Chapter 1036

This troll-hunting party has clearly accomplished its goal.

Their mounts carried all kinds of prey, and in the middle of the team was a five- to six-meter-long Triceratops, carrying a huge wild boar carcass on its back. Talking with the clansmen was full of laughter.

Ren didn't disturb these trolls, and activated the rainbow cloak to enter invisibility, and followed the hunting team quietly, keeping a certain distance.

He carefully observed the dozen or so trolls.

They are similar to trolls outside the Southern Continent. Males have two huge curved fangs protruding from their mouths, while females have no fangs. Instead, the lower canines grow into fangs.

But regardless of gender, every troll is strong and vigorous, with black totems smeared on their exposed skin, and they did not relax their vigilance at all during their journey. Their sharp eyes glanced around from time to time, and fell on possible dangerous places in the forest.

Obviously, this group of trolls has extremely high intelligence and is not as degenerate as the trolls in the outside world.

The troll warrior headed is legendary novice.

The rest of the trolls also have mid-level strength, and there is a priest in the team who has the ability to cast spells. He is respected by other trolls and has a high status.

The language they use is relatively unfamiliar, and Ren can only understand a few words, which are three points similar to a very ancient troll language he masters.

More than 20,000 years apart, the languages ​​may well have been completely different.

Ren decisively opened the "Translation Dictionary".

At the beginning, he could only understand part of it, but soon he understood more and more. After walking with the hunting team for more than two hours, he has mastered the language.

From the words of the troll, Ren learned that this hunting team belonged to a tribe called the "Dark Branch Tribe".

The Dark Branch tribe and the dozen or so troll tribes around them all believe in the "God of the Night" Sirik!

Ren was startled when he heard the words "God of the Night".

At first I thought I had heard it wrong.

Afterwards, the troll mentioned the "God of the Night" many times, and he was sure that he heard it right. These trolls really believed in a god.

As can be guessed from his honorable name, Sirik's priesthood is "Dark Night".

This is a very powerful priesthood. However, it belongs to the priesthood of the elf goddess of the dark moon, Elna. How can there be a God of the Night in the Southern Continent?

A priesthood does not only have one deity.

However, the gods will never allow other gods to get involved in their clergy, which will shake their own teachings, which is not conducive to the development of believers, and will eventually lead to the weakening of divine power. Once a deity chooses a priesthood that already belongs to it, another deity will notice it immediately, and a battle of gods will definitely be triggered!

Ren has known Elna, the God of the Dark Moon, and it is said that he is a very benevolent and benevolent god.

However, no matter how merciful, Elna will never allow the existence of a second God of the Night, even if there is a barrier of the ancient holy altar, he will come in at any cost.

"what happened?"

Ren didn't understand it for a while, and followed the hunting team all the way to the finish line.

This is a tribe built in the forest. The trolls opened up an open space on the hillside and built buildings with rocks and logs. From top to bottom, the whole tribe is divided into several layers. The bottom is not far from the river, with a population of 2,000. Between 3,000 and 3,000, it was a small town comparable in size to a human being.

The tribal architectural style may seem primitive, but the layout is very reasonable.

The outermost perimeter is fences and sentry towers. Each platform has different functions, such as holding ceremonies, raising livestock, living, combat training and so on.

There are black totems everywhere in the tribe. It is a hideous monster that looks like a giant bat. There are piles of corpses under the totem, some of which are still bloody, obviously not long after the sacrifice. On the uppermost platform there is a temple built of huge stones, which is heavily guarded, and the trolls dare not approach it at will, and there is a gloomy atmosphere inside.

The return of the hunting team caused a burst of cheers, but it soon returned to calm.

Ren hovered at an altitude of a thousand meters, scanning the tribe, and the voice of all things listened to the voices of the trolls in the tribe talking.

After a while.

His eyes looked at the temple, and he thought, "Loa god?"

Loa!

This is the word trolls use the most, referring to their gods. This tribe shares the same bloodline with the trolls of three other nearby tribes. They are a branch of the forest trolls and form the "Darkbranch Tribe".

The loa believed by the Dark Branch tribe is called "Cirik", and the trolls respectfully call it the God of the Night.

In the wider forest, including the Darkbranch tribe, more than a dozen other troll tribes also believed in the Loathiric.

