The Death List Novel - Chapter 384
Chapter 384 Sacrifice
“High Priest, you don’t agree with Ferrari’s suggestion, do you?” Edeline asked with an unsightly expression, “Even if there is a loss at the Naga Lake ferry, the clansmen can understand. However, letting go of the defensive formation means giving up on some of the clansmen. This is something that is very difficult for everyone to accept.”
“We can tell them to give up resisting before we have time to rescue them. We can send a caravan to redeem these clansmen in the future.” Menon’s voice was a little hoarse and his words were a little blurry, as if they were coming out of a clenched tooth.
“You and I both know what will happen to those humans who are captured. Compared to this, they would rather die in battle.” Adrienne shook her head sadly. “The casualties will be very heavy. Even if everyone can understand, this kind of sacrifice …”
‘”The casualties of the Thieves will also be very heavy. Since the scattered Thieves have gained something, they will no longer unite. Furthermore, they will need to send people to guard the captives to guard against the unsuccessful Thieves.” The more Menon spoke, the sharper his gaze became, the more determined his tone became. His aged body was as straight as a spear, emitting a terrifying aura.
“As long as there is an internal conflict, the Thieves will no longer be able to cooperate sincerely next time. The heavy casualties will shake their determination and make the migration team smoother. Our sacrifice is worth it.”
“Teacher Menon, please don’t do this!” Edeline’s heart grew heavier and heavier as she pleaded bitterly.
High Priest Menon looked at the Elf Grand Mage in front of him and shook his head with a sigh, “Edeline, do you know why I never supported the descendants of the royal family fighting for the Elf throne against the Green Leaf Clan?”
Grand Elder Edeline was slightly stunned and shook her head blankly. The elf mage was the current leader of the tribal council of elders, while High Priest Menon was a former teacher of Edeline. When Adrienne was young, she had tried to persuade Menon to resist the Demon Cup Royal Court and not to concede anything, but Menon had refused.
Menon was very old. He was the only survivor of his generation of elves. He was almost a generation older than all the elders of the Moon Fairy Tribe. In the eyes of the other elders, Menon was a kind and benevolent mentor, but his temperament was too gentle and his bullying of the Demon Cup Royal Court was too weak.
Perhaps it was because of this that Menon finally retreated to the second line and handed over the position of leader of the tribal council of elders to Adrienne. However, the old man was still the spiritual leader in the eyes of all the Moon Fairies. If he insisted on going his own way, Edeline would not be able to stop him. Moreover, of the two great elven tribes that had migrated, the Moon Shadow Tribe was Menon’s own tribe.
“Do you also think that I am too weak to fight against the Demon Cup Royal Court?” Menon smiled self-deprecatingly, sighed, and said softly, “It’s not that I don’t want to take back the Demon Cup Royal Court’s Elf throne, but that none of the descendants of the royal family of the tribe can become the descendants of the Elf King.”
Menon took a deep breath and looked at Edeline. “I’ve always been jealous of the Green Fairy race. Why are there so many young people who can take the throne? And none of you, not even the Queen of the Fairies, have ever given birth to a king with magnanimity!” He said quietly.
Edeline’s face turned pale and she retorted in an unconvinced tone, “If I sacrifice my clansmen on my own initiative, then I would rather not be an Elf Queen!”
“As long as the sacrifice is worth it, the king must do it, not act willfully, just like King Testament had no choice but to give up the 5,000 Moon Elves for 15,000 Green Elves.” Menon’s tone gradually turned cold. “Edelyn, regardless of whether you want to or not, the Moon Shadow Tribe will give up their defenses tomorrow. They will disperse into a snake formation, and the rangers and cavalry will split up equally.”
Edeline did not say anything until High Priest Menon left the tent. She knew that she had no choice. If the Moon Shadow Tribe did not cooperate, there would not be enough guards to maintain the defensive formation. If they were to encounter a sudden attack, they would not be as flexible as the Hydra Formation.
After a long time, a sigh came from the tent. Adrienne knew that Menon’s choice was the right one, but she could not accept it.
Whether it was Qin Lun’s suggestion or High Priest Menon’s insistence, they all advocated sacrificing the ego to fulfill the ego. Just as orientals like to watch a movie called assembly. Edeline advocated not giving up and not compromising, hoping that the ego would take care of everyone, just as Westerners like to watch a movie called “Save Private Ryan.”
Both of these thoughts were correct, but under the Moon Fairy’s current life and death situation, it was clear that Qin Lun and Menon’s decision was the right one. Just as Menon had said, she could only accept it, regardless of whether Adrienne was willing or not.
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The endless ears of rice on both sides of the road rose and fell like waves in the breeze, making people feel relaxed and comfortable!
This kind of rice, called “Golden Wheat”, was harvested twice a year. Apart from the first month after planting the new seedlings, the leaves were also golden in color. This made this plain look like a golden sea of wheat waves. This was also the source of the name “Golden Plain”.
Jinmai’s grain was plump and its yield per mu was very high, almost double that of ordinary rice. In view of this, the golden plains were not only the granaries of the Kingdom of Jondas, but they also had the strength to provide the Kingdom of Seth-Patz with other necessary means of subsistence.
There is only one drawback to this kind of rice. Its water and climate requirements are very stringent. The golden plain between the Alan and Naga rivers was one of the few areas in the Ferren Continent that had the conditions to grow it.
