Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 51

Gray Goose stayed in the camp, the two largest tents, one belonged to the leader who went south, and the other belonged to the old priest who stayed behind.

The old priest is neither the most powerful priest in the tribe nor the person most relied on by the leader, but the old priest is currently the oldest priest in the southern part of the Benma Plain, and he is also the master of most priests. All the barbarian priests were taught by him himself.

According to word of mouth in the barbarian camp, the old priest is almost omnipotent. From the main gods believed by the barbarians to the gods believed by the main orc tribes nearby, he will have the corresponding ritual methods and can communicate with those gods. God.

The old priest deduces the weather, is familiar with the calendar, can communicate with plants and animals, and can prepare various herbs and potions.

It was in the gray goose tribe that the head goose was 10 years old, the old priest took a fancy to this child, and told the tribal leader that this child would definitely inspire blood in the future, so the previous generation of head goose began to cultivate the successor who is now powerful in the dragon's territory .

Today's old priest is no longer the person most trusted by his Touyan disciples. A few months ago, because he disagreed with Touyan's plan to go south, he did not hesitate to quarrel with Touyan several times, and refused him to attend the winter meeting. proposal.

The stubbornness of the old priest even made Tou Yan a little annoyed. In Tou Yan's view, this battle going south was a ceremony for him to be crowned as the king of the barbarians. God's blessing.

However, the old priest resolutely refused. Touyan knew that no matter how dissatisfied he was, he could not force the old priest to go south with him. It was not easy to make the god happy, but to make the god unhappy only needed to anger the priest.

At that time, he hadn't been dazzled by the victory, and the head goose who was just going to take down Roth Castle asked the old priest to guard the headquarters camp for him. After all, the camp and the salt mine were the biggest reliance of the Gray Goose tribe.

This time the old priest agreed, and he took the headman of the Gray Goose Tribe who stayed behind, and sent away the head goose and most of the young people in the camp. At that moment, the old priest felt that his time was numbered.

In the tent of the old priest, not only the foundation was fully compacted, but also a thick layer of pack animal skin was laid on the ground, which was hard and waterproof.

The most prominent thing inside the tent is an altar, on which some holy emblems are engraved with blood, and under the detective are some tributes, including grains, marinated monster meat, and barbarian incense burners.

The bed of the old priest is very simple. There is only a small bed on the left side of the tent. There is a wooden bookshelf next to the bed, which is full of magic scrolls and animal skin books. Several notes and notebooks of the old priest are placed directly on the ground. On the right side of the tent is a small classroom surrounded by several animal skin cushions. This is the place where the old priests passed on the sacrificial rituals of the barbarians.

The priesthood of the barbarian race is very different from that of the human race. The priests of the human race all have their own sects, and the sects can all be traced back to a certain righteous god or a certain demigod.

But the beliefs of the barbarians are very mixed. From the beast gods to the righteous gods of the human empire, to the two suns and three moons, as long as they can be used, they believe in a little bit of righteous gods.

Before entering the Benma Plain, the barbarians did believe in a certain god, but with the influence of the turbulent magic, the barbarians lost contact with their gods, so every time they sacrificed, the priests would call the gods one by one. Whoever shakes it counts, and whoever can respond will offer more offerings. If no response is received, the next sacrifice will not be missed. Who knows if there will be a response next time?
In the Gray Goose Camp, every barbarian who has inspired the blood of possessing demons will learn from the old priest in the first month after the successful activation. The old priest will let the apprentice try to communicate with every righteous god. , none of the orthodox gods responded, indicating that this child is not suitable to be an apprentice priest.

The barbarians on the Galloping Horse Plain have a 1/5 probability of becoming a demon possessor and a 1/100 probability of becoming a priest. Through his lifelong teaching, the old priest has not taught a few descendants who can stably summon the gods.

But in the past two years, the old priest has finally found the most suitable candidate for succession. Now in the camp, the old priest is busy leading his apprentices all day long, and doesn't manage the camp affairs at all. Take the apprentices to travel among other tribes in winter, so that the apprentices can learn more knowledge and broaden their horizons.

After the gray goose messenger who came in the morning took away the cavalry in the camp, the old priest hid back in his tent.

He was teaching several apprentices on the animal skin cushion when he heard someone shouting outside.

"My lord priest, my lord priest, a tribe has come outside, and there are quite a few of them. The leaders don't know what to do!"

"They don't know what to do? I just know?" The priest was very impatient after being repeatedly interrupted to attend camp affairs these two days.