These tribes surround "Aviken".

It was a city of trolls, ruled by the most powerful "Black Fang Tribe" among Sirik's followers, and the loa lived in the huge temple of Aviken.

Ren looked into the distance.

That's the direction of Aviken, and the trolls bowed down there when they prayed.

Unsurprisingly, Aviken is home to the Altar of the Old Ones.

He didn't go to Aviken immediately, and his eyes fell on the temple in the tribe again. Besides hundreds of troll guards, there were more than a dozen priests in the temple. Troll priests are not pure spellcasters. In addition to their ability to cast spells, they are also very powerful in melee combat.

Priests belong to the ruling class of the tribe and maintain the faith of believers in the loa.

At the same time, priests also possess knowledge that ordinary trolls cannot reach.

Such as the ancient holy runes!

Ren saw the ancient sacred text on the wall of the temple, which should be a variant evolved from the ancient sacred rune.

"That's what I want."

Ren was overjoyed. He spent a lot of time entering the Southern Continent in order to learn the knowledge of the ancient sage runes and decipher the ancient sage altar.

He scanned the troll tribe again, determined that the most powerful chieftain was just a legendary high-ranking warrior, and decided to strike immediately without hesitation.

But just in case, you have to do a good job of camouflage first.

Ren took off the mithril light armor on his body, and his body began to change. A pair of fangs more than ten centimeters long protruded from his mouth, the tip of his nose was elongated, and his ears became bigger and longer than the ears of elves, with the tips of the ears facing the head Swept back, his skin turned green, his back was slightly bent, his arms stretched to reach his knees, his pupils also changed from black to green, and he turned into a forest troll in an instant.

He reached into the void, got a set of warrior leather armor from a room in the tribe, and put it on.

Finally, he took out a few pieces of fine gold and iron ingots, and melted them into a rough one-handed axe.

This is one of the most common weapons used by troll warriors.

Ren's eyes locked on a priest in the tribe. This is an old troll with gray hair, half of a tusk is broken, his face is wrinkled, and his eyes are cloudy, but his body is still extremely strong. The eyes of the soul show that He is a legendary mid-level priest.

There is no priest more powerful than him in the entire tribe, with both melee and spellcasting abilities, and his overall strength may even surpass that of the chief.

At this moment, the old priest was sitting at his home not far from the temple, copying words on the animal skin.

"You are the one."

With a mind leap, Ren appeared behind the troll priest.

The opponent reacted extremely quickly, jumped up without looking back, pulled out a sharp dagger from his waist, and stabbed the enemy behind him.

Wren, however, was faster.

boom!

The back of the one-handed ax hit the priest's head, and a layer of black protection emerged, which was instantly smashed through like paper, and the priest was knocked unconscious on the spot.

A portal opened next to it, and the force field of the mind bound the priest's body, and disappeared after entering the portal.

It takes less than a second from start to finish.

The troll guards outside the door were completely unaware that the priest was robbed.

In the forest tens of miles away from the tribe, the troll priest groaned in pain, and gradually woke up, remembering what happened before he fainted, and suddenly jumped up, realizing that all his witchcraft had failed, and his body was also injured. very weak.

Immediately, he saw a strange forest troll, but judging from his appearance and leather armor, he was also a member of the Dark Branch tribe.

"It was you who attacked me?" The old priest asked vigilantly.

"Priest Hazura!"

Ren suddenly called out the troll's name, the old priest's face changed, and there was an irresistible force in his voice. He subconsciously looked into the other's eyes, only feeling that the other's eyes possessed supreme power. The orders of this great being must be obeyed.

Hazura's gaze was confused for a moment, then became clear again, and replied: "Yes."

Nine-ring brainwashing technique!

Ren breathed a sigh of relief. This psychic spell from the brain of the spirit sucker originally only had an eighth ring. Although he had been promoted to the ninth ring very early, he had hardly used it.

The effect of brainwashing is similar to that of mind control. The control is weaker and easier to be resisted by the target, but there is an advantage that the controlled target can maintain their own thoughts.

If you need to torture the enemy, brainwashing is undoubtedly better than mind control.

The eye of the soul looked at Priest Hazura.

The troll was indeed under control, and it wasn't just pretending. Then Ren asked with confidence: "Priest Hazura, do you know this rune?"

