Chapter 1393: A Feather
Ice Storm's father had traveled Turanze for years under the name "Firdousi" without being thrown into a swamp to feed the crocodiles by enraged orc warriors. That alone was enough to prove his vast knowledge and silver tongue.
But his most famous exploit had taken place more than twenty years ago, when he had infiltrated the Holy Light Land alone and stolen a vast number of Turan texts looted by the Holy Light Army during its invasion of Turanze three thousand years earlier, in the Great Extinction Order Era.
Although these priceless historical materials had undergone countless rounds of "Holy Light purification" and had long since become mottled, brittle, and ready to crumble into powder at the slightest touch.
This Leopard Clan Firdousi had nevertheless engraved all the enormous amount of information recorded within them into his mind before the Turan texts vanished into ash and smoke—or so he had bragged after returning to Turanze.
And to this day, no orc noble had been able to find a single flaw in his dazzlingly elaborate tales.
It was also during that adventure of infiltrating the Holy Light Land and reclaiming the Turan texts that this Leopard Clan Firdousi encountered a Witch wanted by the Holy Light Temple. As they escaped the Holy Light Temple's pursuit together, they forged a deep friendship and gladly agreed to conduct a forbidden experiment together, "creating" a half-blood burdened with dual bloodlines and dual curses.
That half-blood was the Snow Leopard Female Warrior, Ice Storm.
After returning to Turanze, Firdousi's whereabouts remained elusive.
Besides the stirring words and glorious achievements of ancient heroes, the Turan texts he had reclaimed from the Holy Light Land seemed to contain the locations of numerous Lost Temples.
Yet Firdousi had not the slightest intention of telling