Dane stared at a meat ball in front of him in a daze.
Four hours ago, Dane set off from Ghost Knife Port with his troops and headed towards the freshwater lake in the east, intending to wipe out the faceless settlement completely. After several hours of marching, they soon arrived at their destination and found the Faceless Tribe near the freshwater lake.
There are only a few dozen faceless men who have escaped from Ghost Knife Port, and they are not a threat at all to the army led by Dane. Even if they were still struggling, when Dane and Lancelot took the lead and used thirty sword dancers as arrows to attack two hundred mercenaries, even one of those faceless men would not be able to face each other. If he didn't hold on, he was defeated in an instant.
There is no need to go into details about the battle process. All in all, the result is that none of the sleepless people who managed to escape from Ghost Knife Port finally survived, and all died in the hands of Dane.
After eliminating all the faceless men, Dane led the team into the faceless man's settlement, intending to see if he could collect some spoils.
These faceless people seem to have their own civilization. In this settlement that had been slaughtered by Dane and others, Dane saw buildings that looked like houses.
Although Dane couldn't believe that these round things that seemed to be made of some kind of organic matter were the 'houses' in his concept, but when he entered it and took a look, he found something similar to a bed, a table, and a chair. After doing something similar, he had to admit that this should be where the Faceless Men lived.
The loot was not found, but something very special was found: these meat balls placed in front of Dane.
This meat ball is about half a person's height, in the shape of an oval egg, and the purple color looks quite strange. On the surface of the meat ball, there are small granulation sprouts growing outside like barbs, and mucus is secreted from the granulation. Overall, this meatball is disgusting to look at.
Dane had never seen such a thing before, and he asked, "Who can tell me what the hell this is?"
Delin on the side pulled out his own arrow from the head of the Faceless Man he shot, and replied casually: "It's an egg."
"Damn you!" Golobo the half-orc scolded, and at the same time gave his own answer, "That's a tumor, like it grows out of a person's body, I've seen it in the previous tribe , looks about the same."
Sacco said seriously: "You two, don't talk nonsense if you don't know. Mr. Faro, you have seen a lot of things, come and see, what is this?"
Fal'o, who walked over from a distance with a wooden stick, leaned close to the meat ball in front of Dane, looked carefully, and reached out to touch it twice, but his hand was covered with mucus .
Dane looked disgusted and couldn't help but move away from him. On the other hand, Fal'o himself didn't care at all, and wiped off the mucus on the brown robe on his body, and then said to Dane: "This should really be an egg."
"Haha!" Before Dane could speak, Golobo on the side laughed loudly, and this mindless half-orc said to Delin, "You're lucky, you got it right."
Delin shrugged, not intending to be as knowledgeable as this guy at all.
Golobo didn't think it was boring either. He had long been used to Delin's casual look of not caring about anything.
Dane said: "Golobo, open this egg and let us see what is hatching inside this egg."
This kind of thing is what Golobo likes to do the most. With a grinning grin, he raised his axe, walked up to the meaty egg that was half a man's height, mustered up his strength, and with one stroke of the axe, he gave the barbed, purple-blue meaty egg that was half a man's height to the ground. Split into two pieces. Large streams of mucus sprayed out from the sliced meat and eggs, splashing Golobo all over.
"Bah, bah, bah..." Golobo backed away quickly. The mucus was not poisonous, but it had a foul smell, and the slimy sticking to his body was very disgusting.
Too lazy to care about this reckless guy, Dane saw a scene that surprised him: inside the meat egg that was cut in half, there was a curled up creature, which seemed to be shrunk down by one size without a face Ordinary!
"This is really an egg!" Delin came over from the side and said in amazement, "I didn't expect those faceless people to be born from this kind of egg. No wonder, I can't see it from their settlement. There is no gender difference."
Sacco said on the side: "This is the root of evil, Dane, I suggest we destroy all the meat and eggs, lest new faceless ones will be born from it."
His proposal is quite reliable, and Dane is planning to do so. However, Faro on the side had a different opinion.
I just heard the druid say: "Collect these things and keep them. We have killed all the adult faceless men, and these meat eggs probably won't be able to hatch. Besides, I should have told them earlier. You said, Dane, these faceless people should be worshipers of some evil god, and these meat eggs are good sacrifices to the gods of the good camp, and they will be useful."
"Huh?" Dane remembered that when he cut off the faceless man's head, he also received a reminder from the system, saying that it was a "head of a Cthulhu worshiper", which was a sacrificial object. In this way, this thing may be really useful.
So, Dane decided to keep all the meat and eggs.
No one would question his order, and soon, all the unhatched meat eggs in the entire Faceless settlement were collected, strung together with hemp rope, and prepared to be brought back to the warehouse at Ghost Knife Port .
Now, there are not a few sacrifices in Dane's hands. After several battles, he has accumulated more than two hundred heads of Cthulhu worshipers, and with these eggs, there are about three hundred sacrifices in total. It's not a problem to keep these things, he always has to find a way to use them.
For this method, we still need to get an idea from Auriana. He remembered that in the construction list of Aurianadu, there was a building that should be able to help him: the temple.
You can tell from the name that a building like a temple must be related to the construction of faith. Originally, Dane didn't pay much attention to faith-building—even his own safety problem hadn't been resolved, so what faith should he think about? Moreover, he himself is a complete disbelief.
However, now that he had to consider the issue of using up the offerings, the temple had to be built. He faintly felt that there must be surprises waiting for him.