The Record of Unusual Creatures Chapter 1229: Shadow jungle
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In Koror, there are numerous ancient ruins with heavy stories like "The Hill of Unknown Soldiers". In the years when the tide of chaos continues to strike, brave warriors, great emperors, wise scholars, The generals of Yum, one by one, who once shined in history, sink into the seemingly endless darkness, no matter how epic the poem was once, how great the shining great man, are constantly turning war in the world of Koror. The giant wheel is crushed into pieces, just like the cheapest consumables, it has been continuously consumed in the grand time span of thousands of years.
Like the great elf emperor six thousand years ago, he had almost unified a whole continent and fought bravely against chaos, but in the end he even drowned his name in the long river of history, and his empire fell into smoke, even Not even a brick was left. Only the most wise and knowledgeable scholars can find a little sporadic description in the book, and then tell the story about the ancient emperor in the most unreliable way.
All these are commonplace in Koror.
But Hao Ren, a bystander, could not be indifferent. As a censor, he could hardly accept that a civilization would sink into darkness in this way. For 10,000 years, Koror ’s mortal race was in place in the war. Spinning, all the power is consumed in a meaningless tug of war with the forces of Chaos. There is something wrong with this world-he feels he must find a way to understand the truth behind it.
After saying goodbye to the Hill of Unknown Soldier, the team hastened its pace. Vero nica hopes to reach the shadow jungle border before the end of today. She has confirmed her position. If everything goes well, the knights can see the jungle border after a few hours. A kingdom outpost.
Hao Ren noticed that the knight princess was a little irritable. This was especially evident after leaving the Hill of Unknown Soldier. It seemed that some urgent things had happened, making Her Royal Highness both powerless and anxious. He could vaguely guess what happened based on his previous communication with the knights: Vero nica's army retreated into the wilderness after a defeat, and the chaotic army in the shadow jungle broke through the human blockade and launched a surprise attack on the Kingdom of Order. , Her Royal Highness is worrying about the fate of her motherland and people, and if no miracle occurs, this fate is obviously not optimistic.
Morian and Hao Ren are walking together. The gray-haired old knight still maintains the seriousness as always. There is not much emotional fluctuation on his angular face. In fact, he has the same as Vero nica Worry, but the veteran knows how to fully control this emotion. He glanced at the silent Hao Ren and suddenly broke the silence: "What is the sect of the ecclesiastical one thousand years ago?"
Hao Ren is busy testing various communication channels in the mental connection. He was shocked when he heard the sudden sounds next to him. He looked at Morian unexpectedly. This was the first time the other party took the initiative in a few days. Talk to yourself-it's not that the old knight has any opinions about him, but that the old man is silent. Hao Ren blinked, not knowing the purpose of the other party's sudden mention of this question, but he also remembered that his identity in the other party's eyes was an ancient high-level temple guard, and it should have a great connection with the "religious state" , So he answered in a very ambiguous way: "Probably the same as you are today-the church has rarely changed, and the priesthood is destined to everything."
Morian nodded recklessly and said after a few seconds of silence: "Half of the failures we encountered were due to the sudden retreat of the Order. I have no intention to accuse or complain about anything. I want to know the circumstances under which the ecclesiastical countries will do this kind of thing. "
As the old knight said, he fixed his sight on Hao Ren. The expression was just to get a definite answer. However, Hao Ren instantly circled: Who knows this goddamn! Although he ran out of an ancient temple, he also had the name of "ancient guardian", but his fake guy had a dime relationship with the world's sect! His pope is hung under the name of the goddess of brains ...
At this time, Vero nica, who was walking in front, also heard the movement approaching, and Her Royal Highness was also concerned about this topic. She frowned: "For thousands of years, the ecclesiastical country has been the culmination of various kingdoms, and they have sheltered Throughout the whole world of order, their authority is based on this duty, but their retreat in the shadow jungle cannot be concealed. Sooner or later, it will spread out, and the prestige of the church will suffer huge losses ... Guardian, you think For what reasons does the regiment know that such losses must be withdrawn by force? "
Hao Ren opened his mouth and held back for a long time to finally get a little inspiration from the employee manual and some classic cases seen in the tutorial documents. He said vaguely: "I have an uneasy hunch, this must be a huge occurrence in the church. Change, maybe there is something wrong in the confederate country. "
"Will the Sanctuary go wrong?" Morian raised his eyebrows. "How could that ... The miracle of the Goddess of Creation is located on that continent, and there has never been any power of chaos near the Sanctuary."
