Chapter 403: Minotaurs
Chu Tian temporarily stayed in the fox tribe.
The little fox was living the life of an emperor. Each one of the fox tribe members treated the fox as a Spiritual God and the little fox would just occasionally provide a bit of guidance in the demonic techniques. There were some techniques that even he could not use still, but the memories had been deeply engraved in his soul since his birth.
The believers became even more fanatical.
Everyone could see that the little fox was still young, but everyone was certain that it was descendant of the Demonic God Religion’s Demonic God. Just based on this, the little fox was qualified to sit in the temple and accept the consecration of the followers.
Chu Tian collected information on Green City while understanding the fox tribe’s power.
The fox tribe really wasn’t weak. Although they had only twenty thousand people, they had several dozen True Spirit Realm experts!
When he obtained this number from the High Priest, Chu Tian was instantly shocked!
Isn’t this a little too exaggerated? Several dozen True Spirit Cultivators in twenty thousand people and this was only a small tribe here. Wouldn’t there be several thousand True Spirit Cultivator in the several million forest city?
Although the Forest of Chaos’ spirit veins were rich enough and various kinds of advanced precious herbs were easy to find, so the people that grew here were not people the Southern Summer Country could compare to, this was still a little too shocking.
The High Priest explained, “No need to be shocked. My tribe believes in the Demonic God, so our entire tribe uses faith to cultivate, allowing our cultivations to increase faster than normal people.”
Believers were different from cultivators.
These believers’ cultivation technique was related to their faith. Faith was a strange power to begin with and could assist one’s cultivation technique, with their cultivation being faster with more belief. However, there was a very obvious flaw. After one practiced their faith, it would be very difficult for them to practice any other cultivation techniques.
Each True Spirit Expert had the qualification to become a priest.
Delores was one of the Demonic God’s priests.
This Demonic God Priest was in the peak 1st True Spirit Layer, but depending on the demonic technique, she could only control summons in the peak 9th Awakened Soul Layer. Even when she controlled multiple summons, it was hard for her to fight experts with the same level of cultivation.
After all, the fox clan themselves were not strong and with the fact they couldn’t cultivate any attributed cultivation techniques, this meant that their source spirits were weak, so their battle strength was far below that of same level experts. This also meant that although the fox clan had high cultivations, their real battle strength was not high.
However, the Demonic God was not only a summon master, but also a powerful beast tamer.
These Demonic God priests domesticated demon beast no one could compare to. In the surrounding forests, other than the hundreds of Spirit Monkeys, there were over a thousand high level demon beasts, who were all level two and up demon beasts. With the defensive power of these demon beasts, the fox tribe was not engulfed by the Forest of Chaos, otherwise how could they survive to this day?
Chu Tian was very interested in taming demon beasts.
The little fox could directly control the demon beast’s mind, but that control did not last long. Although the effects were good, it could also be broken.
These fox clan members could not directly affect a beast, but they could temporarily subdue them and use the passed down Demonic God Cult secret techniques and medicines to brainwash them, slowly instilling obedience in them. Although this wasted a lot of time and required a large amount of materials, if it succeeded, the tamed beast could be used for a long time.
Chu Tian liked the second kind in this comparison.
Miracle Commerce lacked an air force the most, but was it easy to train them from scratch? If this could solve their mount taming problem, it would save quite a bit of effort.
Since he understood the power of the Demonic God Religion.
He should consider how to form an alliance with them.
The Head Priest said, “Green City has announced that it has been seized by the Eternal Forest, but there are still many powers left in Green City. Other than the remnant Green Religion, there are also the Druids, the Shamans, the Necromancers, and the shadows of many large forces. Just the people we have cannot stop them and if we tried, it would be sending ourselves to death.”
Chu Tian said with a frown, “I knew that Green City’s situation was complicated, but I never thought it would be this complicated.”
This place was filled with believers and the stubbornness of believers could not compare to normal locals. Not to mention these believers were not weak and there was meddling from the other influences of the forest, making the situation even more complex.
“I think I must enter the city and investigate.”
“Green City rarely have human visitors, so you will alert the enemy if you go in.” The Head Priest said, “I’ll have my clansmen send you in when we’re buying materials. With the protection of our words, you don’t have to fear your identity being revealed.”
“This is also good!”
At this time, a fox clansman suddenly charged in and said, “Head Priest, this is bad. Those damn, stupid oxes have come back to cause trouble!”
The fox clan High Priest’s brows jumped up, “Quickly, prepare for battle!”
Chu Tian saw their flustered appearances and immediately asked, “Did something happen?”
