Chapter 5 Drew Girl!

Is this where the Kyles live?" Su Li opened her eyes wide.

"Yes, this line is their warning to outsiders. Whoever breaks in without their permission is their enemy." Meiji peeked at Su Li and felt that every time she showed this expression, she was particularly beautiful.

"I know that Druiy, who lives among the Kyles, is an expert in herbology and zoology... But isn't that too exaggerated?" The knight girl muttered.

A line of gravel and skulls is very obvious in front of them in the moonlight. On the other side of the line, you can see many kinds of animals and beasts... The tiger lies on the ground and dozes, the rabbit jumps around in front of it without worry, the sparrow falls on the eagle, and the wild boar piles the fruits scattered on the ground like a ball in front of a group of small animals, making them gnaw effortlessly...

"If they want a sheep to become a lion's food, the sheep will run to the lion and stretch out its neck. If they want the lion to starve to death, the lion will lie there without eating or drinking until he dies... This is Kyle and their Drui!" Meiji said, "I even saw them make a tiger live by eating grass."

The warrior and the priest looked at each other, and now they finally understand why the Kyle people can live in this dark forest.

"What should we do now?" Su Li looked up at the never-falling moon on her head.

"We have to walk around the line first," Meiji said. "Even if a bird sees us take half a step in, the Kyles will definitely know and then arrest us and burn us as an adult sacrifice."

They walked in the quiet moonlight. Not long after they walked, they saw a child eagle flying to the bottom of their heads. Meiji looked at the child eagle with a smile on his face, but the child eagle fell down and turned into a little bear and threw him to the ground.

"Do you dare to come again?" The little bear pressed Meiji, but made a girl's voice.

"Wait a minute, Ziya," Meiji struggled desperately. "I didn't do anything."

"How dare you say that you didn't do anything when I was asleep?" The bear pressed his shoulder.

"I didn't take it off again. Didn't you find out?" Meiji shouted, "At worst, you can take off me."

"Okay, I'll take off yours now."

"Wait a minute, what do you want to do after you take it off?"

"What do you think?" The little bear turned around and raised his cute bear paw, and the claws on the bear's paw glowed coldly in the moonlight.

Meggie is in a cold sweat.

It was not until then that the bear seemed to notice that there were Su Li and others on the side. He tilted his head for a while, and then turned into a girl about the same age as Meiji.

"Who are they?" The girl said "them" in her mouth, but she only stared at the knight girl alone.

And Su Li is also looking at her. This girl is undoubtedly the Zia mentioned by Meji. Her hair is very short and she is not much longer than an ordinary boy. She is wearing a vest and short trousers, and her arms and legs are exposed. Her eyes are not big, but full of aura. Her black eyes shine a little, and her hands and feet wear small rings made of straw.

"They are my friends." Meiji quickly said, "I have to take them from your village to the other side of the forest."

"My father won't refuse. He will arrest them and dedicate them to the gods."

"So I want you to help me," Meji said. "You have to tell your father that they are also your friends."

"I won't say it."

"Why?"

"Because you secretly took off my trousers."

"But I didn't do anything," Meiji shouted. "I just want to draw a little toad on your ass, not to do anything else."

"That won't work," Qi Ya was angry. "Dad said that that kind of place can only be shown to those who want to marry. I'm Joshua's bride, not Meggie's."

"I don't want to marry you," Meiji said angrily. "Besides, Joshua has been out of the forest for two years and hasn't even come back. I'm afraid she has forgotten us for a long time."

"Anyway, I'm his bride, not yours," Zi Ya said disdainfully. "Who told you to lose the fight to him?"

"Do you take it seriously when you were so young?" Meiji was very angry, "And I didn't lose everything to him."

"What else can compare with him except stealing things? I can't even hold his sword."

"Is he the only one who can hold his ghost sword?" Meiji was dissatisfied, "You are unreasonable at all."

"I'm unreasonable. What do you want?" The girl turned into a bear again, and the bear's paw stroked above his crotch.

"Okay, okay," Meggie asked in a low voice, "Then what do you think you can do to help me?"

"After I help you, you have to accompany me to find Joshua."

"I'm not going..."

"Then I won't help you."

"Hey..."

Su Li kept her eyes wide and watched the two of them "discussion" there. As a result, Zia promised to help them pass through Kyle's territory, and Meggie also promised to find the teenager named Joshua with her afterwards.

