Chapter 429 280. Tears of the Era
While Dacus's team and the running team were resting, Maranur's team was still busy.
The Enils who had participated in the Battle of the Golden Pond and were sent by Queen Lauren Loren gathered around a big tree and commented and admired it. Druch, who had left the restraints of Darkus, returned as if he had let himself go. As it turned out, Maranur, Darkus's brother, was even more unconventional.
It seemed to Maranur that sharing the glory and saving the world with his brother were two completely different things than dealing with these damn monkeys, and there was something really wrong with these monkeys. It was already evening when he arrived at Tilvide Village. He did not conduct any so-called visit, but walked around the three-way intersection. When it got dark, Druchi who followed him came They started their skilled trade, and the Druchis who had taken safety measures rushed into the village and got out the woodcutter stationed here.
Now, the three woodcutter stationed in Tyrvid are hanging from the tree. One of them, who looks like the leader, has suffered an old crime. Alatar, who can also use black magic to read memories, did not choose to do that. Do, but in the classic Druch way.
The hunting net of the Disaster Walker chariot was entangled in the leader's body, and the screams and wails he made one after another attracted the attention of the Enils who were standing far away on guard.
"They..."
"That's what they should do!"
"I've wanted to do this a long time ago."
The sentry Enils discussed in miserable voices. Although they had not taken action at this moment, their emotions were accompanied by misery. Her voice was venting freely at this moment, but there were also some things that she couldn't bear in her heart, but it was just words, and she had no thoughts to stop her in the past.
There is no such thing as a holy mother, and there is no such thing as intolerance. There is cruelty and bloodthirst hidden deep in the blood of the elves. This may have appeared after they were created, or it may have been the first Phoenix King Aenarion who picked up the Sword of Khaine. At that moment, the curse Kain placed on the elves. Elves are a group and a race. Although various large and small branches have appeared one after another during these thousands of years, such as the shadows in the Nagaros Mountains and the river elves in the Lauren Loren River, but This does not affect the nature of these elves.
This is not an anthropomorphism or stereotype of a race, especially after signing the Treaty of Leaves, the Enils had to live with humans. Originally, this group of Enils lived well in the mountains, and then suddenly a group of monkeys came. There were only a few monkeys in the beginning, and then they grew rapidly like copying and pasting. It would be fine if these monkeys were golden monkeys. The problem is not... It happens from time to time that the Enil patrol hunts humans and is hunted. Various frictions and disputes often occur, which troubles Enil in the Frostfall area.
There is no need to worry about who are the indigenous people. When the elves colonized Elsin Alvin, there were no humans, only greenskins, beastmen, and the group of dwarves living in the mountains. The humans in the current empire migrated from the east as nomadic tribes after the Revenge War, and then gradually turned into farming and became civilized, rather than suddenly growing out of the ground.
"Who allowed you to log here? Did the Treaty of Leaf allow you to build a logging farm here? Is this what your baron meant?" Maranur has always been a thief. He didn't come up and asked about the plague. , but pulled the Enils standing beside him over. He knew that no matter how these woodcutter responded, it would not help, it would only make the Enils angry, because the three illegal logging camps standing there in the distance were the most dangerous. Good evidence.
Seeing that the leader did not respond, Carlion, who was fully armed and prepared, waved the stabbing blade in his hand and gouged it out again. As the pieces fell, the leader woke up again.
"Your ending is inevitable. If you don't want it to be... too painful." After finishing speaking, Carlion swung the stabbing blade in his hand again.
"Urik, it was Oswald who asked us to do this. I really don't know about the rest. Just let me go." The
leader responded with Kalien waving the bayonet blade again and the Enils cheering.
"What is your relationship with Oswald?"
"We... no, they are happy axemen."
Maranur soon figured out what a happy axemen are. Most of these happy axemen are mobile Among the human lumberjacks and hunters in the Frostfall area, Oswald, as the president of the guild, selected some cheerful axemen with eloquence to form his bodyguards, and the leader hanging on the tree was one of the bodyguards, who mainly lived in Near Tyrvid, responsible for stirring up hatred between humans and elves.
The leader then revealed some logging camp directors and timber dealers he knew, all of whom had connections to Oswald.
"Write it down, these people will be purged next." Maranur ordered.
Soon, a list full of dead people appeared. Maranur then asked the leader and the two woodcutter why they were not infected with gray eye fever.
"It's Oswald. He made us immune to gray-eye fever."
