Pale Emblem

Chapter 82 Gnolls are also afraid of horror stories

"Squee, Spring has gone crazy!"

The ferocious gnolls were surrounded by a big tree, their thick black fur almost blended with the night in the forest, and their ten pairs of green eyes were like a gloomy fire, flickering with hunger and thirst in the darkness.

They haven't eaten meat for three days.The birds and mice in the forest have long since eaten up, and the entire gang of bone collectors has fallen into a situation of food shortage.Goblins and goats can also rely on plant tubers, wild vegetables, and tree sprouts to feed their hunger, but the stomachs of gnolls can only digest flesh and blood, so let them learn how to gnaw bark from dumb goats, it is better to kill them.

Fortunately, a few days ago, they grabbed the body of a sheep monster.The ten gnolls were afraid that they would eat one less bite, and the 400-pound goat head was eaten by them to the point that there were no bones left.Although everyone is not full, as the blood descendants of the ancient giant beast gluttonous king, the gnolls have the talent of gluttony, and they can last for a few days without eating.

The problem is that the big goblins Squee and Brother Spinling are crazy, they don't care about anything, they insist on killing all the half-elf adventurers in the low hill camp.Every time the bone collectors attacked the short hills, they obviously had an absolute advantage, and they could rush into the half-elf camp, but they were always defeated inexplicably.

Now, the Talon Goblin has lost more than half.According to the usual precautions of the Squee and Spring brothers, they should have given up attacking the low hill camp long ago and moved as soon as possible.However, the eyes of the two hobgoblins turned red, and they refused to let go of the half-elves.

Not throwing dozens of Sheepscape bodyguards into battle might be the only sanity a Hobgoblin has left.This is also to guard against the gnolls in the gang.

The cunning and selfish gnolls always hide behind when attacking, and the hobgoblins can't send goatshead bodyguards to fight; the claw goblins and bear goblins can't attack the half-elves' dwarf hill camps without the strong goblins charging forward. .

It's a never-ending cycle that leads Squee and the Spring brothers to become increasingly impatient with the gnolls.Especially when more than half of the Talon Goblins were reduced, the balance of power within the Bone Collector gang was on the verge of collapse, and the Hobgoblins had already conceived the idea of ​​dealing with the fierce gnolls first.

The gnoll's coyote head still can't understand what power is and what is balance.They sensed the malice from their Hobgoblin brothers with keen intuition.

If they are wild gnolls, they will not hesitate to rebel at this time.However, the gnoll thugs in the goblin kingdom are selected and raised by the goblin nobles from their cubs, just like domesticated livestock.Their ferocity is also accomplished through the mysteries of the goblin kingdom.

The dire gnolls of the Bone Collector's gang are not loyal to their hobgoblin leaders, but have a habit of obedience.And the development of this habit is inseparable from the Goblin Ritual, but it is not the most critical reason.

Hobgoblin parties can make slaves feel happy and satisfied, and addicted and difficult to extricate themselves from.However, the enslaved animals cannot change their nature, just like the unshakable principle of the elemental body, they cannot let the meat eaters eat grass, and they cannot let the grass eaters eat meat.Therefore, the premise of the gnoll's enslavement of the gnoll is to satisfy their survival needs, such as the instinctive desire for gluttony.

It's hard to imagine a hungry gnoll being happy.When they are very hungry, the Goblin Ritual has little effect on them.

Bone gatherer gnolls behave in a simple and effective way: they serve their hobgoblin masters, who fill their bellies before talking about happiness or addiction.

Predation in the wild is not easy. When there is no prey, the dire gnoll sends a representative to ask the hobgoblin master for a goat head to satisfy his hunger, and the claw goblin is also fine.
However, Brother Squee and Springer resolutely rejected the gnoll's reasonable request. They claimed that if the gnoll wanted to eat meat, he had to take down the half-elf adventurer's dwarf hill camp, where there were so many goblin corpses that the gnoll could be Eat until you vomit!

Obviously, the Hobgoblin leader broke the feeding relationship with the dire gnolls, so they are sure that Squee and Splin have gone crazy!

The scar-faced gnoll stuck out his scarlet tongue, licked his sharp canine teeth, and asked, "Did you tell Squee and Spring that in addition to the goat head and the claw goblin, the two half-elf female captives can also eat it. . They're skinny and tender, and they're more delicious than goat heads."

The gnoll who was in charge of negotiating with the hobgoblins turned his head and said, "Scarface, those two half-elf captives are cargo, you'd better not hit them!"

"goods?"

"Well, they're for sale to half-elves. A mysterious group of half-elves pays a lot of money to the Squee brothers for young, strong, unborn females. Squee says the two half-elves Females are worth thirty claw goblins, and we can't eat the cargo."

Scarface said in confusion, "Half-elves buy half-elves from bone collectors?"

The other gnoll stuck out his tongue and smiled: "Scarface, you haven't been in the team for long, we have traded with those half-elves many times. Squee and Splin should have gone to those guys before ten sunsets. .But we were held back by this difficult group of adventurers."

