Chapter 80: The Sacred Stone
There are six sacred stones on the island of Southam, namely the wind, the water, the figure, the beast, the sun, and the tree, which were originally used to bless the island's inhabitants, but have since become a medium for Milak to control people.
According to the old shamanstone, even if Milak is gone, the sacred stones will still have a negative impact on the inhabitants of the island due to the power remaining on them and the unfinished altars.
"If Milak comes back on a whim one day and finds that everything she has been busy with for a long time has been ruined by us, her expression will definitely look good." The index finger tapped lightly on her lower lip, and the corners of Kashia's mouth curled into a smile.
"You're thinking too much, maybe she doesn't care at all." Zhang Lin couldn't help but smack, in exchange for Kexia's rolling eyes at him.
In the vicinity of the village of Skar there are two sacred stones, the beast stone on the hill behind the honey hall and the wind stone on the east side of the village, where most of the controlled Skar people originally worked.
Since at the beginning, the control took place at night, and everyone fell asleep, so this change was not detected in time, and by the time they realized that something was wrong, there were few people in the village who were not affected.
If it weren't for the loss of Mirak's control, the village of Skar would have been a thing of the past.
Led by Freya, the group came to the nearest beast stone and heard the sound of the stone tapping in the distance.
"Is there anyone in your village who hasn't brought it back?" Zhang Lin looked at Freya suspiciously.
"Probably gone." Freya shook her head.
As they climbed the hill, they saw several men in rudimentary leather armor toiling around the altar, tapping stones and muttering inexplicable words.
"It's just some bandits, and sure enough, the influence of the holy stone hasn't completely faded." Seeing the villagers who were not hers, Freya breathed a sigh of relief.
Curious, Serana walked up and spoke with one of the robbers, but the other man did not reply at all, still muttering something meaningless.
Walking around the sacred stone surrounded by the altar, the sacred stone and the pool on the edge were still as black as ink, Keshia stepped over the pool, put her hand on the holy stone, and the next moment she felt a trance, and a few unclear words sounded in her head, she remembered, it was the voice of Mirak that she had encountered earlier.
When she came back to her senses, she found that Zhang Lin looked at her with a smile, "The way you work is quite interesting." ”
"What?" Only then did Keshia notice that he had picked up a pickaxe in his hand, "How long have I been in control?" ”
"It's only been a short while, and I haven't even knocked out the traces." Zhang Lin shrugged, "I'll give it a try." ”
As he spoke, Zhang Lin also pressed his hand on the holy stone, and the result was unexpected, he was not affected, he turned around, "Am I immune to mind control?" Maybe I can go to Nellos and ask for the Dark Sutra, and Mora probably won't be able to influence me. ”
"But the knowledge in your head is probably more interesting, and it's not a joke." Kexia directly advised Zhang Lin not to take this risk.
"You two don't play, it's important to get down to business." Hill pulled Zhang Lin, who wanted to try again.
"What are you going to do?" Freya frowned and looked at Zhang Lin, "Ordinary methods can't destroy this altar. ”
"You don't have to worry about this, let me make sure first, your holy stone shouldn't be so easily destroyed, right?" Zhang Lin took out a few small metal cube-like things and confirmed them with Freya.
"No problem, the sacred stones have been around for a long time, and even the dragons haven't destroyed them." Freya glanced at Zhang Lin, although she didn't know what he was going to do, it sounded like she was going to use some powerful means.
"That's good, we can save some effort." As he spoke, Zhang Lin twisted the self-detonating robots in his hand one by one and put them under the stone pillars supporting the altar.
I don't know how much time it took the islanders to dismantle this altar, and it would take a lot of time to remove it by hand, so it would be easiest to blow it up.
Freya looked at the thing Zhang Lin put under the stone pillar with some curiosity, "What is that, metal doll?" In her eyes, these things were completely undestructive.
"You'll find out later." Zhang Lin smiled, put down the last self-destructing robot, and then retreated.
"Alright, it's time for us to step away," Zhang Lin reached out and patted Serana's shoulder as she was crouching in front of a robot, the vampire girl who also seemed to be interested in the gadgets.
"Do you need to be so far away?" Freya, who didn't know why, looked at the altar, which was already more than ten meters away, and asked suspiciously.
"It's a very conservative distance."
Zhang Lin responded to Freya's question, took out a remote control, looked at the altar in the distance, and pressed the big red button hard.
The blue eyes of all the self-destructing robots suddenly turned red, and the sound of the clockwork behind them turning abruptly stopped.
"Boom-"
The next moment, the flames of the explosion enveloped the entire altar, and the surrounding snow quickly melted in the heat, and the air currents swept a large amount of rubble and scattered in all directions, and the robbers who were thrown aside were smashed and screamed.
Zhang Lin took a step back, and a stone immediately fell where he was standing just now, and then the snow that was swept up into the sky also fell again, like a small blizzard.
"Misestimated."
Wiping the snowflakes off his face, Zhang Lin turned around and found that as early as the moment of the explosion, everyone else had already run farther away, and he was still standing in place stupidly.
Zhang Lin didn't expect that the power of these robots that had been eliminated by Mia would rise again.
Pulled by Hill to stand under a tree in the distance, Freya, who had escaped the snow-covered landscape, stared at the altar that had been blown into ruins, "The Creator is above, what kind of magic are you?" ”
For a while, she was even a little worried about whether the holy stone would be able to survive such an explosion, and when the smoke cleared, the holy stone that was still standing made her breathe a sigh of relief.
The original black stone was covered in snow and dust, and the lines carved on it were completely obscured, and the altar that Mirak controlled the people built for her was only a piece of rubble, and there was no possibility of recovery until it was rebuilt.
"Ciel, let's see if we can purify the energy on the Holy Stone."
Due to the destruction of the altar, the dark energy on the sacred stone has dissipated a lot, but it can be seen that it will still take some time for it to completely dissipate.
Ciel nodded, and with a wave of his right hand, the holy light fell on the holy stone, and the black on it disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Soon, however, the stimulation of the holy light reached the pool below the sacred stone, and the black pool began to bubble violently, as if something was about to come out.