Chapter 660 [New Hakale in the Valley of Thorns]
Relieve a thousand sorrows in one day.
In the second day, the injustice was eliminated.
Three days, only two so no way three days. This Japanese word here, you taste, you carefully taste.
The tenth day of Azhara's-for-tat confrontation with Shantis.
Valley of Thorns.
The area gets its name from a very special plant that people come to see here: the Thorn Monster, a giant carnivorous plant with an appetite so large that it can eat an adult troll at a time.
This monstrous plant, which looks like it's overgrown with canes and pouches of meat, lives up to its name.
Apart from the Thorns, the rest of the creatures here that like to lurk in the jungle are still full of danger. Gorillas, panthers and tigers all roam the jungle, and watch out for birds of prey hovering in the sky as you get out of the dense jungle.
The pristine nature of the Angolo crater rainforest is a pure primitiveness; The primitiveness of the rainforest in the Valley of Thorns is the primitiveness of the beginning of the competition between all things.
The Valley of Thorns is the only area of Azeroth that has not been touched by that earth-shattering war.
But it's not peaceful at all, the jungle trolls have been here for tens of thousands of years, and they have been fighting here for tens of thousands of years. The Sand has slaughtered the Gulabash Empire as a thing of the past, dozens of troll cities in the jungle have been reduced to ruins, and one of the most prosperous troll cities, Zur Grab, has become a semi-desolate state.
Now, a new day of chaos has come to this vibrant, dangerous region.
Lokan is a young jungle troll belonging to the Darkspear clan and a member of Senkin's rule. Despite his youth, he was a gifted hunter, and at a young age he had already become a Dark Spear Headhunter - a title that meant he had hunted the heads of at least three or more enemies.
The enemy here is not the beasts, but those who seek mischief against their tribe and their fellow citizens. For example, the growing number of goblins here, the members of the human pirate forces that have been trying to invade the Valley of Thorns, and the Gulabash trolls, who are among the brethren of Lokan in general.
At this moment, the young darkspear troll was walking and jumping through the jungle with a bow and arrow in his hand and a spear in hand.
In a swift shuttle, Lokan jerked down from the tree to the ground, and then he lay on the ground like a hound, turning over the leaf-covered dirt, picking up a touch of soil with his hand and sniffing it on the tip of his thick, long nose.
"It's their taste!"
The Darkspear Troll's heart sank.
He quickly shook off the soil from his hands, jumped up and left the spot, following the taste his nose could discern.
As an experienced hunter, Lokan was originally very good at maneuvering in the jungle, and now he is a follower of Tonna and Tiu, and he has already advanced to the rank of voodoo shooter, and where there are trees, his domain is his domain.
Lokan, who quickly shuttles between the jungles, is not looking for prey. He's on the hunt for a group of terrifying hakale trolls, a group of lunatics who take pleasure in bringing fear and gore to other trolls. Half a year ago, they suddenly rose to prominence, and then set off a bloody storm among the trolls in the Valley of Thorns.
With the exception of Zulghrab and Zulan, there is hardly a single troll gathering point that is safe. The Troll Clan, who do not obey the Hakale, have only two options - either to take refuge in Zulghrab or to turn to Zulan.
If you don't make these two choices, then you can only pray. Pray that the terrifying hakale will not find his tribe, or that they will be the last to find themselves.
Believing in the light teachings of the gods Tonna and Tiu makes it easy for believers to be willing to save others. Lokan is a devout believer, so even though Zur'an hadn't made the decision to fight Hakalai in the first place, there was already a group of Twin Gods who had been trying to save the tribe that Hakalai had targeted.
Lokan is one of them, and he's a leader.
Now he was walking through the woods, tracking a gang of Hakale scouts. These Hakalai scouts are tasked with searching the jungle for the troll tribes, and when they are found, Hakalai's army will come to the door.
What Lokan wants to do now is to catch up with the scouts and call out to his companions to kill them. This is also the most common way for the trolls who have volunteered to fight Hakale. There is no way, unless Zuran or Zur Grab go all out to send out a large army, otherwise they will not be able to fight against the terrifying army of Hakale blessed by the blood god by relying on their volunteers.
The Darkspear Troll had been following the Hakalai scouts for four days, and he and his comrades had just killed another group of Hakalai scouts four days earlier. Since volunteering, Lokan hasn't been back to Zur'an for two months. There is no way, the Hakale gang is very sensible, and they have not attacked Zulghrab and Zulan, nor have they gone into the sphere of influence of both sides to make trouble.
As a result, Hakalai was able to grow rapidly in half a year, from the power that was said to be only one blood-top clan at the beginning, to the extent that it was now able to influence the entire Thorn Valley, putting millions of trolls in the entire Thorn Valley at risk.
Lokan jumped from tree to tree, the trees of the Thorn Vale jungle were not the same as those of the Crater Rainforest and the Ghost Lands forest, the trees of the jungle were not as tall, but denser and denser.
The jungle is slippery everywhere after the rain – well, even if it doesn't rain for a few days once in a while, the jungle is still slippery everywhere.
Jungle trolls are better at living in the jungle than other trolls. The short, fluffy fur on their skin is purple or gray, which has a good water-repellent effect, and they do not need to wear an umbrella on rainy days and are not afraid of body hypothermia due to rain.
Syllable!
