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What is the legacy of a warrior?
The seeds of wisdom sprouted. They learned to make tools, preserve monkey brew, and gradually accumulated their own tribal 'heritage'.
However, they occasionally suffered disturbances from the sky and the ground, but everything was developing in a good direction.
They regarded the trees that could produce special 'Wood' as a gift from the forest; the 'forest' was their totem of faith.
Later, emissaries sent by the gods brought them sharp axes. Axes allowed them to cut down a large number of trees in a short time and could also be used to drive away natural enemies.
Gradually, they were no longer satisfied with living in trees, but used the 'Wood' cut with axes to build houses and weapons.
They completely became bipedal creatures.
Walking on two feet had a great advantage for them: the energy saved in their lifetime allowed female Four-Armed Orangutans to give birth to one or two more offspring.
Yes, at that time, they were not yet enough to be called 'Four-Armed Orangutans'.
What truly made them evolve was another opportunity:
Perhaps they betrayed the forest, or perhaps the forest abandoned them.
The trees near the Four-Armed Orangutans' habitat became scarcer, and they had more natural enemies to guard against.
Just as the Four-Armed Orangutans were about to be wiped out by a Tiger Beast, the gods manifested.
“A lightning bolt from the sky struck down the Tiger Beast and brought the Four-Armed Orangutans the spark of civilization and hope.”
Sorrowful Sword Elegy's gaze swept across the stone wall in front of him, and he naturally spoke the meaning of the words on the stone slab.
And that divinely bestowed stone slab was placed with extreme care directly in front of the stone wall.
Simple and easy-to-understand patterns were drawn on it. Perhaps it was the inspiration from this stone slab that fell from the sky that gave the Four-Armed Apes their vivid script.
The 'image' of the god on the stone slab was almost identical to the players, only depicted as extremely tall.
Perhaps, this was why the Four-Armed Apes recognized them as divine envoys, he thought.
“From then on, the Four-Armed Orangutans seemed to suddenly awaken wisdom, learning to use fire to cook food, drive away natural enemies, and fend off the cold winter.”
My Cat Can Do Backflips looked at the content on the stone wall in front of him.
Rose with Leg Hair followed closely, reading the content directly in front of her with greattacit agreement, “But unfortunately, fire was only effective against some lower-level creatures. Against some powerful creatures, or creatures that were not afraid of fire, the Four-Armed Orangutans were helpless, and their survival situation became increasingly difficult.”
Shen Qing: “They began to build their own tribes, striving to survive with wisdom, attempting to raise captured live prey, or preserving edible plant seeds for planting.”
At this time, the Four-Armed Orangutans had completely evolved into Four-Armed Apes.
The continuation of civilization no longer stopped at personal demonstration, but at the inheritance of language and writing.
Pancake Doggy: “During this process, the Four-Armed Apes never gave up their prayers to the gods.”
“Finally, a Four-Armed Ape with a unique talent, using the fire bestowed by the gods as a medium, received a response from the gods.”
“The gods accepted their sacrificial offerings and bestowed upon them the language and knowledge from the divine realm.”
Your Dad Flies in the Sky was utterly confused and asked in the private chat channel for the seven of them, “No, how did you guys figure out so much?”
Night Raid Widow Village: “Just describe the pictures.”
Your Dad Flies in the Sky looked at Night Raid Widow Village with some surprise.
The latter didn't even spare Your Dad Flies in the Sky another glance.
Sorrowful Sword Elegy: “Did you notice?”
My Cat Can Do Backflips: “The god that the Four-Armed Apes worship seems to be from Huaxia.”
If that's the case, then this so-called game... “Respected divine envoys, your reading is completely correct.”
Tower Flame said with worship in his eyes.
“But we don't understand, why has the great god never been willing to respond to us since then?”
“Is it because our sacrifices are not enough?” Tower Flame said dejectedly, “We are finding it harder and harder to hunt, many of our young are starving, and in the sky... those damned Primal Hawks love to eat our brains!”
“Primal Hawks!?” Night Raid Widow Village blurted out.
That brief, abrupt experience gave him a different feeling towards creatures like the Primal Hawks.
“Indeed, they are evil creatures, drawing chaotic power from the lesser sun since they were in their eggshells.”
Only then did Sorrowful Sword Elegy and the others realize that the Four-Armed Apes referred to the large sun in the sky as the “Great Sun” and the smaller one as the “lesser sun.”
In the Four-Armed Apes' belief, the Great Sun existed to suppress the chaotic and evil lesser sun.
And Primal Hawks were creatures born to chase the lesser sun.
“Is the Primal Hawk... race very large?” Night Raid Widow Village asked.
“Perhaps. The most we've ever seen were a dozen Primal Hawks flying in the sky. They fly so high, completely unafraid of the Great Sun and lesser sun scorching their wings, so such creatures are not afraid of fire.”
“We tried to shoot them with burning arrows, but it wasn't very effective because they could summon hurricanes.”
“Fortunately, there are giant Lizard Dragons in the sky that eat them, otherwise we would have been eaten to extinction by the Primal Hawks.”
As he spoke, Tower Flame realized he had completely strayed from the topic.
“Oh, we've gone too far. After all, the great god is the most important being in our tribe.”
“What exactly do we need to do to gain the god's recognition, to become the great god's...”
Tower Flame thought for a while and finally remembered the word the divine envoys had mentioned.
“Familia?”
“Don't worry, haven't we already investigated you on behalf of the great god?” Sorrowful Sword Elegy smiled.
“But now it seems, you are not qualified Familia.”
“Why?” Tower Flame asked anxiously, “Did we do something wrong?”
“I haven't seen your sincerity and ability.”
It was hard to tell that Sorrowful Sword Elegy actually possessed such an astonishing talent for deception.
“First, we are divine envoys, representatives of the great god.”
“Our arrival is no different from the god's, yet you have not offered the treatment due to divine representatives: your prey, your fine wine, and the hospitality from your chieftain and the awakened Inherited Warriors of your tribe.”
Initially, Sorrowful Sword Elegy indeed thought that the elderly Four-Armed Ape was their chieftain.
After all, the Four-Armed Apes were a wise and civilized race, and they might not necessarily only support the strongest individual as chieftain.
However, with the subtle interactions just now, he discovered that although this elderly Four-Armed Ape had high prestige, he was definitely not the chieftain.
“Please forgive our disrespect.” Tower Flame was a little flustered.
After all, before the arrival of Sorrowful Sword Elegy and the others, the Four-Armed Apes were the only civilized race in this land.
To the Four-Armed Apes, other creatures were either enemies or prey.
The concept of “hospitality” had never existed in their brains, which still needed to evolve.
“Our chieftain was severely wounded in a battle with the Primal Hawks. The one with me is the Upper Ninja Chieftain Huoshi.”
In the Four-Armed Ape tribe, fire is a belief, a totem, and only highly respected individuals can use names related to “fire.”
“Tolerant divine envoys, please forgive the transgressions of our rude race. At the same time, please allow this ignorant Tower Flame to ask you a question.”
“What is an awakened Inherited Warrior?”