Chapter 145 The Temple of the Goddess
As the saying goes, go ahead without using food and grass. Although Thunder Bluff only dispatched a legion of 900 people, this number is not a small problem for supplies. So while the army was still training, Mo Yan had already started using Zeppelin One to transport supplies to a village on the border of Elam and hired locals to set up a supply warehouse.
This warehouse will be the main supply depot for the hybrid army named Lightning after leaving Elam. The supplies that Zeppelin No. 1 transported to this village in two months were enough for the Lightning Legion to consume for half a year. In the future, there will be transport teams taking mountain roads to transport various supplies there.
The entire warehouse will be defended by the SS and two monster legions. It is impossible for some spies lurking in Thunder Bluff to miss such a big move in Thunder Bluff. However, in the early days of Thunder Bluff, airships were used to transport supplies. At best, these shadows could only be roughly known to be heading to Elam. border supplies, but will not know exactly where they were transported.
And with the departure of the monster army and the SS in the later period, even if these shadows followed the monster army to know the location of the warehouse, the entire warehouse was already well-defended at that time, and it would not be so easy to destroy it. As time passed, more than two months of preparations for Thunder Bluff had come to an end, starting from the time Pasha proposed the mercenary battle.
After Mo Yan held a special orientation meeting for this legion, the Lightning Legion set off from Thunder Bluff in neat formations. They set out from Thunder Bluff with not many supplies, quickly passed through the cleared mountain road, and arrived at the town that served as a warehouse for a rest and replenishment.
There, the gray dwarves would have artillery that was transported by airships in the early days, and some transport vehicles pulled by pack horses. After all, the terrain was much smoother after leaving Elam, and they could use a lot of animal power. The combat requirements Mo Yan gave to the Lightning Legion were the same as their namesake, which was to be fast! Once they leave Elam, it is actually possible to quickly find the enemy, defeat them quickly and retreat far away, wiping everything out with lightning speed.
After all, the Lightning Legion only has 900 people. If they cannot move quickly and are surrounded by a large number of legions, it will be somewhat dangerous. Although if they fight hard, the Lightning Legion can fight against 10,000 to 20,000 Central Plains people, but it will cost a heavy price.
Moreover, they have the best weapons and equipment in Thunder Bluff, so there is no reason to fight with their lives against those cannon fodder legions. The Carthaginians don't care how many casualties you pay, they count them based on the number of destruction and occupation. As long as you can annihilate their legions one by one and make money, there is no need to let yourself suffer in vain.
The person responsible for commanding the Lightning Legion this time is Refola, who was appointed by Mo Yan. Mo Yan is relatively relieved about this man who has been in Thunder Bluff for a while. After the battle in Lobito, Refola returned to Thunder Bluff and it can be said that he concentrated on studying tactics. Although he is still somewhat rigid like the Salt people, he is at least much more flexible than others.
Assisting him were Kira and others from Carthage. They fled to Elam when Carthage's north fell, and were captured by Revola when he blocked the mountain pass. . After seeing the strange tactics of Thunder Bluff, he decided to stay in Thunder Bluff to learn such tactics, and eventually led the second monster army.
But as Mo Yan began to use some monsters as basic commands, these people became less and less useful. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Mo Yan removed all the people except Kira from the Second Monster Legion and let them participate in the attack as the guides of the Lightning Legion.
These people, who had been in Thunder Bluff for more than a year, were all flushed with excitement after hearing that they were going to attack the northern part of Carthage occupied by Maro. These Carthaginians, who had long been homesick, even prepared everything a week before the Lightning Legion set off. Nine out of ten of the salaries they earned in Thunder Bluff were spent on high-quality equipment forged by gray dwarves.
When the Lightning Legion headed to the Elam border, Mo Yan didn't need to worry too much. All the Salt people know that this is the army of the New Elamite Federation, and have already greeted them. Mo Yan only needs to pay attention when they reach the border and start fighting with the Maro people. Now Mo Yan was busy with another thing.
As his biggest backer in this world, the goddess's power is also Mo Yan's power. He needed to find a way to restore the goddess's power, although the goddess did not ask Mo Yan to do anything, and Mo Yan actually didn't know how to do it. But Mo Yan still roughly came up with some methods.
