tightly grabbed his neck, and a pair of evil red eyes suddenly came in front of him.
“I’ve known for a long time that you’re very tenacious,” Shookus slowly tightened the ghostly hand around his neck and watched as Jem’s face grew red, “Boy, do you know that you’re really, really useful to me, heh heh.”
Accompanied by an eerie sneer, Xux opened his mouth and his four sharp fangs slowly approached the aorta in Jem’s neck.
“Kiri ……” Before his open mouth could bite down, Xux suddenly let out a mournful shrill whistle.
Jem only felt a relief in his neck and dropped to the ground. Looking up, Shooks stumbled backward, a long, feathered arrow now sticking out of his party’s wide-open mouth.
“Lord Grue!” Jem was overjoyed and turned his eyes to look around, but there was no one in sight.
“Grue ……” ruthlessly pulled down the feathered arrow in his mouth, the red aura in the eyes of XiuXu’s eyes shot out, waving a pair of ghostly hands, and shouting indistinctly under his breath, “Sneak attack is not a skill, you give me out. “
“Hmph ……” a cold humming sound came from behind, XiuXi’s face changed, panicked and turned around, only to see Grue, who was holding a big bow, with a disdainful expression, standing quietly not far away.
“If I really wanted to sneak attack, you would have become a hedgehog by now.” Gelu caressed the Golden Dragon’s Bow in his hand and proudly said, “That arrow just now was just a warning. Although Ghost Earl Shooks is ranked as one of the Four Great Ghost Generals of the Undead Clan, he is not yet in my eyes.”
“You ……,” Xiuox’s gaze swept over the Golden Dragon’s Bow and said in a chilling voice, “The day before yesterday, I didn’t expect that it was the Golden Dragon’s Bow in your hand, and that’s why I was injured by you. However, you couldn’t do anything to me.”
“Really?” Gelu smiled faintly, “You and I know the truth in our hearts, if you weren’t seriously injured, how could you not get rid of Jem’s tracking, and how could you be so eager to ingest Jem’s life energy.”
“You’ve been here for a long time ……” Shookus sniffed, and took two steps back out of his body.
“Your injury was caused by me,” Gru slowly pressed up two steps, his eyes like electricity, “That arrow was my full force strike by the power of the divine bow, if it can be said that it can be healed in just a few days, even if it is you, the ancestor of the vampires, it is by no means possible.”
“It seems there’s no hiding it from you, except that I didn’t expect,” Shookus stared at Grue, his face clouded over, “that you’d even leave your wife alone in order to deal with me?”
“You guys set up a good trap, you even tried to use Jane to lure me away.” Hearing Xux’s words, Grue’s face sank, “Unfortunately, I’m not a fool either, if Xiu Li wasn’t extremely important to Sandru, how could you risk rescuing her with serious injuries. I only need to recapture Xiu Li, and this round will not be considered a win for Sandru.”
“Besides,” glancing over Shookus for a few moments, Grue picked up with a smile, “I’d certainly be better off tracking down a well-prepared Black Witch-King than dealing with a badly wounded ghostly Earl like you.”
“Worthy of being an Elf King,” after a long moment of bewilderment, Thukkus said in a grim voice, “one can completely disregard the situation of one’s wife in order to deal with an enemy. Her Majesty is probably serving Sandru wholeheartedly again at this moment.”
“Slow down,” Seeing that Grue had a murderous look on his face and slowly raised the large bow in his hand, Xux was busy changing his tone, “I can trade Sandru’s whereabouts if you can spare me.”
After pausing for a moment to see that Grue was unmoved, Shukaku picked up again, “Although your tracking technique is brilliant, if you can save Xiu Li as soon as possible and learn Sandru’s whereabouts, you can also save the Queen sooner. You also wish to be able to save Her Majesty from Sandru sooner, right?”
“You say.” After a moment of silence, Grue finally lowered his large bow and said, “But it’s best not to lie to me.”
“I can swear in the name of the God of the Underworld,” said Thukkus, “that Sandru went to the Barbarians in order to collect the Battle Armor of the Underworld. Shuri, on the other hand, was hidden by me in a crypt about two miles from here, where the terrain looks like this ……”
“What exactly is Shuri’s identity?”
“Hmm?” Shooks said with a start, “I’m not very clear about her, I was just ordered to send my men after this woman, but you sabotaged them. That’s why I’m following your troops and waiting for an opportunity to act. Once I report everything about your troops to Sandru and learn about it, all actions after that will be Sandru by command.”
“You go,” after hearing what Shookus said, Gru waved his hand, “I won’t spare you the next time we meet.”
