Azeroth Shadow Trail

   Chapter 1408 41. What are you Akunda?

   The journey to Akunda was not a peaceful one.

   Not only are there snakes of believers constantly running out to harass the convoy, but there are also constant quarrels in the special-shaped pumpkin caravan of the foxmen.

Maiev claimed that she was unwilling to get involved in the lowly war for love, but Xalatas always had a way to provoke Lady Warden. Maiev was actually not an easy quarrel, but Xalatas was too much. Excessive evil will activate the warden's instinctive disgust as an orderly camp.

   If it wasn't for Blake's constant mediation, these two powerful women would probably do it on the spot.

   This made the pirates feel very tired.

   He now very much wishes Sefir could be by his side.

  What a virtuous First Officer Dragon, she always silently meets all Black's needs and is never as aggressive as Xal'atas, nor as cold as Maiev.

   But after all, they are the sweethearts of stinky pirates.

   He really didn't want to see them tear each other up and stage a ridiculous scene of a woman fighting together. In desperation, Black could only half-coax and half-coax Xalatas away first.

   He promised to get Xal'atas's snake egg for the mysterious mistress in the shortest possible time, and he also needed Xal'atas to continue to suppress the awakening of the troubled commander of Krassis under the ruins of Atu Aman.

   After the dark essence left, the atmosphere in the carriage suddenly calmed down, and the pirate was relieved. He sat on the chair and looked at the temple of Akunda, which was getting closer and closer, and reached out and took out a bottle of wine.

   was about to open, but heard Maiev whisper:

   "Did my irrational behavior bother you just now? I shouldn't have quarreled with her, she was deliberately provoking me, tempting me to make irrational actions, in order to destroy my image in your mind.

I.

  I don't know what happened to me either.

   It seems that the longer I get along with you, the more easily I am influenced by the outside world, and the more difficult it is to maintain the indifferent attitude that a watchman should have. "

   "This represents your return from being a warrior, a commander and a guardian to being a woman, my Maiev sweetheart."

  Blake pouted and took a sip of wine. He stood up, walked over and squatted in front of Maiev, who bowed his head, looking at the warden's somewhat wandering eyes.

   He reached out and cupped Maiev's face and whispered:

   "That's actually a good thing, just imagine, if you don't care about me, you don't need to care about my feelings and your image in my mind at all.

  You are always silent and indifferent, and you rarely show your true feelings except when you face Kazzak in the Dark Temple.

   The provocation of being slapped by Salatas in the end made me see that you actually care about my opinion of you. To be honest, it made my heart feel warm.

   Being needed and valued by others always makes people feel good.

   This also means that my efforts during this period are not boring dog licking behavior. I have received your response for my dedication to you. You always say that our story ended 10,000 years ago.

   But you also saw that the story of you and me continues.

   In the present, in the future.

  Don't be so pessimistic all the time, although our origins, growth and ideals are completely different, but we will come to the end. "

   Maiev was silent for a few seconds.

   She let the hands of the pirates hold her face, and she looked at Blake and said:

   "Did you deceive Xal'atas and Sefir with such love words before?"

"Do not."

  Blake blinked and said:

   "This is your own love story."

   Ms. Warden took the initiative to send a kiss, but the pirates did not resist.

   She seemed to be more proactive than usual.

  Unfortunately, the situation is not right now, otherwise the stinky pirates can enjoy themselves again.

   A few minutes later, the convoy of foxes and snakemen stopped at the market outside Akunda Temple, and Blake stepped out of the carriage with a flushed-cheeked Maiev.

   What caught his eye was an extremely prosperous desert market, which was very different from the desolate temple full of beggars and believers in his memory two years ago.

After the   fox people took over the Akunda Temple, they not only repaired the houses in poor condition around the temple, but also brought in the canal water from the oasis next to it.

With the help of Akunda's troll followers, the ingenious fox people used these vertical and horizontal canals to divide the surrounding area of ​​the temple into several functional areas.

   They created a fairly orderly market area around the renovated Akunda Temple here. Not only fox traders set up stalls to sell goods here, but also fixed stalls for the ancestors of turtles.

  Black even saw a group of goblin traders from Booty Bay selling their muskets and dynamite on Snake Travelers.

   "Those goblins are annoying!"

   Eudora rode her own coyote, surrounded and cheered by a group of fox people, proudly led Blake and his party in Arabian desert style robes through the lively market.

   As she led the way, she whispered to Blake:

   "These goblins were at least brought in by the serpent people. They traded slaves with the Faithless Empire in the north, but their insatiable greed soon angered Emperor Kothek, and they were expelled by the serpent people.

   But the cunning goblins have noticed the hidden wealth under the barren exterior of the Great Desert of Vol'dun, and they have moved their camp to the hilly Gobi between the port of Zemran and the temple.

