Chapter 25 Leon’s true identity
Ever since arriving at this camp, Juan has been observing everything around him.
The camp in front of them is very simple, and can even be said to be extremely crude.
This camp has no walls at all. The surrounding walls are an empty meat drying rack and the bones of wild beasts everywhere.
The houses in the camp are also quite simple. It seems that in the minds of the mountain people, the house does not need to be strong, as long as it can be lived in.
Perhaps it is because of this concept that some so-called houses are even just shacks made entirely of thatch and branches.
These mountain people, whom their lords call Lapluk people, are obviously brave and good at fighting. Regardless of whether they are men or women, the mountain people almost have countless scars and scratches on their bodies.
Even though these people looked extremely hungry at this time, Juan had no doubt that the strength of the mountain people in front of him was comparable to that of the mercenaries of the Thorn Territory.
"Priest of the Lapruk people, on behalf of Viscount Leon Jimena of Antolia, I would like to extend my first greetings to you."
Juan's brain was running rapidly, trying to remember what he had done before he came here. Just learned the phrase.
After saying that,
he handed the letter in his hand to Andrew who was beside him, and he handed it to the elderly priest.
...
In the wooden house in the middle of the camp, Andrew and the priest were sitting opposite each other.
Andrew explained his experience of going down the mountain in detail, and truthfully told everything he saw in the Thorn Territory.
"That is to say..."
"Although the price was too high, the young Viscount did not reject our idea of exchanging food, right?" "Yes
."
Andrew nodded, but said with a little annoyance: "But what he asked for was for the Lapuluk people to become his subjects! This is really a wishful thinking!"
However,
to Andrew's surprise,
the priest in front of him did not criticize Leon's proposal. Instead, he fell into silence.
"Master Priest, you won't..."
For a moment,
Andrew panicked.
"The last bear otter of the tribe died..."
After a long sigh, the priest, who had always been wise in Andrew's impression, said a little lonely.
The bear otter is not only the totem of the Lapluk people, but also the guardian animal and companion of the Lapluk people. It is a harbinger of the rise and fall of the tribe.
Just like this winter, even in the Year of the Jackdaw, the Lapruk people were supposed to get through it smoothly.
However,
the sudden black fog drove away the wild beasts in the mountains and forests, and withered the fruits planted in the spring.
If the mountain people want to obtain meat through hunting, they have to travel through mountains and rivers and go down the mountains to find the prey that have already fled in all directions under the hunting of plateau hounds.
It is undoubtedly extremely difficult to obtain food in this way.
It would be okay if the tribe had a small number of people, but as one of the largest tribes among the mountain people, the Lapuluk people have a total population of thousands!
Therefore,
for the first time on this cold winter day, the Lapuluk people encountered an unprecedented food crisis.
Only when people have endured hunger can they understand the value of food.
At this time, it can be said that all the mountain people are hungry and have reached the point of exhaustion. The meat obtained from hunting is even more difficult to fill everyone's stomach.
"The lord at the foot of the mountain has not expressed doubts about using the warm stone to trade. If you take action in person, maybe he will agree." "It's
too late."
The priest shook his head helplessly.
"Why?" Andrew asked puzzledly.
"Because you personally brought the viscount's bodyguard into the camp and led him up to the mountains!" "
When the little guy named Juan returns, the young viscount will tell you about the situation in the camp and us. The location is clear."
"At that time, even if we don't change, maybe they will choose to get it themselves."
The priest looked at the young man in front of him and sighed helplessly.
Having lived in the mountains and forests for a long time, when it comes to their stomachs, the new generation of young people from the Lapluke tribe is obviously no match for those nobles at the foot of the mountain.
"What?!"
After hearing this, Andrew was immediately shocked.
"I'm going to kill that man right now!"
"Stop!"
the older priest shouted sternly: "If you kill him now, then the possibility of exchanging food will be completely gone. By then, at least half of Many of the tribesmen died of hunger!"
"What should we do?"
Andrew panicked for a moment and fell to the ground.
The priest did not answer his question, but just opened the letter from Viscount Leon Jimena of Antolia.
Not only Andrew, he was also curious about why the lord recognized the tribal totem of the Lapluk people.
There were only two very simple words in the letter,
but it made the old priest suddenly tremble violently.
"Priest!"
Andrew hurriedly stepped forward, but inadvertently saw the brief words Leon wrote in the letter.
"In three years, we will cross the rolling mountains. In ten years, we will look at the ruins of Arran." "
I would like to offer my sincere invitation to the descendants of Asgard's ancestors, the wise men and priests of the Lapruk people. , Viscount Antolia, Leon Jimena."
"Master Priest, what is Asgard?"
Andrew asked confusedly, looking at a series of difficult words in the letter.
The old priest did not answer Andrew's question, but stared blankly at the contents of the letter, as if he remembered that before he became a priest, the thirty-seventh priest of the Lapluk people was dying. words on the occasion.
"Remember, we are the descendants of the ancestors."
"One day, the Lapluk people will pass through the black mist and return to the land of the past."
At this moment,
the priest's mind was filled with countless questions. With memories of the past.
This was the first time in the years since he became a priest that he heard familiar place names and the past of the Lapluk people from other people's mouths.
So,
how much does the Viscount Leon Jimena know about the Lapruk people? And why do you know about the land on the other side of the mountains?
Is that young man really the Viscount of the Jimena family?
Is there a possibility that
he is also a descendant of the ancestors?
Yes,
that must be it!
Because other than that, he really couldn't think of any other possibilities.
And if this is the case, haven't the Lapluk people found an organization?
"I want to visit the viscount in person."
After a long silence, the priest finally said.
Over the mountains, through the black mist.
This has always been the oral wish of the priests of Lapluk for generations, and it is also the reason why they have always lived on the edge of the Forsaken Land and never strayed far away.
No matter what happens when he goes down the mountain this time, Fast, as a tribal priest, has already decided to go.
Because this is not only about the past of the Lapluk people, but also about the future of the tribe.
(End of chapter)