“When I recover from my injuries, I will also learn about Your Excellency’s archery skills.” After Xiuox finished speaking, his robe sleeves unfolded, and he suddenly transformed into a black shadow that flickered away.
“Can’t die, can you?” Walking over to Jem, Grue reached out and grabbed him by the arm as he pulled him to his feet.
“It’s okay,” Jem said immediately as he struggled to stand, “but Miss she ……”
“Don’t worry,” Gru interjected, “The Undead have always had their own interests at heart and will never speak of righteousness. What’s more, Shookus swore an oath in the name of the God of the Underworld, and he would never dare to violate it.”
“But will Shookus run off now and take on Miss ……”
“Hehe, the most important thing for Shux now is to run away and recuperate, where would he even make a fuss.” Seeing that Jem was sweating profusely after taking two steps, Grue casually pressed him to sit on the ground, “Just wait here, I’ll go get Xiu Li out.”
“Then please, Your Majesty.”
Watching Gru leave, Jem let out a soft breath and closed his eyes reassuringly, turning his eyes to a deep sleep.
“You’re okay,” said Grue as he helped Shuri out of the crypt and leaned against the roots of a large tree, “Shucks has been driven away by me.”
“Thanks for the concern.” Shuri pushed away Grue’s hand and replied expressionlessly, “Your Majesty has already rescued my daughter, and I wouldn’t dare to trouble Your Majesty any further, so please untie the confinement magic from my daughter’s body, and then Your Majesty can go away, and my daughter will take care of herself.”
“I can’t leave yet, and the magical confinement can’t be undone.” Grue straightened up and smiled slightly, “That’s a bit of a premature request young lady.”
Shuri looked up with a start, “What does Your Majesty mean by that?”
“My lady is wrong if she thinks I’m here to rescue you.” Grue sat down on the sidelines and said, “Xux rescued you from our army, but even he is not sure of your identity. One thing that is certain is that you are extremely important to Sandru.”
Sharp eyes forced their way into Shuri’s, Grue said in a deep voice, “I took the young lady back from the hands of Shucks only to deal with Sandru and save my wife.”
“I’m just an ordinary Divine Spirit Clan woman,” Shuri said coldly, “I don’t know exactly why Sandru is interested in me, and I’m not interested in knowing. If Lord Gelu wants to trade me for your wife, I am powerless to resist, so do as you please, my lord.”
“The young lady is resolutely refusing to tell her origins ……” Grue looked at the stone-like Xiu Li, and his heart was in a state of difficulty. As an elf king, how could he give a woman whose true identity could not be determined to Sandru.
After a moment of silence, Grue got up and said, “I will not hand you over to Sandru until I can be sure of miss’s identity. Then I will have to take Miss to the Ice Continent and ask the elders of the Divine Spirit Race for confirmation of Miss’s identity.”
Xiu Li shuddered at his words, his face changed for a while before he said word for word, “If Your Excellency must do this, then what Your Excellency brings to the Ice Continent will be Xiu Li’s corpse.”
“You ……” Gelu’s heart rose up with a wave of anger, and snapped, “Listen to me, my wife is still in the hands of my enemies, and just now I watched her being insulted with my own eyes, but I couldn’t do anything about it. I don’t care what exactly you did within the Divine Spirit Race, for the sake of my wife, I, Gelu, will do anything.”
“Then your lordship can kill me now,” Shuri tilted her head back, her eyes looking at Grue for an instant, “I only hope that Shuri’s corpse will be of use to your lordship as well.”
“You’re threatening me ……” Grue took a step in front of Xiu Li’s body and violently grabbed her lapel, but saw that Xiu Li remained unperturbed as she stared at him, with no trace of fear in her eyes.
“I’m not going to kill you,” his mind turned, Grue suddenly smiled slightly, one hand gently stroked Shuri’s slender waist, and with a firm hand, brought her into his arms, “I’ve heard that all the females of the Divine Spirit Race are chaste and self-possessed, I just don’t know if it’s true or not.”
“What do you …… want, what for?” Being tightly pressed against the tree trunk by Grue, Xiu Li’s gaze finally revealed a trace of panic, and she said in a trembling voice, “The famous Lord Grue, is this how you bully a weak woman?”
“No matter what you say or not, if you don’t tell the truth today, I will never let you go.” With a smile on his face, Gelu stiffly squeezed Xiu Li’s legs apart, allowing the two bodies to make the most intimate contact all unhindered.
A pair of nimble hands explored everywhere on Shuri’s petite body.
“Let go of me, you …… oo……” No longer able to maintain calm, Xiu Li just wanted to scream, two pieces of cherry lips have been sealed by Gru, only to feel a burst of suffocation. The sky is spinning, Xiu Li can still feel the clothes on the body gradually reduced, that pair of hot palms stroked their whole body, wherever they passed, a hot air through the skin to the body, so that her body is soft, the body can not help but twist up.