"There are more people on the other side."

"If there are too many people, call back all the people who left in the morning"

"Master Priest...they...they came from the south, so they should..."

The old priest heard something was wrong, he put down the scroll in his hand, and walked out of the tent.

"Tell me, how many of them are there?"

"Minimum 200 people"

"I see. You tell those leaders that I'll be right over." At this moment, the old priest's tone was very calm, and when the messenger left, he returned and entered the tent.

"Wendy, take the four of them, take the priest robes I made for you, and hide in your own tent." The old priest walked to the teaching area and said to several apprentices.

"Ah, grandpa, are there any enemies outside the camp?" Wendy was the one who spoke, the new apprentice the old priest had found. She and the other four human girls were all demon-bearing human girls specially found by the old priest. The rarest demon possessor in the entire Galloping Horse Plain and the northwest region of the Dragon Kingdom.

Wendy is just 14 this year, because she has inspired the blood of possessing demons, and now she is almost 1.9 meters tall. In the entire camp, only demon possessors of human race and barbarian race can surpass Wendy in terms of strength, and the remaining 4 girls are of the size of a girl. Slightly petite, but also more than 1.8 meters.

Wendy and the others are far better and quicker than the apprentice priests of the barbarians. The old priests regard it as a treasure when they find it, but the demon possessors in the barbarian camp are all men, and their attitudes towards women are very rude. The old priest of the girls kept them secretly in several tents, and specially made robes and masks for priest apprentices for the girls.

The girls had to wear robes and masks when they came out of the tent. Their height made the non-magic and barbarians in the camp aware of their female identity.

In the entire camp, only Tou Yan had seen them. He regarded Wendy's girls as his future wealth, and agreed to let the old priest hide the girls.

"Take my scepter, and if our camp is really attacked, ride the black-scaled horses behind my tent, flee into the salt mines, and find Gandalf the middle wizard there, and he will take care of you of."

"Grandpa, is it so powerful this time?" another girl Lili asked.

The old priest didn't speak, but turned around and went into the bookcase next to his bed, and found a few notebooks.

"If you don't have my guidance in the future, you can just read these books. These are the notes I wrote in human language when I was traveling in the inland of the human empire. You can understand them." The old priest handed a few books to Wendy, "Go to the stables, just ride the horses you had before, remember to wear a mask and a robe, and don't expose yourself."

Wendy and the other girls looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"Hey," the old priest looked at the five girls. At this moment, his mind was full of images from the first time he saw Wendy. At that time, Wendy was dressed as a girl on the prairie, wearing a hat decorated with feathers. , wearing leather clothes, with blue and godly eyes on a small face that was still a little baby fat, the old priest looked at them, knowing that this might be the last time.

"Go quickly." The old priest didn't ask that sentence at the end, did they resent him for buying them to the Galloping Horse Plain? There are emotions, but in the future when they really become priests of the big tribe, the resentment in their hearts will melt away, and maybe they can thank themselves.

But the gods didn't give the old priest enough time, nor did they give the Gray Goose Tribe a chance to grow bigger.

In the end, none of the five girls said a word, they just walked out of the tent silently.

"Finally this day has come." Seeing the five girls walk out of the tent, the old priest let out a sigh of relief.

When the previous gray goose leader occupied the salt mine 10 years ago, he knew that there would be such a day. Over the years, the salt mine and iron mine brought more and more benefits to the barbarians on the Benma Plain, and also led to tribal conflicts. The conflict between them is more intense than it has been in the past 100 years.

Gray geese, eagles, bulls, and badgers replaced the traditional small and medium tribes of the barbarians. The barbarians had cavalry teams of more than 100 people. The once independent small tribes were now tied together by the alliance.

But all of this comes at a price. Mining requires technology, workers, magic and alchemy equipment support, but the barbarian tribes have none of them. The clan forces are entangled.

The salt mines made Gray Goose no longer a simple nomadic tribe. They found a large number of human slaves from the human empire to enter the mining area to mine. grain input.

After several years of development, the Gray Goose Tribe has semi-fixedly stationed outside the salt mine, and all the black-scaled horses in the camp are no longer the rider's partner, but commodities ready to be exchanged.

Commodities and gold coins have connected the originally independent tribes into a network.

The old priest knew that sooner or later, a powerful force would emerge on the plain, integrate the tribes on the plain, and establish a new era.

It's just that he didn't expect that this era came so quickly, and his tribe was being crushed by the new era.

(End of this chapter)