Chapter 70: Raffel (Part I)
Word Number:158
Author:苍渊之握
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Release Time:2026-02-24
Old Raffel’s mother, Evina, was the daughter of the Chieftain of Akron. The lineage of this settlement stretched back to antiquity, to a time when their ancestors abandoned the eastern highlands, following the flow of the streams down to the great plains to find a new home. There, they raised lean goats on reeds and creek water, while learning the art of cultivation from the local tribes. For ages, a bountiful stream served as the natural boundary between two neighboring settlements. However, by Evina’s time, the stream bed had been reclaimed by farmland, and a new boundary was established at a nearby grove. This area had long been shared; the people gathered in this "God’s Grove" for sacrifices and festivals, and hunters occasionally roamed its depths. But during the first New Year after Fergnas succeeded his father as chieftain, he received a startling warning from the neighboring settlement: the hunters of Akron were no longer