Gelu was satisfied to feel the reaction of the young girl in his arms, and continued to do the teasing on one side. In his life, there had been countless elf girls who had been fascinated by him, and the flirting skills he had practiced when he was a young man were not rusty even though he hadn’t used them for many years. Within a few moments, the female body in his arms became as hot as a ball of fire, and a pair of jade arms even wrapped around his back at some point.
“Still not telling the truth?” Slowly leaving Xiu Li’s cherry lips, Gelu looked at the delicate red like fire pretty face in front of him and asked softly.
Hearing Grue’s question, Shuri’s increasingly confused gaze suddenly cleared, and instead of answering, she just silently turned her face to the side.
“Don’t you regret ……” Things have come to this point, when it is really not possible to stop, Gelu secretly clenched his teeth, and the movements of his hands suddenly accelerated. In the twinkling of an eye, the two naked bodies were tightly pressed together.
Gru raised his crotch and pressed his rod against Shuri’s spread legs, the tip lightly touching the tender petals while his eyes remained fixed on Shuri’s face.
Sensitive lower body touched the hot foreign object, Xiu Li’s body obviously trembled, face swept through the unspeakable complex expression, but all did not resist the action.
“Hmph!” With a cold grunt, Grue no longer hesitated, thrusting his lower body upward and slamming his rod into Shuri.
Warm, soft, and tight feeling instantly came from the lower body, and the firm rod seemed to be wrapped around countless flexible meat hoops, writhing and rubbing on the rod body as it pumped back and forth.
The moment the foreign object entered her body, Shuri’s face went white, but she forced herself to hold back a cry. As Grue twitched, crystalline tears quietly fell from her eyes.
Tightly embracing the delicate and soft jade body in his arms, Gelu’s eyes surfaced the scene he witnessed on the battlefield, and a sulk that had been held in his heart for several days was suddenly vented, and he no longer had the heart to pay attention to Xiu Li’s reaction, and his movements became more and more brutal.
“Well ……” under Gru’s violent impact, Xiu Li’s body is wet and full of sweat, her face shows the color of pain, finally can’t help but moan up in a low voice. Hearing that delicate moan, Gru seems to be even more crazy, copied up Xiu Li’s legs hanging behind himself, hands cupped round arched buttocks, launched a more violent attack.
For a while, only gradually ragged gasps and low moans remained in the dense forest ……
After a long time, Gru, who had come to his senses from his passion, stood silently under the tree, with one arm around the limp Xiu Li and a solemn expression on his face. On the ground in front of him, there were several faint blue stains imprinted.
“Was I wrong?” A flicker of uneasiness swept through his mind, and Grue turned his eyes just in time to see Shuri open her eyes, and their gazes met.
“Is Your Majesty satisfied?” Shuri moved as if to stand up, and then fell limply and helplessly into Grue’s arm, a hint of pain appearing on her face, “Or do you have any more tricks you want to use against me?”
“Let’s go.” After a moment of silence, Grue slowly stepped away.
“As I said, the only thing that His Majesty can bring to the Ice Continent will be the corpse of Shuri.”
“It’s not the Ice Continent,” Gru looked down at Shuri and said in a deep voice, “What we’re going to, is the Barbarian Continent.”
The northwestern part of the Erasia continent was a vast and incomparable sandy plain. The harsh natural climate made this place completely different from the prosperity of the Erasia Empire, nowhere in sight and desolate. What’s more, many ancient creatures with strong vitality grew and reproduced freely on this land, and any alien that attempted to invade would be attacked by them mercilessly. Over time, this place became a barren land abandoned by all races on the earth.
However, as the times progressed, the Savage Continent finally had its fated master, the powerful race that now ruled the land known as the Cursed Earth.
Before the Age of Magic, there were some other races on the continent that were not to be underestimated in terms of strength, in addition to the six dominant races of today. This included the Orc race, which was powerful enough to compete with the six major races at that time.
As the offspring of the crossbreeding of humans and beasts, orcs have a strong physique that far surpasses that of humans, as well as a degree of intelligence. This characteristic makes them not to be enslaved by other races like beasts, but unite to fight against other races, and even fight for the dominance of the continent. For a long time, the tough orc warband had made the other races scared.
Unfortunately, with the discovery of the mysteries of magic, the continent of Erasia ushered in a whole new era of magic, and the end of all the intellectually inferior races finally came.
In order to expand their strength, the six major races that had mastered the power of magic in a long period of research had begun to take the so-called imbecilic races nearby, and the races that were unable to utilize the power of magic due to the influence of their innate intelligence also put up a stubborn resistance, and the fire of the war burned all over Erasia.