It wasn't long before Zia took them into the Kyle village. The Kyle people are a special people. They worship the god of nature, like poetry and dance, and are good at making various tools with bronze. They are violent and irrational in battle, and often burn the captured enemies alive in ceremonies, so they are also regarded as barbarians. They believe in Druiism and are Drui priests who can be given divine power by the gods of nature. They often play both the roles of scholars and judges in the villages of the Kyle people. Drui warriors who can use transformations or other divine powers are often the main force of the Kyles to fight against other peoples.

Ziya is a Druid, and her father, Orangaos, is the high priest of Druid in this Kyle village.

In fact, in Drui, it is difficult to distinguish between a warrior and a priest. He is a scholarly priest. When participating in battle, he is often savagely frightened the enemy. Just like Zia's father, although he was a high priest, his tall and powerful body made no one doubt that he could easily subdue the bison.

"Qiya's friend is my friend, a friend of our whole village." Ollangos laughed and patted the soldiers and others on the shoulder one by one. When he patted Su Li, he rubbed her on her head with that big hand like a little girl.

But Suli, Novak and Steele just have the same idea in their minds: Is Ziya really his daughter?

Olangeos is really too tall. Even the burly Novak has just arrived at his waist a little more. It's really unimaginable that such a tall person can have such a petite daughter as Qi Ya.

"And you seem to have been missing for a while." High Priest Druiy held Megee's collar and forced his feet off the ground. "That's right, boy, how dare you take off my Zia's trousers."

Ziya also told his father about this kind of thing? Meiji quickly defended: "I'm actually... I didn't..."

"Very discerning," Olangos put him down and patted him vigorously on the shoulder. "If she hadn't been my daughter, I would have taken off her trousers. Yes, boy, you have the same vision as me.

Is there such a father? Su Li and others only felt sweating on their foreheads... and not a little bit.

When leaving Olangeos and walking to the place where Zia lived, Suli couldn't help secretly asking Meiji, "Is that person really Ziya's father? Born? I mean...he's so tall, and Zia..."

"You will know in a minute." Meiji shrugged her shoulders.

Sure enough, they "know it soon".

That was when Zia ran and shouted "Mom" to a little girl standing in front of the wooden house...

"Is that really her mother?" Su Li opened her eyes wide.

Ziya is already petite, and the "little girl" is not even tall enough to reach her chest. Her body is slender, and she looks very light, as if a slightly stronger wind will blow her away. Her hair is very long, covered to her waist, her ears look a little sharp, and she has a pair of transparent wings on her back...

wings?

The "little girl" flew to Qi Ya's arm, gently touching her hair while smiling at Su Li and the others.

Until now, Su Li realized that Ziya's mother was actually a goblin. However, just as the elves are divided into forced, red hats, blue spirits, etc., there are also many kinds of goblins, and Su Li doesn't know much about goblins, so she really can't judge which category Qi Ya's mother belongs to.

In this way, with a "extremely" tall father and a "extremely" slender mother, Qi Ya's figure is understandable. But then there is another doubt, that is... what should they do to give birth to her?

But this is a question that can only be answered by imagination.

That night (Qia's father said it was night, although Su Li and others could not see from the never falling moon in the sky), the Kel village was very lively, and Su Li and others really became "guests of the whole village". The soldiers and priests were drunk with their own fragrant leaf wine, and Su Li hid because she was a woman. Everyone has to come and pat their shoulders, which makes their shoulders sore that it almost makes people doubt whether they have been patted and broken.

"The Kyle people don't seem to be as terrible as the legend outside?" Su Li whispered to Megy.

"This is their style," Meiji replied. "As long as one person admits that you are his friend, the whole village will treat you as a friend. In fact, their enemies often take advantage of this, such as using one or two candies to deceive three or four-year-old Kyle children that they are his friends, and then the whole family will be hindered by this 'friend' status and can't do it first in battle.

"They are really... pure." That's all Su Li can say.

The bonfire lit, and the wild songs began to sing. The villagers gathered around the bonfire and danced enthusiastically. And Ziya seemed to be a princess surrounded by a group of savages, which was strangely eye-catching among them. She circled like an elf and jumped over the flames, as if it were the most dazzling star set in the starry sky.

"She dances so well." Su Li sat on the grass in the distance and looked at her, saying with some envy. As a rose knight, her education is also composed of rules, and even if she abandons her identity as a knight, she feels that she can't boldly show herself with dance in the attention of everyone like Zia.