He took out a piece of animal skin with several ancient sage runes written on it, and displayed it in front of the other party.

"Rune!"

Hazura's eyes lit up, and he replied: "I know! This is an ancient rune. The great protoss taught this rune to the ancestors of the trolls. Mastering the rune can master witchcraft! Every priest must learn Runes, the more runes you have, the more powerful your witchcraft will be."

The troll priest's answer was within Ren's expectations.

The ancient sage rune must have its own name among the trolls, but he did not expect that the trolls actually regarded the ancient sage as a god.

"How many runes do you know?" Ren asked again.

"One hundred and fifty." Hazula replied honestly, pointing to the animal skin, "The runes I have are different from the ones on this one."

Ren asked strangely: "So little?"

Hazura explained: "I'm just a high-ranking priest, and it's hard to master one hundred and fifty runes. If you want to know more runes, go to those powerful 'loa priests', they Serve the great Loa, live in the Loa Temple, and have access to a large number of runes. Every loa priest has at least a thousand runes.”

Ren nodded.

He had eavesdropped on the tribe's conversation before, and knew that the strength division of the trolls was completely different from that of the intelligent races outside. They did not have the titles of legend and holy rank, which were relatively general.

The improvement of the strength of the troll is also the transformation of the soul.

The first to third soul transformations belong to ordinary fighters or priests, but the number of soul transformations is not used as the standard, the only criterion for measuring strength is the record!

As long as you can defeat many opponents and make a name for yourself in the tribe, you can get an "elite" title.

Such as elite fighters, elite hunters.

Even if there is only one soul change, if they can defeat other elite-level opponents, they are still qualified to become elites, but not every troll is an elite, even if they have three soul changes, they may be just an ordinary fighter, and the proportion of elites is less than one in ten.

After the fourth soul change, the trolls reached the legendary level and were promoted to "high level".

There are no elites among the high ranks, but there are "lords".

There are fewer lords, who are generally tribal leaders or spiritual leaders, and have a very high status among trolls.

Hazura is a High Priest, but not at the rank of a Priest-Lord.

A step above the high level is "Loa", which is equivalent to the outside world's holy rank powerhouse, known as Loa Warrior or Loa Priest.

These most powerful trolls usually serve the loa as servants of the gods.

In the Southern Continent, Loa rules everything!

Ren thought to himself that a loa priest has at least a thousand ancient runes, and he has collected more than 50,000 ancient runes, and there may be more in the future. Ordinary priests can only master relatively simple ancient holy runes, and there are a lot of repetitions. If you want to decipher the runes, you must not bypass the priests of Loa.

It is very difficult for brainwashing to control the powerhouses of the holy order.

Under the eyes of the loa gods, it is very dangerous to attack their important believers.

As expected, those Loa control the ancient holy altar, but I don't know, can the Loa know how to use the power of the altar like Elder Solim?

How strong is Loa?

Are they as powerful as the gods of Arrenus?

Ren looked at Hazura, but still asked, "What is Loa?"

Hazura's eyes were shocked, this question had too much impact on him, and it was not like a question that a normal troll could ask. His face struggled for a few seconds, and he replied in a low voice: "Loa are loa, the greatest existence in the world, they are gods, and they protect trolls and all creatures in the forest."

This answer did not satisfy Rennes, saying it was tantamount to not saying it.

Hazura's level is not enough, and he can't answer if he continues to ask, so Ren changed the question: "How many Loa are there in the Gumanla Empire?"

In the troll language, the Ancient Manla Empire is the great empire that ruled the southern continent, and it can also refer to the southern continent itself.

I copied the books collected by Hazura just now. There is a simple history book in it, which records that in the past 20,000 years, the ancient Manla Empire was divided and unified four times, and seven different troll dynasties were born, as well as dozens of trolls. A troll king!

However, the last time the ancient Manla Empire was united was very long ago. For more than 5,000 years, this continent has always been in a state of fragmentation.

The reason lies in those loa gods.

"I don't know how many loas there are." Hazula shook his head, hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "There may be thirty loas, or even more, but the most powerful loa will always only have eighteen. We all have our own loa temple!"

Ren immediately understood that there are eighteen altars of ancient saints on the southern continent!