Chapter 8 (2/2)

Liu Zhenhan suddenly began to feel strange as he continued to sing this battle song. He didn’t know why he felt so strange and chaotic in his stomach. It was quite funny because all he wanted was to amuse Hailun by singing this song but he never knew that after starting, he would not be able to stop. There were no brakes to stop this magical incantation rather there was just a profound burst of pure brightness, lyrics and melody continuously pouring into his mind.

Liu Zhenhan sang the last syllable and suddenly covered his mouth with a look of disbelief clearly visible on his face.

Hailun was staring at him in disbelief with her eyes widened as her blue pupils were trembling and fully focused on him.

“Didn’t I tell you that I am good at mimicry and singing?” Liu Zhenhan said with a proud smile.

“You are an inborn soul singer!” Hailun excitedly hugged him.

“What?” Liu Zhenhan was startled by this, “What are you talking about? What singer?”

“There are various ranks among sacred sacrifices. The lowest ranked sacrifice uses the language of the wind to soothe the mind and soul of people using battle songs in wind language. These battle songs can resonate with people, to soothe the soul of the dead, to comfort their injured mind and soul and also to restrain wild thoughts.”

“Well, almost similar to a trumpeter.” Liu Zhenhan remembered how a trumpeter was usually summoned to provide soothing funeral music on funerals whenever someone died in his hometown.

“Only on the basis of the language of the wind, a sacred sacrifice can qualify to become a soul singer. In fact, a soul singer, who can sing psychic battle song, is able to communicate with anyone in their own language. This ability helps these special sacrifices to communicate and hence control pets, because only after becoming a soul singer, one can befriend magical beasts.” Hailun excitedly said: “At present, I have the status of a soul singer and you were able to imitate the psychic battle song that I sang earlier to communicate with you! Do you understand what this means? This means you were able to sing a psychic battle song and this is enough for you to befriend magical beasts. I never expected you to actually learn the psychic battle song so easily! This is just so unbelievable! You are terrific!”

“What the h.e.l.l? Are you serious?” Liu Zhenhan thought that this was very simple and not really a big deal for him. Learning a folk song and giving performances in front of his battalion or family members was a common thing for him. He had learnt and performed on myriad of folk songs and patriotic songs in various languages that this was really a child’s play for him.

“Don’t you know the rarity that is present in the probability of occurrence of a sacred sacrifice?” Hailun’s face was sweating with over-excitement, “It similar to the rare probability of a magician appearing among human beings! Now do you understand how important a sacred sacrifice is for Beastman race?”

“I did not know.” Liu Zhenhan really didn’t know and how was he supposed to know in the first place.

“Our records tell that there have been very few innate soul singers to exist in the history of Beamon Beastman race and each and every one of them have been thoroughly doc.u.mented as our valiant heroes. Just the way, there have been very human magicians in human history and all have been granted the t.i.tle of splendid heroes.” Hailun hugged Liu Zhenhan, “Li Cha, you will certainly become our hero, our greatest sacrifice in the future!”

“Hero?” Liu Zhenhan never considered himself as a hero-like figure. He always thought that heroes were great people who were willing to give glorious sacrifices for the sake of others. But he was not the type who would willingly take a bullet to the eye to save a stranger. Though as a soldier, his duty suggested otherwise and he had already sacrificed his life once for his nation.

“A soul singer’s next goal should be to become a sacred sacrifice. Because only after becoming one, you can use ‘Berserk battle song’ and also begin to realize the life magic, further on, you can achieve the true power of a sacrifice. And then only you can become the supreme sacred sacrifice of the temple, in other words a Great Shaman sacrifice.” Hailun’s seductive eyes and the way she said these words stirred up a strange funny feeling in his heart.

“You mean to say that I can become a supreme sacrifice just because I am a good singer.” Liu Zhenhan shook his head like a naughty baby elephant and said: “I do not believe you.”

“It’s up to you whether you believe me or not!” Hailun pouted and there appeared two beautiful dimples on her face.