   These **** were lucky enough to find gold and crude oil there, so they stuck around.

  Fortunately, the Wharton Trading Company had set up business stations all over the Great Desert in advance, otherwise these guys would really have to participate in the local large-scale commercial operation.

They also tried to collude with local pirates to attack our trading station, but these **** have no idea about the local power of the fox people. We, together with the turtle people in the north, and the followers of Akunda, set up a trap to lure them here. After all the pirates were caught, these goblins honestly paid us the supplier tax.

   Akunda didn't like them either.

  The goblins always like to do some nasty tricks when they do business in the market, but the simple and honest big lizards did not expel them, but they were not allowed to approach the temple area. "

   "This is easy."

  Black rolled his eyes and whispered to Eudora:

   "I heard that there are natural oil pits in some parts of Nazmir jungle.

   Those oil pits don’t even need drilling to get crude oil, you sell this news to the goblins, they will definitely dive into the Nazmir jungle to extract oil”

   "Well, but the blood troll barbarians who are savage and have a tradition of headhunting will not be used to them, wonderful!"

   Eudora's eyes lit up and whistled:

   "Hey, when it comes to cheating people, you have to be you, Captain, I'll arrange it! This time, I have to show those goblins who is the business boss of Zandalar Island!

  I won't accompany you to the temple, Captain, you are familiar with this place anyway, we'll see you at night, then bring Fenna and Little Xingxing to the bonfire party. "

After that, the fiery foxman pirate captain drove his coyote and ran towards the foxman's business headquarters in the market. Blake shrugged and took Maiev's hand through the lively market. A few silver coins purchased a local chipping drill ring for Ms. Shadowsong at a foxman booth.

   And behind him, Fool Fina and Little Xingxing have long been lost in the desert-style market. These two little girls who have never been to Wharton see everything fresh.

  They wore long desert-style dresses like Blake. Led by a group of fox-man guides, they first tasted the local sweet-toothed jujube, and then played with the dangerous blowpipes in the snake man.

   Finally, I bought a few domesticated little coyotes from Foxren and brought them back to play as puppies.

   These two chicks were generous, and they didn’t bargain for anything. As a result, within ten minutes, the entire market knew that a swindler was coming, so the shrewd desert merchants came up with their unique housekeeping skills.

This directly led to when Blake brought them to the entrance of Akunda Temple, Fenna and Little Xingxing were already full of all kinds of small odds and ends, and they only brought several gold rings of jewelry on their hands. The back of the coyote is filled with all kinds of goods purchased by the two eldest ladies.

   "What you buy here, you can find it in the Pirate Bazaar in Tol Barad, and it's cheaper."

  Blake twitched his eyes and looked at Fina and Xiaoxing who were excited because of the crazy shopping, he frowned and said:

   "This is a waste of money, is it easy for me to make some money?"

   "Hmph, Your Highness is rich and self-willed, can you manage it? Hey, that troll businessman who sells alpacas over there, His Highness I want all the white and black llamas in your hands!

   Go and pay my followers and butler. Her name is Millie. She is eating roast lamb at the market stall with my valet officer 'North County Heroes'. Don't find the wrong person. "

  Xiaoxing is still angry because of the embarrassment of "raw eggs". Hearing the pirate's complaint, he raised his head and snorted, and turned around to buy a lot of unnecessary things.

   And Fenna was more direct, the stupid warrior was playing with a desert gem machete he just bought.

  This thing is nothing but good-looking, but Fenna doesn't care, she wears the machete around her waist, and she waved her fist at the stinky brother, saying:

   "My younger brother is so good at making money, why should I spend a little more as my sister? I still have shares in the munitions department of the Undead Fleet, and all I spend is my money!

  You mind your own business. "

   "Yes, pretty girls buy things, stinky men don't mind their own business!"

   A group of desert merchants at the rear also shouted in unison.

   was so angry that Black wanted to take out a pirate knife and cut a few profiteers to vent his anger, but considering that this was on Akunda's territory, Black couldn't be so arrogant.

   He could only have a gloomy face, and strode into the Akunda Temple with Maiev, who covered his face with a veil.

  This temple of Loa is actually not something anyone can enter if they want to.

  The pilgrimage to the Akunda Temple is only open two days a week, and the lazy tuatara will hide and sleep in their temple at other times.

   But Blake's identity is unusual, and his arrival made Akunda ready to welcome old friends early.

   "Ha, my dear Akunda!"

  Blake walked into the temple, and saw the excessively large thunder lizard demigod lying in his temple, using his flexible tongue to roll jujube on the tribute plate in front of him to eat.

