The Sacred Mountain towered into the clouds and was composed of three peaks. The highest peak was even more majestic than the former main peak of Dragonspine Ridge. Due to the high terrain, the mountain was covered in ice and snow all year round from the middle of the mountain to the top. The steep path in the mountain would make any ordinary human flinch at the sight of it. The brave werewolves also used the mountain as a training ground for the young people in their tribe. Every time a young werewolf reached adulthood, they would set off alone, carrying only three days' worth of rations to cross the mountain. Only werewolves who successfully crossed the mountain and brought back a specific prey from the east side of the mountain would be recognized as being able to take charge. The highest peak of the Sacred Mountain, Sunscorch Peak, was the goal of the best young werewolves. The bravest (and sometimes the stupidest) young werewolves would climb the peak with their bare hands and take a rock from the peak as a symbol of their bravery. This rock would be inlaid on the tribal totem by the elders of the tribe, becoming a lifelong glory of the werewolf. It was said that hundreds of the best werewolves would challenge the peak every year, but less than 30% of them succeeded. Under the unremitting efforts of these brave werewolves for thousands of years, the altitude of the Sacred Mountain was now almost two meters lower than when the werewolves first migrated here.
Anyway, it was said that the leaders of the werewolf tribal state were discussing whether to control the enthusiasm of the young people in the tribe to challenge. The group of silly little wolf pups had been digging stones from the top of the Sacred Mountain all day long, almost grinding the top of the mountain into a rounded corner.
Eighty percent of the werewolves on Planet Holletta lived around the Sacred Mountain. This majestic mountain and the vast land around it were enough to accommodate so many werewolves. The werewolves here formed a society in the form of tribes. Each tribe had its own leader, and all the leaders formed a tribal council, which became the ruling class of the werewolf tribal state. It was said that this form of society had been passed down from the time of the ancient Magic Kingdom. It perfectly fitted the werewolf tradition: both the emphasis on bloodline and unity. Therefore, the tribal state system had brought stability to the werewolf society for thousands of years, making them an ancient country comparable to the Kingdom of Holletta.
Uruk, who was sent by the werewolf tribal kingdom to negotiate with Holletta, was one of such tribal leaders. His tribe lived on the mountainside of the Sacred Mountain and had built a large city-state there. His wolf riders were not the most elite in the werewolf kingdom, but they were the largest in number. That was why Uruk could become the representative of the Sacred Mountain patrollers and assume the responsibility of the commander of this joint operation.
Well-equipped elite knights and magic soldiers set off from Hodeceus, divided into three teams and entered the Sacred Mountain. and met with the werewolf soldiers at the entrance of the mountain. Next, they would enter the Sacred Mountain under the leadership of the werewolves and go deep into the mountains. Hao Ren, Ophra and others went with the largest of the main forces. The other two groups were led by the werewolf general, Elson, and Cardinal Orben. Big Beardy was an ascetic, so he was with the third team.
The knights soon came to the rendezvous point with the werewolves. Lily stood on a boulder and took a deep breath. "Shhhh — the air of my hometown …"
Nangong Sanba looked at Lily and whispered to Hao Ren, "Is she really sure that Holletta is her hometown?"
"There's no other way. There's no other werewolf on Earth besides the Plane of Dreams. I haven't found a second case of a husky turning into a demon." Hao Ren twitched the corner of his mouth. "We can only assume that her hometown is Holletta."
Nangong Wuyue transformed into a snake and raised her upper body nearly three meters high. She looked at the mountains in the distance and said, "Uruk said that he would be waiting for us here in advance. Why hasn't he appeared yet?"
A werewolf adjutant beside Ophra said, "Uruk's leader is coming with his war wolves. He should be here soon."