In the era when the art of war was still far from being developed, the power of magic was nearly invincible, and all the low intelligence races were invariably exterminated, either by disappearing, or by attaching themselves to the strongest races and becoming one of the combat forces of the strongest races. For example, the Dwarves were attached to the Elves, and the Humans took over the Griffins.
Strong physical abilities eventually lost out before the power of magic, and the once mighty orc race collapsed under the ice and ceased to exist under the combined attacks of several races. However, a few good orcs survived and began to flee.
Some of them fled to the jungle swamps of the southeast and hid themselves. A portion fled to the northwest with intense hatred, vowing to reestablish their kingdom in that cursed land.
With the nature of the beasts in their lives, they were gradually accepted by the ancient creatures of the savage continent, and gradually mastered the method of controlling some weak creatures, and developed and grew. And eliminated the other races of the six major races began a protracted war for supremacy, for the distant savage continent of the beasts, no longer able to take care of.
Having learned their lesson in the battle of extermination, the beasts deeply realized the terrifying power of magic and understood the importance of intelligence. When they didn’t need to worry about survival anymore, they began to raise excellent offspring.
The orcs captured humans from the borders of Erasia and forcibly mated with them in order to reproduce their offspring, which they hoped to be able to use in such a way that they would have an increased level of intelligence and be capable of magical research.
This barbaric approach surprisingly paid off after a few generations, with successive crossbreeding causing the beastly traits of the later generations of orcs to weaken and the human traits to become more and more pronounced. Finally, a new batch of orcs with so-called high intelligence was born, taught by their human captors to use magic from looted spellbooks. When the first fireball shot out of its caster’s hand, all the orcs fell to their knees in tears.
While the six major races were recuperating, the beasts had been developing. After more than a dozen generations of evolution, most of them were no longer half as different from humans, and their original names were gradually forgotten.
In its place is a brand new title – Barbarian.
Possessing the aggressive nature of wild beasts and the innate ability to communicate with them, the barbarians became more and more powerful on the barbaric continent, not only built many desert cities, but also subjugated some powerful ancient creatures, and established their own armies modeled on the system of the continent’s various races, and a new race, the barbarians, was born. A new race, the Barbarians, was born.
There is always a certain lack in the innate, barbarians after a long time of development, magic research still only stays in the six level of intermediate magic level, the whole clan can not find a senior mage. And due to the nature of warlike, some forces tend to provoke a small-scale war between them for minor reasons. Because of these reasons, the barbarians have always been trapped in the barbaric continent, and have never been able to launch an invasion of the Erasia continent. The continent’s various races, also let the barbarians in the barbaric continent to reign supreme, people do not offend me, I do not offend.
Under the light of the blazing sun in the sky, Gru, wrapped in a dark gray cloak, sat reclining beside the royal seat of the carriage, surrounded by Jem, who was sweating profusely and wielding a whip to drive the carriage.
It had been four days since they stepped into this desolate land.
Raising his eyes and looking ahead at what seemed like endless stretches of yellow sand, Jem wiped the sweat from his head and said to Gru, who was beside him, “Your Majesty, still haven’t found anything ah. Could we have been tricked by Shookus?”
Gelu lazily glanced around for a few moments and said, “Shux didn’t lie to me, and he didn’t have to either. Besides, these days, all signs show that Sandru has indeed entered the Savage Continent.”
“But we’ve been traveling for four days now, and we haven’t found anything.” Jem turned his head to look at the deeply draped curtains behind him and said, “The climate here is so bad, and although the young lady doesn’t say so, I don’t think she’ll be able to support herself for long.”
Gru didn’t say anything, but his attention was focused on the carriage behind him, catching the sound of light breathing.
Ever since she set off on her journey ten days ago, Shuri had kept herself locked up in the carriage, occasionally coming out without saying a word. Although Jem found it strange, he had focused all his energy on learning sword skills from Gru, and just thought that Xiu Li was overly frightened, and didn’t care too much about it. Only Gru had been silently observing her every move, but never noticed anything.
“We’re already deep into the savage wilderness, and we’re probably close to being able to see the towns established by the savages.” Gelu, who had been silent for a while, said, “We can take a good rest then, and we can also inquire about Sandru in the meantime.”
“Huh? How is it that we were able to land in the middle of a barbarian town?” Jem asked in surprise, “Didn’t we hear that barbarians never allow other races to enter their territory.”
“That was a long time ago,” Gru said as he closed his eyes, “It is true that the barbarians of that time still had a deep hatred for other races, but their race originally relied on combining with other races in order to be able to develop. Once upon a time, the various races on the continent mixed and fought endlessly, but as the power of the races continued to grow stronger, the scale of the wars also grew larger and larger. After a large-scale war, there would usually be a long period of recuperation. If the barbarians were to plunder during this time, it would easily lead to conflict.”