Maranur showed suspicion. He looked at the leader who was hanging on the tree. The leader looked energetic and thick-haired. This was definitely not normal. , but he couldn't feel what was wrong.
However, Maranur didn't know that the leader in front of him was another carrier of the Gray Eye Fever plague. Gray Eye Fever would be left behind wherever the happy axemen passed by, but these happy axemen themselves didn't know it.
The Jolly Axemen have been fearful of elves since they were children. Under Oswald's brainwashing, they appear cheerful on the surface, which is why they are called the Jolly Axemen, but their inner fear of elves has been twisted into hatred. .
Maranur, who had almost asked the question, waved his hand casually. Kalien pinched the leader's mouth, inserted the thorn blade into the leader's mouth and gently pricked it out, and then made two small holes in the leader's neck. , he made a mistake, he did not let the leader end the pain quickly. A small hole will exhale gas in the leader's neck, and another small hole will flow out blood. With rich experience, he knows that the leader will look at the sun tomorrow morning, and then ...and nothing more.
After the other two happy axemen were followed by Kalien, Maranur ordered to rest. Having already received the information, he was going to go to Fleven... Holm to see what, it was the same place as Tyrvid. There is also a leader who feels that this bad name is too difficult to pronounce and should not exist in this place.
After waking up and washing up, Darkus still knew nothing about what happened last night. After changing Drusala's hairstyle again, he was ready for the team to set off.
At noon, Darkus came to the outskirts of Skoglag, which is the only place on the west bank of the Demster River with human activities. This has obviously violated the Treaty of Leaf. The reason why he insists on coming here is to see what kind of magic this village has, which can allow the Enils to understand this village on the west coast of Demster, which belongs to the Sun Zone, Storm Zone and Frostfall. District 3 remains regardless of location.
Darkus, who was standing outside the village on his big horse, felt that the village had an idyllic feel, which was very peaceful and peaceful, like the paradise in Peach Blossom Spring. He did not ride the big guy into the village, but jumped off the big guy's back and walked towards the humans coming out of the village.
After some conversation, Darkus vaguely understood the reason why the village was still preserved despite offending Aenir's authority. Just as Kaia said, the human villagers here are all hedge dwellers, and Kaia also watched the villagers' ceremony dedicated to Leya after building the first hut in the village. If Lauren Loren's humans were like the villagers in this village, maybe there wouldn't be so many bad things happening, but obviously this is impossible.
The village that welcomed the elves was an old human woman. What's interesting is that she was a blessed hedge dweller and a hedge wise man who knew magic.
The wise men of the hedges have a clue. At the junction of the civilized world and the unmarked forest, in the rows of seemingly ordinary smoky huts and creaking huts, there is a group of people practicing ancient and mysterious magic. people. This distinctive group goes by many names, such as the Hedge Folk, the Cunning Folk, or the Wise Men, to name a few, and they follow very archaic traditions.
The Hedge Folk have appeared since humans took root in what is now Reikland, and due to ancient tribal beliefs, they are also divided into multiple factions that fight with each other. Many Hedgefolk in Middenland believe they are blessed by Ranald, which is one reason the group is also known as the Cunningfolk. The Hedgelanders of Wesenland believe that they have been blessed by Valena, but regardless of local differences, they all have a common belief. They believe that at a certain period, a certain god will give humans the power to protect humans from evil. A small number of people, because of this they believe that they are priests, not despised wizards.
In the earliest days, hedgefolk could walk in broad daylight selling potions, charms and amulets, and even served as advisors to chiefs. They were widely accepted by the common people and their abilities were considered sacred, and few had reason to oppose them. Because their skills are so valuable, villagers seek their help when a husband's eyes start to wander, a daughter becomes bedridden with a fever, or a wife develops complications during childbirth. With the development of the times and the rise of sects, some sects began to be suspicious of the Hedge People due to various problems, especially the Tal, Ulric, and Sigmar sects.
In the current era of the Three Emperors, although the hedge dwellers have not been officially banned, they have been driven back to towns and villages. Their skills have been passed down from generation to generation, and humans who need their abilities can find them on the edges of towns and villages, because These places have little influence over polarized empires and sects, and people still adhere to ancient customs left over from tribal times.
Of course, there must be some alternative ones in a group. Some hedge dwellers will sell potions and talismans such as love balls, lucky charms, and protection charms that have some effects. This is also the reason why Sigma believers persecute this group, because they have already entered the world. In the category of witchcraft, a small number of blessed people can directly use magic. Although they believe that their power is given by God, the Sigma Church, which has a strong appeal, does not agree.
