Chapter 58 Black Blight

Seeing Joan's serious face and silence, Matoka thought he was frightened by the goblins, and comforted him with a smile: "Our side is not easy to mess with, there are me and Kandy's father, and forty people The elite hunter guards of the Sar clan, unless Letu goes out in person, any goblin bandits who come will be killed."

"That's right, Joan, Leto's fortress is located in the depths of the 'Screaming Forest'. It is unlikely that the hobgoblin lord and his generals will wander around here. There is a large group of people here, and there is also a tall tree man, who has already run away in fright, how dare he take the initiative to find fault." Sitting on the shoulder of the tree man "Xiao Hei", Kandi looked at this situation with his usual optimistic attitude. A trip home.

"Actually, I'm more worried about the threat from the north than Letu's troops," Kalinin said thoughtfully.

"You mean 'black blight'?" Matoka looked at her husband.

Kalinin nodded, his face became extremely serious: "The goblins only want to rob us of our land and food, but the 'black blight' that is spreading towards the Yalfheim area will destroy our homeland, if we don't try to Stop the expansion of this evil force, and one day the great forest of Yalf will turn into a desert, and we will not find a single green plant on the cursed land."

"Okay honey, don't say such terrible things in front of the children!" Matoka rolled her husband's eyes, trying to comfort him, "Magni has already taken people to the north bank of the Efen River to investigate, and when he brings back information about With the latest information on black blight, we may be able to find a way to fight this disaster."

"I hope so." Viktor Kalinin replied thoughtfully.

"What does 'black blight' refer to?" Joan couldn't help asking Kandy curiously.

"I don't know too well. I heard that it is a supernatural disaster that spread from the Midgard area in the north of the Iffin River. In the area where the black blight broke out, the originally lush trees and crops withered inexplicably overnight. The scary thing is that the trees infected with black blight will also give birth to evil activated plants called 'wither monsters', which take pleasure in killing creatures." Conti was silent for a few seconds, and said in a heavy tone: "In recent years, black blight has continued to spread. Spreading from north to south, a large area of ​​forest withered along the way, and the human settlements were destroyed by the "withered monster" and turned into ruins. Now this terrible disease has spread to the north bank of the Iffin River. If even the Ifen River can't stop the black With the spread of the blight, the village of Powhatan on the south bank of the river will also face disaster."

Hearing what Kandy said, Joan realized that Powhatan Village was not the carefree "paradise" he had thought, and was also facing various crises. The local Asa residents were more often struggling between internal and external troubles. To survive, it is not difficult for him to understand why most of the Asa people are optimistic and brave. Without a positive and optimistic attitude and the courage to fear death, they would not be able to survive in that difficult environment.

As Conti expected, the next four days of the journey were uneventful. The goblins encountered along the way were only in small groups, not worth mentioning. When they heard the sound of horseshoes from a distance, they were frightened and scattered.

Accompanied by the Conti family, Joan passed through the "Screaming Forest" smoothly and arrived at the end of the journey on the afternoon of February 20th.

Joan stood on the shoulder of the tall tree man and looked at Kandy's hometown. All he could see were the large tracts of fertile land reclaimed along the banks of the Delin River, which gave him the illusion of returning to Delin Town.

Joan continued to move forward, and the scenery he saw along the way became very different from Delin Town. The village of Powhatan, where the Algonquins have lived for generations, is located in a secluded valley surrounded by mountains and woods. This strange village composed of tree houses, caves, wooden houses and hard dirt roads is completely integrated with fragrant wildflowers, towering ancient trees and trickling streams. The resulting beauty.

The natural scenery in front of me left a wonderful and deep impression on Joan, who visited the place for the first time, as if this was not a man-made village, but a community bred by nature—like an ant nest or beehive, its existence It does not destroy the natural ecosystem, but is an indispensable part of maintaining the local ecological balance.

Powhatan Village is called "Village", but in fact, it is much larger than Joan's hometown, Delin Town, in terms of area and population. There are no less than 7,000 permanent residents in the area, and the Asa people account for more than 80% of the total population. In addition, there are a small number of elves, half-elves and goblins who are happy to deal with humans and settle here. As for the more solitary and conservative elves and goblins, they live in the forest deep in the valley, and occasionally visit the market in Powhatan Village when they need to buy necessities such as salt, sugar, candles, and lamp oil.

Joan inspected Powhatan Village from the perspective of an outsider, and found that the biggest difference between here and Delin Town is that the locals are not afraid of repelling wild animals. Regardless of the busiest street near the village office or the field ridges on both sides of the river, groups of wild animals can often be seen wandering. Of course there are tame deer, and wild beasts such as bears, wolves, and bobcats are not uncommon.

Joan also found that these wild animals are not very afraid of people, and they will not take the initiative to hurt people. There are scenes of bear cubs and wolf cubs playing with children everywhere. The human inhabitants of the area can live in harmony with the wild animals mainly because Powhatan is the headquarters of the Harvest Circle, a green druid society in the Yalfheim region. The ferocious beasts that Joan saw were either the "animal companions" of druids and rangers - they looked like wild beasts, but they were actually magical beasts with human nature, or they were the companions or offspring of such magical beasts. Be part of the Harvest Circle family.

Conti's father, Victor Kalinin, is the chief elder of the Yalfheim branch of the "Ring of Harvest", like the head of Powhatan, a big family where man and nature live in harmony. Under the influence of Elder Kalinin over the years, many young people in Powhatan Village have donned green robes and become a new generation of "Druids of the Green Field". Elder Kalinin and his disciples used natural magic to help local residents heal their wounds and diseases, expel pests from farmland and fruit trees, and increase production and harvest.

Of course, nature has not always been kind to humans. After all, the beasts close to the local villagers are only a very small number of druids, and there are more beasts in the depths of the jungle that are hostile to Powhatan Village, as well as goblins, orcs, ogres, and evil goblins that are more threatening than beasts.

It is not easy to survive and reproduce in such an environment surrounded by dangers and powerful enemies. It is precisely because of the pressure of the environment that the Asa people have to learn to be self-reliant and develop a tenacious character from an early age.

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