Jem was listening while driving the cart, and at this moment he couldn’t help but say, “If the barbarians take advantage of the other races not having recovered their energy after the war to start a war, they should have a great chance of winning ah.”
“Indeed,” Grue said with a faint smile, “In fact the Barbarian Army had launched more than one raid on Erasia and had also occupied quite a few territories. It’s a pity that this group of simple-minded fellows only know how to charge and kill with all their might, completely unaware of consolidating the results of the battle. Since they can attack but not defend, in the end they could only return to the Barbarian Continent under the counterattacks of the allied forces of the various races, and with the help of the natural protection of this place, there is nothing we can do to them.”
“That’s true,” Jem said with a shrug as he couldn’t help but look around, “In fact, no one would be interested in a place like this.”
“You’re wrong.” Gelu leisurely said, “Due to the fact that every barbarian army’s attack was able to obtain successive victories in the beginning, they have actually gained quite a lot of benefits in the successive battles. And most importantly, is that many of the magic weapons of the various races were lost in the wars, and the tai half of them have been strayed to the Barbarian Continent.”
“Spells?” Jem was slightly stunned.
Gelu had already picked up and said, “That’s why as far back as hundreds of years ago, exploring and searching for treasures in the Savage Continent had already become the volunteers of many adventurers on the continent, and a large number of adventurers had set foot on this land to search for their dreams.”
“Did they …… succeed?”
“Some succeed, some fail.” Gru sighed softly, “Those who succeed bring back greater hope, and those who fail leave behind more legends that can never be stopped.”
“And …… barbarians don’t care?”
“Barbarians aren’t too stupid.” Gelu said, “Those who come here to explore are either excellent talents or powerful teams, and the Barbarian Continent is so vast that it is simply forbidden as well. So they gradually acquiesced to the arrival of the explorers, and some of the lords even opened up their towns to provide services for the adventurers.”
“Haha ……” Jem’s face appeared to smile, and he interjected, “They’re quite smart, excellent talent …… Then we’ll have a landing place.”
“Don’t get too happy,” Gru smiled slightly, “That’s only some of the lords, there are some that may not welcome us.”
“This ……” Jem choked and said, “Our luck shouldn’t be that bad. By the way, do the barbarians have many lords now?”
“The barbarians are a militant race, externally although united, but two gangs of people over some fine reasons to fight is a very common thing. Therefore, many groups have formed within the barbarians, and they often start small-scale wars. In their words, the strong survive and the weak die, and it is only natural for the strong to rule over the weak. Although this kind of competition has led to the emergence of many experienced warlords and powerful battle groups within the Barbarian Race, it has also depleted the Barbarian Race’s strength to a certain extent.” “However,” after a pause Gelu picked up, “over the years a figure has emerged amongst the barbarians, who is rumored to have defeated over a dozen lords and occupied a large swathe of land, with a vague tendency to unify the barbarians.”
“Oh?” Jem asked with great interest, “What is it, is it that strong.”
“Not very clear, only know that in addition to being good at combat, he is also a rare martial artist among the barbarians, known as invincible …… stop.” As he was speaking, Grue suddenly opened his eyes and stood up long.
With a sudden start, Jem stopped the carriage in a hurry and looked up. Gru had already leapt onto the roof of the carriage, his eyes gazing into the distance, his face a look of concentration.
“There seems to be a large barbarian army ahead coming in that direction,” drifting down, Grue casually gestured to the left, “Let’s go around to that mound over there for shelter, maybe they’re just passing through.”
Jem agreed, and was about to turn his horse when a swift wind suddenly swept overhead, while a shadow was cast over the wagon, expanding rapidly.
“Get out of the way!” A loud shout rang in Gru’s ears, and Jem only felt a strong force pushing him out of his seat. Turning his head to look, he saw Gru yanking the cloak off his body and swinging it violently upwards.
A huge, gigantic bird spread its wings, a pair of steel-hooked talons no more than a few feet away from Gru’s head.
“Peng”, the muffled sound of collision, Gru’s cloak wrapped around the giant bird’s claws in time, and then swung vigorously. A pair of huge wings in front of Gelu swept through, the strong wind pummeled the face of pain, the huge body of the bird has been with the momentum of his swing to brush past.
“Good beast!” Watching that giant bird wrench its claws out of its cloak and land in a hover on the sand not far away, a pair of sinister and incomparable gazes shooting straight over, Grue couldn’t help but let out a cold snort, and took off the large bow on his back.
