Zero no ambassador: my harem

"So, Boonut has consumed the large Oasis Heart?" Horton asked.

"I guess, Lord Boonut is over 200 years old, and the medium-sized Oasis Heart only has a 50-year lifespan extension, which is around 170 years." Lucoxana was a little uncertain, "But the large Oasis Heart hasn't been around for 500 years."

"How did the Oasis Heart come about?" Hao Tian asked again.

"That is of course the coalescence of all the life force of an oasis. Maintaining a village's oasis can produce a small oasis heart, worth the equivalent of 5 [Village Leader Rank]. An oasis that maintains a medium tribe can produce a medium oasis heart, worth the equivalent of 5 [Wisdom Rank]. And maintaining an oasis of a large tribe can only produce a large oasis heart, and only the oases of the three tribes and Nefertis can nowadays condense large oasis hearts."

"What happens to the oasis after generating the Oasis Heart?"

"Of course it dried up. The birth of the Oasis Heart draws all the life force of the oasis, and every Oasis Heart born is the demise of an oasis or even a village or tribe." Luke Shana's gaze was somewhat gloomy, "In the last 10 years, there have been three villages near the El Tribe that have perished."

Hao Tian's heart was a little uneasy.

"So, is the Oasis Heart a natural coalescence?"

"Of course not. It's impossible to bring together the life force of an oasis without using [Life Sharing]. Therefore, only [Sage] can make the Oasis Heart."

"Then the 3 villages you mentioned?"

"It was forced upon the chiefs of the Kosar and Yate tribes and a [Wise Man] of the Ayr tribe who was showing symptoms of [Aging]. So they teamed up to force the three villages, including Mitte Village, and then asked Lord Boonut to do something to train the three villages into a small oasis heart. That gave them an extra 10 years before they aged."

When Kane heard that, he said sullenly, "You big tribesmen, who cares about the small villages."

Hao Tian glanced at him.

At Hao Tian's request, they entered the shop.

The shop had 2 floors, and a long table on the first floor had 7 small half-fist-sized vermilion fruits of varying degrees of newness and oldness placed in turn. The freshest one was produced 3 days ago in the Ayr tribe and was priced at 20 camels. The oldest one, however, was produced from the Lune tribe six months ago and was marked at 12 camels.

On the counter was a young and beautiful female goblin, who didn't come over to receive it, just lazily looked over here.

When Hao Tian entered, he felt that the female goblin, was [Quadrilateral Rank]. It was worthy of being a shop that sold such life treasures.

"What's upstairs 2?" Hao Tian asked the goblin.

The female goblin smiled sweetly and said, "Of course that's a sand core, but only [Wise Man] can go up to the 2nd floor. It looks like you guys are just 3 [Village Chiefs], so if I sell all of you, I might be able to buy a half-used vermilion fruit."

Kane was silent. Lucco Shana pursed her lips and looked indignant. Hao Tian narrowed his eyes.

"Oh?"

Killing intent mixed with magical power came out from Hao Tian's body, stabbing at the female demon like a sword.

The female goblin got goosebumps and sweat hairs stood erect.

"You, no, you can't just be at the [Village Chief] level."

"Can you take me up there now?" Hao Tian swept her with a cold glance.

The female demon's face turned blue and white, and finally squeezed out a sweet smile.

"Say ah, if I had known you were a [Wise Man], I would have invited you upstairs."

"These two are together, right, come up here too."

The female demon led the way, and the 3 of Hao Tian followed to the 2nd floor.

There were three wooden tables on the 2nd floor, each with a yellow-brown thumb-sized diamond-shaped crystal on it.

"The piece on the left was excavated 50 km east of Nefertis, slightly over the standard, 100 camels at one price. The piece in the middle was picked up 20 km west of the Ayr tribe, only 80% of the standard, I can sell you 60 camels if you want. The piece on the right is only half the standard, left over from incomplete absorption, a bargain, 30 camels. Take a look, which piece do you want?"

Hao Tian carefully examined it for a few times, picking it up and fondling it a few more times under the demoness' daring gaze, before putting it back. Some doubts arose in his mind.

"Let's go." Hao Tian wasn't going to buy it, and there weren't that many camels.

Kane and Lucoxana naturally nodded.

"You-" The demoness, who was supposed to be the owner of the shop, was a little angry.

Hao Tian glanced at her.

The gobliness's anger fell, "You, you're welcome to save up enough camels to come back, ah."

"Heh."

After a few people left this luxury shop, Kane went to find a hotel to stay in. Two rooms, a double room for Kane and Hao Tian, and a single room for Luke Shana, which required 15 servings of fresh water or an equal amount of jerky per day. Kane felt that the water and food he had accumulated as village chief was not enough to stay for half a month.