"What a mess." Meiji nibbled the chicken leg and said vaguely, "She's just jumping around."

"But you dance very well, don't you?" Su Li looked at Qi Ya and sighed slowly, "I also had a sister who should be about the same age as her."

Meggie didn't pay much attention.

"I've never seen her..."

Meggie didn't say a word again.

"Maybe one day... what are you doing?" The girl opened her eyes wide and looked at Meggie who fell down and buried her head between her legs.

"I'm so sleepy..."

"I can't lie on my lap even if I'm sleepy."

"Hm!" Meiji has no intention of getting up at all.

Su Li looked at him angrily, but felt that the anger seemed to be just a show.

Forget it this time, she thought. She continued to look at the dancing people and only felt the swaying firelight, which made her mind shake in a trance.

"Meggie."

"Hm?"

"How old are you this year?"

"Three years younger than you, you asked." Megee answered vaguely while burying her head deeper.

"Fifteen..." Su Li sighed, "One year older than my sister."

"Well."

"If one day you can see her, please tell her for me..."

"What did you say?"

"...nothing." Su Li smiled bitterly. What's wrong with yourself? How can Meggie meet someone she can't see? After Meiji helped herself through the Fog Girl Forest, even if she and Meiji, they would probably never meet again. She must return to the royal city and continue to be her rose knight, and Meggie will still be a little scoundrel in Sol Village, steal some money from passing travelers, pretend to cheat some food from the villagers' homes pitifully, and occasionally lie on a girl to do something that makes her blush. He will not care about the upcoming crisis on this continent, and no one will care about his life or death.

At most, when you are about to die in a future battle, you will remember that there was such a boy who slept with his head on his lap...

The swaying figure slowly stopped, and the village became extremely quiet. Su Li knew that the "night festival" of these Kyles was about to begin. Meggie said in advance that these Kyles don't mind having outsiders watching their sacrifices, but the premise is that you can't disturb them at this time. For them, the ceremony of sacrificing God is solemn and sacred.

The priest in the white robe held a sickle and sang poems handed down from ancient times. Everyone knelt down, kissed the earth, and praised the forest and the god of the earth. Because the Kyle people believe that the gods of each land are different, the gods of nature worshipped by the Kyle people in each place are also different. This village worships the forest goddess Deliades, a fairy who can cultivate the forest from nothingness with clear water. It is said that she is also the oldest ancestor of the elves who have been far away from this continent.

Of course, the "god" believed in by Drui is different from the gods mentioned by the church. In the church's literature, these natural gods either do not exist at all or are just members of the demons.

The sound of poetry stopped, and several white-robed priests pushed up the three people tied by wicker with wooden carts to burn them. The Kyle people believe that there is an immortal soul. After death, the soul is immortal, just from one body to another. The god of nature is in charge of balance. While helping human beings survive with animals and fruits, it also punishes them with birth, old age, illness and death. If you want to avoid this punishment, you must redeem it, redeem another soul with one soul, or exchange a few lives for the harvest in the coming year. That's why they sacrificed people.

Before Su Li arrived here, she knew that she might encounter this situation. She also planned not to intervene. After all, her mission is very important, and Kyle people usually only use people who have committed crimes or their enemies as sacrifices. Even if she is a knight, she has no reason to interfere with the religious beliefs of other races.

However, now, she suddenly found that she couldn't do it.

Because three children were dedicated to the gods this time. The three children are only five or six years old, one boy and two girls. They looked at the white-robed priests in horror and watched the torches in their hands approaching step by step...

Su Li gritted her teeth and told herself to be calm and rational. Even if you stand out, you can't save these three children, and you will only kill yourself needlessly. However...

"Wait a minute." She still called out impulsively.

All the Kyle people looked at her, and Meiji was even more shocked. She sat up and almost flashed her waist. Su Li stood up and walked towards the three children.

Stop, stop and think rationally, and calm down to think about it and you will know what is really good for yourself. She seemed to hear another herself shouting at her like this.

But she can't stop.

Zia's father came out of the priest, and his earlier heroism had disappeared. He looked at the knight girl coldly and asked, "What's the matter?"

"You can't do this," Su Li shouted at him. "They're just children!"

Behind her, Meggie was already scared. Zia was at a loss to look at the knight girl and her father in the crowd, and the warrior and the priest were also looking at Su Li from the tin in a daze and didn't understand what was going on.

"They are really just children," High Priest Druid asked coldly, "So what?"