“Recently there has been a famine in the forest and all the tribes are lacking in food, reaching their hands our way. Do these fellows really treat the Demonic God Religion as a grains storage?” The Head Priest’s face turned frighteningly deep, “We need to teach them a lesson!”
Chu Tian couldn’t help thinking of an idea. Actually, before coming here, Chu Tian already knew that a famine had occurred around Green City recently.
Properly speaking, these fierce and powerful locals would not be lacking in food, after all, the forest was very rich. However, in the two hundred kilometer region around a tribe, if they hunted that region for a long time, the demon beasts would began to avoid that region and the tribe would find it hard to find prey to hunt.
Those large scale tribes had over hundreds of thousands of people. Nothing big would happen if they didn’t find prey for a few days, but if it went past a week, it would become a famine.
War would break out each time a famine hit!
The locals surrounding a forest city were very dense and their hunting grounds overlapped. If there were less and less prey and there was a tribe with several hundred thousand people, where would the food for these people come from? A famine was the time to steal!
Chu Tian went into the forest with the fox clan.
Several hundred fox clan members were already guarding here, with monkeys in the trees all around them. There were several giant wolves hiding in the forest and the fox people were vigilantly looking in front of them. The other side had ten times the quantity of the foxes and those several thousand people densely stood there. Each person was wearing a primitive rattan armour while holding axes or hammers in their hands, looking very fierce.
Delores and the other priests angrily reprimanded, “Dirty and dumb minotaurs, do you want to wage war with us?”
The minotaurs were three meters tall and were four times bulkier than humans. On their necks were cow heads and a flame was burning in their eyes.
Chu Tian was very interested.
The Minotaurs were like the barbarians, a tribe that developed their physical strength, so they were very suitable to be turned into berserkers.
“If we were waging war, we wouldn’t have brought just these people and wouldn’t waste words with you!” A large Minotaur walked out with heavy steps, “We are borrowing some food, just two months is enough!”
A fox clan priest angrily shouted, “We don’t even have enough food for ourselves, how could we have extra to lend to you.”
“That’s right, quickly scram!”
“Otherwise, you won’t leave this forest!”
The Minotaurs were never a race with good tempers. These fox clan members did not know good from bad and had immediately enraged them. The Minotaur leader roared, “We have been neighbours for ten years, you can’t give even a bit of help? We have several thousand people who are about to starve to death. Since they’re about to die, if they did something crazy, I hope you do not blame us for warning you!”
This was naked threatening!
The fox clan members all had ugly expressions.
Chu Tian asked the Head Priest beside him, “Are these Minotaurs very strong?”
“The Minotaurs live in a valley to the west and have around a hundred thousand people. They cannot be considered a small force.” The Head Priest said with a deep expression, “We haven’t interfered with each other these past few years, but with a famine among the Minotaurs, perhaps there will be trouble.”
Recently it had been hard to find prey in the forest and many tribes had encountered a famine. The fox clan was different from other places. Not only did they understand to preserve food, they could also grow their own food, so they could be self sustaining in a time of famine.
How big were the Minotaurs’ appetite? It was even comparable to the ogres!
A single Minotaur’s appetite could match ten fox clan members’. If the fox clan supported the Minotaurs, could the fox clan keep surviving?
Delores’ charming face was filled with rage, “Greedy and despicable Minotaurs, we will not be subdued by your force. If you dare make a move, we’ll make you unable to return!”
Feeling the killing intent of the fox people.
The monkeys and wolves in the forest all began to roar.
The Minotaurs were greedy from hunger and they had gone to all the surrounding tribes, but most of them found it hard to support themselves, they were not willing to give grains even if they had a surplus. Comparing them, the fox clan was the easier one to deal with and since they wouldn’t give it, they would steal it!
The killing intent of these Minotaurs made the hearts of the fox clan members sink.
A bloody battle was hard to avoid! Although similar matters frequently happened in the forest, the fox clan’s current population was hard to support this kind of bloody battle. If their tribe lost more people, perhaps they would even lose the qualifications to have a base here.
“Why are you waging a war for this bit of food?”
“Who!”
The Minotaurs looked at Chu Tian with a strange expression. Humans were rarely seen in this area, so how could a human appear among this fox tribe.
“I am a merchant and you can all treat me as a food seller for now.” Chu Tian smiled as he looked at these tall and sturdy Minotaurs. His smile had a deceitful tone to it, “I can let your entire tribe eat its fill, but I’ve already said that I am a merchant and not a philanthropist. Do you understand my meaning?”