Mo Yan believes that as a god, the most basic thing is to have believers. As the goddess is the god of monsters in the old world, it is normal for these monsters with low intelligence to believe in the goddess. But a problem has troubled Mo Yan for a long time. Of course, the difficulty he encountered was not how to make monsters believe in the goddess.
As the boss of Thunder Bluff, he only needs to give an order and all the monsters will obey his wishes and worship the gods they don't understand from the bottom of their hearts. What bothered Mo Yan was how to create the image of a goddess.
According to the goddess herself, 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 considered reasonable in Mo Yan's opinion. After all, no one knows what the gods look like. The previous appearance of the goddess was probably imagined by the monsters, and then the goddess appeared in the appearance imagined by the monsters.
So now that the goddess has no appearance, it would be better to give her a new appearance, but it was at this point that Mo Yan got stuck. This can be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to DIY the look of a goddess you want. It is no different from playing a customized maid.
However, Mo Yan is a little too greedy. He himself is not sure what kind of goddess he likes. It seems that he will like any goddess with a beautiful appearance. Should he like the holy, intellectual, aesthetic, innocent, or... Cute but a little playful... This huge problem stumped Mo Yan for a long time.
For a while, whenever Mo Yan had nothing to do, he would just stare at the various girls in the White House. Even Jones became a reference for Mo Yan. But the thought was that beneath the skirt that Jones' lovely body was wearing was something as thick as himself. Mo Yan felt uncomfortable and confused again. He was so cute... why was he male?
After struggling for a while, Mo Yan finally figured it out. Who said gods only have one look? Since I like many types, I design them all, and each image management has a function. The holy ones control morality and chastity, the intellectual ones control wisdom, the aesthetic ones control beauty, etc. This is also a reasonable thing.
After making the decision, Mo Yan specially spared a whole day to express his desires in the room, drawing the images of various goddesses he wanted, and then put these drawings full of love into the room. It was handed over to the stone carver. They must turn the images on these drawings into stone sculptures within a month. At the same time, a building with a square began to be built in the upper city of Thunder Bluff.
These things were all done while arranging to go out to fight Marro. On the day the Lightning Legion left Thunder Bluff, the buildings using a large number of craftsmen and goblin coolies were also completed. This building does not belong to any ethnic style on the mainland. It has the same white appearance as the White House. The numerous spiers reaching into the sky are like sharp swords, and the levels are coordinated and magnificent.
There are not many other decorations in the building, except for some reliefs and paintings, which are beautiful statues. Salt and the gray dwarf masons perfectly followed Mo Yan's requirements and turned the drawings into stone statues. Stone statues of either holy or delicate goddesses were erected around the hall of the building.
This Gothic building designed (chao) designed (xi) by Mo Yan took almost half of Thunder Bluff's labor force to complete. Now this reduced Cologne Cathedral has become the temple of the goddess. Although in theory it is developed for everyone, in fact not even half of "people" come in now.
The Salt people have always believed in the God of War, while the gray dwarves are one of the few races that only believe in machinery. They live underground all year round and are obsessed with ores and steel. Of course, this is also related to the fact that their gods fell in a battle with other gods a long time ago. They have long been a race without the favor of gods. Perhaps it is because of this that they were forced to hide underground.
After the cathedral was completed, Mo Yan actually had no intention of making any public announcements, and he did not explain much to those who came to inquire. After all, this is a temple built for monsters. Mo Yan doesn't know how to explain it to others. Should he tell them that your god is an intruder and this one is the true god?
You can do this in the future when everyone is at odds with each other, but for now it's better to keep a low profile. Now that there are temples and statues to worship, the next step is the necessary religious rituals. Mo Yan himself believes in agnosticism, which can be said to be atheism if taken more seriously.
Mo Yan didn't have much experience with religious rituals, so he could only follow the rituals of the church he went to when he was studying abroad, but he couldn't remember much because he wasn't paying attention. He only produced a pamphlet with only a few dozen pages, which roughly described the content of the goddess's creation: "The goddess said there must be light..." Yes, this pamphlet Mo Yan directly plagiarized the Bible, and it was plagiarized. After understanding the most classic part at the beginning, the rest of the content starts to be nonsense...
Mo Yan even made himself a pope as a joke, and for a period of time in the beginning, he went to the temple every morning wearing a clean white robe, and prayed in front of the goddess with make-up. However, he was actually looking at those statues and wondering about various things.
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