Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 102 Coming of Age

After finishing the killing, Jiatu and the others inspected the battlefield.

A mixed team of imperial explorers and red-eyed tree wolf clansmen lost fifteen lives in this attack, including twelve tree wolf clan warriors including the leader of the tree wolf clan, and three imperial explorers.

Among them was the explorer leader who shot at Jiatu. His handsome head was pierced by the javelin thrown by Tajima, and Jiatu had been silent since Xu Xiu left. The bespectacled boy glanced slightly higher.

And the white wolf warriors on Lengdao also paid a heavy price.

Two people died, three were seriously injured, and others more or less died.

But judging from Leng Dao's expressions, they didn't seem to care much about this level of loss.

After the battle, they found the still alive red-eyed tree wolf tribe and cut off their heads without hesitation.

"It's the Black Wolf Clan."

Noticing the eyes of Jiatu and the others, Leng Dao wiped the blood off his face, and explained excitedly:
"Don't worry, the head killed by you will be counted on you, and the captain of the Black Wolf clan will also be counted on you."

Jiatu saw that Leng Dao and the others had cut off all the heads of the Black Wolf Clan and put them away one by one, even the three explorers from the Empire were no exception.

Then they carried the human skulls strung together on their backs and returned in the direction of the sacrificial field.

Seeing this weird scene, Jiatu and the others felt uncomfortable.

After all, it's okay to be bloody on the battlefield. After the battle, it's really scary to look at these dead heads.

But this seems to be a custom of the tree wolf clan. Even their own companions who died in battle had their heads cut off, wrapped in the clothes of the dead, and brought back to the village of the White Wolf clan. .

In the sacrificial field under Cang Jianmu, Leng Dao and the others arranged the harvested heads on the altar one by one.

Then he knelt on the ground and began to kneel down three times and kowtow nine times to Cang Jianmuxing.

Following Leng Dao's murmured prayers, Jiatu saw wisps of blue light starting to emerge above the severed heads.

Part of these blue light spots merged into Cang Jianmu's Moko cycle, and the other part floated towards Jiatu and Leng Dao and the others.

Jiatu was a little surprised to see himself surrounded by these blue light spots, and then they slowly penetrated into his body, and then Jiatu felt a burst of paralysis from the back of his neck.

Then there was a sudden roar from the altar not far away——

Leng Dao lay on the ground, seemingly holding his arms in great pain.

Then white lines suddenly emerged from his back and face, and at the same time he opened his mouth wide again——

"Ouch--!"

A large number of golden light spots falling from the Cangjian wood poured into the body of the white wolf boy, and at the same time, the white lines on Leng Dao's body were fixed, gradually forming the "battle makeup" that Jiatu thought before!
When everything was over, the boy from the White Wolf clan who was almost a head taller got up trembling from the ground, turned around to look at Jiatu, and said sincerely:

"Thank you, I'm an adult."

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According to Leng Dao's explanation, there are five wolf clans in total near the Black Forest.

They are the "White Wolf Clan" with the purest bloodline.

The most powerful "Black Wolf Clan" that has mixed blood with humans.

And the "Coyote Clan", "Red Wolf Clan" and "Grey Wolf Clan" between the "White Wolf Clan" and "Black Wolf Clan".

Among them, the coyote clan, the gray wolf clan and the white wolf clan have a better relationship, while the red wolf clan has a close relationship with the black wolf clan.

The five clans have been fighting each other for thousands of years, and the men of each clan can only obtain the right to "adult" after they get the head of the other man, growing from a boy to a "warrior".

Lengdao had already hunted and killed many black wolf clans by himself before, and this time he took the initiative to attack the intruders, which became the finishing touch of his "adulthood ceremony", allowing him to officially surpass the "juvenile" and enter the "Youth stage".

As for why the growth of demons in the body will cause changes in the body, according to Leng Dao, the "ancestor of the tree wolf clan" is closer to the "wolf spirit of the forest" and is "the common god of the ancestor spirit"—

Inspired by the "Mother of Heavenly Fire".

So strictly speaking, the tree wolf tribe was originally a half-human, half-wolf beast spirit.

A change in the mind affects the body, and vice versa.

If a tree wolf tribe is unable to hunt enough "heads" for a long time, it will gradually decline due to mental disability, and finally die quickly at the age of 20.

Therefore, the headhunting activity, commonly known as "grass out", has become the only way for the teenagers of the tree wolf tribe to grow up.

In fact, even after they become adults, they will continue to hunt heads, making their Cang Jianmu and tribe stronger.

Hundreds of years ago, both the White Wolf Clan and the Black Wolf Clan did this.

But with the appearance of the imperial people, the Black Wolf Clan and the Red Wolf Clan, which gradually declined during the "grassing ceremony", gave up the customs and missions that had lasted for thousands of years, and chose to marry the imperial people.

This allowed them to break the "curse of the tree wolf clan", but also lost the talent of turning into wolves.

"Is that why they choose to fight you with cold weapons..."

Jiatu nodded, and roughly understood the ins and outs of the whole matter.

The grown-up Leng Dao also smiled freely:
"Even if the Black Wolf Clan chooses to marry the imperial people, only the lower-level people of the empire will accept them. As mixed-race humans, they cannot integrate into the imperial society based on the theory of 'blood purity', so they can only stay in the Black Forest , continue to rely on Cang Jianmu to survive."

"As for them who have lost the ability to transform into wolves, in order to maintain the size of the hunting ground and the growth of Cang Jianmu, they can only buy weapons from the imperials. In the end, they are bound more and more deeply with the power of the empire, and now they have become servants of the imperials. .”

"It's a pity that they still think that they have the blood of the imperial people, and they are more noble than us primitive tree wolf people."

Leng Dao described it plainly, neither feeling ridiculous nor angry, as if he was just stating a fact.

"Everyone has his own way, and we can't blame them..."

Jiatu also had to admit the cruelty of this tradition after seeing the tree wolf clan's drafting ceremony.

If the Black Wolf Clan and the Red Wolf Clan had gradually declined in the confrontation between the five tribes, then for the sake of the survival and continuation of the entire clan, it seemed that it was not incomprehensible to choose to become servants of the imperial people.

However, even if they were mixed with the imperial people, they couldn't leave the Black Forest and Cang Jianmu, so they could only continue to fight Leng Dao and the others in this dark forest.

In contrast, the life in Cheorwon Refuge can already be called paradise——

After all, Jiatu's life expectancy is 30 years old, ten years longer than Lengdao's!

Gator, who felt that he had told a hellish joke, couldn't help but shook his head, and re-examined the length of the brain on his body——

After killing four fighters from the Heilang Clan and a silver-ranked warrior leader in a row, he finally felt the fullness of the demon in his body, and the length of the spine at the back of his neck slowly grew to sixty centimeters——

It's time to start the next phase!
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