The werewolf chief waited to say more, but the high priest couldn't bear it any longer and coughed heavily. Among werewolves, the high priest still has some prestige, even though he doesn't have bright feathers on his head. The chief glanced at the high priest's face, said nothing, and sat back in his original position resentfully.
Qianye pondered for a long time, then Fang said: "Let's discuss about the production of equipment. First, take out the batch of precious jewels from the warehouse, and ask Zining to help us replace a batch of equipment. The ratio of human race to werewolf... just purchase according to the ratio of two to one." .”
This ratio made the mercenary general and Xu Jingxuan slightly dissatisfied, but they didn't say anything. The werewolves looked happy. The number of werewolves is several times that of the human race, and this ratio is still extremely low, but Qianye's willingness to arm werewolves means that his promise can be expected.
The logistics and military supply is a complicated project, and there is still a lot of work to do in the follow-up. Qianye temporarily put aside the discussion of the details, glanced at the werewolf nobles, and said: "I already know the reason why Iska joined the job, and what I want to know now is, Why are you willing to enshrine me as king?"
"You are the Son of Darkness..." the high priest said halfway, seeing Qianye's face, he stopped immediately. He understood that Qianye's sudden question at this time had its own deep meaning, and he would never accept excuses, let alone lies.
The high priest didn't think about how to word it. He didn't know whether to say some words at all, and the other chief priests didn't dare to speak out.
Eska hesitated to speak, scratched his head and leaned back in his chair. After all, he represented the werewolves of the Grand Corridor. Not long ago, the Grand Corridor and the Emerald Sea were hostile, and he really had no position to smooth things over. .
"Because you avenged us!" A sudden voice sounded, startling everyone.
It was the chief with bright feathers on his head again. He was also taken aback by everyone's big reaction to this sentence, but then he raised his head and said with a stiff neck: "What's so hard to say! We have long thought Cut up the Duke of Bone and feed it to the fish, but no one dares to say it. Among our larger tribes, which family does not have ancestors, brothers, sisters, and even children who died at the hands of the Duke of Bone? You, Priest of Oss, last month Didn't you just send your youngest son to the Duke's mansion, and never show up again?"
The priest who was named lowered his head and sighed heavily.
"What happened?" Qianye asked.
The high priest sighed, and seemed to have aged dozens of years in an instant, and said: "The Duke of Bones asks every tribe to send the most outstanding young people in the tribe to the Duke's mansion every year to participate in a ceremony. After the ceremony, many people disappear forever Gone. The Duke said that this is to select the strong and send them to the secret realm for concentrated training. Those who can pass the test and come back will get stronger power. But we know that it is actually a sacrificial ceremony, and the young children who disappeared are actually sacrifices .”
"Aren't you resisting?" Xu Jingxuan asked.
The high priest smiled wryly, "Who can resist the Duke's power? In the early days, some tribes resisted, or hid their most outstanding children. But all the tribes that resisted were slaughtered, and the Duke himself was not even needed. Only his direct descendants The guards and other tribal troops mobilized are enough to settle everything. As for the tribe who hides the child, it has not ended well. The Duke does not know how to tell whether the child sent is the most outstanding genius of this generation. If not, Then that tribe will be equally unlucky. After a few times like this, no one will dare to resist the Duke, and no one will dare to deceive the Duke.”
Qianye said indifferently: "They don't dare to resist the Duke, so they dare to resist me? It seems that these marginal tribes can't be too kind. Just kill them all."
The high priest hurriedly said: "That's not necessary! After the meeting is over, we will go to those tribes separately and persuade them to submit to His Majesty! If you really refuse to listen to the advice, it's not too late to kill."
Qianye nodded and said, "Alright, then you have to hurry up. Besides, even if they are willing to surrender, they have to be slaves, and they will have a chance to gain status after they have done meritorious service."
"Yes, Your Majesty." All the werewolf priest chiefs agreed in unison, and their attitude became more respectful.
Qianye nodded and said, "Where is the place where the Duke held the sacrificial ceremony, take me to see it."
The high priest said: "The altar is in the mountains in the north, and I only know the approximate area. Before the Duke was alive, no one was allowed to approach the altar. The children of the tribe are placed at the foot of the mountain there, and the Duke will personally take them up the mountain."
"Then take my battleship there. You will show the way."
The high priest bent down, respectfully agreed, and followed Qianye towards the top floor of the Duke's Mansion.
Song Lun had already sent out a signal, and when everyone reached the top floor, the huge hull of the Battle Cruiser had appeared above the Duke's Mansion, slowly descending, and stopped when it was less than ten meters away from the top floor.
At such a close distance, the sense of oppression brought by the huge hull of the battle cruiser is unparalleled. Even the werewolf nobles knew about the existence of the Qianye battle cruiser, and seeing it with their own eyes at this moment, they all lost their voices. The city was boiling, and countless werewolves flooded the streets, looking up at this unprecedented behemoth.
Qianye jumped up and jumped onto the battle patrol deck. The werewolf nobles got the permission and immediately rushed to board the ship. As soon as they got on the ship, they looked around, their eyes straightened.
