Chapter 153: The Temple of the Goddess
Although Thunder Cliff only sent a legion of nine hundred people, this number was not a small problem for supplies. Therefore, when the army was still training, Mo Yan had already begun to use Zeppelin No. 1 to deliver supplies to a village on the border with Elam, and hired locals to set up supply warehouses.
This depot will be the main supply depot for the mixed legion named Inazum, after leaving Elam. In two months, Zeppelin No. 1 transported enough supplies to this village for half a year, and there will be convoys to travel through the mountains to transport all kinds of supplies.
The entire warehouse will be defended by the SS and two Monster Legions. With such a big move in Thunder Cliff, it is impossible for some spies lurking in Thunder Cliff not to notice it, but in the early days of Thunder Cliff, the use of airships to transport supplies was used, and these shadows could only roughly know at most that they were destined for the border materials to Elan, but they would not know where they were transported.
And with the departure of the Monster Legion and the SS in the later stage, even if these shadows followed the Monster Legion to know the location of the warehouse, and at that time the entire warehouse was already heavily guarded, it was not so easy to destroy it. With the passage of time, more than two months of preparation at Thunder Cliff had come to an end, starting with Pasha's proposal for mercenary combat.
After Mo Yan specially held a division meeting for this legion, the Lightning Legion set off from the Thunder Cliff in a neat line. They set out from the Thunder Bluff with a small amount of supplies, and quickly crossed the cleared mountain road to the town that served as a warehouse for a rest and replenishment.
There, the Grey Dwarves would have to get the artillery that they had brought in by airships in the early days, and some transport vehicles that were pulled by pack horses, after all, the terrain was much smoother after leaving Elam, and they could use a lot of animal power. Mo Yan's combat requirements for the Lightning Legion are the same as their name, that is, to be fast! Once they leave Elam, they can quickly maneuver to find the enemy, and then quickly defeat them and evacuate far away, sweeping everything away with lightning speed.
After all, the Lightning Legion only has 900 men, and if it can't move quickly and falls into the encirclement of a large number of legions, then it will be a bit dangerous. Although the Lightning Legion can fight against one or two thousand Central Plains people, it will pay a heavy price.
And they have the best weapons and equipment in Thunder Cliff, so there's no reason to fight those cannon fodder legions with their lives. The Carthaginians don't care how many casualties you pay, they count them by the number of destroyed and the number of captures. As long as you can annihilate their legions one by one and make money, there is no need to let yourself be damaged in vain.
The person in charge of commanding the Lightning Legion this time was Lei Fula, who was assigned by Mo Yan, and Mo Yan, a man who had been in the Thunder Cliff for a while, was still relatively relieved. After the Lobito battle, Refora's return to Thunder Bluff can be said to have devoted himself to studying tactics, and although there are still some Salts who are rigid, they are at least a lot more flexible than others.
He was assisted by Carthage's Kira and others, who fled to Elam when Carthage fell to the north, and were captured by Refra when he was blocking the mountain pass. After seeing the strange tactics of Thunder Cliff, he decided to stay in Thunder Cliff to learn such tactics, and finally led the Second Monster Legion.
But as Mo Yan began to use some monsters as basic commands, the usefulness of these people became less and less. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Mo Yan cleared out all the people except Kira, and let them participate in the attack as the guide of the Lightning Legion.
These people, who had been in the Thunder Bluff for more than a year, were all flushed with excitement when they heard that they were going to attack the northern part of Carthage that Maro had occupied. These long-homesick Carthaginians had everything ready even a week before the Lightning Legion set off. The salaries they earned in Thunder Bluff also cost tenths** to buy the high-quality equipment forged by the gray dwarves.
When the Lightning Legion headed to the Elam border, Mo Yan didn't have to worry too much. All the Salts knew that this was the army of the New Elamite Federation, and they had already greeted them, Mo Yan would only pay attention to it when they started fighting the Maro after they reached the border, and now Mo Yan was busy with something else.
As her biggest backer in this world, the strength of the goddess is also the strength of Mo Yan. He needed to find a way to restore the power of the goddess as best he could, although the goddess did not ask Mo Yan to do anything, and Mo Yan didn't actually know how to do it. But Mo Yan still came up with some methods.