After leaving the forest, the Moon Fairy’s migration team had changed from a defensive formation to a snake formation. Edeline and Menon eventually followed his advice. More than a thousand elves, men, women and children alike, were spread out in a two-kilometer-long strip. The team was like a fat snake that twisted and twisted, gradually swimming towards the west.
Qin Lun occasionally raised his head to observe the two sides of the team. Red and black targets and silver clocks alternated in his pupils.
The number of spies hiding in the golden wheat waves had increased over the past two days. Not only Qin Lun, but almost every elf in the team could feel that kind of greedy gaze. The darlings of the jungle were stronger in sight and perception than the spies sent by the Thieves.
“Perhaps I shouldn’t have given those two old fellows that idea!”
Qin Lun endured the disgusting gazes that were cast on him and felt slightly regretful in his heart. If they were still in Handan Prison, the prisoners’ roommates who looked at him like this would basically turn into skeletal angels that night for the coroner’s examination the next day.
“Forget it, it’s important. Let go of Joey’s hobby first!” Qin Lun muttered in a low voice. He removed the oak longbow from his back and took out an iron arrow from the arrow. As a black streak of light flashed past, a miserable scream sounded from afar.
As Qin Lun smoothly pierced through the arrow, Elistine, who was beside him, leapt into the air and turned into a giant falcon. In the blink of an eye, he turned into a small black dot on the horizon. Immediately after, the elven druid pounced down from mid-air and grabbed a dancing spy from the wheat wave, fiercely throwing him down from mid-air, turning him into a ball of minced meat.
After cleaning up the surrounding spies, Elistine flew back to the team and intentionally or unintentionally flapped his wings on top of Qin Lun’s head before landing on the ground. The strong wind blew the young man’s face to the point of pain, causing him to feel a burst of helplessness.
Ever since the elf druid learned that the two elders had adopted Qin Lun’s suggestion, he had not given him a good look and hadn’t spoken to him for several days.
“Elistine, do you want to know why we haven’t been attacked by the human bandits in the past few days?” Qin Lun suddenly smiled and asked the elven druid beside him.
Elistine gave him a disgrace and turned his head to ignore him. However, after a while, he turned around again and snorted coldly with his nose wrinkled. It was as if he was saying, “Go ahead, I’m listening!”
Qin Lun sighed and slowly explained, “From the edge of the forest to the ferry at the southern tip of Naga, we will have to walk for about seven or eight days. As the team disbanded their defensive formation, most of the clansmen are insecure. They have to hurry and be wary of attacks that may come at any time. Their physical strength will be consumed very quickly.”
Most of the human Thieves and Dark Mercenaries have plenty of adventure experience. They are waiting for the moment when we are exhausted. At the same time, they are also testing the weaknesses of the team through continuous surveillance. Therefore, they wouldn’t make a move in the first few days of the journey. And in the next few days, it will probably not be that easy. ”
After Qin Lun finished speaking, there was an awkward silence between the two of them. Just as he thought that Elistine would be as silent as he had been a few days ago, the elven druid’s slightly inaudible words came to his ears.
“Can our sacrifice now really make the migration of our clansmen smoother?”
Qin Lun’s eyes lit up, but he turned around and saw only the back of Elistine’s head, as if what he had just said was just a young man’s hallucination.
However, he didn’t mind and muttered to himself, “I didn’t pay. Where did I get the harvest? The sacrifices of the Moon Setting and Moon Shadow Tribes are very important to all the Jondar Moon Fairies.”
“Of course, it’s the same for me and the fortress team!” Qin Lun raised his head to look at the Lost Rookies not far away and added in his heart.
The reason why Qin Lun had come up with this idea for Edeline and Menon was actually due to his own considerations. Although he and the fortress team had accepted the side mission of Moon Fairy Migration, they could only cover up this migration. Whether the remaining two batches of Moon Fairies were alive or dead did not affect them at all.
If the Moonset and Moonshadow Tribes suffered heavy casualties, it would also affect their mission contribution rate and reduce the final mission reward. Instead, it would be a bit too much.
After Qin Lun came up with this idea for Adrienne and Menon, Nicole questioned it on the guild channel, but the Second Grade Priest of Fortress was quickly convinced by him.
Qin Lun’s reason was very simple. He was using part of the reward for this mission in exchange for the opportunity to weaken the Lost Rookies.
Under the current circumstances, if these Moon Fairies still maintained their original defensive formation, then the Japanese Fairy Envoy Group would always be at the core of the team. Not only were there two layers of elven rangers and elven cavalry protecting them, there were also elven mages and high-grade druids all around them.
Even if there were human dark organizations or other high-level assassins hired by the Fairy Court, it was likely that they would find it hard to obtain them. The Lost Rookies didn’t suffer any losses, so how could Prince Milleras hire another mercenary group?
When they arrived at Anke Forest, could it be that the fortress team was going to watch this major storyline slip away from their eyes?
However, it was different now. Without the elven rangers and elven cavalry on the inside and outside, the elven mages and druids were split equally among the elven serpents. The Sun Fairy Envoy and the Lost Rookies had to face high-level assassins alone.
From Jondar Forest to Anke Forest, the Japanese Fairy Envoy could not be safe all the time. In terms of the dangers of the mission, they were far more difficult than a major.
Qin Lun did not believe that Kelly, the violent woman, could completely cover the entire Japanese elf envoy. Once the lost rookies lost their lives, Prince Milleras would feel threatened, and the fortress team on the nearby platform would wait for an opportunity to participate.
This was Qin Lun’s real purpose in coming up with this idea for the Moon Fairy!