"The child is innocent," under his fierce eyes, Su Li only felt that she was shaking faintly. However, the idea of protecting the child still made her insist on saying, "What kind of god would watch several children burned to death in front of her and accept it calmly? I believe that if the God you believe in really exists, she will never be able to accept such a cruel burnt offering. They are just children."

"These three children were caught by us when we attacked the sand thieves," Olangos said with a blank face. "The children among the enemy are still enemies."

"Even if they are enemies, they are still children. They don't know anything. They don't even know what the word enemy means..." Su Li looked at him without hesitation.

Ziya slipped to Meiji and quietly pulled his clothes: "Let your friend stop talking. She will die."

Meggie's heart is also cold. Although he didn't think Su Li was very smart, but... she is too stupid, isn't she? It's simply an incomprehensible show. What's the big deal for several children who don't know each other? Do they need to lose their lives? There are many premature children in the world. Can they be saved?

"Suli, come back." He screamed a little angrily and felt how he could come here with such a stupid girl to die.

"You are our guest," Olangos turned around and walked a few steps without looking at her. "If you leave here now and never run to our territory again, I can forgive you for interrupting our ceremony just now."

"I will leave, but these children..." Su Li wants to say more.

Olangos suddenly grabbed a javelin in the hand of a Kyle warrior and throw it at her. Before Su Li could escape, she was marked on her right shoulder and put her whole body on the ground. Novak and Steele were shocked and wanted to run to her, when several sickles were already on their necks.

Meggie knelt beside the girl in panic.

"I have warned you." Olangos looked coldly at Sully, who fell to the ground, "The person who dares to disturb our sacred ceremony is no longer our friend."

Su Li stood up with blood on the corners of her mouth.

"Don't move," Meji shouted to her. "You're injured. Don't move again."

Su Li ignored him, stood up with difficulty, slowly walked to Orangos, grabbed the javelin with her hand and pulled it out. High Priest Druid looked at her expressionlessly.

"I'll replace them."

"What?" High Priest Drui frowned.

"Suli, are you crazy?" Meiji shouted behind her, "Don't you still have a very important task? Didn't you say that it was a more important task than your life? How can you die here?"

Yes, I still have a task. That's an important task, a task related to the fate of the whole continent... Su Li smiled bitterly at the bottom of her heart. She threw the javelin on the ground and looked at High Priest Druid: "I'll replace these children!" Give me to your God and let these children go!"

The crowd next to him looked at the girl in astonishment and couldn't help whispering. Orangos couldn't help but be a little moved. He took a torch and slowly walked to the girl. The flame was getting closer and closer to the girl, and the heat burned her face.

"Have you really decided to do this?" High Priest Drui looked down at her face behind the firelight, "Are you really going to be burned alive by us for these children?"

The girl raised her head and looked at him calmly: "Yes, let them go and burn me to death!"

Meggie muttered behind her: "Crazy, she has gone crazy."

"Very good," Olangos said, "a brave soul, and three young lives, I can think they are equivalent."

He waved his hand, and several white priests immediately grabbed Su Li and began to tie her up with wicker.

This is my end, Su Li thought, without any resistance. The blood on her shoulder is still flowing, making her consciousness more and more blurred. Just then, she saw a petite figure flying in front of her...

"Stop," that's Zia's mother, who looked at Olangos, "Let them stop, my husband. Deliad has put her oracle in my heart, and she said that tonight's ceremony is over.

"But the ceremony has not yet begun..." High Priest Drui was stunned. Naturally, he believed his wife's words. In the past, the forest goddess Deliad of this land often conveyed her oracle to the whole village through his wife.

"The ceremony has been completed," the petite woman with wings told her husband, "Deliades has accepted the blood sacrificed by the girl, in exchange, the forest goddess will satisfy her intention to save the three children."

Olangos frowned and looked at the ground, and saw that the girl's blood dripping on the grass was slowly disappearing, as if something was sucking in these red ** little by little.

"Yes, the ceremony has indeed been completed," Ollangos looked at the girl with a paler face. "You redeemed the lives of these three children with your blood. The god of nature is the maintainer of balance. Since Adelaide thinks that the blood you shed is equivalent to what you guard, there must be her reason. You are still our friend, because tonight's ceremony belongs to you.

Su Li looked at him and could only know that he was speaking in a trance. The voice was so small for her that she could not hear it clearly. Finally, she shook her body and fell down...