Heart of the Castle

Chapter 557 Arriving at the camp to reclaim the northern border.

If the laments of some frustrated nobles were removed, as well as the private actions of the conspirators, in the spring of Dawn Calendar 592, the northern border of the Kingdom of Arthur was completely in full swing.The Earth Temple in Greencastle issued a general mobilization order, and the Earth Temples scattered in various villages and towns north of the Dusk Forest sent as many priests as possible to join this significant work, and figures in khaki robes appeared every day. On a piece of land that is being reclaimed.

These taciturn clerics brought not only the blessings of the God of the Earth and magic spells for healing and healing, but more importantly, each of them wore an inconspicuous linen bag around their waists.When the thawed wasteland was cleared into fields, they walked into the middle of the fields and dumped the contents of the cloth bags.

Oat grains with a hint of golden light poured out from the opened bag. The amount was so large that it far exceeded the limit that the cloth bag could hold.Moreover, these oat grains did not pile up under the feet of the priests, but scattered and scattered with the wind, and finally spread evenly in the surrounding fields.

The land has just thawed, and there are still traces of thin snow. Experienced farmers know that it will take at least half a month before the weather can be planted.However, when those golden oat seeds were sprinkled into the field, the miracle of the land that had been shown to the people of the northern border reappeared, and the green shoots burst out immediately. Within a few days, all the newly cultivated fields All of them are full of strong oat plants, which are at least three times faster than ordinary oat varieties.

For the aborigines living in the northern border, this was the reappearance of the miracle in the early winter of last year. Although they were all moved to tears, they were still able to control their emotions; for those who just came here For the refugees, the scene was completely beyond their imagination. More than one person suddenly knelt down beside the fresh green fields, kissed the land with their lips, and at the same time shouted "Long live the god of the earth" and "Long live the griffin lord" .

This act of excitement was so contagious that others joined in, the effect was so strong that even Mr. Dish, who had pre-planned the miracle display performance, did not expect it.Along the golden line of faith, the power of faith pouring into the heart of the castle is equivalent to the amount of tens of thousands of devout believers praying for a whole day. Countless faith gems exuding beautiful light made a crisp and pleasant collision sound, forming an unprecedented The luxurious jewel waterfall that some people have witnessed rushes out from the top of the earth altar in the heart of the castle.

At the same time as the waterfall emerged, Mr. Dish, who was sipping Mermaid Tears in the tavern in the Heart of the Castle, almost smashed his glass, "Such a pure faith? Damn the gods, it's almost..." The expression on the face of the old magician It looked a little strange, his eyes seemed to be staring ahead, but the focus of his eyes was not focused on anything, the intensity of the psychological struggle even burst out like a real flame in his eyes.

It took half a minute for Mr. Dish to regain his composure. "We must check it out right away." He muttered to himself, then got up and walked out of the tavern, making a swift gesture with both hands.

"Fly the sky!"

A silver-white light flashed, and the old magician seemed to spread out invisible wings behind him, soaring into the air with the intense air current, and flew straight to the north gate of the White Castle.

Mr. Dish originally thought that he came quickly enough, but when he arrived, a tall obsidian statue had already stood in front of the earth altar, bent down, and hugged it tightly with two arms as thick as the pillars of a palace. The altar exuded a rich khaki-yellow light.

When Mr. Dish flew over with the sound of the wind, the Alchemy Colossus Immediately turned his head 180 degrees in a way that was difficult for any creature to do, and then a deep and deep voice sounded.

"Old Dish, what is buried under this altar?" There was a rare sense of tension in Yan's voice, and a red light flickered in Obsidian's eye sockets, "The power of this thing is terrifying. , the entire altar may be destroyed at any time, even I feel unbearable."

"It was my negligence." Mr. Dish couldn't help saying with some gratitude when he saw the cracks that cracked from time to time on the top of the altar, "Thanks to you, Yan, otherwise, if the thing below was allowed to escape, it would have It’s going to cost a lot.”

The red light in the eye sockets of the Alchemy Colossus erupted suddenly. If it was a human being, it would be equivalent to widening its eyes. "Did I hear correctly? Old Dish would also say thank you to me?"

"Because your actions have indeed solved a big problem for me, so of course you should be thanked." Mr. Dish said with a serious expression, and at the same time took out the dragon-shaped wooden walking stick from his sleeve. "Leave it to me now, Yan, I'll count to three, then you let go of the altar and retreat as soon as possible."

As a colossus of alchemy, Yan should not have the feeling of fear, even when his body was dismantled into several pieces and scattered in different places, he never felt fear.But seeing the dazzling silver light flashing from the head of the carved wooden cane in Mr. Dish's hand, Yan's obsidian heart suddenly trembled violently a few times, and a feeling that he had never felt before came to his heart.

Before the Alchemy Colossus could savor this strange feeling carefully, Mr. Dish suddenly said, "One, two, three!" The sense of danger suddenly became stronger, and Yan almost let go of his hands hugging the altar without thinking, and there was a feeling on his chest. The two obsidian slabs suddenly separated to the left and right, revealing a dark hole below.

