Chapter 36: The Flames
After reading these murals throughout, this deity should still be in the primitive worship of power, and has not yet developed a perfect religion.
In fact, shamans do not reject truly friendly religions, such as the Tower of Babel, where many shamans are Muslims or believe in saviors. Even the wizards led many large-scale Reformations.
However, when it comes to the gods, the wizard takes a very serious taxonomic view. For shamans, only religions such as Muslims and saviors, consisting of an ethereal symbolic deity and perfect doctrine, can be accepted. Those sacrificial organizations established by some powerful extradimensional creature in an attempt to deify themselves are all regarded as extremist religious organizations, and have even been designated as terrorist organizations by the Continental Patrol Committee.
Religion is not actually a belief in a particular creature, but a moral standard that is universally recognized by human beings all over the world. Wizards believe in religion, which is itself a kind of spontaneous self-hypnosis, using religious teachings to restrain their own code of conduct and maintain the most basic value system of this world.
On the sacred mountain of Ofa, there are still temples built for the first humans who possessed supernatural powers, and were revered as gods by ordinary mortals.
It was the "gods" who splintered from this system that overthrew the original slavery rule, spread enlightened ideas to the masses, and finally spontaneously stepped down from the altar and evolved into a group.
It can be said that the first batch of sorcerers and sages who voluntarily gave up the false glory of the gods were the greatest and most selfless saints. It is difficult for a person to get power, but it is even more difficult to give up after gaining power.
But it is also the feats of those wizarding sages that make today's wizarding world burst with infinite vitality. It can be said that without them, today's wizarding world would be in obscurity, just like those other dimensions conquered by wizards in the whole universe, and will eventually be swallowed up by more powerful forces.
Along the wall, the two slowly began to explore the pyramid space. Gradually, some traces of primitive sacrifices were revealed.
Some ancient altars were discovered by the two, and some subtle traces seemed to be the bones of ancient creatures. However, after a long time, it is no longer possible to distinguish whether it is an intelligent life or a non-intelligent life, and it cannot even be ruled out that the human body is used as a living sacrifice.
The vast hall was illuminated by the faint light of witchcraft, making it difficult to see the whole picture. The two of them could only walk along the walls in the main hall.
Gradually, a stone door appeared on the wall to the right of the two of them.
After a rough estimate, it should be the gate facing the entrance. Primitive sacrificial places generally used strict symmetry to achieve solemn and solemn purposes.
The two of them entered the door, which was no longer devoid of doors, and a stone staircase snaked its way up.
Walking side by side, the staircase is not particularly long, and the end of the stone staircase leads to another hall. The empty hall was littered with rubble blocks of various sizes. The two of them carefully examined the rubble, and eventually found the remains of two rows of standing stone statues in the hall, and determined that the rubble was from weathered and broken stone statues.
Balin rummaged through the rubble with his foot, accidentally touched the wound on his foot, and hissed in pain.
Observing as you walk through the empty halls, a well-preserved, lifelike carved stone statue emerges on the edge of the sparkle of witchcraft. The stone statue is about three meters high, with a bull head and a human body, a steel whip-like tail behind it, and a trident in its hand. It looks imposing in the dark halls.
Looking at the lifelike statue, the two walked over curiously, and suddenly the eyes of the stone statue suddenly ignited two green flames, making the already lonely hall even more weird.
The sudden change shook their bodies together, and Balin let out a short low breath. Nazanin, on the other hand, let out a loud exclamation, his hands instinctively covering his mouth, and his pretty eyes widened.
As the green flame ignited in his eyes, the stone on the surface of the statue gradually cracked, making a clattering sound.
Bahrain grabbed the stunned Nazanin and turned his head and ran down the stairs.
Before the two of them could approach the exit of the stairs, a low roar came from behind them. Heavy footsteps sounded behind him, getting closer and closer.
The two of them looked at each other, wanting to repeat their old tricks and speed out of the hall through liquid air sorcery.
However, as soon as the two of them turned around, they only felt that their scalps were numb. In the slight darkness where the sorcerous light shone brightly, the massive monster more than three meters tall had already raised its trident with one hand to aim at the two people. Obviously, in the next second, that huge and hideous weapon will be projected by the monster.
The two of them didn't have time to unleash their witchcraft, so they could only roll to the side. The trident flew through the gap between the two of them with a strong wind, slamming into the stone slab where they had just been.
"Run!" Barin shouted, and all eight fireballs had been activated, bombarding the monster with eight bright tailitis meteors.
The huge bull's head suddenly looked at the flying fireball, and the monster suddenly opened its mouth and spewed out a mouthful of green flames.
The blazing fireball collided with the green flames, sending out a deafening explosion in the closed hall.
Bahrain, who had just escaped the stairs, looked back to see the shock wave kicking up dust on the ground.