“Alright, let’s suppose you are correct, so what? This doesn’t change the fact that both of us are trapped on this small isolated island and there is no visible way to get out of here.” Liu Zhenhan said with a bitter smile.

Hailun’s eyes suddenly dimmed down.

“Hey, I was just kidding. Don’t take me seriously, I will find a way out. Relax!” Liu Zhenhan noticed her depressed mental state and tried to cheer her up. “Can’t we travel by s.h.i.+p? We can wait for a s.h.i.+p to pa.s.s from here and request them to take us to a nearby port.”

“That is impossible.” Hailun remembered the practical problems in this and a hint of sadness captured her face.

“Dear Li Cha, I think you are aware of how I came to this island, right?” She asked him.

“Your s.h.i.+p was caught in storm and s.h.i.+pwrecked after cras.h.i.+ng into rock formations near the sh.o.r.e.” Liu Zhenhan said.

“That’s not my s.h.i.+p. Did not I tell you earlier? I was captured by those shameless human bandits.”

“Time flies gradually, a thousand years have pa.s.sed since the battle of Mt. Hyjal. And thanks to that, the Beastman people went through a lot of hards.h.i.+ps and finally managed to cultivate new generations which helped in our revival. We erected a new Beamon Beastman Kingdom in the vast Danube wilderness. We showed unity in diversity and this was a new beginning for us. While at this time, human race split their country into multiple small nations and firmly occupied Qin continent. Although most of these human nations are extremely hostile towards us and this leads to several small-scale border clashes, but no one is willing to start a large-scare war between humans and Beastman Kingdom.

Snow-capped mountains have firmly stood between Danube wilderness and Qin continent since eternity, like a continuous giant boundary that stops both us and humans from peeping into each others’ country.

There is only one active border that our Beamon kingdom shares with a human nation which is called ‘mercenary nation’. It acts as a buffer nation between Danube wilderness and human territory. It will almost take one month to traverse the wilderness in this buffer zone to reach either Beamon Kingdom from Qin continent and vice versa. Hence, this made it a huge cus.h.i.+on between the human and beastman territories.

As a result of pa.s.sage of such a long time, the hatred between beastman people and humans has faded a lot. This also made it possible for human traders to come all the way to the Beamon Kingdom to sell weapons, cloth, books and several other goods in exchange for fur, slaves and precious nuclei of magical beasts. The differences between the two races have not entirely faded, and so far, there is no human nation that has signed a formal trade agreement with us.

Beastman race and human race are in a very delicate situation where both are keeping a close eye on each other.

Beamon Kingdom witnesses a large demand for steel, armors, cotton and silk cloths. In fact, we also notice a large market for non-governmental trade with human merchants and our kingdom had to step in to provide more friendly and fair environment for both parties in order to sustain long lasting trade and business environment for both our merchants and human merchants. After getting the status of aristocracy, my Fox clan was given the vital task of guarding northeast border and in order to keep a close eye on trade with humans.

Long ago, Beamon Kingdom gave my Fox clan the task of guarding the northeast border and this was actually done to fulfill a strategic and political intention. And that is – Only Fox clan is capable intellectually to deal with those despicable and cunning human traders. We try our best to maximize economic benefits for our kingdom using our wits and wisdom.

My hometown is located in the northeastern province of Beamon Kingdom and that is where my whole Fox clan lives.”

She was talking volubly.

“So, that is how those human bandits penetrated your defenses and kidnapped you and your sisters?” Liu Zhenhan felt very strange, “Are the garrison troops on your border blind?”

“Love, I will tell you a terrible fact.” Hailun bit her lower lip and indignantly said: “Members of Fox clan have fiery red hair and red tails and are considered as rare raw materials for making fur and scarf for those humans – – because humans consider our fur and skin as more magnificent. Human aristocrats are willing to spend any amount of price to obtain goods made from the skin and fur of our people, because it always shows a symbol of wealth and power in the human society.”

“They have gone too far!” Liu Zhenhan’s blood-shot eyes opened wide as he could not tolerate such a despicable behavior.

“Those f.u.c.king fascist b.a.s.t.a.r.ds!” Liu Zhenhan growled.

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