Chapter 18 - Visiting and Inviting

On the second day, Hao Tian, led by Kane and Luke Shana, visited the city of Nefertis, and had a clearer understanding of the current situation of the goblin tribe.

The Goblin Clan was still stuck in a more primitive society, using water, dried meat, and camels as equivalents in exchange, and had yet to birth a currency. They relied on the oases in the desert to survive, with different sizes of goblins surviving around the oases, the smallest being a village with 100 goblins, the larger being a medium-sized tribe with 500-1000 goblins, and the largest being the Three Tribes and Nefertis where such large oases could support 3000-5000 goblins.

The strongest person in the village is usually the [Village Chief], which is equivalent to the human's [Delta Level]. And a medium-sized tribe would have a [Wise Man], which was equivalent to a human's [Quadrilateral Level]. And the three major tribes used to have [Wise Man], and at their peak 6000 years ago there were a total of 7 Wise Men, now only Poonut of the Ayr tribe is left.

The founder of Nefertis was the [Brave] Sasha of the Goblin Tribe, and the council was also established under the leadership of Sasha, who was also the first Speaker, and her descendants also held the post of Speaker.

After touring through Nefertis, finally Hao Tian arrived at the seat of the council.

The council hall was built with white marble that was extremely rare in the desert, and before the main building there was a slightly thicker and 7 slightly thinner marble pillars about the size of 5 people hugging each other representing the [Brave] and 7 [Wise]. It was originally intended to be carved as the first generation of [the brave], [the wise], this was rejected by Sasha.

The council hall was also open for general goblins to visit when it wasn't in session, though there was some fee to be paid. After Kane paid 30 people's share of fresh water, he led Hao Tian and Luke Shana inside. The water that Kane carried with him naturally wasn't that much, the water was transformed by Hao Tian with his magic power, Kane was still a little reluctant to use the water, but there was no complaint when it was spent.

Inside the hall was a huge circular venue that was concave from the outside to the inside.

In the very center was a platform about 10 meters square with a stone lectern on top. That's where [Brave], the Speaker of the Council, counts the votes here, and resolutions that exceed 2/3 of the votes are executed. Although the Speaker doesn't have the right to vote, he has the right to veto, so even if a resolution is passed by all the other council members, he can make it not pass and not be executed. This veto power has only been used 3 times in the history of the House, and each time it has been proven correct later.

Closest to the platform are seven evenly distributed stone chairs reserved for [the wise]. Theoretically, whenever an independent breakthrough [Sage] appeared, another chair would be created, but no new [Sage] had appeared for 6,000 years; except for the original 7 [Sages], all subsequent Sages had become [Sages] by inheriting the power of the 7 [Sages]. The [Sages] also had the privilege of being able to enforce the resolutions passed by the [Sages] except for the [Goblin Council], which was held once every 5 years with the participation of all the council members. This was called the "Council of Sages" in the year 6000, but as time went by, the number of members of the "Council of Sages" gradually decreased, and there were two members going back 500 years. In today's era of only 1 [Sage], Boonut was able to represent the [Council of Sages].

Outward is a circle of wooden, curved benches where the councilors are located. Each [Village] can send 1 or 2 councilors, each medium-sized tribe can send 5-10 councilors, each large tribe can send 30-50, and for every 100 goblins, there is one seat, and the part that is less than 100 and more than 50 counts as one seat. According to Kane, who has participated in the Goblin Council for three consecutive years since becoming the village head of Haisa Village, the total number of council members for the first three times was 296, 288 and 276 respectively.

Kane and Luke Shana visited the council grounds with a reverent look, not even daring to breathe loudly. Hao Tian was not particularly impressed.

After leaving the council hall, Hao Tian said to Kane, "Can you take me to pay my respects to the [Brave]?"

Lucretia's eyes lit up, "I'd also like to meet [Brave], I wonder what Sasha [Brave]'s descendants are like? Uncle Kane."

Kane looked embarrassed, "Although I have attended the [Goblin Meeting], I have only seen [Brave] from afar, and he was still wearing armor and a helmet."

"I've heard that [Brave]'s residence is a small oasis near Nefertis, and only a few goblins know the location. If you want to pay a visit to [Brave], not to mention me, a [Village Chief], even an ordinary [Wise Man] won't get an audience."

"Since I can't see the [Brave], there's no point in staying here any longer." Hao Tian frowned.

"That's him. He must have absorbed the life force of the Sand Core when he came to my shop yesterday."

The sound of footsteps came, and the female goblin that I had seen yesterday came running over with a group of goblins.

There were seven goblins in total, surrounding the three Hao Tian, and the six young goblins stared at Lu Ke Shana showing their amazement. This made the female goblin feel jealous and cursed inside, little vixen.