The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 837 - 0834: The Dragon with a Head Called Moon (Third Update, 10,000 Coins Reward Celebration)

Chapter 837: Chapter 0834: The Dragon with a Head Called Moon (Third Update, 10,000 Coins Reward Celebration)

This chapter is a bonus update for “The Battle Song of the Blazing Fire.”

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Compared to the small Lake Corner Tribe, with its 186 members, the Mountain Corner Tribe was a large tribe with thousands of members, boasting more than eighty Ancient Mages.

However, according to the Ancient Mages of Lake Corner Tribe, the “Listener”—the equivalent of the tribe’s elder—of Mountain Corner Tribe was at best a Grand Magician in terms of power. As for the strength of the Listeners in even larger tribes, the Ancient Mages from Lake Corner Tribe were ignorant.

The Moon Slayers’ classification of Ancient Mage ranks was quite vague, relying more on tenure than clear-cut levels of power to rise to the position of Listener.

Since the casting profession generally grew stronger with age, the Listener’s power was typically the mightiest within the tribe.

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When Durt and Cross, the two Sword Saints, led a large force of Earth Knights toward Mountain Corner Tribe, the Listener and the Ancient Mages were swiftly captured without surprise.

Once the Knight’s Dou Qi merged into a contiguous field, creating a no-magic zone, the Ancient Mages’ magic failed one after another.

As for those warriors who were merely ordinary people, with arrows no matter how precise or blades and spears no matter how sharp, they were no match for the Knights who possessed Dou Qi. The encirclement, slaughtering, and capture were swiftly completed. In just a short moment, the Mountain Corner Tribe, with its thousand members, was thoroughly extinguished.

Tying up the Moon Slayer Natives, they then started a skilled search for supplies in the Mountain Corner Tribe’s settlement.

Those Apprentice Knights, who did not need to charge into battle, performed their packaging duties well, turning the entire settlement upside down. All sorts of supplies were packed and taken away. Having arrived on Flame Island, where all supplies must be self-sustained, the Knights had not felt the thrill of plundering for a long time.

“You wouldn’t realize this small native tribe actually has abundant supplies,” said Liszt, who wasn’t Dragon Riding but riding a warhorse, following along with the Knight Order.

“Your Highness, it’s summer now, and the food in the forest is relatively plentiful,” Durt replied. “If we wait until winter, the forest won’t be able to provide food, and the natives, who don’t farm, will only go hungry.” He had learned about the climate issues on Flame Island from the natives of Lake Corner Tribe.

There are four seasons here as well: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

The spring and summer are hot and humid, with plants growing vigorously and food in abundance. During autumn and winter, the climate is dry and cold, plant growth stops, and animals either migrate or hibernate, causing severe food scarcity.

It was now summer, the most bountiful season of the year on Flame Island.

The Moon Slayers, who did not know how to farm, could only go hungry or full with the seasons, which is why they split into small tribes to migrate further and survive in the forest. If they knew how to farm, relying on the favorable climate and hydrology of spring, summer, and autumn, they would basically manage to produce enough food to get through winter.

The adults of Mountain Corner Tribe were quickly herded to Whirlpool River to fell trees while shackled; the women were responsible for tilling the land and moving miscellaneous items; the elderly and children were sent to Flame Origin, where the old did light physical work, and the children were given a serf education.

The Ancient Mages were taken away by Magicians to learn more information about the Moon Slayers.

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September on Flame Island corresponds to early autumn.

A week had passed since the capture of Mountain Corner Tribe, and in this week, Liszt and Ach again brought over a batch of ten framed large ships filled with serfs and supplies.

The scale of Flame Town was ever-growing and was developing towards becoming Flame City.

Another batch of shipbuilding workers was brought over. They were constructing sampans right by Whirlpool River. Relying on the sampans to continuously deploy manpower and materials downstream of Whirlpool River, they assisted the pioneer teams in developing the Whirlpool River Residential Area. From time to time, one could see Knights on the riverbank supervising a large number of Moon Slayer Natives at work.

Moon Slayers had not yet learned how to farm or work as laborers, they could only chop wood, till the soil, and transport materials.

Lacking the concept of soil and water conservation, wherever the pioneering knight squads deemed suitable for settlement, they would crazily cut down trees. Then they would start leveling the land to erect stilted wooden houses—these were the most suitable homes in the humid and rainy spring and summer seasons here.

The Moon Slayers of Lake Corner Tribe and Mountain Corner Tribe were among the first batch of new serfs, and soon after, the Knight Order rounded up several smaller tribes that had splintered from Mountain Corner Tribe, like Tree Corner Tribe, River Corner Tribe, and Black Corner Tribe, and enslaved them all.

Those Ancient Mages were sent to the Mage Tower.

Imprisoned, studied.

Li Si Te oversaw the exploration of the Moon Slayers himself, and through continual communication and research with the Moon Language, he finally managed to roughly understand the situation of the Moon Slayers.

The Listener from Mountain Corner Tribe was called “Queotel,” and everyone in the tribe referred to him as “Qui.”

Qui, in his youth, had traveled through the great forest and visited many large tribes similar to Mountain Corner Tribe. Some large tribes occupied the most fertile forests, with populations even exceeding ten thousand. In all those tribes, it was the Ancient Mages who held extraordinary magic and precious knowledge.

He communicated with the Ancient Mages, understanding the world, understanding himself, understanding the future, understanding the past.

“The ancestors of the Moon Slayers were a group of great magicians who once fought alongside dragons, battling against another evil group of dragons. They killed a dragon named Moon… The ancestors of the Moon Slayers sleep in the distant Holy Mountain. Their descendants spread from the Holy Mountain and filled every forest.”

Under the pressure of the magicians, Qui narrated his experiences.

However, as for the dragon named Moon, there were no more records in their legends, and Qui himself did not even know what a dragon was.

It seemed that Flame Island had never been visited by dragons.

Qui’s narrative soon reached the content Liszt was concerned with, “In the far, far northwest, lived a large tribe—the Horn Tribe. Mountain Corner Tribe split from Horn Tribe hundreds of years ago. Horn Tribe guards a Broken Tower, which is the authority established by the ancestors and where the treasures left by the ancestors are enshrined.”

“Question Qui carefully—where exactly is Horn Tribe located!”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

After a round of interrogation by the magicians, Qui could not describe the exact location of Horn Tribe, as he had never visited it; he only knew the approximate direction. He could not make sense of Flame Island’s map; he could only preliminarily deduce that Horn Tribe was not within the Whirlpool Great River Basin.

Liszt looked at the map and hazarded a guess, “Mountain Corner Tribe lies downstream of Whirlpool River, Horn Tribe is in the northwest direction, probably around here…”

He circled a region on the map, deciding to search for it personally.

That so-called “Broken Tower” seemed to him to likely be a Mage Tower left by Ancient Mages; perhaps it stored “Native Tribe’s treasure” hinted at by the Smoke Mission—Ancient Mages who could fight alongside dragons were very likely Archmages, and only objects left by Archmages could be called treasures.

“Unfortunately, Qui is not clear on how many tribes the Moon Slayers have, so the Smoke Mission can’t be completed for the time being,” Liszt felt a tinge of regret in his heart.

However, just as he summoned the Smoke Mission, routinely checking on it,

He suddenly discovered that the smoke had changed.

“Mission completed, reward: Native Tribe’s Treasure.”