Law of the Devil

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Chapter 75 [Spring of Life]

It is true that instead of attacking, the tree men retreated step by step at a heavy and slow pace, but... terribly, behind them, more trees were buzzing, pulling their huge bodies out of the snow and turning them into living things...

Dewey just felt creepy, looking at the huge forest in front of him, within sight, all the trees were pulling out their roots, shaking down the snow accumulation on them, and then came around like a stubborn puppet...

“Oh, my God... how much this has to be!” Dardanelle sighs.

“Genius knows! This is the forest! How big is the frozen forest? How many trees are here? 100,000? 200,000? Damn...” Dewey scolds: “But why aren't they attacking? Instead, it seems to be waiting for something...”

Indeed, these tree men are waiting.

Soon, the muffled thunder's heavy footsteps came from afar, and Dewey could feel the heavy vibration on the ground!

Heran, among the masses of tree people, separated a path, a giant, slowly coming out of the tree crowd at a slow speed!

Duvi's first impression: This guy is fucking huge!

If the other tree man is like a giant... that biggest guy is a giant among the giants!

In Dewey's eyes, this thing is at least seven or eight stories tall! The whole body was black and hard, and those old bark spots were bargaining like rust! The branches on his body are extremely lush. As he walks, the branches all over his body emit a friction sound of sand...

Dewey noticed that this biggest tree man… is the closest in shape to “man”!

Because of its roots, it has been clearly divided into two turns, as if it were two legs of a man, and the trunk on the body is also very clearly divided into one, as if it were an English letter “Y” shape, the branches on both sides are like two big hands! The branches that are forked out above are like fingers.

Dewey saw this big tree man's "hand” with a big round thing wrapped around the dense numb vine on his finger, in shape... like a...

Horn!?

More surprisingly, Dewey had a face on the trunk of this tree!

That sharp bump, like a nose, underneath the nose, has one to cross open mouth, the bark raised on both sides of the mouth is extra thick, like lips...

All the other tree people, as if they were terrified of this big guy, backed away behind him... it seems that he may be the leader of the tree, as Dewey thought in his heart.

“You………" The tree leader made a sound as if it were a thick and low voice. Though very green, Dewey could barely recognize that it was the language of mankind…

Damn it, it speaks the universal language of the Roland Continent?

“What... are you... slaughtering... my... companion..." The sound of every word of it echoes in the forest, with a long tail sound, and the flavor of anger in the thick, low voice.

Dewey raised her courage outside the rock and looked at the big guy and drank out loud: "You attacked us first!! ”

“You... did not... abide by... your covenant!!” The chief of the tree man is angry, and his crown is trembling: “Evil... eyes... tyranny... my lord, promised... every... ten years... will allow... us... to send someone... into the canyon... once! ”

It sounds like it's asking, "Today! It's the... appointment date of... ten years! Why... are you... slaughtering... my... people! Do... evil-eyed tyrants want... to provoke... and... our... tree man's... war! ”

Ten years? Evil Eye Tyrant? War?

Dewey immediately understood… I'm afraid this is a misunderstanding.

Looking at the head of the biggest tree man, Dewey immediately stood tall and shouted loudly: "Wait a minute! Can I ask you a question first? ”

Tree leader looks at Dewey.

Dewey took a deep breath and tried to smile in the nicest possible tone: "Excuse me, are you talking about the Evil Eye Tyrant? I don't know that thing. ”

In a word, the trees and the three humans were silenced. Fortunately, the tree people don't have eyes, otherwise it would definitely be a wonderful “big eyes staring” scene.

“You... are not... the men of Evil Eye Tyrant? ”

“No, I've never heard that name. ”

“So... what are you...? ”

Dewey jumped out of the back of the rock, opened her arms, weighed herself up and down, and raised her smile: “Do you have to ask? We are human beings! Haven't you ever met a human? ”

The tree leader was silent for a while, his thick legs took a few steps forward, then his huge body slightly bent down, the crown also pressed down, seemed to have carefully weighed Dewey for a while, then the tree leader stood up straight again, his tone brought a little joy:

“Oh! You... are... human! I... remember... mankind... a long time ago... a... human... friend... church... I... speak...”

Duvi softened his tone, but this tree leader, though dull, was not stupid. His tone of joy turned to anger: “But... you... hurt... my... companion!! ”

“Your people attacked us first.” Dewey seems to have made a mistake in identifying these tree men as bullies: “We stood here and your companion appeared, then stoned us first. ”

“Hmm...” the tree chief made a silence, he seemed to be thinking, and then he shouted: “Okay… is… my… companion… first…”

The way he spoke slowly made Dewey feel a little impatient, so he took the lead: “Well, can we go now? ”

“No…” The tree leader did not speak well, but he soon found the most appropriate word to express his meaning: "Compensation!!! ”

Compensation?

Dewey is... compensating the seventy or eighty tree men who were fought apart by Hussein? With gold coins? God, what's the use of a tree man asking for a gold coin?

