Alien Knights

Using the "speed" ability, Todd rushed in front of the griffin, stretched out his right arm to protect the top of his head, and suffered a heavy blow from the iron wings. Due to the powerful impact, his feet slid back a full 30 centimeters, barely stopping in front of the barbarian mother and child.

"Go back to the room!" Todd gritted his teeth and resisted the attack of the griffin, roaring loudly behind him.

Maybe it was because she really understood the words, or maybe it was just the instinct to survive, the mother took her son, ran back to the house in a hurry, and tied the door.

Todd, who had no worries about the future, mobilized all his strength, took a big step forward, and pushed the griffin back abruptly.

This power made the barbarians onlookers admiration loudly.

The griffin yelled anxiously, stretched out its beak and pecked at Todd's head.

On one side of the latter's body, avoiding the sharp beak's attack, the mutated right arm touched the ground, using the "soil control" ability, turning the soil into a swamp, trapping the griffin's limbs, and then stretched out his left hand, firmly grasping its mouth.

The "weakness" ability spread outward from the palm of the hand, and the black air visible to the naked eye enveloped the head of the griffin. The latter's eyes turned white instantly, fell into weakness, stood unsteadily and fell to the ground.

Seeing the mighty monster being knocked down to the ground, the barbarians cheered loudly.

Todd watched the Griffin's eyes slowly recover, and said with a wry smile, "It's still too early to win."

The griffin suddenly stood up, with two sharp front paws, stabbing Todd fiercely, squatting down with its upper body, and made a swooping posture.

Rolling backwards on the ground, Todd dodged the attack in embarrassment, and put his arms forward and backward. When he was about to defend against the next attack, the griffin turned the bird's head, flapped its wings, and ran away...

"This bastard..." Todd looked at the distant figure in the sky, patted the dust on his body, and said helplessly, "IQ is not low, he can even use a trick like a feint."

"Helde! Hilder!" The barbarians in the camp came out of the house and the woods, gathered around Todd, and cheered loudly.

Looking at the reverence and admiration of these people around him, Todd couldn't adapt to the huge attitude gap before and after, and didn't know what to do for a while.

"The northern barbarians believe in strength, and the strength of force is enough to change the evaluation of the people." Rachel, who had been watching the battle, slowly lowered her arms and walked to Todd's side, saying this.

Leaning on crutches, Aisha leaned against the door, looking at Todd who was surrounded by people, with stars shining in her eyes, but she didn't know what she was thinking.

The barbarian old man Fried squatted down, first observed the broken wooden cage, then looked at the broken hemp rope on the ground, and when he stood up and looked at Todd, an inexplicable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After the "Griffin Attack Incident", Todd's treatment soared.

The barbarians gave up the best wooden house in the village to Todd and his two "partners", and the food changed from grass seed cakes to precious dried meat. Some people even wanted to send their daughter into his room at night.

The barbarian's admiration for power simply opened Todd's eyes. Just repelling the griffin once can turn these villagers who regard mutants as demons into loyal worshipers.

On the fifth night in the barbarian camp, the local residents held a small party.

Without sufficient food, people use sour wild fruit as the staple food of the banquet; without decent wine, people regard the sweet mountain spring as intoxicating wine.

From top to bottom, Todd sat fourth at the party.

The third seat was Fried, the second seat was an elderly female shaman, and the first seat was empty, no one sat there.

Looking at the barbarians singing, bragging, and wrestling by the bonfire, Todd relied on Rachel's translation, chatting with people word by word.

After some inquiries, Todd learned that this barbarian tribe named "Froststone" had not settled for a long time. Almost a year and a half ago, these people did not know each other, and under the leadership of a barbarian leader—Boyle, they escaped from the Silver Ring Kingdom, crossed the Fallen Star Mountains, and came to the wild north to seek survival.

When they first came here, this basin was not their first choice for settlement.

This group of barbarians tried many other settlements, all of which were driven and attacked without exception, and finally they chose this basin to live as a last resort.

At first, Todd didn't understand why this group of people was not optimistic about this settlement that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After asking, the problem comes down to one thing - soil.

Different from the black soil and brown soil in other parts of the northern border, due to the warm and dry environment in the basin and the high altitude terrain here, the soil of this settlement is actually red soil which is rare in the north.

Laterite has strong leaching effect, less mineral nutrients, high acidity, easy to produce aluminum and manganese poisoning, poor fertilizer retention performance, and sticky texture. Therefore, in the final analysis, no crops can be grown.

After several attempts at farming, the villagers of Froststone finally gave up their plans to farm. They picked up hunting bows and wooden baskets again, and began to use hunting and gathering to meet the daily food needs of the tribe.

However, if this way of survival was placed on the Yuexi Plain, it might not be a big problem, but on the barbarian continent, it has become synonymous with life hanging by a thread.

Soldiers from the barbarian kingdom in the north searched for the residents in the south, and at the same time, all kinds of mutated monsters ran rampant. Froststone people often need to pay a human life for ten kilograms of meat.

Todd sighed when he heard this, and shook his head again and again.

Rachel lowered her head, thought for a long time, then suddenly approached Todd, and whispered, "I know where these people come from."

Watching Todd turn his face away, Rachel continued, "Do you still remember Northstone Fortress? On the night when the Muxi Knights occupied the fortress, a barbarian army rebelled and escaped from the fortress."

Todd suddenly realized: "It turns out that the group of barbarians who escaped came here that night!"

When the two were about to have a detailed discussion, Fried walked up to Todd with a small iron pot and motioned him to taste the contents.

Todd took a look with his head, and there was a handful of strange weeds in the small pot made of thick iron.

Due to being baked on the fire for a period of time, the moisture in the weeds has been evaporated, leaving only shriveled grass twists.

Seeing Todd's confused face, Fried smiled and squeezed out a few straws from the small pot, put them in his mouth and chewed slowly, his expression was full of enjoyment and pleasure.

"Could it be drugs..." Todd looked at the contents of the pot, and under the enthusiastic gaze of the old man, he bravely picked out a straw, put it in his mouth, and started to chew with a frown.

The bitterness at the beginning, and the mellowness later, the more Todd chewed, the brighter his eyes became. He had tasted this kind of thing in his previous life, and the long-lost name was already in his throat, but he couldn't remember it for a while. This feeling immediately scratched his head anxiously.

Just as he was thinking hard, a name was suddenly called out by the barbarians in unison.

A man in his prime, with light yellow curly hair hanging over his shoulders, a long scar extending from the corner of his right eye to the base of his ear, the shadow of the flames reflected in his eyeballs.

He is - "Boyle".