Doomsday Totem

Chapter 100 Choice
Tie Slag yawned, scratched his hair, and came to the kitchen on the first floor with sleepy eyes.Pushing the door open, old Kezan was wearing an apron, preparing dinner in front of the stove.Seeing him coming in, Kezan stopped what he was doing, turned around and asked, "Friend, did you sleep well?"

"En." Tie Slag responded, and casually took a sip from the marching cup on the table.As he expected, the water was lukewarm.

"Dinner is radish stewed beef, and wheat porridge." Kezan picked up the spoon and stirred the food in the pot, and said.

"I want to eat deer leg." Tie Slag proposed.

"Okay, okay, eat this tonight, and make it for you at noon tomorrow." Kezan said.

"Where does the food here come from?" Iron Slag asked.Since he landed on this glacier, he has walked for more than a month, and he didn't see any plants or animals along the way, so he felt a little strange.

Kezan explained as he handled the food.This piece of land is located in the center of the Great Ice Ocean, surrounded by glaciers and land in the middle.

Scientists speculate that, hundreds of millions of years ago, the End of the World and the Snowy Night Ice Field were both land plates split from the Northern Wilderness Continent.There was originally only a small piece of land here, similar to a large island.But after billions of years, the seawater gradually froze around the land, forming a large area of ​​glaciers.After the iron slag landed, it has been walking on the surrounding glaciers, so plants and animals cannot be seen.

Twenty kilometers to the north of the Brilliant Temple is the land at the end of the world, where endless cedars grow, and it has been called "endless forest" since ancient times.Kezan's deer legs and ice crystal berries for brewing come from the Endless Forest.

In addition, Kezan also mentioned that there is already a land plate under the Temple of Glory, but it is buried deep under the glacier for thousands of years, so it has not been revealed, and the Hall of Valor is built in the soil deep underground.

"Where are the radishes and beef?" Tie Slag picked up the marching cup and continued to ask, "What about these living supplies?" Maybe beef is hard to say, but radishes definitely cannot grow in this icy and snowy place.Even if he doesn't know how to plant, he still knows this basic common sense.

"Every 30 years or so, the ancient temple will send aircraft to deliver a large amount of supplies." Kezan replied.

"Ancient temple? Aren't you split?" Tie Slag became even more strange.

"Although we are split, we are still connected by blood..."

"Accept the traitor's support?" Tie Slag interrupted Kezan and asked back, his tone full of disdain.

Kezan put down the spoon, waved his hand, and explained.Without the help of the ancient temple, they would not have been able to bring back so many guardian remains.

In addition, half a year ago, Lena Yukiris mailed the token to the office of the ancient temple in Beihuang.They identified it as the relic of the guardian of the holy wolf, and immediately sent someone to send it over thousands of miles away.

"The relationship between the ancient lineage and the brilliant lineage is very complicated, and it can't be explained clearly in a few words." Kezan concluded, and then filled a bowl of hot boiled beef with radish and handed it to Tie Slag.

Iron Slag had just taken a bite when he suddenly remembered that since they had a flying machine, why didn't they just send him over?Thinking of the hardships on the road, he couldn't help frowning, and asked in a deep voice, "Why didn't you let them send me over? I almost died on the road!"

Seeing this, Kezan had no choice but to explain.The magnetic field in this area is very unstable, and the locator of the aircraft will make mistakes, so that it will get lost.Only in the few months before and after the total solar eclipse, the magnetic field here will stabilize, and then the aircraft can be used to come here.However, this world will only have a total solar eclipse every 30 years or so, so you can only rely on walking to come here.

"Then how will I leave in the future? How will I go to the Central Military Academy in two years?" Tie Slag asked.He didn't want to walk this path again, it was too difficult.Being able to come here is entirely dependent on that "fire of life", otherwise he would have died in the ice ocean.

Kezan chuckled and said, "My friend, let's talk about the future."

Hearing this, Tie Slag almost rolled his eyes, and asked angrily, "What can I learn by coming here?"

"Let's talk about it after dinner. Patience is a virtue that every Norses should have." Kezan said.

"I'm not Noel..." In the middle of the sentence, Tie Slag didn't bother to continue, because the old man seemed to be more stubborn than the eldest sister in Iron Mountain Town.After more than ten minutes, he finished his boiled beef with radishes and drank a bowl of wheat porridge, then threw away the tableware and said, "Now we can talk."

"Okay, wait..." Kezan said while packing the tableware.

Therefore, Tie Slag could only watch helplessly as the old man packed up his things, made another cup of fried barley tea, and then sat down opposite him and said to him, "Friend, you asked a lot of questions yesterday, and I will answer them one by one now." .”

"Your first question, what do you come here to learn?" The old man asked himself and answered, "Learn the tradition of the glorious temple and ancient combat skills."

