Chapter 42: Somewhat Fateful

The surrendered cave monsters live in the caves at the foot of the mountain in the west. Their leader is a LV13 [Cave Wizard] named Mori Jian. Mori Jian holds a bone staff and has a certain amount of wisdom.

Except for him, the other cave monsters are almost all at LV1 and LV2. Individually, they are stronger than the tribesmen, but not much.

The cave wizard was very humble in front of Isabel. He briefly and concisely described the origin of the cave monsters.

"Apostle, in fact, cave monsters are another branch of humans."

"Due to living underground for a long time, their bodies have slowly changed. Generation after generation, they have become what they are now, and they are not as smart as humans on the ground."

The whole thing started from the last era.

That was the era when the forest god still controlled this land.

The cave monsters were not cave monsters at that time, but a group of believers of the forest god. They believed in the forest god, lived in the forest, and lived with birds and beasts.

On weekdays, they planted various kinds of mushrooms and relied on mushrooms and berries in the forest for food. Thanks to the blessing of the forest god, the vast forests are always full of food, and they live a stable and natural life.

Huge changes are coming quietly.

The fall of the forest god has caused large tracts of forests to wither and shrink. Some places have become deserts, and some have become bare mountains.

There are corruptors and molting monsters everywhere. They are fanatics and soldiers of the two heretical gods [Whistleblower] and [Skinner].

The corruptors capture the believers of the forest god and hang them to make new corruptors. The molting monsters even peel off people's skin alive, causing them to die in extreme pain.

To avoid the massacre, people in the forest go into caves and flee underground. In order to avoid the pursuit of those terrifying killers, they keep migrating deeper and deeper, and come to the dark and cold underground caves.

In the dark caves, they rely on growing mushrooms and catching underground insects for food.

It is too cold underground, and you can't see your fingers. Many people can't adapt to such a life and die of hunger, cold and disease.

But a small number of people survived tenaciously.

They survived the most difficult days and gradually found a way to survive.

As time passed, their bodies changed: thick body hair grew on their bodies, their hair became longer and longer, and their limbs became strong and wide. They moved quickly underground like lizards using all four limbs.

They changed from humans to cave monsters, using masks polished by stones to protect their facial features and deter enemies. They used stones to make spears and axes, and would make strange noises and make strange movements to boost their courage and scare their prey.

Among the cave monsters, some people still haven't forgotten where they came from. They passed it on by word of mouth, telling future generations not to forget that they came from the ground.

As long as they wait patiently for the gods to calm down, they can return to the ground, stand in the sun again, and no longer eat insects, and walk upright.

The cave monster family [Sen] led by Sen Jian has never forgotten the past. The family name Sen is also used to warn future generations to remember that they came from the forest.

They waited silently.

Not long ago, a large-scale collapse suddenly occurred in the mountain.

Morijian was keenly aware that this might be the revelation of the gods. So he began to walk out of the cave carefully and found that the outside had indeed changed, and there were no more pursuers everywhere.

However, at this juncture, another cave monster family was exterminated.

Morijian's ability is called [Wind Listener]. He can hear the sound dissipated in the air through the wind. This is extremely useful underground and helps the family avoid many dangers and conflicts.

In the wind, he heard about Yao Shen, the apostles, and the garlic tribe.

The killing of [Whistle Blower] and [Skin Peeler] has ended.

The god here is now the benevolent and majestic Yao Shen.

Morijian led his family members down the mountain, hoping to join the garlic tribe. So when he met the forest wolf, he surrendered to the wolf pack and expressed his attitude of becoming a vassal.

...

Lu Yao was in a strange mood.

The landslide happened to be caused by the earthquake he caused. So, he had a little fate with this cave monster family.

Since he already had a ghost city, it would not be a big deal to accept a group of cave dwellers.

Before that, Lu Yao had to make sure whether the cave wizard was lying.

Isabel said: "My lord, I used the last prayer to ask the nearby dead souls, and what they said was basically the same as what Senjian said."

That's fine.

Led by the leader Senjian, 40 cave dwellers left the mountains and came to the Garlic Tribe.

There was a disagreement within the Garlic Tribe on accepting cave dwellers.

At first, most of the tribesmen opposed it.

"Cave dwellers are enemies, enemies!"

"They are underground monsters that may kill people at any time!"

"They killed the hero headhunter!"

"Leader Yuzou, have you forgotten the blood feud in the past!"

For these criticisms and doubts, Yuzou faced them calmly.

The white-haired leader said: "Everyone listen to me. The death of the headhunter shows us that the tribe must not stand still."

"If we were as powerful as the Salt Pond Tribe, would the cave monsters dare to attack us at that time? They didn't dare."

"Even if we attacked them, they didn't dare to resist."

"Now, the cave monsters that once attacked us are willing to join the Garlic Tribe on their own initiative. Why is this?"

He concluded: "It's not because they have become timid, but because we have become stronger."

"God Yao sent the Apostle, who showed everyone how powerful God is. The Salt Pond Tribe is being punished by God, and this is the power of God!"

Yuzou continued, "At first, the Forest Tribe was our enemy, then the Barbarian Tribe was our enemy, and then the Donghe Tribe was also our enemy, but now, we work and live together."

"Why can't the Cave Monster do the same?"

Yuzou finally concluded, "This is also the will of God Yao! Who of you wants to object?"

After bringing out the majesty of God, there were finally no other voices.

Lu Yao was very satisfied with his courage, that's right, he looked like a leader.

Yuzou grew up under his watch.

Once, he was an unreliable link among the Pig and Fish brothers.

Later, he became one of the earliest heroes of the tribe, and experienced the death of the headhunter in battle, various changes in the tribe, the death of the first generation of tribal leaders Nonglai and Liecang... before he became the calm and mature leader he is now.

After joining the Garlic Tribe, the Cave Monster family obtained several houses.

They lived in the direction closest to the mountains in the west.

Mori Jian took the cave monsters to the mountains with camels and copper hammers to mine every day. The cave monsters also became professional miners and stonemasons in the tribe.

Labor made them integrate into the garlic tribe.

Although the cave monsters still wore stone masks, had strange shapes, and sometimes used to crawling on all fours, other people in the tribe were no longer surprised.

[Cave Wizard] Mori Jian quickly became the leader of the garlic tribe because of his wisdom and experience, and decided the direction of the tribe together with Yuzou and Shahan.

At this time, a prompt appeared on the screen.

[Mori Jian presented you with a sacrifice. ]

Lu Yao moved his wrist.

The long-awaited sacrifice is finally here.

Let me see what props I can draw this time.

Thanks to Xingyue Canhe for supporting 100 starting coins.