The Scarfaced Gnoll did not originally belong to this Bone Collector gang, but it was the strongest and most intelligent, and other Gnolls were afraid of it.Now that the Hobgoblin leader is mentally ill, and the ferocious gnolls in the gang have a different mind, they naturally move closer to Scarface.

"I'm not called Scarface." The fourth-order fierce gnoll stretched out his claws and stroked the scar on his face.The criss-crossing scars made it look sturdy and cold, "My name is Volofy." It lowered its claws and said gruffly.

"Scarface has a name?!"

"Walofy..."

The gnolls were amazed and envious, chatting non-stop.Scarface is very proud, it doesn't know why, only knowing that he has given himself a name is higher than "wolf".

In fact, the gnolls did not appear out of thin air. Of course, they should have their own names. Even if they don't have names, they can dig out their real names in the bloodline memory.

Volofi has not yet reached the level of digging out his true name from his bloodline memory, but the fact that he can name himself is an important sign of awakening self-awareness and getting rid of slavery and dwarfing.

In a sense, the named Volofi can become the leader of a gnoll group, and then it is his turn to use the name to dwarf the members of the group.

As a leader, you must not only have strong strength, but also show your unique knowledge.

In front of the new owner, Volofi is a wolf with his tail tucked.Now that the new master has gone mad, it thinks it must stand up or they will all be led to a dead end by the mad hobgoblins.

"I'm not interested in half-elves buying half-elves!" Volofer said viciously: "Squee, Splin are crazy, and we're going to end, just like my previous master's monsters. Dwarf Hill There are spirits in the camp, I know, I've seen them!"

Spirits, all visible and invisible phenomena, are beyond the knowledge of orcs and pose a danger to them.

Orcs in the Goblin Kingdom are afraid of ghosts, just like Dissa half-elves are afraid of ghosts. In fact, they are all superstitions, but they always arouse everyone's unanimous curiosity.

"Wolover, have you ever encountered a spirit?"

"Spirit, where is the spirit?"

"What does it look like?"

Wallover raised his paw and pointed to his face and said, "The scar on my face was left by her. My ex-master and the ex-master's gang were also wiped out by her."

"That was two years ago. My former owner took us to find treasures in the forests upstream of the Shrimp River. At noon that day, I and a few gnoll brothers accidentally searched for two half-elf females who were out to hunt."

"They're not the kind of half-elf females with soft flesh. I can smell the dragon veins from them all the way. Strangely, they have round ears that are different from dragon vein half-elves, but they are very powerful. , very fast, using a very sharp long sword, only one sword cut a gnoll brother's weapon and body into two pieces..."

The other gnolls shouted, "We've seen those two swords."

"You gave them to Squee, Master Spiner."

"The master said that the two swords are treasures and can be given to the Dragon King."

"You also said that the sword was snatched from a half-elf adventure group..."

"Shut up! Listen to me!" Volofey growled threateningly and said, "I lied to Squee and Splin. What I'm telling you now is the truth!"

Seeing Volofi's anger, the gnolls bowed their heads and stepped back to show their obedience.

Volofey, satisfied with the submissive attitude of his fellows, continued: "They still wear tough leather armor, and our claws and weapons are ineffective against their leather armor. I thought at the time, they were the most terrifying half I have ever seen. Elf, more ferocious than the half-elf Venerable I have killed."

"But they're just two dragon half-elves, and we have eight gnolls... We killed two brothers and wounded another, and we finally caught them all."

Volofo was silent for a moment, and unconsciously raised his neck bristles, his teeth chattering and said: "The skin of those two dragon-veined half-elves is as white and smooth as milk, but their flesh is very strong, and their bones are particularly hard. , I have to use a lot of strength to bite them... When I eat them, they don't whimper, they don't cry all the time..."

The gnolls couldn't help gasping for air, and some gnolls shouted, "Spirits, they must be spirits!"

Wallover shook his coyote's head and said, "They are not monsters, they are servants of monsters... My former master got the news, so he asked us to track their scent and found the monster's camp."

"It was a cave, and there were huge dragon-veined lizards lying next to the entrance of the cave. It was seriously injured, and the small half of its body was eaten away by something. But it didn't die, and the wound was still growing with creeping granulation."

"If the monitor lizard is healthy, we will definitely not dare to touch it. The former owner said that the seriously injured dragon-veined monitor lizard is the most valuable treasure. The former owner ordered us to kill the dragon-veined monitor lizard, and it should be made of the skin of the dragon-veined monitor lizard. Lots of armor, and we want to eat dragon-veined monitor lizard meat too..."

"When we were about to start, the spirit hidden in the cave came out."

Wolover gasped heavily, his eyes were lost, and he said in horror: "With long black hair, black eyes, and pointed ears, she looks like a fresh and delicious half-elf girl, with a white stripe beside her. The ferocious giant wolf... She has actually been possessed by the most vicious spirit, and I saw the spirit appear on her body... Just under her forehead, is a black spider."

The night wind was screaming in the woods, and a group of murderous gnolls closed their mouths, pricked up their ears, and shivered in their manes, listening to Wallover's terrifying encounter, a legend about a black spider and a half-elf girl.

(End of this chapter)