Hey, King!

2021-06-17

Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Dagon · Olison

God League Calendar June 1840 On the 14th, Dagon · Olison returned home with a bag of potato flour.

Dagon · Olison is a Jiangu, also known as "commonly known" as a dwarf. He is young and strong, about 1.6 meters tall, like other Jiangu people. The combination of the general characteristics of Jiangu people, such as broad shoulders, thick limbs and neck, and a big hard head, make him look particularly rough and strong, and contains explosive power.

The iron bucket containing 120 pounds of potato flour was almost half the size of his body, but with the help of his strong body, whether it was carried on his shoulders or taken down and placed on the ground, Dagon All seem to be at ease. These potato flours are milled from mushrooms and potatoes, a food crop that grows underground and has the characteristics of both mushrooms and sweet potatoes. It can be stored on an empty stomach and is very important to the Jiangu people of never seen the daylight. One hundred and twenty pounds of potato flour was the ration Dagon received from the City Lord, and it was his share for the next three months.

"Mom, I brought the food back. Should I put it in the kitchen or in the cellar?"

"Let's put it in the kitchen. You're going to take part in adult ceremony soon. I'll give it to you. You make some pancakes and take them with you on the way."

"Then you make me more," Dagon rubbed his hands, followed mother's voice to the mouth of the cellar, just took her hands bacon basket. A salty, dusty smell crept into the nostrils, the smell of a lot of rock salt, long years, and a little protein, but it still made Dagon saliva profusely. He covered the changes in his mouth, scratched his beard with his thick fingers, and said, "Mom, it's not because I'm hungry, but I have to go with Doma when I'm an adult ceremony, and the extra is for him. "

The mother patted Dagon's cheek with a broad palm, a smile smeared in the furrowed gully: "Okay, I'll do more. You have to take care of your best friend."

Dagon nods and starts to work under mother's command, mainly sorting potato flour into sealed iron boxes, so that he can know what to eat when he eats. His mother is Corona Steelcast, a simple Jiangu woman, 375 years old this year, her body began to decline with age, and she can no longer - according to her words - "squeeze the earth monster with one hand" , but still healthy. Her brows and eyes were full of love for Dagon, and her beard recorded the wind and rain the family experienced.

Yes, female Jiangu clansman also have beards, but they don't grow them themselves. The outside world doesn't know the life of Jiangu clansman at all, so there is a lie that the female dwarf also has a beard. They are born without beards and will not grow in their lifetime. Just following the custom of tens of thousands of years, they shave their fiancé's beard by themselves when they get married, and make it into a set of false beards with the blessing of the protector of the Jiangu tribe, Aoli God, and stick it on their own faces. This marks the beginning of a marriage that will last until the end. At the same time, the groom will also record this stage of life with the newly grown beard and strive to create new glory.

The beard on Dagon mother's face belongs to her husband, and she carefully arranges the beard braids in a "knotted note" style, showing the main achievements of the husband and wife and their commitment to each other's love. The blessing of God Oli will keep the beard on his wife's face from turning yellow, and it will only be Jiangu after the years. Jiangu women believe that they can get to know their husbands based on the state of their beards, and even if they are far away, the souls of both parties can maintain communication.

Beards occupy a very important position in the cultural customs of the Jiangu people, including the most important coming-of-age ceremony, male Jiangu people have to get a "beard ring", a special identity plate. Dagon is about to celebrate his 60th birthday, and his bar mitzvah is just a few days away. After completing the ceremony, getting the beard ring, and getting a real job to support the family, Dagon has a plan: he wants to be a hunter, catching prey in underground caves for his parents (and other Jiangu clansman) , bring meat, so that they can really be full.

"The beard is messed up again, and you didn't pay attention. Come and let me clean it up."

The mother's words were orders. Dagon - though strong as a wild boar, and soon to be a proud hunter of the Jiangu clan - is out of reach of even a well-trained puppy when it comes to carrying out his mother's orders. He bent his knees slightly, stretched his neck forward obediently, and put black's beard in mother's hands.

"I'll be an adult soon, my beard must be trimmed, and I can't braid it yet, but at least it's clean and tidy, don't forget that the girls are still watching." Corona rubbed her adopted son's beard, those entangled, The knots are easy to unravel magically. "In three days you'll be an adult ceremony, and it's easy to take care of your beard after you get your beard ring, and I don't have to worry about it anymore."

"I'd rather let you worry about it."

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"en? Why?" mother paused for two seconds, thinking about it carefully before she understood. "Oh, you want to say that you don't want to go on a blind date, right? I've seen all the girls in the Huogu family. They are strong and capable. You won't bite you when you go there. Don't be nervous. We Jiangu people are too girls. Little, you have to fight for it. Although you are also a member of the lord's family, your status is higher than the average person..."

