Chapter 140 God's Rival
The elves learned to make runes, the elves learned to use the city defense heavy crossbow, and the elves also invented the elves card. So what are the Jian Gu tribe doing?
After negotiations, the Golden Dog Caravan was allowed to enter Heshan City by the lord, and then had to stay here for five days before leaving. During these five days, the Golden Dog Caravan had to provide sufficient transactions and services so that the residents of Heshan City could relieve their emotions and increase their confidence before the war. Originally, this matter was a bit difficult, but the bard Nasim Bond accepted the invitation from the Golden Dog Caravan and regarded himself as the service provided by the caravan, so the problem was solved.
It took seven days to enter the city, stay and leave. Dagon went to the city wall every day to see the elves, but no one fell by day. He looked at the elves carefully. The half-elves and humans cooperated with each other, saw the strict and orderly wheel duty, and saw the elves waving his arms at him in the heavy crossbow operation position, probably saying words like "Stop looking, goodbye."
The elf did not stop him from staying there all day to watch, nor did he hide the fact that he had discovered him. But the more generous the elves, the more uncomfortable Dagong felt, as if the Jiangu tribe was proud of the heavy crossbow of the Lianfa City, and it was not very mysterious and not important.
On the fifth day of the "Punishment Station", Heshan City welcomed the first group of Monster Forest monsters to launch an attack. They were thirty flying apes, simply to say, gorillas with huge black wings behind them. They lived in the Man Forest in the form of tribes, and half of their food source was collection, while the other half was killing. These flying apes obviously had attacked human villages and perhaps also attacked the army. Some of the flying apes were injured, while all of them had human weapons in their hands.
Because of their strong and heavy bodies, their flying speed is not fast, but their impact is huge. When the flying apes pounced on their opponents from the air, their power is almost the same as the charging knights. It is quite a disadvantage to fight with this monster, and it is safest to make the archers shoot from a distance. However, the flying apes chose the wrong direction and glided from the air to approach the defense zone where the elves were responsible for.
Dagon saw the elves skillfully manipulate the heavy crossbows in the air and kill the flying apes one by one, which made him feel uncomfortable. The elves not only mastered assembly, maintenance, debugging and use, but also designed stronghold tactics around the heavy crossbows, fully exerting the power of the heavy crossbows, and not wasteful. The rangers and warriors of the elves fully cooperated, and there was five people working together on a crossbow, observing, commanding, and operating, and there was also a special one who had finished the knife, which seemed to be better than the tactics of the ancient clan.
The victory of the elves is the victory of Heshan City, but it is not the victory of the Jiangu tribe. Dagon carefully observed that the Jiangu tribes in Heshan City have three main professions: farmers, craftsmen and beggars. Not to mention the city guards, even the mercenaries are basically not seen in the Jiangu tribe. The Jiangu tribe does not have much presence in Heshan City. Their status here is like the Dagon watching the battle under the city wall. Because it is not important, no one cares.
The arrival of the flying ape means that the army of Manlin's ground will not be too far away, and wild beasts have begun to appear around the city in groups. It is said that the cavalry of Heshan City have been cleaning up small groups of monsters outside, and then used their corpses as bait to hunt larger and more stupid monsters. Perhaps the half-elf Kunrui is among these cavalrymen, but Dagon didn't care. He sat in the caravan that quickly drove out of Heshan City from the north gate, showing a sense of absent-mindedness.
In order to leave this dangerous area as soon as possible, the convoy's people were not at all concerned about Dagon. Thanks to selling most of the inventory in Heshan City, the convoy was able to set off on the road lightly and successfully avoided the threat of Manlin.
The convoy advanced for five consecutive days and finally stopped to rest for a while. At this time, Dagon's mood improved a little. During this period, Dagon had been trying hard to accumulate magic power and went to the middle world of the soul whenever he had time. He wanted to ask Rhet, and at the same time, he also asked the gods of the Jiangu tribe, do they know about these things happening in the world?
"Of course I know." Reed's expression seemed to write the four words "Lawful" on his face. "The decline of the Jian Gu clan is an indisputable fact, but you have been living in a lockdown state and heard the Jian Gu clan. How prosperous and brilliant the Jian Gu clan was once. The Jian Gu clan did have been prosperous and brilliant in the past, but it has been declining over the years. It has felt it elsewhere, and you have been living in your dreams."
Dagon felt incredible: "I thought that life in Jian Gucheng would be better after the lockdown was lifted, and my parents would be happier than before."
"You don't have to worry about this. It will definitely be fine after the lockdown is lifted. I'm talking about the situation of the entire race." Reed shrugged and said, "When you saw the Elf Card, you felt that the technology of the Jiangu clan had been stagnant for a long time. At that time, you vaguely felt like today. Today, you see that it's not just technology, but people from the Jiangu clan seem to be excluded from the world, so the discomfort deepens, right?"
Dargon thought carefully and found that this was indeed the case, but how did Reed know?