"The third form of self-defense of Alchemy Giant Idol, Yanzhi escapes from the fumes and super jumps!" At the same time that Zaiyan announced the name of the move in a thick voice, a bright fire flashed across his chest, followed by a thunderous sound Loud noises and suffocating air waves scattered in all directions.The power of the explosion was unexpected, not only overturning most of the earth altar, even the body of the Alchemy Colossus weighing hundreds of tons was thrown high like a bundle of straw.

The earth altar itself is full of sacred power, and it also has a certain suppression effect on the unknown object directly below. This time, it was suddenly blown to pieces by Yan's escape skill, and immediately gave the unknown object a chance to rush out of the ground.

Accompanied by a crackling sound, a thick arm suddenly stretched out from the ground, punching a big hole effortlessly through the middle of the incomplete altar, as if it was not a hard rock, but a lump that had been placed for a long time. Same as the sour cream.The arm continued to stretch out, the dirt and rocks were turned in all directions, and even the elbow part was exposed from the ground.

However, this was also the last struggle of the unknown object.

"Silver gray, call, answer, time flows, solid as a charm!"

With the sound of Mr. Disch's incantation, a bright silver light descended from the sky, and the movement of the arm stopped immediately, and the surface was gradually surrounded by silver cracks, which seemed to be woven into a thin and dense spider web.

Mr. Dish snapped his fingers, and the magic of soaring into the sky was replaced by feather fall. A light and gorgeous feather-like white light accompanied the old magician slowly descending from the sky. With giant hands, a calm smile appeared on the corner of Mr. Dish's mouth again.

"Fortunately, this guy's consciousness is not so easy to wake up, otherwise it will really take a lot of trouble."

It took a full 5 minutes for the Alchemy Colossus to recover from the upside-down state. Looking at the big hole made by his head on the ground, a few red lights flashed in Yan's eye sockets for a few seconds. Zhong, he seemed to want to fill up the hole again, but finally gave up the idea.

"Anyway, I'm ashamed this time..." Yan muttered sadly, and at the same time touched the black hole on his chest that was still emitting smoke. "The smoke potion made by the little ghosts is really unreliable. Damn it, they still claim to be the descendants of Moti, the god of craftsmen! Why on earth does Lord Moti want to pass on such a stupid bloodline?"

No one can answer the doubts in the heart of the Alchemy Colossus, but Yan's nerves are all made of fine gold wire, and the degree of toughness is completely trustworthy.After just complaining a few words, Yan quickly got rid of his bad mood, and turned his eyes curiously to the giant hand sticking out of the ground.

The 20-meter-tall Alchemy Colossus can be regarded as the largest man-made creature that many people have ever seen. Even the giant earth elemental can only barely exceed his knees, and the mammoth is like a giant mammoth beside him. puppy.But compared with this giant hand protruding from the ground, Yan's huge body seems a bit dwarfed by comparison.This giant hand made of completely uncarved unknown rock is only above the elbow above the ground, but it is about ten meters long by visual inspection, and the volume of each finger is as large as that of an adult human being. male.

Mr. Dish, who was wearing the robes of the great magister, was standing under the giant hand, and he was looking up at the lines on the giant hand seriously. With one touch, the old magician can be crushed into powder.

The premise is if the giant hand can still move.

Yanmai walked over with heavy steps, his face made of obsidian could not show any expression, otherwise he must be full of surprise. "Such a huge arm..." He knelt down and tapped the giant hand lightly with his fist, "and it has the same characteristics as me, the highest creation of Moti, the god of craftsmen - indestructible, old Dish, What the hell is this guy?"

"It would take a long time to explain this thing carefully, so I'll keep it simple." Mr. Dish took out a meerschaum pipe from his arms, stuffed it with tobacco leaves, and then lit a silver flame with his fingers. "Yan, do you have any knowledge about creation legends?"

"Sure, I have all the knowledge that Moti, the god of craftsmen, has input for me, including the knowledge about creation legends." The red light in Yan's eyes suddenly flashed dozens of times at high speed, and then the alchemy giant was very proud Said in a tone of voice, "After preliminary screening, I have 320 knowledge items related to creation legends, and 3 expanded reading items."

"It seems that Mote is really boring. You have stuffed a lot of things in your stone head..." Mr. Dish took a deep breath of the cigarette as he spoke, and then puffed out a thick puff of smoke. White smoke, his expression looked a little dazed under the smoke, as if he had fallen into some distant memory.

As a golem among alchemy creatures, Yan's patience can be compared to an out-and-out stone.His head had been sleeping in the abandoned tower occupied by the undead for hundreds of years. Even the liches who occupied it did not realize that the head carved in obsidian was actually an alchemical creature with self-awareness.Since Mr. Dish didn't continue to speak immediately, he naturally sat down next to the giant hand, and put on a look of "then just wait".

It didn't take long for Mr. Dish to fall into the memory. In less than half a minute, he let out a long sigh, and then said it with a look of disenchantment. "Since you have more than 1000 pieces of knowledge about creation legends...Damn it, it seems that you know a lot more than I know, so the argument about the battle between the god of the earth, Kaggeno, and the monarch of the earth element, Behemoth, is also true. Shouldn't you be familiar with it?"