In Mo Yan's opinion, as a god, the most basic thing is, of course, to have believers, and the goddess is the god of the monsters of the old world, so it is normal for these monsters with low intelligence to believe in the goddess. But a problem bothered Mo Yan for a long time, of course, the difficulty he encountered was not how to make the monster believe in the goddess.
As the boss of Thunder Cliff, he only needs to give an order that all the monsters will obey his will and worship the gods they don't understand at all from the bottom of their hearts. And what Mo Yan is troubled with is how to make the image of the goddess.
According to the goddess's own words, all the monsters who knew her appearance were already dead. From this point, it can be inferred that the goddess does not have a fixed appearance, and this is a reasonable thing in Mo Yan's opinion. After all, no one knows what the gods look like, and the appearance of the goddess in the past is probably also thought up by the monsters, and then the goddess appeared in the way that the monsters imagined.
So since the goddess has no appearance now, then it's good to reset her appearance, but Mo Yan is stuck at this point. This can be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to DIY the appearance of a goddess you want, which is simply no different from playing custom maid.
However, Mo Yan is a little too greedy, and he himself can't tell what kind of goddess he likes, as if he likes it as long as he has a beautiful appearance, whether it is holy, surname, aesthetic, innocent, or cute with a little playfulness...... This huge problem made Mo Yan stumped for a long time.
For a while, as long as Mo Yan had nothing to do, he stared directly at the various girls in the White House, and even Jones became Mo Yan's reference object. But the thought of Jones's lovely body under the dress hidden something as stout as he was. Mo Yan was uncomfortable again, obviously so cute...... Why is it male?
After struggling for a while, Mo Yan figured it out a little, who said that there is only one appearance of a god? Since he likes many types, then all of them are designed, and each image manages a function. It is also reasonable for the holy to control morality and chastity, to know the surname to control wisdom, and to control beauty through beauty.
After deciding to make a decision, Mo Yan specially set aside a whole day to spend his ** in the room, drawing the images of various goddesses he wanted, and then handed over these drawings full of love to the stone carver. They must have a month to turn the drawings into stone carvings. At the same time, the upper city of Thunder Cliff also began to build a building with a square.
These things were done at the same time as the war was arranged for Maro, and on the day the Lightning Legion left Thunder Bluff, the building using a large number of craftsmen and goblin coolies was completed. This building, which does not belong to any ethnic style on the mainland, has the same white appearance as the White House, and the number of spires that rise into the sky are like sharp swords, and the layers are harmonious and magnificent.
There are not many other decorations in the building, except for some reliefs and paintings, which are beautiful statues. Salter and the gray dwarf stonemasons perfectly turned the drawings into stone statues according to Mo Yan's requirements, and the stone statues of goddesses were erected around the halls of the building.
The Gothic building, designed by Mo Yan, took almost half of Thundercliff's labor to complete, and now the shrunken Cologne Cathedral is now a shrine to the goddess. Although theoretically it is developed for all people, in practice there is not half of the "people" involved.
The Salts have always believed in the god of war, while the Grey Dwarves are one of the few races that only believe in machines, living underground all year round and obsessed with ore and steel. Of course, this also has to do with the fact that their gods fell in the battle with other gods a long time ago, and they are already a race without the favor of the gods, and perhaps it is because of this that they are forced to hide underground.
After the cathedral was built, Mo Yan didn't actually plan to make a noise, and he didn't explain much to those who came to inquire. After all, this is a temple built for monsters, and Mo Yan doesn't know how to explain it to others, do you want to tell them that your god is an intruder, and this is the true god?
You can do this in the future when you tear your face, but for now, it's better to keep a low profile. Now that there are shrines and statues to worship, the necessary religious rituals are next. Mo Yan himself believes in agnosticism, and if it is more serious, it can also be said to be atheism.
Mo Yan didn't have much experience in any religious rituals, so he could only refer to the rituals of the churches he had been to when he was studying abroad, but he couldn't remember much because he wasn't attentive. I only made out a booklet with only a few dozen pages, which roughly described the content of the goddess's creation: "The goddess said to have a ...... of light" That's right, this booklet Mo Yan directly copied the Bible, and after copying the most classic part at the beginning, the content of the rest began to be nonsense...... Mo Yan even made himself a pope as a joke, and for the first period of time, he wore a white robe to the temple every morning, and prayed in front of the goddess. But in fact, it's looking at the statues, and all sorts of things.
(To be continued)