Chapter 103: The Temple
Every morning, before the dew has cleared, Otter No. 1 brings Andrari citrus, red berries, melons and a wide variety of mushrooms freshly picked every day from Lengtan Village.
Speaking of mushrooms that have only recently begun to increase, it is thanks to Andrari's young leader, who suggested that the Druid Church had been studying mushroom cultivation methods in depth since a month earlier. At first, the elves were a little reluctant to use this strange technology, but when the small white umbrellas grew in the middle of the sawdust left behind after the shipbuilding, Catharion decisively enlisted the help of the dwarven stonemasons to build a cool, airy, and damp bluestone corridor between the woods of Lengtan Village. The promenade is roofed with creeper vines, and the water storage ditch below is stocked with frogs and toads to keep the annoying little flying insects at bay.
In just one month, the elves of Lengtan Village, with the help of the druids, have mastered the cultivation of fungus, gray fan mushrooms and brown shiitake mushrooms. And they are already trying to grow some more valuable and rare mushroom species, of course, those mushrooms will definitely require more harsh culture media and growing environments.
Taking Lengtan Village as a pilot, this emerging planting technology will inevitably be slowly promoted to the entire elven kingdom. It's just that Andrarui's demand for elven planting products is really very limited, and in the entire Emerald River, only this section of the river from the valley town to Lengtan Village has been explored and navigated. In the short term, the only ship on the river, Otter No. 1, will not be able to bring very strong economic growth to both places.
But even if the channel of the Emerald River Valley has only been cleared for a short time, the changes brought to Andrarui can still be felt by everyone. In the past few days, there are always elves from Lengtan Village and surrounding villages who come to Andrari, and some of them just want to see the strange culture of the other race. After listening to Andrari's lectures in the evening, he decided to stay and seek a stable job in the town. Some of them originally came to pass the time and rushed to work here. Others just want to exchange some of Andrarui's unique specialties, and many of them have decided to stay here because of André's enthusiasm. The novelty here is too rich for the elves who are accustomed to a peaceful life, and they can't deeply appreciate the prosperity of this alien town with the value of their own goods, so it is better to stay here and find a permanent job.
Anyway, people who work here can be assigned to dormitories, and it's a novelty to occasionally live in a room with other people.
There are also many young dwarven craftsmen sent by the Limestone Clan, just like the elves who have a lifespan of up to a thousand years, almost every one of these strong young men from the honest and honest people with a lifespan of three or four hundred years has one or two skills that can be mastered. Time is too much for them, and if they can't have some special pursuits other than survival, the long days will be very difficult.
As a result, experienced dwarven stonemasons have been building new stone houses almost constantly, laying stone pavement, digging deep drainage ditches, and building cesspools that use demonic thorn vines as a means of decomposing and purifying dirt.
Although there is only one ship in the port so far, several docks have been built. The first phase of André's stone wall by the water has already been completed, with hinged, steel-fenced gates blocking the Emerald River's access to the piers. Of course, no one in the vicinity of the Whispering Forest would be stupid enough to come here to find trouble, but according to the ideas of the Children of the Abyss, the new Andrarui must not only be a busy economic and trade center, but also a fortress that can withstand the siege of a large army! Even for the invasion of the Demon Realm, which still feels ethereal, this small town that will surely develop into a prosperous city in the future, the walls and gates must not be too stingy.
Then again, if it weren't for the dwarves' ability to use rock as concrete, André couldn't have been sure that the arch would not collapse in the future, as he had expected. Although he believed in the promises of the dwarven stonemasons, the Children of the Abyss eventually proposed that steel should be added to the crevices of the rocks and buried in the walls that would eventually merge into a single unit, in order to maintain the overall strength of the walls.
- The dwarves eventually adopted André's novel method, much to the delight of the Children of the Abyss, as it was perhaps the first wall in the history of Garlandia to be built of reinforced concrete chalk.
As a result, the first gate of Andrarui was built, and it was built on a massive scale of ten meters wide and eight meters high. The walls at the gates were six meters thick, and the thinnest was more than four meters -- the dwarves always joked that their houses would simply be built on top of the walls.
André's proposal to unify the units of measurement was also endorsed by the vast majority of the watchmen and kingdom elders, including His Highness Roshan. The method is to completely copy the ideas of the previous life, and set the carpentry ruler of the elves as "meters", and a "one meter" square, roughly a cube container can hold 1,000 liters of Emerald River water, and each liter of Emerald River water is one kilogram, and one kilogram is also called a thousand grams...... The most troublesome part is that most of the weighing tools have to be rebuilt, but this is also for the long-term future. There are also some less important ones, such as the ice water mixture of the Emerald River is 0 degrees Ang, the temperature of the Emerald River water when it boils is 100 degrees Ang, and so on.
