Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 191: The Trail of the Beastman
There were no accidents on the road ahead. Although we encountered enemies occasionally, after a wave of arrows, the enemies basically lost most of their threats.
Then Simon led many summoned creatures to charge, and Levi and Tiva cast some magic, and the battle was basically over. Even the Lothern Ocean Guards often did not have many opportunities to attack.
This also made Lisa Dilan's evaluation of Levi improve again.
As a pure-blooded high elf, he originally looked down on anyone who was not an elf. But now he had to admit that humans and other alien races were not completely without merit. At least these half-elves were much better at archery than ordinary Lothern Ocean Guards.
Similarly, Levi also recognized the opponent's abilities. He and those Avalon girls' riding and archery skills were almost impeccable in terms of speed and accuracy. Even if Julia also mastered the riding and archery skills, it was foreseeable that it would be difficult for her to match the opponent in a short period of time.
She simply learned the skills, but as a high elf with a long lifespan, the other party not only learned it, but may even have dozens or even hundreds of years of relevant combat experience.
Perhaps out of Levi's consideration, Lisa Dilan personally took Julia to practice horse riding and archery several times and taught her some relevant experience.
Although Levi did not see any changes on the system panel, Julia, who had returned successfully, blushed and praised the other party repeatedly, claiming that she had benefited a lot.
At the same time, Levi also tested the newly emerged Archons several times. Just as he had speculated before, the reconnaissance capabilities of the Archons were far superior to those of Sam and other halflings. They were efficient, fast, and extremely accurate.
If they weren't summons with a limited duration, Levi could have simply retired many of the halflings, but even so, neither Sam nor Julia would have to focus too much on reconnaissance missions.
At the same time, the Holy Light Yakong is really like a floating cannon. After being summoned, they will float in the air and attack the enemy continuously.
Although limited by their class and attributes, their single attack power is very low, slightly inferior to Levi's water arrows, and can often only cause single-digit damage, but their advantage is that their attack speed is not slow, and Levi does not need to be extra distracted to command.
The only pity, and also its biggest regret, is that its attack distance is still too short, only ten meters. Unless the enemy has no long-range troops at all, even some kobold slingers can probably smash them all to pieces.
But Levi still found another use for them, because they are originally big balls of light and have no organs like eyes, so the Holy Light A-kong seems to have no visual blind spots, which can be used for self-defense to prevent assassin-like enemies from sneaking up.
The last omen, Yakong, was a little ridiculously weak. Levi still had no idea what it could be used for, so he simply asked Guang Yakong beside him.
Then Guang Yakong told him that as the weakest type of Yakong, the Omen Yakong was completely useless in their hometown. Perhaps, it could be used to provide some light?
Even the Yakongs themselves hadn't figured out what position to place them in, so Levi naturally had to give up temporarily.
Following Lisadiran's guidance, Levi and his team soon approached their destination.
Levi glanced back and forth a few times and found that the location chosen by the other party was actually quite good. It was close to the mountain and the water, and there was a redwood forest next to it. Not only was the area endless, but the redwoods were also extremely lush. They were generally tens of meters high and had a diameter that was nearly enough for two people to hug.
Especially the one in the middle, which is taller than ordinary buildings in reality. Even among many giant trees, it stands out like a crane among chickens. It can be called the king of trees. No one knows how many thousands of years it has grown.
If Lisadilan had not said before that this was the temple of the goddess Lilith, Levi would even suspect that this was the territory of the wood elves.
But come to think of it, the wood elves and high elves seem to worship the same gods...
And after careful study, Levi has learned that although the dark elves are not recognized by the high elves, they are not completely without any beliefs.
They believe in the strong and still worship the elven gods who are associated with darkness, blood, death and killing. They may even be more devout to God than the high elves who worship magic and art.
For example, Khaine, the Bloody Hand, the Queen of Vengeance, the God of Disaster, the Lord of Blades, and a series of other gods who are skilled in fighting are some of the most popular gods among the dark elves.
Likewise, no god would refuse to have more believers, because for most gods except the elemental gods, faith is a real power that can make them stronger. At the same time, the souls of believers after death will ascend to their divine realm and become their loyal guards, which is also a special resource.
Therefore, these worshipped gods will actually give some responses or even blessings to the dark elves.
For some elven gods, there is still a big difference . The latter has its faith monopolized by the drow gods headed by Lolth, but the former can still be developed and can still be believers.
The high elves believed that the dark elves were traitors who had betrayed their own race, no different from the drow elves. However, to many elven gods, the difference between them was actually very large. Since the dark elves did not have a pure dark elven god to back them up, this was also an opportunity for many elven gods.
This also made Levi understand another truth, that even if the indigenous people are from his own camp and are very friendly to him, he should never trust them completely.
Because he may be limited by his own power and cognition and deceived by higher-level beings, or they may tell what they think are white lies for various reasons, which may mislead him to a certain extent.
If he did not carefully investigate the truth behind the incident, but truly believed that there was no god behind the dark elves, he might suffer a great loss at any time.
Thinking of this, Levi saw that Risadilan, who was leading the way in front, suddenly stopped and turned back with a slightly solemn expression.
He immediately knew that something unexpected might have happened: "What happened?"
"Levi, something is not right. I noticed that there is a peculiar stench of beastman blood in the land, and it seems a little too quiet now."