Hao Ren casually said: "Maybe something beyond the power of chaos?"
As soon as I said this, it was a bit strangely quiet all around.
"Uh ... I just said it casually." Hao Ren knew that he seemed to have said the wrong thing at first glance, so he hurried to remedy, but he hadn't had time to say a few words, and the glare of his eyes suddenly saw The shadow of the forest appeared in front.
The shadow jungle is right in front of you.
The shadow jungle used to be a lush, lush forest. Before the tide of chaos, this large forest between the plains and the kingdom was an important source of wood and alchemy materials for Taros, as well as a few wild elves. And the home of the goblin. This forest extends along the western and southern borders of the Kingdom of Taros, forming a vast area of half-moon shape. There are several elf settlements in the depths of the jungle. On peaceful days, the elves rely on gathering herbs and herbs in the deep forest. Magic ores come to trade with humans outside the forest in exchange for necessities of life, while fairies live with elves and are responsible for maintaining the magic flow in the forest.
But the tide of chaos changed the look of the forest. The originally vibrant green plants became dark and twisted demonized trees. The vines became highly toxic. The bushes began to devour the living creatures passing through the forest road. The soil also lost its supporting life. The function of the jungle, no longer grow any herbs and food that can be used by humans. When the water in the jungle is also poisoned, the elves and goblins evacuated their homes-according to Vero nica, from the forest The outgoing fairies and elves now live in several towns in the west and south of Taros, living as temporary nationals and assisting humans in protecting the borders of order.
Hao Ren was a little surprised after hearing this, but soon he knew that this was actually quite a normal phenomenon in the world of Koror:
Chaos is always invading various kingdoms. The tide of the Sea of Karnos changes the pattern on the continent every 100 years. The powerful kingdom can also maintain a relatively stable territory in this turmoil (larger) Empire can even last for ten centuries), but those small city-states and discrete ethnic groups living on the edge of the land of order are difficult to maintain-they are not weak from the beginning, but may have been the last wave of chaos. Descendants of the defeated kingdom, after the beginning of the new tide cycle, they cannot protect their broken homes, so they can only seek refuge from the surrounding kingdom.
Normally, no kingdom will refuse this kind of help.
Because everyone knows that they will always have such a day.
The elves in the shadow jungle also had a kingdom two centuries ago. This kingdom ruled the entire forest, instead of only a few settlements, but in the end they declined and became a vassal of the kingdom of Talos— -A few years later, the Taros Kingdom may also be like this. The once proud mountain people will become several tribes wandering on the edge of the forest. When chaos and order conflict again, they will also have to go to a new kingdom. Seeking asylum ...
Vero nica watched the dark woods of ancient forest press down on his head and bit his lip.
The kingdom may overthrow, but not today.
Hao Ren follows behind Vero nica and walks deep and shallow, the road in the shadow jungle is extremely difficult to walk-in fact there is basically nothing that can be called "road" here, activated by chaos pollution Plants are moving all the time, and even the ground is not so stable, he saw the two ancient trees slowly moving in the distance as if they had feet, and a piece of soil slowly condensed under his eyelids It turned into a stone, and softened into a pool of mud. In this case, even if there was a human-built avenue in the jungle, it has now been completely swallowed and wiped out.
If the barren wilderness is a place of death and stillness in the mist, then the shadow jungle is a horrifying dream like a nightmare, and everything that happens here is creepy.
But even in this creepy magic black forest, there are orderly shelters.
The Taros Kingdom expended huge manpower and material resources to build a fire outpost in the forest. These outposts are important eyes and ears for the Order Kingdom to monitor chaotic boundaries. Each outpost needs to consume amazing materials to be in the Black Forest. The stability is maintained here, but this investment is worth it: if it were not for the presence of these outposts, a small kingdom such as Talos could not have persisted to the seventh year in the tide of chaos of this century.
Soon, the team approached the first fire whistle station under the leadership of Vero nica. Hao Ren saw a glimmer of light in the darkness ahead, and the surrounding forest also appeared a lot more normal: swaying carnivorous shrubs and clubs The walking magic trees are restored to normal plants, which is an orderly performance.
Seeing the shadowy buildings deep in the jungle, Vero nica could n’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. Although she had made the worst plan before, she could n’t help but feel comforted at this moment, thinking that perhaps the Goddess of Creation had not abandoned This troubled kingdom.
However, Hao Ren couldn't help but frowned: the shimmer in front did indeed have a breath of order, but the same came from one of them ... and a touch of blood. (To be continued.)