Pivot of the Sky

There is also a patch of land in the swamp that has been exposed to the surface of the water and on which no one can fall, growing lush vegetation, like an island or an island, large or small. Trees are not too tall and are hidden and habitats for many wildlife, as water levels do not retreat for long.

This is not yet the final landscape after the floods have retreated, and the thousands of miles of fertile soil surrounded by the black fires marshes to the west, the deep valleys to the east, the Assyrian plateau to the north and the Syrian desert to the south are forming, and access will not be accessible until a few years later. Even then, it's not easy to get here.

Amon searched for a dry slope that exposed the surface of the water, shocked the beast with gas element magic, and then stopped the invisible ship in a flat spot. He saw that Medanzo was still sitting quietly in the boat, so he did not put away the space and only took Schrödinger off the boat for food.

Amon baked fresh snake meat with all kinds of spices. He spent so long with Schrödinger, he didn't really know what a cat liked to eat. Everything was made entirely according to people's tastes. Schrödinger, on the other hand, seems to enjoy the best of human delicacies, besides meat, of course, and the best that Amon specially bought when he left Memphis.

Don't look at Amon, he's not very old, he rarely drinks, but he's absolutely superior in his appreciation of alcohol, and Duke town sells the best wine on the continent, and his father is the most famous alcoholic in town. So the wine he bought, whether expensive or cheap, definitely didn't taste like it, which I'm afraid is the most satisfying to Schrödinger.

In addition to barbecue and wine, Amon cooked a pot of sprayed fruit and vegetable beef soup, processed with magical meat pine, which is his best cook. In fact, Schrödinger hasn't eaten in almost three days, and every cat eats very well. At dusk, Medanzo finally opened his eyes and sucked his nose and stood up and walked down the main channel: "Amon, what smells so good? There's wine! This will draw the monsters nearby. ”

Amon smiled: "But Schrödinger is hungry. He has to eat anyway. How are you doing? If there's a monster, can you send it out? ”

Medanzo said bitterly: "After disembarking, my power has been exhausted. I just recovered less than 10%. Of course it is fine to deal with ordinary beasts, in case a powerful beast can't stand it!... Amon God, I'll eat something first. ”

Schrödinger drinks without a glass and blows directly into the bottle, and the scent really attracts the monster - the legendary Scorpion Dragon - in the twilight.

The monster resembles a lizard and a crocodile, but has a long tail that takes up almost half of its length, a long tail segment that looks like a scorpion tail with an arcuate tip about three feet in shape. They sprang their heads out in the swamp and saw the fire on the high slope without daring to approach it.

Medanzo had scared the scorpion and the snake. After half a day of guarding with a sword with his staff, he realized that these scorpion dragons had very little guts and were not a very aggressive animal. He sat down and drank the soup and sighed: “Amon God, you told me the legend of the Battle of the Old Gods that the gods had created nine monsters, including Scorpion Dragon, but I don't think these scorpion dragons are very powerful, how can they participate in the Battle of the Gods? ”

Schrödinger, a pair of foreclaws holding a bottle, glanced at Medanzo with a despicable look. Amon seriously thought about it for half a day and replied: “The scorpions we met in the desert were also unstoppable in the Gods' War, but the Scorpion Wang Shui definitely deserved this, and I think the Hydra Snake Humbaba too. Some of the nine monsters created by the gods may have been exterminated in the battle of the gods, even though the surviving Humbaba was later slaughtered.

The descendants of Humbaba in the Little Deep River, I have seen, are a horrible mutation, and the twin-headed snake encountered today is more powerful, which is why it occupies the Great Lake. But I don't think all monster descendants are fierce, unless we meet those nine monsters, like Scorpion Wang Shui. I don't know if the scorpion dragon was still there, but I've seen these scorpion dragons since I was a kid, and like the average Ironclad, it's not terrible. ”

Medanzo patted his thigh: “When you mentioned the Iron Armored Beast, I remembered the Cloud Dream. The ordinary Iron Armored Beast is not terrible, but the mutated Iron Armored Beast is very powerful, especially the Iron Armored Beast King Cloud Dream that almost didn't kill me and Link. Cloud dreams are not monsters created by gods, they are kings of mutant armored beasts, with amazing powers and even instinctive magic. I have an idea. I don't know, right? ”

Amon: “If you have any thoughts, say so. ”

Medanzo touched the back of his head and said: "Humbaba, Shushui, these monsters may not have been created by the gods, they are the kings of mutant beasts, the original origin is similar to that of the cloud dream, opening up the power of intellect with instinct. It was the spirits who discovered and trained them, just like Scorpion King trained those Scorpion regiments to fight. Amon, didn't you teach cloud dream physics and magic? Cloud dreams can understand your words. Although you can't learn all kinds of physical and divine arts like a human being, you can exercise the power of your gifts according to the way you teach. ”

