Chapter 966 Eyes of the Goddess Seeing that the dwarf king was very impatient with him, the great elder sighed and staggered out.
At this moment, the great elder's body seemed to become even more rickety.
"Tch, this old guy has always been an alarmist.
He started whining about evil coming almost a year ago, but he's still fine now."
The dwarf king spat, then turned around, his eyes filled with tears.
Looking greedily at the golden barbecue on the shelf, the rich aroma of meat and wine The incense made his whole body tremble, "What is more important than delicious food here?
If that human army really dares to enter the depths of the swamp, I don't mind having a taste of human flesh.
It is said that eating grains Humans who grew up eating a variety of grains have a particularly delicious meat taste."
The dwarf king licked his lips, raised the bottle and took another gulp, with a proud look on his face.
The great elder crossed the stone bridge and came to the outside of this beautiful hall.
Every ten meters in the stone corridor, there is a burning torch.
The fire light flickered on and off, and the cutting shadows gave the corridor an indescribable weird smell.
Guards on patrol or on duty would bow respectfully and salute when they saw the great elder.
The Great Elder is currently the eldest elder among the Sunset Dwarves, and he is also the only dwarf who can communicate with the goddess, so all the dwarves are in awe of him.
Seeing these dwarves treating him respectfully, a rare smile appeared on the corner of the great elder's mouth.
Since the Sunset Dwarves lost contact with the Goddess of Nature more than five hundred years ago, at the instigation of the dwarf king at that time, the Sunset Dwarves moved as a family and spent eight years arriving at the Sunset Swamp.
The Great Elder was already the youngest priest in the clan at that time.
He once tried to persuade the Dwarf King not to move to the Sunset Swamp because he had a vague feeling that terrible things would happen to this land in the future.
But the dwarf king at that time didn't take it seriously.
In other words, every dwarf king of the Sunset Dwarves has the same arrogance and willfulness.
After rejecting the proposal of the great elder when they were young, the Sunset Dwarves recuperated in this place with a name somewhat similar to theirs, and spent eighty years building the current huge underground city.
In the following hundreds of years, due to the comfortable living environment, the number of Sunset Dwarves increased significantly and rapidly.
In more than four hundred years, the clan's population has increased fivefold, from more than 6,000 people when they first arrived in the Sunset Swamp to more than 30,000 people now.
Nothing major happened during this period.
Except for still not being able to sense the goddess of nature, everything else went smoothly, so the original premonition was slowly forgotten by the great elder.
But just about a year ago, the Great Elder was awakened by a nightmare again.
He hadn't had a nightmare for hundreds of years, and this time's nightmare seemed particularly real.
Even after he woke up, the scene in the dream was still vivid in his mind.
The blood-red fire, the ferocious beast head, the one-eyed monster, the beast body covered with tentacles, and the wailing dwarf with gut-wrenching dwarves, these images made the great elder feel covered in cold sweat when he woke up.
From that day on, he understood that the evil force finally appeared, and the premonition five hundred years ago was finally about to come true.
But when he told the current dwarf king about his premonition and dream, the dwarf king didn't take it to heart at all, and even thought that the great elder was thinking too much.
Hundreds of years of settlement have made the sunset dwarves attached to their current comfortable life.
There was also a completely one-sided situation in the clan.
Almost all the dwarves thought that there was no need for the great elder to be so nervous and that it was just a dream.
There are even vicious dwarves who think that the great elder is old, so they start talking nonsense.
Among the current Sunset Dwarves, no one can still remember the language spoken by the young Great Elder more than five hundred years ago.
Looking at the bright torch in front of him, the great elder pulled back from his thoughts, smiled at the dwarf guard walking by, and secretly clenched his fists: "I will never let such a thing happen."
After making up his mind, the great elder took a deep breath and walked towards the altar in the deepest part of the Sunset Dwarf's kingdom.
The underground city of the Sunset Dwarves is hundreds of meters deep underground.
Inside, there are stone corridors and palaces crisscrossing each other, built one layer inside a spiral.
If there are no dwarves to lead the way, outsiders who break in will inevitably get lost in it within a short time. , which is also one of the reasons why the sunset dwarves are confident.
However, the last fifty meters of the underground city are a place where no one is allowed to enter except for sacrifices.
Even the dwarf king with the highest status is not qualified to enter.
There is an altar dedicated to the goddess of nature.
Among the entire sunset dwarf tribe, only the great elder and the other priests are eligible to enter.
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When the guards who were heavily guarding the altar saw the arrival of the great elder, they all bowed deeply to show respect, and then made way for the great elder to walk onto the suspended stone bridge leading to the altar.
This stone bridge spans both ends of the underground cave.
It is less than one meter wide.
The thinnest part is only as wide as two palms of an adult human.
It is about more than 150 meters long.
It is a purely natural passage.
Below is In the bottomless underground abyss, no one knows what is underneath.
If you slip and fall, it will be impossible to find the body in this life.
The great elder wrapped his robe tightly around his body and carefully crossed the stone bridge.
He was not afraid at all.
His belief in the goddess of nature made him believe that the gods would silently protect him.
After crossing the stone bridge, in front of the great elder was a five-meter-high stone door.
For dwarves who were less than one meter tall, this heavy stone door required them to look up to see the top.
The stone gate is also formed purely naturally and is integrated with the surrounding walls.
There is clear spring water left on it.
Over millions of years, the flowing spring water has washed out greasy ravines of different depths on the stone gate.
The most eye-catching thing is the pattern of an eyeball in the middle of the stone gate.
This pattern is obviously formed by natural water and weathering.
The uncanny craftsmanship of nature cannot help but amaze people.
This eyeball pattern, no matter which direction you look at it, you will feel that it is staring at you all the time.
It was precisely because of this eyeball pattern that the great elder decided to build this place into an altar at that time.
The great elder firmly believes that as long as one sincerely prays to the goddess of nature in this altar of eyeballs, the voice of the goddess will be heard in the heart.
The great elder took a deep breath and put his hand on the stone door.
The water flow on the stone door suddenly seemed to come alive, and the water droplets jumped like pearls falling on a jade plate, making a crisp sound of tinkling dong dong.
This music, as sweet as the sound of nature, spread far away, and the guards at the other end of the stone bridge had a look of intoxication on their faces.
After a while, the song ended.
The stone door creaked and slowly opened.
The water vapor behind the stone door suddenly gushes out, and white mist spurts out, instantly engulfing the great elder
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