Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 714 - 150: Guardian Audition_1

Chapter 714: Chapter 150: Guardian Audition_1

The Dark Elves who had a faith in deviousness and scheming seemed to have idled away over ten thousand years underground in vain. Since the moment the two Beamon shamans stepped into Mosoburada City, in just one day, they had been hoodwinked into parting with countless precious assets, even without having any idea of what Emperor Polo and Xiang Pa looked like on the surface.

Even a rotten ship has three pounds of nails, but they couldn’t withstand such a beating!

The eight Drow Matriarchs and Prince Moore finally understood who the real killer with a black heart and ruthless hands was. Turned out the ever-courteous swan high priest, who always presented a gentlemanly demeanor, was the real heartless predator. Without any change in demeanor, he had pried a huge corner out of Mosoburada, and this kind of corner-prying was even approved by the Matriarchs. They didn’t even leave you with time to regret. Considering this, after a retrospective thought, the Dark Elves felt even more gloomy about Mourinho compared to Piegel who demanded whatever he caught sight of. This was usually the eerie feeling politicians gave - when you are at a loss because of them, you often feel painfully resentful afterwards.

The Matriarch You Yue’er really regretted why the damned negotiations had to take place in Mosoburada.

How could they let the falcon go without seeing the hare? Seeing Lord Mourinho leave filled with riches, Liu Zhenhan was naturally exceptionally green-eyed. The Dark Elves had already agreed upon his terms. They had to implement these one by one, at least to warm his heart. Using Liu Zhenhan’s own words, "If I’m already prepared to entrust my life to your corrupted ceremony, shouldn’t you give me some honey to sweeten the deal? Even if you’re picking a suicide squad, at least reward them with a bowl of Maotai liquor first."

Although the Drow Matriarchs and Prince Moore were somewhat disgruntled inwardly, thinking that these Beamons were one more avaricious and impatient than another, they couldn’t really block the Beamon lord’s way. Watching the Beamon lord command his elites, such as the House archers and nuns, riding winged pegasi, along with a large number of Elf knight riders, to shuffle among various Drow main cities, bringing matriarchal orders to scour the land, dispatching teams of Two-Headed Chimaera from various places to Mosoburada, and the six war ancient trees were, of course, no exception, all swept into the space ring first.

Compared to the importance of the "Sunlight Baptism Ceremony" for the Drow Dark Elves, this loss could be considered as getting value for money. After all, whether they could return to the surface was the truly vital matter, the key issue in the selection of watchers, which let the Drow Matriarchs suppress the raging anger in their hearts, throwing themselves into the intense sea election. Liu Zhenhan was urging these Drow Matriarchs to speed up preparation. He had been out for over a month, and in about a month, the Shaman Olympic Conference would begin. Liu Zhenhan did not want to be burdened with a stupid title of War Shaman and be assigned to the Mig Legion to be a mere army shaman.

The watchers’ selection was the most crucial step concerning the success or failure of the corruption ceremony. The Drow Matriarchs did not put all their eggs in one basket by solely relying on Liu Zhenhan. For them, Piegel Shaman’s abilities were completely asymmetrical. They were unable to determine whether he was as miraculous as Prince Moore had claimed. The Drow Matriarchs definitely wouldn’t completely trust Prince Moore’s statement because it would be an undeniable fact that they understood men less than a Blood Elf did...There was a rather systematic and vivid explanation for the "Sunlight Baptism Ceremony" among the Dark Elves.

The Dark Elf martial arts instructors from the eight major Mosoburada Drow main city combat towers also came to Mosoburada City with the Matriarchs. This time it was not just the Matriarchs who were to hold the "Sunlight Baptism Ceremony"; these martial arts Elders also needed to undergo the "Sunlight Baptism Ceremony." Actually, only these Matriarchs knew where their hopes truly lay.

Mosoburada City gathered all the "Forest Guardians" and "Forest Dryads" together for the most rigorous selection. The total population of these two forest half-elves in Drow society was just over thirteen thousand. In Mosoburada, there were more than four thousand of these two forest half-elves. It was an undeniable fact that hurt Liu Zhenhan’s self-esteem - these Matriarchs did not actually pin their high hopes on Lord Piegel but placed their entire hope on these Forest half-elves!

These two types of Forest half-elves, the Forest Guardians and Forest Dryads, were much more robust than ordinary Dark Elves. It was indeed true that, as mentioned by Prince Moore and Old Liu during their earlier gossiping and inside scoop, these two forest half-elves, with their semi-elf, semi-elk physique, huge hoofs like bowls, thick limbs, more looked like a robust elk with massive bones rather than a Dark Elf. Although they had the handsome faces of the Dark Elves with a rack of spreading antlers on their heads and leaves-like mane fluttering over their bodies, they indeed presented the profile of a forceful melee soldier. Even though they resembled wild beasts in shape, these forest half-elves spoke clearly and could engage in high-level debates and hearty laughs.