Lokan suddenly stopped on a tree of mongolia, shielding himself from the branches of the tree, his enhanced sense of smell as a voodoo shooter allowed him to smell the stench of hakale in the air.
They're nearby!
Lokan was wary.
Thinking about Hakale.
Lokan was young, much younger than Chief Senkin. And unlike Senkin, who has been raised as a chief since he was a child, he has not received much cultural inheritance, he only knows the knowledge of how to survive in the jungle.
There was something about the Hakale tribe, and Lokan had heard some stories from the chieftain Senkin. This so-called Hakale tribe is not the first time in the history of jungle trolls. Once upon a time, a powerful wind serpent, the god Loa, appeared in the Valley of Thorns, whose name was Haka. In order to gain his power, many jungle trolls believed in him, and his fanatical followers called themselves hakalai at the time.
Later, as time passed, the trolls discovered that Loa was an out-and-out evil god, and that his presence and that of Hakale were a great threat to the trolls. When the Jungle Trolls were terrified, Zandalar led the pack and led the Jungle Trolls to seal the Soul Reaver Haka, disbanding the Hakka clan with forceful military means and banishing some of the most fanatical Hakkae.
The Haka Incident in the Valley of Thorns has come to an end.
The resurgence of the Hakale tribe caused the jungle trolls to be vigilant from the very beginning. But Hakale is growing fast, and when Hakale reappears, the troll-minded Troll Zandarar is in an eventful situation of his own.
The jungle trolls who didn't have Zandala to come out as the big brother in the lead were wary of each other, had evil intentions in each other's hearts, and disobeyed each other.
Zur Ansenkin, who wanted to nip Hakale in the bud, was a troll at the time, and in fact, the jungle trolls didn't like Zur'an, who was very "Gulabash", more than hostile to Hakale, and even if he stood up and became the leader of the big brother, the jungle trolls, he would not obey him.
Hakale was able to develop rapidly, and in half a year, it developed from a small blood-top clan to the current scale that can cause wind and rain in the entire Thorn Valley.
Recalling the things in his mind related to Hakale, Lokan was not at all satisfied with the movements and preparations in his hands.
He quickly searched for traces of the Hakale scouts nearby, and once he found them, he summoned his companions to destroy them in one fell swoop!
Just like they've been doing in the jungles of Thorn Valley for the past two months! In the name of the two gods, do the way for the sun and the moon!
Suddenly.
Lokan found a mark, the mark of Hakale, under a bitter cherry tree, which was carved into the bark of this cherry tree.
Seeing this mark, Lokan suddenly became nervous, because he knew that the mark of the blood god meant that the hakalai had been here! Leaving a mark is likely to mean that the Hakalai will most likely return.
Lorkan looked at the fanged and clawed hakale mark on the bark, a very different emblem from the other trolls, which appeared to be a symbol, an X-shaped rune with a horizontal bar drawn at the bottom of the rune, which together formed a symbolic skull.
Having worked with the hakkae for two months, Lokan knew that the skull played an important role in the hakkae's armor and decorations, and that the enemy heads hunted on the battlefield meant a lot to the hakkae. The hakhales would use secret methods to cook the prey until they were shrunk and wear them on their clothing.
Lokan remembers that Chief Semkin had said that the legendary Hakalai did not do this, and that the self-proclaimed Hakalai were even more terrifying than the previous Hakalai.
Lokan didn't know what the Hakhales used to do, all he knew was that the Hakhales were now very fond of decorating themselves with the blood and bones of their enemies.
For the hakalays, the skulls of the enemy were the most valuable and could be worn as a badge to wear on their bodies. But the other objects on the enemy's body are not completely useless waste.
For Hakhale, the bones of other parts of the enemy were smeared with blood, red paint (or a mixture of both), and the devotees would sacrifice these bones on altars or wear them as symbols of the Blood God's favor.
Over the past two months, Lokan and his comrades have smashed several makeshift altars to the Blood God, each of which has made the jungle trolls sick and angry.
Compared to the man-eating trolls, these hakale trolls are even worse. At the very least, the man-eating trolls eat people just to fill their stomachs, but the Hakalai kills their enemies simply to satisfy their own desire to kill, and at the same time sacrifice to their gods!
Looking at the X-shaped rune emblem on the bark of the earth cherry tree, Lokan was full of anger and smashed it with a punch.
Boom!
There was a crisp sound.
The emblem on the bark of the bitter cherry tree was smashed.
These blood god insignia are the signs of the hakalay's connection in the jungle, so destroy one for every one they find.
Completely destroying the Blood God insignia, Rokan wiped the sap of the bitter cherry tree on his clothes.
"Whew"!
Suddenly there was a shrill cry from the jungle.
Lokan's pupils shrank as he lowered his head to wipe the sap, and he immediately rolled to the ground, and the next moment a terrible spear pierced through where he had been standing.
At the same time, seven tyrannical trolls appeared nearby, vaguely surrounding Lokan in the center.
Lokan, who had just stabilized his body, gritted his teeth, and there was only one thought left in his mind - escape!
One of these hakale scouts, he can kill. Two such hakale scouts, he can find a way to kill. With more than three Hakale scouts, he can only choose to run away and then call his teammates to come and fight back.
Now there are more than 7, and the only way to escape is to run first.
Lokan picked a direction where the enemy was in a weak position and rushed over.