As soon as the werewolf adjutant's voice trailed off, Nangong Wuyue shouted in the air, "Oh, oh, oh, I see it! It's really the werewolf cavalry! "
A cloud of dust suddenly rose from the mountain path in the distance. Then, a dense and heavy sound of running came from the dust cloud. Dozens of black silhouettes sprinted over from afar. Uruk led a group of fully-armed werewolf warriors to the front of the group. These warriors were all wearing rough black leather armor, with a huge guillotine on their back and an animal tooth necklace around their neck as decoration and kill record. Other than that, there was no heavy armor. And their mounts were huge black war wolves — the kind that were a few times larger than the wild wolves on Earth, with bone plates growing from their waists. Due to their unique body structure, these wolves could be used as mounts here.
Dozens of wolf riders charged from afar and stopped less than ten meters in front of the knights. Every wolf did not make any unnecessary movements, and even the position where they stopped was as orderly as a straight line. Their uniform movement made it hard to imagine that this was a group of wild and untameable beasts with sharp teeth. The wolf riders lived with their war wolves all year round, and the werewolves' natural ability allowed them to communicate with these beasts without any obstacles. So with the two working together, they became the world's most powerful ground troops. Today was the first time they met, and as expected … Hmm, pretty neat.
Anyway, Hao Ren was a layman, and he could only see the word "pretty neat".
The wolf riders were dressed in black, which looked like it was for night combat, but in fact, their black armor and black war wolves had nothing to do with "camouflage", it was just their traditional combat attire. Even when they were moving around in the snowy mountains, they still wore this eye-catching outfit. This involved some of the customs of the werewolves, and it would take a lot of time to explain it to outsiders.
Uruk rode his war wolf up to Ophra. "You can't ride the war wolves, so you can only go on foot in the mountains. To be honest, I don't think this is a good idea — the knights are very powerful, but it's not necessarily the same as the infantry."
Ophra smiled calmly. "Do you think the knights that I personally trained can only fight on horseback? We still cut down 200,000 barbarians in the south in the swamp. Let's go, I hope your wolf riders' noses are as good as the legends say, and they can dig those heathens out from the cracks in the rocks. "
Uruk smiled, it seemed that Ophra's stubborn answer was to his liking, but before he gave the order to set off, Hao Ren quickly asked, "First, check your protective crystals, are you all wearing them?"
Ophra turned around and waved to the knights. "All team commanders check, all soldiers raise the protective crystals, report immediately if the crystal is missing."
Uruk also turned back and said, "Everyone check your crystals! That's a life-saving thing! "
The soldiers raised the protective crystals that were given to them before they set off, and those crystals were brought out by Hao Ren from CARS. These things were piled up like a mountain in CARS, and any large spare part could knock out thousands of such fragments, so Hao Ren simply gave one to each soldier. Ophra also took out her crystal and looked at it. "I can't believe … that the monster's spiritual power was suppressed by such a small stone, and even the most determined archbishop we sent could not reach the foot of the main peak."
The war wolf under Uruk had been looking at Hao Ren curiously, and finally could not help but snort and spoke in a low voice, "Wait a minute, are you a tough guy?"
Hao Ren was a little stunned by the title, and then when he saw the war wolf speak, he suddenly remembered who it was. He was stunned. "… Wolf King?! The one in the grasslands? "
The black wolf looked back and forth between Hao Ren and Lily, and looked surprised. "Eh, it's really you guys. I didn't dare to recognize you at first — you humans are too hard to tell, I can't even tell if you're male or female. Fortunately, your scent hasn't changed much. How did you get here? "
Hao Ren and his companions (those who had met the wolf king before) were all shocked, they did not expect to meet the talking wolf king under such circumstances. Lily sniffed and said, "Oh, it's really you — I was going to ask you, how did you get here? Aren't you a grassland wolf? "
"Sigh, it's a long story … A gust of wind blew on the grasslands, the seasons changed, many animals were migrating, and the wolves also had to find a new place to stay. Fortunately, I was clever, and brought my brothers here to find a new home … "
From the generals to the soldiers, everyone was stunned, and Uruk's eyes were wide open, not knowing what to say. He was faced with the strangest situation in his life.
As the commander, he was ignored by everyone, and his mount was chatting with someone else …
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