The temple of the earth goddess Garandia is located in the north of the town, and although there is still only a four-story main building with a height of 15 meters, Shantia and Yudian already feel that this temple that incorporates the style of the elves and the graystone clan is too majestic, although there are many temples in the Whispering Forest that are even larger than it, but the temple made of woods and the buildings made of human beings obviously cannot be measured by the same standard. The embryo body of the goddess statue composed of three pieces of steel and jade stones four meters square stands in the main hall of the temple, and it has to be said that the natural abilities of the dwarven stonemasons are too convenient. Otherwise, when the main body of the stone passes through the gate of the temple that has already been built, the embryo body of the idol must be transported horizontally, but in a limited space, the embryo body of more than ten meters long must be erected...... The Children of the Abyss already felt their scalp in an irrepressible cold sweat just by giving birth to this thought—it was initially estimated that this complete idol body would weigh at least five hundred tons!
"How much does five hundred tons weigh?" asked the dwarven stonemasons curiously.
"500,000 kilograms!" Andrei replied very cautiously.
Then some people began to look innocently at the ceiling, while others scratched their beards in embarrassment, and in short, everyone stopped talking......
After stacking the three boulders neatly on top of each other with Andre's magical pulley design and the elves' precise carpentry pulleys and rope weaving skills, a panel of carvers composed of dwarves and elves had a heated discussion on the carving plan, after all, the dwarves and elves have completely different styles of shaping the statues of goddesses.
The planned time for the completion of the first phase of the temple had already been set, and André looked at the two groups of "artists" who did not give in to each other, and decided that it would be better not to get involved in the argument between them that they insisted on "for the sake of faith".
Compared to the majestic and exquisite temple of the goddess, the dark temple built on the north side of the town is much more low-key.
Of course, this is also because the budget for the "Watchmen" aid is used in the formation, anyway, if there is a need, can it be expanded in the future? But as a formation to maintain the magic of the temple's core blood pool, Andre had already used what he could to approach perfection. As a result, in addition to an open hall made of black rock pillars and flat roofs, the temple was paved with cobblestone paths and lawns in places that did not interfere with the operation of the circle. In keeping with Andrari's culture, the lawn outside the temple is lined with three life-size stone statues carved by elven stonemasons.
--The main reason for not adopting the dwarves' plan is that the cowardice and fire demons created in their hands are too hideous.
A cowardly statue with a lame leg and an ugly scar on its belly. The base is engraved:
- In the 487th year of the Dark Age of the Garlandiyah calendar, the cowardly Wakawcon was tortured unimaginably in order not to reveal the whereabouts of Andrari's exile party.
A statue of a fire demon in both hands, manipulating flames. In order to achieve the visual effect of the flame without making it a burden for the maintenance staff, André chose to wrap a bright red silk cloth around the glowing ruby. Coupled with a small wind elemental circle that kept blowing wind upwards, this artificially created flame effect immediately became vivid.
- In the year 487 of the Dark Ages of the Garlandiyah calendar, the Flame Demon Garuda of Qatar produced the first pottery of Andrarui under the guidance of His Highness Andrew. It was this humble and magical object that allowed the exiled team to pass through the treacherous swamp with zero casualties.
Finally, the statue of the Children of the Abyss, standing at the main entrance of the main hall, the elven craftsmen drew on Andrei's creativity and the suggestions of his subordinates to create a black mist effect of dark magic manifestation using black onyx, obsidian, and shadow runes. Leader Andrari, dressed in a black fur apron, looked like he had just been reborn on the night he had been reborn, covered in black mist.
- André Gesarez, a wise leader who is given life by the will of the great Abyss and leads us out of helplessness. In the 487th year of the Dark Age of Galandia, this noble highness descended on the swamp of the Demon Realm. He led Andrari through the treacherous Swamp and settled at the foot of the Shattered Hollow Mountain. With the help of Thornleaf Village and the Limestone Clan, he established our first home, and the following year led his people out of the grip of the Abyss Lord, crossing the world's gates to reach the beautiful Garlandia. With the help of the Elven Kingdom, the Greystone Clan, and other friends, a new Andrari was founded in the Summer Flower Moon of the same year.