Unparalleled Beast Soul

Chapter 49 Trials of the Darklands

The residence of Dotley, the priest of the scepter, is luxurious and imposing, but his attitude is reserved and indifferent. 【】

After hearing about Leon's intentions, the bloated, wolf-born priest gave some words of encouragement, and then left the residence for the temple.

However, he left behind a Templar Knight entourage to answer Leon's questions.

This proud temple wolf knight was quite polite to Leon, a local turtle from the countryside. After all, there were not many people who could meet Dotley face to face.

From his mouth, Leon learned a lot about the Beast Soul Warrior.

In the Behemoth Beast Clan, as long as the barbarian warriors who have reached the sixth level are eligible to apply to the temple for the trial of being promoted to the Beast Soul Warrior, there are two opportunities a year.

The first hurdle is the qualification test, which requires all applicants to enter the dark land to complete the designated tasks. If they fail to complete within the specified time, they will be disqualified, but they can apply again next time.

Under the deep underground of the Glorious Continent, there is another dark world. This underground world has existed for several years, and a brilliant civilization was born, but it fell in the age of the ancient continent.

Dwarves, goblins, and dark elves, including some monsters, are all races from the underground world. Most of them have become vassals of the four continental races, and some have developed independent races, gradually cutting off the underground for thousands of years. The connection of the world has become a part of the Glorious Continent.

But the underground race still exists and continues to develop. After a long war, the dark elves have become one of the overlords of the underground world. They often attack the residents on the ground through the passage leading to the ground, and plunder the population, slaves and food supplies.

There are also some ferocious underground monsters that will come out to harass. Eliminating these underground monsters and dark elves has become an important business for many mainland mercenaries, and even some brave mercenary adventurers dare to enter the underground world to find wealth. The relics of the ruins of the Fallen Ming Dynasty are all coveted goodies.

And those relatively large areas where underground race creatures haunt the ground are usually called the dark land.

On the Glorious Continent, there are quite a lot of dark places, all of which are in the territory of the four major races. There is one in the forest a hundred miles southwest of Tormund City. The garrison often encircles and cleans it to avoid the threat of flooding monsters. residents of the surrounding area.

However, due to the vast area and complex terrain of this dark land, the underground monsters and monsters have been suppressed repeatedly, and the garrison can only control it.

Due to the special features of the Underdark, the kingdom and the temple regard it as a place of trial.

"According to the past practice, as long as you hunt down an underground monster or a dark elf within the specified time, you will complete the task if you get their heads." Wolf Knight explained.

"Which target is easier?" Leon asked.

"Of course it's a monster!" The wolf knight replied without hesitation: "The underground black elves are a natural fighting race. They usually only move at night or in places where there is no sunlight. They are good at camouflage and sneak attacks."

"When you complete the task, remember not to walk in the dark. Even if we beast soul warriors encounter black elf scouts and hunters, it will be very troublesome!"

"Understood, I will be careful." Leon nodded.

"There are not a few fighters who participate in the trials every year. In order to ensure your own safety, after entering the Darklands, you'd better find a few reliable partners to team up with. This is allowed by the rules." The Wolf Knight continued: " But the number of teams should not be too large, because it may attract a large number of monsters to besiege, three or five people is the best."

After hesitating for a while, the wolf knight said again: "If you form a team, sometimes you have to be careful of your teammates, not all the time you can find enough prey."

Lei Anxin shivered slightly.

He wanted to ask more questions, but the other party's expression was obviously unwilling to talk more, so Leon could only keep the questions in his heart.

After this long talk, Leon had a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the process of being promoted to a Beast Soul Warrior.

"According to the rules of the temple, no one can intervene in the samurai trials and soul-casting ceremonies, and Lord Dotley is no exception, so he can't give you too much help in this regard." The wolf knight finally said.

really?Leon disagreed.

With the existence of the privileged class, there must be special cases and, is the high temple really pure and spotless?

I am afraid that only the most simple and most pious orcs will believe it!

The lion-born noble that Leon met last night, isn't he the nephew who is a scepter priest for his arrogance?

But for Leon, he really didn't have the idea of ​​relying on Priest Dotley. Knowing the relevant inside story has already achieved the purpose of this trip. He is fully confident to complete all the tests with his own strength!

"Thank you for your guidance, and I hope to be able to fight side by side with Your Excellency one day!" Leon stood up and thanked the other party.