"Affirmatively, Cageno is the spirit conceived by the earth, born with the ability to manipulate the earth; and Bechymos is the first earth element life created by the Father God at the same time as the world, born with all the earth elements At the same time, he is also the only life on the earth who is qualified to stand against Caggino. Their struggle for the priesthood of the earth lasted for countless years, during which the earth was traumatized. Under their divine power, the mountains Rising and being flattened, then rising again; the river overflowed its course and turned into a flood in all directions; countless lives were lost, and far more lives were lost to Caggino than even the Sleeper. In the end, the struggle even caused the death of his father. God intervened to stop it, Father God asked the two sides to stop fighting immediately and jointly take charge of the priesthood of the earth."

"Father God is indeed wise." Mr. Dish shrugged his shoulders and added, "In fact, Behemoth's natural priesthood is earthquakes, while Caggino's is harvest, and there is no conflict between them sharing the priesthood of the earth. , but if he can do that, he won't be the violent and powerful earth elemental monarch Behemoth."

"Affirmatively, Caggino agreed to obey the judgment of the Father God, but Bechymos refused without hesitation. As a result, he was imprisoned in the center of the earth by the Father God, and he was allowed to support the weight of the earth on his back forever until the end of the world The end of the day." After the Alchemy Colossus finished speaking, the red light in the eye sockets suddenly brightened, looking like two blood-colored suns.

"God of Craftsman, Mote!" Yan's voice became a little weird and hoarse due to extreme horror, it sounded like countless stone fragments rubbing against each other. "Couldn't this be...the body of Behemoth, the earth elemental monarch?"

"Yan, you seem to be right this time." Mr. Dish stroked his beard and replied with a smile.

Li Wei didn't know what just happened in the heart of the castle.For the young lord who is the guardian of the entire kingdom and the sheriff of the northern border county, the arrival of a large number of refugees is both an opportunity and a challenge. Labor is the most precious asset in the sparsely populated northern border county. After these refugees enter, The strength accumulated since Li Wei's rise in the northern border of the desolate kingdom exploded in this way, forming a vigorous tide of reclamation that swept everything.

Thanks to the joint efforts of the priests of the God of the Earth who roamed around the northern border, most of the refugees witnessed the miracles that appeared in the fields. Among the general believers of God, there are also a considerable number of true believers.In this way, the vast majority of refugees have become the most devout and fanatical believers, and they regard Li Weiston, the god of the earth, as the incarnation of Caggino walking in the world.

Because this kind of thinking is very beneficial for refugees to obey the management, coupled with the promotion of those clergymen in the Temple of the Earth, soon the Griffon Lord became the object of many people's faith and hope, and the power of faith absorbed by the Castle Heart There was a sudden increase, and only about half of them could be condensed into gems of faith in time, and the dissipated power of faith almost managed to revive Bechymos, the earth elemental monarch who was imprisoned directly under the earth altar.

Although on the whole, Beijing County is developing rapidly because of the refugees, but there are also a lot of negative things that happened during this period, and the main targets of these negative things are those royal nobles who feel frustrated.

Coming from the warm and affluent royal capital to the barren and bitterly cold northern border, including many well-to-do citizens, is very reluctant, let alone those nobles of the royal capital who are soaked in arrogance in their bones.In just a few days, Li Wei's desk was full of indictments sent from all over the place, most of which were written by wealthy nobles in the royal capital, and the rest were elders from various camps and villages. And the complaint of the captain of the guard.

Many of the nobles from the royal capital of Fermeyer are wealthy families with a long history, and some of them are even older than the history of the Arthur Kingdom.In their minds, apart from Glory Capital, the noble lords in other places are just nouveau riche with shallow qualifications and no background at all.

The mentality of these nobles in the royal capital became weaker in the early days when the capital fell into the hands of the demon army, because they felt that their lives were threatened.However, when they came to North Border County, with the three important cities of Dirk, North Aola, and Sicily and the natural dangers of the Dusk Forest as barriers, the idea of ​​"already completely safe" re-emerged in the hearts of many nobles in the royal capital. Sprout.

They then found life in the North difficult.

For many people, the natural environment in the northern border is quite harsh. Large tracts of uncultivated forests surround the towns and villages in the northern border, and there are only narrow forest paths connecting each other; most houses are made of logs. , variegated rocks and stucco as materials, and the way of heating is to dig a firepit in the middle of the rammed ground instead of building a fireplace in the corner of the wall.

The food is also rough and simple, brown bread, milk and oatmeal, and a small piece of sausage are often a breakfast; while the staple food at noon and evening is mostly black bread, with a small amount of stewed meat and spicy potatoes.Whether it's afternoon tea or anything else, it doesn't exist in the living habits of the northern border.

The royal nobles complained about this, and even had a series of conflicts with the original residents of Beijing County because of this, which made Li Wei very distressed.

(End of this chapter)