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"What do you want to say?" Old Godwin was alert, because at this time the Midsummer Knights had already entered the city, and if they rioted, there was no possibility for his lord, the princess, to continue, and the princess's words seemed to be pleading, but in fact they were threatening herself.

"Don't worry, my dear lord," Brant crossed Vanessa and tapped twice on the table in front of Godwin, his knuckle-knuckle armor making the sound of copper coins striking, "what we want is simple—food. ”

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About 200 people lived within the confines of the mausoleum, but there were quite a few buildings. It is the oldest and most sacred of the four islands around Thurlandburg. There are three or two temples, large houses, huts, eunuch stewards' quarters, as well as guards' quarters immediately outside the wall, a number of farmhouse sheds, barns, sheep pens, goat pens, and breeding farms. It looks like a small town from afar!! If you look in this direction from the dry mountains in the west. The mountains are barren of grass, with only a few plants such as sparse grass, sparse and scattered creeping threadweeds, small weeds, and desert herbs. If you look up from the far eastern plains, you may see the golden roofs of the Twin Temples shining under the mountains, like a speck of mica in a large field of rock.

The twin temples themselves are stone cubes, plastered, with a low portico and a door with no windows. The Temple of the Divine Kings, built a few hundred years later than the Twin Temples, is much more dazzling, with a lower hillside than the Twin Temples, but with a high colonnade and a row of thick white pillars with colored capitals. Each white pillar is a whole cedar tree, which was transported by ship from the wood-rich island of Haken, and then dragged by twenty farmers across the barren desert plains to the mausoleum. Travelers from the east, when they see the golden roof and eye-catching wooden pillars of the temple of the Divine King, will follow the temple on the hillside, which is higher than all the aforementioned buildings, and there is a temple that is as earthy brown as the desert and is as deserted: the great but low throne hall. It is the oldest temple of its kind, with repaired walls and a slightly dull dome that has gradually crumbled.

Behind the throne hall, there is a heavy stone wall that surrounds the top of the mausoleum mound, which is not plastered and has fallen in many places. On the inside of the stone wall were several black rocks, eighteen or twenty feet high, each of which looked like huge fingers emerging from the ground. Whoever sees them will keep looking back. They stood there with deep meaning, but no one had ever heard what they meant. There are nine blackstones in total, one of which stands untilted, two of which are all down, and the rest are more or less tilted. The surface of the stone is covered with gray-orange moss, which looks as if it has been colored; But there was a patch of moss that was uncovered, and its jet-black color was faintly shiny, and it felt smooth and unmarked. Although the rest of the rocks are covered with moss, you can still see or feel some shape marks carved on the stones. These nine black rocks are the tombstones of Ivan's mausoleum. It is said that they have been erected here since the first human beings were born, since the creation of Europs. When the depths of the ocean were lifted up, they were erected in the darkness. They are older than the god-kings, older than the twin brothers, and even older than the light. They are the tombstones of unknown rulers of successive generations before the mortal world began to exist. Since the ruler is nameless, so will the women who serve in the future.

The tombstone was erected at the back of the throne hall, on the top of a hill surrounded by stone walls, where no one else had ever set foot foot. Twice a year, the ritual of sacrifice is performed in front of the throne, on the full moon day closest to the spring and autumn equinoxes. During the ceremony, the lord of Thranburg would carry a large brass basin and walk out of the low **** of the throne hall. The copper basin contained the hot and smoking goat's blood, half of which he had to sprinkle on the foot of the black tombstone that was still standing, and the other half on whatever had been poured. The toppled tombstones are embedded in the rock dust, stained with the blood of the sheep sacrificed over the centuries.

Vanessa wandered among the black rocks, trying to figure out what was carved on it, for the morning light was slanting, and the faint bumps and dents on the rock were more prominent. Otherwise, she sat among the tombstones and looked out over the mountains to the west, overlooking the roofs and walls of the mausoleum below, watching the first waves of morning movement around the big house and the guards' quarters, and watching the sheep and the mountains being driven away to the grassy river. In the tombstone area, even in the midday heat of this midsummer country, there is still a feeling of coldness.

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