"Phew" The two shook their heads, spat out the sand in their mouths, and reached out to pat the sand on their hair. The dust fell, and the situation in the hall was revealed.
A figure walked slowly step by step, reaching out to the place where the trident was inserted.
"Let's go!"
The two hurriedly ran towards the bottom of the stairs.
Fortunately, this tall and powerful monster was a little sluggish. Running all the way into the hall, the two ran out again along the road they came from, and when they walked past the location of the mural, they suddenly saw a picture in the afterglow of Bahrain.
The picture depicts a battle between a devotee of the gods and a sorcerer, and it happens to be the figure of this minotaur. The good painter used his brush to depict the whole battle vividly, and what Bahrain noticed was the agility with which the minotaur was depicted in the painter's brush. It can be said that the Minotaurs are definitely not a powerful race among the believers of the gods as a whole, they are known for their agility.
Although the law of conservation of mass and energy has been debated in academic circles recently, it is limited to some very special cases such as positive and antimatter collisions. But for most cases, not only mass and energy are conserved, but energy is relatively conserved. The power of these monsters comes from the gods, but the gods have been down for years, so to say that this monster is moving so slowly can only show: "He is weak!" Barin said suddenly
Nazanin looked back at Bahrain, who had stopped, not knowing what to do.
"He's weak!" Balin said again, looking back at the stairs, where there were no more heavy footsteps of the monster: "Look, the footsteps are gone, the gods have fallen, and his followers have lost their source of power!
Then Bahrain pulled Nazanin to look at the mural, pointing out the agile figure of the monster in the mural. At this time, Nazanin looked at Bahrain with a serious expression: "Do you want to spend time with him?"
Balin nodded: "You and I know the situation of the cave outside, and we can't find a way out at all, this is the only chance!"
Nazanin stared at Bahrain with blazing eyes, the muscles of his cheeks twitched twice, and nodded: "Okay, it's done!"
After resting for a while and recovering their mana, the two returned again, more cautiously along the way, and finally found that the monster had transformed back into a stone statue again. The two of them glanced at each other, and they both showed such expressions.
Just as he was about to step forward, Nazanin stretched out his hand to stop Barin and said, "I'll go."
"Be careful!" Balin reached out and touched her face, kissing her red lips.
"I know!" Nazanin smiled as she turned and slowly approached the monster, Bahrain providing her with a light source not too far behind him.
The monster de-petrified again, watched as the little thing beneath it roared angrily, and raised its trident. Nazanin didn't give him a chance to attack at all, and had already inspired the witchcraft to flee, and Bahrain behind him immediately ignited a fireball.
The monster once again spewed out a mouthful of green flames and collided with the fireball, this time the flames were noticeably dimmer.
Bahrain turned and ran a few steps to avoid the shockwave, then turned around and ignited a fireball again, which flew away with tailitis, and Bahrain also took the opportunity to turn around and run towards Nazanin again. The whole action is smooth and smooth, and it is done in one go.
Boom, this time the monster didn't have time to shoot flames, and its chest was solidly bombarded. The monster let out a roar of pain and raised its hand to shoot the trident.
Bahrain, who was joining Nazanin, heard a woman's voice shouting, "Ready!" Bahrain immediately reached out and hugged her waist.
The trident was projected at the wounded monster, and Nazanin inspired the witchcraft to flee the spot at the moment of the monster's attack. At the same time, Balin once again unleashed two fireballs, one attacking the monster's head one after the other.
Two fireballs shot out, and the monster opened its mouth like a puppet to shoot flames and detonate the first fireball, and the second fireball broke through the flames and bombarded its head.
"Aang!" the monster roared in pain, and a bull's horn was blown off the spot.
"Well done!" Nazanin exclaimed. Bahrain immediately took advantage of your illness to kill you, activating the remaining fireballs.
However, to the surprise of the two, the monster clearly sensed the threat, and gave up its weapon to ignite the petrification again, turning into a stone statue.
The statue appears to have a natural ability to resist witchcraft, and the fireball bombardment on the statue does not cause any damage.
Bahrain had an idea and pulled Nazanin to the place where the trident was inserted: "Throw the weapon at him!"
Nazanin's eyes lit up, this method is good, without weapons, with the speed of this monster, it is not a threat at all.
At this time, the two wizards, a man and a woman, struggled to pull out the monster's trident and carried it out of the pyramid.
The wizard's shield shone brightly, and the two of them carried the trident to find a crack in the mountain and threw it in.
Then return to the hall again.
Leaning on each other and resting for a while, recovering their mana and physical strength, the two of them ran up the stairs as fast as they could. Behind him, there was the heavy footsteps of the monster, and the monster that had lost its weapon saw that it could not catch up with the two and gradually re-petrified.
The two looked at each other, both with a smile on their faces, and walked through the second hall in the light of witchcraft, stepping up a staircase again.