Warlord: King of All Clans

Feisha was dumbfounded. How could you blame me? No one taught me this!

Feisha was not convinced: "I can learn it too!"

The old Tauren Shaman Hares said, "This is the secret technique of the Tauren. It cannot be passed on to outsiders."

Leo stared at him, "Why?"

Seeing Leo's gaze, Hareth explained, "Each race has a different magic circuit, so each race has its own unique talent. Other races cannot communicate with our totem poles, so they cannot cast such spells."

Leo immediately felt regretful. Tauren were already rare in number, and extraordinary mages were even fewer. He didn't know how much time and luck it would take to train a Tauren shaman like Hares.

Hareth added: "We, the Tauren tribe, have lived in the northern snowfields for hundreds of years. We have always been able to live in the most barren and coldest land. The land there is frozen all year round, with only rare moss plants. Even orcs and trolls cannot survive."

"The Tauren can only rely on their ancient heritage and grow food for a season every summer when the sun is the brightest in order to survive."

"The land in the south is so fertile and the temperature is just right. We can grow three crops a year on this land."

Leo was stunned. The north bank of the Anzeno River was a bitter and cold land for the human race, not suitable for agriculture at all. For hundreds of years, animal husbandry, fishing and hunting had been the main industries.

But in the eyes of the Minotaur, this is actually the land of abundance in their minds!

The slow-moving Tauren cannot hunt to survive, and can only farm in the northern snowfields.

They used all their racial talents on farming, and the powerful Earthshaker Shamans turned into plowing machines that could shatter the frozen soil.

The terrifying war weapon totem pole also became the shaman's spell amplifier, using low-level extraordinary magic to release mid-level spells. This is the only way to continue to maintain their agricultural civilization in the northern snowfields where farming is impossible.

This is a skill acquired through risking one's life over hundreds of years.

Even with such amazing agricultural technology, they still need to rely on wild plants to barely fill their stomachs in the snowy plains of the north.

But when they arrived at the Wolf-Driving Plains, the Tauren tribe felt like they had entered heaven. Even though they were exploited and hunted by orcs and trolls and wandered in the wilderness, they could still grow a season's worth of food anytime and anywhere during their free time at camp.

While Leo was feeling regretful, Freya placed her hand on the totem pole and closed her eyes.

After a moment, a slight fluctuation of magical power came from the totem pole, and then it began to vibrate rhythmically.

Freya opened her eyes. "It's very simple!"

Everyone was stunned. Feisha was the first to speak: "Freya, why can you learn the magic of the strong kobold!"

Freya thought it was natural, "Because the elves can imitate the magic circuits of all the races living under the mountain!"

As she spoke, she looked at the reliefs on the totem pole and made a difficult distinction. "This rune... is responsible for absorbing magic power, this rune... is for regulating temperature, and this rune... um, is a useless decoration."

The old Tauren Shaman Hares was also dumbfounded. The Tauren people inherited the shamanic tradition and had a master-apprentice system, where empiricism was more important than theoretical knowledge.

He knew the specific functions of the runes on the totem pole but not why. He could only copy them according to the instructions of the previous shaman.

As for which rune was responsible for which function, he only had a vague idea and could only guess based on experience.

After walking around the totem pole, Freya said to Leo, "It's true that other races' extraordinary people can't communicate with the totem pole and increase their spellcasting range, but it's not completely useless. We can dismantle the runes on the totem pole and turn it into a single-function alchemical device. Using magic crystals to power it can solve the problem."

Leo suddenly understood that the end of magic is indeed science. These ancestral totem poles are, after all, a kind of extraordinary alchemical tools.

Aren’t the so-called extraordinary alchemical tools just machines driven by magic?

If the whole thing is too complicated to use, then take it apart and use it.

Thinking of this, Leo immediately said to Hares: "Elder Hares, can you give us one of these totem poles?"

Hares's face immediately fell. The Tauren's totem pole was their spiritual sustenance, much like the ancestral tablets of the people in the North.

Whose ancestral tablet can be given to outsiders?

Strong had been learning a lot about Tauren culture from Al these days. Hearing this, he immediately corrected him, "It's for me. I'm the Tauren War Chief and I need a totem pole!"

Hares nodded. Strong was their chief now and he couldn't be without his own totem pole. "I have a few totem pole logs here. When the spring plowing is over, I will make a totem pole exclusively for you."

Szhuang shouted: "I want it now!"

At Strong's insistence, Hares held an impromptu ceremony and gave him an ancestral totem pole.

Then Strong turned around and sent the totem pole to the atrium, ready to be disassembled and studied.

The Splithoof Tribe was originally a large tribe in the northern snowfields, with dozens of totem warriors. However, they suffered heavy casualties during their migration to the south, leaving only twenty totem warriors and three hundred tribesmen.

Those small Tauren tribes had only a few totem warriors and had no ability to migrate thousands of miles, so they were wiped out halfway through their journey.

Most of the Tauren tribes that moved south have a tradition of making totem poles, and they can only barely survive by relying on the various buff spells they provide.

The ancestral totem of the Minotaur is itself an extremely complex alchemical device. Every relief and component on it is a rune array explored by successive sages over hundreds of years.

However, as time passed, some of these rune arrays lost their heritage and became decorations, while others were constantly improved and integrated with other rune arrays, becoming difficult to analyze.

For such alchemical items, the production techniques can only be passed on through one-on-one instruction from a Tauren Shaman, and even through the opening of a soul link and the transmission of one's own experience.

But Hewan does not need such complicated totem technology, he only needs to unlock the few he needs.

El herself has mastered a large number of extraordinary heritages of the Minotaur and has a deep foundation in runes. She also has extremely terrifying computing abilities and can quickly dismantle these alchemical structures.

Soon, Al came up with a usable blueprint and handed it over to Fraser's research team.

In less than half a month, a real machine appeared in front of Leo.

This is a wooden round base that weighs several hundred pounds and requires a carriage to transport.

In the middle of the wooden base is a complex and inexplicable rune plate, which looks very similar to a rune on the ancestral totem pole, but it is three times larger.

Standing on the rough but sturdy round base, Feisha proudly announced, "This is the Earthquake Rune disassembled from the totem pole. It was optimized and developed into an Earthquake Machine!"

"Earthshaker One!"