Levi narrowed his eyes immediately: "It seems that there are usually no beastmen around here, right?"
Beastmen, as the name suggests, all humanoid creatures with beast characteristics can actually be classified as beastmen at the beginning.
However, many of the stronger races, such as the Minotaur, Centaur, Gnolls, and Kobolds, chose to find their own way out. Some even completely changed their camps and could not wait to separate themselves from the Beastmen.
It even seems that they want to prove to other races that they have really made changes. Some races will use all means to kill the beastmen, such as the pandamen and tigermen who have gradually naturalized in the Zhendan Dynasty.
There are also rumors that the beastmen may not have originally been the product of nature, but rather the result of some kind of experiment by evil gods or powerful wizards, or the conspiracy of some demon lords from the Abyss.
But no matter what, one thing is certain, all existing beastmen have a morbid hatred, and this range is towards almost all civilized races other than beastmen, but the degree varies slightly.
And they will plunder, massacre and sacrifice without restraint, trying to introduce real demons into the main world, so some people on the forum jokingly call them the lackeys of some demons and the imperial army.
Similarly, there are some Chaos Warriors, Norse Barbarians, Kurgans, Huns, etc. They are basically either fanatically worshipping demons or they themselves have been partially demonized. In short, they are all hopeless chaotic evils. There is nothing wrong in treating them as demons, and it is best to kill them all.
Lisadiran nodded vigorously and said worriedly, "Yes, there are none normally, but I am worried that they may have been attracted by the demon army and ran over from somewhere."
Normally, the Beastmen would not dare to provoke the High Elves, because compared to them who are well-trained, those brainless guys have absolutely no fighting methods or tactics, and their equipment, training and many other aspects are completely insignificant.
All they can rely on is their innate brute strength and bloodlust, as well as the hatred in their hearts for all civilized alien races, but this hatred means nothing to the high elves.
Under the command of experienced heroes, it is very common for the High Elves to defeat Beastmen that are several times their number.
But at this critical moment, they have been held back by the demons and greenskins, and have no spare energy to deal with new threats.
Levi also sighed. The current colony is really facing constant internal and external troubles. He originally thought that as long as the legendary wizard Teclis arrived, everything would change.
However, judging from the current situation, it is not certain whether the colony can hold on until that moment.
On the surface, it seems that only demons and greenskins are on the front battlefield, and the Skaven are doing some tricks in secret, but in fact, there are also undead and dark elves who are plotting something secretly, and now there is also the beastman.
As for the old black dragon who aspires to become a god and the dragonmen, poisonous lizardmen and dog-headed people under his command, there is no need to say more.
"Let's go, Lisadilan, don't be too pessimistic, let's go inside the temple first."
Based on his understanding of the beastmen, there shouldn't be any major problems for the time being, otherwise the temple would have been reduced to ruins by now.
Lisadilan also sighed, set off again, and headed towards the temple as quickly as possible.
When they were about a few hundred meters away, they found that the temple had opened its door. Under the protection of several teams of spearmen, some elves dressed as priests or priests came out.
However, after seeing the badges and logos on the other party, Levi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Because in addition to the believers of Lilith, there are also believers of another elven god.
Sehanine Moonbow is often regarded as the goddess of prophecy and vision of the elves. She is also known as the Daughter of the Night Sky. Her duties include the moon, stars, sky, dreams, mysticism, etc. She is also a god with weak power who is not very good at fighting.
She is very similar to Lilith in some ways, not only in terms of priesthood and power, but also in their identities and status. Lilith is the daughter of the former Elf God King Asuryan and the Goddess of Life Aisha, while Sehanne Moonbow is the daughter of the current Elf God King Corellon.
The difference is probably that she has no mother.
Yes, that's what it means literally. She is the offspring born alone by Corellon, because Corellon is a god who can be both male and female.
After learning this, Levi could only sigh that the other party really knew how to play. At the same time, he seemed to understand a little bit why his (her?) wife Rose resolutely chose to betray the elven gods and even joined forces with other evil gods to besiege the elven pantheon...
Any woman with normal sexual orientation probably wouldn’t be able to tolerate it, right?
After all, no one or god can prove whether Corellon really gave birth to children alone after becoming a goddess, or whether she was impregnated by other men.
And since there was such a birth, anyone would wonder if there were more than one such birth before or after. After all, the birth of a god is not that easy.
And there is also a ready-made example. After a battle between Corellon and the orc god Gruumsh, an evil creature called the Elf Devourer jumped out of their divine blood. It was later listed as one of the three ancient evil beasts. This inevitably aroused the curiosity of other gods or humans.
However, Levi could only bury these doubts deep in his heart for the time being, because it was impossible for him to find any reliable high elf natives to discuss these issues, which would bring him great disaster.
When he saw the other person, Lisadiran was immediately delighted. He quickly took the initiative to step forward and had a conversation with the other person.
Levi was not in a hurry at all. He just asked his subordinates to look at the temple. It seemed that there were some buildings at the back. It should be no problem to provide accommodation for three to five hundred people overnight. However, he didn't know how many refugees seeking asylum there would be inside.
If the number of refugees was large, he would probably have to travel a little further at night to the next village. He hoped that the village had not been destroyed by the demons...
