Chapter 34: The Colossus
The fog cleared quickly, lasting two or three days at a time, sometimes longer.
Lawrence was about to talk to Friesen about going to sea, when a Bomethean boy came running down the hill during dinner.
The boy knelt on the ground and said in horror, "Master, the idol is rotten... It's all blood! There was blood on the ground! ”
The idol is rotten? Lawrence looked stunned and quickly looked at Delen.
Delenn frowned and thought about it, not sure if he had forgotten to reinforce it somewhere.
Lawrence looked at Delen's uncertain look and said directly: "Let's go down and see." ”
"Kehalan, Saliel and Delen and I will go down and the rest of the house will be cleaned up, and Emma will take the people to inspect the houses and tell the people in the camp to tidy up the house and keep the rats out of it."
Emma replied, "Yes." ”
Loshanda was also interested in Lawrence's sculptures, and while sitting there eating bread and fish, she said, "I'll go down and see it too, and I'll finish eating." ”
Lawrence had great respect for the old witch and said politely, "Okay, you eat slowly, and we'll go and prepare the sheep." ”
As the spiritual leader of the Clauda, the mother of Delenn, and a pure-blood witch.
Even for an ordinary person, Lawrence knows the power of pure-blood witches.
The witchcraft of Kehalan is the difference between an adult and a child compared to Delen.
Loshanda's sorcery is not known to be powerful, but it is definitely not weak.
In this place, pure-bloods are better than half-bloods.
It doesn't matter if you don't know witchcraft, Lawrence values the wisdom and knowledge of witches more.
After arranging the affairs of the manor, Lawrence quickly led the people to the town of Peumixiu.
"The hosts! God has warned that there is a lot of blood in the statue, should we offer a sacrifice to God? ”
The blacksmith ran up to Lawrence in a panic and said to himself in horror, "We didn't send sacrifices after Vip, God must be angry!" ”
"Shut up! I am the priest! Lawrence directly raised his hand and slapped the blacksmith, "Go aside, don't get in the way!" ”
The blacksmith who had been slapped quickly calmed down and quickly flashed to the side.
The rest of the group did not bother to laugh at the blacksmith, and soon followed Lawrence to the statue at the back of the church.
The width of the idol is more than ten meters, the church is larger, and the statue of Lawrence is ten meters away, not too close to the statue.
The entrance of the church is facing the idol, but everyone has been praying at home for the past few days because of the fog, so I didn't come here.
The blacksmith argued: "Master, you said you could pray at home, and we prayed at home yesterday......"
Lawrence ignored the frightened Bhumitheus, and walked up to the statue and saw a pool of blood.
It's worse than the blood stains when the pig was killed, but it's freeze-dried up by now.
Lawrence looked at the sculpture in front of him and saw that his statue was covered with sharp scratches.
It's a bit like a cut mark, and it's like a powerful scratch.
When I raised my head, I saw two clear scratches coming down from a height of twenty meters, similar to a martial arts master slashing from top to bottom with a weapon.
In addition to the scratches, there were more than a dozen clear cracks on the originally clean statue, some two or three meters long, and some directly deducted a stone.
There were scars all over the stomach, two holes in the heart, and a crack, even a stone fell from the chin, and there seemed to be cuts on both sides of the neck.
Lawrence felt a little chill in his body, looked down, and soon found a few strands of hair.
Lawrence found a number of strands of hair in the vicinity, as well as obvious iron slag.
Hair strands are okay, Lawrence doesn't know what the iron slag of these hair curls is about.
Losanda walked over to look at the sculpture and looked at the fifty-meter-tall giant up close, frowning.
Keharan had seen the giant for a long time, and she cared more about the blood and smell of the ground than she did about the smell of the earth.
"It's the blood of berserkers, there's a berserker who fell here, and some ordinary Vakiri."
Lawrence didn't quite understand what the Berserker was doing with nothing, but since Kharlan said so, it should be true.
"It was God who kept us at bay from the attack of the Vakiri! Now everyone kneels down and prays, and after lunch, go and carry some stones and mud and sand, and lime, and I will repair this place according to God's guidance. ”
The blacksmith and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Lawrence's explanation.
"Great, not God's punishment!"
"Thank God! The merciful God of the Stars has stood us back from danger! ”
"O God! Thank you for your kindness! ”
The people of the village quickly gathered and knelt behind Lawrence and the others to offer their most faithful prayers to God.
Loshanda didn't understand the concept of a fifty-meter idol before, but now standing here, she understands why the rest of the people keep mentioning it.
The next thing to do is to wait for the villagers to collect the materials, and then Delenn will be in charge of repairing and Lawrence will be in charge of the townyard.
A few people came to a room to rest, and it was still winter outside, and a few people were cooking a fire in the house.
From the time she came, she had not spoken, and Lawrence asked, "Mother, have you found anything?" ”
Losanda sat in front of the fire, and before she could do anything, the flames in the fire doubled in violent.
"Your colossus has the breath of two witches on it, and when they are mixed together, they form two kinds of sorcery, which may be the reason why that berserker is mad at the colossus."
Lawrence thought for a moment, "The Colossus originally relied on Delen's power, and Delenn smeared her power on the Colossus, and the inside of the Colossus had the witchcraft of Keharan, but we were usually fine. ”
"I don't know, maybe that Vakiri berserker has a hatred for you and has made your Colossus a target that must be killed. ”
Lawrence speculated: "Did you not see clearly when the fog was up yesterday, and then hit the head?" It's like I've drunk alcohol, and I think my colossus is an enemy, and I keep fighting. ”
"It's not important." Loshanda said directly: "The Vakiri people will not have too many berserkers, and they will not rashly attack you after one dies now, and you have enough time to become stronger." ”
"You are a prophet, and God will guide you in what to do."
Losanda believed in Lawrence's god and believed that the god of the stars was one of the names of the god of nature, and that the two belonged to one and the other.
Lawrence was a little embarrassed, and it was difficult to explain that he was not a wizard.
Neither Sariel nor Khallan had any idea of explaining, and even Delen thought that Lawrence might be a pure-blood wizard.
In the afternoon, the badly damaged idol was repaired, and Lawrence caressed the cracks and wounds, feeling at peace.
If you really fight that kind of berserker, you will definitely have a few more people on your side.
Delenn re-applied his sorcery on the Colossus, a statue that would seem like a gigantic stone statue to a normal person, but to Keharan and Loshanda, was a transcendent thing that exuded a lot of sorcery energy.
(End of chapter)