Kingdom of Bread and Tree.

This is a place blessed by the gods and the center of civilization.

Unknowingly, this place has been surrounded by dozens of densely packed fields of oil bread trees, as if forming a circle. Nine human-faced trees are guarding the avenues like huge pillars, like arch guards.

The giant guards guarding this land.

This land has become more densely populated, and has experienced several conflicts and struggles for power, so a high wall has been built outside the royal city, but it is generally stable.

The original messy houses became neater, and various other buildings were added in the middle. The more conspicuous ones were the halls for worshiping and worshiping gods, and the stone-paved square built for gathering people. Beside the square

There are also political halls and some of the residences are even more spacious and grand.

The temple was built after the death of the previous king and the new king made a promise to gain the support of the people and the army. He also cast a bronze statue of the god.

Perhaps because God has not visited the human world for many years, people's image of the "iron bird" that the God rides on has gradually become a little blurry, so the thing the God rides on has turned into a big bird, and who knows the appearance of the God?

I have never really seen it. In the end, it directly merged with the big bird and turned into a human head with a bird body.

However, this is not the only image of gods. There are also stone statues of gods with wings and carvings of birds and beasts.

He even looks like a mortal wearing a large robe.

There are more and more believers in the gods, especially the people who live in this land blessed by the gods. Almost all of them can be said to be devout believers. There is also an endless stream of people worshiping the gods outside the temple. You can see groups of people in the morning and evening.

When people pray outside the temple, they will at least kowtow in the direction of the temple when they go out in the early morning.

early morning.

An old woman led a large group of people from an oil mill to the outside of the temple.

Among them were middle-aged people, women, teenagers, and a baby in the arms of a woman.

They are a big family and have lived here for generations.

A large group of people came to the temple and began today's worship, thanking the gods for giving them food and homes.

When the old woman was a child, she saw a divine shadow passing by and told her that this land would become a place favored by God, and a place would be built here that would continuously produce bread and oil fruits.

The barren and barren land will eventually be transformed into a paradise on earth.

The prophecies and absurd words of the past have gradually turned into reality over the years.

Over the years, she became a girl, had a family, and then grew older.

Today, descendants surround us.

Perhaps because of her increased longevity and status, or perhaps because the prediction was so accurate, the absurd stories she dared not tell when she was a child are gradually no longer taboo, and are gradually believed by some people.

People don't want to believe the story told by a wild girl, but they are willing to believe the words of a long-lived old man and the patriarch of a large family. They believe that the great god really gave instructions and prophecies to mortals before sending blessings and miracles.

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Under the morning sun.

The family came to the high stone foundation of the corridor on one side of the temple and knelt down, bowing to the stone statues standing deep in the corridor. There were figures like them everywhere outside the temple, and the scene was solemn and sacred.

A child who was only four or five years old followed them and made the same movements, saying the same words of thanksgiving and prayer, but couldn't help but look at the stone statue deep in the corridor.

You can vaguely see a divine silhouette standing in the light and shadow, stretching out his hand and pointing into the distance, while a child stands in front of Him and looks longingly towards the earth that He points to.

After everyone got up, the child asked the old woman.

"great grandmother."

"Does God look like that?"

The old woman also looked back to the depths of the temple corridor. She was the little girl among the stone statues.

To be honest, she could not remember the appearance of that figure at all, but the figure became more and more sacred and tall in the memory.

What does that figure look like?

Wearing sacred and spacious robes, speaking words that are as elegant as prophecies, he has the aura of a heavenly being.

Is He God, or a messenger sent by God?

Finally, she took the child's hand and said.

"God can be anything."

"Everyone sees God differently, but you will definitely recognize Him when you see Him."

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More and more people are gathering here, because this place has never been attacked by a wave of monsters due to the increase in population. It seems that everyone has begun to believe and even determined that it is impossible for monsters to attack here.

However, the reason why weird things don't attack here is because the farmland circle formed by a large number of first-order weird bread trees is a shock to the second-order human-faced trees. It is because they gather together to cover up the aura of the intelligent species.