  As the Beast Loa, Akunda continues his old tradition of "unpretentiousness", and some of the scraped gold leaf of the temple that was sacked by Black before has not been restored.

   Speaking of which, as a beast, the simple and honest Akunda does not need those gorgeous decorations.

  It had said to Black before that if the believers could not help it gather food, so that it would go out hunting every day to fill its stomach, it would not even want the troublesome believers.

  Although Akunda is a **** of Loa, it is also a genuine demigod and does not need belief to strengthen its power.

   "Woohoo, big villain Akunda, I haven't seen you for a long time, come and eat jujube."

  The big lizard saw Blake coming, its eyes wrapped in lightning also smiled, and it also used its big tongue to push the tribute plate filled with jujube to the pirate.

  Black looked at the big jujube full of Akunda's saliva in front of him, he twitched his mouth, waved his hand and said:

   "No, you can enjoy the tribute yourself. How precious is this tribute, it can only be tasted by you. Besides, I ate before I came here."

"Oh fine."

  The simple and honest Loa was not polite, and rolled a few jujubes with his tongue and threw them into his mouth, biting them with a crackling sound.

Seeing it lying on the ground like a salted fish, without saying anything about the dignity of being a Loa, this made Blake helplessly rub his head, but it also made Fenna and Xiaoxing, who were watching the fun behind the pirates, widen. eyes.

   The two of them could easily feel the tyrannical power contained in Akunda's massive body.

   And the thunder lizard's big horn like a rhinoceros and the blue lightning wrapped around the stegosaurus-like bone plate behind it also represent that Akunda is not only a reckless but also a very powerful spellcaster.

  Although it is not comparable to the wild demigods of the night elves, Akunda can already be regarded as a high-level among the demigods of the gods and ghosts all over Azeroth.

   "Who are these females?"

   Akunda and Blake have a very good relationship. While eating jujube, he looked at the three girls beside Blake and said:

   "Are they all your spouses? Why is there a baby dragon?"

   "No no no."

The pirate stepped forward, and under the staring eyes of Fina and Xiaoxing, he unceremoniously turned over and rode on Akunda's big head. He grabbed Akunda's thundering horns while giving Akunda a shot Tickling his neck, he said to the big lizard:

   "Maev is my wife, Fenna is my sister, and Little Xingxing is my friend. I'm here to work in Wharton this time, and by the way, I'll bring them to meet my good friend, Lord Akunda.

   Oh, by the way, according to your rules, I gave them the names they used to meet you. "

  Black pointed to the three girls in front of him and introduced Akunda:

   "Maev is the Akunda of the Moon God, Fina is the Akunda the Big Stupid, and the Little Star is the Akunda of the Big Bad."

   "Ah, I understand when you say that."

   Akunda also let out an earthquake-like laugh.

   This thunder lizard obviously didn't take Black's friend as an outsider. It ate a few more jujubes and called Thunder to fall, imposing the new birth mark of Akunda on the three girls in front of him.

  As long as they are in Akunda's breath field, they can gain much faster than usual vitality boost and wound healing.

   This is a "meeting ceremony".

   Such generosity soon won the affection of Little Star and Fina, who followed Blake's way and climbed up Akunda's massive body and scratched it.

   Akunda shook his body cheerfully and played with the guests, but after playing for a few minutes, Akunda became frowning again, and he said to Black a little embarrassed:

   "My friend Big Bad Akunda, there is something I must tell you. A guest came to my temple yesterday, and he came for you.

   said that he wanted to use my temple to talk to you about something. As a friend, I should have asked for your opinion in advance, but the guest was a distinguished guest, so I agreed for you.

  Please don't blame me. "

   "Ha, how can I blame the best Akunda in the world?"

  Blake laughed and took out a large barrel of wine from his suitcase and threw it on Akunda's tribute plate. He patted Akunda's thunder-splashing horn, winked his eyes and said:

   "I'm going to beat up those pesky unbelievers in a few days, they're preparing to degenerate the remains of the mysterious mistress into a dark loa to help regenerate the big bad under the Waldun desert.

  You help me beat them, and I will forgive you. "

   "The deal."

   Akunda smiled honestly, bit the wine barrel with his sharp teeth, and drank the delicious fruit wine while saying:

   "Anyway, I don't like those cunning and dark snake people. Do you want me to call my good friend Tiger Akundabjir together? Oh, yes, you have one more thing to do for us.

   That fellow Cyric has been crazy lately, he has been doing bad things in Nazmir, we need you to help us let him rest in the soul world. "

   "We've made a deal!"

  Black snapped his fingers happily and said to Akunda:

   "After I finished chatting with the Dark Prophet His Excellency, who did not wish to disclose his name, I set off to hunt down a mad demigod or something. I liked it the most."

   (end of this chapter)