The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

The Hunting Lord

Thunder.

Udyr’s ears were full of thunder, deafening.

These voices can easily break a mortal’s mind, and either become a fool, or degenerate into a lost person. This is also the reason why ordinary people basically cannot come back once they enter the bear hunting grounds.

The sound of thunder seems to come from the black clouds in the sky, but in fact a large part of it comes from the dark forest in the hunting ground. The dull rumble coming from it is actually the roar of beasts, as if there are countless beasts hiding in the shadows, watching Udi you.

Udyr’s face became more and more ferocious, and the malice of the bear man crazily poured into his soul. The strong perception as a beast spirit walker now made this malice more dangerous, and the bewitchment of the bear man easily affected Udyr.

His face began to deform, his teeth gradually became sharp, and the hair on his body became thick and hard.

“Control yourself.” Udyr thought to himself, “Control all your emotions, anger, hatred, fear…”

This is the most important thing he learned in the Eastern temple.

He began to recite the scriptures. These scriptures did not originate from the Freljord, but an exotic oriental language. Udyr didn’t fully understand the meaning of these scriptures, but the notes and words could calm him down.

Udyr’s body no longer twisted, and maintained its human form.

He ran straight to the center of the hunting ground – where Nazak was staying.

The first creatures Udyr saw were the lost ones.

They looked like savages, their skins were covered with dried blood and mud, their beards and hairs were stuck together, and their faces couldn’t be seen clearly. These lost people are dressed in bear skins, and some of them have their own flesh and blood connected with the bear skins. When the bear skins are completely integrated into their bodies, they will completely degenerate into bear people.

These losers roared and rushed towards Udyr. Udyr visualized a big argali in his mind, and his body changed accordingly. By.

The lost people looked at Udyr who had turned into an argali in fear, and did not dare to get closer.

“Using the incarnation of the ram Ornn can really scare them.” Udyr knew how to deal with bear people, and he had been studying them for a long time.

Udyr’s body is still changing, the horns of the argali are getting bigger and bigger, and his muscles have become as strong as iron felt, showing a deep red color, like lava steel that has cooled after quenching.

The lost people retreated slowly, and the real bear people came.

The bear people walking in the front looked like wild beasts. They were basically bears in appearance, with different body shapes and coat colors. Some of them were familiar to Udyr, while others had never been seen before. Udyr knew these guys had been spirit walkers before, trapped in bear form, forgetting they were human.

What appeared later was a monster, a truly powerful existence among the bear people.They are all weird hybrids of bears and other creatures. They have been completely devoured by bear spirits, their minds have been confused, and their bodies have long since lost the shape that normal animals should have—one bear has two fangs. The giant mouth, and the forearm of a bear man turned into countless twisting tentacles. Their existence is like the horror legends of countless Freljords, and the sight of them will make even the bravest iceborn warrior cringe.

The biggest one among them——a huge bear-shaped creature walked out slowly. Where it should have been the head was only a rotting elk skull, with blue flames burning in the eye sockets of the skull, and a ring of black feathers around the skull.

It opened its huge mouth to Udyr, revealing the face of a child, and the child also opened its mouth, spitting out dirty brown slime.

Not only it, more and more terrifying bearmen with indescribable appearances appeared from the forest, they limped, wriggled, and swayed towards Udyr.

“Dirty creature.” Udyr thought to himself.

This was not the first time Udyr had seen a bearman, but he still couldn’t help but tremble at this terrifying scene.

He has known many of these bear people before. They were the students he taught, or the elders who taught him. They are all excellent beast spirit walkers, but now they have torn their souls to pieces, leaving only one Emotions, an emotion that belonged to their master – the almost raging arrogance of the Volibear the bear.

A person walked out of the woods. It maintained a human appearance, wearing a huge crow feather hood and a bearskin cloak, its face hidden in the shadow of the hood. Although it still looked like a human being, Udyr knew that it was no longer a human being, it was a hunting lord.

“Nazak.” Apology and regret welled up in Udyr’s heart, “I failed you.”

The hunting lord suddenly looked at Udyr angrily.

Udyr realized that his thoughts were perceived by it, and it has now turned into something similar to a beast spirit. Udyr can perceive all its thoughts, but similarly, Udyr, as a beast spirit walker, is also very It is difficult to hide emotions in front of it.

“You have not let me down, the cowardly me!” The hunting lord’s roar was cracked and sharp. It seemed that he was very unwilling to admit that he was still Nazak, the human boy.

Udyr’s heartache condensed into substance, piercing him like a knife, making him breathless. After a long time, he said, “Lothar will be sad to see you like this…”

The hunting lord sneered, “It’s just a weak warm-blooded person.”

Udyr felt sad: “Are you even unwilling to admit your master and your best friend?”

The hunting leader opened his arms: “I only have our Lord in my heart.”

“Volibear.” Udyr thought to himself. He looked at Nazak and knew that, as a hunting lord, it had the ability to make that ancient bear spirit descend on its body.

Udyr’s heart was filled with ashes. He came to see if there was a chance to save Nazak, but the cruel reality told him that even though he was almost reborn after practicing in the East, he still couldn’t bring back a lost soul.

“Nazak.” Udyr risked angering the hunting lord and called its former name, “Don’t let it control you.”

“Stupidity!” Nazak yelled angrily, “Our Lord holds the real power! Don’t resist the power of the ancient path, Udyr! Be one of us!”

Udyr was unmoved. The form of the argali beast spirit he incarnated now came from the brother and old enemy of the giant bear god. This form gave him the power to resist the bear man’s bewitching.

“You let me down, Nazak.” Udyr couldn’t hide the grief in his voice, “It’s my fault. I paid too much attention to cultivating your strength, but forgot to make your heart strong. Losanna Although the child does not have your talent, his heart is infinitely stronger than yours.”

The hunting lord roared: “And now! It’s me who has the power! That talentless wolf cub is probably starving to death on the ice field right now!”

A voice suddenly sounded not far away: “That… Actually, I’m not dead yet.”

Udyr, the hunting lord, and countless bearmen and lost ones all looked at that place.

Lothar was standing there with an embarrassed expression. He stretched out his hand and said hello: “Hey, long time no see, Udyr, and Nazak.”

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Ram Ornn, the god of fire and forging, and the giant bear Volibear, the god of storm and war, are brothers, but their personalities are completely different.

Ornn rarely appears in myths and stories. According to legend, it is a god who does not like disputes and trifles.

And Volibear is a god who loves war extremely. According to legend, every inch of the Freljord was ravaged by it in ancient times.

It is rumored that Ornn once had a conflict with Volibear, causing a shocking battle, the intensity of which even changed the terrain of the Freljord, but the reason for the conflict is very different in different myth versions.

In short, the symbolic meaning of Ornn and Volibear in the Freljord is “brothers who hate each other”. In many tribes, if there is an enemy between brothers, the usual solution is to fight a duel between a ram and a bear.

——Excerpt from “Valoran Travels: The Freljord