“Sire,” Jem called as he ran over with gusto, drawing his longsword from the seat of the car, “let me have some sword practice with this beast.”
“Sword practice?” Grue looked back slightly, then laughed, “Don’t you know what this is? That’s a Thunderbird!”
“Thunderbird?” Jem was stunned and turned his eyes to look. He saw that the giant bird was covered with black-brown feathers, faintly glowing with a dark light, and looked hard as hell. The slightly curved beak and the claws that gripped the ground tightly looked like they were made of steel, shining brightly under the sunlight. The large body stood on the ground, two heads taller than himself, and from a distance, he already felt imposing.
“Is this the barbarian race’s fifth level soldier – the Thunderbird?” Jem couldn’t help but tighten the hilt of his sword in his hand, a pang of tension in his heart.
“It’s just a young bird though,” Gru slowly sat down, “with your current strength you won’t have much trouble dealing with it, just don’t take it lightly.”
“May I?” Hearing Grue’s words, Jem couldn’t help but get excited. He already had total and unreserved faith in this Elf King.
“Hehe, there is still a group of barbarian army in front of us, let’s fight quickly.” Gelu suddenly felt a slight movement of the curtain behind him, turned his head to look, but the curtain was blocked tightly again.
Thinking of the barbarian army in the distance, Jem didn’t hesitate any longer, and with his longsword tilted to his chest, he slowly approached the Thunderbird.
Since being repelled by Grue just now, this thunderbird seemed to have realized the enemy’s power, and after landing, it had been standing still, watching the enemy. At this moment, seeing Jiem approaching step by step, the feathers on its neck fluffed up slightly, and its image suddenly appeared even more ferocious.
Jiem was originally a member of the reserve unit of the Crusaders, the fourth level of the Elasia Empire, with quasi fourth level combat power. These days, under Gru’s guidance, his sword skills could be said to have improved by leaps and bounds, far better than before. This Thunderbird was only a quasi fifth level soldier of the barbarians, and was not much stronger than Jiem in terms of strength, and immediately felt threatened by Jiem’s advancement.
As the two sides gradually approached, the atmosphere of the scene became more and more gloomy, and the sound of Jem’s footsteps on the sand became clear and unmistakable. However, the closer he got to the enemy, the calmer Jem became, silently calculating the distance between him and the enemy.
“Chop”, stepping out with a prudent step, the long sword in Jiem’s hand suddenly stretched out, swaying in front of the thunderbird’s eyes. A clear bird chirping followed, the thunderbird that was ready to strike stretched out its head, its sharp beak pecking at the sword, and a pair of huge wings unfolded, clamping down on Jiem.
“Hey giggle!” Jem exhaled, and then his body crouched downwards, and even the man with the sword was suddenly sticking to the ground in a short and sharp advance. A pair of giant wings swept over his head, and the long sword in Jem’s hand had already marked out, pointing straight at the Thunderbird’s abdomen.
“Clang” a clear sound, the long sword stabbed in the hard bird claws, actually resounded with the sound of gold and iron. Thunderbird in time to rise up in the air, a claw to shake off the long sword, another claw toward the sword body to grab.
Jem darted to put away his longsword as a strong wind whistled above his head and a pair of giant wings pressed down again. In a hurry, he did a cartwheel and leapt out diagonally. While he was in the air, the longsword in his hand used the momentum to swing backward.
“Poof” sound, the long sword seems to cut in the tough leather above, a shock of the slide away. Jiem only felt his arm was shocked to a burst of numbness, people have taken advantage of the momentum to leap out of a long distance. When he stood up, he only saw that the thunderbird fluttered in the air for a few times, then landed again, and slowly walked towards him, with no signs of injury on his body.
General birds in the attack on the enemy more adopted by the method of high-altitude pouncing, but for the trained people, can easily dodge this kind of pouncing, and then the over-exertion of the bird to carry out a fatal blow. Thunderbird as a barbaric land of ancient raptors, but also in the savage submissive tactical training, unless a sneak attack, combat has long ceased to use pouncing.
As Jem watched the Thunderbird slowly approach, he couldn’t help but be secretly surprised at his opponent’s spirituality. In comparison, it was no surprise that the griffins of the Erasian Empire used this type of ground combat in their half-bird, half-beast bodies. But for the Thunderbird, which belonged entirely to birds, to use this method, one had to admire the amazing training techniques of the barbarians.
When the other party gradually approached, Jiem realized that the feathers of the thunderbird’s neck slightly sunk, showing a not very obvious trace, and at the end of the trace there were hidden beads of blood seeping out. This discovery instantly made Jiem’s spirit revitalized, obviously although the other party’s feathers are tough, but not invulnerable, the wound on its neck is the sword’s blade dragged through just now.