Amon nodded: “You have a good idea, but cloud dreams don't speak, and you can't be like a scorpion king. If one day it may also become human, it may be possible to systematically cultivate the power of both sides. I remember King Scorpion once said that humans have a body like a god, and it should be most convenient to cultivate that power. ”

And here, Medanzo suddenly laughed, and Amon glared at him and said, "You're laughing so weird, what are you thinking? I don't feel like a good idea. ”

Medanzo hey hey smile: “I still don't know if the cloud dream is male or female, one day if he can change the adult shape, I don't know if it is male or female, I can't learn to sneak out without clothes. If there were such a day, wouldn't you be the legendary ancient gods who made monsters? ”

Amon laughed too: "I'm curious, too. Let's see. This time to Link's tribe, I intend to make it easier for Link to teach Cloud Dream writing and learn deeper magic in the future. I have seen in the Temple of Isis a classic of plastic arts, based on information theology, which was initially an illusion, but to the deep realm is not only illusion. I always thought it wasn't practicable, but if a cloud dream might learn, I could let it try. ”

Medanzo asked curiously: "Can the Iron Armored Beast write? It can't talk yet! ”

Amon: “You can try it. The cloud dream is the King of Mutant Armored Beasts. You can also understand my words.” At the same time, Schrödinger glanced into his heart and said, “This cat can't speak, but even the divine script can write, the Iron Armored Beast can't taste it! ”

Schrödinger was drinking with a bottle of wine, ignoring the conversation between the two, and Medanzo asked: "Amon God, you have not answered my question, which I asked during the battle with the double-headed serpent. Then the snake can also be divine. It is as powerful as its physical strength. Is it also practicing the power of the two sides, who taught it? ”

Amon fell into contemplation and replied half a day later: “Perhaps it was just an awakening of the power of instincts, and the original cloud dreams would use skills similar to the earth's elemental divinity, and it was not the priests in the temple who taught their power. They do not have systematic classical experience, so mastering power is extremely difficult, but on the other hand they are not bound by experience, ignoring what physical and theological techniques are, but rather close to the cultivation of power on both sides. ”

Medanzo frowned: “This was the case in the Cloud Dream. Was it Humbaba and the Scorpion King too? If Cloud Dream hadn't met you, it would have always been just an Ironclad Beast in a pool. ”

Amon: “The Scorpion King and Humbaba may have been taught by gods, they are not human beings, and the path to cultivation is different from that of humans. The power of the two sides of the so-called one is just my summary, it doesn't matter what the name is, the gods don't want it to circulate openly in the world, so we have to be careful. ”

Medanzo nodded: “I've been very careful, even in front of Princess Xiao Xi, you should warn Link. Actually, I've been thinking that the double-headed snake died for nothing, and if it doesn't chase us, everyone will be fine. It's not as good as that Scorpion King, at least it'll negotiate. ”

Amon sighed: “It opens simple wisdom, realizing that it has mastered powerful power, desire beyond animal instincts, domination of the king in the Great Lakes, which ultimately harms itself. ”

Medanzo: "He thought he had decided to kill us, so he wouldn't chase after us, but he didn't expect you to kill him as soon as you did. ”

Amon suddenly remembered one thing and said solemnly: “I once told you to try not to kill, but to use the least amount of power if you have to. But sometimes the strongest force, the smallest force, is much greater than a deadly blow if endless wrestling attacks occur. … we will also encounter monsters on the move, and if such a battle breaks out every time, we will not be able to safely reach our destination. The way to go is to be careful and try not to start another conflict. It's best to fight or not. ”

Moving on after dawn, after walking through nearly a hundred miles of marshes, there are bushes and grasslands ahead. The land has been exposed to water for less than a year and has not formed a lush jungle. Walking in the weeds and bushes, Amon stowed away the invisible ships and did not want to drain them in vain.

There are many buffaloes on the prairie, huge, one man comes high, the tip of the curved corner protrudes forward, but the mood is very gentle, and the herd is there to eat grass. Medanzo said, "The horns of these cows are so special, if they come together, it would be a terrible sight. Are they the descendants of one of the nine legendary monsters, the savage bull? ”

Ammon replied: "I've seen this kind of brute bull in the mountains, and it's usually not an attack, but it's very dangerous to have hooves and horns when you're disturbed to run in crowds. Let's just stay away from them. Don't mess with them. ”

They passed quietly through the herd, and Medanzo suddenly opened his mouth and pointed away, “Amon, God, what do you see? ”

There is also a cow in the distance, much bigger than an elephant, a huge corner bend like a giant bow, sharp cold light at the tip, walking across the prairie like a moving hill, it looks horrible. However, a lot of birds fell on it, and the bull was so serene that he looked up at Amon and Medanzo walking in the distance and lowered his head to continue eating the bushes without a trace.

