C299 – Are You Really Not a Shaman?
Posted on November 5, 2018 by AzureOrchid92
Shao Xuan was inside their house, burying his head in a room.
He wrote down the set of language used by the slave owners that he had learned about in this period of time. Each time he has a new experience, he would also record it.
Shao Xuan also forced Lei and Tuo to learn these words. Even if they could not fully learn it, as long as they can understand some, it would still be good. They wouldn’t be deceived by the slaves and slave owners. In this land of the slave owners, they would have it easier if they knew more about it.
There was a saying that ‘sharpening the axe does not harm the woodcutter’. This was the reason they now have food and did not need to rush out to do other things. The first the two had to understand was the most basic things to say.
When Su Gu came over, Lei and Tuo were looking at those complicated words, feeling dizzy. They were then allowed to take a rare break because of the arrival of Su Gu.
Shao Xuan looked up at Su Gu who rushed in. He stopped his pen, rolled up the animal skin rolls full of written text and put it aside.
“What is it?” Shao Xuan asked after packing up.
Rushing into the house, Su Gu was panting as he took two steps towards Shao Xuan. The palm of his hand patted the table. “I ask you…”
Peng!
Originally, the base of the table was not very strong. Because it could not withstand the force, it scattered into the sand everywhere.
Seeing Shao Xuan and the other two people staring at it, Su Gu just waved his hand. “I will let people come later to repair it!”
Looking around, Su Gu saw that there was no place to sit so he simply stood.
“I have something to ask you.” Su Gu looked at Shao Xuan. “Are you a shaman?”
Shaman? Lei and Tuo were a little confused. How was Shao Xuan a “shaman”? Besides, the Shaman could not have come to such a place.
“No.” Shao Xuan replied.
“But you said this morning…” The expression on Su Gu’s face changed a few times. It was not good to tell the things that happened inside the palace. However, thinking of Shao Xuan’s hints unexpectedly relating to today’s events, Su Gu took a deep breath. His earlier eager look calmed down as he stared straight at the Shao Xuan. “You do not have any idea of what happened?”
“We’re here for the first time and we don’t know anything about it.” Shao Xuan replied.
Su Gu was silent for a moment, but did not address the problem again. Whether Shao Xuan knew the news long ago or he really have the ability to predict the future, now, he really wanted to work with the people of the Flaming Horns tribe. He has no reason to back out.
“What do you think about our cooperation?” Su Gu asked.
“We can cooperate, however, before the cooperation, I want to know what benefits we can get.” Shao Xuan asked.
Su Gu straightened his spine as he stood upright. As a slave owner, he could provide a lot. With this, he was emboldened to have enough.
“I can have slaves build bigger houses for you, and give you access tokens, food and water.” Su Gu replied.
Shao Xuan nodded. These three things were really good, but it was not what he wanted most. “I want to know something about the other slave owners.”
Su Gu frowned, “Of course. I can give you all the information I know, but you must come up with something worth exchanging.”
“Naturally.”
“Well, you’ll happily cooperate?”
“We’ll happily cooperate.”
They did not sign a contract. In the case of cooperation between the slave owners and the tribes, a fixed death contract was not normally signed, unless something important was involved or when both parties were well aware.
After resolving the things he had been thinking in his heart, Su Gu’s mood has gotten better. As a reward for Shao Xuan’s reminder this morning, after he left the tribal area, he had people sent over some stone to build a house. These stones were dug from the rocky terrain in the desert. There were special slaves guarding the area, so Shao Xuan and the others could not go there at will. Su Gu had provided a lot of convenience for Shao Xuan. They just had to wait in their room for the stones to be transported.
Shao Xuan looked for a vacant space in the tribal area and asked the other tribes if they could build a house there. He built it with Tuo and Lei, with the help of the slaves Su Gu sent.
Two days later, another large house was built in the tribal area. It was no worse than the other tribes. The difference was that there were dozens of people in each embassy of the other tribes, while there were only three people in the “embassy” of the Flaming Horns tribe.
In order to show his concern and sincerity, Su Gu specially cut a piece of a sunset tree to make the wooden sign hanging in the entrance of the “embassy” doorway. He also wanted to write the words with the gold paint, but was moved aside by Shao Xuan.
Shao Xuan himself polished a slate and hung it in the doorway. He carved the tribal characters to engrave the two words “Flaming Horns”. The totem of the tribe was also engraved on the stone.
As for the plank used by Su Gu, the text was what the slave owners commonly used. Therefore, two languages and two brands were hanging in the doorway, Shao Xuan’s slate at the front door and Su Gu’s wood in the middle.
“This will be our embassy!” Shao Xuan declared as he looked at the house that was finished.
Although such a building did not seem to be too gorgeous in Shao Xuan’s view, as long as it was similar to the other tribes’, there was no need to appear too prominent. If they came over later with more people, once they stood firm and strong, there would be no harm in expanding again. Now, not being too high-profile was better.