The hands of these Forest Guardians were distinctly asymmetrical. They seemed to look as funny as fiddler crabs. Their right hands were huge claws like tree roots, which were ten times bigger than their left hands. Although the Forest Dryads looked slightly slender, their eyes sparkled, and they looked charming and flirty.

The clarity in the eyes of these Forest half-elves gave Liu Zhenhan the creeps.

The more Liu Zhenhan knew about the Dark Elf race, the more he felt that this race was slightly different from the others.

Under this kind of utilitarian guiding thought, it was undeniable that the Forest half-elves were artificially engineered non-natural products.

Liu Zhenhan deeply despised the vile heart of these Dark Elves. The forest half-elves were, after all, intelligent beings. From outward appearances, the traces of Cenarius in their lineage seemed to be more dominant, while the bloodline of the dark elves was clearly in a subordinate position. This should have been a new race with independent thoughts and distinct personality, but the Drow Elves had turned their thoughts and hearts completely Drow... Liu could only sigh deeply at this thought.

This time, a vast amount of manpower and financial resources from the city of Mosoburada were invested in screening out the reservist watchers from the forest half-elves. The strictness of its system and procedures greatly exceeded Liu Zhenhan’s expectations. Although they were already in a rush, the selection process still took up a week due to these complex procedures, wholly unperturbed despite Liu’s impatient exhortations.

During this period, the diets of all the candidates were uniformly arranged by the Drow Elves. The River Immortals, a vassal clan of the Drow, leapt into the icy rivers one by one to probe for Mirage Oysters. Many of the River Immortals, once submerged in water, never had the chance to resurface. Their "Gamma Rays," used to discern directions and pathways, would lose their due effectiveness in the water due to the turbulent waves. Countless scorpion-transfigured Drow, along with Cave Dweller slaves, turned over every single rock on the plains to look for a type of thorn bugs that looked like geckos. These ugly little creatures, covered in sharp spikes and agile in action, were extremely difficult to catch.

From the first to the third day, the Drow gathered all the forest half-elves under the Tree of Life in the Elves Square, where teams of Drow priests personally measured each half-elf with a ruler. Beside them, a clerk nervously transcribed, while numerous Dark Elves, dressed as scholars, incessantly scribbled and sketched with sand tables and wooden sticks.

Prince Moore explained to Old Liu that these priests and scholars were compiling an accurate body proportion ratio of each forest half-elf by means of measurements and calculations, then inferred the most suitable candidates by comparison with genealogy charts.

Perhaps fearing that Liu wouldn’t fully understand, Prince Moore and several Matrons further elaborated on the importance to priest Piegel. Liu Zhenhan almost burst out laughing, but he did admire the scholarly dedication of these Drow Elves. Turning these categorizations into systematic knowledge was not a simple task; it must be the accumulation of wisdom from generations of Drow Elves!

At first, Liu was somewhat impatient, but after observing closely, he found the process rather intriguing and stopped urging the Drow to quicken the pace. Luckily, he had already sent the young nun and Nedved away. Otherwise, it would have been an awkward situation. Vieri, Fat Luo, and Iverson’s skin wasn’t as thick as their boss’, and they seemed somewhat embarrassed by the spectacle.

On the fourth day, over four hundred selected forest half-elves underwent aerobic endurance and gravity tests. These were traditional load-bearing and running tests. The data submitted this time didn’t surprise Liu much. The test data from Feilengcui’s militia, if directly applied here, would make all the Drow Elves in attendance die of embarrassment. The only thing that surprised Liu was that despite a portion of these forest half-elves being part deer, their flexibility was impeccable, reminding Liu of the time he helped those militia train their flexibility and their ground-shaking wails.

On the fifth day, tests of sensory stimulation and psychological endurance were carried out.

On the sixth day, there was a sound test, which once again opened Liu’s horizons.

On the seventh day, Liu originally thought it would be a demonstration of "basic skills," but it turned out to be a magic ability test. The Forest Guardians had a particular effect of deflecting physical and magical damage. This was very similar to the "Thorny Aura" exuded by human priests when they recited the "Holy Armor" canticles. The abilities of the forest dryads surprised Liu even more. Their inherent resistance to magic was significantly high. Ordinary forest dryads could resist the attack of Novice Magic, and the most outstanding few forest dryads could even directly withstand the attack of Intermediate Magic. Liu felt a bit horrified, wondering if these forest dryads could continuously improve their self-cultivation to the point of achieving magic immunity someday?

Now Liu finally understood why the eight matrons valued these forest half-elves so much... Under such circumstances, whether it was the Forest Guardians or the Forest Dryads’ inherent magic resistance, they were, of course, much more valuable than the Beamon war shaman, which had no inherent magical defense ability.

Liu Zhenhan didn’t have the capital to be jealous of these forest half-elves, but he was genuinely envious of their racial abilities. Once these emerging troops gained large-scale combat power, they would be a force to reckon with.

Finally, the rigorous selection came to an end. The Drow used the most scientific method to select one Forest Guardian and two Forest Dryads. Along with Old Liu, they filled the quota needed for the main and alternate candidates of the ritual watchers.