In Altdorf, successive high priests of Sigmar have called on their followers to hunt down wizards, and the hedge wizards have been listed as the primary target. Even though it is said that Sigmar himself has benefited from the blessings brought by the skills of the hedgefolk, this does not prevent the Church of Sigmar from All kinds of bad things were done to persecute the hedge people.
Similarly, in Middenheim, the sons of Ulric have been calling for the elimination of the scum without a sense of honor, because in Midden, believing in Ranald is despised, and the cunning people who openly believe in Ranald have become the worst. example. Only the Taal sect did not escalate the conflict, but focused its anger on those who opposed Taal and Leia's beliefs.
Everything changed after the great anti-chaos war in the 2300th year of the Empire. After Teclis helped humans establish a magic academy, the situation of these hedge people became difficult. "The Pious" Magnus called on the hedge wizards of the empire They united under his banner and accepted the teachings of the elven mages, but the Hedge Wise did not respond to Magnus's call, and in their view the prophets, illusionists, druids, elementalists and others who responded to the call Freaks cannot be considered hedge wizards at all, and a combination of various reasons eventually led them to choose to stay away from the magic academy.
Everything has changed since then, and the witch hunts of religion and magic schools have caused further persecution of hedge people, especially those mages who entered magic schools to clear their identities, seeming to draw a clear line with the past.
The hedge dwellers have become a group of dangerous, untrained spellcasters in human society. The blessed with the ability to cast spells are officially labeled as wizards. Once caught or convicted, what awaits them will be Burning at the stake. Although they were dismissive of this, they were unable to change the status quo. A hundred years later, most of their group believed that rejecting the invitation from the Magic Academy was probably the biggest mistake their group had ever made.
However, Darkus did not know the past, present, and future of the Hedge People, nor did he know the conflicts between the Hedge People, the sect, and the Academy of Magic, nor did he know the system framework, organizational structure, or structure of the Hedge People. What a mess of recruitment methods and symbolic imprints.
Darkus only knew that the man who delivered Emmanuelle von Reibewitz four hundred years later was a hedge wise man hidden in human society, and that the hedge wise man not only delivered Emmanuelle , also delivered the baby of Karl Franz von Horsweig Schlinstein in Altdorf.
Yes, it’s the famous griffon pendant, Karl Franz who was previously +8. Franz is not Karl’s surname, but Emmanuel is the elector of Vesenland and the controller of Nunn. .
This is also the reason why Darkus insisted on coming here after listening to Kaia's story before. He doesn't care about what happened to the hedge people two hundred years later, nor does he care about the situation of the gypsies in the fantasy world. He only knows these The country witch doctor who has mastered traditional customs and medical knowledge is really capable, and what he has to do is to bring this set of skills back to the new world and combine them with the traditions and knowledge of the elves.
Moreover, Darkus also knew that the Tai brothers' mother died in childbirth, and that the Tai brothers' father Alasia fell into a stubborn state because of Alicia's death. At the same time, he also devoted most of his energy to Aenarion Dragon. On the repair of armor. This also led to the unhappy childhood of the Tai brothers in the Kingdom of Cosqui. Tyrion, who had nowhere to vent his energy, had nothing to do all day long, and the frail and sick Teclis stayed in bed for a long time.
Darkus has never had the idea of doing anything to the Tai brothers. This may be the reason why the Tai brothers have done all kinds of things in this world and become gods in the next era. In his opinion, these two Brothers are valuable. By the time he came to Ulthuan, the Tai brothers might have just been born, or they might not have been born yet, so there was no need for him to do anything to the Arathya couple.
Tyrion is Kane's choice, this is an undeniable fact. But Tyrion did not become Kane's chosen one from the beginning. There is an essential difference between the two.
Darkus knows that people all have growth trajectories and important time points. First, they must have a life-long happiness. Childhood, just like Malekith had talked to him more than once about the time he spent with his father Aenarion in Nagaryth when he was a child. He knew that it was the happiest time in Malekith's life, but that time did not Throughout Malekith's childhood, it was a moment when Aenarion was free to accompany Malekith during the war. Everything changed after Aenarion disappeared, plus Malekith's outrageous mother .
The same is true for the Tai brothers. What if their mother Alicia did not die in childbirth but stayed with them throughout their childhood?
Darkus knew that Tyrion was not that crazy from the beginning. Tyrion also experienced childhood, youth and youth, and his mentality and outlook on each period were different.
