Gong Tribe

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The steps of hundreds of people marching across a plane echoed. Each packed into individual groups that differentiated themselves from each other.

Some had tribal tattoos of animals and deities, some had tall flags showing their tribe, and some used their stronger bodies to define themselves.

No matter their differences they all had one thing in common: their fanatic gaze. They shouted with increasingly louder volume with worship.

" Blood God!"

" Blood God!"

" Blood God!"

" Bless the Blood God!"

"Blood God who created all beings."

" His descendants come to honor, to gain the Blood God's recognition to awaken the road to immortality!"

" Blood God! The ancestors of All!"

The stomps of the hundreds of tribes marching towards the blood sea shook the ground.

Monsters and Animals ran away from feeling the dangerous aura radiating from the army.

The environment became increasingly more barren land until seeing any sign of life either plant or animal became almost nonexistent.

Towards the back of the grouping of multiple tribes, you could find the Manu Tribe with the strong Chief making his presence known.

' Wow, so many people!'

The children of the tribe all had looks of shock at the large number of different tribes that they saw for the first time.

Vellomao was not an exception to this rule either, looking around with fascination.

" Look over there is the Gong tribe."

Shifting his gaze towards the direction Hermione was pointing to he saw the supposed Gong Tribe.

Chief Gong was older than their chief looking around his '80s with grey sideburns. But his advanced age didn't do much to the furious aura that he generated.

Next to him was a tall young man, his hair reached towards his lower back with a sharp serious expression that never let up.

Behind the two-man was the rest of the tribe who looked like they were struggling, it was clear to see that they weren't fed well with each being skinny or having injuries on their bodies.

Noticing their gaze the young man at the front looked directly at the group with his black eyes.

Cold

'Gulp'

Vellomao just felt an endless coldness directed at him warning him that if he looked any longer then he would have a body to bury.

' Cold! How can someone's eyes be so cold!'

"Hermione, who is the person next to the Gong tribe chief."

" He should be the son of the Chief since he is the only other person that gets treated nicely in their tribe."

"Why are the people getting treated so badly? Doesn't that decrease the overall strength of the tribe to fend off the monster?"

Confused, he asked Hermione.

She shook her head as she didn't know the answer either.

" It has something to do with the rumor surrounding the Gong tribe."

The person that answered was Eliakim.

' If someone is knowledge-able it would gotta be Eliakim since he is the son of the Chief so he must have heard quite a bit.'

" I heard you talking about the rumors of the Gong tribe before but what is it exactly?"

" The rumors are that the Gong tribe is cursed."

" Cursed!"

" Cursed?"

" Yes! They have been cursed" Eliakim nodded his head.

" I don't know if this is true but it said that the curse came from a monster and had caused the birth rate of the tribe to fall."

" During that period after they were cursed, people in the tribe couldn't have any children and the babies that were already born started dying."

" To prevent their tribe from getting wiped out he went to ask a favor from a western Sherman to get rid of the curse."

" The Sherman, however, wasn't strong enough to completely lift the curse but was able to let one child be born, which was the chief's only son."

" Wait, if the curse hasn't been solved then doesn't the Gong tribe have no future."

" Yes and No. The Sherman also gave them some advice to break the curse."

" One is to join another tribe; the other is for the last born child to awaken during the sacred ceremony."

" The last born child had to awaken to break the curse? Though it's possible with the Blood God's blessing is still difficult. Especially since they only get one try."

Hermione responded at the difficulty of trying to get someone to awaken.

Awakening is when a special power is born within a person during life and death situations.

The odds of awakening these strange powers are low with most dying trying.

Though the chance of awakening is improved when attempted during the ceremony. The chances of awakening are still 1 out of 20.

The importance of having awakened couldn't be understated as for a tribe to be established it has to have at least one person to have awakened.

Eliakim's father is awakened with his power being able to condense his aura to boost his defense.

" Couldn't they just join another tribe but keep their name?"

" Impossible!"

Poldi interjects into the conversation as he responds to Vellomao.

" No tribe would allow them to keep their name. Even more when their tribe has been cursed."

" Keeping the name of a separate tribe will divide the tribe into two and will generate internal conflicts that external tribes would take advantage of. It's too dangerous!"

To a tribe, the importance of names is high as it is the collective spirit of the clan and a noble title for the strongest tribe members.

Allowing for another tribe to keep their name is a direct challenge to the tribe name as that means that the tribe is equal to theirs.

" Oh, I see!" After realizing the implications of joining another tribe he knew the severity of the Gong tribe's situation.

" It's either they're successful living another day or the Gong Tribe disappears tomorrow!"

*Boom!*

The earth beneath the gathered tribes rumbled as the cloudy sky turned dark as a crimson blood moon appeared in the sky.

" What's going on?!"

" The ceremony is about to start! The Blood God's spirit is awakening."