To deal with this raptor with tough feather protection, if there was no overwhelming strength, one could not use chopping, stabbing type of maneuvers, but should use cutting, chipping type of moves, and slowly solve it. Understanding this, Jiem’s heart was very excited, only because he now had absolute certainty of defeating this opponent who was originally one level higher than himself.
The earth underneath his feet vaguely shook, and the thunderbird that was slowly approaching stopped in its tracks and suddenly raised its head to the sky with a long chirp, and with a spread of its wings, it rushed up to the sky.
Fully focused, Jem froze and looked up, only to see the thunderbird circling and flying high in the air around where he was, but never making an attack.
“Don’t look, it’s helping to show the way.” Gru’s voice rang out.
Jem looked back and asked, “Pointing the way?”
“Come over here,” Gru said with a nod, “That barbarian army is clearly coming for us.”
“How did this happen?” Approaching the wagon, Jem said in surprise, “How could the barbarians come after us for no reason?”
“Now is not the time to look into that.” Gru stepped out of the wagon and said, “You drive off at once, I’ll see what’s going on here and catch up in a minute.”
“To …… escape?” Jem hesitated for a moment, “Your Majesty isn’t going to do anything? We are not seen to be afraid of them.”
“Oh, there are at least nearly a thousand of the enemy, and though I am not afraid, how can I have so many arrows to deal with them?”
Grue laughed, “Avoiding it for the time being isn’t anything to be ashamed of, killing a bunch of minions isn’t anything to boast about.”
“I see,” Jem nodded, then glanced into the air and said, “It’s just ……”
“You get in the car and go, I’ll deal with it.” Gelu waved his hand and suddenly laughed, “It turns out that your current strength has increased by at least a level or more compared to before, but still be careful, the power of a real Thunderbird is absolutely worlds apart compared to a young bird.”
“Don’t worry, Your Majesty, I will never be proud.”
Jem’s face reddened, and he then straddled the royal seat and turned his horse around. The carriage drove slowly, and a mournful bird song duly sounded in the air.
Stepping on the corpse of the Thunderbird, Grue drew his feathered arrow, his gaze already set on a dark shadow that appeared in front of him. Everywhere he looked, countless monstrous men riding on giant vicious wolves with pure black fur, cloaked and fierce-looking, wielding long swords, scrambled and swarmed this way, and from afar, it looked like a black whirlwind.
“All second level wolf cavalry ah.” Grue muttered on one side as he slowly brought his longbow back up, such an enemy was really not worth wasting his arrows on.
The vibrations of the earth beneath his feet became more and more pronounced, and a pungent, fishy odor came from the wind; Grue frowned, but finally managed to hold back and stood still.
The speed at which the wolf cavalry moved was phenomenal, and it didn’t take long for the two sides to close to a distance visible to normal people.
The wolf cavalrymen in the front row spotted Grue, who was standing proudly next to the corpse of the thunderbird, and immediately let out a stern roar of shock and anger, and rushed over with increased urgency.
A cold smile spilled out from Gelu’s lips as his slender figure moved and swept up in the opposite direction from the carriage. A mishmash of shouts rang out behind them, and countless wolf cavalrymen turned in hot pursuit.
“Miss, there are really a lot of barbarians.” Stopping on top of a mound of dirt, Jem looked out at the black whirlwind in the distance and whispered, “It looks pretty scary, I wonder if His Majesty will be alright.”
There was silence in the car, and only after a long time did Xiu Li’s calm voice come out, “It’s just a group of second level wolf cavalry, not to mention that they all simply had to follow him and couldn’t catch anything.”
“Ha, I thought Miss didn’t even care about His Majesty anymore.” Jem laughed and turned his head, “So you’ve already observed it with magic, how thoughtful.”
There was another silence in the wagon, and not another sound. Jem shrugged his shoulders and said nothing more, sitting down reassuringly beside the wagon.
“Ow ……”
I don’t know how long, not far away from the side suddenly came a strange scream, closed eyes resting Jiem suddenly startled, fiercely stood up and leaped up. Turning his eyes to look, a cloaked barbarian was holding up a large sword, viciously rushing towards himself.
“Shit!”
With his longsword still on the seat of the cart, too late to fetch it in a moment, Jem gritted his teeth and kicked hard at the ground, picking up a shower of sand and dirt and covering it headless toward the barbarian.
Taking advantage of the barbarian’s opportunity to wave his hand to cover his face, Jem had already come to his body, grabbed the opponent’s knife-wielding wrist with a twist, and with his other hand, from the bottom up, grasped his elbow joint fiercely.