One of the moments when Tyrion was an adult was when he was taken to the big city of Lothern by his aunt. His grandfather told him the nature of the Phoenix King's election, which shook his faith and outlook. He had always been willing to believe that the Phoenix Kings of all generations were as He was selected from the best elites among the elves, and his heart was full of enthusiasm for Ulthuan and the interests of all elves. The result was not that it was dirty.
However, this is nothing. The most important moment for Tyrion was when he put on the Aenarion dragon armor with the curse of Kane during the Battle of Fenua. This was the first step in his true darkening. , although he behaved normally after that, Kane's curse was eroding him step by step. What he encountered afterward gradually caused Kane to swallow up his heart, making him move closer to Kane, until he finally became the incarnation of Kane. This was all done in a step-by-step manner.
The problem is that Darkus has come to this world. Maybe he can change it in another way, such as being cultivated? The whole Proton Guard thing came out, as for Kane?
Of course, it's a bit far to think about those now. Darkus knows that after he returns to Nagaroth after his journey to the old world, the Druchi of Nagaroth will have a baby boom under his policy adjustments. This is what is important.
When he was in Asriel, Darkus had counted the labor dispatches. Although there were followers of Leia and Thalia in the group, there were no hedge dwellers who were mainly active in the empire's territory. Maybe there were? But those hedge people hid their identities and became ordinary farmers or other believers, but it was no longer important. He had now seen the real hedge wise men.
Darkus, who acted very friendly, first asked some questions about Gray Eye Fever, and he found that the villagers here were not infected with the plague.
The old woman with a cane told Darkus that she had seen a vision of gray-eyed fever. When the bluebells bloomed in the spring, she took the villagers to store some and gave them to the river elves upstream in exchange. Some.
Similarly, Darkus didn't care about this. He knew that the hedge wise man was really capable. The hedge wise man who delivered Karl Franz held the newborn Karl Franz in his arms. Lanz saw the end in him, as if Karl Franz's fate was doomed the moment he was born. Afterwards, the old woman told him an extremely important piece of information. After crossing the west bank of the Demster River not long ago, the old woman saw a very strange and rotten gold and silver tree in the forest.
The Enils were shocked by this news, because as locals, they knew that there was no gold and silver tree in the Frostfall area, and what was even more shocking than the appearance of the gold and silver tree was that the gold and silver tree would walk in the forest. At first, they thought that the gold and silver tree was a forest. However, the old woman swore to tell them that she knew the forest spirit since she had lived here since she was a child. The rotten gold and silver tree was definitely not a forest spirit.
Soon, she confirmed through the map that the place where the old woman found the gold and silver tree was northwest of Amanville. This shocking news has been difficult for the Enils to digest. Various clues have vaguely pointed to Amanweil. Although they have not discussed it, they have already predicted something through the exchange of glances.
After confirming the Frostfall Zone, Darkus launched another round of coercion and inducement, the core of which was to let the old woman exchange spells belonging to the hedge wise men with Alyssa and those Enil spellcasters.
As a result, after some exchanges, Darkus, who was standing nearby, called him a good guy. The surprise the Hedge Wise Man gave him was even greater than he imagined.
The art of bone setting that heals broken bones in livestock and humans, the art of concentration that allows pregnant women to focus their efforts, and the art of fertility that makes the land fertile are ordinary. The hedge sage can also do dream weaving and purification spells, as well as some recipes for courageous wine and energy soup.
These are all spells that can be used in the new world. Darkus even thought of how to use them while listening.
Of course, the Hedge Sage also masters a unique spell, and this spell is very interesting. The old woman said that this spell was first taught by the Hedge Sage to Pastor Moore. As a result, the current Pastor Moore accused this spell that it originally belonged to the Moore sect. The priest claimed that the Hedge Wise Men had stolen this spell from the dreams of Priest Morr centuries ago.
It really answered the wall and everyone pushed it away, the echo of the old era, the tears of the era.
This spell is both unique and unpopular at the same time. Mix oil with herbs and then apply necromantic magic on the weapon to turn spirits, ghosts or other undead things that can only be harmed by magic into physical attacks. It is useful for dealing with undead ghosts and dead demons. Wonderful effect.
While Alyssa was communicating with the Hedge Wise Man, Darkus was going to take advantage of the afternoon to walk around the stone circle and offer sacrifices to Leya as a way of thanking Leya's followers for their efforts in Asriel.
I'm not in good condition today, so I'll write less. I'll cross the river tomorrow and start the real drama.
(End of this chapter)