Before, because there was not enough space, the three of them huddled in a broken stone house. Now that they have a new embassy, they have separated rooms, each person occupying a big room. The camel tied in the back yard was also specially given a shed by Shao Xuan.
With the changes in the status of the Flaming Horns tribe, the other people in the tribal area were aware that this was their cooperation with Luoye City’s third young master. Really, what were they thinking, cooperating with someone useless? If they were seeking a cooperation, looking for the other two young masters were better. This third young master didn’t even have his own dedicated slaves.
He She of the Hui tribe who was chatting with the others could only sigh. With all his advice of looking for the two other young masters to cooperate, but they didn’t follow. Why not listen to his advice? What a pity! This was their first time coming over here, and they were still young, thoughtless, impulsive and short-sighted.
However, no matter what other people thought, Shao Xuan and the other two were still quite satisfied with this cooperation.
The next day after the house was built, Su Gu came to find Shao Xuan again.
This time, there were only two people in Shao Xuan’s room for the meeting. Lei and Tuo were not inside, and Su Gu also did not take Wu Shi.
“Here’s the pass token you wanted.” Su Gu handed the token to Shao Xuan.
Shao Xuan took the brand made from a sunset tree, with the words used by the slave owners. Written in it was “Flaming Horns”, while the other side was the sign of Luoye City.
As he put away the pass token, Shao Xuan looked at Su Gu. The third young master’s expression seemed to be somewhat tangled.
“What’s the matter? Let’s talk.” Shao Xuan asked.
Su Gu scratched his head with impatience. In addition to helping Shao Xuan get a pass token in the past few days, he also specifically asked for information about the tribal shamans. The more he thought about it, the more complicated it was.
After a long while, Su Gu was unable to suppress his question. “You’re really not a shaman?”
“No. If you know the tribes, you should know that the shaman of the tribe will not come out easily.” Shao Xuan said.
“Are you not the shaman’s heir?” Su Gu asked again.
“No.” Shao Xuan affirmed.
“If not, then how did you predict about the ‘water’?” Su Gu reluctantly said.
“It is not a necessity to be a shaman to predict it.”
When Su Gu heard that, he sat slumped in the stone stool, looking disheartened.
Shao Xuan thought about it and asked, “There is no shaman in your city?”
“There are no shamans in many cities,” said Su gu. “As far as I know, there are three cities with shamans, and there are over twenty cities in the desert!”
For the slave owners, a shaman was not necessary. A city only needed one master.
“The power of your tribe comes from the fire seed, while our strength exists in our veins.” Su Gu stretched out his hand.
Shao Xuan saw it. On Su Gu’s hand, a blue flame gradually emerged.
What surprised Shao Xuan was that when Su Gu made these blue flames, at the edge of the “eggshell” in his mind, a flame suddenly appeared. It was not big, but very obvious.
Seeing this flame for the first time, Shao Xuan’s heart jumped out at the fire!
However, this was somewhat different from the fire seed of the tribes.
Shao Xuan suddenly had a thought. The slave owners did not need a fire seed. Was it because of the power of the fire not existing in the outside world but in their bodies?
Inside his mind, the “eggshell”, the sudden appearance of the flame, the red flame and the blue flame mixed together, seeming a bit chaotic.
Su Gu looked at the blue fire that came out of his hand as he spoke, “A successful slave owner must have the ability to enslave people. This ‘slavery’ does not mean an ordinary slave, but for a person who has no relationship to become a special slave to himself. The greater the power of slavery, the more slaves the slave owners could have.”
As for the king of the city, he was the slave owner with the highest capacity of slavery with many slaves under his command. Of course, the other slave owners, even if they could enslave more slaves, could not cross the king of the city. Otherwise, they would be regarded as someone with ulterior motives. In addition to the big slave owners, other slave owners were more or less able to own some of their own slaves. However, in Luoye City, Su Gu was the only one who has not been able to have his own slaves. He was a slave owner who was considered a waste in the others’ eyes.
Su Gu did not explain how they enslave people. But based on what Su Gu said, Shao Xuan could tell that the slave owners’ ability to enslave people seemed to be similar to their imprinting of the ferocious beasts, but more hegemonic.
The blue flame in Su Gu’s hand also let Shao Xuan thought of the way he used the engraving secret technique when he engraved it on Caesar.
Su Gu has been staring at the blue fire in his hand, not knowing what to think of it as he fell into meditation. Shao Xuan was also inside his mind, studying the flame that appeared in the “eggshell”.
The red and blue interlaced flames were weaker compared to earlier. The separated and scattered blue flames were slowly gathering.
“Oh, forget it. You don’t understand. You tribes don’t need to worry about these.”
Su Gu put away the fire in his hands. Inside Shao Xuan’s mind, that strange flame also gradually disappeared.
Leaving the tribal area with regret, Su Gu returned to the palace. After a meal, he confined himself in his room and began his required daily enslavement exercise.
He didn’t know if it was just an illusion, but Su Gu thought that today, his use of his enslavement ability was a lot smoother. Although it still did not reach the standard of slavery, but, compared to yesterday, there was an improvement.