Chapter 449: Ancient Sacrifices
In fact, Lukka never intended to hide the fact that there was a silver dragon in the crew. But even if Thea's silver hair is conspicuous, outsiders will only praise a few words at most, and no one will really pull her and ask, "Are you a dragon?"
After all, dragons, whether in the Sunset Islands or in the Boiling Sea, are creatures that only appear in legends. The only difference is probably that the inhabitants of the Boiling Sea believe that dragons once existed, but they became extinct a thousand years ago, while the people of the Sunset Islands believe that this is simply a product of imagination.
Thea herself didn't care about Dolan's shocked gaze, and immediately climbed back onto the boat after going up the stairs, muttering "headache" and lying down to close her eyes to recuperate.
Lukka didn't bother her, but he wasn't so polite to Doran.
"Hey, don't sit on the boat, the temperature here has returned to normal, come down and push together!" he ordered.
"Really...... Is it really normal?" Dolan was terrified, "What if the lava erupts again? If the temperature rises, I'm sure I'll spontaneously combust!"
"Then we'll have one more torch. Lukka said this, but took out an enchanted glass from his pocket and handed it to the wood spirit, "If you feel like you're going to burn, throw this at your feet, don't waste it now, this piece only has two hours of effect." ”
Now, without the scorching of lava and the source of illumination, Lukka attached the light to a few blank pieces of glass and distributed them among the others, holding them in his hands as lanterns.
The corridor on the third floor of the hall was very short, and after walking a few steps, two black stone doors on the lower second floor appeared in front of him, and Phil was the first to push the door and walked in, raised the light source in his hand and looked forward, and immediately shouted loudly: "Captain, there are a lot of things piled up here!"
Lukka hurried to follow, startled by the large pile of offerings in the middle of the hall.
The rotunda is larger than the one on the second floor, and at first glance, it is about the size of a football field, and the roof is also a curved dome, supported by dozens of obsidian columns, which looks magnificent.
However, such a large space was almost completely filled. Piles of boxes and cans are stacked together to form a small mountain.
"It's all a sacrifice from the rock giants, isn't it?" said Nora, as she walked over and picked up a small box and opened it, containing a beautifully crafted gold flask, set with gems that were clearly of great value.
Ollie also opened a package, which was a gorgeous animal skin coat, but this kind of thing was not suitable for storage in this hot and dry environment, and it broke into several pieces after shaking it casually.
Of course, not everything is so valuable, so Phil pulled out a toy woven of thick wire, similar in style to the Nine Rings that Luca played with when he was a child, but the material was very ordinary, and it should only be a common toy for young dwarves on the island.
"Looks like this rock giant really wants anything. Phil said.
Lukka looked at the pile of sacrifices, suddenly stopped Nora and asked, "Do rock giants have a long lifespan?"
Nora shook her head: "It's not long, the average is about two hundred years old." ”
"Two hundred years is not a long time, you long-lived races really can't understand the suffering of human beings. Luka's face was full of sadness.
"Well, why do you care about the life of the rock giant?" asked Shut up on his shoulder, confused.
"Well, if their lifespan is only two or three hundred years old, then it is unlikely that these sacrifices were single-handedly tricked by that giant. Lukka said, walking over to the pile of sacrifices, and unpretentiously pushed away the pile of boxes, pulling out a few old boxes from the depths of the mountain of sacrifices.
"The style of these boxes is a little strange. "Phil had never seen a box made into three corners.
"Triangular box, this is an old pattern," Nora didn't seem to be familiar with, "no one has used it for at least eight or nine hundred years." ”
Lukka doesn't know the history of the evolution of the boiling sea bags, but as long as people with normal vision can know at a casual glance that these boxes are definitely not short. And at the back of these chests, deeper in the sacrificial pile, some of the packages have been broken and look older than these triangular chests.
Lukka opened a few boxes and examined them, only to find that the older the chests, the simpler the contents became, some of them contained only small round metal flakes that had become rusty with the erosion of time, and these things were not even gold or silver, but ordinary pieces of iron.
"Only the outermost circle has all kinds of luxury ornaments, mainly for wearing and playing, and the rock giant has probably finished eating and drinking. Phil opened dozens of boxes, rubbed his wrists and concluded.
In other words, the rock giant pretending to be a mountain spirit to ask for a sacrifice was only a matter of the past two hundred years. But before him, there were also sacrifices that were constantly being sent here, but they were not very valuable or delicious and fun. Luca speculated.
"Could it be that the master is the one who cheats the sacrifices?" said Phil.
"Are you supposed to be like you, learning to blackmail without a teacher?" Lukka remembers his first encounter with the bear child, "but the first person to receive the sacrifice probably didn't have much to do with the rock giants. ”
"That's right," Nora agreed, "these sacrifices, the outermost ones, the ones that the rock giants had requested, were obviously different in style from the previous ones, but I don't know what the special meaning of these metal discs is. ”
"If you're done studying the sacrifices," Crete said suddenly, "I'd suggest you look up. ”
"Around?" Lukka looked up, and as soon as he entered, he and most of the people were drawn to the small hill-like pile of offerings, not paying any attention to what else was around.
He turned around with the glass light source, but he didn't notice anything special in the hall other than the pile of sacrifices, only the obsidian floor and the gray-white ordinary stone wall as far as the light could reach.
"There was something on the wall. Crete reluctantly reminded again.
The glass light source was limited in range and could not be seen from a distance, and Lukka stood in the middle of the hall, the stone walls a blurry gray to his eyes. He approached the wall with the light source, and some mottled patterns finally revealed in the light.
"The mural?" Nora walked over to take a closer look, "There seems to be text here, it's a little familiar, but I can't read it." ”
"This seems to be the same kind of writing on the door of the library on Maple Island!" Phil has always had a good memory, "Captain, take a look at what is written on it?"