The wolf knight smiled slightly, but the smile on his wolf face was a bit ferocious: "I also wish you a smooth pass of the trial!"

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Eight days later, on the Shenhui Grand Square.

The originally deserted square became very lively. Hundreds of sixth-level barbarians rushed here from the Southwest Province, as well as thousands of relatives, friends and clansmen who came to see them off and cheer for them. The small half of the square was completely packed.

"Brother Lei, we are waiting for you to return in victory!"

Leon, Rock Hammer, Aklan and others hugged and bid farewell one by one. The team of testers was gathering, and the marching horn sounded in the square.

I applied for the application the day before, and officially set off today, and there is still half a month before the New Year's festival.

This time, more than [-] barbarian warriors participated in the trial, which is said to be the largest number in the southwest province in the past ten years. However, according to past experience, no more than one tenth of them can become beast soul warriors in the end. The elimination rate reached more than [-]%.

Some people even died unfortunately during the trial.

The temple sent three priests, and the garrison sent a team of cavalry to escort the tester to the dark place.

Dozens of military carriages lined up in the square, like a long black dragon.

"Everyone get in the car and get ready to go!"

The leading knight roared loudly, his slightly hoarse voice echoing over the square.

"When I come back, stay in the city obediently and don't cause trouble!"

Leon patted Little Fire Hammer on the head as a last word, and then jumped into the nearest carriage.

let's go!

Led by a team of cavalry, the long convoy left the Shenhui Plaza and headed towards the east gate.

In the rear, there is a crowd of farewells, their cheers soaring into the sky.

There were fifteen or sixteen people in the carriage that Leon was riding in, mainly lions, tigers, wolves, bears, leopards and cow-born, most of them were young warriors, and all of them were armed.

Since they didn't know each other, the atmosphere in the carriage was very dull, and no one spoke.

The carriage pulled by four horned horses was very fast, and it didn't take long to drive out of the East City Gate, and then headed southwest along the avenue.

Leon glanced around in the carriage, and found that there were four lion-born and tiger-born beasts in this car, and three wolf-borns, which took up eleven places, and the bears and leopards including him There are only five members of the Niu Tribe, which is a big difference in number.

This is not accidental, whether it is beast soul warriors or shaman priests, it is said that the upper clan accounts for at least [-]% to [-]% of them. They seem to be born to be favored by the beast gods, and the success rate of being promoted to beast soul warriors is much higher than that of the lower clan .

However, the number of upper races in the entire orc clan does not exceed [-]%, and the lack of core combat power is one of the important reasons why the Beamon orcs are losing ground in the process of fighting against the elves.

But under such circumstances, the six upper clans who hold the power of the kingdom are still unwilling to give more resources and help to the lower clans, and they often fight with each other for power.

Leon clearly remembered that the night before he left, when Elder Monstein mentioned these things, he had a sad and sad expression on his face.

Thinking of this, Leon's mood suddenly became bad, and the excitement and joy of participating in the trial disappeared. He reached out and took out a cigar from his belt to light it.

He sits in the outermost place of the car, so smoking will not affect others, let's use cigarettes to relieve the loneliness of the journey!

The cigars are the latest and the tobacco is bought in Tormund Town.

This tobacco leaf is a kind of magic material. Its name is blue leaf, and the price is not too expensive. Leon bought dozens of pounds of dried leaves at one go, and baked and dried them by himself.

Although due to time constraints, the craftsmanship can only be said to be rough and sloppy, but it is more than enough to satisfy Leon's addiction to cigarettes.

It's just that this cigar is absolutely unique in the Glorious Continent. The orc warriors in the same car watched Leon light up the cigar and puff, all of them looked surprised and puzzled, not understanding what he was doing.

"I said, brother, what are you doing?"

Leon hadn't finished smoking a cigar when a rough-looking tiger warrior sitting opposite him finally couldn't hold back his curiosity.

Leon chuckled, and took out another cigar and handed it to the other party: "This is called a cigar, and it's made of my own green leaf. It can refresh your mind when you smoke it on the fire. Would you like to try it?"

"Cigar..." The Tiger-born soldier said this rather strange name, and took it over politely: "How do you smoke it? Do you put it in your mouth and smoke it?"

"Like me, put one end on first..." Leon demonstrated with a smile.

"Cough! Cough!"

The Tiger-born soldier imitated taking a sip, but in the end he used too much force and choked so hard that he wanted to die on the spot.

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