Chapter 17: Ancestors
Arthurd sat quietly on the edge of the bed, watching his brothers and sisters, and his father and mother, as they happily roasted the meats that had been distributed by the clan, all of which were the fattest parts of the tribe, which was his privilege as a great warrior and in recognition of his contribution to the tribe, and the lean meat was eaten by most of the people, which was right.
It's just that Arthur wasn't actually thinking about this, what he was thinking about was the patriarch's ancestral stone, the glowing ancestral stone......
There are some books in the headquarters of the black ear, there are more than thirty books, more than a dozen of which are medicinal books that introduce various herbs, certain parts of creatures, and some minerals, as well as the place of existence of these herbs, creatures, and minerals, these books are the most precious, and it can also be said that the foundation for the existence of the black ear tribe, it is with these books that the black ear tribe has continued to exist, and in recent hundreds of years, there are signs of gradual prosperity.
In addition to these dozen books, there are also basic books on weapon forging and martial arts combat, which are equally important, and two of them are books that are kept secret by the Black Ear Headquarters Clan, in order to maintain a deterrent effect on the rest of the clans, which even Arthur has not seen.
After that, most of the books are considered useless, including the records of the ancestors, as well as some fantastical geographical texts, and there are several books that have been recorded, which are books on the origin of the ancestors.
All of these books mention the existence of the Land of the Ancestors.
It is said that the ancestors came from a world with no rocks overhead, a world of light, which seemed to be as perfect as heaven, and the ancestors came to this world for unknown reasons (books are not intact, there are missing, and there are places that they do not understand), and they built a place of ancestors in this world, which is the sanctuary of the ancestors.
But then disaster struck, and the great catastrophe caused the ancestors to suffer heavy casualties, and forced the ancestors to leave the land of their ancestors, leave their shelter, and wander around in this dangerous world, trying everything to survive.
This method is not completely explained in the book, but from the words and the logic of the records before and after, Arthurd still deduced some things, such as the ancestors fled the land of their ancestors, and the surviving ancestors were basically strong elites, the so-called strong elites, in the parlance of the tribe, are young and middle-aged men, and women can almost be said to have none, or there are pitiful few.
At first, the ancestors were actually unfamiliar with this world, and they were quite vulnerable in this world after losing their shelter, but the ancestors seemed to be very powerful, and even Arthur felt that according to the description in the book, all the ancestors were likely to be great warriors...... Of course it can't be, but at least the ancestors are strong.
And in order for the ancestors to survive in this world, they needed the knowledge to survive in this world, as well as women, women who could pass on their ancestry, and their strong strength allowed them to capture many alien races, including dwarves, gnomes, drows and other alien races, trying to mate with them, in the hope of giving birth to children.
In fact, Arthur has received confirmation from many wizards about this that the humans of the Black-ear tribe can only have offspring with the Drow, whether it is the Drow male and the Black-ear tribe's female, or the Drow woman and the black-eared tribe's male, will produce offspring, but with other races, it will never produce offspring, this is almost common knowledge in several border tribes, among those tribes, the tribesmen are the most precious possession, and each border tribe can return to the central fertile land after a hundred years on the border to recuperate, and then be replaced by other Black-ear tribes, counting, each tribe does not die out by itself, then every three hundred years you need to go to the border to rotate.
And go to the border tribes, every year the death and injury will be very serious, not only men die, women will also die because of various dangers, in the end often a man has a dozen wives, in order to increase the number of tribesmen, and after empirical evidence, the border tribes basically know that only the children of the drow are valuable, whether male or female can join the tribe to increase the population, as long as these children are still very young when they are captured, and the children of other races have no other value except for eating。
Therefore, Arthur believes that at that time, in order to continue, the ancestors must have captured a large number of Drow women, and at the same time seized the knowledge of these Drow generations to survive in this world, after that, generation after generation of people were born and died, and the descendants gradually forgot the teachings of their ancestors, and with the mixing of generations with the table, the people became more and more like Drow, but there were many differences, so they were half-bloods, they were the Blackear people, not Drow.
This was not all Arthur's speculation, as he found evidence in the words of some books, such as one of the very damaged books, which mentioned the Layers of Despair in the surviving text.
The so-called Great Layer of Despair is an invisible wall, although it is invisible, but it is an absolutely impassable existence, horizontal and vertical at some upward passages, where these books mention, the ancestors seem to have descended from the farther of these upward passages, and above this passage is the place where there is light, but the Despair Layer is an insurmountable chasm......
In this surviving text, it is mentioned that all the creatures in this underground world cannot pass through the Despair Layer, and the text mentions that this Despair Layer is a creation of the primeval era, and it is a truth that the ancestors cannot violate, Arthur does not know what the primeval era is, but it is a very terrible and powerful god to think of it, or it may be a natural disaster, in short, this Despair Layer blocks all creatures in this world from going up, but the ancestors are not among them, as long as they are not native creatures of this world, or they have eaten too much meat in this world, drank enough water, and stayed for too long, they can go to the upper layer。
If that were the case, Arthurd would have been left with nothing but despair, but he saw hope in a single word from another book......
The book is a similar record, a travelogue, or something similar, the incomplete text on it tells the story of an ancestor who was trapped in this world for many years because of some disaster, he was trapped for many years, and he could only survive by eating the food and water of this world, and in order to relieve his loneliness, he had children with several Drow women, and then he and his children were rescued by other ancestors, but he and his children were no longer able to pass through the Despair Layer, but the wisdom of the ancestors is endless, and with the help of the ancestors who are said to come from the light world, the ancestors created a creation that can cleanse the blood and the remnants of the influence of this worldso that he and his descendants could go to the world of light, and since then, this creation has been placed in the land of the ancestors.
Of course, the premise is that they must be ancestors or descendants of their ancestors, and the creatures of this world will not be able to pass through the Despair Layer even if they use this creation.
And this is Arthurd's greatest hope, he firmly believes that he and all the Ear people are the mixed descendants of the ancestor and Drow, so they will definitely use this creation, and then go to the light world, surely!
As for where the ancestral land is, these are not recorded in the books, or there are records, but they have long been broken I don't know how many years, and the only way to mention is ...... That is, when the Stone of Ancestors shines, take the Stone of Ancestors and advance towards the Land of Ancestors, the closer you get to the Land of Ancestors, the brighter the Light of the Stone of Ancestors will be, and vice versa, and this is the only way to find the Land of Ancestors......
Arthur had never seen the Ancestral Stone glow, none of the wizards and archsorcerers he had consulted, even the priests, had ever heard of such a situation, and no records had ever found it, so he was already a little desperate, thinking that he might not be able to see the Ancestral Stone glow for the rest of his life, but now, at this moment...... The ancestral stones of the tribe glowed......
Maybe in a lifetime, no, countless lifetimes can only see the light of the Ancestral Stone this time, no one knows how long this light will last, no one knows if it will shine again in the future, there is only one chance......
However, both the Patriarch and the Grand Wizard rejected his requests and proposals, they did not want him and his people to take risks, nor did they want the Ancestral Stone, which was the symbol of the Blackear Branch, to be lost, so it was likely that his only choice was ......
Steal the Ancestral Stone!......
To the Land of the Fathers!(To be continued.) )