Annihilated Lilith

Chapter 60 60. The Temple of Steep Horn Mountain (1)

Doujiao Mountain is nearly [-] kilometers away from the nearest small town, so it can be regarded as isolated from the world.It points straight to the sky with a pillar supporting the sky, and its special triangular cone shape is unforgettable.

The boulders, which have been eroded by wind for tens of thousands of years, seem to rise abruptly from the ground, and the vertical cliffs form a rather magnificent landscape.

Thousands of years ago, in order to avoid wars, the priests who served the Seven Gods on the flat ground had no choice but to climb up the mountain and stationed there.

Over time, a temple was slowly built, with steep pillars serving as natural protection.Rope ladders, pulleys, and baskets become tools to connect to the outside world.

In the era when the Seven Gods were still widely worshiped, this place used to be a place of pilgrimage for believers. The temple hanging in mid-air looked particularly sacred, and the mountains looked up.

But the current situation can almost be described as empty.

Starting from the temple, go forward along the pale stone ridge on the ridge, cross the semicircular grassland, and cross the endless wild rhododendrons. In the lush mountain forest, a spring is bubbling with clear spring water. The small deep beach reflects sparkling waves in the swaying water.

Two little boys were rinsing and washing clothes in the pool, splashing water while washing.Four wooden barrels that were too huge compared to their stature were placed beside the gods, already filled with sweet spring water.

The older one is ten years old and his name is Gaius, and the younger one is six years old and his name is Maca.Gaius has thick black curly hair, Maca has a green scalp, and both are deeply tanned.

When the washing was almost done, they unfolded their clothes and pants on the hot rocks and baked them with the heat of nature.I stepped into the cool water naked, stepped on the water and began to take a bath.

"Have you memorized the incantation taught by the high priest yesterday?" Gaius asked.

Maca suddenly put away her smile, and looked sad, "I am the worst at rote memorization. This article is too obscure, and I can't understand it at all."

Gaius immediately recalled and recited a passage, which was used for blessing.

Aside from studying for two years, Gaius is obviously much more talented than Maca.As long as you cross the threshold of entry into the ancient language, the next step is to piece together the essence of a spell and find out the rhythm in it.

"Read it to me."

Maca can only try to chant aloud, intermittently, full of mistakes and omissions.

"Not at all, this is the first paragraph."

Gaius was a little worried, "The high priest is angry, you don't have dinner again."

"help me……"

"I can't help you. On the way back next time, you can look for wild fruits that you can eat."

On the mountain road to get water every day, if there are edible fruits wherever you see, how can you be let go by greedy children.As soon as Gaius said this, Maca had no choice but to accept his fate and prepare for starvation.

Fortunately, the high priest was not a cruel person, so he would usually prepare some food for him in the end, lest he would be too hungry to sleep at night.

When the clothes were dry, the two spread their arms, lifted the barrel and walked back.

Their steps are very light, even with heavy loads, they still move forward quickly on the steep rocks, as if walking on the ground.There are no shoes on the feet, which seems to be used to better grasp the rocks.Some nearly vertical rock walls, they can also step up a few times, as if there are invisible stairs there.

Maca followed behind Gaius, watching the bucket in his hand unshakeable, level as a mirror.He looked at his bucket again and saw that about a quarter of the water had been spilled.

In a few years, when I am the same age as Gaius, can I be as capable as him?

"Maka, look over there."

Gaius interrupted Maca's reverie, and pointed at the cliff beside him.

Looking along his hand, a small tree on the cliff has produced some bright red wild fruits.

It turned out that he was helping Maca find food along the way.

"then."

Before Maca could respond, he raised his hand and threw the bucket over. The supposedly heavy bucket seemed to be as light as nothing.Maca was horrified, and hurriedly put down her bucket, stretched out her hand to support the bottom of the flying bucket, and did it in one go.

"Almost spilled!"

Maca shouted that if he really missed the catch, Gaius must let him go back to fetch water alone.

Gaius laughed loudly, grabbed the branch on the rock wall like an ape, swung a few times to the side of the slanted tree, turned around, jumped high, stood on the branch as thick as a finger, and only pressed down. A little bit, like just a bird falling on it.

"One, two... 21." He counted while picking the fruit, "You eat fifteen, and the high priest and I will share the rest."

Although there is not much in total, I still want the high priest to try something new.

Gaius put the fruit in his arms, swung it vigorously on the branch twice, and jumped back to the original place.He first counted fifteen fruits and handed them to Maca, then raised his arms and raised the bucket.

"You eat first, and you won't have anything to eat when you go back."

Maca heard the words, put the fruit in his mouth and chewed slowly, it was sweet and sour, the core was very small, so he chewed it and swallowed it.

"What are you eating? Can you share it with me?"

The questioner was a little boy, wearing a bright yellow singlet and black shorts, like a village boy that can be seen everywhere.

But this is not a village, there are no roads, and even hunters will not come.

Gaius looked at him, blond, big-eyed, harmless.He returned a good-natured smile, gently put down the bucket, carefully selected two good-looking fruits from his bosom, and threw them over.The strength was well controlled, and it happened to land on the palm of his outstretched hand.

The little boy didn't thank him either, and just threw the fruit into his mouth.

"It's so sour..."

"Wild fruit is nothing compared to grown fruit, which is already very sweet."

Gaius recalled the people he saw when he followed the high priest down the mountain. The little boy in front of him looked the same as them, only a little more delicate.But he instinctively felt something was wrong.

The little boy in front of him didn't look like an ordinary person.

"You... went up the mountain to visit the temple? You came to pray for blessings?"

"Oh, are you apprentices from the temple?"

The little boy spit out the fruit core in his hand, looked around, and flicked his fingers towards the direction of the cliff.

"Yes, are you here to pray? Sorry, today is not the day to visit."

Gaius didn't get an answer, so he asked again.The temple is not open to the public every day. Although the sale of "talismans" is their main source of income, in order not to delay their practice, the high priest stipulates that they only receive visitors for ten days a month.

Climb the dangerous rope ladder and buy an amulet.This sense of ritual is sought after by many people, even if they don't believe in the Seven Gods.

But this is not the direction where the rope ladder is located.

"It's okay, I'm here anyway, it's good to chat with the high priest."

"Amulets are only sold on the tenth day of the first lunar month...and the high priest does not accept outsiders."

Despite repeated rejections, the little boy still smiled and remained silent.

After Maca finished eating the fruit, he wiped his hands on his pants. He only regarded this as an ordinary buyer, and urged Gaius to quickly pick up the bucket and go back.Perhaps the high priest was distracted by seeing outsiders and forgot to test his spells?
Gaius looked at the temple on the mountainside, and there was still a long way to go.

"Well... we are out to fetch water, so we can't walk slowly with you."

"Go your way, don't wait for me."

Hearing this, Gaius breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hands, turned around and quickly jumped up the cliff.Maca followed behind, like two nimble goats.

"what?"

"what happened?"

Hearing Maca's voice behind him, Gaius looked back.I saw the little boy walking leisurely on the rock with his hands in his trouser pockets.

His body is perpendicular to the mountain, as if ignoring gravity, every step is so light.What's even more strange is that although his step frequency seems to be similar to that of walking, he can just maintain a distance of 50 meters from the running Gaius and Maca, which is quite strange.

A tinge of fear welled up in Gaius's heart, he exerted strength with his feet, and ran a little faster.

"Why are you running so fast? I'm going to run out of water."

"Shut up and hurry up!"

(End of this chapter)