Chapter 495 - Glory Once Again
Chapter 495
Glory Once Again
The Flaming Horns attracted too much attention. Wherever they went, every person who saw this troop would look at them with a weird look.
Ao had already chosen a different path from the one they took when they came. However, with such a large number, they were already a bigger group than many tribes. It was the same scale as to how they crossed the river back to their homeland.
To other people, they thought Flaming Horn was moving again!
They couldn’t keep this a secret if they wanted to. When other tribes traded with each other, they talked about Flaming Horn.
“Did you know? Flaming Horn is moving again!” said a trader from far away.
“Moving? I saw them just a while ago, there weren’t that many people. I thought they were going to declare war with someone,” said another, confused.
“Not many? There were so many! I saw old people, women and children myself! They crossed in front of our tribe!”
Although they were far away, the Wanshi people felt a strong, intimidating force. Too violent, too powerful. They did not want to face this.
“No way, we are not going!” decided a high-ranked slave immediately. Although they were here with the Wanshi chief, they had private instructions from their masters. If anything seemed wrong, they should return immediately. They didn’t want to die with these Wanshi people. They had finally escaped the desert, hence conservative with their forces. They were already terrified of all the fighting in the desert.
After that, a few other high-ranked slaves expressed similar opinions.
Wanshi’s chief almost had a heart attack from the sudden betrayal and the change of events.
His mouth opened several times. He wanted to give commands but then swallowed his words. He almost spat blood as he quickly retracted his surging power. His features contorted painfully, eyes filled with struggle as the veins in his hand gripping his knife buldged.
Fight?
The main force of the Flaming Horn was back. Not just them, they had reinforcements! If they attacked now, it could be bad. Plus his people were getting cold feet, how could they fight now?!
Don’t fight?
What about his dignity? All dignity was lost!
However, reality was cruel. Wanshi’s chief had no choice.
“Go back.” Wanshi tasted blood in his mouth as he suppressed his anger.
However, since everyone’ attention was on the newly appeared troop, no one heard him. The ones who did weren’t so sure.
“W-what? Chief, what… did you say?” asked someone.
“I said, go back!” roared the Wanshi chief. He couldn’t vent his anger probably, now spitting a mouthful of blood once again as he roared.
The rest didn’t dare ask questions. Although they were unwilling to miss such a good opportunity, at this point, it was obvious they shouldn’t attack. They still wanted to live.
That was why Wanshi’s plan to attack while Flaming Horn was at a weak point failed.
Fearsome beast forest, within the Flaming Horn tribe.
Ta had already received reports of movements with the WAnshi tribe. Although the tribe had the fire seed as a line of defence, they couldn’t completely rely on it either. Its range was limited, they still had to go to war. Previously, when the shaman sent out so many people, they didn’t agree with it but they didn’t express their reservations.
Ta instructed his people to prepare for battle and went to talk to the shaman. Should they move a batch of people out first? Their main forces were halved, fighting was going to be difficult. No one was sure what would happen.
However, when he asked, the shaman remained silent as he stood next to the fire pit. “There is no need.”
“But…”
Ta wanted to say something but the shaman said, “You don’t need to prepare. While this battle will come sooner or later, today is not the day!”
Ta looked at the shaman in confusion. He didn’t explain, merely staring into the roaring flames.
The flames within the pit roared, they hadn’t stopped since the time it suddenly exploded. Now, the flames had only grown taller and brighter.
The shaman stared with tears in his wise eyes. Although he didn’t go with Ao, he knew what was going to happen.
“It’s been one thousand years,” he sighed.
One thousand years. Flaming Horn used to be a prosperous tribe, every person on this land knew of them. Now, they were forgotten.
Natural disasters, disputes, the incomplete fire seed, change of heart, obstacles… all forced them to cower in a corner of the world. Although they didn’t know how their ancestors felt when they carved the cave painting, they knew that their ancestor, Zhan, and his people were all hopeful from the leather scrolls passed down generations. Every generation of Flaming Horn hoped Flaming horn would restore its former glory. The fire of Flaming Horn shall not die!
“Glory to Flaming Horn once again!” Tears finally flowed out of the shaman’s eyes, two streams down his wrinkled, weathered face.
“Haha…. Hahahaha!” The shaman let out a hoarse guffaw as he stared tearfully into the flames, like he had let go of all sanity, just in pure bliss.
Ta, standing next to him, was stunned. HAd the sombre old man gone mad?
Flames rolled within the pit. As the breeze blew, the totem of two horns appeared gradually.
Ta’s totemic patterns on his body appeared too.
Sensing something, Ta looked in a direction into the forest. He heard birds and animals, all familiar sounds. However, at this moment, what he thought was unrelated to the animals. His eyes were locked in a direction, as if waiting for something.
Not just Ta, everyone had a strange feeling. No matter what they were doing, everyone dropped whatever they had in their hands and looked up.
The sky was darkening, the sun’s rays slowly disappeared into the night. The glow of the flames slowly became more and more obvious in the night, even the silver moonlight did not weaken them.
Within the dark forest, as they heard approaching footsteps, dots of light the colour of the fire seed appeared. They grew more and more, emerging densely packed together.