But they are just first- and second-order weirdness, so there is a limit to the population that this land can support.

this day.

The population that exceeded the limit finally attracted strange things from afar.

Not just one, but a group.

At first, the villagers outside the city discovered the anomaly. A black cloud gathered in the distant sky. A terrifying storm came with the rain, and strange shadows appeared in the storm and black clouds.

"Something appeared on the horizon. Is it a storm?" The villagers were busy making a living. Some people stood up and looked at the strange scene at the end of the forest.

"It's coming this way." More and more people noticed. The crowd gathered together and started talking, and an inexplicable panic began to spread.

"Look, there's something in the storm." Someone stood up and shouted.

The terrifying and strange wave was getting closer and closer, coming with fierce winds.

Wherever you pass, you can see patches of forest withered, and the lush leaves are withering and brittle, as if spring has suddenly entered late autumn.

"It's weird!" Everyone noticed the terrifying shadow, and then a cry of extreme fear tore through the air.

"It's not just one person, it's a large group, it's a weird wave." Everyone was completely panicked.

"How is it possible? How could the strange tide attack here? This is the place of God's protection." Everyone looked pale, but they still couldn't believe it was true.

"Did God abandon this place?" Many people have this thought deep in their hearts, but they dare not say it out loud.

A large number of villagers began to gather towards the city to avoid the disaster outside. Screams rang out from the top of the city, and someone blew a conch horn on the street to warn everyone. Every household began to close its doors tightly, fear and despair shrouded the city.

Above the Royal City.

However, many people left their homes and headed towards the temple, seemingly feeling that the power of protection there was stronger.

The old woman brought her whole family outside the temple. You can see that the temple door is open at this moment, a large number of monks are running in a hurry, many nobles have also come here, and even the king himself came to pray under the statue of the god.

Everyone was scared to the extreme, but just like that, the temple became more solemn and solemn.

The sky is changing with wind and rain.

The sea of ​​clouds turned from sunny to overcast, and the bright and majestic street buildings gradually turned into shadowy ghost alleys.

Everyone was kneeling on the ground, their bodies trembling slightly, praying for something to the gods.

"God!"

"Please let your protection come to this land again!"

"Please don't abandon us."

The same is true for the old woman, but she seems to have a lot more faith. She doesn't believe that those weird things will destroy this place.

But the children beside her did not have this kind of belief. They were all so frightened that they could not even speak.

In the distance, the forefront of the strange tide finally approached this sheltered land.

The oil bread tree that originally grew in the earth without any movement sensed danger at this moment. One piece after another began to move, and the entangled and spreading root system deep in the earth began to squirm.

The roots break through the ground and gush out crazily.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Densely packed roots wrapped around the city wall, stacking up layer by layer, turning into an extraordinary high wall.

Immediately afterwards, the tall trees also moved.

The human-faced tree opened its branches and leaves, and human faces squeezed out of the bark, facing the oncoming storm.

A large number of human-faced trees are connected to the farmland of oil bread trees, exuding their extraordinary power, controlling the temperature, moisture and moisture in the outer layer, blocking the erosion of wind and rain, and turning into an invisible barrier.

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When the rain falls, it evaporates instantly.

When the wind reaches here, it dissipates invisible.

The storms brought by the strange tide are getting stronger and stronger, but the powerful barriers formed by the farmland of human face trees and oil bread trees still block their power.

"It has appeared." Such a scene instantly cheered up the people in the royal city. A large number of people stood up and cheered at the farmland and big trees outside the city that protected them.

"This is... this is... God's protection." Some people were dancing with excitement, some were trembling all over, and some were kissing the ground under their feet.

"Weird powers can't come in, they can't come in, because we have God's blessing." Figures also appeared on the street, shouting ecstatically.

"Look, God has not left. He is still here. He is still watching us." Even the king came out, extremely excited about this scene.
To be continued...