"Your second question, why do you want to study at the Central Silver City Military Academy?"

"Because you need to understand how the whole world works, and the Central Silver City Military Academy is like a microcosm of the world."

"All major forces and families in the world will send their descendants or heirs with excellent qualifications to study there. On the one hand, these people learn knowledge, and on the other hand, they get to know the descendants or successors of other forces. At the same time , These people will also compete with each other in the academy to select the best batch. One percent of the students in the academy will become the leaders of major forces and families in the future. How much do you need to know? Only by having such friends can we gain a foothold in this world.”

"Wait..." Tie Slag interrupted Kezan and said, "Why do I learn those things, I just want to improve my strength, and besides, I don't want to have anything to do with the people of Yincheng."

"Why? Can you tell me." Kezan asked.

"Old man Tie said, we don't know what's right and wrong in Yincheng, so we don't want to participate." Tie Slag said.

"Your adoptive father must be an old man full of wisdom. He is right. When you were in Iron Mountain Town, if you participated in the right and wrong of Yincheng, you probably wouldn't be alive today..." Kezan stared at Iron Mountain. Zha said firmly, "But it's different now. You've come here, to the Temple of Glory. Although there are not many of us left, please remember that we have never been afraid of any power! The glory of our ancestors , will illuminate our way forward!"

"Ancestor..." Tie Slag spread his hands, shrugged his shoulders, and asked, "Can you eat it?"

"This..." Kezan put his palms together, bowed in the direction of the temple, and said to himself, "The ancestors are above, and the younger generations are ignorant, please don't care."

"It's really long-winded." Tie Slag crossed his hands in front of his chest, tilting his head and commented.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this..." In order to prevent Tie Slag from saying something disrespectful to his ancestors again, Kezan quickly changed the subject and said, "Let's discuss your study direction, you want to choose the direction of Holy Wolf Guardian , or in the direction of Warsong Shaman?"

"What's the difference?" Iron Slag asked.This war song shaman is probably someone like a magic stick, he is not interested.But since Kezan said it, he might as well find out.

"The Guardian of the Holy Wolf focuses on learning combat skills, while the War Song Shaman focuses on learning the beliefs of the temple."

"Guardian of the Holy Wolf." Iron Slag quickly made a choice.

"This..." Kezan lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "In this world, force cannot solve all problems, and may even intensify conflicts, but faith can guide people to the right truth, and even more so in the dark. Bring hope."

"I only know how to fight, and I came here to learn how to fight." Tie Slag replied simply, with an unquestionable tone.

Kezan sighed, stood up and said, "Okay, I'll take you to the first lesson tonight." After speaking, Kezan walked out of the kitchen, and then took out two large towels from the material warehouse on the side, one draped over his shoulders Go up, and pass one to Iron Slag.

Iron Slag took the towel and asked, "What are you learning?"

"The tradition of the temple." Kezan answered, picked up the oil lamp hanging at the door, and walked along the corridor to the castle gate.

Iron Slag followed closely behind, and saw that the gate of the castle was tall and wide, and thick logs were fixed together with iron bars and willow nails, forming this extremely solid gate.Tie Slag was wondering if it would be troublesome to open this door.At this moment, Kezan opened a small door on the gate and went out.

Walking out of the small door, it is another world of ice.Kezan walked ahead with an oil lamp, and Tie Slag followed silently.After walking for about twenty minutes, they came to the foot of a glacier.With the faint firelight, you can see that the bottom of the glacier is full of stone walls.

After walking along the stone wall for a while, a dark hole appeared in front of him.Kezan went straight in, followed closely by Iron Slag, looking around curiously.The walls of the cave are uneven black rocks with traces of artificial excavation.The cave is sloping downward, and it is estimated that it leads to the bottom of the glacier.

After walking for another ten minutes, the cave gradually lit up.Fluorescence dots on the cave wall, exuding a light green shimmer.Kezan blew out the oil lamp and introduced, "These are shimmering ores, which can absorb the heat of the earth and emit a faint light."

"Geothermal heat?" Tie Slag asked in disbelief, he couldn't imagine that there would be geothermal heat in such a cold place.

"Miracles always appear in unexpected places." Kezan said, walked forward for a while, and after turning a corner, the front suddenly opened up.

This is a huge underground space, in the shape of a semicircle, with an area as large as several football fields.The highest point on the top is tens of meters high, with fluorescent spots on it.The countless shimmering ores are like stars all over the sky, illuminating the entire ground with soft light.

However, this is not the most shocking.

The scene in front of him was something Tie Slag had never heard of in the stories.I saw that the ground was full of pools of different sizes, steaming hot water.

"Friends, welcome to the ancient bathhouse!" Kezan said loudly.

(End of this chapter)