Chapter 409: Current Status of Centaurs

Chapter 409: Current Status of Centaurs

Chapter 409: Current Status of Centaurs

At the intersection of the western and southern borders, in a hidden area outside the pole, there is a small basin. Above the basin lives a sun bird, and the light emitted by the bird illuminates everything in the basin.

There are fruit trees, water sources, mulberry fields and a small town where people can live and work in peace and contentment in the basin.

The people living in the town are the Centaurs who have disappeared from the eyes of the world. Behind the town is an ancient castle, inhabited by a group of Centaur royals, who are also the rulers of the town.

One day after Ivan touched the Seven Mountains, the centaurs in the castle noticed something unusual.

Soon, the Centaur leader issued an order to summon the main members of the tribe to discuss this sudden major event together.

"Father, Mother, I wonder why you want me here?" Leowen was the patriarch's son. He was young and rushed into the meeting hall in a hurry. He asked.

He must have been called while playing, and his clothes were covered in dust and sweat.

"Leowen, where are your manners? Why don't you change into clean clothes first?" Seeing him being so reckless, the clan leader's wife reminded him.

"Okay, father, Elder Thor, I'll be back soon." Leowen smiled embarrassedly.

"No need, just listen to it." The patriarch called him and said with a dark face.

Seeing his serious expression, the clan leader's wife didn't dare to say anything more. She just winked at her son, telling him not to talk nonsense for a while to avoid being scolded.

After a while, people arrived at the meeting hall one after another, including elders, guard commanders, affairs officers, young and old, about thirty people in total.

It also includes the patriarch's other two daughters, one is Angela, Leowen's sister, and the other is Jonah, Leowen's sister.

Compared to Leo Wen, both the elder sister and the younger sister seem much calmer.

"Elder Thor, please tell me the whole story in detail." The patriarch said to the elder sitting below.

"This morning, just half an hour ago, I went to the ancestral temple to worship my ancestors and found that the sacred mountain monument inside had moved. I hurriedly reported it to the clan leader, and then the clan leader summoned you to discuss it."

Saul knew that he had failed in his duty and dared not hide anything, so he recounted what had happened truthfully.

"Elder, do you know the exact time when the unusual movement occurred?"

"I don't know."

This was where he failed in his duty, guarding the ancestral temple but failing to notice the movement in time.

"Elder Thor is old, so it's inevitable that he might be a little careless."

"Yes, yes. The ancestral temple has remained the same for decades, and there has been no change. No wonder Elder Thor."

"What will happen if the sacred mountain monument moves abnormally?"

The others couldn't help but speak well of Elder Sol. Some young people didn't understand and asked the elders about the details of the sacred mountain monument.

All of this fell into the eyes of clan leader Tanli. He frowned and slammed his fist heavily on the table next to him.

The meeting hall became quiet again.

“I believe you all know that the sacred mountain is related to our core heritage and is the hope for the rise of our Centaur tribe. I don’t need to emphasize the importance of the sacred mountain.

No matter what, the sacred mountain must not be lost.

There is something unusual happening on the sacred mountain now, we must arrange for people to go check it out and ensure the safety of the inheritance. Who among you is willing to volunteer to go to the ancestral land?"

Seeing that some of the tribesmen were distracted, the tribe leader Tanli went straight to the point.

As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the hall became eerily quiet, and many people lowered their heads, fearing that they would be called out by the clan leader.

The situation in the hall made clan leader Tanli’s face even darker.

"Speak." After a moment, he had to speak again.

"Chief, it's not that we don't want to go, but there are centaur hunters outside. Once we leave, we will never come back. It's really difficult." Someone complained. He was also an elderly elder. "Yes, yes, so many of us went out before, and no one ever came back."

"Those bastards are so despicable that they blocked our way out."

"We live well here, so why bother with the disturbances outside? If it were up to me, we should just destroy the sacred mountain monument so that we don't have to see it and worry about it."

Some people took the lead in making excuses, and others also stopped remaining silent. They talked about the dangers outside, as well as their own concerns and opinions.

Some even suggested destroying the stone tablet that was closely connected to the sacred mountain and living in complete isolation from then on.

Chief Tanli listened to what was happening in the hall, feeling sad at heart. He thought about how powerful the Centaurs were in the past and how many warriors they had. But now all he saw were cowards.

He waved his hand feebly downwards.

Seeing this, many Centaurs felt relieved and quickly left the hall, wishing they had more legs. Some young people were unwilling to go, but were forcibly dragged away by their elders.

In a flash, there were only eight people left in the hall, including Tanli's family of five.

"Elder Thor, why don't you leave?" After a pause, Tanli calmed down.

"My old bones have not moved for a long time, and I want to go out for a walk." Thor said seriously with his wrinkled face.

"Father, I'm willing to go too." Angela, the eldest daughter of the patriarch, said immediately.

"Father, let me go." Leowen said.

Seeing that the youngest daughter, Joanna, was also ready to join in the fun, Tanli waved his hand and asked everyone to follow him to the ancestral temple to take a look.

The ancestral temple is brightly lit, and you can see rows of jars placed inside. The jars are actually carved from the hoofs of the Centaurs themselves, and they contain the ashes of the Centaurs' ancestors.

A group of people came into the hall, and the youngest one, Joanna, shivered when they were hit by the cold atmosphere in the hall.

"Angela, do you know why we burn the dead into ashes?" Tanli asked.

"Isn't it the tradition of our tribe?" It was Leowen who answered. After he finished speaking, he was glared at by Tanli, which made him shrink his neck involuntarily.

"Because if the bones are buried in the soil, there is a high probability that they will mutate and revive, and revive into 'Centaur Hunters', just like the cemetery of my tribe long ago." Angela said in a deep voice.

"This - how is this possible? Father, this can't be true." Hearing this, Leowen's first reaction was disbelief.

"Leowen, you've grown up, it's time to tell you the truth. Angela's words are the truth." Tan Li said with a sigh:

“The reason we blocked the way out is because something went wrong in our tribe’s land outside. The corpses of our ancestors in the cemetery turned into hunters one after another, specifically hunting us centaurs.

Since then, the lost tribesmen have never been able to return to the earth."

These words came from his father's mouth, and Leowen had to believe them. However, his father's next words were even more unacceptable to him.

"Angela, my father is seriously injured, Leowen is the next clan leader, and Jonah is still young. I hope you can take on this important task and lead the team to the ancestral land to properly handle the matter of the sacred mountain."

"I understand, Father."

Angela seemed to have expected this and agreed calmly.

"If things are impossible - remember to come back safely."

"it is good."

The lights in the ancestral temple flickered slightly. Tanli could not bear to look at his eldest daughter anymore, but he did not see the leap in Angela's eyes.

Three days later, the passage to the outside world was reopened, and a team of nine Centaurs set out lightly, and left this paradise illuminated by the sun, with only a few people seeing them off.

The figure was quickly swallowed up by the darkness.

(End of this chapter)