Amon whispered, "This is the legendary savage cow. ”

Medanzo threw up his tongue: "What a big head. Could it be the wild cow made by the gods? ”

Amon: "It doesn't look like the god-made nine monsters have the power to participate in the Gods' War, and this cow should be its descendant, or a mutant Bull King. Let's just go around. Be careful, don't step on cow shit. ”

The two men crossed the meadow and the dirt in front became wet again, falling to their knees as they stepped down. But this mud does not hinder Amon and Medanzo, who have left only four shallow lines of footprints on the wetlands, gradually disappearing on the distant horizon.

After one night, these footprints had not completely disappeared, and at noon the following day, two more black dots appeared on the distant horizon. The black dots grew rapidly, and it was Medanzo and Amon who flew, and they came back, and they were running.

Behind them came the loud noise of "hiss, hiss”, and looked up, a scary scene, a monster was hunting down, the legendary swamp serpent. This snake is not as big as a double-headed freak snake, but it is also more than sixty feet long, as thick as a bucket, and has a bright red sarcoma just over a foot in the top of its head, shaped like a rooster's crown.

And what's even scarier is that this snake, without its long legs, has a pair of thin, filmy wings that unfold more than thirty feet wide, like giant bat wings. Its tail swims on the ground, its upper body stirs its wings up in the air, and its wings are beaten with finely shattered wind blades, passing by, shredded grass leaves and shrubs flying.

Amon ran along and said: "I told you to be careful not to mess with the monster. You messed with this big guy again, or a mutant swamp serpent with wings. Fortunately, it's not the legendary King of Flying Snakes! ”

Metanzo muttered: “I didn't mean to, I just pissed in the water, I didn't expect to tell it out, I almost didn't scare the shit out of me! ”

Amon: "I let you do it, that's how you do it? Running back so far, we walked all day for nothing. ”

Medanzo looked bitterly: "Amon God, how can you fight me if you refuse to do it and my strength is less than 20%? I think this snake is the head of the beast in that swamp. Bring it here, and we can go back and get through. ”

The two men in the talking room had already fled through the herd, and the twin winged serpent had chased after them, and the horrible movement had spooked the herd of grass-eating bison. A lot of cows start running in panic, and a lot of cows get in the way of the snake. The bull's hooves and horns are a deadly danger to man, but the giant twin winged snake is completely unafraid, and a roll of wings or a long tail throws the cow in front of it far away.

The herd became more panicked and the running room shouted in horror. A shocking roar came from afar, and the earth seemed to be trembling. Turns out that huge mutant barbarian cow spotted the movement here, lowered his head and flung his four hooves.

Medanzo on the run whispered: "Amon God, speed up the turn, let's go, let the monster fight the monster! ”

Amon grabbed Medanzo's arm and suddenly accelerated at the bottom of his foot, simultaneously performing diving magic. His figure was like a light smoke. He slipped away in a circle and ran amongst the running herds, while the wild bull that rushed in met the swamp snake.

They returned from the road. Behind them came the roar of a barbarian bull and the roar of a giant snake. The smoke and dust on the meadow were raging, and the uprooted shrubs flew into the middle of the sky in succession. The two big guys fought together. Medanzo, who had already run away, had more than a palpitation: “Look at these two monsters. Who can beat who? ”

Ammon replied: "This is not the territory of a swamp giant snake. The two powerful monsters fought suddenly. Generally, they will not fight for their lives. Only one side will defeat the other. Let's hurry while the swamp giant snake is away. ”

They had walked for days in this dangerous wasteland, trying to avoid all kinds of dangers, and could not escape to fight with their weapons. Amon didn't let Medanzo do it any more, he waved the iron cane himself to solve any situation, and along the way he recorded the topography and information about the monster, the day finally came to the old site of Duke town.

Shortly after the surface of the water, it is a huge island surrounded by swamps and jungle, the soil is black, fertile and already full of weeds. In terms of size, the island has more than a few thousand people to farm and inhabit, and as the floods eventually recede completely, the wilderness of Chiribono will be connected.

Amon's handheld staff stood in his hometown, with tears in his eyes for a long time. With a cat squatting at his feet, Schrödinger's eyes also had a glimmer.

Amon stood at noon until sunset, staring so silly at the desert, without saying a word. It wasn't until dusk that Medanzo asked carefully, "Amon God, is this our destination in Tucson? ”

Amon stretched out his hand and wiped his eyes and nodded: "Yes, this is Duke Town. The floods washed down from the Assyrian plateau, and everyone was swept away, along with the house cattle and sheep, leaving nothing behind. Soil silting covered the original land, and we were standing on top of it. ”

Medanzo said softly: "Amon God, don't be too sad, you are back after all. In the future, this place will be a prosperous home again, and your wishes will be fulfilled. ”

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