"I live between your soul and spiritual world. I can't guess your thoughts, but your emotional changes can happen in front of me." Reed pointed to the surrounding circle of fire and said, "Look at these flames, your mood will be clearly written on it."
Dagon stared at the flames for a long time, thinking about sad or happy things, trying to make them change, but after a while he came to the conclusion: "I can't see it."
"You have to look at it for more than 60 years." Reed shook his head slightly and said, "Dagon, are you even more sad that the Jiangu people are not valued, or are you more worried that the Jiangu people have no future?"
A simple choice of two, plus neither, is both, and does not know three hidden options, but one hand. Dagon opened his mouth and stuck in front of this question. He raised a finger and signaled Reid to wait for a while, then held his beard and chin in one hand, and began to pace in the middle of his own soul.
The surrounding fire walls were flashing and dark, just like Dagon's mood. Only when Dagon did not pay attention to these flames could they reflect emotions, otherwise they could only display the message "I keep paying attention". Reed did not move and did not say a word, for fear of disturbing Dagon's thinking. However, his eyes were staring at the wall of emotions, waiting for the moment when Dagon really thought it through with longing.
After going around for at least three hundred times, Dagon stopped. When he came to Reed, the fire wall stopped moving for a moment, as strong as a rock.
“I don’t answer that question, but ask one: What should I do?”
Reed pointed to the top of his head and asked with his mouth slanted, "Don't you ask the gods?"
"They've been there," Dagon said. "I've done it right, and there will be rewards, so the key is that I've done it right."
"That's all?" Reed clenched his fists and encouraged, "Dagon, you have other ideas that I can feel. Tell it out, speak it out honestly."
"If God Aoli makes any arrangements, just lower the oracle and let the priest of the temple execute it. I was thinking that the Jiangu clan should not decline unless the gods don't know what to do."
The fire wall swayed, and a dull but faint sound came from above his head, as if someone was far apart and shouted loudly. Reed shook his head: "You are brave, but you are wrong. The gods know what to do, and that is the matter is human. Think fairly and justly, if God Aoli issued an oracle, how would the priest of the temple execute it?"
Dagon frowned hard, then shook his head: "I don't understand. I have to go to the temple to participate in the priest study before I can check those materials."
"Yes, I forgot about this." Reed slapped his forehead and said, "That's it, leave this question to yourself. You should first figure out what decline is, what development is, and what they are caused by. Only by knowing these can you know how to do it."
"So you don't know either?"
"Just kidding, of course I know. Dagon, think about it carefully, and think about why I was trapped here!" Reed's voice was very loud, and his shoulders were shaking violently, but he was not particularly angry, but was still laughing wildly: "Hehe haha, I know too much, and the gods of the Jiangu tribe were also afraid that I would go out and mess around. They enlightened you and used you as a buffer for me and the outside world. The knowledge in my mind can kill all the gods. Do you believe it?"
"Even if you have the chance, please don't do that. The great god of Aoli is very good to the Jiangu clan. Every Jiangu clan member is blessed by him. If it is an evil god or those underground monsters, if you have a way to eliminate them, please do whatever you want. The gods of Jiangu clan are kind..."
"I know they are kind, but kindness cannot stop the decline of the Jiangu clan. Or to put it more accurately, kindness will not rejuvenate the Jiangu clan. If kindness prevents the Jiangu clan from standing up and becoming strong, then how will you treat kindness?"
"When kindness becomes an obstacle, then the road under my feet is definitely wrong." Dagon said very firmly: "I believe that good things to the Jiangu clan will definitely not be evil, whether nominally or in fact. Reed, I think you are wrong in some places. You seem to regard the gods of the Jiangu clan as enemies... not, and you still have to divide life and death. It feels like the two sides of the battle, you and the Jiangu are opponents and want to divide the victory or defeat."
Reed smiled, but no laughter. "If I can go out, I will divide my life and death. But here, I have been defeated. The first time I lost to your soul, the second time I lost to the gods. I don't hate you, because this is your body, and your life is still me who disturbed you. But I lost to the gods? They won't win!"
A dull sound came from the sky again, this time it was more like a continuous thunder. Reed hit his chest, waved his fists into the sky, and shouted loudly: "What, what do you want to say? You also know that Jiangu clan is not good, but you have no choice, only I have! Only me! This method is very simple: if you break your life, Jiangu clan will be saved!"
Dagon shook his head, feeling that Reed was wrong. He looked into the sky, not really, and the great God of Aure didn't know how far away he was. Looking at Reed, he looked like crazy, but he was not crazy, but just venting. Dagon looked at his feet, and the clouds dispersed, and the layers of steps he had climbed were still under the transparent ground.
"Red, I need to know the past to understand the present. If I understand the present, I may be able to peek at the future. I think what you are right, and the gods of the Jiangu clan are not wrong." Dagon scratched his head and said, "I have thought about it. Whether it is to learn history better, understand the past, or contribute my strength better in the future, I decided to enter the temple system to study and become a priest."
"Haha, do you want to be a silly?"
Chapter completed!