The barbarian let out a cry of pain, and the large knife in his hand fell to the ground, but his empty hand also clenched his fist in time and struck Jiem hard in the abdomen. Jem only felt a sharp pain, his abdomen twitched, and a cold sweat broke out on his head.
But he finally forced himself to carry the barbarian’s arm over his shoulder, and with a reverse, he flung the other man up hard.
“The barbarian fell to the ground with a loud thud, and a knee immediately pressed against his neck, immediately making it difficult for him to breathe and weakening his whole body.
“Don’t kill him.”
Jem, who was gradually increasing his force, was startled at the sound, and looked up to see Gru sitting leisurely on the wagon, holding his own longsword in one hand, and shaking his head toward him with a smile.
“What …… is going on?” Standing up, Jem watched as the barbarian immediately sat up with difficulty, and while surprised at his opponent’s tenacity, asked suspiciously, “He’s ……”
“This is a lesson for you not to be so careless in the future.” Grue walked slowly over to Jem and shoved his longsword into his hand, “Even if you have to rest, keep your weapon close by.”
“That …… knows.” Jem took the longsword, not realizing that he scratched his head, and asked again, “So he’s ……”
Gelu didn’t reply and turned to the barbarian who was still sitting on the ground and panting, “Well, now that you’ve lost, you should be honest with me.”
“We barbarians never play tricks.” The barbarian struggled to his feet, “We are Lord Harker’s men, and this time we were ordered to come out and search for a few intruders.”
He looked up at the two men and continued, “We don’t know what you look like, we were just ordered to follow the lead Thunderbird. Lord Harker said it could lead us to the enemy.”
“Then why is that Lord Harker of yours against us?” Hearing the barbarian’s words, Grue stood quietly, seemingly thinking. Jem, who was on the side, however, couldn’t help but ask, “We’ve only just entered the Savage Wasteland, it seems like we haven’t met up with anyone yet.”
“I don’t know about that,” said the barbarian with his head held high, “All we know is that we follow Lord Harker’s orders, not to mention that you foreigners should have been killed in the first place.”
“What do you mean ……” Jem had just reached out when Grue had grabbed his arm and turned to the barbarian, “Have you had any guests lately, Lord Harker?”
“How do you …… know?” The barbarian was slightly stunned, “I only know that Lord Harker has guests coming from afar, but I can’t even enter Lord Harker’s abode to know what kind of people they are.”
“And the others don’t know?” Jem pursued sharply, “Have none of you, of all people, ever been to your Lord Harker’s abode.”
“No, all of His Lordship’s orders are passed down from the guards.” The barbarian replied, “Unless we perform great feats, we will be able to be received by His Excellency, and that is the honor of a lifetime.”
Turning his head to look at Gru, the barbarian said, “That’s all you were going to ask, and I answered all of it, absolutely all of it, now what?”
“You go,” said Gru, “but you also keep your promise not to tell anyone about this.”
“As long as Lord Harker doesn’t ask about it, I will never take the initiative to mention it.” The barbarian leaned down to pick up the greatsword on the ground, and without another glance at the two men, he turned around and left.
“Just let him go?” Watching the barbarian gradually walk away, Gru still stood still and pondered, Jem couldn’t help but ask, “This is not a small matter, what if he deceived us?”
“The great thing about barbarians is that they don’t lie and cheat,” said Gru slowly, “If we can get them to talk, what we get must be the truth. Now it is time for us to consider that Lord Harker’s guest.”
“So you bet my life against him, hey!” Jem grunted, then worriedly said, “If he’s telling the truth, then that Lord Harker’s guest is probably Sandru. How is he so capable of getting the help of a barbarian lord, now we’re going to have a really hard time dealing with him.”
“What worries me most right now, is that Harker.” Grue’s eyes flickered, “Do you remember what we were talking about before we were attacked?”
“You told me that an invincible brave has appeared among the barbarians ……,” Jem said thoughtfully, and suddenly shuddered, and cried out with open eyes, “Is this Harker the… …”
“The legendary figure known as the Savage God of War is called Harker.” Gelu nodded with a bitter smile, “It seems that this trip to the Savage Wasteland is far more difficult than we imagined.”
Instead of a hall, it was actually more like a kiln, the four walls were rough stone and hard soil that had been slightly chiseled, but there were many knives and axes and other sharp weapons hanging. The floor was covered with animal skins, and a few chandeliers hung from the ceiling, but other than that, there were no other furnishings.
A black-robed Sandru stood wordlessly in the center of the hall with his head hanging down, his long silver-white hair falling down to hide his face in a shadow.
Time passed quietly, Sandru always like a ghost standing still in place, even the full head of white hair did not see a flutter. A heavy footsteps suddenly came from outside the hall, Sandru slowly looked up, a tall figure appeared in the doorway at the right time.