"Such a big thing can really fly!" a werewolf chief subconsciously said.
The priest next to him said: "This is an airship, what's so special about it being able to fly!"
The chief stared back and said, "Have you ever seen such a big airship? It's bigger than the Duke's golem! All the houses in your tribe are not as big as this, right?"
A series of questions immediately stopped the priest.
At this moment, the hull trembled slightly, and the battle cruiser jumped into the sky with an elegant posture, then adjusted its course, and flew towards the north.
Qianye stood on the bow of the boat, overlooking the mountains and rivers below, quickly receding.
To the east and south of the Emerald Sea is an endless grassland, the ground is slightly undulating, and there are werewolf tribes scattered among the grassy hills. On the north side of the Emerald Sea, the terrain began to undulate, gradually taking on the shape of a mountain range. Further to the distance, the mountains became more and more steep, and the tops of several towering peaks were already covered with ice and snow.
And between the mountains and the Emerald Sea, like a green carpet, there are scattered fields, like a fairyland on earth. Those fields are growing very well, looking gratifying, but also surprising.
Qianye didn't expect werewolves to grow such fields, so he asked about it. The great priest next to him was a little embarrassed, and said: "It is a land given by God, no matter what you plant, it will grow very well, and you don't need extra care at all. The field is planted with cloud wheat, which can grow except in winter, and it will be harvested twice a year. When it is ripe, you just need to reap it, and you don’t need to sow it again, and the new wheat will grow by itself in a short time.”
Song Hui next to me heard this, and there was a faint flash of light in the depths of her eyes.
Qianye nodded and said, "That's right, it really is a heaven-sent place."
The great priest said: "It's a pity that only that area is the land bestowed by heaven, and other places don't have such miracles."
After sighing, the high priest pointed to the snow peak in the distance, and said, "The duke's ceremony altar should be on that snow peak. The terrain there is extremely dangerous, and there are many deadly beasts at the foot of the mountain. Even we usually Difficult to climb."
The high priest is also the Earl of Garter, that is to say, the Duke of Bones has created a natural line of defense against the strong Earl. He chose this place as the altar, probably because of this consideration.
In Qianye's eyes, the natural danger that the werewolf earl couldn't get through was no different from the flat land. He didn't even bother to pay attention to what dangers were on the ground, and directly commanded Zhan Xun to fly over Xuefeng.
The peak of Xuefeng was artificially flattened, and a dark red mask covered the entire peak.
The peak is extremely steep, the mountains are filled with snow and fog, and the wind is fierce. There are also several gray shadows walking through the wind and snow, moving like lightning, just because of their speed, they are not ordinary beasts. Generally, when the viscount and baron came here, they just added food to them.
The Duke of Bone has been dead for so long, no matter how dangerous the arrangement he left behind, no one presides over it, and Qianye doesn't pay attention to it. But to be cautious, he still called Carol, and the two flew from the battleship to the peak. The two gods will join forces to suppress the arrangement of the Duke of Bones.
Seemingly seeing them descending from the sky, the few gray shadows in the wind and snow approached the peak, making sharp screams as a warning. However, Qianye unleashed dark gold blood energy and took the lead, and those gray shadows immediately lost their ferocity, screamed in terror, turned around and rushed into the snowstorm, and refused to come out again.
Qianye hovered above the defensive cover, ejected a few force bullets, and landed on the protective cover. The shield immediately fluctuated violently, showing signs of collapsing under Qianye's fingerflick attack. It seems that the defense is extremely limited, the main function is to block the wind and snow, and some birds that accidentally slipped nearby.
Those few gray shadows seemed to be the Duke of Bones' last defense.
After probing, Qianye no longer hesitated, directly passed through the defensive cover, and landed on the peak. Carol was slightly behind, and after waiting for a while, seeing that there was nothing unusual, she followed and landed beside Qianye.
The top of Xuefeng is like a huge smooth stone surface, surrounded by pillars of different shapes. These black and red, mottled pillars are constantly spewing out the original force, which is the source of energy supporting the defensive cover.
As far as the eye can see, there are at least thousands of pillars standing on the entire peak. Although the original force emitted by each pillar is not much, the sum of them is considerable, forming the defensive cover that covers the entire snow peak.
This kind of technology, neither Qianye nor Carol has ever seen it before.
Carol was extremely curious, "What are these?" She walked over, rolled the lightning whip, pulled out a cylinder from the ground, and then exclaimed. The cylinder protruded from the ground, and pieces of dark red unknown substance fell, revealing a thick white bone!
This scene was so unexpected that Carol, who had seen too many bloody scenes, was taken aback. She gathered herself together, looked carefully at the bones and the section where they fell, and suddenly gasped, saying: "I see, these are the missing werewolf children!"
"What?" Qianye was also taken aback. He came over to take a closer look, and finally realized that what Carol Lei's whip was wrapped around seemed to be a leg, but the extra part was cut off, and the thin part was pasted with flesh. , made a fairly regular cylindrical shape, and was buried in the ground.
Looking at the thousands of pillars around them, Qianye and Carol were secretly startled. How many werewolf geniuses have been planted here