"Mother, don't say this, I don't like to hear it." Dagon shook his head, But the beard was being pulled, and he didn't dare to move much. "Even for one night, I have never slept under the eaves of Neil's family. I am not from Neil's family at all. I am the son of you and father. As for identity, my surname is Olison, like all the unknown people. Like Jiangu people, they are all descendants of the great god Ollie. With the great god above me, I don't care so much about whether it is the son of the Neil family. Now I just think that if I can take good care of you, I will find an opportunity to change the surname to Steelcast will be fine."

Corona slapped Dagon on the cheek and said angrily, "What! If it wasn't for Lord Neal's family, you would have died in your infancy, you Don't forget this! My Tormund is the captain of the lord's former guard, I failed to give him a child, that's why Lord Neil entrusted you to us. We are just carrying out the lord's orders, you were and are now , The future is all the children of the lord's family, they are..."

Dagon opened his arms to embrace the mother, and she stopped talking. Jiangu clansman is strong but shy, and doesn't have the etiquette of hugging. When hugged, you will feel sorry and temporarily forget what you were supposed to do. Of course, this is also the case between mother and son, if they are not familiar with and trust each other and want to hug Jiangu clansman, what they will get will be a series of heart hammers - the kind that can break ribs.

"I was never your task, I will always be your child." Dagon said, clasping his arms tightly and releasing them. At this time, he felt a little tension in his chin, and when he looked down, it turned out that the beard was entangled.

"It's tangled again, your beard is always so restless, pay attention in the future." The mother's hand has magical powers to soothe her son's restlessness and untangle the knotted beard.

"Look, Beard knows that I'm with you guys, not the Neil family."

"It's the lord's family! Don't call your surname directly, that's a sign of lack of education. Tormund and I failed to feed you, but never lacked education." The dwarves had thicker fingers, but were miraculously dexterous in grooming their beards. Corona quickly combed the beards of the two of them, and then patted her son's beard with her palm, saying: "Behave well in front of the sisters of the Fire Valley family, stop acting like an underage brat! You clearly Very mature, but always looks like a human scoundrel, that's not good. In Jiangu City, there are not many girls of your age; outside Jiangu City, there are few people who know the bottom line. And you... I know you don't want to. Bring it up, but you need to know that it takes quite a while for a Jiangu person to really know and accept you."

Dagon shook his head and reached under his beard. Starting from his lower jaw and extending down his neck to his chest, the skin in front of the two pectoral muscles and the heart is covered with black scales. Slightly larger than fish scales, these fine scales are as hard as steel but can also be as soft as gold.

At first, the skin in these areas is just rougher and feels like old scars. The first scales developed around the age of ten and gradually increased. His "nominal" adoptive parents, the lord Neil's family, had also found some priests and healers for this matter, but no one could solve it.

"It's not a disease, it's a bloodline." A respected pastor said after careful inspection: "The devil or the devil's blood has contaminated this Jiangu child. Either his body or his Mind, sooner or later there will be problems with both. I'd rather just have a body, so that he can at least have a pure soul."

"Everyone in Jiangu City knows you are a good child, this is several decades Time accumulates the results of observation. If you go to other cities, they will definitely misunderstand you or even discriminate against you because of the demonic scales under the beard. Monsters are everyone's enemies, and it is difficult to eliminate prejudice before defeating monsters. But I want to You remember, firmly and forever: you are a dignified Jiangu person, and you must always be proud of yourself."

"Okay, mother, I can definitely do it." Dagon smoothed his beard, covered his scales, and said, "I will join the hunting team after adult ceremony, and soon I will become a good hunter, everyone will not care about my bloodline, you can rest assured!"

The mother smiled and encouraged him, and looked at the child with relief. Based on her own experience, she knew that those scales and external prejudice would make the child's future rough, but she believed that she and Dagon would get along day and night: this is a good child, and the monster's bloodline did not affect him at all.

"Okay, it's better to do more than talk. I'm cooking, you go and get some water, the tank is almost empty. The Oli Temple will release water today, so go get a seat early. The water in front is still there. Clean, the quality of the back will be worse." Corona said: "Tormond went out on the kuku lizard, if you want to get ahead, you have to run! Go, my Rolling Stones!"

"Has it been time yet?"

Dagon walked out of the house quickly and looked in the direction of the center of the cave of Jiangu City. The Jiangu people follow the custom to build a caveman in the mountains, dig all the way down, and expand to the surroundings, forming a multi-layered Underground City from top to bottom. There will be patio-like voids between these levels, often leaving huge stone pillars pointing downwards that serve as bell towers.

"Oh! It's already time, it's too late if you don't leave!"

He grabbed the iron pole with one hand and two iron buckets with the other, like a mudslide Just like running out of the house. Those broad feet slapped a series of crisp sounds on the dry rocky ground.

(end of this chapter)