Do you want to pay for it?

How many trees are to be cut to death? There's no such thing in the world!

And, in any case, Dewey feels he's on his own. After all, the three of us stood here on the edge, and these tree men threw stones at us first —— stones that were enough to smash people into mud. Then, it was just self-defense and retaliation… are we three human beings just standing there and letting a bunch of trees die?

Obviously, however, it does not make sense to this dull and stubborn tree man.

Dewey thought about it and remembered what this guy said earlier, and he immediately had an idea.

“Dear Mr. Tree Man, what happened to the Evil Eye Tyrant you were talking about? And... I hear you mentioned... war? ”

……

The Tree Man is not a qualified narrator, it has a slow and low voice, like the old one that Dewey had seen in his previous life, and a loudspeaker that has jumped heavily, a brief thing, but it talks enough about the sun going down to barely make things clear.

about the same with Dewey's guess:

In this land, the whole frozen forest, in the words of the tree leader, belongs to the tree people… This statement makes Dewey think it's bullshit. Because Dewey's been in this forest for days, and he's never seen a tree live before.

Tree Leader —— oh, by the way, this clumsy big guy introduced himself, and he had a name that fitted his identity very well: Wood. WOOD

In Wood's words, it was born on this land, and it lives on this land, and it's a standard, pure-blooded tree man —— and as for whether a tree man has any so-called "bloodline," Dewey can't handle it. But Wood's words revealed two interesting news for Dewey:

First of all, actually, this huge group of tree people standing in front of us... are not real tree people. The real Tree Man, just Wood one. Wood claims to be the last remaining tree family on the land. As for the companions around it, they were all “companions” awakened by the horn wrapped around the vine.

Dewey guessed that the so-called companion probably meant “subordinate”.

That horn has a name that Dewey thinks smells magical, "The Horn of Nature." This is the treasure that the trees have passed down from generation to generation, blowing the horn to wake up the trees around them and make them “companions” under their command.

And Dewey was surprised by the inheritance of the Tree Nation. They have no gender distinction, and their inheritance is also through the "Horn of Nature”.

The approximate way to do this is to wake up "companions" with the horn of nature, without any intellectual and self-consciousness at the beginning, who will only act on the orders of a true tree man and act simply.

“But why would they attack us?” Dewey questioned.

Old Wood's answer made Dewey feel sorry: because evil evil-eyed tyrants have been crushing this forest, all trees hate that guy, and everyone thinks that the three humans standing at the canyon's mouth are the men of evil evil-eyed tyrants... forgive the “companions” of these unintelligent trees, they don't know what humans are.

The awakened “peers” initially had little self-consciousness, but as the years grew, they slowly developed self-consciousness - and only with a small chance, a small fraction of them emerged, and only then could they become true “tree men” rather than “peers” in Wood's mouth.

Originally in these woods, according to Wood, there were a few real tree people. Not much, maybe three or five of them. Treemakers have always been a sparsely populated race —— well, Dewey felt helpless, knowing there were trees everywhere, but there were too few tree people to be real. The vast majority can only remain in the unconscious “peer” class.

Wood was the oldest of the original three or five tree men. According to Old Wood, they live happily in this forest, and they have no natural enemies… because neither warcraft nor anything else threatens them.

Until one day...

In this “beautiful, harmonious” place, came an evil powerful being, called the Evil Eye Tyrant, which plundered the most precious possessions belonging to the Tree Man: this canyon!

Although the forest is infinitely vast, this little canyon is the most indispensable thing for the tree family!

Because… there is a treasure in this canyon that relates to the ability of the tree people to pass on from generation to generation! Unfortunately, that treasure has been taken over by the evil Eye Tyrant!

Hate is that when the Angry Tree Nation brings the "companions" to this evil guy's theory, the power of this guy makes the Tree Nation lose a lot. That evil-eyed tyrant possesses powerful magical powers and even brutally killed Wood's people! There were three or five real tree people, but now there's only one Wood left. The others were killed by evil-eyed tyrants, and evil evil-eyed tyrants created their own palaces with their bodies, right in this canyon.

Angry Wood blew the Horn of Nature and assembled a large number of companions to attack this canyon, but the power of a powerful evil-eyed tyrant is unbeatable by the treeman. That evil powerful being can magically drive the warcraft around the nearby canyon! There are even dead bodies and dead spirits crawling out of the underground! In the face of these monsters, Wood lost a lot of “companions”.

But fortunately, this is the forest, and Wood can summon endless “companions," and the Evil Eye Tyrant has some concerns. Finally, under impasse, the parties barely reached an agreement: a truce.

Wood demanded the return of the canyon, but the Evil Eye Tyrant disagreed, and the final agreement between the two sides was to allow trees to enter the canyon every 10 years.

“What is there in the canyon?” After listening to this story, Dewey was most interested in this.

“Fountain of Life…!” Old Wood replied.

(Summoning ticket support ~ ~)

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